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began by him in 1860, the new buildings of which were opened in 1 910. 

 The buildings alone have cost some £17,000 the whole of which was 

 obtained by Sir James, who to the last was untiring in his determination 

 to see this college placed on a firm and lasting foundation. Some four 

 hundred students now working in all parts of the mission field abroad 

 have already passed through the college, which gives a training for 

 work abroad second to that given by no other institution of the kind. 

 Sir James, in fact, made Warminster the centre of Church work that it 

 is to-day. In 1865 he was instrumental in the building of St. John's 

 Church (costing £2700) and Schools ; he practically re-built the large 

 parish Church at a cost of £12500, 1886—89. He founded a high-class 

 school for girls. In 1866 he established the cottage hospital, and in 

 1888 the " Orphanage of Pity," and soon after this St. Deny's Home 

 for training sisters and associates for the work of the Church at home 

 and abroad. He had strong opinions of his own, which did not always 

 tend to popularity with his clerical brethren, but no man in this 

 generation has done more for the Church in the Diocese of Salisbury 

 than he, and none have lived to see their work bear better fruit. As 

 for Warminster itself, " no man, living or dead," said a speaker at the 

 Urban District Council, " had done so much for the town as he." 



He was the author of Missionary Manual of Hymns aud Prayers 

 and Tune Book, 1878. 



Obit, notices, T^mes, Feb. 22nd ; Guardian, Feb. 23rd ; Wiltshire I^ews 

 (with portrait), Feb. 23rd ; Warminster Journal (a long notice with 

 portrait, and illustrations of the chief institutions founded by him, and 

 some account of the Philipps family, of Pembrokeshire), Feb. 23rd ; 

 Wiltshire Times (Warminster Urban District Council appreciation), 

 March 9th ; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, March ; Salisbury Jour7ial, 

 February 24th, 1912. 



Xiady Herbert of Lea, died Oct. 30th, 1911, at Herbert House, 

 Belgrave Square. Elizabeth a Court Repington, b. 1822, was 

 only daughter of Lt.-Gen. Charles Ashe a Court Repington (British 

 Ambassador at St. Petersburg, brother of the first Lord Hey tesbury, 

 and M.P. for Heytesbury) and Mary Elizabeth Gibbs, his wife, d. of a 

 West Indian planter. In 1846 Miss Repington married Sidney Herbert, 

 half-brother of the twelfth Earl of Pembroke, who was Secretary at 

 War during the Crimean War, 1853 — 55 ; and was created Lord Herbert 

 of Lea in 1861, dying the same year. In 1863 she became a Roman 

 Catholic, and henceforth, says The Times, " her unfiagging zeal and her 

 considerable literary and artistic gifts were concentrated on religious 

 and philanthropic work in the Church of her adoption. There was 

 something very memorable in the untiring and persistent energy which 

 Lady Herbert brought to bear on a large variety of good works. For 

 more than one religious institution she long collected several hundreds 

 of pounds each year — not by annual subscriptions promised once for 

 all, but by writing every succeeding year autograph letters to her many 

 friends and acquaintances, and not desisting until the required sum 

 was obtained . . . her long da^y was one of ceaseless occupation 



