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where the tragic scenes were being enacted 

 which followed the German Invasion of France. 



Fearing that there would be terrible distress 

 in Paris as soon as the siege was raised, Cardinal 

 Manning, Huxley, Knowles (of the Nineteenth 

 Century), and he formed themselves into a 

 Committee to prepare supplies which might be 

 sent over at once. Having organised the scheme 

 and ascertained that it would have moral sup- 

 port in France, they proposed it to the Lord Mayor, 

 who formed a large Committee, and the result 

 was most satisfactory. Eventually the City of 

 Paris sent over M. Leon Say, and at a Mansion 

 House meeting on October 18 he thanked the 

 Lord Mayor and the Committee for what they 

 had done. 



In this year also commenced his connection 

 with Avebury which eventually led to his taking 

 the name of that marvellously interesting place 

 for his title. 



Avebury was first described by Aubrey, 

 writing at the end of the seventeenth century, 

 who said of it : " Avebury doth as much exceed 

 Stonehenge in grandeur as a Cathedral doth an 

 ordinary Parish Church." Sir R. Colt Hoare 

 commences his account of Avebury, in the 

 monumental History of Ancient Wiltshire, in 

 solemn words : " With awe and diffidence, I 

 enter the sacred precincts of this once hallowed 

 sanctuary, the supposed parent of Stonehenge, 

 the wonder of Britain, and the most ancient, 

 as well as the most interesting relic which our 

 island can produce." 



Part of the site had already been sold to a 



