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Baldwin Baldwin
Baldwin (d. 1190). Archbishop of Canterbury. A native of Exeter, Baldwin entered the Cistercian monastery at Ford, Devon (c.1170), becoming abbot and then bishop of Worcester (1180). He was Henry II's own choice as archbishop in 1184. He took the cross (1188), preaching the crusade in Wales with... Read more
Cynegils Cynegils
Cynegils (d. 643), king of the West Saxons (c.611–643). Cynegils extended his frontier by defeating the Britons at Beandun, probably Bindon, east Devon, but suffered set-backs. In 626, the failed assassination of the Northumbrian king Edwin, organized by Cynegils's son Cwichelm, was... Read more
James Rennell James Rennell
RENNELL, JAMES (b. Upcott, near Chudleigh, Devon, England, 3 December 1742; d. London, England, 29 March 1830) geography. Rennell, the son of an artillery officer, entered the Royal Navy in 1756 and served in the East Indies from 1760 to 1763. During this period he prepared charts of several... Read more
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Cecil Collins Cecil Collins
Collins, Cecil (1908–1989). British painter of visionary subjects, born in Plymouth. He studied at Plymouth School of Art, 1923–7, and at the Royal College of Art, 1927–31. In 1936 he took part in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, but he quickly repudiated... Read more
Brent Brent
Brent, either a Celtic hill-name meaning ‘high one, height’, or an OE *brente ‘steep or high place’ (an i-mutated derivative of OE brant ‘steep’): Brent, East Somerset. Brente 663, Brentemerse 1086 (DB). With OE mersc ‘marsh’ in the Domesday... Read more
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Kittery Kittery
Kittery, Maine/USA Piscataqua Plantation Settled in 1623, it was subsequently renamed after the estate of the Champernowne family, Kittery Point, in Devon, England.... Read more
Dame Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie 1890-1976, English detective story writer, b. Torquay, Devon, as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. Christie's second husband was the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan , and she gained much material for her later novels during his excavations in the Middle East. An extraordinarily... Read more
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