Bradford People: Canon Jones
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The Rev William Henry Rich Jones MA, FSA (1817-1885) was the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church from 1851 until his death and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. He was an antiquarian and historian, who is chiefly remembered as the man who recognised the Saxon Church in Bradford for what it is, in 1856. He wrote what is more-or-less the...
Read MoreOld Pictures: Fitzmaurice Grammar School
Originally founded as the County Technical School with funds from the County Council and local donors, notably Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, the school was built in Junction Road in Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Year 1897. The architects were Silcock & Reay of Bath; Thomas Ball Silcock jr (1854-1924) was born in Bradford. The illustration shows the neo-baroque design and plans...
Read MoreTwin Town: Norden
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Norden is a town on the North Sea coast of Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen, Germany, on low land near the Dutch border. Its port was once important in foreign trading and still supports a fishing fleet and ferries to the Frisian islands. It had a population of 25,019 at the end of 2011.
Norden and Bradford became twinned in 1969...
Read MoreTwin Town: Sully-sur-Loire
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The small town of Sully-sur-Loire in the Départment of Loiret lies a little upstream on the river Loire from the city of Orléans. It is dominated by its enormous moated château, the seat of the Dukes of Sully. It was originally built to defend a place where it was possible to ford the Loire at low water, but bridged since the 10th...
Read MoreOld Photographs: Angling
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The Avon & Tributaries Angling Association dated back to 1876. Bradford on Avon & District Angling Association was formed in 1919 as an offshoot of the Spencer Moulton Sports Club, although an earlier club had existed in 1914. The Association has now been wound up and many of its trophies were donated to Bradford on Avon...
Read MoreOld Photographs: Rowing and Sailing
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Bradford on Avon Rowing Club began in 1873 and built a boathouse next to Barton Bridge. Its canoeing arm has recently gained fame after member Ed McKeever gained a gold medal in the 200m kayak event at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Bradford Rowing Club...
Read MoreBradford People: Clarence Goff
Thomas Clarence Edward Goff (1867-1949) was the great-grandson of King William IV. He served in the army, becoming Captain in the 4th Battalion, Royal Scots Regiment. He was a London County Councillor, Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, with his seat at Carrowroe Park, Co. Roscommon in Ireland. He married Lady Cecilie Heathcote Drummond Willoughby...
Read MoreBradford People: Sportsmen
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William David Charles (Will) Carling, OBE was born in Bradford’s Maternity Hospital on 12 December 1965. He played Rugby union for Harlequins and was the Captain of England from 1988 to 1996, the youngest ever at 22, winning 72 caps.
Philip Ranulph (Phil) de Glanville, the rugby union player,...
Read MoreBradford People: Admiral Tothill
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Admiral Sir Hugh Henry Darby Tothill KCB, KCMG, KCVO (1865-1927). He was born in Clifton, Bristol, son of Francis Tothill, barrister. His grandfather was William Tothill, Bristol industrialist who married Hannah, daughter of Abraham Darby III of Coalbrookdale -hence the Darby in his name. He became a Lieutenant in...
Read MoreBradford People: Dr John Beddoe
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John Beddoe (1826-1911) was a physician and anthropologist. He was born in Bewdley, Worcestershire, became a Doctor of Medicine in 1853 and served as a surgeon in the Crimean War and then travelled widely in Asia Minor and Europe before settling into a practice in Clifton, Bristol in 1857. He was Physician to the Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1862...
Read MoreBradford People: William Taunton
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William Leonard Thomas Pyle Taunton (1780-1850) was the son of Rev Dr Robert Taunton (c1742-1797) and Frances (c1752-1819), daughter and co-heiress of Leonard Cropp of Hampshire. Rev Taunton purchased the Great Cumberwell estate in 1787 and was a signatory to a petition of Bradford residents in 1789. There is a memorial in Holy...
Read MoreBradford People: Septimus Henry Palairet
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Septimus Palairet (1807-1854) was an army Captain in the 29th Regiment, who retired and moved to Woolley House (now called Woolley Grange Hotel) in Bradford in 1846. Septimus was instrumental in getting his friend Stephen Moulton to set up his new rubber company in Bradford in 1848, putting money into the venture himself. The present appearance...
Read MoreBradford People: William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse
. William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse(1826-1892) was an Anglo-Irish-French poet who wrote in provençal and was one of those who campaigned to maintain it as a literary language. He was a grandson of Napoleon’s brother Lucien. He lived at Woolley Hill House in Bradford during the 1860s, returning to his native Ireland in 1872. While he was in...
Read MoreBradford People: Sir John Cam Hobhouse
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Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786-1869) was the son of banker Sir Benjamin Hobhouse and Charlotte, daughter of Samuel Cam of The Chantry, Church Street in Bradford. As a young man he became a friend of Lord Byron and together they travelled in Greece, Albania and the Balkans. His radical writings earned him a spell in Newgate Prison...
Read MoreBradford People: John Hodder Moggridge
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John Hodder Moggridge (1771-1834) was born in Bradford, son of clothier John Moggridge, whose father Michael had come from Topsham, Devon. The Moggridges were in partnership with other clothiers, including the Yerburys and John Hodder’s mother Ann was from that family. They were also, like the Yerburys, involved in the...
Read MoreBradford People: Rev Richard Warner
. Rev Richard Warner BA, FLS (1763-1857) was Rector of Great Chalfield from 1809 until his death. He was an antiquarian who wrote many books on topography and history, including Hampshire Extracted from Domesday, History of the Isle of Wight, History of Bath, and History of the Abbey of Glastonbury. He had an interest in...
Read MoreBradford Hundred People: Rev Edward Spencer
Rev Edward Spencer had been the Rector of St Mary’s, Wingfield for 43 years when he died on 9th February 1819 in his 80th year. He was succeeded as Rector by his son Thomas, who died in 1842 at 68. Besides his duties at the church Edward ran a small boarding school in the big Rectory house next to the church. Among his pupils were the playwright and actor Daniel Terry (c1780-1829)...
Read MoreBradford People: Lord Westbury
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Sir Richard Luttrell Pilkington Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873) was born in what is now called Westbury House in St Margaret’s Street, the son of Dr Richard Bethell. He became a lawyer, was made Queen’s Council in 1840 and Solicitor-General in 1852, when he was also knighted. He was MP for Aylesbury from 1851 to 1859 and for Wolverhampton in 1859 and...
Read MoreBradford People: General Shrapnel
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Lieutenant-General Henry Shrapnel (1761- 1842) was a soldier whose name has passed into the English language as the word for pieces of metal thrown out by an explosion. He was born in Bradford as a member of a family of clothiers, many of whom have memorials in the parish church. As an officer in the Royal Artillery in 1784 he...
Read MoreBradford People: Lord Fitzmaurice
Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice (1846-1935) was a son of the 4th Marquis of Lansdowne and a Liberal politician, an MP from 1868-1885 and 1898-1906. He retired to Leigh House in Bradford and is remembered for his involvement in many local organisations, especially for the school which became named Fitzmaurice Grammar School in his memory (the name...
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