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Laura Mereidth is silent about the next years as they affected her though she continues her narrative of family affairs: another ordination, more weddings, electricity is installed at Norton manor which has been bought by another brother-in-law. The Merediths, however, lived a migratory life and though Laura's health improved there, she found Romsey dull after Winkfield. Her son Henry Chase went up to Christ Church, Oxford after Eton, as his father had before him, graduating in 1901. Three years later the whole family is in Shropshire where Henry Meredith took a lease of Marton Hall in the parish of Myddle immortal- ized by Richard Gough's History in 1701.9 So Laura was back within easy reach of most of her family. But in September 1905 "quite suddenly', as The Times put it, Henry Meredith died, aged fifty-two, and was buried in Baschurch churchyard as were other occupants of Marton Hall since the seventeenth century.10 Laura Meredith stayed on at Marton Hall until her son's marriage in 1910 when he moved to The Sheet in Ludlow where until his death the previous year his uncle, Richard Dansey, had lived since his marriage to Milburga Green Price in 1871. Laura also moved to Ludlow, to a house called Burway, on the Teme, just outside the town. Perhaps now too old herself to hunt, it must have given her satisfaction to see Chase become joint master of the Ludlow hounds in 1913. But a year later, on the outbreak of the Great War, Chase Meredith, who had been an officer in the Shropshire Yeomanry since 1904, enlisted in the Leicester Yeomanry. He survived the war which claimed its first Green Price victim in 1916 when his cousin, Alfred Moorsom, the first child of Laura's favourite sister and confidant, Alice, and Henry Meredith's godson, died from wounds in France. 11 Laura herself died in 1917 at the Royal Hotel, Bournemouth, no doubt living modestly there as she had before at the Eversfield Hotel, St Leonards on Sea, and at Torquay, for her health's sake. She was not rich and though her husband left effects to the value of £ 90,572 4s 3d in 1905, when she died her's were only £ 4,139. Henry Meredith had left his fortune in trust for his son, leaving Laura 'so long as she remains my widow, such a sum as with her income under the Settle- ment made on our marriage will make up the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds a year. 112 Her marriage settlement gave her eight hundred pounds a year. In August 1917 Laura Meredith made her will at the Eversfield Hotel, in the presence of 'Elizabeth Sara Bertal, widow, and Lillian Sara Sorell, spinster', both of whom were also residents at the hotel and reflect the kind of life she was now leading and the society she was keeping. In October the same year she died, leaving her maid three hundred pounds 'in recognition of her faithful service.' She was buried at Norton on November 3rd, 1917, but few beyond the immediate family could have been at her funeral, for it took place on the same day as The Times announced her death at Bournemouth. The Kington Times reported that 'Major H. C. Meredith was unable to be present owing to military duties. The bearers were composed of six of the Norton Estate men. 113 Appropriately, she was buried by her brother Chase, vicar of Pembridge since 1912 and who had officiated at her wedding in 1881. The Recollections of Laura Meredith are published in these Trans-