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John Snell
John Bernard Snell (1932-2013) was a contributor of material to numerous publications covering the FR.
Born in Suva, Fiji on 28 March 1932, John Snell was in at the start of railway preservation, working as fireman during the Talyllyn Railway's first preserved season in 1951 between leaving Bryanston School and going up to Oxford. He later worked for London Transport and then British Railways, and was managing director of the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway from 1972 to 1999 continuing as vice-chairman and secretary of the company until his death. He wrote widely on steam and preserved railways throughout the world and filmed and photographed railways extensively. (See: L.T.C. Rolt, Railway Adventure (1953); John Snell, "Pulling the railway round" in Laura Jacques (ed.), Romney Remembered (2002); and J.B. Snell, Mixed Gauges (2007).)
Part of his photographic record of the FR in its dereliction period of the 1950s appears in the Heritage Group Album (1994). For his account of visits to the derelict FR see The Pioneers' Story. [1] He was one
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John Blashford-Snell
British explorer and author (born 1936)
ColonelJohn Nicholas Blashford-SnellCBE (born 22 October 1936) is a former British Army officer, explorer and author. He founded Operation Raleigh and the Scientific Exploration Society.[1]
Early life and education
John Nicholas Blashford-Snell was born on 22 October 1936[2] in Hereford, England, the son of Alderman the Reverend Leland John Blashford-Snell (1903–1978), MBE, Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, and formerly of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department,[3][4] and Gwendoline Ives Sadler.[5][6] Blashford-Snell grew up in Herefordshire and Jersey and was educated at Victoria College, Jersey from 1950.[7][8] Blashford-Snell joined the British Army and attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as an officer cadet after which he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 2 August 1957.[9]
Military service
Having served his initial two years of his commission as a Second Lieutenant Blashford-Snell was
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John Snell
Scottish educational benefactor (1629–1679)
For other people named John Snell, see John Snell (disambiguation).
Sir John Snell (1629 – 6 August 1679), founder of the Snell Exhibitions at the University of Oxford, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a blacksmith. He attended the University of Glasgow from 1642 to 1644.[2]
He joined the royalists during the English Civil War, and fought in several battles, including the Battle of Worcester. Thereafter he took refuge in Cheshire, where he met Sir Orlando Bridgeman, whose clerk he became, being raised to the offices of court-crier and seal-bearer as his patron was promoted to those of judge and Lord Keeper.
Later he was secretary to the Duke of Monmouth and had the management of his Scottish estates. He died at Oxford in 1679 and was buried in St Cross Church, Oxford, leaving a bequest for sending students from the University of Glasgow to an Oxford college or hall. The Court of Chancery decided in 1693 that Balliol should receive the beneficiaries.Adam Smith was one beneficiary of the Snell Schola
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