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on the Isle of Wight, from where his grandfather originated. When his daughter
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Alexander Bennet, her two children being
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which he expanded physically and chronologically to thirty-five large folio volumes. Much of the physical work of cutting out and pasting down seems to have been done by his daughters. Bull's extra illustrated
Granger is now in the
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but it was all spent. He died intestate on 12 December 1805, with
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bookbinders, who gave his daughter a complimentary prayer book 'as a faint Expression of Gratitude for the Recommendations and other Favours'.
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