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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: 59. Chapters: People from Ashburton, Devon, People from Buckfastleigh, People from Dawlish, People from Kingsteignton, People from Newton Abbot, People from Teignmouth, William Petre, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, William Hosking, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Peter Truscott, Baron Truscott, Matthew Bellamy, Robert Palk, Danny Thompson, Elias Parish Alvars, James Rennell, Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet, William Gifford, Richard Carlile, Christopher Wolstenholme, John Prettyjohns, Danny La Rue, Dominic Howard, Frank Matcham, Theophilus Gale, George Hennet, Hiley Edwards, James Jackson, William Knox D'Arcy, Sam Malsom, Derek Cole, Thorley Walters, William Strutt, David Vine, Ronald Alan Waldron, Sergio Pizzorno, Barrie Matthews, Mike Sangster, Leslie Rundle, Nick Gaywood, Baron Ashburton, Robert Cyril Layton Perkins, Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, Herman Merivale, Matthew Hunt, Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, Steven Willis, Leslie Crockwell, Arthur George Hammond, Don Bird, Henry Singleton Pennell, John Lethbridge, Ralph Venning, Phil Joslin, Thomas Nathaniel Davies, Charles Douglass Smith, William George Tozer, John Fleming, Peter Hooper, Ernest Lee, Aylward M. Blackman, John Wilcox, Rowland Bowen, Ivy Williams, Bert Tayler, William Bickford, Edith Mayne, Natalie Melmore, Rachel Petrie. Excerpt: Sir William Petre (d. 1572) was a secretary of state to Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Educated as a lawyer at Oxford, he became a public servant, probably through the influence of the Boleyns, one of whom, George, he had tutored at Oxford and another of whom, Anne, was married to the king. He rose rapidly in the royal service and, in 1543, was knighted. Petre was adept at sidestepping the great religious controversies of the day and held high office through the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I until, owing to ill h...
