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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: 34. Chapters: British folk-song collectors, English folklorists, Scottish folklorists, Sabine Baring-Gould, Andrew Lang, Hubert Chesshyre, John Lorne Campbell, Ruth Manning-Sanders, Joseph Jacobs, Lucy Lloyd, Lewis Spence, Joseph Ritson, Maud Karpeles, John Roby, Margaret Bennett, Victor E. Neuburg, Hamish Henderson, Iona and Peter Opie, William Thoms, Allan MacDonald, Laurence Gomme, Charlotte Sophia Burne, Jessie Weston, Katharine Mary Briggs, David MacRitchie, Lizanne Henderson, William Purcell Witcutt, William B. Sandys, Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, Folklore Society, Bruce Bastin, Alfred Nutt, Estella Canziani, Jacqueline Simpson, Alice Gomme, Francis Hindes Groome, Marian Roalfe Cox, William Alexander Clouston, Janet Blunt, Stuart Harris-Logan, Steve Roud, John Philipps Emslie, Edwin Sidney Hartland, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Mary MacLeod Banks, Mabel Peacock, James Napier, Walter Traill Dennison, Ernest Marwick, John Firth, Lucy Garnett. Excerpt: David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre, CVO (born 22 June 1940) served for more than forty years as an officer of arms to Queen Elizabeth II. Chesshyre's father was Colonel Hubert Layard Chesshyre, MA (Cantab), late RE, born Hubert Layard Isacke, son of Major General Hubert Isacke, CB, CSI, CMG, late Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Chesshyre's great-grandfather Sir Charles Peter Layard was Attorney General of Ceylon 1892-1902 and Chief Justice of Ceylon 1902-1906. Chesshyre is also the 3rd-great-grandson of the 7th Earl of Dundee and the 5th-great-grandson of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale. Appropriately for a herald he is related to both the Bearer of the Royal Banner and the Bearer of the National Flag of Scotland. Chesshyre comes from Canterbury, where the family has deep roots: his 2nd-great-grandfather, the Reverend William John Chesshyre, was a Canon of Canterbury Cathedral. Chesshy...
