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 attached and warm supporter of the Church of England, his sympathies and pecuniary aid were freely accorded to other denominations. His hospitality was unbounded, and public and private charities found in him a liberal and good friend. He died at Mount Benson, near Robe, Dec 16, 1869, aged seventy.

Edward Walter Wickes AS a native of Stepney, England, and for many years known in the country districts as a lay preacher. His career as a teacher commenced in 1816, and he continued in that profession until 1845, when he left his native land for South Australia. During his scholastic career in England he published a grammar, which was extensively used, and after lie came to this colony he produced several elementary works which were largely circulated. Shortly after his arrival, in conjunction with the Rev. J. B. Titherington, he opened a school at North Adelaide, and continued it until 1854. Mr. Wickes was a member of the first Board of Education, and soon after its formation became the secretary, retaining that post for fourteen years, till failing health caused him to resign. He acted as lay preacher at Hindmarsh and other suburbs of Adelaide. He died at North Adelaide, August 30, 1868, aged 73.

Thomas Lampard, NE of the pioneers and oldest residents of the Murray River district. He was well known among colonial sportsmen in the early years of settlement as a man of fearless disposition and adventurous character. In 1843 he took up his abode on the banks of the Murray, and was one of the first to put a plough into what was then truly a wilderness, though by no means an uninhabited one, as the aborigines