![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately for the young Richard, his mother Anne died from typhus just three months after he was born. The house had originally been part of a wheat farm for nearby Margam Abbey but after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 16th century the house and its lands passed into private ownership. She came from Nottage, outside Porthcawl, the family living in some style at Nottage Court. Another ancestor, William Wake, was Bishop of Lincoln and, later, Archbishop of Canterbury.īlackmore's mother Anne had strong Welsh connections. It was a distinguished ecclesiastical family, John Blackmore's wife Harriet being descended from the famous Nonconformist hymn writer Philip Doddridge - the reason RD Blackmore carried his name. Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born at Longworth in Berkshire in 1825, the son of the Rev John Blackmore and Anne Barnett Knight. However, what many people do not know was that this gentle, unassuming lawyer, teacher and author had strong connections with Wales and that he even set one of his romantic novels, The Maid Of Sker, in and around the Porthcawl area. ![]()
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