Template:Did you know nominations/L. D. Reynolds
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The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 04:29, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
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L. D. Reynolds
- ... that the classicist L. D. Reynolds wrote his first publication on the birds of the Caerphilly Basin? Source: This was an interest Reynolds was never to lose. In his adolescence it led to his first publication. Caerphilly Grammar school [...] had a Field Club [...] which, in 1945, published a list of the birds of the Caerphilly Basin. Winterbottom (2001) 660
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... that the classicist L. D. Reynolds won a scholarship to study at The Queen's College, Oxford but was forced by law to attend University College Cardiff?Source: At seventeen he won a place to read Modern Languages [...] at The Queen's College, Oxford. But for that one year a hard-pressed government dictated that holders of state scholarships must attend the university nearest to their homes, and Reynolds accordingly entered what was then University College Cardiff in 1947. Winterbottom (2001) 661
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5x expanded by Modussiccandi (talk). Self-nominated at 19:14, 24 July 2021 (UTC).
Interesting life and work on fine sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I prefer the original, saying more about him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:48, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
