Correspondent’s Picture

On October 6, Kevin Shillington, a freelance historian and biographer with many years of teaching experience in Africa and the author of many books on African history, came to Westbere to talk to the preservation society about the biography he is writing on General Sir Charles Warren. Kevin covered the whole spectrum of Charles Warren’s life from his childhood and his rapid rise as a young man to a commission in the Royal Engineers right up to his death in WestonSuper-mare and his burial in Westbere. He focused on different

Diana Poulter aspects of Charles Warren’s truly varied career including details of Warren the pioneer archaeologist in Jerusalem and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who failed to catch Jack the Ripper. The talk was brought alive by some fascinating maps and old...