Talk:Cromer Hall

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Bond Cabbell died in 1874 so it's unlikely that he met Doyle in 1901. The book Land and society in Edwardian Britain[1] states that Benjamin Bond-Cabbell II died in 1892. His widow and daughter might have been the occupants of Cromer Hall in 1901. According to thePeerage.com, a daughter (thePeerage.com #315367) inherited the estate, so there apparently was no Benjamin Bond-Cabbell III. A descendant of that daughter (thePeerage.com #315368) lived there as of 2003.

Therefore, I removed the iffy material (much of the story appears to be from a website called Literary Norfolk) and replaced it with the version of the story told in the introduction to Conan Doyle's autobiography. Also, the Devon story, while interesting, does not relate to Cromer Hall. I removed it also from this article, added a new Brook Manor section to the Buckfastleigh article, and placed all of the removed material here:

"During this holiday, Conan Doyle and Bertram Fletcher Robinson had been invited to dinner at Cromer Hall by Benjamin Bond Cabbell. During dinner Cabbell told his guest the story about one of his ancestor, a man by the name of Squire Richard Cabell who had been the Lord of Brook Manor and Squire of Buckfastleigh in Devon in the 17th century. The story he told was that Squire Cabbell’s wife been unfaithful and that, after beating her, she had fled out onto Dartmoor. The Squire pursued her and when he caught up with her he stabbed her to death. Whilst committing the act, his wife's faithful dog attacked him and tore out his throat. He died on the 5 July 1677 and was laid to rest in the family vault. ("Cabell Tomb — Buckfastleigh". Devon Guide. 2007. Retrieved 2010-05-17.) On the night of his internment saw a phantom pack of hounds come baying across the moor to howl at his tomb. And from that night on a ghost of the dog was said to haunt Dartmoor and to reappear to each generation of the Cabbell family. It is clear that Richard Cabbell became the model for the evil Hugo Baskerville in Conan Doyle's classic tale The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another connection to the Hall to the book is that the Bond Cabbell’s coachman who drove Conan Doyle and Fletcher Robinson to Cromer Hall was apparently called Baskerville."

WCCasey (talk) 21:29, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

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