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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.

Biography of Edwyn Sherard Burnaby 1830-1883

Paternal Family Tree: Burnaby

Maternal Family Tree: Mary Garritt

1854 Battle of Inkerman

1855 Siege of Sevastopol

On 29th August 1829 [his father] Edwyn Burnaby (age 30) and [his mother] Anne Caroline Salisbury (age 24) were married.

On 22nd May 1830 Edwyn Sherard Burnaby was born to Edwyn Burnaby (age 31) and Anne Caroline Salisbury (age 25). He was educated at Eton College [Map].

Battle of Inkerman

On 5th November 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman ...

Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot (age 26) and Cavendish Hubert Greville (age 19) were killed.

Poulett George Henry Somerset (age 32) fought; his horse was killed under him by a shell.

William Archer Amherst 3rd Earl Amherst (age 18) was wounded.

Hedworth Jolliffe 2nd Baron Hylton (age 25) and Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 24) fought.

Captain William Kent Allix (age 31) was killed in action whilst serving with the 1st Royal Regiment.

Robert Lydston Newman 2nd Baronet (age 32) was killed in action. His brother Lydston (age 30) succeeded 3rd Baronet Newman of Stokeley and Mamhead in Devon.

Charles Francis Seymour-Conway (age 35) was killed in action.

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Siege of Sevastopol

On 23rd July 1855 Edward Fitzclarence (age 18) was killed at the Siege of Sevastopol.

Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 25) and Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 37) fought.

On 29th January 1864 Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 33) and Louisa Julia Mary Dixie (age 21) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

Around 1866 [his daughter] Hilda Burnaby was born to Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 35) and [his wife] Louisa Julia Mary Dixie (age 23).

On 18th September 1867 [his father] Edwyn Burnaby (age 68) died. Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 37) inherited Baggrave Hall.

On 9th April 1868 [his son] Algernon Edwyn Burnaby was born to Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 37) and [his wife] Louisa Julia Mary Dixie (age 25).

In 1880 Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 49) and John Manners 7th Duke Rutland (age 61) were elected MP North Leicestershire

In 1881 [his wife] Louisa Julia Mary Dixie (age 38) died.

On 3rd May 1881 [his mother] Anne Caroline Salisbury (age 76) died.

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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

On 31st May 1883 Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 53) died at Brighton. [his son] Algernon Edwyn Burnaby (age 15) inherited Baggrave Hall.

Ancestors of Edwyn Sherard Burnaby 1830-1883

Great x 2 Grandfather: Reverend Andrew Burnaby

Great x 1 Grandfather: Archdeacon Andrew Burnaby

GrandFather: Edwyn Andrew Burnaby

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Edwyn

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anna Edwyn

Father: Edwyn Burnaby

Great x 1 Grandfather: Reverend William Browne

GrandMother: Mary Browne

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Adcock

Edwyn Sherard Burnaby

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Salisbury

GrandFather: Thomas Salisbury of Marshfield House

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Lister

Mother: Anne Caroline Salisbury

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Webb of Church Stanway in Gloucestershire

Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Webb

GrandMother: Frances Webb

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Garritt