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Truro
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Truro. The Anglican diocese of Truro, covering Cornwall, was created in 1877. Until Anglo-Saxon times the Cornish Church had been independent; in 931 it was finally incorporated in the English Church and Cornwall became an English diocese...
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Truro, diocese of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Truro, diocese of The see, roughly conterminous with Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, was created in 1877. The cathedral, which dominates the small town, was completed in 1903: the architect was J. L. Pearson and the style Early English neo‐Gothic Revival.
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Shaw, Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
SHAW, Robert Nationality: British. Born: Westhoughton, Lancashire, 9 August 1927. Education: Attended Truro School, Cornwall; Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London. Family: Married 1) the actress Jennifer Bourke, 1952 (divorced...
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Bower, (Sir) John Dykes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Bower, (Sir) John Dykes ( b Gloucester, 1905; d Orpington, 1981). Eng. organist. Org. Truro Cath. 1926; New Coll., Oxford 1929; Durham Cath. 1933; St Paul's Cath., London 1936–67. Prof. of org., RCM, 1936–69. Knighted 1968.
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Sinclair, George (Robertson)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...1863; d Birmingham, 1917). Eng. organist and conductor. Ass. organist, Gloucester Cath. 1879. Org. and choirmaster, Truro Cath., 1880–9. Org., Hereford Cath., 1889–1917, cond. at 3 Choirs Fest. 1891–1912...
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Pearson, John Loughborough
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...tienne, Caen, Normandy, and internal buttresses dividing the aisles into bays in the manner of Albi Cathedral in France. His Truro Cathedral, Cornwall (1880–1910), again drew on Franco-English sources, and his understanding of Gothic vaulting...
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Cornwall
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...present‐day population is some 480, 000, the most concentrated urban area being Redruth–Camborne. Truro (18, 000) only became a centre in the early 19th cent., its cathedral, built 1890–1910, marking Cornwall...
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bishops
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...development of major conurbations in the 19th cent. further dioceses were founded Ripon 1836, Manchester 1848, St Albans and Truro 1877, Liverpool 1880, Newcastle 1882, Southwell 1884, and Wakefield 1888), a process which continued into the 20th.
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Benson, Edward White
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Benson, Edward White (1829–96), first Bp. of Truro (1877–83) and Abp. of Canterbury (1883–96). He encouraged the establishment of the House of Laymen...
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Cape Cod
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...as 1810. Because of the many shipwrecks in the vicinity, the picturesque Highland Lighthouse was built on a scenic bluff in Truro in 1797. The Whydah, flagship of the Cape Cod pirate prince, Captain Samuel Bellamy, was wrecked in a storm off Orleans...
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