Knotty Posted 23 May , 2021 Share Posted 23 May , 2021 40 minutes ago, seaJane said: I want to say that it's something about a Shakespeare first folio Correct so far seaJane, the first clue will tell you where it is😁, you should soon get the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 23 May , 2021 Share Posted 23 May , 2021 45 minutes ago, seaJane said: I want to say that it's something about a Shakespeare first folio Is the name Hemminges or Condell maybe? Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 23 May , 2021 Share Posted 23 May , 2021 Hi Pete No neither of those two names, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 23 May , 2021 Share Posted 23 May , 2021 1 minute ago, Knotty said: Hi Pete No neither of those two names, sorry. It was a bit tongue in cheek, think of it as as an attempt at humour slightly (but only slightly) superior to using a scooby doo ending to signal that I haven't a clue. Which is not the case as you have provided several amusingly arch clues but as usula (or usual even) they are completely wasted on me. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 May , 2021 Share Posted 23 May , 2021 I'm still baffled! Must be missing something .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 23 May , 2021 Share Posted 23 May , 2021 12 minutes ago, seaJane said: I'm still baffled! Must be missing something You're not alone Jane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 23 May , 2021 Share Posted 23 May , 2021 He has a rather unusual couple of forenames, and the surname sounds a bit fishy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 24 May , 2021 Share Posted 24 May , 2021 First clues too obscure for me, but Having thrown back Privates A.A Sturgeon, and Arthur John Bass, I'm left with Lt. Gladwin Maurice Revel Turbutt https://www.pagesofthesea.org.uk/soldier/gladwyn-maurice-revel-turbutt/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 24 May , 2021 Share Posted 24 May , 2021 (edited) We have a winner GH. Lt Gladwyn Maurice Revell Turbutt of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry it is, killed in action 21/10/14 during the First Battle of Ypres in the area of St. Julien, during the retreat from Mons. Before the war he had restored to the Bodleian Library Oxford, the original first folio of one Bill Shakespeare, which was in his family’s possession. It had originally been presented to the library by the Stationers Hall, but for some reason the library subsequently sold it off…….wonder why? If you scroll down to his name on this roll of honour taken from his home town in Derbyshire, there is a piece taken from the Guardian about his life and career https://www.roll-of-honour.com/Derbyshire/Brackenfield.html Edited 24 May , 2021 by Knotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 24 May , 2021 Share Posted 24 May , 2021 I can imagine the Bodleian Librarian deciding that the old thing hadn't been loaned for two hundred years, so it didn't deserve a place on the shelves. Your first and subsequent clues had me hunting through Childrens Books by Michael Cole, "Bod and the three week old bloater" , for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 26 May , 2021 Share Posted 26 May , 2021 On 24/05/2021 at 16:35, Knotty said: some reason the library subsequently sold it off… It seems they did so when the Third Folio came into their possession not so very much later, on the grounds that it was the more up-to-date version. Which makes perfect sense in some libraries . I knew it had to be that First Folio, but could I find from the Bod's web-pages how it got back to them? no ..... falling down on the job they are, where's the provenance note?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 26 May , 2021 Share Posted 26 May , 2021 I wonder if, - in a couple of hundred years -people will boggle at the though that I'm happy to pulp the 2020 "Rough Guide to Portugal". Or the 2019 WEEE regulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 26 May , 2021 Share Posted 26 May , 2021 Do I keep my Worcester Bosch gas boiler instructions for posterity and pass them down as a “priceless” heirloom, for when electricity (or any other energy source) rules😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 26 May , 2021 Share Posted 26 May , 2021 I'll send you my Potterton instructions. We can form the Knottian Library of gas technology in Kidderminster . It'll fit right in with the museum of carpet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 26 May , 2021 Share Posted 26 May , 2021 😂😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 26 May , 2021 Share Posted 26 May , 2021 At the risk of prolonging this for more than is necessary, during my sort out of the house over the past year, I've binned loads of papers relating to things that a. we haven't got any more and b. things that I don't even remember having!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 1 June , 2021 Share Posted 1 June , 2021 On 26/05/2021 at 16:33, The Scorer said: At the risk of prolonging this for more than is necessary, during my sort out of the house over the past year, I've binned loads of papers relating to things that a. we haven't got any more and b. things that I don't even remember having!! I wish I could do that with Boyfriend's stuff... when he starting packing his stuff for the move, I came accross telephone bills from as far as 2007... and beware I would toss it out without asking him first... he's horrible when it comes to that. Cleaning up means just piling the stuff in a corner ... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 1 June , 2021 Share Posted 1 June , 2021 Revenons à nos moutons - who is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 1 June , 2021 Share Posted 1 June , 2021 PS despite the French, he is English, and not a shepherd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 2 June , 2021 Share Posted 2 June , 2021 23 hours ago, Marilyne said: I wish I could do that with Boyfriend's stuff... when he starting packing his stuff for the move, I came accross telephone bills from as far as 2007... and beware I would toss it out without asking him first... he's horrible when it comes to that. Cleaning up means just piling the stuff in a corner ... M. Been there, done that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Hall Posted 2 June , 2021 Share Posted 2 June , 2021 21 hours ago, seaJane said: PS despite the French, he is English, and not a shepherd. Are we in the midst of a "Blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone" moment? Or does Jean have a long moustache? Clueless at Hall manor at present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 2 June , 2021 Share Posted 2 June , 2021 He had a more famous younger cousin - both being of a scientific turn of mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 2 June , 2021 Share Posted 2 June , 2021 He looks a little like Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther film, in disguise as Lautrec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 2 June , 2021 Share Posted 2 June , 2021 Hah! He does. But not Sellers, nor a Frenchman in disguise. Though he did pretend to be someone else, with passport, for a time; there were consequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 2 June , 2021 Share Posted 2 June , 2021 I'm loving this one. Haven't the foggiest of course but I just get the feeling it's gonna be a good un Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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