He was encouraged by French scholars whom he met in Paris, Avignon and Nice to give himself systematically to the study of Greek history.
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This disaster prompted Parliament to authorize the construction of the famous Bell Rock Lighthouse.
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As one of the Mitfords of Mitford Castle he was a cousin to Admiral Robert Mitford the bird-artist and Philip Meadows Taylor (author of Confessions of a Thug), and distantly related to Lord Redesdale (attorney general), William Mitford (historian), the Reverend John Mitford, and Mary Russell Mitford (author of Our Village).
An agreement of 1769 between the owner of the manor, William Mitford of Pitshill at Tillington, and the tenants provided for the enclosure of common land to create woodland managed as coppice, although the areas involved are not specified.