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William Lowndes (1834–1905) died, his estate was valued at £452,310. He not only left £7,000 to each of his three half sisters, but also left his real estate (the Knightsbridge ground rents, and the Bury house) together with the residue of his personal estate to her eldest son William Frederick.
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Lowndes (April 1844 – 7 June 1928) on 25 May 1869 in Hove, Sussex, England. Mary was the third daughter of William Lowndes (1807–1864) and Marth Sutton (1807–1890). The Lowndes were wealthy, being the ground landlords for Knightsbridge in London. When Mary's
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He also produced some albums and books that don't fit easily into these four categories. Frith freely makes the work of others in his non-fiction works, and some of them were encyclopedic in tone, briefly covering a wide range of issues in a topic. In his preface to
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Most of Frith's novels fall into the boys' adventure category. As with the lists in the following sections, the list of titles is not meant to be comprehensive, but to give the reader a flavour of the range of Frith's output:
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on 1 July 1857 to train as a Civil
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Frith originally trained as an engineer, and worked for the War Office until 1875 when he qualified for a pension. The way in which he described himself changed over time:
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and others, as well as writing his own works. His prolific output amounted to nearly 200 works between translations, novels, and instructional titles.
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The entertaining non-fiction was mostly aimed at a juvenile audience. The titles included:
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction suggests that Frith may have translated Verne's
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in English. Frith followed this in 1976 with a translation of two of
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Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in Southern Africa
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Half Hours of Scientific Amusement (translated from a book by
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The Lost Trader: or, the mystery of the “Lombardy,” etc.
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Roland Girdlestone Frith (1884–1947), moved to the US
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315:Frith translated another five workes by Verne:
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547:The Chairman's Guide and Secretary's Companion
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380:Vingt mille lieues sur les mers
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476:The Captain of Cadets
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