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The Guernsey Evening Press was first published in 1897. [2] In 1951 it purchased the struggling Guernsey Star (first published in 1813), renaming itself Guernsey Evening Press and Star. [3] The paper was published by The Guernsey Press Company until 1999 when the company merged with Guiton, publishers of the Jersey Evening Post.
Mary Ann Shaffer (née Fiery; December 13, 1934 – February 16, 2008) [1] was an American writer, editor, librarian, and a bookshop worker.She is noted for her posthumously published work The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, [2] [3] which she wrote with her niece, Annie Barrows.
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In the 1890s Candie Cemetery was still referred to as the “New Cemetery”. [2] There are five war graves in Candie Cemetery; all five soldiers died after the end of WWI. [3] [4] In 2021 a remembrance garden was created in Candie Cemetery. [5] Priaulx Library holds copies of the burial records from Candie Cemetery for the period 1831 to 1986. [6]
Marie de Garis MBE (née Le Messurier; 15 June 1910 – 10 August 2010) was a Guernsey author and lexicographer who wrote the Dictiounnaire Angllais-Guernésiais (English-Guernésiais dictionary), the first edition of which was published in 1967. This new work largely superseded George Métivier's Dictionnaire Franco-Normand. [citation needed]
Charles Maitland Yorke Trotter was born on 8 February 1923 in Edinburgh, Scotland. [1] He was the son of James Maitland Yorke Trotter (2 March 1888 – c. 1960) [3] who generally went by his middle name, Maitland, and Margaret Dippie Trotter (née Duncan; died 30 October 1962). [4]
Le Patourel was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands on 20 June 1916. His father, Herbert Augustus Le Patourel, was procureur (Attorney General) of Guernsey from 1929 to 1934. [1] He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and represented the school at shooting and hockey. On leaving school he worked as a bank clerk from 1934 to 1937. [2]
Gary Burgess (13 November 1975 – 1 January 2022) was a British broadcaster and journalist, latterly in the Channel Islands where his freelance work on regional television, local radio and a newspaper led him to become known as a community champion who shared openly about his experiences of cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome.