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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Baronet Boehm of Wetherby Gardens in Kensington is in Baronetcies of England Alphabetically, Baronetcies of England Chronologically, Extinct Baronetcies of England.
1st: Joseph Edgar Boehm 1st Baronet. Died 1890. Son
2nd: Edgar Collins Boehm-Boteler 2nd Baronet. Died 1928. Extinct.
The London Gazette 25953. Whitehall, July 11, 1889. The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom unto Joseph Boehm (age 55), of Wetherby Gardens, in the parish of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, in the county of London, Esq., Royal Academician, Sculptor in Ordinary to the Queen, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
On 12th December 1890 Joseph Boehm (age 56) died suddenly at his home 76 Fulham Road. Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll (age 42), his pupil, was either present, leading to speculation in the press about their relationship, or found his body shortly after his death. His son Edgar (age 21) succeeded 2nd Baronet Boehm of Wetherby Gardens in Kensington.
In 1928 Edgar Collins Boehm-Boteler 2nd Baronet (age 59) died. Baronet Boehm of Wetherby Gardens in Kensington extinct.