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Sheriff in 1893. He was essentially a keen practical business man. He 

 married the only daughter of E. H. Alexander, Esq., of Corsham, and 

 leaves three sons, Gabriel Prior, who succeeds him in the title, b. 1843, 

 Eemembrancer of the City of London since 1882 ; Frederick Hastings, 

 of Prior Place, Camberley ; and Sir John Tankarville Goldney, Chief 

 Justice of Trinidad (knighted 1893). 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, May 10th and 17th, 1900. 



Captain Henry Faton Rogers, 2nd Battalion Wiltshire 



Regiment. Died of enteric fever, at Bloemfontein, May 13tb, 1900, 

 aged 26. Born April 2nd, 1874. Son of Walter Lacy Rogers, barrister, 

 and half-brother of F. Newman Rogers, of Rainscombe Park. He joined 

 the Wiltshire Regiment as 2nd Leut., Oct. 10th, 1894; Lieutenant, 1896. 

 Married, Dec. 11th, 1899, Josephine Kate, d. of Henry Edmonston 

 Medlicott, of Sandfield, Potterne, and sailed for South Africa Dec. 19th. 

 His appointment as captain, dated back to Feb. 24th, appeared in the 

 papers after his death. The letters from the seat of war to the Devizes 

 Gazette over the signature " Moonraker," were by him. 

 Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, May 17th, 1900. 



J. H. FenruddOCke. Died at Winkton, Hants, May 1900, aged 94. 

 Born Aug. 6th, 1805. Second son of Capt. Thomas Penruddocke, 

 3rd Foot Guards, and Grandson of Charles Penruddocke, of Compton 

 Chamberlayne. Entered East India Company's service when 18 years 

 old, served four years as midshipman on the Charles Grant, and obtained 

 a commission on the same ship in 1833. In 1846 he went to Canada, 

 where he spent several years hunting and trapping among the Indians 

 in the backwoods. About 1854 he returned to England, and married 

 Elizabeth Heathcote, d. of William Heald Ludlow Bruges, of Seend. 

 where for many years he lived. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, May 10th, 1900. 



John LeybOUm Fopham, late of the 67th Regiment. Died April 

 29th, aged 51. Buried at Hungerford. Son of the Rev. John Popham. 

 late Vicar of Chilton. 



George Simpson. Born Aug. 27th, I8I8. Died in London, April 

 28th, 1900, aged 81. Buried in St. John's Churchyard, Devizes. He 

 was born at Salisbury, in the Halle of John Halle, where, in 1816, his 

 father had set up his printing press and published the first number of the 

 Gazette. In 1819 the business was transferred to Devizes, and after 

 leaving school in London he devoted himself to the business of the paper, 

 and from that time until his retirement, in 1886, he was actively associated 

 in the management of the Devizes Gazette, which chiefly owes to him the 

 position that it occupies in the county. Mr. Simpson was twice Mayor 

 of Devizes, was a member of the Town Council for thirty-six years, and 

 was prominent in all public matters connected with the town, and 



