Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Edwin Fisher, 63, British financier, High Sheriff of Sussex, chairman (from 1936) of Barclays Bank Ltd., one of the world's largest and farthest-flung; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after being stricken at Buckingham Palace during an audience with Queen Elizabeth; in London...
Child of England. Field Place, the Sussex manor house where Shelley was born and grew up, "has a mighty roof of Horsham stone, and a line of chimneys like towers." It also has a park, a brook and a lake satisfactory to a fanciful child. Shelley's father, the squire, was a progressive gentleman farmer and brought up his eldest son to know something about pig-raising and Swedish turnips. If Percy seemed literary in boyhood, his literariness was long confined to a large appetite for sixpenny thrillers about vampires, specters and enchantments-a set of motifs he never...
Died. Lady Brown (Lilian Alice Roussel), 63, explorer, author (Unknown Tribes; Uncharted Seas), whose expeditions in Central America discovered the Chucunaque Indian tribe in Panama and excavated the lost Mayan city of Lubaantun in British Honduras; after long illness; in Rye, Sussex, England...
...canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
Traditionalists among them had little need to mourn. The observatory's new home will be older than its old one: Hurstmonceux (pronounced herst-mon-syoo) Castle in Sussex, built in 1446. From its grounds new and old telescopes will observe the smokeless...