B.ecent Wiltsliire Bookn, PaDrpJdcts, Articles, &c. 487 



William Henry, younger brother of Peter, of Seend, born 1778, died 

 1847, married Eliza, d.of VV^est Hill, of Devizes, and lived at Chippenhani- 

 His sons were : West Awdry, of Monkton House, Cliippenhanri ; Rev. 

 E. C. Awdry, Vicar of Kington St. Michael, died 1903 ; Peter, of Chip- 

 penham, died 1867 ; Rev. Ch. Hill Awdry, Rector of West Kington, 

 died 1910 ; and Major Justly W. Awdry, of the Paddocks, Chippenham, 

 born 1818, who still survives. 



John Awdry, b. 17B2, second son of Ambrose, of Seend, was " of 

 Notton" in 1770, and died 1802. He married, first,! 765, Priscilla, d. of 

 Ambrose Goddard, of Swindon ; secondly, 1770, Mary Magdalene, d 

 of James Masse; and thirdly, Sarah Susanna. His son, John, 

 who succeeded him at Notton House, married, 1795, Jane, d. 

 of Lovelace Bigg. His son. Sir John Wither Awdry, born 1795, Chief 

 of the Supreme Court of Bombay, succeeded him at Notton, and died 

 1878. He married, first, Sarah Maria, d. of Rev. J. Awdry ; and 

 secondly, Frances Ellen, d. of Thomas Carr, D.D., Bishop of Bombay, 

 by whom he had seven sons and five daughters, of whom William, 

 Bishop of South Tokio, died 1910, and Charles, of Lavington Manor, 

 on March 29th, 1912. 



Destruction of Lake House by fire . I ake House, which 



had just been let by its owner, Mr. J. W. Lovibond, to Mr. Percy H. 

 Illingworth, M.P. for the Shipley Division of Yorkshire, a Junior Lord 

 of the Treasury, and one of the Liberal Whips, was reduced to bare 

 walls by a fire which broke out early in the morning of April r)th, 1912. 

 Mr. Illingworth, his family, and servants, who had only just taken up 

 their residence in the house, escaped with difficulty, and nothing was 

 saved from the house. The house was most elaborately and carefully 

 restored under the directions of Mr. Detmar Blow, soon after its pur- 

 chase from the Duke family by Mr. Lovibond in 1897. The property 

 was ])urchased by George Duke in ir)78, and the house was probably 

 built soon after this. Accounts of the fire appeared in most of the local 

 ].apers, WilUhlre Gaz(4te (with some account of the house and the 

 family of Duke), April llth ; Wiltshire News, April 12th. Illustrations 

 of the fire were given in Daily Mirror, k\m\ Gth ; Wiltshire Tinif^s, 

 April 13th ; Wiltshire Gazette, April 18th, 1912. Its destruction is an 

 irreparable loss to the county, for no more charming e.xample of 

 Llizabethan architecture was to be found within its boundaries. 



A Little Book about Lake House, compiled by 

 Catheriue Lovibond, with Lines on the De 

 struction by Fire of the said Lake House by 



Pamela GlenCOnner. I'rintrd by I'.mn.lt l',rMs..tli.- -.lounial" 



Otli.v, Salisbury. lUTi. 



Pani])hlet, sv.., i-p. ;5ti, juirr Is. Tlu' aut h.uvss gives a b«\v gnssijipy 

 particulars as t-. tie history of the Duke family, and tlie liouso, and 

 mentions some of the objects of interest whi<li were to be fouiul there 

 lu-foiv the late disastrous fire. An invi'ut-.ry ..f ih.' furniture of George 



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