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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Anthony Devas 1911-1958 is in Painters.
On 8th January 1911 Anthony Devas was born.
1936. Anthony Devas (age 24). Portrait of Daphne Margarita Finch-Hatton (age 23).
Daphne Margarita Finch-Hatton: In 1913 she was born to Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton 9th Earl Nottingham 14th Earl Winchilsea. In 2003 Daphne Margarita Finch-Hatton died.
1954. Anthony Devas (age 42). Portrait of Ruth Sylvia Gill Baroness Fermoy (age 45).
Ruth Sylvia Gill Baroness Fermoy: On 2nd October 1908 she was born. On 17th September 1931 Maurice Roche 4th Baron Fermoy and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Fermoy. The difference in their ages was 23 years. On 6th July 1993 she died.
On 21st December 1958 Anthony Devas (age 47) died.