BLIND JACK OF KNARESBOROUGH.[1]
Blind Jack Metcalf is certainly one of the most remarkable characters that Yorkshire has produced.…
BLACK RAM
I do not know when I had spent a more pleasant evening, or had enjoyed…
BISHOP-DYKE POND.[1]
On the Monday following Palm Sunday, being the 14th of April, 1690, William Barwick, a…
BENJAMIN R. HAYDON
The only painting by which this artist is generally known is that of Napoleon standing…
ANTHONY PAYNE
Anthony Payne, the “Falstaff of the West,” was born in the manor house, Strat-ton, the…
ANNE JEFFERIES
Moses Pitt, a publisher in London, a native of S. Teath, in 1696 published the…
ANN GLANVILLE
Saltash was formerly a very much more important place than it is to-day. Now the…
ADMIRAL RICHARD DARTON THOMAS
Richard Darton Thomas was born at Saltash on 2nd June, 1777, son of Charles and…
BENJAMIN KENNICOTT, D.D.
Benjamin Kennicott was born at Totnes on 4 April, 1718, and was the son of…
BAMPFYLDE-MOORE CAREW
To An Apology for the Life of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, London, n.d., but probably 1753,…