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1858. Created baronet, 1874. Member of the Country Council, Deputy 

 Lieutenant, J.P., and High Sheriff of Wilts, 1863. Also J.P. for Dorset. 

 Married, first, 1847, Katherine Grace, second d. of Hon. Walter O'Grady, 

 Q.C., of Castle Garde, Co. Limerick, who died in 1879 ; and secondly, 1882, 

 Frances Hinton, d. of Henry Northcote, of Oakfield, Crediton, and widow, 

 successively, of Capt. Herbert Crosse and the Hon. Fred. Barnewall Best. 

 Succeeded by his son, Walter John, born 1852. As a politician his career 

 was marked by more than one change of sides — the result of his sturdy 

 independence and complete indifference to other people's opinions. He sat 

 as a Liberal from 1865 to 1874, and again in 1885, opposed the Home Rule 

 Bill and was returned unopposed as a Unionist in 1886, but afterwards 

 rejoined the Gladstonian Liberals, and was defeated by the Conservative 

 candidate in 1892. He was essentially a robust and manly country gentle- 

 man, taking great interest in all country and county business — and a 

 Churchman of distinctly Protestant type. The Mark Lane Express says 

 of him : " He was a politician who cared more for agriculture than all 

 the other interests that enamoured constituencies." The Agricultural 

 Economist, quoted in Wilts County Mirror, Feb. 12th, 1897, says : " His 

 natural mental courage made him a singularly attractive man. He was as 

 popular amongst his opponents as with his friends." Obit. Notices, Devizes 

 Gazette, Jan. 21st ; Salisbury and Wilton Times, Jan. 22nd ; Salisbury 

 Diocesan Gazette, Feb., 1897. 



Et. Eev. Edward Wyndham Tufnell. Died Sept. 3rd, 1896, aged 83. 

 Born 1814. Son of Mr. John Charles Tufnell, of Walcot, Somerset. 

 Educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxon. Fellow of Wadham College. 

 B.A., 1837; M.A., 1842; D.D., 1859. Deacon (Oxford), 1837 ; priest 

 (Sarum), 1839. Curate of Broadwindsor, Dorset, 1837—40 ; Broad Hinton, 

 Wilts, 1840—46 ; Rector of Beechingstoke, Wilts, 1846—57 ; Preb. of 

 Sarum, 1850—59 ; Rector of St. Peter's, Marlborough, 1857-59 ; first 

 Bishop of Brisbane, 1859—75, when he resigned and returned to England ; 

 Curate of Charing, 1877—79 ; Vicar and Rural Dean of Croydon, 1879-82 ; 

 Vicar of Felpham and Canon Residentiary of Chichester, 1882 until his death. 

 Obit, notices, Morning Post, Sussex Daily News, Salisbury Journal, 

 Dec. 5th, Guardian, Dec. 16th ; with portraits, in Illustrated London 

 News, Dec. 11th, and Church Bells, Dec. 11th, 1896. 



Eev. Skinner Chart Mason. Died Dec. 19th, aged 74. Scholar of St. 

 Cath. Coll., Camb. B.A., 1845 ; M.A., 1855. Deacon, 1845 ; priest, 1846. 

 Curate of Winkfield, Berks, 1846—49; Sherborne, 1849-53; Rector of 

 Magdalen Laver, Essex, 1853—55 ; Rector of St. Clement Danes, 1855—60 ; 

 Vicar of Urchfont, 1860—96. Rural Dean of Enford Portion of Deanery 

 of Potterne, 1891. He resigned the living of Urchfont a few months before 

 his death. 



Eev. Greorge Ellis Cleather. Died Jan. 2nd, 1897. Exeter Coll, Oxford. 

 B.A., 1846 ; M.A, 1855. Deacon, 1847 ; priest, 1848 (Sarum). Curate of 

 Baydon, Wilts, J1847— 50 ; Alton Barnes and Alton Priors, 1850-52; 



