Life in Normandy: Sketches of French Fishing, Farming, Cooking, Natural History, and Politics, Drawn
Boston 1775 (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of her last years. In her will Lobb had left one of her properties to a seven-year-old grandson, Francis Campbell Smithwick, specifying that the tenant, William Jordan, would be his guardian and manage the property for his benefit until he turned twenty-one. Jordan then came up with deeds showing that Lobb had signed the same property over to him after that will. He now owned it outright,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
No thanks, Ann *Ann Widdecombe's chances of a new career as Britain's envoy to the Vatican are on the wane. After she was tipped for the post in August, it was thought that her conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, which she joined because she opposes the ordination of women, would not count against her. Every envoy to the Holy See has been Protestant except the incumbent, Francis Campbell,...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From the website of God's Own University: A Durham consortium of University and faith leaders hopes that Pope Benedict XVI will accept their invitation to make the first ever papal visit to the North East of England. Following a visit of Vatican representative and HM Ambassador to the Holy See, HE Francis Campbell, to Durham University in March of this year, a unique partnership of University,...
