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Kev. Hichard Garlike Brown. Died July 9th, 1911, aged 63. 1 



Buried at Purton. Educated Marlborough, 1862. Line. Coll., Oxen, 

 B.A., 1870 ; M.A., 1873. Deacon, 1870 ; Priest, 1871 (Gloucs. and j 

 Bristol). Curate, St. James', Gloucester, 1870 — 72 ; Stanton St. j 

 Quintin, 1872—74 ; Mells, Som., 1874—78 ; Tetbury, 1878—81 ; Lect., j 

 1879—81 ; H. Trin., Gt. Malvern, 1881—93 ; Rector of Little Somerford, i 

 1893 until his death. Much respected in the neighbourhood. 

 Obit, notice, Wiltshire Gazette, August 10th, 1911. 



EECENT WILTSHIRE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, 

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{N.B. — This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor 

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IlHemories of Eighty Years. By John Beddoe, M.D., 



L.Ii.D., P.R.S. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 11, Quay Street. 

 Ijondon : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Company, Limited, 

 1910. 



Cloth, 8|in. x 5iin., pp. xi. (including title) + 322. Frontispiece 

 photo process portrait of the author. 



The title of the book exactly describes its scope, and the author irj 

 Ms preface tells us that these memories have " scarcely any basis o:| 

 journal or record." Wiltshire cannot claim Dr, Beddoe as a native, buj 

 only as a resident, for he was born on Sept. 21st, 1826, at Bewdley, anc 

 lie came of Shropshire descent. He tells us anecdotes of his childhood 

 of his early education, of his intention to become a barrister, and of th 

 *' accident " that turned his thoughts to medicine instead. Then h 

 passes on to his life in the medical schools of London and Edinburgh 

 of the holidays that he spent, always in places worth seeing, and of tli 

 multitude of friends and acquaintances that he made, all of whom li| 

 remembers, and many of whom afterwards made names for themselve 

 in the world. It was during an excursion to the Orkneys in 1852 ( 

 that he " seriously began the quest into hair and eye colour which was 

 be my principal hobby through most of my after life." Henceforwar 

 whether he is tramping through Holland, or Germany, or Ireland 

 exploring unfrequented parts of Asia Minor, it is not the remains ^ 

 ancient civilisations that are the real object of his journeys, so muc 

 as the colour of the eyes and hair and the shape of the skulls of tl 

 people he meets with in the markets and the inns. He fraternises wii 



