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formist, he took a very leading part in the public life of Wilton, where 

 his death will be felt as a great loss. He was more especially connected 

 with the important Royal Wilton Carpet Factory, where some of the 

 finest carpets — Axminster and Wilton — in the world are made. Members 

 of the Wilts Archaeological Syciety who attended the Wilton Meeting, in 

 1891, will remember the very great hospitality with which he received the 

 Society as Mayor. He married a daughter of Mr. J. F. Rutter, of Mere, 

 who, with a son and daughter, survives him. Obit, notices, Wilts 

 County Mirror, Sept. 30th, 1898 ; Salisbury Journal, Oct. 1st, 1898. 



Henry Lewis, of Oil City, U.S.A., died July 26th, 1898. Born at 

 Mallnesbury, Jan. 5th, 1837, emigrated with his parents to the States 

 in 1844. He was for a long while connected with the firm of Clark 

 Shurmur, & Co., and afterwards with the Standard Oil Company. He 

 removed from Oil City to New York in 1884. He married, first, in 

 1868, at Cleveland, Sarah Blackwell, who died 1883 — of this marriage 

 two sons and one daughter survive him. He married, secondly, in 1888, 

 Anna V. Dunham, at Summerville, who survives him, with one daughter. 

 He was well-known in Oil City for his charitable disposition. Long 

 obit, notice in The Oil City Derrick, quoted in Devizes Gazette, Aug. 

 18th, 1898. 



Admiral Frederick William Fleydell-Bouverie, 



eldest son of the late Canon Pleydell-Bouverie, third son of the second 

 Earl of Radnor. Born 1816. Died July, 1898. Entered the Navy in 

 1828 ; present at the blockade of Alexandria, 1840. Commander 1842, 

 Captain, 1863, retired five years later. Married, 1845, Madeline, d. of 

 Josias Du Pre Alexander. 



Ambrose Lethbridge GrOddard, of the Lawn, Swindon, died 

 Nov. 15th, 1898, aged 79. Buried in the Old Churchyard, Swindon. 

 Eldest son of Ambrose Goddard (Capt. in 10th Hussars, M.P. for Crieklade 

 and High Sheriff of Wilts, 1819—20) and Jessie Dorothea, d. of Sir 

 Thomas Buckler Lethbridge. Born Dec. 9th, 1819. Educated at Harrow 

 and St. John's Coll., Cambridge. J. P. and D.L. for Wilts. Major in 

 Wilts Yeomanry. Conservative M.P. for the Borough and Hundreds of 

 Crieklade from 1847 to 1868, when he was defeated. He again repre- 

 sented Crieklade from 1874 to 1880, when he retired. He represented 

 Old Swindon on the Wilts County Council from its commencement to the 

 beginning of this year, when he retired. He married, Aug. 14th, 1847. 

 Charlotte, eldest d. of Edward Ayshford Sanford, of Nynehead Court, 

 Somerset, by whom he had five children : — Ambrose Ayshford, born May 

 7th, 1848, Lt.-Col. Grenadier Guards, died on his way home from Suakim, 

 1885 ; Fitzroy Pleydell, born Aug. 29, 1852, who succeeds to the estates ; 

 Edward Hesketh, born Oct. 19th, 1855 ; Charles Frederick, born Nov. 

 25th, 1865; Jessie Henrietta, born April 23rd, 1850. Mr. GoddawTs 

 life covered the period of the phenomenal growth of Swindon from a small 

 country town to what it now is. As Lord of the Manor, Chairman of 

 the Bench of Justices, M.P., and County Councillor, ho had always 



