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An Aatlemoriam, 
H, J. F. Swayne. 
OY the death of Henry James Fowle Swayne the Society has 
sustained another great loss. Born in 1818 of a family settled 
in Wilton for many generations as lawyers, educated at Harrow and 
Balliol, his subsequent training as a barrister stood him in good 
stead as a county magistrate and Vice-Chairman of Quarter 
Sessions, in which capacities he did much useful public work. As 
a Member of our Society he was well known as one of the most 
regular attendants at its Annual Meetings, where his quaint humour 
and extensive knowledge of topographical and family history were 
always welcome. During his later years he worked hard at de- 
cyphering and arranging medieval documents. The municipal 
records of Salisbury, the early churchwardens’ accounts of St. 
Edmund’s, Salisbury, and many other things passed through his 
hands. Some portion of the churchwardens’ accounts, indeed, he 
printed, but it is to be feared that, with the exception of these, and 
a few articles in this Magazine, and in the Journal of the British 
Archeological Association, and a number of communications printed 
in the Salisbury Journal from time to time, most of the great mass 
of information which he possessed has died with him, or was noted 
in such a form as to be of little value to anyone except himself. It 
is, indeed, greatly to be regretted that he did not print more of the 
results of his work. His knowledge of architecture was considerable, 
and his memory for genealogical and historical details was singularly 
accurate and far-reaching. 
E. H.-G, 
