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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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Hatchett, Charles
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...211 – 224, 285 – 315; 96 (1806), 109 – 146. The Hatchets Diary , A. Raistrick, ed. (Truro, 1967), is an edited version of a diary in the possession of Hatchett ’ s descendants describing a journey made...
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Frere, Walter Howard
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Frere, Walter Howard (1863–1938), Bp. of Truro from 1923 to 1935. A member of the Community of the Resurrection (from 1892), he took part in the Malines Conversations and was an authority on liturgical matters.
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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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Farnaby, Giles
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Farnaby, Giles ( b Truro, 1563; d London, 1640). Eng. composer of madrigals, music for virginals, canzonets, psalm-tunes, etc. Over 50 of his...
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Robson, Philip Appleby
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...1871–1951). English architect, the son of E. R. Robson . He was articled to Pearson , assisting the latter at Truro Cathedral, before joining his father. He later worked for various Government Departments before establishing his own practice...
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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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Bastian, Henry Charlton
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Bastian, Henry Charlton ( b . Truro, England, 26 April 1837; d . Chesham Bois, England, 17 November 1915) neurology, bacteriology . Little is known of Bastian...
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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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