William Benson Earle

He was born at Shaftesbury, Wiltshire, in 1740, but his life was passed at Salisbury, with the history and charities of which city his name is inseparably associated.

Two of these, A Description of Vallombrosa and A Picturesque View of the Glaciers in Savoy, he communicated to the Monthly Miscellany.

A third is A Letter to Lord Littelton, containing a description of the last great Eruption of Mount Ætna, A.D. 1766, Lond.

1775, a sequel to the reprint of a letter on the 1669 Etna eruption addressed to Charles II by Lord Winchilsea.

He was also a musician, and composed glees; also a Sanctus and a Kyrie which were occasionally performed in Salisbury Cathedral.