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ReV. William OllSlOW Sole, Rector of Crudwell, died Aug. 8th, 

 1898. Accidentally drowned whilst fishing at Aylesbeare, Devon. Buried 

 at Crudwell. Eldest son of Dr. Sole, F.R.C.S., of St. Neot's, Huntingdon- 

 shire. He practised as a fully-qualified solicitor in Cheltenham. Was 

 ordained deacon 1882, and priest 1883, in the Diocese of Lichfield. Curate 

 of Armitage, Staffordshire, 1882 — 87. Chaplain to Mr. Piers-Warburton 

 at Arley Hall, Cheshire, 1887—88. Rector of Crudwell 1888, until his 

 death. The North Wilts Herald, Aug. 12th, and 19th, 1898, says of him:— 

 " A High Churchman of an advanced type, the sincerity, zeal, and energy 

 which marked the performance of his duties won him the good opinion even 

 of the Evangelical section of his congregation." Obit, notice, Devizes 

 Gazette, Aug. 18th, 1898. 



William Waldron Ravenhill, M.A., died Aug. isth, 1898, 



aged 62. Buried at St. Mark's, Surbiton. Fifth son of John Ravenhill, of 

 Ashton House, Heytesbury. Born Feb. 27th, 1838. Educated at Marl- 

 borough and Univ. Coll., Oxon. B.A. 1858. Called to the Bar at the 

 Inner Temple 1862. Practised on the Western Circuit and at Wilts Quarter 

 Sessions. Recorder of Andover, 1872. Married, 1860, Anna Louise, fourth 

 daughter of Joseph Everett, of Greenhill House, Sutton Veny. Author of 

 the following papers in this Magazine : — " Records of the Rising in the 

 West," xiii., 119, 252 ; xiv., 38 ; xv., 1, 235 ; xx., 106. " The Wiltshire 

 Regiment for Wiltshire," xvii., 192, 364, "Justice in Warminster in the 

 Olden Time," xviii., 136. "Sir William Waller and Malmesbury," xxi., 

 170. "Murder in the 17th Century," xxii., 39. " Confirmation of the 

 Guild of the Holy Ghost at' Basingstoke by Charles I.," xxiii, 62; "Some 

 Western Circuit Assize Records of the 17th Century," xxv., 69. 

 Obit, notice, Swv/don Advertiser, Aug. 20th, 1898. 



Benjamin White Crees, died Sept. 20th, 1898, aged 57. One of 



three brothers, who, coming from Somerset, occupied large farms in Wilts. 

 He was a native of Witham Friar). He first took Sleight Farm, Stert, 

 and afterwards removed to the Manor Farm, Etchilhampton, twenty-five 

 years ago, remaining there, and farming practically all the 'ami in :1m 

 parish, until his death, whilst his sons managed farms for him ;it Fyfield 

 and Mildenhall. " He was one of a group of men largely identified with 

 the introduction of big dairy farming into a district which hitherto had 

 been devoted almost entirely to the production of command sheep . . . 

 they gradually substituted grass for arable hind, and are largelj responsible 

 for the growth of that London milk trade which has now attained such 

 large dimensions in the district/' Devises Gazette, Sept. 22nd, L898. 



