My eldest brother, Robert Jocelyn, was born on 

 May 10, 1867. In the following January my grand- 

 father died, to my father's great grief j year after year 

 the sad anniversary is noted in his diary. In April of 

 the same year (1868) my father was instituted to the 

 benefice of Winterbourne Tomson, in June to that of 

 Bloxworth, and on August 6 the move was made from 

 the c Cottage ' to the Rectory. 



The spring of 1 869 brought a great sorrow in the death 

 on May i of an infant son, John Trenchard, nine days 

 after his birth. During all this year my father was busily 

 engaged upon plans for the rebuilding of the chancel of 

 Bloxworth Church, as a memorial to his father, and on 

 September a the foundation stone of the new chancel 

 was laid. The work was completed in the next year, 

 1870, and the service of reopening took place on July 7. 

 The following account of the chancel and of the cere- 

 mony is taken from the Dorset County Chronicle of 

 July ii : 



BLOXWORTH. 



C THE PARISH CHURCH. Pressure of news crowded 

 from our columns last week a notice of the good work 

 accomplished in this charming village the opening of 

 a new chancel for the parish church, constructed at the 

 expense of the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge as a memo- 

 rial to his beloved father, who was for a considerable 

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