Hilary Townsend shares a Blackmore Vale background with the great poet
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Christmas Invitation
December 24, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Christmas, Dorset, William Barnes
Come down to morrow night; an’ mind,
Don’t leave thy fiddle-bag behind;
We’ll sheäke a lag an’ drink a cup
0′ eäle, to keep wold Chris’mas up.
A writer’s view of his early years
October 20, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Robert Young, Sturminster Newton, William Barnes
Robert Young is not as well known as his contemporary William Barnes – but literary fame has finally come to the Sturminster Newton, Dorset tailor 100 years after his death.
Read the story by Nicola Rayner in the Dorset Echo
William Barnes on Frome Vauchurch
March 26, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Dorset, Frome Vauchurch, William Barnes
In volume XII of the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club published an article on the Churches of the Rural Deanery of Dorchester in 1891, by the late Rev. William Miles Barnes, better known as the Dorset Poet. This is his description of Frome Vauchurch.
William Barnes by Thomas Hardy
March 8, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography)
Tags: Barnes, Hardy, Thomas Hardy, William Barnes
In 1918 Thomas Humphry Ward published in several volumes, The English Poets. The works of the poets being introduced by another author. The works of William Barnes, the ‘Dorset Poet’ were introduced by that other Dorset poet and author, Thomas Hardy, and it is that introduction which follows.
Charles Warne F.S.A. (1801-1887)
March 1, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography)
Tags: Brunel, Dorchester, Dorset, Moreton, Warne, William Barnes
The following obituary for the Antiquarian, Charles Warne born at Moreton, Dorset was originally published in The Antiquary, Volume XV, 1887.
Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923)
January 7, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Merrick, neurofibromatosis, Treves, William Barnes
Sir Federick Treves penned the best loved of all guides to Dorset. In 1906, his Highways and Byways in Dorset was immediately the most popular book ever written on the county. It is still one of the most sought-after Dorset titles.
William Barnes (1800-1886)
October 23, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Coombs, Darner, Dashwood, Miles, Scott, William Barnes
The Dorsetshire poet, was born on the 22nd of February 1800, at Rushay, near Pentridge in Dorset, the son of John Barnes and Grace Scott, of the farmer class. He was a delicate child, in direct contrast to a strong race of forebears, and inherited from his mother a refined, retiring disposition and a love for books.
