A Devon House

Throughout its 130+year history, Devon House has captured the imagination of Jamaicans ever since it was built in 1881 by Jamaica s first black millionaire George Stiebel. It is a history that has been colourful, at times shrouded in mystery, tragic and controversial. The story of this house of dreams is being fully told for the first time in this book by Enid Shields through the lives of the families who owned and lived in Devon House. The author s easy, almost gossipy style of writing brings the families and Devon House vividly to life while preserving the accuracy and authenticity of the story. Winner of an American Express 1990 Historic Preservation Award, Devon House is today the centre of social life in Kingston. Its restaurants, numerous craft, ice-cream and pastry shops and flower pavilions make it a popular venue for tourist outings, family reunions and wedding parties.

A historical account of the family of Coleridge of Devonshire between 1600 and 1905, including that portion of the family which became part of the nobility as the "House of Coleridge." Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), the famous poet, was part of the family.

When Tegan decides to do a history project on the local 'stately home', Devon House, she uncovers much more than its history.

Exeter Cathedral is but the crowning glory of Devon's wealth of medieval churches, replete with sumptuous fittings and monuments. The county's peak of prosperity from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century is reflected too in its castles, its secluded manor houses, and its scores of sturdily built farmhouses. The delights of Devon's well loved seaside and country towns are explored from the distinctive merchants' houses of Totnes and Topsham to the elegant Regency crescents of Teignmouth and Sidmouth. The picture is completed by accounts of the creation of the docks at Plymouth, industrial relics, and the substantial but little known store of Devon's Victorian churches.

This volume will interest people whose ancestors were Devon farmers. It discusses the siting, the exterior and the interior of Devon farmhouses from about 1450 to about 1920.

A collection of essays on the theme of Tudor and Stuart Devon. Subjects studied include Katherine Courtney, Countess of Devon; tinworking in four Devon stannaries; the legislative activities of local MPs during the reign of Elizabeth; landed society and the emergence of the country house; North Devon maritime enterprise; English wine imports, with special reference to the Devon ports- fishing and the commercial world of early Stuart Dartmouth; the clergy in Devon, 1641-1661.