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are Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, M.P., of Boundway ; 

 Amy Euperta, wife of Christopher "William Baynes ; and Lilian Ann 

 Colston. Much respected and beloved in the neighbourhood of Devizes. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Nov. 22nd, 1900. 



Alfred John Keary , died at Chippenham, Oct. 11th, 1900. Buried 

 at Chippenham. Son of Bev. William Keary, Bector of Nunington, 

 Yorks. Born Sept. 23rd, 1832. Educated at Harrow. Admitted solicitor, 

 1857. In 1862 he came to Chippenham, became a member of the firm 

 of Goldney, Keary & Benny, and afterwards Keary & Stokes. He was 

 Clerk to the Magistrates, and held many other posts. He was Mayor of 

 Chippenham, 1869, 1882, 1884, and 1890, was more than once church- 

 warden, and was much respected inthe town. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Oct, 18th, 1900. 



Dr. Joseph Cave Spicer Jennings, of the Abbey House, 



Malmesbury, died April 8th, 1900, aged 81. Son of the Bev. William 

 Jennings, of Baydon, graduated at King's Coll., London, and commenced 

 practice as a doctor at Lacock, removing to Malmesbury in 1850. He 

 was the author of " History of Ancient Malmesbury," Malmesbury, 

 1891, a post 8vo pamphlet. 



Capt. H. Wiltshire, of the Beserve of Officers, attached to the 

 5th Mounted Infantry. Killed in a skirmish near Lindley, South Africa, 

 Oct. 4th, 1900. His father farmed at Nursteed, and afterwards at 

 Southwick Farm, Bowde. Before receiving his commission in the 20th 

 Hussars, he had served eleven years in the ranks, and with the 4th 

 Dragoon Guards was present at Mahsama and Kassassin in the Egyptian 

 Campaign of 1882, and in the Soudan operations in 1889. He married 

 Miss Gaby, of Westbrook, and resided at Coombe Bissett, where he acted 

 as churchwarden. He was also Secretary of the Diocesan Guild of 

 Bingers. 



Obit, notices, Devizes Gazette, Oct. 11th and Oct. 18th ; Wilts County 

 Mirror, Oct. 12th ; Salisbury Journal, Oct. 20th. Portrait in Black and 

 White, Dec. 15th, 1900. 



Captain Gerald Lowther Lysley, of the Rifle Brigade, 



Killed at Bergendal, in action, in South Africa, on August 27th, 1900, 

 aged 28. Joined the Bines eight years ago; Lieut., 1895; Capt., 1900. 

 Son of Mrs. Lysley, of Pewsham. 



Lieut. Laurence O. P. Mellish, 2nd Wiltshire Begiment, 

 died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein, June 2nd, 1900, aged 24. Youngest 

 son of Alfred L. Mellish, of Millbrook, Southampton. 



