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modest and unassuming character. He Lad formed a considerable collection 

 of flint implements, many of which he gave to the Blackmore Museum at 

 Salisbury ; and also of the weapons of existing savage races. Obituary 

 notice Wilts County Mirror, September 3rd, 1895. 



Eev. Edward Everett. Died May 25th, 1895. Sixth son of Joseph Hague 

 Everett, of Biddesden, Wilts, formerly M.P. for Ludgershall. Educated at 

 Rugby and St. John's College, Cambridge. B.A. 1839. Curate of Badby, 

 Northumberland, 1841—1847; Wilsford, Wilts, 1847—1857; Rector of 

 Manningford Abbotts, 1857—1895. Buried at Manningford Abbotts. During 

 his incumbency he re-built the chancel himself in 1862, and raised funds by 

 which the whole Church was almost re-built in 1863. Obituary notice 

 in Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, July, 1895. 



Alexander Mackay, J. P. Second son of Mr. Donald Mackay, of Breamore, 

 Caithness, where he was born February 4th, 1838. Married Lucy, second 

 daughter of Mr. W. H. Tucker, of Erome, 1864. Died September 30th, 

 1895. Mr. Mackay came to Trowbridge from Scotland in 1861 to occupy 

 a position in Ashton Cloth Mills, then beloDging to Messrs. Brown & 

 Palmer. On the retirement of Mr.— afterwards Sir— Roger Brown and the 

 death of Mr. Michael Palmer, Mr. Mackay became the partner of Mr. G. L. 

 Palmer, and eventually the whole business came into his hands. He for 

 some years occupied Holt Manor, but about a year ago removed to The 

 Grange, Trowbridge. To the end Mr. Mackay himself superintended every 

 detail of the great business which employs seven hundred hands in Trowbridge, 

 but, in spite of the exacting claims of his work, he found time to take a 

 leading part in almost every organisation haviDg for its object the religious 

 or social welfare of the diocese and the county. He was emphatically not a 

 man of leisure, yet he found leisure to do what the majority of leisured men 

 "have not time for." As a devoted churchman his personal service, as well 

 as ample income, could always be counted upon in any need of the Church, 

 and his place will be hard indeed to fill in Wiltshire. In the wider field of 

 general charity, what he did was only known to himself. His name was 

 proverbial for generosity ; and not only his own numerous employes, but 

 the whole town and district of Trowbridge, have felt his death as a loss that 

 is irreparable— the loss of a true friend of rich and poor alike. He was 

 much interested in archaeological matters ; acted as the Local Secretary of 

 our own Society at Trowbridge, and had formed a choice library of Wiltshire 

 books, which included Sir R. Colt Hoare's own copy of Modern Wilts. In 

 artistic matters, too, his taste was excellent, and his collection of articles of 

 silver plate included many valuable specimens. Notice, with good process 

 portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Mackay, in " The Celtic Monthly," October, 

 1894. Obituary notices in Devizes Gazette, October 3rd. 1895 ; Salisbury 

 Diocesan Gazette, November, 1895. 

 Eev. Edward Duke, of Lake House, J.P., F.G.S. Eldest son of Rev. Edward 

 Duke, the antiquary, and his wife, Harriet, daughter of Henry Hinxmau, of 

 Ivy Church. Born at Ivy Church, December 6th, 1814. Educated at 

 Southampton and Exeter College, Oxford. B.A.,1836; M.A., 1858. Curate 

 of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, 1839—1849 ; Wilsford, with Lake, 1872-1882. 



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