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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.
Died in a carriage accident is in Accident.
On 20th June 1632 Miles Hobart (age 37) died having been fatally injured in a carriage accident on Holborn Hill.
On 25th September 1696 Bishop Robert Grove (age 62) died in a carriage accident. He was buried in Chichester Cathedral [Map].
On 13th August 1758 Diana Egerton Baroness Baltimore (age 27) died in a carriage accident. She fell out of a Phaeton carriage while accompanied by her husband who was suspected of foul play but no charges were brought.
On 12th September 1779 Richard Grenville-Temple 2nd Earl Temple (age 67) died in a carriage accident without surviving issue. His nephew George (age 26) succeeded 3rd Earl Temple, 4th Viscount Cobham.
On 20th February 1785 Rowland Winn 5th Baronet (age 45) died in a carriage accident. His son Rowland (age 9) succeeded 6th Baronet Winn of Nostel in Yorkshire.
On 6th February 1819 Henry Crewe 7th Baronet (age 56) died in a carriage accident. He was thrown from his carriage during a journey from Marylebone, London to Barham (Boreham) House, Hertfordshire. His son George (age 24) succeeded 8th Baronet Harpur of Calke Abbey in Derbyshire.
On 7th December 1847 Mary Lennox (age 57) died in a carriage accident in Parramata, Western Sydney.
On 10th May 1849 Marianne Beckett Lady Whichcote died in a carriage accident.
On 23rd July 1875 Oscar Folsom died in a carriage accident. President Grover Cleveland (age 38), her future husband, was appointed guardian of his daughter Frances Clara Folsom (age 11) .
On 3rd August 1901 William Hicks-Beach (age 74) died in a carriage accident. The day before he was severely injured when the horse of the Hansom cab in which he was riding stumbled onto an unguarded roadworks trench while attempting to avoid a bus on Parliament Street. Beach and the driver of the cab were thrown onto the road, and Beach was taken, unconscious, to Westminster Hospital. He woke around three hours later, and was noted to have suffered several head injuries, including a concussion and several abrasions. After appearing to slowly recover, he succumbed to his injuries the following night, aged 74. An inquiry was opened into his death the following week, and a verdict of accidental death was returned.