Famous People
- Edmund Gonville, rector of the parish, 1342–51.
- John Colton (archbishop), Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh.
- Dickman, a mythical being in local folklore who roams the marshes and attacks anyone who strays onto them. The legend is well known in the local area and is thought to have been promulgated by samphire traders to stop people from going down to the marsh and picking the samphire.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or people:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better.... Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)