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3 unusual facts about Shute


Seaton Branch Line

They opened a station called Colyton for Seaton, near Shute.

Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet

Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet (1619–95), of Shute, Devon, was an English politician.

Sir William Pole, 4th Baronet

Sir William Pole, 4th Baronet (1678–1741), of Colcombe Castle, near Colyton and Shute, near Honiton, Devon, was an English politician.


Beckett Hall

William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington - British politician and eldest son of John Shute Barrington

Charles Cameron Shute

Charles Cameron Shute was the eldest son of Thomas Deane Shute of Fern Hill, Isle of Wight, and Bramshaw, Hampshire and his wife Charlotte née Cameron, daughter of General Neville Cameron of the East India Company army.

Denny Shute

Shute attended Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University), and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

Grayson Hart

With opportunities in New Zealand limited, Hart set off to Australia where he signed with Southern Districts Rugby Club in Sydney's Shute Shield competition and was immediately signed to the NSW Waratahs academy.

Grindletonians

Brereley had a local following, attracting worshippers from the nearby Giggleswick parish of Christopher Shute,

Henry Shute

Henry Augustus Shute (1856–1943) was a lawyer and a judge who was best known for his "Plupy" stories in The Saturday Evening Post and a series of books.

John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington

William, the eldest, became Chancellor of the Exchequer; John was a Major-General in the British Army; Daines was a lawyer, antiquarian and naturalist; Samuel was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy; and Shute became Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.

Lonely Road

The Lonely Road, a 1936 British drama film based on Shute's novel

New Shute House

New Shute House is a late Palladian country house built between 1785 and 1789 by Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799) and is situated within the grounds of Old Shute House, in the parish of Shute, near Axminster, East Devon.

Old Shute House

Old Shute House (known as Shute Barton between about 1789 and the 20th century), located at Shute, near Colyton, Axminster, Devon, is the remnant of a mediaeval manor house with Tudor additions, today in the ownership of the National Trust.

Shute Park Plaza

The land that became Shute Park Plaza was sold to the city in 1906 by banker John W. Shute to become Hillsboro’s first park.

Sir Philip II Courtenay

He had been badly treated by his distant cousin Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon (1414–1458), whose seat was at Tiverton Castle, and during the turbulent and lawless era of the Wars of the Roses, he supported the challenge against the earl, for local supremacy in Devon, put up by the Lancastrian courtier, Sir William Bonville (1392–1461), of Shute.

Vinland the Good

In his preface to the script, Shute says “I put a very little of the story into a novel which was published in 1939” – this was An Old Captivity, actually first published in 1940.

William Leete

Leete was born about 1612 or 1613 at Doddington, Huntingdonshire, England, the son of John Leete and his wife Anna Shute, daughter of John Shute, a justice of the King's Court.


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