Famous Devon Figures Volume III gathers 60 short biographies of people connected with Devon, from Jane Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Arthur Conan Doyle to Marilyn Monroe, Ted Hughes and Wilfred Owen. Compiled by Ian L. Handford, President of Torbay Civic Society, this is the third and final book in the Famous Devon Figures series.
The biographies run in alphabetical order, from politician and philanthropist Thomas Dyke Acland to writer Constance Wilde, wife of Oscar Wilde. Writers, explorers, entertainers, clergymen and campaigners all appear, among them Colonel Percy Fawcett, Max Bygraves, Billy Dainty, Jeremy Thorpe, Sir Peter Scott and J M W Turner.
Each biography draws on archive material and, where possible, new information from family members or friends of the person featured. This volume includes a piece on Marilyn Monroe, published after decades spent trying to establish proof of her visit to Torbay.
Twelve Torbay Civic Society blue plaques connected with people in this volume are pictured with their addresses, among them George Bridgman, Charles Kingsley, Reverend Henry Lyte and Wilfred Owen.
This volume is dedicated to Sheila A Hardaway, founder, first Chairman and first President of Torbay Civic Society, and is supported by her estate.
The biographies began as a weekly column in the Herald Express, first running for five years from 2002 while the author was newly elected Chairman of Torbay Civic Society. Around 200 stories were researched in total, enough for four books; the first 52 were published as Volume One in 2007, a further 60 as Volume Two in 2020, and this volume completes the series with a further 60. The author describes this as his last book in the series.
60 short biographies in alphabetical order, illustrated with photographs
Twelve Torbay Civic Society blue plaques pictured with their addresses
A dedication to Sheila A Hardaway
A short history of Torbay Civic Society
A list of other Torbay Civic Society publications
Compiled by Ian L. Handford
Published by Devon Magazine Company Ltd, 2025
ISBN 978-1-83654-590-3
132 pages, A4 (210 x 297mm)
Famous Devon Figures Volume III gathers 60 short biographies of people connected with Devon, from Jane Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Arthur Conan Doyle to Marilyn Monroe, Ted Hughes and Wilfred Owen. Compiled by Ian L. Handford, President of Torbay Civic Society, this is the third and final book in the Famous Devon Figures series.
The biographies run in alphabetical order, from politician and philanthropist Thomas Dyke Acland to writer Constance Wilde, wife of Oscar Wilde. Writers, explorers, entertainers, clergymen and campaigners all appear, among them Colonel Percy Fawcett, Max Bygraves, Billy Dainty, Jeremy Thorpe, Sir Peter Scott and J M W Turner.
Each biography draws on archive material and, where possible, new information from family members or friends of the person featured. This volume includes a piece on Marilyn Monroe, published after decades spent trying to establish proof of her visit to Torbay.
Twelve Torbay Civic Society blue plaques connected with people in this volume are pictured with their addresses, among them George Bridgman, Charles Kingsley, Reverend Henry Lyte and Wilfred Owen.
This volume is dedicated to Sheila A Hardaway, founder, first Chairman and first President of Torbay Civic Society, and is supported by her estate.
The biographies began as a weekly column in the Herald Express, first running for five years from 2002 while the author was newly elected Chairman of Torbay Civic Society. Around 200 stories were researched in total, enough for four books; the first 52 were published as Volume One in 2007, a further 60 as Volume Two in 2020, and this volume completes the series with a further 60. The author describes this as his last book in the series.
60 short biographies in alphabetical order, illustrated with photographs
Twelve Torbay Civic Society blue plaques pictured with their addresses
A dedication to Sheila A Hardaway
A short history of Torbay Civic Society
A list of other Torbay Civic Society publications
Compiled by Ian L. Handford
Published by Devon Magazine Company Ltd, 2025
ISBN 978-1-83654-590-3
132 pages, A4 (210 x 297mm)
