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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 23rd November 1828 Alexandra Orr nee Leighton was born to Dr Frederic Septimus Leighton (age 29) at St Petersburg. Her father was physician to Tsar Nicholas I
1853. [her brother] Frederick Leighton (age 22). Portrait of Alexandra Orr nee Leighton (age 24), the artist's sister.
On 7th March 1857 Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr (age 41) and Alexandra Orr nee Leighton (age 28) were married at Bath, Somerset [Map]. He died fifteen months later.
On 19th June 1858 [her husband] Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr (age 42) died. The Newspapers reported On Saturday, the 19th inst., at midnight, at the residence of his brother-in-law, Greenhill, near Barnet, Herts, Major Sutherland G. G. Orr, late commanding the 3rd Regiment of Hyderabad Cavalry, aged 42. This gallant and distinguished officer succumbed, after several months of severe suffering, to the results of anxiety, fatigue, and exposure of the last Mhow and Central India Campaign.
1889. [her brother] Frederick Leighton (age 58). Portrait of Alexandra Orr nee Leighton (age 60), the artist's sister.
1892. [her brother] Frederick Leighton (age 61). Portrait of Alexandra Orr nee Leighton (age 63), the artist's sister.
On 24th January 1892 [her father] Dr Frederic Septimus Leighton (age 92) died.
On 23rd August 1903 Alexandra Orr nee Leighton (age 74) died at 11 Kensington Park Gardens.