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purchase of his property he had improved it in many ways. He was 

 J.P. for Wilts 1906 ; a Governor of the Dauntsey School at 

 Lavington ; and a freemason. He married Phoebe Flatt, who, with 

 three sons and five daughters, survives him. His funeral was attended 

 by a very large gathering from Lavington and London. 



Long obit, notices, Wiltshire Gazette, May 14th ; Wiltshire Times, 

 with portrait, May 15th, 1914. 



Captain Henry John Phillips, died May nth, 1914, aged 34. 



Buried at Kington Langley. Born at Chippenham, April 11th, 1880. 

 Son of F. H. Phillips, Town Clerk of Chippenham. Educated at 

 Malvern College. Subaltern in 2nd V.B. Wilts Regiment, received 

 Commission in 4th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, joined Regular 

 Hattalion of the Regiment in S. Africa, served with distinction through 

 the war, gaining the medal with five clasps, and gaining a war com- 

 mission in 1901. Returned in 1903 to England, Adjutant 7th Battalion 

 of Welsh Fusiliers at Newtown, 1910—1913, where he did excellent j 

 work. He died at Malta after an operation for appendicitis. 

 Obit, notice, Wiltshire Gazette, May 21st, 1914. 



Ambrose Tucker, of Hillcote, Manor Road, Salisbury, died May | 

 27th, 1914. Buried in London Road Cemetery, Salisbury, He entered j 

 the Wilts and Dorset Bank 1863, and became assistant general mana- 

 ger, 1894 — 1908, when he retired. He was a prominent Freemason, !| 

 held many offices in the craft and edited the Masonic Calendar fori] 

 Wiltshire. He formed a valuable collection of Wiltshire Engraved 

 portraits and Topographical Prints, of which he printed an elaborate 

 catalogue which is of permanent value as a work of reference. 



" A Catalogue of some Portraits and other Prints having to do with 

 the County of Wilts. From the collection of Ambrose Tucker. 

 Privately printed for Ambrose Tucker at the Press of Bennett Bros., 

 Salisbury. 1908." Linen, lOjin. X 7f in., pp. 211. 



Obit, notice, Salisbury Journal, May 30th, 1914. 



