Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825–1900), novelist and fruit farmer, was born on 7 June 1825, at the vicarage, Longworth, Berkshire, the third but second surviving son of the Revd John Blackmore (1794–1858) and his first wife, Anne Basset Knight (1794–1825). Anne was the eldest daughter of the ...
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Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825–1900), novelist and fruit farmer
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Quicke, Sir John Godolphin (1922–2009), farmer, landowner and cheesemaker
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Quicke, Sir John Godolphin (1922–2009), farmer, landowner and cheesemaker, was born on 20 April 1922 at 9 Egerton Place, Kensington, London, the elder son and eldest of three children of Noel Arthur Godolphin Quicke (1888–1943), farmer and landowner, and his wife, Constance May (1890–1971)...
