Gilbert White

...frequent trains on the Portsmouth-Waterloo line. Selborne is famous for its association with the 18th-century naturalist , Gilbert White (1720-1793), who wrote The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. First published in 1789, the...

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...is run by Freedom Leisure. The symbol of Ringmer is a tortoise named Timothy, after the female tortoise that the naturalist Gilbert White carried back to Selborne in Hampshire in 1780. White's aunt Rebecca Snooke lived in Delves House...

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...comprising a series of three contour lynchets extending for nearly 1.6 km. The village features in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne . White's brother, John, used to live in Newton Valence. Gilbert would cross Selborne...

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...year he became vicar of Basingstoke, Hampshire, and master of the grammar school there. Among his pupils was the naturalist Gilbert White He remained at Basingstoke till his death, but with the living he held successively the vicarages of...

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...place of her demise, Powderham Castle, the Earl of Devon's home. Timothy was also the name of a pet tortoise owned by Gilbert White. White's tortoise was also eventually revealed to be a female. Rory Knight Bruce - Timothy the Tortoise...

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...of which were published posthumously. He died at Downing. The correspondence he received from Gilbert White was the basis for White's book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Unfortunately Pennant's letters to White have...

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...name is too long," she says. "I call him Timothy," after the tortoise kept by legendary 18th-century English naturalist Gilbert White. The back of the house, which was enlarged, now features a deck with transparent railings as part of...

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...village church of All Saints, and his pulpit still survives. One of the parish registers contains entries in his handwriting. Gilbert White's house, now a museum, is a little over three miles west of Farringdon. All Saints has Norman and...

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...of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne was a book by pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White first published in 1789. It has been continuously in print since then, with nearly 300 editions up to Thames...

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...if you walk up a mountain it gets colder, which is why mountaintops are often capped with snow. In December 1784 the naturalist Gilbert White, in Selborne, Hampshire, recorded temperatures that were vastly out of place. He asked an...

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