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* He had to hire labourers from Exeter for the project. The local landowner, Lord Rolle, had forbidden local workers to be involved in the building of a non-Anglican church.
* His grave is in All Saints’ churchyard, East Budleigh.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2017/09/echoes-of-poldark-in-budleighs-past.html (15 Sept 2017)
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2009/08/temple-is-apt-setting-for-literary.html (11 Aug 2009)
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Lackington_Memoirs_1792.pdf
Mary LACKINGTON, later Huddy, née Turton (1765-1850). Pictured is the grave of her husband James Lackington (1746-1815) in All Saints’ churchyard, East Budleigh. A space was intentionally left for his wife.
* She was described by Maria Susannah Gibbons (1841-1900) in We Donkeys in Devon (1886) as ‘without doubt, the most remarkable person who ever lived in Budleigh Salterton’.
* She was engaged to be married seven times.
* She was married three times in the same church of All Saints, East Budleigh
* Four of her husbands were buried in All Saints’ churchyard.
https://oro.open.ac.uk/61166/1/607632.pdf
https://www.raleighmissioncommunity.org.uk/our-churchyards.html
Sir Harry Harling LAMB KCMG, GBE (1857-1948). Diplomat. He lived at ‘Brookmeadow’, Exmouth Road.
* His papers and those of his wife Sabina (née Maissa) chiefly from their time in Albania are kept at University College London. They comprise five folders and three volumes of notes on Albania, diaries, newspaper cuttings, maps of the area and three photograph albums.
* He was a member of the International Control Commission (Albania) established on 15 October 1913. He is pictured above, second from left.
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/Biography/WhosWho
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/ssees-archives/lam.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Control_Commission_(Albania)
https://www.roehamptonclub.co.uk/propeller/uploads/2020/08/From-the-Archives.pdf
Ethel LARCOMBE, née Ethel Warneford Thomson (1879-1965), badminton and tennis player. Lived at ‘Shene’ on Swains Road. Died in Budleigh Salterton.
* Winner of the Ladies’ Singles Title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships.
* She won 11 badminton titles at the All England Badminton Championships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Thomson_Larcombe
https://www.roehamptonclub.co.uk/propeller/uploads/2020/08/From-the-Archives.pdf
Sue LAWLEY OBE (b. 1946) Television and radio broadcaster. Lived at ‘Claremont House’, 7 Cliff Terrace. Pictured at a Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival event in October 2010.
* She hosted the radio programme Desert Island Discs for 18 years.
* She was the first winner of Sky Arts TV’s ‘Bridge: Celebrity Grand Slam’.
https://www.ebu.co.uk/biographies/sue-lawley
Edgar Leopold LAYARD (1824-1900), diplomat and naturalist, lived at 'Otterbourne House', Coastguard Road.
* He gave personal epithets to two birds which he identified. Layard's parakeet (Psittacula calthropae), found in Sri Lanka, is named after his first wife Barbara Anne Calthrop, who died in 1886. The brown-breasted flycatcher (Muscicapa muttui) was named after his Tamil cook Muttu, whom he considered as his 'fidus Achates' or faithful follower.
https://www.ova.org.uk/article/layard-edgar-leopold-1824-1900
Arthur E. LEA (1911-2005). An engineer, he lived at Little Hill, on Fore Street Hill.
* A former sales executive with Shell Petroleum, he founded the Vapormatic Company in 1949 with Ron Foster, an Engineer who had designed and developed a device to convert petrol engines used on agricultural tractors to run on tractor vaporising oil.
* The company started in premises on the old gas works site at 7 Station Road.
* By the mid-1970s Vapormatic had expanded to such an extent that the company moved to a five-acre greenfield site in Exeter. Its logo is pictured above.
https://www.vapormatic.com/company-information/company-history
Engineer Rear Admiral James Palmer LEAHY, CB OBE (1871-1940). Naval officer. Lived at ‘Glenholme’, 24 West Hill. Possibly depicted as above by Budleigh writer and artist Isobel Dorothy Joyce Dennys (1893-1991), author of Henrietta Sees It Through (1986).
* It is possible that he and his wife Agnes feature as ‘The Admiral’ and ‘Mrs Admiral’ in Henrietta Sees It Through, a book made up of dated letters to ‘My dear Robert’. The letter of September 1944 touchingly describes the couple’s grief on hearing news of their son’s death. Second Lieutenant John Barham Leahy was killed in action on 1 February 1942 in the Battle of Singapore.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/09/ww2-75-joyce-dennys-book-henrietta-sees.html
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/09/ww75-admirals-son-second-lieutenant.html
https://www.ova.org.uk/article/leahy-james-palmer-rear-admiral-cb-obe-and-son-john
Belinda LEE (1935-1961), actress, lived at the Rosemullion Hotel and at Cliff Terrace. Blue plaque on site.
* She caused a scandal in the late 1950s, particularly in sedate and conservative Budleigh Salterton, by starting an adulterous affair with Italian aristocrat Prince Filippo Orsini. Not only was he married, but he held the office of the Pope’s throne assistant at the Vatican.
* An exhibition about her life - including the above poster - was staged at Fairlynch Museum in 2006.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2015/08/following-star-from-budleigh-salterton.html (13 Aug 2015)
Doris LESLIE, née Oppenheim, later Lady Fergusson Hannay (1891-1982), author, lived at ‘Cintra’, Coastguard Road (now ‘Palm Court’, 8 Coastguard Road). Photo (1954) by Howard Coster © National Portrait Gallery, London
* She was the author of 37 works between 1927 and 1979, including her novel Peridot Flight (1956), which was serialised in 10 episodes by BBC TV in October–December 1960.
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