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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: People from Crediton, People from Tiverton, Devon, Saint Boniface, Joss Stone, Thomas Stukley, Reginald Blomfield, Sam Stockley, Hannah Cowley, Redvers Buller, Adam Stansfield, Frank R. Gooding, Richard Cosway, Frank Gillard, Dick Hellings, Craig Gillies, Harry Treadaway, Francis Bertie Boyce, Luke Treadaway, William Luxton, Craig Woodman, George Tomkyns Chesney, Robert Cruwys, Roger Knapman, John Prideaux Lightfoot, Anketell Moutray Read, Kevin Rice, James Buller, Paul Brown, Hugh Marshall Hole, David Townsend, Pat Parker, Edwin Cornwall, Thomas Kelly, Charles Rossiter Forwood, Joseph Sparks, William Romaine Govett, Timothy Carter, Guy Randall-Johnson, Georgiana Buller, John Taylor Coleridge, John Christie, Sir Henry Ferguson Davie, 1st Baronet, Sir John Call, 1st Baronet, John Rowe, William Saunders, Charles Fowler, William Oxenham, Bill Giles, Thomas Henry Sage, Paul Roberts, Ronald Squire, Peter Blundell, Harry Pitts, John Cross, Ben Rice, Frederick Cuming. Excerpt: Joss Stone (born Jocelyn Eve Stoker; 11 April 1987) is an English soul singer-songwriter and actress. Stone emerged to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the equally multiplatinum Mind Body & Soul, topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit "You Had Me," Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both album and single each received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004 was ranked fifth as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004. She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart in history to have her first album at number one. Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, ...