VICAR'S HORROR.
abhorred top hats.
'BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL FUNERAL'
(Special—By Air Mall.)
LONDON, August 12.
The Rev. Henrys Stewart Travers, late vjcar of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England, had a horror of top hats. He directed in his will, recently published, that they must not be worn at his funeral. "Mv funeral shall be of the very simplest and inexpensive," he wrote in his will. "Bright and cheerful, no bought flowers, no mourning or top hats of any kind, a horror to me; to take place in my old parish of Erlestoke, if I should die nearby, a peal of bells, not muffled, to be rung directly after the funeral and the ringers to be paid £2 for the same." He left hie home and £2000 to his gardener and housekeeper, "his faithful friends."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 210, 6 September 1939, Page 11
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