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never married. He was tutor at the Theological College for nearly 

 twenty years. His great musical gifts made him a valuable helper at 

 Church festivals, &c. 



Obit notice, Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, May, 1914. 



tenry Richardson, died May 13th, 1914. Cremated. Born 

 1845. Educated at Harrow and Corpus Coll., Oxon. Assistant 

 Master at Marlborough, 1870. " From this onwards," says The Times 

 of May 15th, 1914, " Dick, as he has been affectionately known to all 

 who have had anything to do with Marlborough for the last forty years, 

 devoted himself heart, soul, and body to the school. Though not a 

 remarkably good teacher of a class, few men during this long period 

 have had a greater influence on the boys who successively passed 

 through Marlborough. He got to know almost every boy, even those 

 who had never been in his form or his house, treated them as friends 

 when they were schoolboys, and welcomed them in after life when they 

 came back to re-visit their old haunts." He was President of the 

 Natural History Society, and when he retired from his mastership in 

 1905 he settled down in a house he had built for himself near the 

 Common. He was a strong Liberal in politics. By his death " Marl- 

 borough loses one of her foremost teachers of that practical indepen- 

 dent spirit on which the school with some justice prides itself." 



'liomas H. HollOWay, died May 8th, 1914, aged 61. Buried at 

 West Lavington. Son of Thomas Hollo way, of West Lavington, where 

 he was born. His father in 1868 went to London and founded the 

 business of builders and constructors, in which his son became foreman 

 at the age of 21. In 1882 Thomas and his brother Henry began business 

 as builders and contractors in Battersea, under the title of Holloway 

 Brothers. In 1897 a Government contract for half -a- million was secured 

 and since then the new Admiralty Offices, the new General Post Office, 

 the Central Criminali Courts (at Newgate), and Whiteley's new premises 

 have all been built by the firm, which is now building the new Home 

 Office buildings. The firm have also built extensive blocks of flats and 

 business premises on their own account, and the business greatly 

 prospered. Mr. Holloway many years ago occupied a house in his 

 native village by way of a holiday home for his children. In 1899 he 

 bought the a Beckett estate at Littleton Panell, partially re-building 

 and enlarging the old house. In 1905 he bought the West Lavington 

 Manor estate, comprising nearly the whole village, and some years later 

 went to live at the Manor House, which he restored and enlarged. In 

 1913 he doubled the area of his estate by buying from the Ecclesiastical 

 Commissioners 3500 acres in West Lavington and Imber, and by this 

 purchase he became sole lord of the manor at Lavington. A Liberal 

 in politics and a Wesleyan Methodist he had filled all the offices in the 

 connexion open to a layman, and was a munificent supporter of the 

 cause. The large and handsome Wesleyan Chapel at Littleton was a 

 gift from the Brothers Holloway in memory of their father. Since the 



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