The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-06-05 00:00:00

THE WORT MEMORIAL.

A toesting_for the furtherance of this object was
bald in the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon, wlirn
Sir Richard Glyn presided, supported by the Hal
of Alabaster, most of the leading inhabitants of the
tovhs and neighbourhood, and • large Lumber of the
tenani:ry of &bp lane 'Squire's esteta. The promed.
lags, 000trarr to ti A...l:mead= of some, were
characterised by perfect 'hittininitpr and that deep
and unfeigned regret so remarkably exhibited on the
day of the funeral. and unmarred by any evi lances
of bad feeling with which mune had been Cr' lied.
Thn cause of such feeling was the fact OA the
geniel Vicar of Leigh, the 11. v. Mr. Thomp.o-t, had
taken the initiative out of the hand* of the people
of Sherborus, on whom naturally the duty •ti 1 the
privilege fell of raising some form of memorial t, one
why bad been such a true friend tu them. H 0,-oer,
strained tutight bro.: been the salaams botwe-n the
inhabitants of the loan mid M -.Thoinpson, an •I oh
ewer alight have elemred igtbe kreat-ta 01 the lea l-
ing men of Sherborns promo', Owee tithelli?wrierlit • I
were rePrerod and oorunaled is the most gentlemati.
like and courteous manner. Only one, Dr. Willi ms,
gave vent to the mildest form of reproof on the vicar
tor his poesible haste in the matter, loit f:oin the
noble Chairman downward Mr. Thompson wee rather
c immendad than condemned.
Tpulna noble CHAIRMAN. in wellehosen w
es Lbe object, of the meeting. Thou :0 the
shutters of 112,,IICAMC were no longer closed, they we-o
nevertheless Just minuets ;ie urning as they were on
the day wino the body wise 'honwhaster;i Mit tomb.
Hs referred to the opsnibeartsriness and iilicrn:i•y of
the late 'Squire. When they talked of minor 1.1, and
osonumsol.l he might say fiberboroe was full of moon.
moots to Mr. Digby, erected, indeed, by him but not
• fcr Min—monuments that were dumb, that lie I uti
iiteteigglicue engraved on marble tablete, th t chi i-it
record in fulsome language his greet lean on I hi.
great virtues. That was not at alibis way or hi. will.
He liked his left hand sotto is.ccw what hi right hand
did ; and though his right band WAS so Libe.4.l in lie
slvro giving, yet he liked to do it in a way ao.l L.,
people
from whom he oould expect nothing iti retor
e did Dot think it was at ella mistake to call tli it
meeting, though It would be • mistake to juin;i at en,.
hasty conclusions as to what should both' form of tio
ften,,ocial. He hoped what they did would stand the
orilisisa ritt
jar:themselves and their neighb 'its
but of . los zany generations to come. (Ap-
Pletimg Sir Wiliam* he had received letters
egptessieg repel at their ucksoklable absence from
Captain t.cOOOOIO, Major BOgle, Bey. Can “11%,,,
Evinald Smith,
_sad Mr. William Palmas.
' Wt. Res. H. M. You° (Headwaiter of Slattern*
Schoo) uti" That in the opinion of this meeting
it le dleadribM thee 'tape be taken towards raising a
memorial towlirdli lb.e-tate Gocrio Plsbi Wiighad
Direby, 01 Shierborae Calle, it grateful ....soor•oitioo of
pilieartodllberality." It amid hard* be woe.
i?ut that thiy skald bare feltiost
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