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

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