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Eustace, at the Town Hall, was assisted by General P. Molloy and others. The
counting was carried out by Gen. Molloy, Messrs. A. Andrews, J.W. Potter, F.W.
Martin, W.G. Fidler, and Miss Hessay. There was an increase of £10 over last year.

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DEATH OF VISCOUNT MOUNTMORRES
Rector of St. Paul’s, Wokingham
HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREER
We deeply regret to record the death of the Rev. Viscount Mountmorres, Rector of
St. Paul’s, Wokingham, which occurred at Greenlands Nursing Home, Reading, on
Wednesday morning.
Viscount Mountmorres accepted the living of St. Paul’s in the latter part of 1934. He
had a distinguished career as a clergyman, explorer and journalist. Few men had
travelled so widely, and he was an authority on agriculture in Africa, and
ethnography.
Although his views on Church practice were not readily accepted by many of his
congregation, he did much to interest the young people of his church. During the short
time Viscount Mountmorres was at Wokingham he endeared himself to the people of
the borough and took a keen interest in public affairs.
It was after he returned from his vacation this year that he became ill, and about a
month ago his removal to Greenlands Nursing Home was ordered. Early this week his
condition became critical, and, despite the efforts of specialists, the Viscount passed
away. Lady Mountmorres was at the bedside when he died.
MARRIED TWICE
The Rev. William Geoffrey Bouchard de Montmorency was born in 1872 and was
the son of the fifth Viscount and Harriet, daughter of George Broadrick, of Hamphall
Stubbs, Yorks. He succeeded his father in 1880. In 1893 he married Louise, daughter
of Sampson Taylor Rowe, of Trecarrel, Redruth, by whom he had one daughter, who
married Mr. R.B. Hulton, son of Sir William Hulton, Bart., of Hulton Park, near
Bolton. In 1934 Viscount Mountmorres married a daughter of Charles F. Cross, The
Hermitage, Isle of Wight.
Viscount Mountmorres was educated at Dunkerque, Radley, Balliol College,
Oxford, Paris, and Cuddesdon Theological College. He had visited America, the West
Indies, Egypt, Morocco, the Sahara and Asia Minor and had covered 10,000 miles in
Central and West Africa and the Congo Free State, etc.
He represented Mile End on the London County Council from 1895 to 1898, and
took up administrative duties, being Metropolitan and provincial secretary to the
Primrose League, and assistant secretary to the Women’s Memorial to Queen
Victoria. He was Director of the Tropical Institute at Liverpool University from 1905-
1908. He acted as hon. A.D.C. to the Governor of Jamaica at the time of the Kingston
earthquake of 1907, and received the thanks of the Jamaican Government for his
services.
HIS CLERICAL APPOINTMRNTS
Viscount Mountmorres returned to England and was ordained deacon in 1913 ad
priest in the following year. He was assistant curate of All Saints’, Ryde, from 1913-
1917, and among his later appointments were those of chaplain to the Winchester
Diocesan Deaconesses’ Institute; vicar of Swinton, Lancs.; and chaplain to
Manchester Poor Law Guardians. He was vicar of South Farnborough from 1925-
1933, and afterwards became curate of St. Barnabas’ Oxford, and licensed preacher in

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