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George Christopher Tayler, M.D., of Lovemead House, 



Trowbridge, died November 23rd, 1912, aged 67. Buried at Trowbridge 

 Cemetery. Born at Trowbridge. Son of Christopher Tayler, M.D., 

 M.R.C.S., 1866 ; M.D.,1871. He lived and practised in the Trowbridge 

 neighbourhood all his life. A most earnest Churchman, for thirty-two 

 years he was churchwarden of St. Thomas' Church, of which he was 

 the most generous supporter. His charity and kindness to the poor 

 were great. " Dr. Tayler was an exceedingly good man who did good 

 work in the town without anybody knowing it." " A man who was 

 honoured and highly respected by everybody in the town." " Trow- 

 bridge and the neighbourhood mourns a good man dead." " There was 

 no one who had done so mnch quiet good in the town as Dr. Tayler." 

 He married first Miss Clark, and secondly Miss Rodway, both of well- 

 known Trowbridge families. 



Long obit, notices and appreciations, Wiltshire Gazette, Nov. 28th ; 

 Wiltshire Times, Nov. 30th ; portrait, Wiltshire News^ov. 30th, 1912. 



Francis Hobsoil, died Jan. 1st, 1913. Buried at Sheffield. He came 

 to Trowbridge from Sheffield in 1900 and purchased " Prospect," a 

 house on the Hilperton Road, where he lived until his death. He was 

 a very generous supporter of all charitable institutions connected with 

 Trowbridge, and was a prominent and diligent member of committee 

 of the Nursing Association, the Cottage Hospital, and Winsley Sana- 

 torium. To the latter he gave £250 two years ago. A Conservative 

 and Churchman of the Evangelical School, he had been churchwarden 

 of the Parish Church since 1911, and gave £1000 for the augmentation 

 of the living, and bore the expense of the restoration of the north 

 porch and parvise some years ago. He leaves a widow and two 

 daughters. 



Obit, notice, Wiltshire Gazette, Jan. 2nd ; Wiltshire Times, Jan, 4th, 

 1913. 



Rev. John Henry Ellis, died Nov. 21st, 1912, aged 72. Trin. 

 Coll., Camb., B.A. (Sen. Opt.), 1862; M.A., 1865; Deacon, 1863; 

 Priest, 1864 (Cant.). Curate of Lyminge (Kent), 1863—65 ; Leyton, 

 Essex, 1866 ; Vicar of Brill (Bucks), 1866—73 ; Rector of Stourton, 

 (Wilts), 1874 — 87; when he resigned and retired to live in London. 

 He left by his will £10,000 each to the Bp. of London's Fund, the Bp. 

 of St. Albans' Fund, and the East London Church Fund, and the 

 residue of his property (not less than £90,000), subject to his wife's 

 life interest, to Cambridge University, " to be enjoyed and applied 

 both out of capital and income by them for the general purposes of 

 the University, in such manner as they may think fit." He was a life 

 member of the Wilts Arch. Soc. 



Canon George Charles Bell, died Jan. 6th, 1913, aged 80. 

 Buried at Preshute. Born at Streatham, July, 1832, s. of George Bell, 

 shipowner and banker. Educated Christ's Hospital, scholar Line. 



