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WnmtB. jt Jjjwon mtir Canon JicJ^mws/ 



$T is with no ordinary feelings of regret that we call attention 

 J^j to the heavy loss the Society has sustained in the deaths of 

 Dr. Baron and Canon Rich- Jones ; the latter of whom was one of 

 our most indefatigable fellow-workers for a great number of years, 

 a member of Committee, a Vice-President, and a very frequent con- 

 tributor to the pages of the Magazine : the former also an accom- 

 plished archaeologist, who has from time to time taken part in the 

 proceedings of the Society, and has contributed some very valuable 

 articles, some of which he has read at our Annual Meetings. 



The Rev. J. Baron, D.D., F.S.A., was a man of remarkable 

 energy and versatility, turning his active mind towards the accom- 

 plishment of many objects, in most of which he was eminently 

 successful : he was also a ripe scholar, of deep learning, and of 

 painstaking research. He was educated at the Islington Proprietary 

 School and at Queen's College, Oxford, in which society he gained 

 an open scholarship, a rare event in those days. He took his B.A. 

 degree in 1838, M.A. in 1841, B.D. and D.D. in 1878, and F.S.A. 

 in 1879 ; ordained deacon 1840, and priest 1841, by the Archbishop 

 of York. Formerly Michel Fellow of Queen's College, 1841-51, 

 he was Curate of St. Mary, Sheffield, 1840-42; Curate of Sparsholt 

 and Kingston Lisle, Berks, 1842; Vicar of Waterperry, Oxon, 

 1843-48; and was appointed Rector of Upton Scudamore in 1850. 

 Here for thirty-five years he laboured amongst his people, the very 

 estimable and beloved pastor of an agricultural parish. During his 

 incumbency the Parish Church has been restored, and made the very 

 model of what a village Church should be : then there was the 

 re-casting and re-hanging of the bells, which to him was a real 

 labour of love, inasmuch as he accomplished this very delicate work 

 (too often consigned to ignorant and inexperienced hands) on sound 



1 For some portions of the notice of Canon Jones, the Editor acknowledges 

 his obligations to the columns of the Salisbury Journal. 



