Welsh Journals

46 BYE-GONES. Mar. I, 1899. under Messrs Waterhouse, and as a broker was re¬ markable for shrewdness and energy; in 1826 the firm was Dobson and Gill; in 1838 Grill and Syers, and in 1857 Mr Chappie Gill was admitted a, mem¬ ber. For many years he acted as chairman of the Conservative Association for the Division ni "Wool- Ion, and his estimable services as one of the trus¬ tees of the Bluecoat School, Liverpool, extended over the long period of forty years. He leaves a widow, Uvo sons, and three daughters. ^Ite |£ate 13aUntine SB pickets, (Esq. We regret to record the death of Mr Valentine Whitby Tickers of Offley Grove, Staffordshire, and Criggion, Montgomeryshire, an estate which embraces the Breidden or the greater part of it. Mr Tickers had been in delicate health for some time; and since Christmas his condition had been so critical that his friends were fully prepared to hear of his death, which took place on Thursday, Feb. 9, at the age of forty- four. Mr Tickers was the eldest son of the late Mr Talentine Tickers and Mrs Tickers, now of Meretown, Forton, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. On his father's death, Mr Tickers succeeded to the family estates at Ofhey Grove and Criggion. He married Miss Hargreaves, eldest daughter of Mr Robert Hargreaves, of Knightly Grange, Gnosall, and is survived by Mis Tickers and a large family. The state of his health prevented Mr Tickers from taking a very prominent part in the public life of the neighbour¬ hood in which he lived. He was a magistrate for the counties of Stafford and Salop, and sat at Petty Sessions at Eccleshall and Newport. He served the office of High Sheriff of Montgomery¬ shire in 1885. In politics he was a Conservative. ^he IfczU leb. $. $. laskhitrsi. We regret to record the death, which took place at Enfield, on Wednesday, at the age of 79, of the Rev Richard Kay Haslehurst, late rector of West Felton. Mr Haslehurst, who had been in failing health for the past year, was born in Lancashire in 1819, and graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1842; he was ordained deacon in 1844- by the Bishop of Lichfield, and licensed to the curacy of Colwich; in 1845 he was ordained priest, and in the following year he was appointed curate of Shustock, Warwickshire. In 1857 he was presented to the vicarage of Alrewas, and in 1868 was instituted to the rectory of West Felton on his own presentation. Mr Haslehurst married first in 1849 Miss Hallow Stephen Atkinson, by whom he had eight children, five of whom survive.- Mrs Haslehurst died in 1865 in Switzerland; and in 1869 Mr Haslehurst married Miss Jane Tere Hutton Tyndal Wilkinson, by whom he had two children, who also survive. His incumbency of West Felton was marked by several improvements in the parish. In 1870 "The Parish Magazine" was set on foot, and it has been continued with a few alterations ever since. In the same year the Elementary Education Act oame into force, and re¬ quired that in every school district sufficient ac¬ commodation should be provided for all the chil¬ dren in the district. The only school in the parish was at Griinpo; and it was decided to build new schools for a hundred children nearer the village, carrying on the Grimpo School for those to whom its vicinity would be convenient. Mr Bulkeley- Owen gave the site, and the present schools were built. It was afterwards found too expensive to carry on two schools, and in 1883 the Grimpo schools were closed and additions were made to the schools at Twyford. In 1878 Mr Haslehurst en¬ tered on the restoration of the parish church. The arches on the south side, which had been built into the wall, were all taken down, and the stones were marked and carefully rebuilt in their original positions. One of the arches on the side, which is supposed to have been destroyed by the fall of the tower in 1782, was also rebuilt. A new south aisle was added; the gallery at the west end was taken away, the base of the tower was opened into the church to form a choir vestry, and the church was entirely re¬ seated, all the sittings being made free. A new heating apparatus was provided, the chancel was restored, and an organ loft and vestry were added on the south side — the window on that side to the memory of Mr Hunt being transferred to the north side. A fine new organ was presented by the late rector, and in September, 1879, the church was re-opened. The cost of the work, exclusive of special gifts, exceeded £2,504, of which about one-half was given by Mr Haslehurst. In 1880 the West Felton Choral Union was started by Mr Henry Leslie, and it was greatly promoted by Mr Haslehurst's family, who were all musically gifted. During the latter part of his in¬ cumbency Mr Haslehurst was rural dean of Elles- mere, a position which he held until within about two years of his resignation of the living in 1891. In 1890, owing chiefly to advanced age, Mr Hasle¬ hurst resigned the living, and, being patron, he presented his son, the Rev Walter Greenall Hasle¬ hurst, to succeed him, and retired to Enfield, where his cousin was vicar. He was on the clerical staff of the Enfield Parish Church until failing health compelled him to retire. The funeral took place at Enfield Cemetery on Monday. MAROfl 1, 1899. NOTES. KEEPING ACCOUNTS ON WOOD.-A few days ago I beard the Welsh expression "Cadw Cownt ar bren " (to keep an account on wood). Of course I quite understood the system, but I have never heard the expression before. Is it common? D.M.R. THE FIRST SIR WATKIN.—In connection with the large possessions of this gentleman (Feb. 15, 1899), and hie great territorial influence, it is a curious consideration that when his grand¬ father, Sir William Williams, was made a Baronet in 1688, he was not possessed of a single acre of land. Consequently in his Patent of Baronetcy he is described as "of Grays Inn," of which he was a member. And this, and not "of Wynn-