Frederick Fleet | Brief Biography
Frederick Fleet isn't a name that immediately conjures up images of a shipwreck. Among a gallery of early-twentieth-century'somebodies,'…
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Ernest Brown | Brief Biography
The rocky and rural stretches of Northumberland are well-known. Nonetheless, a smattering of bygone-century fortifications and bastles (fortified f…
William Burke | Brief Biography
'To kill as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few signs of violence,' says one of the dictionary's darkest and most lurid phrases, &…
Sir Walter Raleigh | Brief Biography
Walter Raleigh was born in 1552, at a time when England's young King, Edward VI, ruled over his country, oblivious to the disease that would so…