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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.
In 1851 [his father] James Lorimer (age 32) and [his mother] Hannah Stodart (age 16) were married.
On August 1856 John Henry Lorimer was born to James Lorimer (age 37) and Hannah Stodart (age 21).
1878. John Henry Lorimer (age 21). Portrait of the artists father [his father] James Lorimer (age 59).
James Lorimer: On 4th November 1818 he was born. In 1851 he and Hannah Stodart were married. On 13th February 1890 he died.
On 13th February 1890 [his father] James Lorimer (age 71) died.
1906. John Henry Lorimer (age 49). "The Flight of the Swallows".
In 1916 [his mother] Hannah Stodart (age 81) died.
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.
Before 1929 John Henry Lorimer (age 72) in the style of John Everett Millais 1st Baronet. Portrait of Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl Rosebery 1st Earl Midlothian (age 81).
On 4th November 1936 John Henry Lorimer (age 80) died.