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JOHN KYRLE (1637-1724)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 960 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN KYRLE (1637-1724)  , " the Man of Ross,"
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English philanthropist, was born in the parish of Dymock, Gloucester-
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shire, on the 22nd of May 1637 . His
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father was a
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barrister and M.P., and the
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family had lived at Ross, in
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Herefordshire, for many generations . He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and having succeeded to the
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property at Ross took up his abode there . In everything that concerned the welfare of the little
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town in which he lived he took a lively interest—in the
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education of the children, the distribution of
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alms, in improving and embellishing the town . He delighted in mediating between those who had quarrelled and in preventing lawsuits . He was generous to the poor and spent all he had in good
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works . He lived a
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great
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deal in the open air working with the labourers on his
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farm . He died on the 7th of November 1724, and was buried in the chancel of Ross Church . His memory is pre-served by the Kyrie Society, founded in 1877, to better the lot of working
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people, by laying out parks, encouraging house decoration, window gardening and flower growing . Ross was eulogized by Pope in the third Moral
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Epistle (1732), and by Coleridge in an early poem (1794) .

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