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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> HOGG - History of Geology Group [<a href="mailto:HOGG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">mailto:HOGG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nina Morgan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 March 2016 10:18<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:HOGG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">HOGG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> New William Smith exhbition opens in Churchill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">A new exhibition about William Smith is opening on Saturday 26 March at the Churchill and Sarsden Heritage Centre. Titled
<i>William Smith: The Family Man</i>, the exhibition focuses on the personal life of Smith, who was born in Churchill in 1769. Highlights include a scan of a sketch of his mother, drawn by Smith from memory, and facsimile extracts and transcriptions of unpublished
personal correspondence between Smith and his niece, Anne Phillips [1803 1862] and nephew, the geologist John Phillips [1800 1874], between 1819 and 1839. The letters, drawn from the archives at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, highlight
the personal side of Smith's life, demonstrate his lifelong loyalty to his birthplace and reveal the close and loving relationship he maintained with his niece and nephew until his death in 1839.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">The letters will remain on display from 26 March to 25 September 2016. The Churchill and Sarsden Heritage Centre, located on Hastings Hill in Churchill near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire is open from 2 4:30
on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays. Admission is free. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">A visit to Churchill also provides an opportunity to examine other Smith memorabilia, including a plaque that marks the site of the house on Churchill Road where Smith was born; the monolith made of local
stone erected in at the top of Hastings Hill in 1831 by the 3<sup>rd</sup> Earl of Ducie that honours William Smith as the 'Father of British [sic] Geology', and the exterior of the All Saints Church, the parish church where, in 1831, Smith describes how
he and his brothers 'had the grace of presenting their bald heads in one Pew ... in supplications to their maker'.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For the full Smith experience you can round off your day with a visit to The Chequers in Churchill, where Smith's stepfather, Robert Gardner, was once landlord.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For further information see:
<a href="http://www.churchillheritage.org.uk">www.churchillheritage.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Nina Morgan, Science writer and editor, tel: 01608-676530<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Mailing address: Rose Cottage East End, Chadlington, Chipping Norton Oxon OX7 3LX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:nina.morgan@cooptel.net">nina.morgan@cooptel.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:ninamorgan@lineone.net">ninamorgan@lineone.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For information about my latest book visit
<a href="http://www.gravestonegeology.uk">www.gravestonegeology.uk</a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">
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