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Wearside Jack is the nickname given to John Samuel Humble (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2019), a British man who pretended to be the Yorkshire Ripper in a hoax audio recording and several letters in 1978 and 1979. [1] Humble sent a taped message spoken in a Wearside accent and three
John Hartley (1839–1915) was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature – dealing with the poverty of the district. He was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire. Hartley wrote and edited the Original Illuminated Clock Almanack from 1866 to his death.
Between 1987 and 1999, residents of Manfield, district of North Yorkshire, began receiving poison pen letters.The poison pen letter writer stalked a woman, Joanne Kellett, and sent a letter to her, accusing her of being a prostitute, and threatened to put a bomb down the chimney at the home of Molly Christian, one of his first victims, [3] to whom he sent three anonymous letters.
Canting arms of Calverley: Argent, a fess gules between three calves passant sable [1]. Walter Calverley (1579–1605) was an English squire from Yorkshire.In some of her letters, his mother-in-law spelled the name "Coverley", which suggests that it was then pronounced with the "al" as in "calf" ("Calverley" means "pasture for calves" [2]).
His correspondence includes two letters from the archbishop of York and about 270 letters from a wide range of people including William Carr of York and Henry Maister of Hull. Christopher Sykes's son, Mark Masterman Sykes (1771–1823), [ 1 ] was a knowledgeable collector of books and fine arts, but these were sold when he died childless.
Jack Hobbs (1926–1993) was a publisher from Yorkshire. He worked at various London-based publishers before settling at Michael Joseph Ltd, where he worked on a variety of projects including Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate. By the late 1960s, he was working as a director at Private Eye Productions and had set up the short-lived ...
Writers from the East Riding of Yorkshire (1 C, 15 P) Writers from North Yorkshire (1 C, 31 P) Writers from South Yorkshire (1 C, 7 P) Writers from West Yorkshire (1 ...
Wyvill drew up a circular letter enunciating its political sentiments, and took a leading part in drawing up the Yorkshire petition presented to parliament on 8 February 1780. A number of moderate Whigs, including Horace Walpole, regarded Wyvill's manifesto as chimerical, Walpole writing that it was full of "obscurity, bombast, and futility".