- Obituary (ref name=Obit)[1]
- Another Obituary (ref name=Obit2)[2]
- Another Obit (ref name=Obit3)[3]
- Owned Wreyland Estate, Lustleigh[4]
- May Day festival, Lustleigh run by him for many years.[5]
- Was on Newton Abbot Rural District Council but resigned in 1926 due to illness.[6]
- He wouldn't give up on an argument.[7]
- Note for talk page; if anyone has this book can they please update article with the information from the chapter about Cecil:
- Markham, Violet Rosa (1956). Friendship's Harvest. Reinhardt.
- Jack Simmons (1979) "Introduction", pp. vii-x1v in Torr, Cecil Small Talk at Wreyland. Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-281284-X OUP paperback ed. is a reissue of the Adams & Dart ed. of 1970 with this introd. added; provides an account of Toors life and character, beginning "There is no other book quite like this one. It is a series of reminiscences, with passages of autobiography; a commemoration of things past, and of places seen; a discussion of local history, a record of dialect and folklore."
Book list
edit- Torr, Cecil (1887). Rhodes in modern times. Cambridge University Press.
- Torr, Cecil (1887). Catalogue of the Classical Antiquities from the Collection of the Late Sir Gardner Wilkinson. J.C. Wilbee.
- Torr, Cecil (1894). Ancient ships. Cambridge University Press.
- Torr, Cecil (1896). On the Interpreatation of Greek Music. H. Frowde.
- Torr, Cecil (1924). Hannibal crosses the Alps. Cambridge University Press.
- Torr, Cecil (1927). Survey of Wreyland, 19 August 1566. Cambridge University Press.
- Torr, Cecil (1928). Bovey Tracey church-rates and poor-rates 1596-1729. William Brendon.
- Torr, Cecil (1932). Small talk at Wreyland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
References
edit- ^ "Mr. Cecil Torr: Death of Devon author at Lustleigh". Western Morning News. 21 December 1928. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Notes of the day". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 22 December 1928. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Lustleigh". Western Times. 28 December 1928. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Lustleigh property: Estate offered at Newton Abbot". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 2 September 1932. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Lustleigh". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 10 May 1929. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Lighting-up Times". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 10 April 1926. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ Diacu, Florin (2011). The lost millennium : history's timetables under siege (2nd ed. ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 69. ISBN 9781421402871.
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