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John Francis Bloxam (also known as Jack Bloxam [1]) (1873–1928) was an English Uranian author and churchman. Bloxam was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford when his story, "The Priest and the Acolyte", appeared in the sole issue of The Chameleon: a Bazaar of Dangerous and Smiling Chances, a periodical which he also served as editor. [2]
Richard Montague Stephens Eyre (16 May 1929 – 12 December 2012 [1]) was an Anglican priest. He was the Dean of Exeter from 1981 to 1995. [2] Eyre was educated at Charterhouse School and Oriel College, Oxford. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1957 [3] and began his ministry as a curate at St Mark's Portsea, Portsmouth.
The Prayer Book Rebellion or Western Rising [1] was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon in 1549. In that year, the first Book of Common Prayer, presenting the theology of the English Reformation, was introduced.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Edward Young was Dean of Exeter between 1662 and 1663. [1] He was the father ...
The modern sculpture 'The Riddle' on Exeter High Street by Michael Fairfax, which is inscribed with texts of Old English riddles and evokes how they reflect the material world. The Exeter Book riddles are a fragmentary collection of verse riddles in Old English found in the later tenth-century anthology of Old English poetry known as the Exeter ...
He was the son of Alured Clarke, of Godmanchester in Huntingdonshire, who died on 28 October 1744, aged 86, by his second wife, Ann, fourth daughter of the Rev. Charles Trimnell, rector of Ripton-Abbotts, in the same county, who died on 26 May 1755, aged 88.
Walter Stapledon (died 15 October 1326) was an English cleric and administrator who was Bishop of Exeter from 1308 and twice served as Lord High Treasurer of England, in 1320 and from 1322 to 1325. He founded what became Exeter College, Oxford and contributed liberally to the rebuilding of Exeter Cathedral , where his tomb and monument survive.
Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter, on 28 January 1834. [3] He was the eldest son and heir of Edward Baring-Gould (1804–1872), lord of the manor of Lew Trenchard, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, formerly a lieutenant in the Madras Light Cavalry (resigned 1830), by his first wife, Sophia Charlotte Bond, daughter of Admiral Francis Godolphin ...