466 Wilts Obituary. 



and was for many years a diligent J.R He took a keen interest in the 

 establishment of the Savernake Cottage Hospital in 1871 and remained 

 on its Medical staff until 1906. He was a District Councillor and 

 Governor of the Grammar School, and was for many years an officer 

 in the Wilts Yeomanry. 



Obit, notice, Wiltshire Gazette, Feb. 15th, 1912. 



The Hospital, Feb. 24th, 1912, in an article headed "A Famous 

 Surgeon and a Great General Practitioner," dwelling on the service at 

 Westminster Abbey for Lord Lister and that at Preshute for Dr. 

 Maurice, speaks of the latter as " a great general practitioner of the old 

 school, the descendant of a family of surgeons who for generations had 

 rendered inestimable service to the inhabitants of one district of 

 Wiltshire, was in his way revolutionising medical treatment and giving 

 new hope and prolonged life to hundreds of the poorer people in 

 Marlborough and a wide district around it . . . The late James 

 Blake Maurice not only made the cottage hospital, with his son's 

 assistance, so efficient as to enable all the major surgical operations to 

 be performed within its walls, but he maintained the great position in 

 the county w^hich his father occupied at the time of his death. The 

 family doctor of half the country side, fond of his profession, of 

 farming, and of local affairs, several times Mayor of Marlborough, a 

 county magistrate, and the trusted friend of all his neighbours, he 

 spent a full and most useful life . . . It is recorded of him that 

 he loved his profession, that he loved his farm, he loved his fellow-man,, 

 and he never forgot an old friend." 



Dr. Oliver Galley Maurice, died June nth, 1912, of pneumonia 

 taken from a patient. Aged 42. Buried at Preshute. Third son of Dr, 

 James Blake Maurice, he succeeded to his practice in the Marlborough 

 neighbourhood. He married Violet, d. of H. R. Giffard, of Lockeridge 

 House, who died several years ago leaving two sons. Surgeon-major 

 in Eoyal Wilts Yeomanry, a Governor of Marlborough Grammar School, 

 an active worker on the Conservative side in politics, an earnest 

 churchman, one of the chief supporters of the Boy Scout movement in 

 the neighbourhood, his premature death leaves in many ways a gap at 

 Marlborough which will not easily be filled. A great concourse of all 

 classes at his funeral showed the respect in which he was held. 



Obit, notice, Wiltshire Gazette June 13th ; Salisbury Diocesan 

 Gazette, July ; portrait. Daily Sketch, June 14th, 1912. 



Rev. Francis Harrison, died March lOth, 1912, aged 82. Buried 

 at Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath. Second son of Rev. William Harrison, 

 of Chester. Born June 29th, 1829. King's Scholar, Canterbury, 1842 ; 

 Bridgeman Exhibitioner of Queen's College, Oxford, 1847 ; B.A., 1850 ; 

 M.A., 1853. Fellow and Dean of Oriel Coll., 1852-68, where he was 

 Mathematical Lecturer and tutor. Deacon, 1858 ; priest, 1859 (Oxford). 

 Many years Moderator and Public Examiner for the L^niversity. Junior 

 Proctor, 1864. Rector of North Wraxall, 1866, until he resigned in 



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