Canon John Rich, died March 18th, 1913, aged 86. Buried at West Tytherton. Born May 24th, 1826. Eldest s. of Rev. John Bostock Rich, of Ivinghoe, Bucks. Educated at a private school at Hampton Wick, 1834; Scholar of Westminster, 1838, and as such was present at the coronation of Q. Victoria; Student of Ch. Ch., Oxon, 1844; B.A., 1848; M.A., 1851. Deacon 1851, priest 1856 (Chich.). Hon. Fellow of St. Michael's Coll., Tenbury, 1856. Curate of Newtimber, Sussex, 1856-61. Vicar of Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas, 1861 until he resigned in 1904. He was also Rector of Tytherton Kelloways, 1884 until his death. Hon. Canon of Bristol, 1882. Rural Dean of Chippenham, 1883-99. During his long tenure of the living the Parish Church was well restored at a cost of £11,719, a new Church was built at Lowden, both the Tytherton Churches were restored, and a new Church school was built at Lowden. He married, 1861, Clara, d. of Thomas Holmes Bosworth, of Westerham, Kent, who died in 1911. He leaves one son, Capt. Charles Rich, Governor of Northampton Prison, and four daughters. In 1904, when he resigned the living of Chippenham, he still continued to live in the town at Lowden Lodge. He possessed considerable musical ability. He was for over thirty years hon, chaplain to the 2nd Batt. Wilts Volunteers. He was greatly respected and esteemed by all classes at Chippenham.

Obit. notices, Times, March 20th; Wiltshire Gazette, March 20th ; Wiltshire Times, with a good portrait, March 22nd, 1913.

Thomas Samuel Hill, died March 23rd, 1913, aged 69.

Buried

at Holy Trinity, Trowbridge. Born, 1843, at Potterne, where his father was a schoolmaster. Entered office of Messrs. Clark & Collins, solicitors, Trowbridge, became assistant clerk to the Local Board, and assistant magistrates' clerk. Became clerk to the Local Board, 1884, and to its successor, the Urban Council, 1894, holding this important office until his death. He was a prominent Freemason, but was best known as a Volunteer, in which capacity he held the unique position of having served during the whole existence of the force under that name from 1859 to 1908. He held the rank of captain. He possessed musical abilities and was for twenty-six years choirmaster of North Bradley Church. An earnest Churchman, he was greatly esteemed in Trowbridge, as the unusual demonstration of general respect at his funeral showed.

Obit. notices, Wiltshire Gazette, March 27th; Wiltshire Times, with portrait, March 29th; Wilts News, with portrait, March 28th, 1913.

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke and 11th

Earl of Montgomery, P.C., G.C.V.O., died suddenly, March 30th, 1913, in Italy. Buried at Wilton. Born 1853, second son of Sidney Herbert, Lord Herbert of Lea, Secretary for War in the Palmerston Administration of 1859. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxon. Married 1877, Lady Beatrix Louisa Lambton, eldest daughter of 2nd Earl of Durham. As Sidney Herbert he

represented Wilton in Parliament 1877-1885, and Croydon 1886–95. A junior Lord of the Treasury, 1885-92. He succeeded his brother (13th Earl) in the Peerage, 1895, and was appointed Lord Steward of the Household, holding that office until 1905. Captain in Wilts Yeomanry, 1876-80. He leaves two sons and two daughters, Reginald, Lord Herbert, Captain in the Royal Horse Guards and A.D.C. to Sir H. Paget, Commanding in Chief in Ireland, who succeeds to the Peerage, Lady Beatrix Wilkinson, Lady Muriel Herbert, and the Hon. George Sidney Herbert. Lord Pembroke was the largest landowner in the county, owning some 60,000 acres in South Wilts, as well as large estates in Dublin and the neighbourhood. He was president of the South Wilts Constitutional Association and president of the Wilts Archæological Society, 1906-8. In county matters he took a very prominent part. He was a constant attendant at the meetings of the County Council, and was chairman of the Standing Joint Committee. His fine presence, and always courteous manners, his wide knowledge of men and affairs, and his practical wisdom, apart from the position which he occupied in the county, gave him a place in public business among men of all classes and opinions that will be hard to fill. As a landlord he carried on the excellent traditions of the Pembroke estate, than which there is none better managed in the county.

Obit notices, Times, March 31st; Wiltshire Gazette, April 3rd; Wiltshire Times, with portrait and cuts of Wilton House and Bridge, April 5th; appreciation by Chairman of Quarter Sessions, Wiltshire Times, April 12th; portrait, Sphere, April 5th; portrait, Salisbury Journal, April 5th, 1913.

Edwin Young, died March, 1913, age 82. Born, lived, and died at Salisbury. He was a painter of considerable ability and a short time ago gave a collection of his paintings, and a gallery to contain them, together with four houses in Elm Grove, as an endowment for maintenance, to the city of Salisbury. This gallery, next to the Free Library, is now nearing completion.

Obit. notice, Wiltshire Gazette, April 3rd, 1913.

Major Campbell Macgill, died March 12th, 1913, aged 64. Buried at Stratford-sub-Castle. Son of Rev. Thomas Macgill, of Clapham, came to Salisbury, 1881, and took over the business of Messrs. Large & Co. Was for some time churchwarden of St. Edmund's. Removed to Stratford-sub-Castle, 1888, where, as churchwarden for ten years, he was largely instrumental in carrying out the restoration of the Church. Joined the Salisbury Volunteers, 1881, and was in command of the detachment for six years, retiring with rank of major, 1903. Obit. notice, Salisbury Journal, March 15th, 1913.

Lord Avebury, died May 28th, 1913; buried at Farnborough, Kent. John Lubbock, born April 30th, 1834, eldest son of Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, and Harriet, daughter of Lieut.-Col. George Hotham. Educated at Eton, on leaving Eton he went into his

father's bank. Succeeded to Baronetcy 1865. Published" Prehistoric Times," 1869, which at once attracted wide attention. In 1874 he published "Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects," and in 1882 “Ants, Bees, and Wasps." This last was the work by which the public knew him best, and Punch, August 19th, 1882, gave a portrait of him as “The Banking Busy Bee." Liberal M.P. for Maidstone, 1870-80, and London University, 1880-86 (and as Liberal Unionist) 1886-1900. Vice-Chancellor of London University 1872-80. "He was an ideal university member." His untiring work in Parliament on behalf of shop assistants will be gratefully remembered. The Bank Holiday Act of 1871, Shop Hours Regulation Act of 1886, and Shop Hours Act of 1904 were chiefly due to his persistent efforts. He sat on several Royal and on innumerable Departmental Committees. As the head of Robarts, Lubbock, & Co., he held an important position in the city, and was the first President of the Institute of Bankers. He was President of the London Chamber of Commerce, 1888 to 1893, Chairman of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, Vice-Chairman of the London County Council 1889-90, and Chairman 1890-92. He was a member of the Legion of Honour, and held the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite. Raised to the peerage in 1900 he took his title from the land at Avebury which he had bought to save the circle from the speculative builder. He had been President of very many scientific and learned societies. He was a Life Member and Vice-President of our own Wiltshire Society. He married, first, 1856, Ellen, daughter of Rev. Peter Hordern, and secondly 1884, Alice Augusta Laurentia, daughter of Lieut.-General A. A. Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, who survives him. His eldest son by the first marriage, Hon. John Birkbeck Lubbock, succeeds to the title. "Few Englishmen have lived a fuller or busier life than Lord Avebury. The range of the operation of his energies was so wide and multifarious and so eminently conducive to the public weal that he won, and deserved, a higher place in the estimation of his fellow citizens than many men of greater powers of mind. In industry and capacity for giving attention to a variety of interests simultaneously he has not been often equalled. . . He was a practised entomological observer. An anthropologist, an ethnologist and a botanist. A great student of geology." Times, May 29th, in a long obituary article. Portraits in Sphere, May 31st; Queen, June 7th, 1913.

Rev. Thomas Scudamore Cunningham, died May 30th, 1913, aged 59, Buried at Chirton. S. of Thomas John Mackay Cunningham, capt. in Madras Native Infantry. Born at Cheltenham, June 13th, 1854. Educated at Clapham Grammar School and St. Bees Theological Coll., 1875. Deacon 1877, priest 1878 (Oxford). Curate of Newton Blossomville 1877-80; Burwell, Cambs., 1880-82; Felpham, Sussex, 1882; Pakenham, Suffolk, 1883-84; Perpetual Curate of Scilly Isles, 1885-88; Vicar of St. Feock, Corn., 1888–91; Chaplain at Ghent, 1891-92; Vicar of Christ Church, Whitehaven,

1892-98; Vicar of Chirton and Marden, 1898 until his death. He wrote many poems, several of which were published in the Argosy. He was very popular in his parishes and beyond their limits was best known as an uncompromising politician on the Unionist side, his somewhat violent letters and speeches earning him the title of "The Fighting Parson." His widow and four sons survive him.

Long obit. notice, Wiltshire Gazette, June 5th, 1913.

Rt. Hon. George Wyndham, died suddenly in Paris, June 8th, 1913, aged 50. Buried at East Knoyle. Born 1863, s. of Percy Wyndham, who died 1911. Educated at Eton, entered Coldstream Guards and served in Suakim campaign. He left the army and became private secretary to Mr. A. J. Balfour, then Chief Secretary for Ireland. M.P. for Dover, 1889 until his death. Under Secretary for War, 1898. Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1900, he was the author of the Land Purchase Act of 1903. He was in favour of woman's suffrage, and a strong Protectionist. Lord Rector of Glasgow University, 1902, and of Edinburgh, 1908. Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford and Hon. LL.D. of Edinburgh. "A keen yeomanry officer and above all a man of exquisite taste and wide knowledge." He was "a first-class man of letters as well as a distinguished politician," and was especially at home in the literature and history of the sixteenth century. "Wherever the writings of George Wyndham are read there will be found in them a very noble and sincere attachment for some of the noblest things; something like the mind of Sir Philip Sidney, as thorough in devotion as in criticism and controversy " (Times). He married, 1887, the widow of Lord Grosvenor, who survives him. His son, Percy Wyndham, married, 1913, Diana, d. of Lord Ribblesdale.

Long obit. notice, Times, June 10th; portraits, Sphere and Queen, June 14th, 1913.

RECENT WILTSHIRE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS,

ARTICLES, &c.

[N.B.-This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books, or views, in any way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, and to editors of papers and members of the Society generally to send him copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers.] Salisbury Plain its Stones, Cathedral City, Villages and Folk. By Ella Noyes, illustrated by Dora Noyes, 1913. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.

Linen, 9in. × 64in., pp. including title, xii + 320, 10s. 6d. net. Sixteen coloured illustrations and forty-one line illustrations in text from pen drawings, and a sufficient index. Many of the coloured illustrations are very charming, indeed only two of them, Old Sarum and Wilton House, are otherwise than successful. Salisbury Spire; High Street, Salisbury; Salisbury Cathedral; The Cloisters; Butcher Row (quaintly misprinted in the list of illustrations as "Butcher Boy "); Heytesbury; The River Wylye at Wishford; and an Old House at Imber are particularly pleasing. Some of the line illustrations seem to be a little pale and indistinct, as though the paper had not taken the ink properly, but many of them are very pleasant little impressions of the various houses or villages which they illustrate. Among them are Stonehenge; Salisbury from Old Sarum; St. Anne's Gate ; Tomb of William Longespee; The Market Place; and Old House, High Street, Salisbury; Fittleton Church; Upavon; Enford; Amesbury Church; Lake House; Heale House; Battlesbury; Longbridge Deverill Almshouses; 14 Vicarage Street, Warminster; Knook Manor; Boyton Manor; Codford St. Peter, Cross Shaft; Stockton House and Village; Little Langford Church, Doorway; Stapleford Church and Street; Fisherton de la Mere; Bringing the Boughs from Groveley; Chirton Font; and Mere Church.

Miss Noyes has interpreted "Salisbury Plain" in a liberal sense, and the villages of the Avon and Wylye Valleys take up a larger portion of the book than the Plain itself.

Salisbury too, the Cathedral, the city, the houses in the close, and the 18th century life of the place is dealt with at some length, and the descriptions both of the Cathedral and of the architecture of the various village Churches round the Plain are for the most part knowledgeable and scholarly. Moreover they are in most cases well up-to-date. The screen and the font for instance at Amesbury are both back in their places. There is no attempt at a full description of the Churches, but their leading features of interest and the general character of their architecture is happily hit off in a few words. Of