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" Prayer and Praise for Servants." 

 "Who giveth Songs in the Night." 



Also a number of books for boys, including : — 

 " Tales of Heroes and Great Men of Old." 

 " Stories of the Old Romans." 

 " Life's Battle Lost and Won." 

 " Which Wins the Prize ? " 

 " Our Forest Home." 

 " My Schoolfellow Val Bownser." 

 " Rights and Wrongs." 

 " His Masters." 

 " Max Victor's School-days." 

 " Ralph Harding's Success." 

 " George Clifford's Loss and Gain." 

 " Led Astray." 

 " Under the Snow." 



Charles Gillman, Alderman of Devizes, died Nov. 28th, 1898, aged 73. 

 He came to Devizes from Cheltenham in 1844, and was associated with Mr. 

 William Burrows on the Wiltshire Independent, now extinct. In 1857 he 

 started on his own account as printer in The Brittox. In this year he began 

 the issue of the "Devizes Public Register," which has continued down to 

 the present time. In 1858 he started the Devizes Advertiser at the then 

 unusual price of Id. In 1894 he gave up the printing business to his son 

 Charles, and the newspaper to his son Russell D. He had been on the Town 

 Council, except for two years, since 1874. He was Mayor in 1889 and again 

 in 1890. He was a strong and enthusiastic Liberal and Congregationalist. 

 He was Vice-President of the East Wilts Central Liberal Association— a great 

 supporter of Nonconformist religious work — and President of the Devizes 

 Anti- Vaccination Society. He married Mary Ann Guy, of Devizes, in 1852, 

 and leaves a widow, three sons and two daughters. 

 Obit. Notice, Devizes Gazette, Dec. 8th, 1898. 



Tom Harris, of the Grange, Calne, died Dec. 10th, 1898, aged 39. Son 

 of Thomas Harris, and a managing director of the bacon firm of Charles and 

 Thomas Harris & Co. He married in 1893, and leaves a widow and three 

 children. A Liberal in politics, but he took no part in local affairs. He 

 built the house in which he lived. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Dec. 15th, 1898. 



William Taunton, born at Long Close, Downton, July, 1819 ; died 

 Nov. 17th, 1898. Buried at South Lane Baptist Burial Ground, Downton. 

 When 18 years old he went to Redlynch, where he remained until within a 

 month or two of his death. He married in 1848 Miss A. G. Whitchurch, 

 who, with two sons and five daughters, survives him. He represented 



