Catalogue description Copies of a report from the Devizes Gazette about a duel between Phipps and Starkey,...
This record is held by Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
Reference: | 540/264 |
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Description: |
Copies of a report from the Devizes Gazette about a duel between Phipps and Starkey, which arose from a quarrel over poaching by one of Phipps's labourers, and of a letter from Captain Hardman to Thomas Henry Hele Phipps describing the affair. Also a letter from Hardman to John Benett M.P. of Pythouse, giving a further account. It is not clear which Phipps was involved except that he was a brother of T.H.H. Phipps. Hardman was Phipps's second. |
Date: | 1825 |
Held by: | Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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