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Rathmell Gr. WilSOn. Died Jan. 4th, 1900, aged 53. From 1881 to 

 1898 he was the Organising Secretary for the Salisbury Diocesan Branch 

 of the Church of England Temperance Society, and in this capacity was 

 well known in the Salisbury Diocese. He gave his life to the promotion 

 of the cause of temperance and objects like the " Spare Time Movement " 

 connected with it. Zealous and unselfish, hi* health gave way under the 

 strain of his work. Buried, London Koad Cemetery, Salisbury. 

 Obit, notice, Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Feb., 1900. 



Julia, WidOW Of John Torrance, of Norton House, near 

 Warminster. Died Sept. 14th, 1899. Buried at Norton. A devoted 

 Churchwoman, her large and generous gifts were by no means confined 

 to the Diocese of Salisbury — but in her own neighbourhood she restored 

 the tower of Norton Church — started the re-building of Warminster 

 Church with a gift of .£1000 — and largely aided in the permanent 

 establishment of St. Boniface Missionary College at the same place — in 

 addition to very large support, both personal and monetary, given to 

 other philanthropic and religious organisations, especially those devoted 

 to the benefit of women and children. 



Obit, notice, Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Oct., 1899. 



The Rt, Hon. William Fleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl 



of Radnor. Died June 3rd, 1900, aged 58. Buried at Britford. 

 Eldest son of Jacob, fourth Earl, and his wife, Lady Mary Grimston, third 

 daughter of first Earl of Verulam. Born June 19th, 1841. Educated at 

 Harrow and Trin. .Coll., Camb. Married, 1866, Helen Matilda, d. of 

 Bev. Henry Chaplin, Vicar of Byhall, Butland. As Viscount Folkestone 

 he was returned as Conservative M.P. for South Wilts in 1874, and 

 continued to represent the division until the passing of the Bedistribution 

 of Seats Act. M.P. for the Enfield Division of Middlesex from 1885 

 until he succeeded to the peerage in 1889. From 1885 — 1892 he was 

 Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household. From 1869 — 1883 he kept at his 

 own expense a pack of hounds, and succeeded Lord Pembroke as master 

 of the pack formed by him in 1890. As a Freemason he was Provincial 

 Grand Master of Wilts. He was President of the Salisbury Infirmary, 

 J.P. for Wilts and Berks, and succeeded Lord Ludlow as Chairman of 

 Salisbury Quarter Sessions. He leaves two sons, Jacob, Viscount 

 Folkestone, born 1868, who succeeds to the title, and is now serving as 

 major in command of the Wilts Volunteer Service Company in South 

 Africa ; and the Hon. Stuart Pleydell Bouverie, born 1877. Also one 

 daughter, Lady Wilma Pleydell Bouverie, married, 1899, to the present 

 Earl of Lathom. 



Obit, notices, Devizes Gazette, June 7th; Salisbury Times, June 8th; 

 Wilts County Mirror, June 8th; Salisbury Journal, June 9th, 1900. 



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