Name Index

To

The Worthies of Devon

The Devonian Year Book, London: The Devonian Association, (1910) illus. pp. 39-90.

by

R. Pearse Chope

Prepared by Michael Steer

National pride in the industrial might of Britain and its growing Empire during the Victorian and Edwardian eras generated an increased public awareness of regional identity. Devon literature of that period became no longer just of interest to antiquarians or tourists. There was a growing market for it among Devonians, including those expatriates who formed Devonian associations in London and elsewhere. The London Devonian Association published a yearbook for many years. This article by the yearbook's editor attempts to provide an index of all the 'Worthies of Devon' whose names have been considered sufficiently important to be noticed in the Dictionary of National Biography. When making the index, the author attempted a separate list of the 40 most distinguished names, and these he designated The Forty Immortals, In the present index these 40 'immortal names' are indicated by an asterisk (see Acland, Sir Henry Wentworth below as an example). An original (print) copy of the year book is held at the University of Toronto Library and was produced from a digital copy that can be downloaded from: Google Books with a search by either author or title, and also from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.