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beloved ; but it was as an ornithologist of no mean rank that he 

 was best known. For years he had been recognized as the authority 

 on birds in the south of the county. He was a collector, and pos- 

 sessed a large and valuable collection, both of birds and of eggs, but 

 he was something better than a collector. He knew the birds in life, and 

 their manners and customs, as probably no one now left in Wiltshire 

 does — and his lectures at the Salisbury Museum, printed from time to 

 time in the Salisbury- Journal, were those of a master in his craft, who 

 at the same time had the power of imparting his knowledge to others in 

 the pleasantest way. He was also an entomologist, and in this branch, 

 too, his collections were considerable. His death indeed leaves the 

 county the poorer by the loss of a really accomplished naturalist. 



Obit, notices, Guardian, Nov. 21st; Salisbury Journal, Oct. 20th; 

 Devizes Gazette, Oct. 25th : Field, October 27th ; Salisbury Diocesan 

 Gazette, Nov., 1900. 



He was the author of : — 



"Among the Birds on the Fame Islands, May 26th, 1896." 8vo 

 pamphlet. Salisbury and London. 



A sermon on the death of John Gay Attwater, preached at Britford, 

 Aug. 11th, 1895. Pamphlet, cr. 8vo., Salisbury. 



Jubilee Hymn, 1897. 



On the occurrence of some of the Rarer Species of Birds in the 

 Neighbourhood of Salisbury. Wiltshire Archceological Magazine, 

 xvii., 95—128; xviii., 183—213, 289—318; xx., 154—184; xxi., 

 211—255; xxii., 83—106, 191—211. 



Some Notes on the Breeding of Acherontia Atropos. Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., xxii., 124—132. 



Some Notes on Acherontia Atropos, the Death's Head Hawkmoth. 

 Wiltshire Notes and Queries, vol. ii., June, 1897, 279 — 286; 

 Sept., 1897, 323—329; Dec, 1897, 374—385. 



He was also the author of a number of letters and lectures on the 

 subject of birds printed from time to time in the Salisbury Journal and 

 The Field. 



Rev. Thomas AugUStUS Strong, died at Bournemouth, Sept. 

 23rd, 1900, aged 81 Buried at St. Paul's, Chippenham. Ex. Coll., 

 Oxon. B.A., 1841 ; M.A., 1846. Deacon, 1846 ; Priest, 1847, by Bishop 

 of Bath and Wells. Curate of Walcot, Bath, 1846—48 and 1852—55. 

 Curate of Melbourne Cathedral, 1849. Rector of St. Paul's, Chippenham, 

 1855—1900, when he resigned. He edited TheBruton Register, 1826—90, 

 revised edition, 1894. In opinion he was an Evangelical. As Rector of 

 St. Paul's for forty-four years he was well known, and much respected 

 and beloved in the Chippenham neighbourhood. 

 Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Sept. 27th, 1900. 



