Baggerley, Humphrey (fl. 1648–1654), army officer and supposed biographer, was among the troops who on 9 October 1648 surrendered at Appleby, Westmorland, to superior parliamentarian forces under Colonel Assheton. The royalist soldiers were granted very generous terms and, having been allowed his freedom, ...
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John Ormsby
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Carleton, George (1651/2
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Gordon, Patrick (1635–1699), army officer and diarist, was born on 31 March 1635 at Easter Auchleuchries in Aberdeenshire, where his father, John Gordon (d. c.1684), was a minor laird. His mother's name was Mary Ogilvie (d. c.1684). He wrote his diary in six thick quarto volumes, preserved in ...
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Thompson Cooper
revised by D. N. Farr
Hodgson, John (1617/18–1684
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Jones, Elias Henry (1883–1942), prisoner of war and university administrator, was born at Brynymor Road, Aberystwyth, on 21 September 1883, the eldest son of the philosopher Sir Henry Jones (1852–1922), who was then a lecturer at University College, Aberystwyth, and his wife, ...
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Eric Sutherland Lomax (1919–2012) by unknown photographer, c.1939 © Writer Pictures
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Roger T. Stearn
Lomax, Eric Sutherland (1919–2012), prisoner of war and author, was born on 30 May 1919 at 11 Bedford Terrace, Portobello, Edinburgh, the only child of John Lomax (1878–1950), post office clerk, later post office manager, formerly a Stockport pawnbroker's assistant, and his wife, ...
