Word: devon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CATHARINE M. BOYD Devon...
Gerald Richmond of 134 Devon St., Dorchester; Boston Public Latin. Paul B. Rosenberg of 30 Claflin Rd., Brookline; Brookline High. David Sabsay of 81 Russell St., Waltham; Waltham High. Sidney Shapire of 73 Phillips St., Boston; Boston Public Latin. Edward L. Snow of 53 Clark Rd., Revere; Revere High. Thomas Sobel of 26 Cornanba St., Roslindale; Boston Public Latin...
...elected Fellow of the Royal Society, where he knew John Dryden and Christopher Wren. No man to take irretrievable sides in 17th Century politics, he not only recorded Charles I's tall hunting stories but later listened to Cromwell declaiming at dinner that in all England Devon husbandry was best. When Charles II came home from exile, Aubrey was on hand again, recording the occasion when a Mr. Evans, who had "a fungous nose . . . kissed the King's hand and rubbed his nose with it, which disturbed the King, but cured [Mr. Evans...
...English Anglican, although born at Kelso, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and ordained to the ministry of the Church of England in 1815. He held the curacy of Lower Brixham, Devon, from 1823 until his death in the autumn...
...There was a good precedent for mercy. In British annal's there was the case of a man the hangman could not hang. He was John Lee, a Devon murderer. On Feb. 23, 1885, he was thrice led, bound and black-hooded, to the gallows. In 30 minutes of trying, the hangman thrice released the trap and thrice it failed to open (rain had caused the wood to swell). Lee's death sentence was commuted to life in prison...