Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Volume 43) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... BY THE LATE REV. THOMAS HUGO, F.S.A. Hugo, Thomas (1820-1876), the Bewick collector, eldest son of Charles Hugo, M.D., was born at Taunton in 1820. B.A., Wore. Coll.. Oxon., 1842; rector of West Hackney from 1868 to his death; F.S. A., 1853. His special province in literature was as historian of religious houses in the West of England, the original sources for whose history he was the first to study thoroughly. He was also the writer of several dramas, but he was best known for his extensive collection of the works of the brothers Bewick of Newcastle, which included many of the original wood-blocks. His three works 1866, 1868, and 1870. on the wood cuts and wood-blocks of T. and J. Bewick are exhaustive on all points. As a musician he was a facile writer, and contributed several pieces to HiImiM Ancient and Modern. He died after a short illness at West Hackney Rectory, on Hist December, 1876, and was buried in Highgate cemetery on 6th January, 1877, aged only 56.--Abridged from The Dictionary of National Biography. IN the midst of the enormous level through which some of the principal rivers of Somersetshire find their way to the sea, is a small and slightly-elevated point of rising ground, whose claims to notice, for historical interest and for physical character, would seem at a first inspection to be pretty equally balanced. The traveller, indeed, would be almost certain to pass it without remark, unless he had a companion to whom the place was known, or if his eye failed to detect, as it might easily do, a small white obelisk which crowns the summit, and tends, if nothing more, to excite his curiosity. Eminence and obelisk, however, have little in themselves to attract attention, even amid that monotonous plain above which they scarcely appear to rise...