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Croydon’s man of adventure who founded New Zealand town
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Of the various places called ‘Croydon’ around the world, the one on New Zealand’s south island has a particularly well-recorded history, as DAVID MORGAN found out Nathaniel Chalmers was a pioneer and a frontiersman, one of the people … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiscombe, Australia, Croydon, David Morgan, East India Company College, Fiji, Gore, Nathaniel Chalmers, New Zealand, Otago, Southland, Victoria
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Gordon family’s service that stretched through the generations
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Among the thousands of young men who passed through the gates of the East India Company’s Addiscombe academy in the 19th Century, one Scot rose through the ranks in a career that has been carefully traced by DAVID … Continue reading
Addiscombe military college’s professor who was all at sea
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A friend and colleague of Sir Walter Scott and JMW Turner, a painter to Queen Victoria and her family, John Schetky was fondly remembered as a professor at Addiscombe military college. Using the Minster archive, DAVID MORGAN traces … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Art, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History, Waddon
Tagged Addiscombe, Battle of Trafalgar, Croydon, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, East India Company, East India Company College, JMW Turner, Queen Victoria, Schetky, Sir Walter Scott, The Loss of Royal George, Waddon, Waddon Lodge
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Addiscombe, the academies and the artistry of the Fieldings
MARVELS OF THE MINSTER: The family connections of some of England’s foremost artists of the early 19th Century have been traced to the churchyard by DAVID MORGAN John Singleton Copley is the famous American-born artist who is buried in Croydon … Continue reading
‘Thank you, Inside Croydon!’ The Pennycuick story unfolds
Purley resident SANTHANA IBRAHIM, pictured left, is flying off to India next week to film a documentary about the life of a significant historic figure from Croydon, with much thanks to the readers of this website I would like to … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, History, Purley
Tagged Addiscombe West, East India Company College, John Pennycuick, Purley
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Purley film-maker looking for family ties of colonial engineer
A documentary film-maker who lives in Purley is appealing for help to delve into the colonial past of India and to track down family and descendents of a pioneering British engineer whose life’s work has helped to save the lives … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Cinema, History, Purley
Tagged Addiscombe West, East India Company College, John Pennycuick, Purley, Santhana Ibrahim
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