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for a considerable period. J.P. for Wilts, 1907. He married first, Mary- 

 Isabel, d. of Dr. Leeson, and secondly, Miss H. G. Birch, d. of Capt. Birch. 

 A Liberal and Nonconformist, much respected. 



Obit, notices, Devizes Gazette, Dec. 10th ; Wiltshire Times, Dec. 12th. 



2reorge Edward Dartliell Died Dec. 17th, 1908, aged 56. 

 Buried at Stratford-sub-Castle. Eldest son of Bev. B. W. Dartnell, late 

 Bector of Huish, and Arabella Thring, d. of Bev. Ed. Goddard of Clyffe 

 Pypard Manor. Educated at Marlborough Grammar School, 1864 ; 

 Marlborough College, Feb. 1866. Entered the service of the Wilts and 

 Dorset Bank at the. Weymouth branch, 1873. In the service of this 

 bank, for the last fifteen years at Salisbury, he passed his life. Of late 

 years he had suffered much from weak health, and had been obliged to a 

 great extent to curtail his literary work. In former years the Editor of 

 the Magazine owed much to his help in the preparation of the notices of 

 " Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles," and he made two notable 

 contributions to the pages of the Magazine himself in his articles on 

 " Richard Jefferies," and, in conjunction with the Editor, the " Contri- 

 butions towards- a Wiltshire G-J.ossary," which were afterwards published 

 separately by the English Dialect Society as " A Glossary of Words 

 used in the County of Wilts." He also did a great deal of work for the 

 monumental "English Dialect Dictionary." Dialect was indeed one 

 of his strong points. Living a very retired life he had an extraordinary 

 knowledge of certain branches of English literature, more especially 

 of modern poetry and fiction. Within these limits he read everything 

 and he forgot nothing. He was himself a prolific writer of short poems, 

 with a peculiar knack of felicitous translation from French and German 

 originals. From 1881 — 1903, thirty-six of his poems and Translations 

 were printed in the Journal of Education, and he won twenty-three 

 prizes for them. From its beginning in 1906 he had been one of the 

 Editors of the Wilts Sf Dorset Bank Annual. His memory^vas stored 

 with information on all kinds of Wiltshire matters. 



Bibliographical List of his writings. 



1869 RUTH. College Rhymes contributed by Members of the Uni- 

 versities of Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford, 1869. 

 A poem, pp. 52 — 56, signed " Wadham College." This was 

 reprinted from The Marlburian without the author's sanction. 



1871. A SONG OF CyEDMON AND OTHER POEMS, BY G. E. D. 

 Oxford, Wheeler & Day : London, Hamilton & Co. Cloth. 

 7in. x 4§in. pp. vi., including title + 72 ; 300 copies printed. 



1873. A CHILD'S SONG. Peoples' Magazine, March, 1873. Poem of 

 eight stanzas, pp. 184, 185. 



LITTLE CHRISTINE, AN OLD MAN'S STORY. Peoples Magazine, 



November, 1873. A prose story. 



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