Wilts Obituary. 467 



1908, and retired to live in T3ath, where he was on the committee of 

 the Literary Institution, at which he often lectured. Elected Hon. 

 Fellow of Oriel Coll., 1906. For over thirty years he was never absent 

 a single Sunday from his parish. An accomplished scholar, his genial 

 disposition and unbounded generosity endeared him greatly to his 

 parishioners. During the whole of his incumbency he took upon him- 

 self the whole cost of the maintenance of the services and repairs of 

 the Church, in addition to building a Church at the outlying hamlet of 

 Ford at an expense of over £2000, and providing an endowment of £100 

 a year for it, out of his own pocket. He seems, indeed, to have objected 

 to his parishioners being asked to contribute anything even to charities 

 or missions, and there were no collections in Church except at the Holy 

 Communion, for the poor ! He also gave i;400 as an endowment for a 

 clothing club, and until 1905 he refused any Government grant for the 

 school, which he supi)orted entirely himself, until in that year it was 

 made over to the County Council. In this school he taught daily 

 himself, and Prof. W. J. Lewis, writing in The Times, bears testimony 

 to the fruits of his teaching among the village children, some of whom 

 became marvels of proficiency in such subjects as (juadratic equations. 

 By his will he left ^3000 to Oriel College, Oxford, and the residue of 

 his property for the endowment of St. John's, Ford, Wilts, if and 

 when separated from the living of North Wraxall, and until then for 

 the augmentation of the living of North Wraxall. 



[jOng obit, notice, Wiltshire Gazette, March 14tli ; Wiltshire Times, 

 ]\[arch 16th ; Times, March 22nd, 1912. 



He was the author of '^Annals of North Wraxall, JVilts," Bath. ; 

 C. Higgins, printer, 1906. Wrappers, pp. 168. [Reviewed in Wilts 

 Notes and Queries, Dec, 1906, pp. 381—383; Wilts Arch. Jlag.^ 

 XXXV., 158.] 



" Four Terriers of North Wraxall Rectory, extracted from the 

 Registers of the Bishops of Salisbury T Wilts Arch. Maq., xxxiv., 

 296—298. 



'''The Great Election Contest for Wilts in 1772.'' Wilts Notes and 

 Queries, v., 227—231. 



Harry Jones, died Aug. 27th, 1911 , aged 58. Buried at Afalmesbury. 

 iJorn in London, Jan. 17tli, 1853. His father, Thomas Jones, became 

 landlord of the King's Arms, at Malmesbury, and was succeeded there 

 on his death, by his son, in 1880. " For upwards of thirty years,'' says 

 the Wiltshire Gazette, " Mr. Jones has been one of the most conspicuous 

 figures in the town. Ho had a distinctive personality. He was one 

 of those rare and isolated iiidis iduals who, once seen, are never forgotten, 

 lie has been describiMJ by lln' aiUlior of a Travel through 'Ten Comities 

 as a veritable John Hull in tiic llcsli, and also as the embodiment of 

 the sjjirit of Charles Dickens, eitlirr of which generali.sations fitted him 

 exactly. His ])ortly form and Jolly red fai-e were set otf to perfection 

 in the old word liabiliinciits which he delighted to a tl'ect— trousers 

 turned ni)to th'' ankh s, a long loose-litting coat of a cut o( other days, 

 a white or briudit lycoloiiml waistcoat of the I )iid( Swivdlcr j.att .-ni, 



