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distinguished himself on many other occasions during the war, can 

 hardly be claimed as connected with the town, as I am not aware 

 that lie was so any more than by simply taking his title from it, 

 perhaps in consequence of its being a seaport near his birthplace, 

 if, as I presume, he was born at Thorncombe, where his father was 

 clergyman. And in the present century there is one whom we 

 may almost claim, as though born and resident in the adjoining 

 parish of Bradpole no doubt he often trod the Bridport streets in 

 his early years ; and had we many such men as William Edward 

 Forster, who by his Education Act helped forward we may hope 

 the onward progress of the nation so as to affect for good all 

 succeeding generations of Englishmen, we should not need to 

 consider our town as wanting in men of note. 



