Obituary Published in DA Transactions, 1942. Mrs. Frances Batchelder Rose-Troup, F.R.Hist.S., was the daughter of Thomas and Isabella James, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 26th September 1859, and was brought up at Cambridge, Massachusetts....
Obituary Published in DA Transactions, 2010. Sir John Quicke, CBE, DL, Hon. DSc (1922–2009) Sir John Quicke was the sixteenth generation of his family on an estate in Devon and, as well as being...
Obituary Published in DA News Spring 2018. ROBERT ‘BOB’ PATTEN Bob Patten, along with his wife Jacqueline, was a member of the DA Music Section committee. Bob’s interest in the folk music of the...
Obituary Published in DA News Autumn 2019. D. J. B. ‘JIM’ COULTER BSc. From 1993 Jim Coulter was the Chairman, and from time to time also acted as the Hon. Secretary, of the North...
Obituary Published in DA Transactions, 1943 CHARLES HEY LAYCOCK, B.A., was born in 1879, and was the only son of William Laycock, J.P., of Wolborough Hill, Newton Abbot. He was educated at Newton College,...
Cists, Caries and Crustaceans: Charles Spence Bate (President 1863) Two of the three Founding Fathers of the Devonshire Association were elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society, the mark of outstanding scientific excellence in...
Obituary Published in DA Transactions, 2012. Anne Born, who died in July 2011 soon after her 87th birthday, was a greatly valued member of the Association. She was born Anne Cookes in London on...
Obituary Published in DA Transactions, 1939. THE REV. TREASURER JOHN FREDERICK CHANTER, M.A., F.S.A., was born in 1853, at Barnstaple, in the house now occupied by the North Devon Athenaeum, being the son of...
Sir John Bowring. First President of the Devonshire Association. By Mrs. Hester Forbes Julian, F.G.S., F.R.A.I. (Read at Totnes, 21st July, 1920.) During the last decade of his strenuous life Sir John Bowring evinced...
Obituary Published in DA Transactions, 1937. EMMA LOUISA, LADY RADFORD, J.P., F.R. HIST, SOC., F.S.A., who had been a member of the Association since 1888, died suddenly at Brighton on 26 April, 1937. Her...