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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3168014.4
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Inside a white envelope is a sheet of plain lined paper, folded inside of this is a handwritten note, by William Jnr., on plain white paper in blue ink; '26th June, 1951 A Pretender of the 1930's. My purchase(no 530 ex Turndil Catalogue 690) of this small Worksop publication : Collections on the surname of Feather, recalls an incident of the mid 1930's. One very hot summer afternoon I was taking the first afternoon class with a group of senior boys at the City of London College when a boy came in a few minutes late. He very politely made his excuses and said he had been "listening to King Anthony" (I think in or near Finsbury Square.) at the same time he offered me a small single sheet copy of a leaflet which the claimant had distributed. unfortunately I gave it him back after perusal. as far as I can remember the main statement was a modestly-phrased but ...... statement of his right to the British Crown. in a footnote he cited 2 or 3 printed authorities of which I remember only this pamphlet. I took a note of these words and told the boy I would investigate them at the British Museum. I did so, but could find nothing relevant to the man's claims. P.T.O What did surprise me was that one of them was this little known pamphlet printed by Robert White in my own native town. Who and what was King Anthony? I believe that one or other of the London Evening Newspapers noticed him and his claim at the time, but I have no recollection of any subsequent reference. William Straw. M.A.' Contains the book 'Collections relating to the surname of Feather' by George William Marshall (1839-1905) (record 3168014). MARSHALL, George William 1839 - 1905, genealogist, born at Ward End House, near Birmingham, on 19 April 1839, and descended from a family settled for several generations at Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, was the only child of George Marshall, a Birmingham banker, by his second wife, Eliza Henshaw Comberbatch. Educated privately and at St. Peter's College, Radley, he entered Magdalen College, Cambridge, in 1857, but soon removed to Peterhouse, whence he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1861, and proceeded LL.M. in 1864, and LL.D. in 1874. In 1861 he entered the Middle Temple, was called to the bar on 9 June 1865, and for some time practised on the Oxford circuit.