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1864 — 81 ; lived afterwards in retirement at Avebury until his death. He 

 was a man of high scholarly attainments and wide knowledge in all branches 

 of theology, and a frequent contributor in matters of scholarship to the 

 Saturday Revieic, the Guardian, Church Review, and other Church 

 papers. A long obituary notice appeared in the Church Review, partly 

 reprinted in Devizes Gazette, Jan. 30th, 1896. 



Rev. Alfi'ed Codd, Preb. and Canon of Sarum. Died Jan., 1896. B.A., 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, 1849. M.A., 1860. Curate of Witham, 

 Essex, 1850—53. Rector of Hawridge, Bucks, 1853—57. Vicar of 

 Beaminster, Dorset, 1857—90. Rector of Stockton, Wilts, 1890-91. 

 Author of " Eight Lectures on Isaiah liii.," published 1864. Well known 

 in the Diocese of Salisbury, and greatly beloved at Beaminster, Obit, 

 notice, Devizes Gazette, Jan. 16th, 1896. 



Eev. Robert Canning Stiles. Died Feb. 15th, 1896. Buried at 

 Froxfield. Brasenose College, Oxford, B.A., 1855, M.A., 1858. Curate of 

 Woodchester, Gloucs., 1857—58 ; Mere, Wilts, 1859 ; Wapley, Gloucs., 

 1859—1861 ; Frampton Cotterell, 1861—64 ; Sheare, Surrey, 1864. Head- 

 master, Shepton Mallet Grammar School, 1872—80. Curate of Froxfield, 

 1879—80. Vicar of Froxfield, 1880 until his death. During his incumbency 

 the Church was restored, and he endeared himself to his parishioners by his 

 simple gentle disposition. Obit, notice, Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, 

 March, 1896. 



George Selwyn Marryat. Died Feb. 14th, 1896. Buried in the Close, 

 at Salisbury. A long notice of him, by "Red Spinner," in the Field, re- 

 printed in the Wiltshire County Mirror, March 6th, says :—" It is not 

 too much, perhaps, to state that Mr. Marryat was practically the father of 

 the now fashionable dry-fly school of trout fishermen .... his 

 principal study was the development of the floating fly and its practice as 



we now know it The instructive plates in " Dr^^./^^i^'wA/n^," 



representing the various methods of casting, were from photographs in 

 which the figure is that of Mr. Marryat .... I suppose no one who 

 ever saw him put forth his skill would attempt to deny that he was the first 

 on the list of dry-fly fishermen on the chalk streams to which he principally 

 devoted his attention." Obit notice, Salisbury Journal. {See below, 

 p. 362.) 



Edward Combes. Died Oct., 1895, at Glanmire Hall, Bathurst, Australia. 

 He was born at Tisbury, 1830. Son of Mr. William Combes. Entered 

 Government service in New South Wales in 1858. Afterwards acted as 

 Government Mining Engineer, and was member of the Colonial Parliament 

 for Bathurst, Orange, and East JIacquarie successively. He held ofiice as 

 Secretary for Public Works ; was a member of the Executive Council in 

 the Government of Sir John Robertson ; and was Executive Commissioner 

 for the Colony at the Paris Exhibition of 1878, for which he was created a 

 C.M.G. and appointed an ofiicer of the Legion of Honour. Obit, notice, 

 Standard, Nov. 27th, 1895. 



