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Nov. 19th, 1851. Mrs. Goddard died Feb. 21st, 1849. He married 

 (secondly), 1852, Eliza Agnes, d. of William Walford, of Sibford, Co. 

 Oxon, and widow of John Whippy. She died 1890. By her he 

 had a daughter, Frances Agnes, who survives him, married to Captain 

 William Wilson, R.N., of Over Worton, Oxon. He was J.P. for Oxon 

 and Wilts, and D.L. for Wilts. High Sheriff of Wilts, 1860. A Major 

 in the Wilts Militia when it was quartered at Portsmouth during the 

 Crimean War. In politics he was a staunch Conservative, in faith an 

 earnest Churchman of the old school. He qualified as a justice in 1830 

 at Wokingham, then belonging to the County of Wilts, and in the winter 

 following took an active part in putting down the machine-breaking riots 

 which broke out violently in North Wilts. From that time for sixty 

 years he took a leading part in the public business of the county, for 

 which he was peculiarly well fitted by his great knowledge of all country 

 and county matters. Few country gentlemen have such a knowledge of 

 the details of farming as he had. He was a man of many interests and 

 much information. Few men were better known twenty-five years ago 

 in the county, and no one ever had a wider knowledge of men and things 

 in Wiltshire. He was an original member of our Society. He retained 

 his faculties of body and mind in a wonderful way to the last. He 

 remembered as a boy hearing the news of the entry of the allied sovereigns 

 into Paris in 1814 being read in the streets of Chippenham. He danced 

 on the lawn at Clyffe at the Jubilee of George III., and at that of Queen 

 Victoria. His memory was marvellously accurate and tenacious. His 

 humour was delightful. His singular courtesy to all who came in contact 

 with him, whatever their rank in life might be, his kindliness and con- 

 sideration for others, endeared him to all who knew him. Few have 

 been more justly respected and beloved. By his death the Clyffe Pypard 

 property, which has descended from father to son without break since 

 1545, devolves on his daughter, Mrs. Wilson, and the family name comes 

 to an end. 



Obit, notices, Times, Dec. 15th ; Devizes Gazette, Dec. 13th ; North 

 Wilts Herald, Dec. 14th ; Wiltshire County Mirror, Dec. 14th ; Truth, 

 Dec. 20th ; Marlborough Times, Dec. 15th ; Salisbury Diocesan 

 Gazette, Jan., 1901. 



Rev. Arthur Philip MorreS, died Oct. 15th, 1900. Buried at 

 Britford. Born May 10th, 1835. Third son of Elliot Morres, Esq., of 

 Woking. Educated at Winchester and Wadham Coll., Oxon. B.A., 

 1857; M.A., 1862. Deacon, 1859; Priest, 1860 (Bath and Wells). 

 Curate of Bishops Lydeard, Som., 1859—61. Perpetual Curate of East 

 Harnham, Wilts, 1861—1868. Chaplain of Alderbury Union, 1861—68, 

 and 1876—89. Vicar of Britford, 1868—94, when he resigned. 

 Chaplain of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury 1865 — 68, and from 

 1894 until his death. He married, first, a daughter of Rev. R. H. Hill, 

 formerly Vicar of Britford ; and, secondly, a daughter of Col. 

 Harrison, R.A., of Newcastle. Britford Church was restored during 

 his incumbency ; and, as a clergyman, he was much esteemed and 



