378 Bradford-on-Avon. [ Old Families & Worthies. 
Dragoons, and the honor of his country and the safety of the army 
were ably sustained by as brave and gallant a soldier as ever drew 
the sword. General Gough watched them ‘with intense anxiety, 
and at last seeing them emerge on the other side of the enemy,— 
having ridden right through that wing of the Sikh army,—he 
declared that the day was his own.”! 
After he quitted the army Colonel Yerbury settled at Beleomb 
Brook, and looked forward to the probable enjoyment of some years 
of quiet retirement. And few, judging from outward appearances, 
had a greater right to indulge such hopes. But it was not so to 
be ;—‘ ’homme propose, Dieu dispose. When in the midst of 
extensive alterations in his house, with but one room in which, 
whilst watching day by day the progress of the work, he had been 
living, he was seized with that illness which within a week proved 
fatal to him. It was almost a soldier’s death: he breathed his last 
rather in a tent, than in a fixed abode; he fell in the full vigour 
of his strength, before man discerned a single trace of the decre- 
pitude of advancing years. 
He left behind him several children. May those who inherit 
his name, exhibit also his acknowledged excellencies! They will 
find, that, for their father’s sake, as well as for their own, they 
will readily secure no scanty measure of respect and attachment 
from their fellow-townsmen and neighbours in Bradford-on-Avyon. 
Tue ‘Meruvuen’ Famiry. 
For more than two centuries this family was closely connected 
with our town, and, to the public spirit of one of its members, Brad- 
ford-on-Avon owed much of its prosperity during the 17th and 
18th centuries. They demand therefore more than a passing 
notice. 
Originally of German extraction, this family may nevertheless 
be traced back as settlers in Scotland for no less than 700 years. 
On the first settler from Germany, Malcolm III. (called Caen Mohr,) 
King of Scotland from 1056—1098, is said to have bestowed the 
1 Gentleman’s Magazine, October 1858, p. 416. 
