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Wilts Obituary. 



whole interests in life were centred on the place, the property, and the 

 people. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Aug. 16th ; Wilts County Mirror, Aug. 

 17th, 1900. 



Elliot Arthur Neeld, youngest son of Sir John Neeld, died at 

 Kilmiston, Hants, Nov. 15th, 1900. Buried at Leigh Delamere. Born 

 Feb. 23rd, 1853. Educated at Harrow. He was for some years on a 

 ranch in South America. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Nov. 22nd ; Wiltshire Times, Nov. 24th, 

 1900. 



Alfred Buckley, of New Hall, near Salisbury, died Dec. 15th, aged 71. 

 Buried at Nunton. Eldest twin son of Gen. Edward Pery Buckley and 

 Lady Catherine (Bouverie), d. of William 3rd Earl of Badnor. Born 

 Oct. 13th, 1829. Educated at Eton and Trin. Coll., Cambridge. A 

 member of the Eton Eleven in 1848. Married, 1858, Geraldine Mary, 

 d. of Captain George St. John Mildmay, B.N., who survives him. J. P. 

 and D.L. for Wilts. He took a prominent part in all local and county 

 matters in the South of Wilts. For thirteen years he was chairman of 

 the board of governors of Salisbury Infirmary. He was a director of the 

 Wilts and Dorset Bank and other companies. He represented the Britford 

 Division on the County Council from its formation, and did a great amount 

 of county work in connection with it. He was a Liberal Unionist in 

 politics. He succeeded to New Hall and the Nunton estates on the death 

 of his father in 1873. He leaves three daughters and one son, Major 

 Edward Duncombe Henry Buckley, B.A., b. 1860. 



The Salisbury Journal, Dec. 22nd, says : — " Until his health failed 

 Mr. Buckley was in various capacities one of the hardest working of the 

 public men of Salisbury and South Wilts ; and the remembrance of his 

 long career of useful public services will cause his death to be lamented 

 and his memory to be held in esteem by many outside the circle of his 

 immediate friends." 



Other obit, notices, Wiltshire Times, Dec. 22nd ; Devizes Gazette, 

 Dec. 20th ; Salisbury Times, Dec, 21st, 1900; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, 

 Jan., 1901. 



HoratiO NelSOn GrOddard, of the Manor, Clyffe Pypard, died at 

 Bath, Dec. 8th, on his 94th birthday. Buried at Clyffe Pypard. Born 

 Dec. 8th, 1806. Third son of the Bev. Edward Goddard, of Clyffe Manor, 

 and his wife, Annica Susan, d. of Edward Bayntun. Educated at 

 Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose Coll., Oxon. B.A., 1828 ; 



M.A., Succeeded his father in the family property, owing to the 



death of his elder brothers, in 1839. Married (first), in 1840, Anne 

 Elizabeth, d. of Bev. Thomas Le Mesurier, Bector of Haughton le Skerne, 

 Co. Durham, by whom he had three children, Susan Werden and Edward 

 Werden, who died in infancy, and Katherine Ann, who died, aged 9, 



