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of the Wilts Couuty Council since its formation. It was in these capacities 

 that he was best known and will be most widely missed in Wiltshire. As a | 

 landlord he was most considerate and helpful in every movement for the i 

 good of the people— and in his public life and private life alike was actuated 

 by a high sense of duty. The Times says : — " Lord Bath never played a 

 prominent part in political life, but he devoted a considerable part of his j 

 time and energies to county business, and was universally respected as a j 

 highly cultured scrupulously honourable English gentleman of the best j 



type Though a staunch Conservative in home affairs, he could I] 



not profess to approve of the Philo-Turkish policy of Lord Beaconsfield, and 

 sympathised rather with the views and scruples of Lord Derby and Lord I 

 Carnarvon. After the war (of 1877) he made a tour with Dr. Sandwith 

 in the Balkan Peninsula, and published some of his impressions in an i 

 interesting little volume on Bulgaria .... always a shy man, his I 

 shyness seemed to increase rather than diminish with years, and sometimes j 

 produced in those who did not know him intimately the impression that 

 he was morose and unsociable. This impression was entirely erroneous 

 . . . . He remained to the last under a cloak of reserve bordering on 

 hauteur one of the most kind hearted of men." Obituary notices in Times, 

 Standard, Devizes Gazette, April 29th, and Wilts County Mirror, \ 

 May 1st, 1896. I 



Eev. Arthur Wellington Booker, Rector of Sutton Yeney. Died Oct. ij 

 29th, 1895. Buried at Woolhope, Hereford. B.A., Christ Church, Oxon, I 

 1863. M.A., 1865. Curate of Rode, Cheshire, 1867—70 ; Windrush, 1 

 Gloucs., 1870—72 ; St. Anne, Lytham, 1873—76. Vicar of Sproxton and $ 

 Saltby, Leics., 1876—82 ; Croxton-Kerrial, Lines., 1882—1888. Rector of 

 Sutton Veney, 1888 until his death. Obit, notice, Salisbury Diocesan 

 Gazette, Dec, 1895. 



Eev. John Powell, Vicar of Hill Deverill. Died Nov. 3rd, 1895- 

 Buried at St. John's, Warminster. B.A., Trinity College, Dublin, 1850. 

 Curate of Brixton Deverill, 1853—58. Vicar of Hill Deverill, 1858 until I 

 his death. He was greatly esteemed by his parishioners. Obit, notice, 



Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Dec, 1895. 



Charles Hitchcock, M.D., of Fiddington, Market Lavington. Died : 

 Nov. 3rd, 1895, aged 83. Buried at Market Lavington, amid a large 

 assembly of " people of all classes, creeds, and politics." He took a very , 

 active part in all Church matters in his neighbourhood, and it was largely 

 owing to his exertions that Easterton Church was built and the parish 

 greatly improved in many ways. He retained full vigour both of body and i 

 mind to the last, and his death was felt as a loss throughout the neighbourhood, 

 in which he was so well known and widely respected. Obit, notices, 1 

 Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Dec, 1895, and Devizes Gazette. 



Eev. Edward Bullock Finlay. Died Jan. 13th, 1896. Buried at 

 Avebury. B.A., Worcester College, Oxford, 1849. M.A., 1854. Held 

 curacies in Suffolk, Kent, and Sussex, 1854—64 ; took pupils at Folkestone, 



