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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
50 - SIR WILLIAM GELL (1777-1836)
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D258/50/12
Title
Booklet `Presented to G A Gell by W Gell being by him purchased from Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby of Llangollen [the Ladies of Llangollen] for an old song'
Date
nd early 19th cent
Description
Sketch of urn and flowers [by William Gell] `The Birthday Ode - a Piscatory Poem'; `Albion - a Poem': Awake my muse and let a noble rage/Adorn a Dryden's or a Pocock's page .......
So boys at school though flogg'd for ABC/Look pleased as pipers over cakes and tea/And though we prick our fingers with the briar/
We should steal gooseberries through flames or fire'
Level
file
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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Gell; Sir; William (1777-1836); Diplomat and antiquarian of Hopton.
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