316 Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Mrs. Barnston died in 1625 her " maritus, amans dolens, dehens " raised 

 the beautiful tablet to her memory. At his decease in 1645 the stately 

 hatchment, charged with his quartered coat and the date of his death, was 

 placed over it, and the tender little note, " altera pars obiit,'^ was added to 

 the tablet of his wife. " Altera pars " was John Barnston, who came of a 

 Cheshire family, of Brasenose College, Oxford, D.D., Rector of Everley, 1598, 

 and of Winterslow, 1635, Prebendary of Bishopstone, 1600, and Canon 

 Residentiary, 1634, He was buried in the Cathedral. As Residentiary he 

 occupied the Canonry House in the Close, immediately to the north of the 

 Choristers' School. 



E. E. DOBLING. 



Sir Robert N. Fowler, Bart., M.P. A Memoir by John Stephen 

 Flynn, M.A., Eector of St. Mewan. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 

 1893. Post 8vo, pp. 358. With etched portrait by Manesse. The author of 

 this biography — Sir Robei-t's son-in-law — had no light task. " Thirty-eight 

 large volumes of diary, several hampers of letters, and a mass of newspaper 

 cuttings collected during twenty-six years " had to be carefully read through 

 and selected from. He has, however, performed his task well and has given us 

 an interesting memoir at not too great length of a man who in many ways 

 was a remarkable character, and one of whom Wiltshire may well be proud. 

 The first of the Fowlers connected with Wilts was Thomas Fowler, who 

 settled at Melksham in 1692, and Gastard was bought by Robert Fowler 

 towards the end of the eighteenth century. The family had always been 

 Quakers ; and though Sir Robert Fowler joined and became a devoted 

 member of the Church of England, he retained to the last many of the 

 best of the Quaker characteristics. From his earliest years he regularly 

 kept a voluminous diary, in which he entered the events of each day and 

 his own thoughts and comments thereon — and in this diary we find constant 

 evidence of the deep and unaffected piety which was the foundation of his 

 character through life. A staunch Conservative, who nevertheless put his 

 principles before his party ; widely travelled, full of information, and pos- 

 sessing a most retentive memory ; so transparently honest and straightforward 

 as to win the respect of everyone ; actuated in all things by the strongest 

 seuse of duty ; popular iu Wiltshire as a genial country gentleman and a 



