COMMANDER JOHN POLLARD
Little did John Pollard as signal midshipman of the Victory in the battle of Trafalgar…
CHRISTOPHER PIVETT.
Christopher Pivett died at York, in 1796, at the advanced age of ninety-three years. He…
CHARLES INCLEDON
This, one of the sweetest tenor singers England has produced, was born at S. Keverne…
CARABOO
On Thursday evening, 3 April, 1817, the overseer of the parish of Almondsbury, in Gloucestershire,…
CAPTAIN WILLIAM ROGERS
Captain William Rogers, son of Captain Rogers, who died in November, 1790, was born at…
CAPTAIN TOBIAS MARTIN
Tobias Martin, better known as Cap’n Toby, was born in the parish of Wendron on…
CAPTAIN RICHARD KEIGWIN
The English East India Company had been founded December 31st, 1600, and it obtained from…
CAPTAIN JOHN PALK
In the forties and fifties no man was better known as a character in Tavistock…
CAPTAIN JOHN AVERY
Concerning this captain it is not easy to give a trustworthy account as the discrepancies…
BROTHER JUCUNDUS.
At York were two religious houses—St. Mary’s Abbey and St. Leonard’s Priory—so close together that…