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...English Anglican, although born at Kelso, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and ordained to the ministry of the Church of England in 1815. He held the curacy of Lower Brixham, Devon, from 1823 until his death in the autumn...
...There was a good precedent for mercy. In British annal's there was the case of a man the hangman could not hang. He was John Lee, a Devon murderer. On Feb. 23, 1885, he was thrice led, bound and black-hooded, to the gallows. In 30 minutes of trying, the hangman thrice released the trap and thrice it failed to open (rain had caused the wood to swell). Lee's death sentence was commuted to life in prison...
...staff members, delegates and their wives at Manhattan's City Center. It had been danced some 2,500 times here & abroad. After World War II came, Jooss (pronounced yose) and his dancers returned to Dartington Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst's fabulous cultural hothouse in Devon, England, later performed regularly for Britons and Allied troops. The 26-man Jooss Ballet is now touring the U.S. for the first time since...
Dislocated. In Clay County, Mo., a bewildered resident consulted two county maps, found his street listed as North Terrace, Fortieth Ave., Devon Road, Thirty-Sixth St., Piburn Road, Fifth St., called for help...
Negley Parson, onetime foreign correspondent, exhibitionist autobiographer (The Way of a Transgressor), took time out from novel writing for a small transgression in North Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...