500 Wilts Obituary. 



Quarterly Review. He came to Wiltshire first as agent for Lord 

 Methuen and Earl Cowley, and lived for a time at Notton. In 1881 

 he became agent for the Marquis of Lansdowne and for Lord Crewe. 

 As a member of the firm of Smiths and Marshall he had a wide con- 

 nection with the management of estates all over the country. He was 

 a vice-president of the Surveyors' Institution, and had a very high 

 reputation as an authority on agriculture and all matters connected 

 with the land. He was a member of the Council of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society, a Commissioner of the Lea Valley Drainage, 

 Gilbey Lecturer on the History and Economics of Agriculture at 

 Cambridge 1900 — 1903. He was connected with many business under- 

 takings. J.P. for Wilts 1885, he was chairman of the Calne Bench, 

 district councillor, chairman of the Calne Without Parish Council, and 

 alderman of the County Council. The busiest of men he found time to 

 devote to local business, as well as to the affairs of the Church. In 

 educational matters he was especially interested. He married Emily, 

 d. of Arthur Hall, who survives him, together with his son Cyril, and 

 his two daughters, Mrs. Marriott Smith and Mrs. Ronald Carrington. 

 He was the author of "Principles of Estate Management" 8vo, 

 London, 1898, as well as of articles in the Nineteenth Century, The 

 Quarterly, &c. 



Obit, notices, Wiltshire Gazette, Oct. 23rd, 1913. Appreciation in 

 sermon by Archdeacon Bodington, at Calne, Wiltshire Gazette, Oct. 30th, 

 Wiltshire Times, Nov. 1st, 1913. 



Matthew Henry Whitley Devenish, died Oct. aist, 1913, 



aged 71. Buried at Devizes Road Cemetery, Salisbury. Entered Wilts 

 & Dorset Bank 1856, became Assistant General Manager 1872, and 

 General Manager, 1895 — 1911, when he resigned and became Managing 

 Director until his death. J.P. for Wilts. He was Treasurer of the 

 City of Salisbury and of Salisbury Infirmary, and a Governor also of 

 the latter institution. An earnest churchman he did much for the 

 churches and schools of Durnford and Stratford-sub- Castle ; and took 

 an active part in church work round Salisbury. He had lived of late 

 years at Little Durnford House. 



Obit, notices, Wiltshire Gazette, Oct. 30th ; Salisbury Journal, Oct. 

 25th ; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Nov., 1913. 



Arthur Russell Maiden, F.S.A., died Oct. 22nd, 1913, aged 63. 

 Buried in the Cloisters, Salisbury. Youngest son of Henry Maiden, 

 Professor of Greek at University College, London, and Georgina 

 Augusta, d. of Colonel Drinkwater Bethune, of Thornycroft, Leather- 

 head. Educated at University Coll. School, London, Ipswich School, 

 and Trinity Hall, Cambs. B.A. 1873. Admitted solicitor, 1877, he 

 began practice in Salisbury in 1879 as partner with Mr. D. J. K. 

 Macdonald. Chapter Clerk, 1888. Registrar of the Diocese, and 

 Legal Secretary to theBishop of Salisbury, 1902. Member of the Town 

 Council of Salisbury 1889—1900 ; Mayor 1895. Clerk of the Peace 1900. 

 Married, 1880, Rebecca, d. of Rev. Robert Barber, Vicar of Riseley, 

 Beds., who predeceased him. He leaves a son and two daughters. He 



