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According to Graham Fowell, chairman of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain, an increasing number of cartoonists now scour the 24-hour global news, looking for hotspots and then speedily presenting the view from the street – or at least as conveyed through Twitter.
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Bird and Fowell, Best, and Fish or Fisk (Scand.) are easily identified.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton was well known in the early part of the nineteenth century as one of the most earnest assistants of William Wilberforce in freeing England from the crimes inseparable from slave-holding.
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Fowell learnt very little at school, and was regarded as
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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In Fowell Buxton's time the Borough Compter was little altered; dirt, confusion, and misery; cold, sickness, and gambling; and twenty prisoners sleeping on eight straw beds.
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From 1804 to 1812, he appears to have been ceaseless in his endeavours to procure some amendment; and though, when Fowell Buxton followed in 1818, and when Mrs Fry devoted herself to the female prisoners of Newgate, very little general improvement was perceptible; yet much
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According to Graham Fowell, chairman of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain, an increasing number of cartoonists now scour the 24-hour global news, looking for hotspots and then speedily presenting the view from the street - or at least as conveyed through Twitter.
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The lords of a hundred manors, proud of their long pedigrees and old coats of arms, took the field at the head of their tenantry, Drakes, Prideauxes and Rolles, Fowell of Fowelscombe and Fulford of Fulford, Sir Bourchier Wray of Tawstock Park and Sir
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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These ideas posed by Thomas Fowell Buxton, Wilberforce’s successor, had a major impact on David Livingstone.
David Livingstone’s Vision Revisited: Christianity, Commerce and Civilization in the 21st Century 2007
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A West-country pronunciation; cf. Vowle for Fowell, Vokes for Foakes
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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