The Quarterly Review, Volume 301William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1963 |
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... ISLAND - A MEMORY OF YESTERDAY WHEN Mrs Bonham Christie , the eccentric owner of Brownsea Island , died aged 96 in 1961 it was touch and go whether this natural paradise where she had lived since 1927 would be developed commercially ...
... ISLAND - A MEMORY OF YESTERDAY WHEN Mrs Bonham Christie , the eccentric owner of Brownsea Island , died aged 96 in 1961 it was touch and go whether this natural paradise where she had lived since 1927 would be developed commercially ...
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... island . In 1848 he was found in the castle library with his throat cut , an act committed in a fit of madness . But of all the owners of Brownsea the most remarkable without a doubt is Major William Petrie Waugh , a retired Indian Army ...
... island . In 1848 he was found in the castle library with his throat cut , an act committed in a fit of madness . But of all the owners of Brownsea the most remarkable without a doubt is Major William Petrie Waugh , a retired Indian Army ...
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... island was never so thickly populated again until troops were stationed there in the last war . We have now reached the threshold of our own century when the island was bought by Mr Charles Van Raalte , whose tomb we saw in the church ...
... island was never so thickly populated again until troops were stationed there in the last war . We have now reached the threshold of our own century when the island was bought by Mr Charles Van Raalte , whose tomb we saw in the church ...
Contents
The Years of Disillusion | 1 |
The British Electoral System | 11 |
Nazi Spoliation and its Reparation | 20 |
Copyright | |
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