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The Family of Couch from the Middle Ages to 1789. The Private Memoirs of Jonathan Couch, transcribed and edited by Alwyne Wheeler, records the name Couch associated with Launceston in1635 and earlier, while the Manor of Tywardreath was in the possession of a Couch before the reign of Charles I. In fact, the name Couch is not uncommon in Cornwall.
In 1910, Lilian married John James Hay Lobban, a Scotsman born in Aberdeenshire c.1871, so a few years younger than Lilian. The marriage at Christchurch, Hampstead on 28 July 1910 was witnessed by Arthur Quiller-Couch and Alexandra Lobban, the groom's sister.
The opening of Harry Revel has Napoleon preparing for and then abandoning his attempted landing on British soil in 1805, an attempt Jonathan Couch remembered all his life. Instead, he tried to prevent trade between Britain and his European empire, which by 1811 stretched from the Vistula to the Pyrenees.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863 - 1944) was a Cornish novelist who published under the pseudonym "Q." Though he compiled a number of anthologies of verse and prose, he is best known for The Oxford Book of English Verse (1250-1900), published in 1900, updated in 1918. He's well regarded for his own poetic verses, publishing Poems and Ballads in 1896.
11 de fev. de 2014 · Fowey, Cornwall: The Poet Who Raised a Battalion. Sir Arthur Quiller Couch raised a battalion from scratch with no military experience. Show more. 11 February 2014. 13 minutes.
A short summary of the lives of the Bronte sisters: Dr Richard Q. Couch practised medicine in the same street from which the mother and the aunt of the sisters came. Q would have known the street as he stayed in Penzance with Dr. John Q. Couch and Richard’s children. Richard and John were Q’s uncles, although Richard died before Q was able ...
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944), who often published under the pen-name of 'Q', was one of the giants of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism. A novelist and poet who was also a Professor of English, he helped to form the literary tastes of generations of literary students and scholars who came after him.
