The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-01-27 00:00:00

DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM ELIOT, J.P., 0 L.

A link In the chain which binds us to • peat genera-
tion has last been snapped asunder, Ur. William
glint, one of tb• moat respected inha`otaate of Wey-
mouth, having passed away early on Tumidity ax,raio,
11th. patriarchal age of 91. I; is always • ware+
pain Lod regret to lose worthy citizen', but the deall.
of this venerable gentleman is • double source of
regret. lie hal from his youth up ever taken the
deepest interwri in the welfare of tbe lows, and,
although the Urns had arrived when, from sheer decay
of natant, his death might have been drily expected,
yet the mews that this venerable Woymouthisis had
Indeed at last gone, was, we believe, • cause of
geouine•orrow to every iniudiriant of the towo. Tb•
deceased gentleman waa waive:telly beloved and
I respected, and although hi. life-work I DOW almost •
nist4r it history, there •-• matey living who
ODD UMW] to the energy mid river he always
displayed in all the capacities and offices which
at various times daring his loag and useful lit, h.
filled. As to his probity and integrity as • man of
busiaess, and 11. the head of en old and respected
banking li,aae, it would not be becoming for aa,
perhaps, to speak, but with regard to his energy and
bushier capacities, we can only remark be dlspicyid
these virtues in • marked degree up 10th. last, having
taken pert le the multifarious waters consented with
the bask up to • very recent period. Hie coo tita-
tiomall power• ware phoneme/tonal, his physical
faculties, if In except • failure of the eyesight, being
unkopaired.

Ot Übe many offices he bas honourably fillid we
I way lint relation Me oonitinstion with the honourable
°reit with which his mime is so intimately amulet:tad
It le &Moult to speak on this matter with anything
late certainty, but we believe Mr. Shot was the oldest
subeoribing Freer* 14-30 in LWOW. if not in the
world. He wee initiated as • member of "Ad
Soul.'" Lodge, Weymouth, on February 9.. h, 1816,
sod in 1619 was elected liastsr, which office h. held
for font sucossisive Joan—from 1839 to 1813. He will
Provincial Grand Master and Pro racial Grand
Eldperisterident from 1841 to 11168.
As a oitisito and a member of this old Corporation,
and as tilling various taller capoottlee, his name will
for • loos Urns b• hell in high honour. Mr. Haat was
one of tb• first 21 gentlemen elsoted as a Town
Council ands: an, Anoicipal Reform Act, and he
cootineet to till that office, and at various times too
post of Chief Magistrate, with dignity an ti the
satisfaction of the whole town. If. continued in the
Conned till 1876, when owing to advancing years bit
retired from active public
To sum up his man,f4l.l pubic and private virtues,
we oared only add this y60011'016 t .•usinan 'ode.-
yourod honestly and faithfully to do hi. du.y is th•
station in life to which Gol hal called him, and he
thooseltd not only In foltrwing the strict path of
motile Is and uprightness, but during his long sn.l
honourable career he won for himself toe lov• and
allection of the inhabitants of Woymoath, not only of
his own g Lion, out of those of the protect day, on
whom he oould well look as but children.