W. J Roberts

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Roberts. (T. Werner Laurie. le. net.)—Mr. Roberts has collected many interesting names of celebrated persons who have visited Torquay, commonly in search of health. Among these are Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Daniel Macmillan, and Lord Lytton. J. A. Fronde was a curate at St. Mary's—" instituted to St. Mary's" means something quite different, viz., being put into authority over the spiritualities of the parish—and Pengelly, the geologist, spent many years here. It is now the residence of quite a number of novelists, among whom we may mention Mr. W. E. Norris and Miss Christabel Coleridge.… (mehr)