A colourful character, he also organised trips following the history of Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore.
It was Blackmore's second novel, and the novel he wrote prior to his most famous work Lorna Doone.
Cripps the Carrier: a woodland tale, is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone.
In a television version of Lorna Doone, St Beuno's was used as the location for the marriage of John Ridd at Oare Church.
The eldest child of Valma and Eric Stockton, she was named after Lorna Doone.
R.D. Blackmore drew on the history and legends of this area to create his world-famous novel Lorna Doone.
His parents deliberately named him "Rodney David" to achieve identification (via his initials) with the author of Lorna Doone.
Blackmore himself thought that Springhaven was a better work than Lorna Doone, and he placed Springhaven second only to The Maid of Sker as his best novel.
Christine McIntyre's character's name of Lorna Doone is taken from the title character of a romance/historical novel set in 17th century England.
He graduated in 1847, but the book was not completed and published until 1872, three years after Lorna Doone.
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It was Blackmore's next novel published after Lorna Doone although he had begun writing it 25 years earlier.
Lorna Doone | Lorna Dee Cervantes | Lorna's Silence | Lorna Crozier | Lorna Bennett | The Courage of Marge O'Doone | Rupert Doone | Lorna Wing | Lorna Stone | Lorna Smith Benjamin | Lorna Hood | Lorna Arnold | James Joseph Hayes Doone |
Other worthies buried in the pre-Fire church were William Oldhall (d.1459) Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Mayors John Yonge (d.1466) and William Bayley (d.1524), Peter Blundell (d.1601) founder of Blundell's School, (mentioned in the novel Lorna Doone) and the Cavalier poet John Cleveland (d.1658).