Rogate, Sussex

[Bill Hibbert]

While browsing through Morris' Towers and Bells of Britain looking 
for something else I came across the following on page 235:

Rogate, Sussex, St. Bartholomew's . . . This is one of the very first 
peals cast and tuned on the Simpson principle. Cast by J. Taylor and 
Co. for the late Canon Simpson during his rectorship of the parish, 
1904 . . .

Elphick gives the tenor inscription as:
S. PAUL [stop] BRIANVS ELDRIDGE MEE FECIT * RT * B B * 1624
Recast 1904 by John Taylor in commemoration
of the work in behalf of church bells of
the Rev Arthur Barwick Simpson 1876 - 1900
Rector of Fittleworth

The third is inscribed:
A.M.D.G.
et in memoriam A.B.S

Part of the fourth's inscription reads:
Recast 1904
Arthur Hume Simpson * Vicar

Rather a good memorial I thought to Simpson: I guess Arthur Hume 
Simpson was a relative - his son?.

Bill H