Category: Persons

Persons, parent category.

Sir Christopher Wren

From The Modern Encyclopedia, published in the early 1930s:

Sir Christopher Wren. English architect. Born at East Knoyle, Wilts., Oct. 20, 1632. In 1657 he became professor of astronomy at Gresham College, and in 1660 Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. The chapel of Pembroke Collage, Cambridge, was his first building, 1663. His first design for St. Paul’s, 1673, was rejected, but in 1675 an amended version was approved. He was knighted in 1672, and in 1685 he became M.P. for Plympton. He died Feb. 25, 1723, and was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Wren designed the Ashmolean and the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford; the west towers of Westminster Abbey; and parts of the palace at Greenwich. He restored Salisbury and Chichester cathedrals. His greatest work was to rebuild the churches and other London buildings destroyed in the Great Fire. Apart from St. Paul’s, he designed 50 churches, including St. Bride’s and St. Clement Danes, the halls of 36 City companies, and the Monument.

Accident At Boreham Road, Warminster

Saturday 12th September 1931

Accident At Boreham Road, Warminster

A serious accident occurred on the Boreham Road, Warminster, on the morning of Saturday 12th September 1931. Brothers Bert and Garf Legg were using a horse-drawn float to deliver milk to the customers of their father Percy Legg, of Home Farm, Boreham. A touring car travelling in the direction of Salisbury, while passing the float, skidded, colliding with the float, and the impact turned the float over. The crash also resulted in a roadside lamp-post being broken off.

Bert and Garf were considerably shaken. Garf Legg was taken to Warminster Cottage Hospital and was treated for a broken arm. Bert, was described as being plucky enough to continue with delivering milk. Unfortunately, the horse was so badly injured that it had to be destroyed on the spot.

The cause of the car skidding was deemed to have been on account of the road surface being extremely greasy. This was doubly emphasised by the fact that another car which had been following the   touring car, also skidded on the greasy surface when the driver attempted to pull up when he saw the touring car colliding with the milk float. This second car struck one of the pavement trees and the car’s windscreen was smashed.

The Death And Funeral Of William Walker, Cloth Magnate, Of Upton Lovell Mill

Warminster & Westbury Journal, Friday 7th June 1929:

DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM WALKER
A well-known Wiltshire resident passed away at Upton Lovel on Sunday in the person of Mr. William Walker, a former cloth magnate, who made West of England cloth famous the world over.

Aged 69 years, Mr. William Walker patiently endured a long illness, and his death was not unexpected.

His passing snaps a link with the past, for he literally grew white in the public service of his native town, Trowbridge, and it was only a few years ago that he passed into the peace of quiet retirement at Upton Lovel, where once were flourishing woollen mills which he owned. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Walker, and was born at what is locally known as the Brick Platts, off Union-street. His grandfather was one of the converts John Wesley secured on his memorable visit to Trowbridge. His grandmother was a niece of that great Wesleyan evangelist George Whitfield.

Mr. Walker’s record of public service would fill a volume, so extensive was it in its activities. He had filled the chair of almost every public authority of note, including the old Local  Board and the Urban Council, which succeeded it. For over 26 years he was a Guardian, and for 24 years represented the town on the County Council. With others he was responsible for many town improvements, of which present-day residents are enjoying the benefit, notably, the opening up of Court-street, and the commencement of the People’s Park.

He was the doyen of the Trowbridge Magisterial Bench, and continued to take the chair long after his retirement.

In business he succeeded the Gouldsmiths in carrying on the business of Messrs. Samuel Salter and Co., Home Mills, which then, as now, were noted for the production of the world-famed West of England cloth.

THE LATE MR. W. WALKER
FUNERAL AT TROWBRIDGE
In the presence of manyn old associates in public life, the funeral took place at the Trowbridge Cemetery on the 6th inst., of 0Mr. William Walker, who died at Upton Lovel, on the 30th ult.

The family mourners were: Mr. Joseph Walker, Amersham (son), Mr. W. Walker (grandson), Mr. J. Mackie (son-in-law), Mr Lovel Mackie (grandson). Dr. Kenneth Mackie (grandson) was absent owing to his being unable to leave his practice. From deceased’s residence: Mr. W.P. Mines, Mr. J. Petty, Mr. F. Boulter, and Mrs. Wheeler.

The large attendance included representatives of the Trowbridge Bench, of which deceased was Chairman for many years; the Urban District Council, the Trowbridge and Melksham Guardians, the Wilts Constabulary, and many of the organisations with which he had been associated; also a number of his former employees.

The remains were taken by road from Upton Lovel, the cortege being met at the Trowbridge Cemetery entrance by a large assembly. The officiating ministers were the Rev. H. Hall (pastor of the Conigre Unitarian Church), and the Rev. Harry Sanders (an old colleague in public service). The service was of a plain nature, passages of scripture being read and prayers said by the Conigre Pastor. A short address bearing on the useful public life of deceased was delivered by the Rev. Harry Sanders.

The interment was in the family vault, in which lie four predecessors, and was lined with dresses of lilac.

The Halliday Family

Victor S. Manley, in his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, compiled in the 1920s and 1930s, included the following notes about the Halliday family:

Family notes [for the Halliday family] are given in The History of Warminster, page 183.

The house [Yard House at East Street, Warminster] bears on the keystone of the entrance a lion sitting holding a – . [end of sentence left blank]

Mr. J.E. Halliday was a dissenter.

A branch of the family lived near Lynmouth whose house showed the crest of a boar’s head and arms of a cross and crescent.

During the Crusades, William of Scotland joined King Richard with 5,000 men, of whom 1,000 were Hallidays from Annan.

The surname [Halliday] may have been derived from Helidae – children of the sun, i.e. men from the East, who excelled all other men in their knowledge of the stars.

The Estate Of Alec John Buckeridge Titt

From The London Gazette, 8th January 1929:

ALEC JOHN BUCKERIDGE TITT, Deceased. Pursuant to the Trustee Act, 1925. NOTICE is hereby given, that all persons having any claim against the estate of the above named, deceased, lately carrying on business at Woodcock Ironworks, Warminster, Wilts., under the name of John Wallis Titt & Co, Engineers and Ironfounders, and residing at Belmont, Boreham-road, Warminster aforesaid, who died on the 21st August, 1928, and probate of whose Will was granted on the 7th day of November, 1928, by the Salisbury District Probate Registry to Elsie Beatrice Titt, Colston Thomas George Hale and Edward Solomon Hare, the executors, are hereby required to send written particulars thereof to the undersigned, on or before the 15th day of March, 1929, after which date the executors will proceed to distribute the said estate, having regard only to the claims of which they shall then have had notice.—Dated this 2nd day of January, 1929. G. E. VICARY, 40, Market-place, Warminster, Wilts., Solicitor for the Executors.

The Estate Of Alec John Buckeridge Titt, Of Belmont, Boreham Road, Warminster

Wednesday 2nd January 1929

ALEC JOHN BUCKERIDGE TITT, Deceased.

Pursuant to the Trustee Act, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given, that all persons having any claim against the estate of the above named, deceased, lately carrying on business at Woodcock Ironworks, Warminster, Wilts., under the name of John Wallis Titt & Co., Engineers and Ironfounders, and residing at Belmont, Boreham-road, Warminster aforesaid, who died on the 21st August, 1928, and probate of whose Will was granted on the 7th day of November, 192S, by the Salisbury District Probate Registry to Elsie Beatrice Titt, Colston Thomas George Hale and Edward Solomon Hare, the executors, are hereby required to send written particulars thereof to the undersigned, on or before the 15th day of March, 1929, after which date the executors will proceed to distribute the said estate, having regard only to the claims of which they shall then have had notice.—Dated this 2nd day of January, 1929.

G. E. VICARY, 40, Market-place, Warminster, Wilts., Solicitor for the Executors.

A Plaque In St. Aldhelm’s Church, Bishopstrow ~ In Memory Of Henry Raymond Wansey, M.A.

A plaque in St. Aldhelm’s Church, Bishopstrow:

“To the beloved and honoured memory of
Henry Raymond Wansey, M.A.
For 9 years he was a missionary in Japan
in parts then unreached by the Gospel.
On the 2nd anniversary of his induction
as rector of this parish,
he was called to higher service
24th April 1926.”

Photograph taken by Danny Howell
on Saturday 25th June 2016.

Humphrey Lewis Blackley, Physician And Surgeon, Warminster

Kelly’s Directory 1923 lists Humphrey Lewis Blackley, B.A., M.D., B.Ch., B.A.O. Dub., physician and surgeon, and medical officer and public vaccinator for Longbridge Deverill district of Warminster union; 26 High Street, Warminster. Telephone 57.

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