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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 1st March 1910 David Niven was born.
Around 1928 Margaret Whigham (age 15) underwent an abortion having become pregnant following a liason with David Niven (age 17) whilst on holiday at Bembridge, Isle of Wight.
On 16th September 1940 David Niven (age 30) and Primula Susan Rollo (age 22) were married.
On 21st May 1946 [his wife] Primula Susan Rollo (age 28) died. She fractured her skull in a fall in the Beverly Hills, California home of Tyrone Power, while playing a game of sardines. She had walked through a door believing it to be a closet, but instead, it led to a stone staircase to the basement.
In January 1948 David Niven (age 37) and Hjördis Paulina Genberg (age 28) were married.
On 29th July 1983 David Niven (age 73) died at his chalet at Château-d'Oex, District de la Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut.
On 2nd August 1983 David Niven (deceased) was buried in a private ceremony at a Church of St Peter, Château-d'Oex. Yehudi Menuhin and seven of his students played the violin. Prince Rainier of Monaco comforted the British actor's widow [his former wife] Hjördis Paulina Genberg (age 63). Niven's Scottish pastor friend Arnot Morrison conducted the funeral service. The British ambassador to Switzerland, John Powell-Jones, represented the British government at the funeral.
On 22nd October 1983 a Memorial Service was held for David Niven at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. The servie was attended by Margaret Whigham (age 70), Richard Attenborough, Michael Caine, Jon Pertwee, Anthony Quayle, Sir John Mills, Shirley Anne Field and John Mortimer.
On 24th December 1997 [his former wife] Hjördis Paulina Genberg (age 78) died at Céligny, Geneva.