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A bespectacled middle-aged man in a suit and tie sits with hands clasped, with a handwritten signature below the portrait.

Francis Rex Parrington

5 Sedley Taylor Road, The Second House

History of 5 Sedley Taylor Road

1930-7

L J Potts, M.A., Fellow of Queen’s College

(1897-1960) His pupils included the novelist T H White who called Potts ‘the great literary influence in my life.’ Potts was author of Comedy (1948); Aristotle on the Ary of Fiction (1953); and a translation of Strindberg’s Tales (1930).


1937-38

Leslie Gray, building contractor

Margaret (Rain)


1939

Robert A Wolverson, b 1909, solicitor (Observer Corps)

Mary I, b 1913, voluntary staff car driver

Mary Barnes, b 1878

Dudley Vavasour Durell, b 1906 (Observer Corps)

Hedwig Goldschmidt, b 1910, servant


1945

Doris Hull, b 1895

Anne Hull


1948-70

Francis Parrington, paleontologist

Margaret (Johnson)

Jean Johnson

 

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