Newspaper cutting
Category
Ephemera
Date
2 Feb 1954
Materials
Paper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3168089.4
Summary
Newspaper cutting with additional cutting stuck over lower section. Handwritten in blue ink on th bottom, believed to be William Jnrs. handwriting, 'TIMES 2 FEB 1954 Vide MORLEY Pedigree in Doncaster A descendant of MORLEY PUNSHON(?)'. The top article reads ' MR. MORLEY ADAMS Mr. Morley Punshon Adams, who played a large part in the development of the cross-word puzzle in Britain and helped to intro-duce it on this side of the Atlantic, died at his home at Croydo on Sunday. He was in his late seventies.....'. The small stuck on article reads 'DEATHS ADAMS.-On Jan 31. 1954, at Duppas Hill Terrace, Croydon MORLEY PUNSHON ADAMS of Morley Adams Ltd., Newspaper Feature service. Cremation, Croydon Crema-torium Thursday, 3.40 pm.'. On the back of the cutting a cut of article containing '...to the government of Siam. That Bangkok, for some time keenly alive to the threat presented by Viet-minh operations in Laos, would welcome closer ties of a defensive nature with Pnom Penh and Vientiane is certainly true....'. The cutting is kept in the book 'Doncaster charities, past and present' by Charles Jackson (1809-1892) (record 3168089).