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by "Aliph Cheem" apart from his own books. Sterndale worked in the
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Handley Bathurst Sterndale (1829â1878) was an archaeologist who suggested connections between the monuments made by vanished Polynesian civilizations and relics in India, Britain and Central America. His sister Agnes married Sir
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of a committee (other members included Robert G.W. Herbert, James
Mackenzie, E. Field, Grant Blunt, J. C. Mellis) in London to save St. Helena and set up a fish curing industry. In 1895 he was temporarily assigned to govern St. Helena during the absence of
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