Budleigh Notables: R
Sir Walter RALEGH (c1552-1618), courtier, explorer, poet, historian, polymath. His connection with Budleigh Salterton is through the painting 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' by
* The story of Ralegh placing his cloak on a puddle for Queen Elizabeth was invented after his death.
* Ralegh never visited North America, although the city of Raleigh in North Carolina is named after him.
* The city of Raleigh has two exclusive districts named Budleigh and Hayes Barton – Ralegh’s birthplace in East Budleigh.
* In 1584 Ralegh wrote to the owner of Hayes Barton, Richard Duke, offering to buy the house. His offer was refused.
* His name was probably pronounced Rawley.
* His name has been written in 70 different ways.
* Possibly as many as 200 blogposts have been written at https://raleigh400.blogspot.com/ to mark the 400th anniversary of Ralegh’s death and coincide with Fairlynch Museum’s Ralegh 400 exhibition.
https://raleigh400.blogspot.com/2020/04/radical-ralegh.html (25 April 2020)
https://exmouthroadies.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-budleigh-beach_3785.html (7 Feb 2009)
John Edmund READE (1800-70), poet and novelist. A letter written by him bears the address 'Western Terrace'. The Reade family lived at ‘Elvestone’, Fore Street Hill.
* His poem, 'Cain the Wanderer' was praised by the German poet Goethe. Cain as a fleeing figure after the murder of his brother is seen in William Blake's 'The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve' (1826), part of Tate Britain's collection.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reade-930
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edmund_Reade
Professor Robert Leslie REID FBPsS (1924-2014) Professor of Psychology. He lived at 6 South Parade.
* He was the founder of the Department of Psychology at the University of Exeter in 1963. Pictured above is the Washington Singer building which houses the Department. Photo credit: Benjamin Evans.
* The Leslie Reid Prize in Psychology is awarded annually in his honour by the University.
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/professor-leslie-reid-fbpss-1924-2014
Maurice Lane RICHARDSON (1907-78) journalist and author, lived at ‘Fernie Knowle’ – sometimes spelt ‘Fernie Knowe’ or ‘Fernie Knowl’ - 4 Coastguard Road. Above photo by Jane Bown.
* His parents seem to have lived in Budleigh. Maurice Henry Richardson (d. 7 Mar. 1936 a. 79), of ‘Fernie Knowle’, is listed in parish records as buried in St Peter’s Burial Ground along with his wife Lucy Richardson, née Lane (d. 15 Feb. 1945). The ‘Devon Remembers’ WW1 record notes: ‘The Lane family came from Tipperary, Ireland, and there was a connected family living in Budleigh Salterton until 1963. A cousin Geraldine Lane lived in Elmcote, Station Road and later at 5 Elmside. Her sister Lucy Lane was second wife to Maurice Henry Richardson and they lived in Fernie Knowl, Budleigh Hill until 1945.’
* His novels include A Strong Man Needed (1931) and The Exploits of Engelbrecht (1950).
* He writes of his time in Budleigh in the book Little Victims. (1968)
* He reviewed the book No Case for the Police (1967) by his fellow-Budleigh resident Victor Vaughan Reynolds Geraint Clinton Clinton-Baddeley (1900-1970).
* He was buried alongside his second wife, Lucy Richardson, née Lane (d.1945), in St Peter's Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?20187
http://www.devonremembers.co.uk/content/the-honoured/calvert-george
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Richardson
Ralph Robert RICKETTS (1902-98), author, friend of Christopher Dawson (1889-1970). He may have lived in Budleigh Salterton, and certainly visited the town. It's clear that he moved in high circles in society: the above photo in the NPG Collection entitled 'Philip Edward Morrell with friends' taken in 1925 by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), shows him top left. Image © National Portrait Gallery, London.
* He calls Budleigh ‘Pebbleton’ in his novel Henry’s Wife (1961), following the invention of the name ‘Pebblecombe Regis’ by R.F. Delderfield (1912-1972). The novel was dedicated to his friend L.P. Hartley (1895-1972).
* As in Delderfield’s autobiography, Ricketts’ portrait of ‘Pebbleton’/Budleigh in Henry's Wife is rather negative: ‘A few men and women were walking along the pavements; most of them looked cold and all over seventy. I glanced at the shops and houses as if seeing them for the first time, and decided that the atmosphere was approximately nineteen hundred.’
* In one of his letters Ricketts portrayed his friend Dawson as being ‘exiled in a world of tea cups and retired colonels’, and suspected that he might be ‘bored to tears in Budleigh Salterton’.
David ROLT (1916-85), artist, lived at 2a Coastguard Road.
* He has been described as one of the most sought-after English portrait and landscape painters of the 1940s and ’50s.
* The book about his life and work appeared in 1986, showing a self-portrait on the cover.
* His grave is in St Peter’s Burial Ground.
https://www.ova.org.uk/article/rolt-david-1915-1985-artist
Hubert Barnard RUSSELL (1855-1917). Bank manager. He lived at Bank House, Fore Street, seen above. The photo was taken just after the Budleigh Salterton branch of Lloyds Bank closed on 15 January 2019. Photo © David Wickham.
* He was born in Westbury, Wiltshire, in October 1855.
* In addition to managing the Budleigh Salterton branch of Lloyds Bank he was Treasurer of the East Devon Golf Club.
* According to Jim Gooding’s account in the book Budleigh Salterton in Bygone Days (1987) he organised a public subscription to offer financial help to William Henry ‘Curly’ Sedgemore (1867-1943), a local fisherman whose boat and catch had been lost in an accident.
* In gratitude, Mr Sedgemore and his wife Jemima named their son Russell.
* Hubert Barnard Russell was buried alongside his wife Rosellen Maud, née Backhouse (1866-1953), in St Peter’s Burial Ground.
https://www.geni.com/people/Rosellen-Russell/6000000033075620073
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