506 Wilts Obituary. 



Thomas Davies, died at Purton, January, 1914, aged 103 years, 9 

 ' months, and 22 days, having been born at Kings Lynn, March 7th, 

 1810. He was a well-known character at Purton, having been an in- 

 mate of the workhouse for nearly twenty years. Here of late years he 

 had been allowed liberty to do as he pleased, together with other special 

 privileges. He retained his faculties to a wonderful degree, and was 

 walking about the village till shortly before his death. He had been a 

 shoemaker at Leicester, Northampton, and Wootton Bassett until he 

 was 60. Then he became a hawker and pedlar until he was 91. He' 

 was always very emphatic as to the date of his birth, which, however, 

 has never been substantiated by any stronger evidence than his state- 

 ment, though some enquiries have been made. Obit, notice, Wiltshire 

 Gazette, Jan. 8th ; Wiltshire Times, with portrait, Jan. 10th, 1914. 



Dr. Nicholas Vincent Wise, died January 8th, 1914, aged 69. 

 Buried at Trowbridge Cemetery. S. of George Francis Wise, of Kil- 

 barry House, Co. Cork, came to Trowbridge about thirty-five years 

 ago, succeeding to the practice of the late Dr. L. C. Miller. He was 

 very greatly respected and beloved in Trowbridge for his goodness to 

 the poor and suffering. Obit, notices, Wiltshire Times, January 17th ; 

 Wiltshire Gazette, January 15th, 1914. 



Arthur Perkins StanCOmb, died January 13th, 1914, aged 88. 

 Buried at Trowbridge Cemetery. Born October 7th, 1825, at Trow- 

 bridge. S. of John Stancomb, of the Prospect. Educated at Warminster 

 Grammar School. Engaged in woollen manufacture with his three 

 brothers at Trowbridge for many years. J.P., 1897. President of Trow- 

 bridge Horticultural Society, much interested in gardening, and a great 

 supporter of cricket. A Conservative and Churchman. He was choir- 

 master at Holy Trinity Church for forty years, and taught or super- 

 intended in the Sunday School for fifty years. He married, 1858, Agnes, 

 d. of John Hill, of Ravenscroft, Ayrshire, who with two sons, A. J. 

 G. Stancomb and F. W. Stancomb, and a daughter, survive him. 

 Obit, notice with portrait, Wiltshire Times, January 17th and 24th ; 

 Salisbury Dio. Gazette, February, 1914. 



Harry Bevir, died suddenly January 18th, 1914, aged 63. Buried in : 

 Wootton Bassett Cemetery. S. of William Lawrence Bevir, solicitor, 

 of Cirencester. Educated at Christ's Hospital, articled to the firm of 

 Mtillings, Ellet & Co., of Cirencester, and afterwards in the office of i 

 Peacock & Goddard, of Grays Inn. Admitted to the Rolls 1872, he I 

 established himself as a solicitor in Wootton Bassett nearly forty years 

 ago. He gradually built up a considerable private practice, and filled 

 many public offices. He became Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, 1896. 

 Clerk to Crickladeand Wootton Bassett Board of Guardians, and Clerk 

 to the Magistrates. He was examiner of honours for the London Law ; 

 Institute, and at one time president of the Wiltshire and Gloucester- 

 shire Law Society. He was interested in the Wiltshire Working Men's i 

 Conservative Benefit Society, of which he was Grand Master for a year ' 



