Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 31, January 1988
Reference Number
PP/195/31
Level of Description
Item
Title
Mayor's Guides Newsletter Issue no. 31, January 1988
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Various: Author
Date
1988
Extent
Pages: 26
Description
Contents include: Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Judah, King of Kings, Son of Soloman, in Bath, 1936-40 (an account of Haile Selassie's time at Fairfield House, Bath in the 1930s), pp. 3-4; They also came to Bath (notes on famous residents of Bath for whom birth, marriage or death certificates exist in the records of Bath Register office which include the following: 1) the birth certificates of Dad's Army actor Arnold Ridley, musician and conductor Albert Semprini and Henry James Prince who founded the religious movement the Agapemonites or Community of The Son of Man in the mid-nineteenth century. 2) the marriage certificatesof Dorothy (Dora) Wordsworth, daughter of the poet William Wordsworth and Edward Quillinan, author Charles Kingsley and Frances Grenfell, Richard Lloyd George, son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Roberta McAlpine, John Byron and Catherine Gordon (parents of the poet Lord Byron. 3) the death certificates of collector and builder William Beckford, artist Thomas Barker, coach propietor Moses Pickwick, Sir Isaac Pitman 'inventor of Phonography and barrister and song writer Frederick Weatherley), pp. 5-8;
