Category: Persons – Surname beginning with P

Information about persons whose surnames begin with the letter P.

Suggestion That The Memory Of Sir James Erasmus Philipps Be Commemorated With The Naming Of A Future Street In Warminster

Friday 5th April 2013

The Reverend David Hayes, of Forge Cottage, 3 North Row, Warminster, BA12 9AD, has written a letter to Heather Abernethie, Clerk to Warminster Town Council, suggesting that the memory of the late Sir James Erasmus Philipps be commemorated in the naming of a future street in Warminster. The Rev. Hayes writes ~

Dear Heather
At the end of the Warminster Festival Sir James Erasmus Philipps was remembered as distinguished benefactor of the town at the closing service for the Festival last year at the Minster. This was followed by an excellent article in the Warminster Journal on 28th December last year by the editor Ray Shorto.

As we know, during his time as Vicar of Warminster, from 1859 to 1897, he substanially restored the Minster, founded St. Boniface College and St. Denys’ for training men and women for the mission field to serve throughout the Empire. He founded St. Monica’s School, saved the Lord Weymouth School from closure and opened the Orphanage of Pity. He founded St. John’s Church and St. John’s School. We owe a great debt of gratitude to him for founding the Cottage Hospital, now the Warminster Memorial Hospital.

As such a distinguished benefactor it is surprising that there is no memorial to him, neither statue nor street name. It has been suggested that a future development could bear his name. As he was the 12th Baronet of Picton of Pembrokeshire, streets or closes could be named after him: James, Erasmus, Philipps, Picton, Pembroke!

With thanks for your suggestion of writing to you.
Yours sincerely,
David Hayes.

Forever Loved, Never Forgotten

Monday 25th February 2013

Beautiful flowers on the grave of Ethel and Maddie Pearce
at St. Mary’s Churchyard, Upton Scudamore, near Warminster, Wiltshire.

Photographed by Danny Howell
on the afternoon of Monday 25th February 2013.

The gravestone reads:
In Loving Memory
Ethel Madge Pearce
Born 7 August 1900
Died 19 January 1983
Maddie Elizabeth Pearce
Forever Loved, Never Forgotten
23 February 2012

Death And Funeral Of Mike Pratt

Mike Pratt. Passed away peacefully on 17th January 2013 at his home in Warminster, Wiltshire, aged 68. Sorely missed by his Partner and his Family. Funeral service was held on Wednesday 30th January 2013. Donations in lieu of flowers are going to NSPCC c/o F. Curtis & Son, 11, Portway, Warminster, Wilts. BA12 8QG Tel 01985 212033.

Local Folk Receive New Year Honours

Three people in the Warminster and Westbury area are among the recipients of the 2013 New Year Honours:

David Leonard Deacon, well known in Warminster for his property portfolio, has been awarded the British Empire Medal, for his charitable services to the community. Mr. Deacon, who lives south of Warminster, near Semley, founded the Rose Trust in memory of his late mother.

Mrs Daphne Vivienne Pullen, of Upton Lovell, near Warminster, who is Chairman of CLIC Sargent, has been awarded an OBE.

David William Edgington, of Westbury, Wiltshire, has been awarded an MBE, for services given to the industrial heritage of stationary engines.

Are The Ponton Family Of Longbridge Deverill Related By Marriage To The Artist Harry Fidler?

Friday 25th May 2012

Eric Ponton, who lives in North Yorkshire, is researching his family tree and trying to find out if his family is connected by marriage with the family of the artist, Harry Fidler.

Harry Fidler was born at Teffont Magna in 1851, the ninth of ten children of yeoman farmer William Fidler and his wife Jane Fidler. Harry Fidler spent his early years working on the farm, which no doubt accounts for his later career, painting country scenes, many of which portrayed heavy horses at work on the farm.

Tilling The Land painted by Harry Fidler

Fidler studied at Herkomer’s School at Bushey (later known as the School of Animal painting), under the famous equestrian artist, Lucy Kemp Welch. Fidler exhibited at the Royal Academy, London from 1891 onwards. He also exhibited at the the Royal Society of British Artists, the New English Art Club, the Goupil Gallery in London, and the Paris Salon.

In 1919 Harry Fidler married a fellow artist, Laura Clunas, and they made their home at the White House, Stoke, Andover, Hampshire, where they lived until Harry’s death in 1935.

Eric Ponton writes ~ My main interest is the Ponton family who were very prevalent in Warminster from about 1680 until the early 20th century. On your site, dannyhowell.net, you have grave locations for some Pontons in Warminster. All of these are my relatives.

In particular I am concerned with Thomas Ponton, born 1787 in Longbridge Deverill. He married Mary Ann Fidler, 11th April 1811, at Longbridge Deverill.

I have traced Mary Ann Fidler’s ancestors back to John Fidler, born 1735 at Great Bedwyn; and I am now trying to ascertain whether or not there is a connection with Harry Fidler the artist. I have had great difficulty in tracing his ancestors and wonder if you have any information which might assist.

If any readers of dannyhowell.net can shed any light as to whether Mary Ann Fidler (who married Thomas Ponton) was related to the family of Harry Fidler, please let us know, by emailing dannyhowellnet@gmail.com

Christine Palmer ~ Beloved Partner Of Andy Harraway

Monday 30th April 2012

A gravestone at St. John’s Churchyard,
Boreham Road, Warminster,
photographed by Danny Howell
on the afternoon of
Monday 30th April 2012.

The inscription reads:

Flos Pulcher
Cherished Memories of
Christine Palmer
15th December 1942
30th June 1999
Beloved Partner of
Andy Harraway
Dearly Missed

flos pulcher, Latin – Beautiful flowers
flos, Latin – flower
pulcher, Latin – good friend

Flowers In The Rain For Jonpaul Preece

Friday 13th April 2012

Flowers left attached to the fence
outside Nos.21-24 Boreham Field,
Warminster,
in memory of Jonpaul Preece
(who was known by his friends as “Pope”).

18 year old Jonpaul died after being assaulted
here on the Woodcock Road pavement
on 14th April 2007.

23 year-old Gareth Larmour, of Silver Street,
Warminster, admitted manslaughter
and was given a four year prison sentence.

Click here to see newspaper report.

These photographs were taken by
Danny Howell,
during the rain on the afternoon
of Friday 13th April 2012.

Information Sought On Clarrie Price And Her Family

Tuesday 13th March 2012:

Bea Tilbrook, of Quidhampton, is seeking information about the late Clarrie Price, who died in Salisbury, in 1996, aged 105.

Bea says: “Clarrie spent most of her life in this area, often living in ‘digs’ with her friends, she lived later at the Holmwood Care Home, and finally at Harnham Croft. Clarrie wrote an account of her early life at Quidhampton but her Canadian great-niece Barb Bentham (the Price family historian) knows almost nothing about her adult life, so any information anyone can tell us will be valuable.”

“We’d also like to discover more about Clarrie’s two nephews, Victor Price (1905-1981) and Ronald Price (1908-1975), sons of Henry Price (Harry Price). They lived in Salisbury all their lives; Ronald at 9 Nadder Terrace, where he was born. Both men married but we do not know whether they had any children. Victor, who lived in Clifton Road when he died, is described as a shop porter on his death certificate; and Ronald as a gardener and labourer.”

Bea Tilbrook says she would love to hear from anyone who has any memories of these last local members of a remarkable family. She may be contacted, by phone: 01722 742456, or by email: bjtis@hotmail.co.uk

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