Wilts Obituary. 



coming down, through the Italian and Flemish and Dutch schools, to 

 modern times, a collection, not of masterpieces, but of original pictures, 

 sufficient to give some idea of the different styles of art. This, like the 

 larger museum, was open to the public free of charge, and was the outcome 

 of his idea that country people, as well as those in towns, should have 

 opportunities given them of intellectual cultivation. Both the museum 

 and King John's House are in a very isolated position — many miles from 

 any town or railway, yet numbers of people visited them every year. 

 But better known than either of these were the beautiful little pleasure 

 grounds which the General formed and kept up entirely for the use of 

 the public at Larmer Tree — also in the same neighbourhood. Here in 

 summer there were special facilities for tea parties and games of all sorts, 

 and at certain times sports were held — whilst the General's own band, 

 composed of employes on the estate, played there on certain days and 

 always on Sunday afternoons. As to the expediency of this Sunday 

 opening opinions differed somewhat sharply — but as to its popularity 

 there could be no doubt — thousands of people literally come there in the 

 course of the summer. All these institutions could only be kept up at a 

 very large expense — and it was sometimes whispered that the outlying 

 portions of the property felt themslves neglected for the good of Kushmore 

 and its neighbourhood. If they really suffered they suffered at least 

 in an admirable cause. 



His reputation was shown by his appointment as Inspector of Ancient 

 Monuments under the Act of 1882, but he found that practically the Act 

 was of little use, and that he had no power to do anything. At the 

 meetings of the British Association he was for twenty years a constant 

 attendant, and he served on committees on the following subjects : Science 

 lectures and organisation — Anthropological notes and queries for the use of 

 travellers — Anthropometric committee — Exploration of caves near Tenby 

 — Exploring caves in Borneo — Excavations at Mount Stewart, Ireland — 

 Obtaining photographs of the typical races in Great Britain — Investigation 

 of Loughton Camp, Epping Forest — Denning the facial characteristics of 

 the races in Great Britain — Corresponding societies committee — Procuring 

 photographs of Egyptian pictures and sculptures — Investigating the effects 

 of different occupations and employments on physical development of the 

 human body — Ethnographical survey of the United Kingdom — The lake 

 village at Glastonbury. 



He was President of the Salisbury and Dorchester Meetings of the 

 Archaeological Institute, 1887 and 1897 ; was an Hon. Associate of the 

 Anthropological Societies of France, Italy, and America, and was 

 President of our own Society for four years, 1890 — 93. 



Obituary notices appeared in The Daily Telegraph, May 5th ; Morning 

 Post, May 5th ; Standard, May 7th ; The Times, reprinted in the Devizes 

 Gazette, May 10th; Salisbury Times, May 11th; Wilts County Mirror, 

 May 11th; Salisbury Journal, with article, May 12th ; M.A.P., May 

 12th ; Literature, May 12th; Athenceum, May 12th, 1900. 



