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Personal Notices. 



Capt. Thomas Trice (iratrex. Known in sporting circles as " The Badger." 

 Died May, 1897, and was buried at Corsham, where he had lived for some 

 years. A mighty hunter, Bailey's Magazine for July, 1897, contains an 

 article on him by the Hon. F. Lawley, with process portrait. Devizes 

 Gazette, July 8th, 1897. 



Richard Higgins. Born July 1st, 1815. Died June 24th, 1894. He was 

 the son of poor parents — William and Sarah Higgins, of Everley, and began 

 life as an apprentice in a general shop at Ludgershall. By his industry and 

 energy he raised himself from one position to another until he became city 

 traveller to the large lace firm of Fisher & Co., and on the death of Mr. 

 Fisher he began business on his own account. A man of fine physique, of 

 high character and great enterprise, the firm which he founded — that of 

 Messrs. Higgins, Eagle, & Co., of Cannon St., London, met with much 

 success, and in the latter part of his life he purchased " The Oaks," near 

 Epsom, formerly well known as a residence of the Earls of Derby. He 

 died in London, and was buried in Abney Park Cemetery. 



Samuel Parker, J. P., died April 5th, 1897, aged 58 years. Buried in London 

 Road Cemetery, Salisbury. Born at Warminster, he lived almost all his 

 life at Salisbury, and had been a member of the Town Council since 1880. 

 He was Mayor in 1888-89, and became Alderman in 1894. A Wesleyan and 

 Liberal Unionist. Obit, notices, Salisbury Journal, April 10th, and Wilts 

 County Mirror, April 9th, 1897. 



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The Hon. Sir Henry Charles Lopes, Judge of the High Court of Justice. 

 Devizes Gazette, July 1st, 1897. 



The Pt. Hon. Sidney Herbert. Daily Mail, Aug. 3rd, quoted in Wilts 

 County Mirror, Aug. 6th, 1897. 



"Parson Gale." Macmillans Magazine, March, 1897, pp. 358—364, 

 contains an article entitled " Requiescat," which, although no names are 

 mentioned, those familiar with Pewsey Vale will have no difficulty in 

 recognising as a sketch of the late Vicar of Milton Lilborne. It deals with 

 him as a sportsman, a magistrate, and a clergyman, and tells marvellous 

 stories of him in each capacity —stories which certainly smack more of the 

 eighteenth than of the nineteenth century, and yet may very well be true. 

 In the article, however, justice is hardly done to the sterling worth and great 

 good-heartedness which underlay the eccentricities for which he was famous, 

 and the style in which the stories are told, with its somewhat irritating 

 straining after humour, is not worthy of the very picturesque subject on 

 which the writer is discoursing. 



