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Grasmere Cemetery, Grasmere
Grasmere Cemetery
Town Cemetery
Street:-   Pye Lane
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   cemetery
coordinates:-   NY33840832
1Km square:-   NY3308
10Km square:-   NY30


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BVK54.jpg (taken 29.9.2011)  
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BVK55.jpg (taken 29.9.2011)  


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CCV44.jpg (taken 2015)  courtesy of Carrie Taylor

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person:-   historianphilosopher
 : Spooner, William Archibald, Dr
place:-   burial place
item:-   New College, OxfordHistory of TacitusTacitus, History ofWilliam of Wykehamspoonerism
William Spooner, b.1844 d.1930, was a historian and philosopher. He had a scholarship to New College, Oxford, where he became Warden of the college in 1903. He wrote 'The History of Tacitus', 'William of Wykeham', etc. He is notorious for his lapses in speech known as spoonerisms, eg 'You have hissed my mystery lectures ... '.

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