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John Hawley


An ex Mayor of Dartmouth and a flamboyant local shipmaster who built the 14th Century Dartmouth Castle to guard the mouth of the River Dart. Hawley is believed to be the inspiration for Chaucer’s character of the Shipmaster in “The Canterbury Tales”.
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