Vicar of Tavistock and curate of Brent Tor from 1812 to 1857, husband of Anna Eliza Bray. His Dartmoor journals appear in her 1836 Tamar and Tavy book.
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Exeter bookseller and publisher (1856-1914) of 230 High Street, Mayor of Exeter in 1908, who published Devon Notes and Queries, the 1896 Perambulation of Dartmoor and Eva C. Rogers's The Magic Mist.
Pen name of Ernest George Henham (1870-1948), whose Dartmoor trilogy - Furze the Cruel, Heather and Granite - are early 20th-century novels of moorland life peopled by "strange and often grotesque characters."
Leeds-born landscape painter (1830-1888) whose 1854 picture The Moorland shows the Dewerstone above the River Plym. It is now in the Tate, and Ruskin praised a picture of that title at the 1855 Royal Academy.
Plymouth solicitor and antiquary (1837-1908), nephew of Samuel Rowe, who edited the 1896 edition of the Perambulation of Dartmoor and served the Devonshire Association as president and joint secretary.
Tavistock poet and domestic servant (1804-1853) whose verse was discovered and published with the help of her employer, the author Anna Eliza Bray.
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“The wind was blowing the rain in our faces, but we stepped out endeavouring to treat it as a light matter, though it certainly required some amount of self deception to do it, for we were having a taste of real Dartmoor weather.”
Also on Our DartmoorTwo hut circles near Roos Tor — Two stone hut circles, 4.1 m and 6.2 m across inside, terraced into a slope beside the Great Western Reave.
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