Springfield Villa Alan Payne, September 2021
Front of the house (courtesy Carol Payne)
Springfield Villa (which is now called Spring Grove) is a fabulous Grade II listed house adjoining the current Box Vicarage. The two properties were built at different times with Springfield Villa being considerably older, dated mid- or late-1700s and described as mansard-roofed and mullion-windowed.
Church Lane
We first get information about the Springfield Villa after 1840. In the Tithe Apportionment map below the house was reference 188, described as dwelling house and garden owned by John Mullins and occupied by Mary Jane Mullins (1798-1854), teacher of the charity girls’ school. In the 1841 census, forty-year-old Mary lived and taught in the property with an assistant, twenty-year-old Marianne Pepler, ten girl pupils aged between 15 and 8, and three servants. Mary Jane was the daughter of George Mullins (1760-1842), teacher at the charity boys’ school in the Workhouse across the Lane. George Mullins died in 1842 and Mary Jane probably gave up the girls’ school when her brother Rev George Mullins sold The Wilderness to pay family debts.
Church Lane
We first get information about the Springfield Villa after 1840. In the Tithe Apportionment map below the house was reference 188, described as dwelling house and garden owned by John Mullins and occupied by Mary Jane Mullins (1798-1854), teacher of the charity girls’ school. In the 1841 census, forty-year-old Mary lived and taught in the property with an assistant, twenty-year-old Marianne Pepler, ten girl pupils aged between 15 and 8, and three servants. Mary Jane was the daughter of George Mullins (1760-1842), teacher at the charity boys’ school in the Workhouse across the Lane. George Mullins died in 1842 and Mary Jane probably gave up the girls’ school when her brother Rev George Mullins sold The Wilderness to pay family debts.
1840 Tithe Apportionment map (courtesy Wiltshire History Centre)
Owners of Springfield Villa
In the later Victorian period, the house was occupied by John Phipps, Esq (1781-13 August 1862). He originally came from Abington, Cambridgeshire but had lived a long time at 6 Pierrepont Place, Bath, the fabulous mews of Georgian properties built by John Wood the Elder. On one occasion he was referred to as Colonel but I have found no confirmation of this and it may be a case of mistaken identity.[1] In the 1851 census John Phipps had moved to a property in Box listed as Roman Villa. He was described as Fundholder & proprietor of houses and lived there with his wife Harriett Barlow West. In the 1861 census the house was identified as Springfield Villa and confirmed in the notice of his death in 1862.[2]
In 1869 Dr Holled Darrell Cave Smith Horlock appears to have owned Springfield Villa because he placed extensive newspaper advertisements to let the property. After Dr Horlock left the village in 1874, probably it was part of the arrangement between the Horlocks and the church authorities when the vicarage was swopped from Box House to Mead Villa.[3] The property was let out by Box Church and in February 1882, the Church authorities put Springfield Villa up for sale by auction. They described it as having breakfast room, dining room, drawing room and six bedrooms. The Coach House was a separate lot, recorded as: On this lot there has recently been discovered very interesting REMAINS OF A ROMAN Villa with BATHS and TESSELATED PAVEMENT.[4] Neither property sold and they were offered to be let or sold in March: Freehold with Roman pavement.[5] The Church authorities were in need of funds for a planned expansion of St Thomas à Becket and in 1884 the rebuilding tenders came in at over £3,500 (approaching £500,000 in today’s values). Lacking adequate funds, the restoration of Box Church didn’t proceed until 1896.[6]
Rev Albert Goodwin & Family
At the close of the century the house was occupied by the church curate, Rev Albert Goodwin. Albert’s story is a tragic one, that of a high-flyer who made a great difference in the village until his star suddenly burnt out. Albert was curate in Box only for a few years from 1879 and had been replaced by JD Home before 1885. But we need to go back further because his achievements were considerable before and during his tenure.
Albert John Goodwin was born in Abergavenny, Wales in 1845 and in 1869 he married Alice Maud Maria Price (b 1846) from Clydach, Llanelli, famous for its iron works, and Albert took a job as a Government Certificated school master at Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He went to university after his first child Harry was born. At Jesus College, Oxford, he was applauded for his sporting achievements, including winning the Oxford-Cambridge University three-mile race in record time in 1876. The Abergavenny Chronicle reported the race of their esteemed townsman in detail when he put on so wonderful a spurt that the whole ground broke into an astonished roar of applause.[7] He was ordained at Gloucester Cathedral in 1879 and became curate in Box the same year.[8]
Albert made an immediate impression on Box village life, starting with the annual Oddfellows Fete in August when Rev GE Gardner, vicar, with his curate, Rev A Goodwin, threw their energies into the fete to make it a success.[9] Albert took an active role as master of ceremonies for the day. The local newspaper remarked about his contribution: This gentleman was the life and soul of the sports. Leaving the dining room in clerical attire, and thinking first of the comfort of the spectators, he bravely shouldered a huge school form (bench) and bade the brethren follow his example. The effect was magical… the novelty of the procession was further heightened by the appearance of … the reverend gentleman in front, who trudged through the boiling sun the uphill half-mile to the racing rendezvous.
In the later Victorian period, the house was occupied by John Phipps, Esq (1781-13 August 1862). He originally came from Abington, Cambridgeshire but had lived a long time at 6 Pierrepont Place, Bath, the fabulous mews of Georgian properties built by John Wood the Elder. On one occasion he was referred to as Colonel but I have found no confirmation of this and it may be a case of mistaken identity.[1] In the 1851 census John Phipps had moved to a property in Box listed as Roman Villa. He was described as Fundholder & proprietor of houses and lived there with his wife Harriett Barlow West. In the 1861 census the house was identified as Springfield Villa and confirmed in the notice of his death in 1862.[2]
In 1869 Dr Holled Darrell Cave Smith Horlock appears to have owned Springfield Villa because he placed extensive newspaper advertisements to let the property. After Dr Horlock left the village in 1874, probably it was part of the arrangement between the Horlocks and the church authorities when the vicarage was swopped from Box House to Mead Villa.[3] The property was let out by Box Church and in February 1882, the Church authorities put Springfield Villa up for sale by auction. They described it as having breakfast room, dining room, drawing room and six bedrooms. The Coach House was a separate lot, recorded as: On this lot there has recently been discovered very interesting REMAINS OF A ROMAN Villa with BATHS and TESSELATED PAVEMENT.[4] Neither property sold and they were offered to be let or sold in March: Freehold with Roman pavement.[5] The Church authorities were in need of funds for a planned expansion of St Thomas à Becket and in 1884 the rebuilding tenders came in at over £3,500 (approaching £500,000 in today’s values). Lacking adequate funds, the restoration of Box Church didn’t proceed until 1896.[6]
Rev Albert Goodwin & Family
At the close of the century the house was occupied by the church curate, Rev Albert Goodwin. Albert’s story is a tragic one, that of a high-flyer who made a great difference in the village until his star suddenly burnt out. Albert was curate in Box only for a few years from 1879 and had been replaced by JD Home before 1885. But we need to go back further because his achievements were considerable before and during his tenure.
Albert John Goodwin was born in Abergavenny, Wales in 1845 and in 1869 he married Alice Maud Maria Price (b 1846) from Clydach, Llanelli, famous for its iron works, and Albert took a job as a Government Certificated school master at Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He went to university after his first child Harry was born. At Jesus College, Oxford, he was applauded for his sporting achievements, including winning the Oxford-Cambridge University three-mile race in record time in 1876. The Abergavenny Chronicle reported the race of their esteemed townsman in detail when he put on so wonderful a spurt that the whole ground broke into an astonished roar of applause.[7] He was ordained at Gloucester Cathedral in 1879 and became curate in Box the same year.[8]
Albert made an immediate impression on Box village life, starting with the annual Oddfellows Fete in August when Rev GE Gardner, vicar, with his curate, Rev A Goodwin, threw their energies into the fete to make it a success.[9] Albert took an active role as master of ceremonies for the day. The local newspaper remarked about his contribution: This gentleman was the life and soul of the sports. Leaving the dining room in clerical attire, and thinking first of the comfort of the spectators, he bravely shouldered a huge school form (bench) and bade the brethren follow his example. The effect was magical… the novelty of the procession was further heightened by the appearance of … the reverend gentleman in front, who trudged through the boiling sun the uphill half-mile to the racing rendezvous.
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The only-known photo of Albert Goodwin taken in 1879 (courtesy Margaret Wakefield)
He was everywhere in local activities, regularly appearing for Box Cricket Club, performing songs and entertainment for the Church Missionary Society, organising the Box Mechanics Cricket Club and performing the role of starter for and the Bath Arial Rowing and Cycling Club.[10] In 1880 he was one of the founder members and secretary of the Box Conservative Club. In the General Election of 1880 William Gladstone’s Liberal Party soundly defeated the Conservatives of Benjamin Disraeli and replaced them in power.[11] Albert commented that in the March election, feeling ran very high in Box and it was displayed in such a brutish manner. In February 1881 he made a speech on the necessity for clergymen taking part in the games and amusements of the people, and not thinking that their work was done when they left the pulpit.[12] By 1881 Albert and Alice were living in Box on the Chippenham Road up from Bulls Lane with their children and two servants. He seemed to have found a home in the village but that was not to be. Later in 1881 he was admitted to London Bethlem Hospital as a patient aged 37. He was discharged in 1883 but wasn’t fully recovered and scarcely worked thereafter. By 1889 Alice was living in Springfield Villa living on her own means with children Harry S (b 1871), Richard A (b 1880); Alice Mary Caroline (b 24 February 1882) and one servant. There was no mention of Albert who was a patient at St James, Devizes. By 1901 Alice had moved to Rottingdean, Lewes near Brighton, still married to Albert who was in Roundway Hospital, Devizes, as a patient, formerly clerk in Holy Orders, just one of 900 inmates kept there. He died aged 60 in 1905. |
Later Tenants
The house was let out for much of the decades around the First World War. In 1892 the wife of H Ernest Wodehouse, Esq CMG gave birth to a son whilst living there.[13] On 20 September 1892 George Browning (1826-1901) married his third wife Frances Pocock (1839-1923), daughter of Jacob Pocock, and appears to have moved to Springfield Villa shortly thereafter. They reorganised their domestic staff and in 1893 twenty-two-year-old Miss A Thorne put in an advertisement for a situation as a housemaid in a gentleman’s family.[14]
Son of the owners of Box Mill, George had started a corn mill and later a bakery at Steam Mill, Box Market Place, but the business wasn’t successful and by 1901 he was described as assistant overseer at Springfield Villa. Frances was registered as an elector in Box through a freehold property she owned in Washwells but she appears to have stayed in the villa after George’s death. and in 1907 her brother Frederick Pocock (1846-1907), son of Jacob Pocock of Sheylors Farm, died there. Her own death was in 1923 and, auctioning her effects to clear the house, Charles Oatley described her furnishings as antique gate leg table, mahogany bookcase, rosewood card table, folding mahogany billiards board on stand and fine tone pianoforte, powerful harmonium also Ladies and Gents BICYCLES.[15]
The house was let out for much of the decades around the First World War. In 1892 the wife of H Ernest Wodehouse, Esq CMG gave birth to a son whilst living there.[13] On 20 September 1892 George Browning (1826-1901) married his third wife Frances Pocock (1839-1923), daughter of Jacob Pocock, and appears to have moved to Springfield Villa shortly thereafter. They reorganised their domestic staff and in 1893 twenty-two-year-old Miss A Thorne put in an advertisement for a situation as a housemaid in a gentleman’s family.[14]
Son of the owners of Box Mill, George had started a corn mill and later a bakery at Steam Mill, Box Market Place, but the business wasn’t successful and by 1901 he was described as assistant overseer at Springfield Villa. Frances was registered as an elector in Box through a freehold property she owned in Washwells but she appears to have stayed in the villa after George’s death. and in 1907 her brother Frederick Pocock (1846-1907), son of Jacob Pocock of Sheylors Farm, died there. Her own death was in 1923 and, auctioning her effects to clear the house, Charles Oatley described her furnishings as antique gate leg table, mahogany bookcase, rosewood card table, folding mahogany billiards board on stand and fine tone pianoforte, powerful harmonium also Ladies and Gents BICYCLES.[15]
This photo is a thanksgiving service for the Eighth Army after victory over Rommel’s Afrika Korps (courtesy Illustrated London News, 20 March 1943). It shows Field Marshall Montgomery and the Deputy Army Chaplain-General, Rev Frederick Llewelyn Hughes, addressing troops in Tripoli in 1943.
Llewelyn Hughes Family
The Llewelyn Hughes family was one of the most flamboyant and varied families ever in Box. Canon Llewelyn Robert Hughes (1856-15 January 1925) was the rector of Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales from 1902 until 1924 when he and his wife Maria Elizabeth Sweetapple (1866-19 September 1945) moved to Springfield Villa, renamed Spring Grove at some time before 1939.[16] Canon Hughes had been a popular vicar in Llandudno and a memorial window was erected to him there after his death. Maria had been born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and I thought it unlikely that they would have come to Box other than by chance but not so. Mrs Hughes was a cousin of Dr Horlock and sister of Rev Henry Darrell Sudell Sweetlove, vicar of Box 1920-24. And the connection was deeper than that because as teenagers all three of Llewelyn and Maria’s sons - Rhodri Henry (Roddy) Hughes, Rev Frederick Llewelyn Hughes and Hubert Daryl Hughes - had attended the Rev Charles Richard Ward’s school run at Box House from about 1904 until just after World War I.[17]
Maria Llewelyn Hughes
Mrs Hughes (usually called Llewelyn Hughes) was a dynamo in the village, a supporter of numerous causes. She was a leading light in the Empire Builders’ Club for pupils at Box Church in 1929 and arranged whist drives in the gardens of Springfield Villa for children’s Sunday School treats.[18] In 1934 she organised and presented on behalf of the Box Mother’s Union a purseful of money collected for the Royal United Hospital, Bath, to Mrs Shaw Mellor as a token of gratitude and affection towards their leader.[19] In the mid-1930s she was at the centre of many diverse activities. In 1935 she was secretary and treasurer of the Box branch of the Nursing Association and organised fundraising events for them; on holiday in Wales aged 68, she walked Snowdon with her grandchildren; and was regularly requested to be the celebrity at prize-giving events such as for the Waifs and Strays Society at Sunnyside Chidren's Home (now Bybrook Nursing Home).[20] As if all this activity wasn’t sufficient, it was the children of Maria and Llewelyn who have the most diverse history.
The Llewelyn Hughes family was one of the most flamboyant and varied families ever in Box. Canon Llewelyn Robert Hughes (1856-15 January 1925) was the rector of Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales from 1902 until 1924 when he and his wife Maria Elizabeth Sweetapple (1866-19 September 1945) moved to Springfield Villa, renamed Spring Grove at some time before 1939.[16] Canon Hughes had been a popular vicar in Llandudno and a memorial window was erected to him there after his death. Maria had been born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and I thought it unlikely that they would have come to Box other than by chance but not so. Mrs Hughes was a cousin of Dr Horlock and sister of Rev Henry Darrell Sudell Sweetlove, vicar of Box 1920-24. And the connection was deeper than that because as teenagers all three of Llewelyn and Maria’s sons - Rhodri Henry (Roddy) Hughes, Rev Frederick Llewelyn Hughes and Hubert Daryl Hughes - had attended the Rev Charles Richard Ward’s school run at Box House from about 1904 until just after World War I.[17]
Maria Llewelyn Hughes
Mrs Hughes (usually called Llewelyn Hughes) was a dynamo in the village, a supporter of numerous causes. She was a leading light in the Empire Builders’ Club for pupils at Box Church in 1929 and arranged whist drives in the gardens of Springfield Villa for children’s Sunday School treats.[18] In 1934 she organised and presented on behalf of the Box Mother’s Union a purseful of money collected for the Royal United Hospital, Bath, to Mrs Shaw Mellor as a token of gratitude and affection towards their leader.[19] In the mid-1930s she was at the centre of many diverse activities. In 1935 she was secretary and treasurer of the Box branch of the Nursing Association and organised fundraising events for them; on holiday in Wales aged 68, she walked Snowdon with her grandchildren; and was regularly requested to be the celebrity at prize-giving events such as for the Waifs and Strays Society at Sunnyside Chidren's Home (now Bybrook Nursing Home).[20] As if all this activity wasn’t sufficient, it was the children of Maria and Llewelyn who have the most diverse history.
Roddy (bottom right) as Job Edwards in Emlyn William's play "Druid's Rest" 1943, which also featured Richard Burton (The Sketch, 23 February 1944)
Roddy Hughes
Rhodri Henry (Roddy) Hughes was an actor of stage, film and television in the 1930s to 1950s. He played character parts, often rotund characters as slight figures of fun. For a time, he studied at The College, Llandovery, Carmarthen, renowned for its liberal education and then graduated from Oxford University before starting a theatrical career in 1910.
In the 1920s he performed in Box in the amateur drama group The Blackbirds led by Rev George Foster and as a young, penniless actor he married Dorothy Smith from Witney, Oxfordshire, in 1931. His breakthrough came in films where he was the character Short Trotters, the Punch & Judy show puppeteer, in Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop in 1934. He was eminently suited to Dickensian characters and featured as the elderly Tim Linkinwater in Nicholas Nickelby in 1947 and Old Fezziweg, employer of the young Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol in the 1951 film. In total he performed in over 80 films, many of which are occasionally shown on television.
Rhodri Henry (Roddy) Hughes was an actor of stage, film and television in the 1930s to 1950s. He played character parts, often rotund characters as slight figures of fun. For a time, he studied at The College, Llandovery, Carmarthen, renowned for its liberal education and then graduated from Oxford University before starting a theatrical career in 1910.
In the 1920s he performed in Box in the amateur drama group The Blackbirds led by Rev George Foster and as a young, penniless actor he married Dorothy Smith from Witney, Oxfordshire, in 1931. His breakthrough came in films where he was the character Short Trotters, the Punch & Judy show puppeteer, in Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop in 1934. He was eminently suited to Dickensian characters and featured as the elderly Tim Linkinwater in Nicholas Nickelby in 1947 and Old Fezziweg, employer of the young Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol in the 1951 film. In total he performed in over 80 films, many of which are occasionally shown on television.
Roddy also performed on the stage and on television. In 1935 he replicated his film role of Short on the stage in Bath.[21] In 1955 he made a venture in television in an early Associated Rediffusion play called Goodbye Jonah and a year later reprising a stage role as a handwriting expert in Poison Pen for the BBC.[22]
Rev Frederick Hughes
Rev Frederick Llewelyn Hughes had a distinguished career bridging the worlds of the church and the military. As a regular soldier, he served as an adjutant in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1914 and was awarded the Military Cross in 1916 for gallantry at the Battle of the Somme.[23] After the war he returned to his studies at Jesus College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1922.[24] He married Dorothy Mackenzie Mead of South Kensington, London in 1925.[25]
Rev Frederick Llewelyn Hughes had a distinguished career bridging the worlds of the church and the military. As a regular soldier, he served as an adjutant in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1914 and was awarded the Military Cross in 1916 for gallantry at the Battle of the Somme.[23] After the war he returned to his studies at Jesus College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1922.[24] He married Dorothy Mackenzie Mead of South Kensington, London in 1925.[25]
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During the inter-war years, he was vicar at Paddington, London and later in Mansfield until he joined up again as an army chaplain in World War II. He was appointed Assistant Chaplain-General to Forces in 1942 and Chaplain-General 1944-51.
His appointment as Dean of Ripon in 1951 was a very prestigious event. Nominated by 10 Downing Street he was installed in presence of the Princess Royal and Field-Marshall Montgomery as well as numerous leading members of the army and the clergy in the north of England. He served as Dean from 1951 until his death in 1967. In his seventies, he organised a beat service for teenagers in Leeds and it was reported that he was a good guitarist himself.[26] Canon Frederick Hughes being installed as Dean of Ripon, 1951 (courtesy The Yorkshire Post, 29 November 1951) |
The Llewelyn Hughes' youngest son, Hubert Darrel Hughes was killed in action at Tigris, Mesopotamia in 1917, aged just 19. He had joined the Royal Military College as a teenager, then the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1915, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1916.[27] His body was buried in the Basra War Cemetery, Iraq. Amongst a score of others, his name was recorded on a marble tablet in Bangor Cathedral in 1917.[28]
The life of Maria Llewelyn Hughes of Springfield Villa spanned village history from the old Box House Parsonage reflecting the wealth of the Horlock dynasty to the rather sad decline of the Vicarage in the tenure of Rev Sweetapple. More than that, her life covered a time from shortly after the death of Prince Albert, Victoria’s consort, through two World Wars, to the coming of television. She deserves to be recalled as one of the formidable female residents of Box whose reputation deserves to be restored.
Llewelyn Hughes Family Tree
Canon Llewelyn Robert Hughes (1856-15 January 1925), rector of Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales 1902-24, married Maria Elizabeth Sweetapple (1866-19 September 1945) on 26 August 1890. Children:
Rhodri Henry (Roddy) Hughes (1891-1970); Rev Frederick Llewelyn Hughes (1894- 4 June 1967); and Hubert Darrell Hughes (1897-1917).
Canon Llewelyn Robert Hughes (1856-15 January 1925), rector of Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales 1902-24, married Maria Elizabeth Sweetapple (1866-19 September 1945) on 26 August 1890. Children:
Rhodri Henry (Roddy) Hughes (1891-1970); Rev Frederick Llewelyn Hughes (1894- 4 June 1967); and Hubert Darrell Hughes (1897-1917).
Residents of Springfield Villa / Spring Grove
1841: Not identified
1851: Called Roman Villa John Phipps
1861: Called Springfield Villa John Phipps
1871: Called Springfield unoccupied
1881: Called Springfield Villa unoccupied
1891: Called Springfield Villa Alice Goodwin
1901: Called Springfield Villa George Browning
1911: Not identified
1939: Called Spring Grove Maria Hughes
1841: Not identified
1851: Called Roman Villa John Phipps
1861: Called Springfield Villa John Phipps
1871: Called Springfield unoccupied
1881: Called Springfield Villa unoccupied
1891: Called Springfield Villa Alice Goodwin
1901: Called Springfield Villa George Browning
1911: Not identified
1939: Called Spring Grove Maria Hughes
References
[1] Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, 24 November 1881
[2] Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 21 August 1862
[3] The Bath Chronicle, 14 January 1869
[4] The Bath Chronicle, 19 January 1882
[5] The Bath Chronicle, 30 March 1882
[6] Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, 8 May 1884
[7] Abergavenny Chronicle, 15 April 1876
[8] Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 13 March 1879
[9] Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 9 August 1879
[10] Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 7 February 1880, David Ibberson, The Vicars of St Thomas a Becket, Box, 1987, p.36, and Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 1 September 1881
[11] The Bath Chronicle, 11 November 1880
[12] Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 5 February 1881
[13] The Bath Chronicle, 9 June 1892
[14] The Bath Chronicle, 9 February 1893
[15] Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 24 March 1923 and 24 February 1923
[16] The Gloucester Citizen, 27 August 1890
[17] Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald, 4 May 1935 and The Cheltenham Chronicle, 9 January 1904
[18] Parish Magazine, March 1929 and July 1933
[19] Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald, 29 September 1934
[20] Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald, 5 October 1935 and 7 November 1936
[21] Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald, 4 May 1935
[22] The Stage, 23 June 1955 and 8 November 1956
[23] The Yorkshire Post, 2 August 1951
[24] North Wales Weekly News, 22 June 1967
[25] The Western Mail, 22 October 1925
[26] The Daily Mirror, 15 October 1964
[27] Western Mail,14 July 1915 and Brecon County Times, 19 July 1917
[28] Liverpool Daily Post, 24 November 1917
[1] Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, 24 November 1881
[2] Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 21 August 1862
[3] The Bath Chronicle, 14 January 1869
[4] The Bath Chronicle, 19 January 1882
[5] The Bath Chronicle, 30 March 1882
[6] Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, 8 May 1884
[7] Abergavenny Chronicle, 15 April 1876
[8] Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 13 March 1879
[9] Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 9 August 1879
[10] Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 7 February 1880, David Ibberson, The Vicars of St Thomas a Becket, Box, 1987, p.36, and Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 1 September 1881
[11] The Bath Chronicle, 11 November 1880
[12] Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 5 February 1881
[13] The Bath Chronicle, 9 June 1892
[14] The Bath Chronicle, 9 February 1893
[15] Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 24 March 1923 and 24 February 1923
[16] The Gloucester Citizen, 27 August 1890
[17] Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald, 4 May 1935 and The Cheltenham Chronicle, 9 January 1904
[18] Parish Magazine, March 1929 and July 1933
[19] Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald, 29 September 1934
[20] Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald, 5 October 1935 and 7 November 1936
[21] Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald, 4 May 1935
[22] The Stage, 23 June 1955 and 8 November 1956
[23] The Yorkshire Post, 2 August 1951
[24] North Wales Weekly News, 22 June 1967
[25] The Western Mail, 22 October 1925
[26] The Daily Mirror, 15 October 1964
[27] Western Mail,14 July 1915 and Brecon County Times, 19 July 1917
[28] Liverpool Daily Post, 24 November 1917