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3 unusual facts about John Pollexfen Bastard


John Pollexfen Bastard

According to the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, Bastard

In 1815 he was conveyed by the Royal Navy to Leghorn (Livorno) for his health where he died the next year and was initially buried in the Old English Cemetery in Livorno, where his monument still stands.

Old English Cemetery, Livorno

John Pollexfen Bastard (1756–1816), British Tory politician and colonel of the East Devonshire Militia, who died and was initially buried in Livorno then reburied in England.



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