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African War. After his marriage he left the Blues and was appointed to the Royal
Bodyguard at the command of King Edward VII.
Lady Victoria and her husband lived at Folly Court, Wokingham, for about 20
years. Always extremely active, she was a vigorous rider with the Garth, and an
equally keen racegoer.
Linguist
After Colonel Villiers died in 1947, his widow lived in London—giving much time
to charity flag days and bazaars and contributing huge quantities of her own
embroidery—until a month before her death. She was a very fine linguist, passing the
interpreter tests in French and German during World War I.
Lady Victoria is survived by four of her seven children, numerous grand-children
and great grand-children. The funeral service takes place at St. Paul’s Church,
Wokingham, today.

Thur 11th June 1970
ALDERMAN’S DAUGHTER MARRIED
Miss Susan Peggy Skedgel, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Skedgel, of
Copper Beeches, Murdoch Road, Wokingham, was married at All Saints’ Church,
Wokingham, on Saturday to Mr. John Barlow Pearton, only son of the late Mr. W.J.S.
Pearton and Mrs. F.A. Steer, and stepson of the Rev. F.A. Steer, of the Vicarage,
Aldermaston.
The bride’s father is an alderman on Wokingham Borough Council and a former
mayor, and the Rev. F.A. Steer, is a former rector of All Saints’, Wokingham.
The service was conducted by the Rev. K. Martin and the Rev. A.G. Millard.
Bridesmaids were Miss Janet Skedgel (bride’s sister) and Miss Gillian and Miss
Margaret Steer (bridegroom’s sisters). Mr. and Mrs. Pearton will live in Wokingham

ROMAN COINS FIND
Mrs. Patricia Prime, of 84 Matthewsgreen Road, a fortnight ago discovered a hidden
horde of coins buried sometime during the fourth century A.D. in the field opposite
her home. She found them while taking her dogs for a walk across the fields. She
spotted a few coins lying on top of the newly ploughed soil and stuffed them in her
pockets and raced home to show her husband. As soon as he saw the coins he went
out there with a torch to see if he could find any more.
The next day Mrs. Prime contacted Reading Museum, and officials came out that
evening to examine the coins. They called in an archaeological research team from
Oxford, and with the aid of metal detectors they were able to unearth a further 500
coins. With painstaking care, Mrs. Prime and staff from the museum unearthed about
1,800 of the bronze, silver-washed coins.
Fascinating
Mrs. Jill Greenaway, of the museum, discovered the pot which had held the money.
It was bound with bandages and carefully extracted from the soil—to disclose another
900 of the small bronze pieces still there. According to museum staff this is the largest
find ever to have been unearthed in Berkshire. The value of the find has not been
determined. The heads of two Roman emperors, Constans and Magnentius, are clearly
defined on the coins which have, so far, been examined. About 40% of the coins are
severely corroded and all but 2% of the remainder are likely to require conservation
treatment.

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