Accidently drowned, aged 8
From Portsmouth Evening News, Saturday 27th August "A sad drowning fatality ocurred at Soberton, near Bishops Waltham on Thursday afternoon. George Edward Clewer the eight year old son of a labourer named James Richard Clewer being drowned in the River Meon. He was playing with his two little brothers on a wooden bridge which spans the river, when he felll into the water. After a few struggles, he sank. The two horror-stricken brother ran off home and told their mother, who flew to the stream and pulled the child out. Dr. Pern was sent for, but when he arrived an hour and a half later, nothing could be done but to declare life extinct."