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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.
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In 1784 Thomas Banks (age 48) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1792 Thomas Stothard (age 36) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1798 Martin Archer Shee (age 28) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1805 Richard Westmacott (age 29) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1812 Alfred Edward Chalon (age 31) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1816 Francis Leggatt Chantrey (age 34) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
On 4th November 1833 John Gibson (age 43) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy despite not meeting the criterion of being resident in Britain.
In 1838 Richard "The Younger" Westmacott (age 39) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy at which time he was living at 21 Wilton Place, Belgravia.
In 1844 William Calder Marshall (age 30) was appointed Associate of the Royal Academy. He participated in an exhibition held at Westminster Hall to select artists to decorate the rebuilt Palace of Westminster. It proved to be the turning point of his career, leading to many commissions for public monuments not only for the new Houses of Parliament - for which he made statues of the Lord Chancellors Clarendon and Somers, and of Chaucer.
In 1868 William Quiller Orchardson (age 35) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
On 16th January 1875 Henry Hugh Armstead (age 46) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1891 Frank Bernard Dicksee (age 37) was appointed Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1895 John William Waterhouse (age 45) was appointed Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1899 Alfred East (age 54) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1907 Frank Cowper (age 57) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1909 Adrian Scott Stokes (age 54) was elected Associate of the Royal Academy.
In 1924 Ambrose McEvoy (age 46) was appointed Associate of the Royal Academy.