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By NELSON M. RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 



(Read May 9th, 1912.) 



OBITUARY. 



COMMENCE my Address by recording with regret 

 the loss by death of three of our Members. John 

 Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury, was one of 

 those talented men who are so rarely met 

 with and whose death is a loss to the world and 

 not only to their own circle. A great scholar, 

 he has left behind him the fruits of his 

 learning, by which we may all benefit. We 

 can but regret that the many calls upon his time prevented 

 him from taking much part in the doings of our Club. Mrs. 

 H. Hawkins, of Martinstown, and Miss Samson, of Upwey, 

 occasionally attended our Meetings and took a general inter- 

 est in our Proceedings. I have also to record the death of 

 a former Member, Rev. A. A. Leonard, Vicar of Beaminster, 

 who will be much missed in his parish. Though not person- 

 ally connected with us, I do not like to let the death of the 



