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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 18th August 1848 Captain Richard Kirby Ridgeway was born at Oldcastle, County Meath.
On 8th January 1868 Captain Richard Kirby Ridgeway (age 19) was commissioned into the British Army.
On 14th February 1870 Captain Richard Kirby Ridgeway (age 21) was promoted to Lieutenant.
On 29th April 1895 Captain Richard Kirby Ridgeway (age 46) was appointed assistant adjutant-general of the Peshawar district, part of the Punjab Command.
On 8th January 1898 Captain Richard Kirby Ridgeway (age 49) was promoted to Colonel.
On 11th October 1924 Captain Richard Kirby Ridgeway (age 76) died at Harrogate, North Yorkshire.