Good Fellows of Budleigh and Sidmouth
With the Carter bicentenary approaching in 2013 and that of Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1810-97) still fresh in local minds where better to go than to Sidmouth Museum, seen above, to discover how a town only a few miles along the coast from Budleigh commemorated one of its best known characters from the Victorian age. For P.O.H., though born in Winchester , is very much part of Sidmouth's local history. And the town clearly cherishes its illustrious former residents which include four past Fellows of the Royal Society. Sir Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) worked with Marconi, and invented the diode valve. Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920), shown above, discovered helium and the spectrum of the sun, and was Editor of Nature for 50 years from its foundation. Sidney George Brown (1873-1948) was an inventor and engineer who devised the gyro-compass...