Saturday 3rd December 1898
The Rev. John Jeremiah Daniell (born 1819), who wrote several books including The History Of Warminster (published in 1879), was Curate of Warminster (1871), Curate of Wilton (1872 – 1877), Vicar of Winterbourne Stoke and Berwick St. James (1877 – 1879), and Rector of Langley Burrell from 1879 to his death in 1898. He died at Langley Burrell, Wiltshire, on 27th November 1898.
His obituary reads ~
The Death Of The Rev. J. J. Daniell
The Warminster Historian
The inhabitants of Warminster will learn with deep regret the death of the Rev. J. J. Daniell, the respected rector of Langley Burrell, which took place at his residence on Sunday morning last. The deceased, who had reached the advanced age of seventy-nine years last month, suffered from no disease, and as recently as a fortnight ago he conducted the services in his church. His strength, owing to advancing years, has of late gradually become less and less, and last week he was confined to his room. He was attended by Dr. Briscoe, but medical skill could not give increased strength to a rapidly failing constitution. On Saturday night he became unconscious, and at half-past ten o’clock on Sunday morning (Advent Sunday), as the bells of the Parish Church were calling worshippers together to God’s house, his Master called him to that “house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.” There was no man more beloved by his parishioners than the Rev. J. J. Daniell, whose kindness of heart and truly Christian spirit were examples to those amongst whom he lived.
The rev. gentleman, who belongs to an old Warminster family, being the son of the late Mr. Jeremiah Daniell, was in 1871 curate at Warminster Parish Church, during which time he won the respect of all who knew him, and he visited the town as recently as the laying of the foundation stone of the new St. Boniface College. During his curacy of the parish he did much good work for which his memory will be ever green, and he resigned to become tutor to H.R.H. Prince Higashi, the heir presumptive of the Japanese throne, who, with his suite, resided for some years at Boreham Villas, and we feel sure the instruction imparted to the Prince by the rev. gentleman during his stay in Warminster has not been without its effect in the rapid developments of Japan which has taken place in recent years. During the time Mr. Daniell was in the town he collected many valuable and interesting particulars about Warminster, which he afterwards published as The History of Warminster, while vicar of Winterbourne Stoke, a book which is highly praised by the inhabitants.
Mr. Daniell entered the Church upwards of fifty years ago, and during that time, in addition to his residence in Warminster, he did duty at Winterbourne Stoke, Berwick St. James, Wilton, and Langley Fitzurse. For the last nineteen years of his life he has been rector of Langley Burrell, in the Parish Church of which he has left a monument which will record his veneration and attachment to that sacred edifice. The deceased was a well-known historian and antiquarian, and amongst the numerous works he published were histories of Chippenham, Warminster, and Cornwall, and also the geography of the last named. But his most important work was the life of George Herbert, published by the Christian Knowledge Society, and only within the last few weeks he published some illustrations in a new edition of the same work. He has just issued, through Messrs. Houlston and Son, of Chippenham, a book of verses, which he composed during his lifetime, and which show considerable merit. Mr. Daniell arranged that the profits from these verses were to be devoted to the church restoration fund. The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon at Langley Burrell, the remains being laid in the same vault where his wife was buried a few years ago. The deceased’s brother has been living with him for the past few weeks, and there is much sympathy with him in his bereavement.
The Reverend John Jeremiah Daniell
(seated at the front).