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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.
Walter Stoneman 1876-1958 is in Photographers.
On 6th April 1876 Walter Stoneman was born.
1920. Walter Stoneman (age 43). Photograph of Ralph Beckett 3rd Baron Grimthorpe (age 28).
Ralph Beckett 3rd Baron Grimthorpe: On 3rd May 1891 he was born to Ernest William Beckett 2nd Baron Grimthorpe and Lucy Tracy Lee. His mother died from childbirth six days later. On 3rd September 1914 Ralph Beckett 3rd Baron Grimthorpe and Mary Alice Archdale Baroness Beckett were married. On 9th May 1917 Ernest William Beckett 2nd Baron Grimthorpe died at a sanatorium in Banchory, Aberdeenshire. His son Ralph succeeded 3rd Baron Grimthorpe, 7th Baronet Beckett of Leeds. Mary Alice Archdale Baroness Beckett by marriage Baroness Grimthorpe. His ashes are interred in the gardens of Villa Cimbrone, Ravello. In 1963 Ralph Beckett 3rd Baron Grimthorpe died. His son Christopher succeeded 4th Baron Grimthorpe, 8th Baronet Beckett of Leeds. Elizabeth Lumley Baroness Grimthorpe by marriage Baroness Grimthorpe.
On 14th May 1958 Walter Stoneman (age 82) died.