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Captain Tom Gundry is dead (1888)

  • Obituary Tom Gundry
  • Date: October 27, 1888
  • Source: Mining Journal
  • Type: Newspaper
  • Tags: Obituary Tom Gundry

Captain Tom Gundry is dead. This brief announcement will be mad with regret by Cornishmen in every quarter of the world. “Captain Tom” was the best known of the old school of Cornish wrestlers, and will be remembered for his prowess in the ring, and not as an mine agent. Born 70 years ago Captain […]

Blackmore, ‘Rarstling’ in Clara Vaughan (1864)

  • Chappell Dascombe Ellicombe Fictional R. D. Blackmore Tom Gundry
  • Date: July 17, 1864
  • Source: Clara Vaughan
  • Type: Book
  • Tags: Chappell Dascombe Ellicombe Fictional R. D. Blackmore Tom Gundry

Fictional account, but with key references made by the novelist R. D. Blackmore that drew upon real events, and real wrestlers of the period: Volume 2, Chapter 5: CHAPTER V. That same evening, as I was sitting in my lonely room, yet not quite alone,–for little Sally, who always did as I bade her, was […]

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