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was enormous, and for the most part the only reward he got for it was 

 the satisfaction of knowing that he had done work that nobody else 

 would do, and that would provide material for other men to build with 

 in the time to come. Always modest and retiring, never putting himself 

 forward in any way, and possessing that great virtue — too rare among 

 those of like pursuits — of knowing his own limitations, he pretended 

 to no knowledge that he did not possess, whilst that which he had made 

 his own by long years of laborious research he was willing to place at 

 the ' disposal of anybody and everybody who asked him for it, without 

 expectation of recognition or reward. Singularly unselfish, and simple 

 by nature, he was valued and esteemed most by those who knew him 

 best. He never, indeed, received the recognition that was his due, and 

 so far as his material interests were concerned it would perhaps have 

 been to his advantage if he had never been tempted into the paths of 

 the antiquary. But for all that the solid work that he accomplished 

 deserves well of our own Society, and of the county which it seeks to 

 serve. 



Long obit, notice, with portrait, Salisbury Times, Jan. 23rd, 1914 ; 

 Salisbury Diocesan Gazette ; Salisbury Journal, Jan. 17th, 1914. 



The list of his published works is given below, but the larger pro- 

 proportion of the matters that he copied or transcribed remains in MS., 

 unprinted. The chief items of such work were the following : — 



The complete Registers of the six Wiltshire Parishes, of which the 



marriages only (see below) have been printed. 

 The monumental Inscriptions, for the most part complete, in 

 Churches and Churchyards, together with much of the Heraldry, 

 of some 140 parishes in Wilts and 40 others in Dorset, Somerset, 

 and Hants. 

 The whole of the Monumental Inscriptions and Heraldry of Salis- 

 bury Cathedral. 

 Transcription and Translation of all Documents belonging to 



Trinity Hospital, Salisbury. 

 A Complete Catalogue of Documents in the Salisbury Municipal 

 Muniment Room, with translations of many of them. 



Bibliographical List of the Published Writings op T. H. Baker. 



"Records of the Seasons, Prices of Agricultural Produce, and 

 Phenomena observed in the British Isles. London : Simpkin, 

 Marshall & Co. Warminster : B. W. Coates, 1883." 

 Cloth, 7^in. X 4fin., pp. vii. + 360. 



Continuation of the above from 1883 bound up in same cover, in 

 2nd edition, pp. 1 — 78, issued in 1911. Noticed W.A.M., xxxvii., 

 480. 



" Notes on St. Martin's Church and Parish. Salisbury : Brown & 

 Co., 1906. 



Cloth 8vo, pp. viii. + 165 + 1 page of errata. Three illustra- 

 tions of Church. 



