Catalogue description BISHOPS STORTFORD

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Reference: D/EGr/18
Title: BISHOPS STORTFORD
Description:

Church St Michaels, Bishops Stortford

 

Chantry of St Michaels Church, Bishops Stortford

 

Castle Bishops Stortford

 

General Accounts of the Parish of Bishops Stortford

 

Schools Bishops Stortford School

 

Grammar School alias High School, Bishops Stortford

 

Proprietary School, Bishops Stortford

 

Antiquities The Prehistoric Horse

 

Charity Two Almshouses in Peters Street, plus various other charities

 

Folk Lore

 

Apparition at Windhill House, and at the Old Palace, Bishops Stortford

 

"Sympathetic Magic" at Bishops Stortford

 

Movement in Inanimate Objects

 

Cherry Feast

 

Sale Particulars

 

The Chantry, Bishops Stortford

 

Hockerill Park, Bishops Stortford

 

The Grange, Bishops Stortford

 

Biographies

 

Robert Adison alias Lustyblood of Hertford. Charity for the marriage of Poor Maids

 

Edmund Aylee of Bishops Stortford, glazier, charged with being captain of the unruly soldiers who pulled down the altar-rails

 

George Waller Sworder of the well known firm of G E Sworder & Sons, auctioneers of Bishops Stortford

 

Richard Alliott son of Rev. William Alliott, Headmaster of the Nonconformist Grammar School, Bishops Stortford

 

Elizabeth Aynsworth of Bishops Stortford, Landlady mentioned in Pepys Diary

 

Francis Barber faithful negro servant of Dr Johnson, was placed in school in Bishops Stortford

 

Rev Francis Burlye sometime Vicar of Bishops Stortford, was one of the translators of the Authorised Version of the Bible

 

Mathew Bush of Bishops Stortford, Tanner. A copy of his will 1695

 

Rev William Chapman born in Bishops Stortford

 

Benjamin Granger Collis Draper of Bishops Stortford 1852

 

J W Defoe a descendant of Daniel Defoe writer of "Robinson Crusoe" lived at Bishops Stortford

 

Rev Thomas Leigh headmaster of the Grammar School, Bishops Stortford, 17th C.

 

John Denley Martyr who was burned on Goose Mead Green, opposite the Prison, Bishops Stortford, also notes on other Martyrs

 

Sir Edward Denny & Lady Mary Denny

 

Sir Edward, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I, Governor of Kerry and Desmond, Commander under Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, had lands in Hertfordshire, and a house in Cheshunt, also property in Bishops Stortford

 

The Denny Family of Bishops Stortford

 

Thomas Baron Dimsdale Surgeon at Hertford. M.P. for Hertford. Vaccination for Small Pox

 

Samuel Ely of Bishops Stortford a great critic in Greek and Hebrew

 

Robert Ferguson Highwayman "Galloping Dick" rented a messuage in North Street and a Barn in Hockerill St., Bishops Stortford

 

John Gybbe of Bishops Stortford a copy of his will dated May 7th 1588

 

Sir Walter Gilbey born in Bishops Stortford, revived the National Industry of Horse Breeding. Horse Shows took place at Bishops Stortford. Also a Wine & Spirit Merchant amongst other things

 

Sally Harris a friend of Lord Lytton, a poem entitled The Rape of Pomona

 

William Hazeland Master of the Grammar School, Bishops Stortford, 17th C.

 

Sir George Floyd Duckett an Author of a "Technological Military Dictionary" in German, French and English, he also worked on County Histories

 

Sir George Duckett, formerly Sir George Jackson. Judge advocate of the Fleet; Secretary of the Admiralty and M.P. for Weymouth, Melcombe Regis and Colchester. Port Jackson in New Zealand and New South Wales were named after him. In 1769 he made the Stort River navigable to Bishops Stortford

 

Nathaniel Jennings born at Bishops Stortford 1816. Pastor of Little Hadham, he then turned his attention to teaching, he started a private school in Regents Park this ran for more than twenty years

 

Mary Susanna Lee a writer of stories, lived in Bishops Stortford

 

Thomas Leigh Vicar of Bishops Stortford also Headmaster of the Grammar School, Bishops Stortford for 47 years

 

John Morse Mullinger printer of books also a Bookseller and Antiquary, he reprinted Sir Henry Chauncy's "Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire" in two volumes in 1826/7

 

Thomas Pounde A Lay Jesuit imprisoned in Bishops Stortford Castle in the reign of Elizabeth the 1st

 

Cecil John Rhodes Born in Bishops Stortford 1853 son of Francis William Rhodes Vicar of Bishops Stortford; went to Bishops Stortford Grammar School in 1861. Rhodes diamond mined in Africa making a fortune. In 1881 Rhodes entered public life in South Africa. The territory to the north of the Transvaal etc. was named Rhodesia after the projector. In 1890 Rhodes became Prime Minister of the Cape.

 

(The Dictionary of National Biography 1901-1911 tells of his life)

 

James Watson Roberts a doctor from Bishops Stortford

 

Charles Lhuile Tyler born in Bishops Stortford in the year 1800. Landscape painter, and illustrator of books

 

Thomas Theodore Waterman Born in Bishops Stortford 1825 Well known merchant of Bristol, became a minister in 1854 in Maidstone

 

Miscellaneous Biographies Isabella Cooper

 

Miss Eleanor Dobede Bird, daughter of the late William Bird, one of the founders of the Bishops Stortford Brewery Messrs Hawkes & Co.

 

BOVINGDON

 

General Accounts of the Parish of Bovingdon

 

Bovingdon Church

 

Biographies Rev. Alfred Clegg pastor of the Congregational Church

 

Lists of Ministers of Box Lane Chapel and history of the chapel

 

Rev Dr Edmund Staunton nonconformist preacher buried at Bovingdon 1671

 

Folk Lore Beauty and a Sailor. A Legend of Hertfordshire and West Kent

 

Apparition at Bovingdon; a ghost

 

Prints Line drawing of Shantock Farm House, Bovingdon

 

Drawing of the Pump Shed, Bovingdon

 

Line drawing of Shantock Hall, Bovingdon

 

Postcard of Bovingdon Church

 

Brass Rubbings

Date: undated
Held by: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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