Lost in the Apennines

You probably thought John Verney did the dust jacket for his book. I wondered and he didn’t.

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A Man of Many Parts

One of the four physicians hoping to carve up Anne Greene was Ralph Bathurst, a man of many parts.

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News from the Dead

In 1650, at Oxford Castle, Anne Greene was hanged for infanticide.

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Sir John Verney, Bt.

Yesterday’s post gives, I hope, a tantalising glimpse of a Renaissance man: Sir John Verney, Bt. His obituary, in The Times 5th February 1993, fills out the picture.

On Parade

If conversation falters you might ask “when was the first Birthday Parade”?

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