Category: Cumbrian people
Last of the Inglewood Rifles
In my post on the Inglewood Rifles I finished with a section called Last of the volunteers. That reported that by 1926, only four of the original volunteer riflemen had died. And that the last of them... Read More
Thomas Smith’s library
Thomas Smith, Bishop of Carlisle, has featured on this blog already. I didn’t then mention Thomas Smith’s library. When he died, in 1702, Bishop Thomas Smith left his library to Carlisle Cathedral... Read More
Jonathan Ritson, the drunken wood carver
Jonathan Ritson, the drunken wood carver What links the magnificent Arundel Castle, in Sussex, with Cumbria? Primarily, it’s the complex family history of one of the great families of England, the H... Read More
Carlisle doctors
Dr Henry Lonsdale is recorded today as much as a writer of biographies as for his ‘day job’. But while I am sure he was rightly proud of his books on such people as the Blamires and Loshes, his ef... Read More
James Fairbairn
James Fairbairn is buried at St Cuthbert’s Church, Carlisle. Whoever the stone mason was, he had a curious idea of what an angel or cherub should look like! With its wings crossed in front, and a le... Read More
Thurnam brothers, Carlisle
Thurnam brothers, Carlisle Like Goldilocks, sometimes there is too little information on an individual to make a blog post. Sometimes, there is just enough. And sometimes, there is too much. In the ca... Read More
Edward Irving – forgotten Santa
Edward Irving – forgotten Santa Should you pay a visit to St Mary’s Church, Stapleton, on Christmas Day, and manage to find the grave of Edward Irving, you would be partaking in an apparently long... Read More
Westmorland girls – be warned!
Westmorland girls were given some sound advice, from bitter experience, in May 1874, by a young woman who had learned the hard way. While looking for something else, I chanced upon a notice in the Pen... Read More