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3 unusual facts about George Gascoigne


George Gascoigne

Anne Bigod (great-granddaughter of Robert Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Wem and Joan Beaufort)

When Gascoigne sailed as a soldier of fortune to the Low Countries in 1572, his ship was driven by stress of weather to Brielle, which luckily for him had just fallen into the hands of the Dutch.

Harry Cohen

Cohen left the George Gascoigne Secondary Modern school (closed in 1966) on Queens Road in Walthamstow at 15, and went on to train as a public service accountant at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, as well as studying part-time at East Ham Technical College (became Newham College of Further Education).



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