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Arms of Cabell: Vert fretty argent, over all a fess gules [1] Richard Cabell (died 5 July 1677), of Brook Hall, in the parish of Buckfastleigh on the south-eastern edge of Dartmoor, in Devon, [1] is believed to be the inspiration for the wicked Hugo Baskerville, "the first of his family to be hounded to death when he hunted an innocent maiden over the moor by night", [2] one of the central ...
To the west of the town is the manor house of Brook, a grade II* listed building, built in 1656 by Richard Cabell (d. 1677), lord of the manor of Brook. [5] He was the subject of a local legend which relates that on the night of his death, black hounds breathing fire and smoke raced over Dartmoor and surrounded Brook House, howling.
Richard Cabell died in 1677, and was a local landowner about whom there are many unpleasant local legends. It is believed that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle loosely based on Richard Cabell the character of Hugo Baskerville in the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1097516 and 1097523 .
Elizabeth Fowell (1622-post 1671), wife of Richard Cabell (d.1677) of Brook Hall, [7] in the parish of Buckfastleigh, Devon, known to posterity as "Dirty Dick", and believed to be the inspiration for the wicked Hugo Baskerville, "the first of his family to be hounded to death when he hunted an innocent maiden over the moor by night", [8] one of ...
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Charles P. Cabell was born in Dallas, Texas on October 11, 1903, the son of Ben E. (son of Confederate general William L. Cabell) and Sadie E. (Pearre) Cabell. [1] [2] He attended Oak Cliff High School in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from West Point in 1925.
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