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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.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham, Northumberland Region, North-East England, British Isles [Map]

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham is in Whittingham, Northumberland [Map], Churches in Northumberland.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map].

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Window in memory of Robert Collingwood of Eslington [Map], died 1556.

Robert Collingwood: In 1529 Robert Collingwood was elected MP Northumberland. By February 1537 Robert Collingwood was advising Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk about lawless elements in Redesdale and Tynedale and later he was involved in the attempt to bridle them. He and John Horsley corresponded with Cromwell on border matters and Norfolk, who twice stayed at his house at Eslington [Map], told Cromwell in July 1537 that he trusted Collingwood above all others in that region. In April 1553 Robert Collingwood paid £766 for a grant to himself and his brother Alexander of ex-monastic property in Northumberland. He had laid the basis of his estates in the county in 1542 when he bought Eslington [Map] from Bertram Haselrigge. After 12th June 1556, the date he made his will, he died. He divided his property into three equal parts, leaving a third of it to his wife, a third to his executors to pay debts and legacies, and the remaining third to his grandson and heir Cuthbert.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Grave slab of Charles Ogilby, died 7th September 1777 aged 32.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Memorial to James Hargrave, died 31st October 1777.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Hatchment of Henry Liddell 1st Baron Ravensworth.

Henry Liddell 1st Baron Ravensworth: In 1708 he was born to Thomas Liddell and Jane Clavering. On 1st September 1723 Henry Liddell 3rd Baronet died. His grandson Henry succeeded 4th Baronet Liddell of Ravensworth Castle. On 29th June 1747 Henry Liddell 1st Baron Ravensworth was created 1st Baron Ravensworth. On 30th January 1784 Henry Liddell 1st Baron Ravensworth died without male issue. Baron Ravensworth extinct. His nephew Henry succeeded 5th Baronet Liddell of Ravensworth Castle.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Memorial to Alexander Collingwood of Collingwood House, Morpeth [Map], died 26th September 1795.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Memorial to the children of H T Lidell who died young.

Memorial to Edmund Law, died 2nd June 1835, thirty years vicar of St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map], and his wife Elizabeth who were the paretns of fifteen children of whom twelve survived to adulthood.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Hatchment of Adam Atkinson, died 1844. "In cœlo quies" i.e. "Rest in heaven".

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Memorials to William Pawson, died 5th January 1854, and is wife Mary Anne, died 1st May 1858, and their daughter Mary Ann,

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Memorial to Reginald Cyril Goodenough, killed in action 8th September 1855 at Sebastapol by Craigs of Newcastle.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Memorial to various members of the Atkinson family including Lieutenant Charles John Arkinson killed in action at the Battle of Isandlwhana 22nd January 1879.

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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.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. East Window, 1880.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Memorial to Osboorne hall Goodenough, died 1882.

1920. Window in memory of the 'Men of the Ancient Parish of Whittingham [Map] who died in the Great War'.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Window dedicated by his wife Zillah Wylam in memory of her husband Charles John Wylam, died 1906 and their son Charles Edward Wylam, died 1928.

On 15th June 1932 Gerald Wellesley Liddell 6th Baron Ravensworth (age 63) died. He was buried at St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. His son Robert (age 30) succeeded 7th Baron Ravensworth of Ravensworth Castle in County Durham, 12th Baronet Liddell of Ravensworth Castle.

Gerald Wellesley Liddell 6th Baron Ravensworth: On 21st March 1869 he was born to Arthur Thomas Liddell 5th Baron Ravensworth and Sophia Harriett Waller Baroness Ravensworth. On 11th October 1899 Gerald Wellesley Liddell 6th Baron Ravensworth and Isolda Blanche Prideaux-Brune Baroness Ravensworth were married.

Robert Arthur Liddell 7th Baron Ravensworth: On 2nd June 1902 he was born to Gerald Wellesley Liddell 6th Baron Ravensworth and Isolda Blanche Prideaux-Brune Baroness Ravensworth. On 4th August 1950 Robert Arthur Liddell 7th Baron Ravensworth died. His first cousin Arthur succeeded 8th Baron Ravensworth of Ravensworth Castle in County Durham, 13th Baronet Liddell of Ravensworth Castle.

21st March 1949. Memorial at St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map] to Captain John Eustace Smith who died steeplechasing riding Dancing Sun in a chase at Catterick on March 19, 1949. A farmer, he came from a Northumberland farming family. He was invalided from the Northumberland Hussars early in the war. He left a wife and a daughter. Possibly the John Eustace-Smith who rode in the 1947 and 1948 Grand Nationals on Ulster Monarch and Brighter Sandy respectively.

A notice from the Berwick Advertiser, Thursday 31st March 1949:

MEMORIAL SERVICE

A memorial service for Captain John Eustace Smith, the well-known amateur jockey, who died after an injury at Catterick races, was held at St. Bartholomews Church, Whittingham. The Rev. P. G. Forman, Archdeacon of Lindisfame, assisted by the Rev. G. Henderson, Vicar of Whittingham, conducted the service. Included among the mourners were. The Duke of Northumberland (age 34); Capt. R. Carr Ellison; Major A. S. C. Brown; Mrs J. G. G. Rea; Lord Joicey, Colonel R. Taylor, Major and Mrs A. C. Straker. Colonel J. W. Sale and Mr E. F. Collingwood.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Memorial to John Francis Houston-Boswall died 20th November 1963.

St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. Monuments to Alexander Simon Cadogan Browne, died 26th May 1987, and his wife Dorothy Mary Howard, died 8th August 1979, both of [Map], and Edith Mary Cookson, wife of Alexander Browne of [Map].

All About History Books

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 28th March 2004 Arthur Waller Liddell 8th Baron Ravensworth (age 79) died. Memorial at St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map]. His son Thomas (age 49) succeeded 9th Baron Ravensworth of Ravensworth Castle in County Durham, 14th Baronet Liddell of Ravensworth Castle.

Arthur Waller Liddell 8th Baron Ravensworth: On 25th July 1924 he was born to Cyril Arthur Liddell.

Thomas Arthur Hamish Liddell 9th Baron Ravensworth: On 27th October 1954 he was born to Arthur Waller Liddell 8th Baron Ravensworth.

2016. Incumbents of St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map].