Portal:Derbyshire/Fascinating Fact/10

...that John Mawe, who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil?
... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839, had one of his paintings exhibited in the Royal Academy when he was only 15?
... that English landscape architect Edward Milner designed three public parks in Preston, Lancashire?
...that the 12th Duke of Norfolk rebuilt Glossops parish church, built All Saints RC chapel, improved the reservoir and built the town hall,
...that after Robert de Ferrers, the 6th Earl of Derby was pardoned for his part in a civil war against King Edward I, he did it again?

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