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B E R K S H IR E .

Almshouses.
Christ's Hospital, St. Helen's churchyard
St. John the Baptist Hospital, Vineyard
Tom kins’, Ock street
Tw itty’s, St. Helen’s churchyard
TE RRITO R IA L FORCE.
4 t h Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) ( F C o .); h e a d quarters, Old Gramm ar
school; Capt. R. J- C la rk e ; Color-Sergt. Harry
Harvey, drill instructor
ABINGDON UNION.
Board day, alternate Mondays, at n a m. at the
Workhouse.
The Union comprises the following p la c e s: Abingdon,
St Helen W ithout, Appleford, Appleton with Eaton,
Baldon Marsh (Oxford), Baldon Toot (Oxford), Besselsleieh, Binsev (Oxford), Burcot (Oxford), Chiselhampton i Oxford), Clifton Hampden (Oxford), Culham
(Oxford), Cumnor, Draycott Moor, Drayton, Drayton
St
Leonard (Oxford), Frilford, Fyfield, Garford,
Hinksey (North). Hinksey (South), Kingston Bagpuize,
Lyford,
Marcham, Milton, Nuneham
Courtenay
(Oxford),
Radley,
Sandford-on-Thames
(Oxford),
Stadhampton
(Oxford),
Steventon,
Sunm nrwell,
Sutton Courtenay, Sutton W ick, Tubney, Wootton &
W y th a m ; the area of the union is 55,726 a cre s; rate­
able value in 1911 £ i.3-,452 t b e population in 1911
Chairman7 of the Board of Guardians, H. W. Weaving
esq. Pewit, Abingdon
Clerk to the Guardians fc Assessm ent Com m ittee,
Brom ley Challenor, Stert street, Abingdon
Treasurer, John Quitter Bum ball, London County S:
Westminster Bank Limited
Relieving Officer £ Collector to the Guardians, Alfred
Henrv=Roberts, Radley road, Abingdon
Vaccination Officers: 1st district, Tom Sm ith Sim p­
son, 19 Ock street, A bingdon; 2nd district, Alfred
Henry Roberts, Radley road, Abingdon
Medical Officers: No. 1 district, Edward Vivian Russell
Woodford M .R .C .S.E n g., L .R .C .P.L on d. 59 Ock st.
Abinodon; No. 2 & 4 districts, Harry Septim us
Challenor M .R .C .S.E . The Lim es, Broad street,
Abingdon; No. 3 district, H erbert C. S. Woodward
M .A .7 M B , B.C.Cantab. Kingston B agp uize; No. 5
district, Henrv George Frean M .R .C .S.E n g., L.R .C .P.
Lond. 29 Beaumont street, O xford; No. 6 district,
Henry Spencer Richard Freeborn M B., C.M. Clifton
Hampden
Public Vaccinators: No. i district, Paulin M artin, 20
Ock street. A bingdon; Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6, same as
medical officers
The Workhouse on the Oxford road, on the outskirts
of the town, is a large structure of brick, in the form
of the letter Y ; it cost ¿8,500 & was built to hold
380 inm ates; Joseph Fray, m aster; Rev. Herbert
Thomas Maitland M.A. chaplain; Edward Vivian
Russell Woodford, m edical officer; Mrs. Elizabeth
Fray, matron
Superintendent Registrar, Brom ley Challenor, Stert
street, Abingdon; deputy, Brom ley Challenor, jnn.
Stert street, Abingdon
Registrars of Births & Deaths, Abingdon sub-district,
Tom Sm ith Simpson, 19 Ock street, A bingdon;
deputy. Miss M. J. Simpson, 19 Ock street ; Fyfield
sub-district. A. H. Roberts, Radley road, Abingdon;
deputy, John Sm ith. Cumnor, Oxford; Sutton Courte­
nay sub-district, Charles J. W hiting, Sutton Courte­
n ay; deputy, F. W. W hiting, Sutton Courtenay
Registrar of Marriages, John Cowburn, Caldecott road,
A bingdon; deputy, W illiam Musson Simpson, 33 East
St. Helen street, Abingdon
ABINGDON RU RAL D ISTR IC T COUNCIL.
Meets at the Guildhall, monthly, at 12.
Chairman, J. W. Kim ber
Clerks, Bromley & Edward Marchant Challenor, Stert
street, Abingdon
Treasurer, Isaac Westcombe, Albert park
Medical Officer of Health, John Ralph Prior M.D.
Reading
Sanitary Inspector & Highway Surveyor, Thomas Budd
W arren, East St. Helen street, Abingdon
ABINGDON JOINT H O SPITAL BOARD.
The Board consists of 12 members.
Meetings are held at the Guildhall, Abingdon, quarterly
on mondays
Chairman, J. W. Kim ber

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Clerk, Brom ley Challenor, Stert street
Treasurer, A rth ur B. G illett, The Square
Medical Officer, H arry Septim us Challenor M .R C .b .
Eng. The Lim es, Broad street
Matron, Miss L. F. K in g, The Joint Hospital,Marcham rd
PU BLIC OFFICERS.
Assessor of Taxes for Abingdon, Steventon, Sutton
Courtenay, Culfiam , Drayton & Sutton Wick, to
Assistant Overseer, W alter Hy. Hem m ing, 12 Stert st
Certifying Factory Surgeon, Charles Robert Scott
M B. & C.M .Edin. 46 East St. Helen street
Clerk to Income & Land Tax Commissioners, Bromley
Challenor, jun
Clerk to the Berkshire (Berks, Reading, Newbury &
Windsor) Lun atic A sylum & Clerk of the Peace for
the County & to the County Council & Clerk k Re­
ceiver of C h rist’s Hospital, Abingdon & Clerk to the
Income Tax Commissioners (Compton division), John
Thornhill Morland M .A. 33 Bath street
Clerk to the M arket, Thomas Faulkner, jun. Ody road
Collector of Assessed Taxes, W alter Henry Hemnnng,
12 Stert street
Coroner for the Abingdon Division of the County,
Bromley Challenor, Stert street; deputy, Bromley
Challenor, jun. Stert street
Inspector of W eights k Measures for the County
(Abingdon k W allingford districts), A. J. W right,
Reading
Keeper of the Guildhall & Council Cham bers, John
Henry Viner, 2 The Abbey
PL A C E S OF W ORSHIP, with tim es of Services.
St. H elen s Church, Rev. H erbert Thomas Maitland
M .A. vicar k rural dean; Rev. Charles Stephenson
Thomas M.A. k Rev. Owen Frederick Spearing M.A.
curates; 8 & 11 a.m. & 3 & 6.30 p .m .; tkurs. 8
a.m . ; mon. & fri. 6 p.m . ; wed. 8 p.m
St Nicholas, Rev. Herbert Thomas Maitland M.A. rector
k Rev. Thomas Layng M .A. deputy lectu rer; 11 a.m .
& 3 p.m. ; week days, 10 a.m
St. Michael’s, 8, 10.30 & n a.m . k 6.30 p.m. ; week
days, 7.30 a.m . & tues. thurs. & sat. 6 p.m
Iron Church of St. Margaret, used for inm ates of the
union, in the Workhouse grounds, Rev. Herbert
Thos. Maitland M.A. chaplain; 9.45 a.m. & 3.45 p.m
St. Marv & St. Edmund of C anterbury Catholic, \ m eyard, “V ery Rev. Canon Frank J. Kelleher, rector**
holy communion, 8.30 k mass, 9-3° a-m. > vespers &
benediction, 6.30 p .m .; mon. fri. k sat. mass, 8.30
а.m. ; tues. wed. & thurs. in convent, 8 a.m
Baptist, Ock street, Rev. J. Tedeschi W ilson; 11 a.m. &
б.30 p .m .; wed. 7.30 p.m
Baptist (Particular), A bbey; 10.30 a.m . k 6 p .m .;
wed. 7 p.m
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Congregational, The Square, Rev. Stanley H. btowell
M.A. ; 11 a.m. k 6.30 p.m . ; wed. 7.45 p.m
Prim itive Methodist, Ock street (W allingford C ucuit),
Rev. Ralph Pickard; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p .m .; mon. &
wed. 7.45 p.m
Wesleyan (Oxford Circuit), Rev. Stanley Butters B .A .;
Abingdon (Trinity). 11 a.m . & 6.30 p .m .; wed. 7.30
p.m . ; Southmoor, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m . ; Drayton,
2.30
k 6 p .m .; tues. 7 p .m .; Wootton, 10.30 a.m . 3
& 6 p.m. ; Garford, 2.30 p.m
Salvation Arm y Barracks, Broad street
Friends’ Meeting House, Vineyard
SCHOOLS.
Abingdon School, which dates from very early times,
was refounded in 1563, by John Rovsse, citizen &
mercer of London, then in the 63rd year of his
age. for the education of 63 boys, natives of Abing­
don ; an ushership was subsequently founded by
Thomas Tesdale, of F itzharris farm , in Abingdon, &
afterwards of Glym pton, Oxon, who was the first
scholar adm itted by the founder, & at his death in
1610 he bequeathed a sum of ¿5,000 for the m ainten­
ance of 7 fellows & 6 scholars in the University of
O xford; W illiam Bennett, also a form er scholar &
Tesdale’s nephew, le ft lands in W iltshire for the edu­
cation of 6 poor boys at the school, & these benefac­
tions were augm ented by the liberality of Robert
Orpwood, John Kent, in 1604, John Blacknall. in
1625, k Richard W ightw ick, rector of East Ilsley,
B erks; the united benefactions of Tesdale & W igh t­
wick, first offered to & accepted by Balliol College,
Oxford, were subsequently removed from that col­
lege k applied, under letters patent of James I. dated
June 29, 1624, & granted on the petition of the Cor­
poration of Abingdon, then trustees of the school, to