Portal:Yorkshire/Did you know . . ./5
...that
John Harrison
(
pictured
), seventeenth century benefactor of
Leeds
, is reputed to have slipped
Charles I
a tankard of gold coins disguised as
beer
?
... that
Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford
was allegedly killed by a spear through the
anus
at the
Battle of Boroughbridge
in 1322?
...that
Ebenezer Rhodes
,
Sheffield
's
Master Cutler
, was declared bankrupt after losing money publishing books about
Derbyshire
?
...that the 364-metre
pier
in
Withernsea
,
England
was struck by ships four times, finally leaving it only 15 metres long?