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
Charlotte Mitchell
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Macarthur, John (1766–1834), merchant and wool-grower
Margaret Steven
Macarthur, John (1766–1834), merchant and wool-grower, was probably born on 18 August 1766 and was baptized on 3 September 1767 at Stoke Damerel, near Plymouth, Devon, one of three known children of the expatriate Scot Alexander Macarthur (1720?–1790), mercer and draper, and his wife, ...
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Matthews, Bernard Trevor (1930–2010), turkey farmer
Anne Pimlott Baker
Matthews, Bernard Trevor (1930–2010), turkey farmer, was born on 24 January 1930 at 27 Cleveland Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, the youngest in the family of two sons and two daughters of George Armond Matthews, motor engineer, and his wife, Frances May, née Hamby. He won a scholarship to the ...
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Tolpuddle Martyrs (act. 1834–c. 1845)
C. V. J. Griffiths
Tolpuddle Martyrs (act. 1834–c. 1845), agricultural labourers and trade unionists from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, became famous as victims of injustice, whose sentences of transportation caused a public outcry in 1834.
All six men lived and worked in Tolpuddle. George Loveless...
