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He married Ruth Woodeson, the writer, in 1958, and they had a son and a daughter, later separating in 1972 and divorcing two years later. [2] In 1962, he published his first memoir West Briton (a pejorative reference to the Anglo-Irish upper classes in Ireland, from whose cultural influence Inglis never entirely escaped).
The West Briton is a local weekly newspaper published every Thursday. It serves various areas of Cornwall in the United Kingdom: there are four separate editions – Truro and mid-Cornwall; Falmouth and Penryn ; Redruth , Camborne and Hayle ; and Helston and The Lizard .
According to a death notice in The West Briton 19 August 1831: [1] "At Penzance on Thursday the 11th instant, Mr Dunking, [died] aged 70 years. – This most respectable man was a member of the Society of Friends; he was originally a saddler, which business he long carried on; but he was also an excellent mathematical instrument maker, and was well known to men of science by some valuable ...
West Briton may refer to: West Brit , a pejorative term for an Irish person alleged to be excessively sympathetic to or imitative of the British The West Briton , a local newspaper published in Truro, Cornwall, England
Gaelic League poster from 1913 contrasting a proud, independent Éire with a craven, dependent West Britain. West Brit, an abbreviation of West Briton, is a derogatory term for an Irish person who is perceived as Anglophilic in matters of culture or politics. [1] [2] West Britain is a description of Ireland emphasising it as subject to British ...
Nicholson married Geoffrey Nicholson in 1952. They met while studying at Swansea, and remained married until his death in 1999. Together, they had three sons. [3] [5] Nicholson was a staunch supporter of the Labour Party. [5] Nicholson died on 8 September 2022, at the age of 91. [3] [5] [25]
Alice Hext (2 March 1865 [1] – 14 September 1939 [2]) was a Cornish philanthropist, garden developer and magistrate.She was the owner of the Trebah Estate and leisure garden, near Falmouth in Cornwall from 1907 to her death in 1939, [3] and generously supported the development of sports and social activities in the parishes of Constantine and Mawnan.
John Alfred Tinniswood (26 August 1912 – 25 November 2024) was a British supercentenarian who was the world's oldest verified living man from the death of 112-year-old Shi Ping of China on 29 June 2024 until his own death on 25 November 2024, at the age of 112 years and 91 days.