OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17401, 11 March 1922, Page 11

OBITUARY.

A member of a well-known Shronshire family, and a warm supporter of the Royal Salop Infirmary, Mr R. F. l.ingen Burton; of Longner Hall, Atcham. died on January 7th. after a protracted illness (writes our London correspondent). Mr Burton, who was 38 years of age, was tho elder surviving son cf Mr 11. Lingen Burton, D.L. dnd J.P. for the county, who died in 1880. Educated at Eton* ho left for New Zealand at the age of seventeen, and no was engaged in sheep-farming there lor nearly twenty years. Some sixteen .. ears ago lie returned to Longner Hall, wringing with him a comprehensive „-ol lection of curios. He leaves & widow (nee Miss Alice Slendelson, third daughter of Mr Julius Alendelson. of iomuka). one son, and two daughters. I l:c funeral took place at Atcham, when the esteem with which the deceased was regarded in the district was manilested by the presence of a largo number of mourners. Iho eorvioo was taken by the Rev. H. G. Bainbridge (vicar) and the Rev. A. R. Pelliam I frector of Upton Magna). Mr Burton was tho owner of much property on the north-western outskirts of Shrewsbury, including th© old county rrickofc fisld mid land at Shelton and Shelton Hall! During his later yeat-3 he devoted a great deal of time to work on behalf of- tho Royal Salop Infirmary, and at the time of his death ho was vice-c-hnirmrm of the Weekly Board. Lone;- " er ' r , fam,ly Beat . wn « rebuilt in 180-1. In the garden is the tomb of a staunch Protestant member of the family whose body was refused burial by the Vicar at the time of St. Chad's, who considered him. to be a heretic The f tory of Edward Burton's £ is told in Fox's "Book of Martvrs." !n Auden's "Shropshire" it is related that he died from a seizure brought on bv excitement and jov on learning of th ? acrMsion to' the throne of Queen Elizabeth.

The death took place at Waipawft on Wednesday of Mr John Britten, aged 83 vears. The deceased arrived in Wellington in 1856, and after an unsuccessful visit to tho Otago goldfiolds returned to the North Island, settling down in Waipawa as a butcher and grazier. For Borne time he had been living in retirement on hi si farm at Otane.

Cabled messages from England record the death of Mr A. B. Donald, at Wimborne, Dorset. Mr Donald was well known iti Auckland .as a resident of long standing and as the founder of the business of A. B. Donald, Ltd.