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William Saunders, M.P. Died May 1st, 1895. Son of Mr. A. E. Saunders, 

 of Market Lavington, farmer and miller. Was born 1823, and educated at 

 Devizes Grammar School. For some time connected with large quarries near 

 Bath, ho in I860 established at Plymouth the Western Morning News, and 

 at Hull in 1861 the Eastern Morning News. He also was the proprietor of the 

 Central News Agency. He was elected a member of the London County 

 Council in 1883 and 1892, and became M.P. for East Hull in 1885, and for 

 Walworth in 1892. He was a Radical in politics, though he could and did 

 take an independent course when he felt it right to do so. He wrote on 

 various subjects connected with social and political matters, publishing " The 

 New Parliament of 1880 " ; " The Land Laws " ; " Mr. Hare's System of 

 Representation " and a volume of travels " Through the Light Continents 

 Obituary notices in Standard, May 2nd, and Illustrated London News 

 (with portrait), May 11th. 



Rev. Bryan King. B.A., Oxon (B.N.C.), 1834; M.A., 1837. Fellow of 

 B.N.C., 1835—43. Perpetual Curate, St. John's, Bethnal Green, 1837—41 ; 

 Rector of St. George Vin-the-East, 1842—62 ; Vicar of Avebuiy, 1863-94. 

 Died Jauuary 30th, 1895, aged 83. An article in the Guardian of February 

 6th, 1895, signed Thomas Hughes, and entitled " Bryan King and Septimus 

 Hansard" recalls what the author justly styles " perhaps the most incredible 

 chapter in the recent history of our Church " — the notorious riots at St. 

 George's-in-the-East in 1859 — 60, consequent on the introduction of certain 

 points of ritual by Mr. Bryan King, who was then Vicar. Obituary notices 

 appeared in the Illustrated London News, Standard, Church Times, and 

 Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, March, 1895. 



Edmund Grove Bennett. Died suddenly March 12th, aged 54. Of the 

 firm of Bennett Brothers, proprietors of the Salisbury and Winchester 

 Journal, which has attained a high position among provincial newspapers 

 under his direction. Much respected in Salisbury. Buried in the Cloisters. 

 Notices in Salisbury Journal; Wilts County Mirror, March 15th; 

 and Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, April, 1895. 



0. E. H. Hobhouse, M.P., for Devizes Division of Wilts. Portraits of 

 him as mover of the address in the House of Commons appeared in the 

 Illustrated London Netvs, February 2nd, and the Penny Illustrated 

 Paper, February 9th, 1895. 



Successful "Wiltshiremen Abroad. Under this heading the Devizes 

 Gazette of August 8th, 1894, quotes from the Pontiac Gazette a notice of 

 the career of two of the most prominent business men in Pontiac, U.S.A. — 

 John Pound, who emigrated from this county in 1857, and Thomas Turk, 

 born at Bremhill in 1820. 



