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Ferdinand Brock Tupper The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock

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The Guernsey family of BROCK is probably of English origin, but we have been unable to ascertain the period of its first establishment in the island. The parochial register of St. Peter-Port extends only to the year 1563, soon after which time it contains the name of Philip Brock. By "Robson's Armorial Bearings of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland," eight families of the name of Brock appear to bear different arms, one of which was borne by all the Brocks of Guernsey--viz. azure, a fleur de lis or, on a chief argent a lion pass. guard. gu.--crest, an escallop or[2]--until the death of Sir Isaac Brock, when new and honorary armorial bearings were granted by the sovereign to his family. [more]

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Ferdinand Brock Tupper The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock

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Ferdinand Brock Tupper (1795 – 1874), was one of the leading historians of the Channel Islands. He was born in Guernsey in 1795 to parents John Elisha Tupper (shipowner and merchant from Les Cotils and Carrefour in Guernsey) and Elizabeth Brock (1767-1847), sister of Sir Isaac Brock. In 1845 he published The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, KB, which contains a wealth of information on General Brock and the War of 1812. After a near-mutiny at Fort George, Ontario, it was Tupper who reported by letter on the courts-martial (and subsequent executions of several) of the accused to Brock, and evidently corresponded with the General until the latter's death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. He went on to publish Chronicles of Castle Cornet with details of its nine years siege during the civil wars, and frequent notices of the Channel Islands in 1851 and History of Guernsey and its Bailiwick; with occasional notices of Jersey in 1854. The latter remained the definitive reference work on the history of Guernsey until the publication of History of the Bailiwick of Guernsey by James Marr in 1982. [more]

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WALTER R. NURSEY THE STORY OF ISAAC BROCK

HERO, DEFENDER AND SAVIOUR OF UPPER CANADA 1812

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That Isaac Brock is entitled to rank as the foremost defender of the flag Western Canada has ever seen, [more]

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Various . Brock Centenary 1812-1912

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Various, or Various Production, is an English dubstep/electronic music duo formed in 2002. The group blends samples, acoustic [more]

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Sheldon Niernberger "You Wasted Life Why Wouldn't You Waste Death" - Isaac Brock

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Walter R. Nursey The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812

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Off the coast of Brittany, where the Bay of Biscay fights the white horses of the North Sea, [more]

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Walter R. Nursey The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812

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"By his unrivalled skill, by great And veteran service to the state, By worth adored, He stood, [more]

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A. Clutton- Brock The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal S

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Guy Clutton-Brock From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock (5 April 1906 – 29 January 1995[1]) was an English social worker, who became a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm. Having been educated at Rugby School and graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge,[2] he had a career in the prison and probation services, youth and community work in the East End of London and in post-war Germany. During the Second World War he ran Oxford House, Bethnal Green with the assistance of John Raven.[3] He went out to Southern Rhodesia in 1949 as an agricultural demonstrator and missionary, turning St Faiths Mission into a famous pioneering non-racial community. This led to his detention without trial in 1959 as a member of the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress. Cold Comfort Farm After similar ventures in Bechuanaland and Nyasaland, he returned to Rhodesia. With the eloquent support of Trevor Huddleston, Fenner Brockway, Michael Scott, Mary Benson and many others, Guy, his wife Molly (1912–2013), Didymus Mutasa, George Nyandoro and Michael and Eileen Haddon founded Cold Comfort Farm in Southern Rhodesia which became a widely acclaimed pattern for racial freedom and regeneration in the poverty-stricken countries of Africa.[4] Clutton-Brock joined in the founding of the African National Congress in Rhodesia and was largely responsible for its non-racial and black/white partnership policies. He was deported by the Ian Smith government in 1971. By now, though, he was the friend of four African presidents (Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Botswana), as well as Robert Mugabe who, as President of independent Zimbabwe, declared Clutton-Brock upon his death to be a National Hero of Zimbabwe. [more]

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