Books by "Robert Henry Murray"
12 books found
Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley
by Robert Edmond Chester Waters
1878
The Chester family of England.
Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley, Their Ancestors and Descendants, Etc
by Robert Edmond Chester Waters
1878
The suicide club, and The rajah's diamond. (Orig. publ. in the 'New Arabian nights').
by Robert Louis Stevenson
1894
In Stevenson's tale of father - son confrontation, the father, Adam Weir, is modelled on Lord Braxfield, the eighteenth-century 'hanging judge'. Weir, a 'risen man' who has married a wealthy but weak woman, is both feared and respected, not least by his own son, Archie. At a public hanging, Archie speaks out against capital punishment, knowing that it was his own father who sentenced the man.