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  1. 4 days ago · The channel swimmer Capt. Matthew Webb (1848-83) also spent his youth in the parish and learnt to swim in the Severn. The writer Edith Pargeter (born 1913), alias Ellis Peters, lived in Madeley from 1956.

  2. 2 days ago · It failed to pay its way, and in 1877 it was taken over by a committee, which made it a commercial success with such attractions as an aquatic fête featuring Captain Matthew Webb, the Channel swimmer, a steam launch, and a band of Zulu warriors. In 1881 the borough council, after much pressure, took a three-year lease of the Arboretum and ...

  3. 4 days ago · Enlisted in April 1781 in the company commanded by Captain George Webb in the Massachusetts regiment commanded then by Colonel Shepherd, and afterwards by Colonel Henry Jackson - and served in said corps, in Massachusetts, and New York - until November 1783 - when she was honorably discharged in writing, which discharge is lost.

  4. 3 days ago · Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first man to swim the English Channel Answer: 1870s Webb was born in Shropshire in 1848, and made his successful swim on 24th August 1875.

  5. 4 days ago · Explore official, up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming investigations by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

  6. 5 days ago · In 1967, a year before he died at the grand old age of 92, Paulo Radmilovic was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Florida - only the second Briton to be given the honour. The first was Captain Matthew Webb - honoured for being the first man to swim the English Channel.

  7. 1 day ago · Louisa Burr (Webb) (Darius) (c. 1784 -1878) worked most of her life as a valued servant in the home of Elizabeth Powel Francis Fisher, a prominent Philadelphia society matron, and later in the home of her son Joshua Francis Fisher. [114]

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