ABSTRACT

In a paper by Canon Jackson in the Wilts Archwologi~al Magazine, for December, 1881, on the eminent ladies of Wiltshire, Miss Ethelred Benet of Norton

October 15th, 1886. Banent, near Warminster, is mentioned as having

receiv~d a degree of Doctor of Civil Law, in the University of St. Petersburg, from the Emperor of Russia.