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Salisbury, 1887. Sub-Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, 1902 until liis 

 death. Since 1902 he had lived at Bemerton. 



Obit, notices, Salishury Journal^ Jan. 14th and 21st, 1911. 



£lias Pitt Squarey, Died Feb. 25th, 1911, aged 87. Buried at 

 Downton. Born at Salisbury, Oct. 20th, 1823. Began farming on his 

 own account at 18, taking a farm of 500 acres at Teffont. Removed to a 

 farm of 1800 acres at Odstock in 1848. In 1873 he gave up farming, and 

 having purchased the Moot, Downton, resided there until his death. In 

 1852 he joined Mr. James Rawlence, land agent and surveyor, as partner, 

 and the firm of Rawlence k Squarey was founded, and soon became 

 agents for a number of large estates about Salisbury and elsewhere. 

 He was a great authority on all matters connected with farming and 

 landed estate management, was frequently called on to give evidence 

 before Royal Commissions, acted as valuer for the War Office in the 

 purchase of Salisbury Plain, and was largely instrumental in founding 

 the Surveyors' Institution, and the Land Enfranchisement Company. 

 A Liberal until 1886 he then became a Liberal Unionist. He married, 

 1854, Lavinia Mary, d. of Robert Tucker, of Ashburton, Devon, who 

 survives him. He had one son, Newall Squarey, a member of the firm, 

 aud three daughters. He contributed many papers to the Journals of 

 the Surveyors' Institution and the Royal Agricultural and Bath and 

 West of England Associations. 



Obit, notices. Times, Feb. 28th ; Wilts County Mirror, Feb. 28th ; 

 Salisbury Journal, March 4th, 1911. 



Kev. William Paul Lawrence, died May 6th, i9ii, aged 83. 



Buried at Penknap Baptist Burial Ground, Westbury. Pastor of 

 Baptist Church at Gillingham (Dorset), 1869 ; and of the West End 

 Baptist Church at Westbury, 1876 — 1904, when he resigned, living 

 afterwards at Westbury Leigh. He had been President of the Wilts 

 and East Somerset Baptist Association, and was prominent as a Liberal 

 and Passive Resister. 



Obit, notice, Wiltshire Times, May 13th, 1911. 



Stephen Furness, died June 19th, 1911. Buried at Berwick St. 

 James. Son of John Furness, of West Hartlepool. Associated with 

 the late Alderman Thomas Furness in business there. Married 

 daughter of Nixon T. Sharper, of W. Hartlepool. Resided in London 

 for many years. Settled at Berwick St. James ]\Ianor House, and 

 farmed 1,800 acres. A member of the Wilton District Council, and wrll 

 known as an agriculturist. 



()l)it. notice, Wilts Count II Mirror, June 23nl, 1J)1 !. 



Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne. P.R.S., 



di.'.l Mayi^'Mh, 1 1) I 1 , a-cd S7. r>nric(l at I'lirlon. llciii Srpl. :)rd, IS:.>;5. 

 Eldest son of .\ntlion> .M( r\\ii Story Maskelyne, F.H.S., (and granilson 

 of Nevil Maskelyne. Astronomer Poyal, F.R.S.y Wadham Coll., Oxon. 

 F).A. isi:.. Trofessor of M ineralo-v at Oxford, ls:.(J— a"). "His tenure 



