Category: Biography & Family History
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George Roberts Shorto (1836–1905): Crimean War Veteran and Town Clerk of Exeter
When George Roberts Shorto died in August 1905, Exeter marked his passing with an imposing civic funeral. The Mayor, magistrates, councillors and representatives of the city’s public institutions…
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Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell (1877–1918): Science, Exploration and a Life of Exceptional Promise
Few members of my extended family moved so confidently across the intellectual and geographical boundaries of the Edwardian world as Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell. Physician, biologist, zoological collector…
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William Halse Gatty Jones (1825–1897): From Gold-Rush Melbourne to the Hills of Merioneth
The life of my first cousin four times removed, William Halse Gatty Jones, crossed two hemispheres and several distinct Victorian worlds. Known within the family as Gatty Jones,…
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Tea and Waterfalls: John and Jane Waters of the Llyfnant Valley
During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, visitors began arriving in the Llyfnant Valley carrying railway tickets, walking sticks and expectations formed by guidebooks. They came in…