User:Worm That Turned/Cecil Torr


 * Obituary (ref name=Obit)
 * Another Obituary (ref name=Obit2)
 * Another Obit (ref name=Obit3)
 * Owned Wreyland Estate, Lustleigh
 * May Day festival, Lustleigh run by him for many years.
 * Was on Newton Abbot Rural District Council but resigned in 1926 due to illness.
 * He wouldn't give up on an argument.
 * Note for talk page; if anyone has this book can they please update article with the information from the chapter about Cecil:


 * Jack Simmons (1979) "Introduction", pp. vii-x1v in Torr, Cecil Small Talk at Wreyland. Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-281284-X OUP paperback ed. is a reissue of the Adams & Dart ed. of 1970 with this introd. added; provides an account of Toor''s life and character, beginning "There is no other book quite like this one. It is a series of reminiscences, with passages of autobiography; a commemoration of things past, and of places seen; a discussion of local history, a record of dialect and folklore."

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