The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

* Dr. Syn Website Comprehensive Dr. Syn website with history, picture & book information about Russell Thorndike's infamous character

* Russell Thorndike: The Doctor Syn novels – a series of seven novels about Doctor Syn, the Smuggler of Romney Marsh, published between 1915 and 1944

In the Further Adventures of Doctor Syn from the Doctor Syn-Series by Russell Thorndike one of the episodes introduces a Bow Street Runner who comes to Dymchurch-under-the-Wall to capture the Scarecrow, the notorious leader of a gang of smugglers.

Three authors who specifically used the marsh as settings for their works were E. F. Benson, author of the Mapp and Lucia novels ; Russell Thorndike, author of the Doctor Syn novels ; and the children's writer Monica Edwards, author of the Romney Marsh books in which Rye Harbour becomes " Westling ", Rye is renamed " Dunsford ", and Winchelsea is known as " Winklesea ".

* Russell Thorndike ( 1885 – 1972 ), who set his Dr Syn novels about smuggling on the marshes.

Lydd is the ' birthplace ' of the fictional character Doctor Christopher Syn, aka the scarecrow, aka Captain Clegg: created by author Russell Thorndyke

Doctor Syn on the High Seas is the second in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn is the fourth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Doctor Syn Returns is the third in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn is the fifth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn is the sixth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Shadow of Doctor Syn is the seventh and last in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh is the first in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.

Inspiration from this gave rise to Dymchurch being the setting of the Doctor Syn novels, based on smuggling, by Russell Thorndike.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Caine, Rachel: Feast of Fools ( Morganville Vampires, Book 4 ) ( 2008 ; vampire Myrnin dresses as Pierrot ); Dennison, George: " A Tale of Pierrot " ( 1987 ); DePaola, Tomie: Sing, Pierrot, Sing: A Picture Book in Mime ( 1983 ; children's book, illustrated by the author ); Hoban, Russell ( has lived in England since 1969 ): Crocodile and Pierrot: A See-the-Story Book ( 1975 ; children's book, illustrated by Sylvie Selig ).

Sam Mendes inaugurated his transatlantic " Bridge Project " directing The Winter's Tale with a cast featuring Simon Russell Beale ( Leontes ), Rebecca Hall ( Hermione ), Ethan Hawke ( Autolycus ), Sinéad Cusack ( Paulina ), and Morven Christie ( Perdita ).

His film career continued with small roles, first in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies ( 1997 ) and then Russell Mulcahy's Tale of the Mummy ( 1998 ).

* A Tale Of Elric of Melniboné: The Dreaming City-Michael Moorcock, Roy Thomas, and P. Craig Russell

*" A Boy's Tale " by Gary Russell ( Short Trips: Companions )

Tale of the Mummy (" Talos-the Mummy ", Talos is the name ) is a 1998 British-American horror film, directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Jason Scott Lee, Jack Davenport, Louise Lombard and Christopher Lee.

* The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, 1964 multi-episode serial by Walt Disney based on a series of novels by Russell Thorndike

Arthur Russell Thorndike ( 6 February 1885, Rochester, Kent – 7 November 1972 ) was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels.

* Russell, Bertrand ( 1956 ), Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901 – 1950, Robert Charles Marsh ( ed.

The township includes Harsens Island, Russell Island, Dickinson Island and St. Johns Marsh.

Other past presenters include Mike Parry, Jon Gaunt, Nicky Horne, Tony Lockwood, Tommy Boyd, Charlie Wolf, Richard Kaufman, Bill Young, Gethin Jones, Patrick Kinghorn, Mike Mendoza, Rhodri Williams, Howard Hughes, Jeremy Kyle, Dave Roberts, Chris Cooper, Jim Proudfoot, Rodney Marsh, Ian Wright, Rob McCaffrey, Russell Brand, Russ Williams, Steve Bower, Kelly Dalglish, and many others.

gracilis ( Marsh 1888 ) Matthew & Brown 1922 ; Dromaeosaurus explanatus ( Cope 1876 ) Kuhn 1939 ; Dromaeosaurus minutus ( Marsh 1892 ) Russell 1972 ( an alvarezsaurid ); Dromaeosaurus falculus ( Cope 1876 ) Olshevsky 1979 and Dromaeosaurus mongoliensis ( Barsbold 1983 ) Paul 1988 ( Velociraptor ).

In 1959 – 1960, O ' Malley starred eight times as Judge Caleb Marsh in the ABC western series Black Saddle starring Peter Breck as a gunslinger-turned-lawyer, with Russell Johnson as a peace officer.

Reclus was admired by many prominent 19th century thinkers, including Alfred Russell Wallace, George Perkins Marsh and Patrick Geddes, Henry Stephens Salt, and Octave Mirbeau.

In 1945, Nathan Rosenfeld hired J. Russell Fowler, a former manager for the Jordan Marsh chain, to manage Jacobson's as well.

The first book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh was published in 1915.

* Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh ( 1915 )

Cover of the 1915 edition of Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh | Doctor Syn: A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh

This sets the stage for the fiendish character he becomes in Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh.

Around this time he completed his first novel of romantic adventure on Romney Marsh entitled Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh.

Syn accepted and settled down to a more respectable life as the vicar of Dymchurch and Dean of Peculiars in Romney Marsh, Kent, resuming his original name.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

: On November 11, 2008 The Walt Disney Company released a limited pressing of 39, 500 issues of The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh in DVD format for the first time as a part of the Disney Treasures collection, and was now called Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.

Doctor Syn is also the name given to one of the locomotives on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

The novel inspired the William Buchanan novel Christopher Syn, upon which the Disney film The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh is based, hence the similarities between the plots.

To protect his parishioners from the agents of the King's Revenue Syn becomes the masked Scarecrow of Romney Marsh and becomes leader of the smugglers.

St. Stephen's church and Lympne Castle overlook Romney Marsh, the church being significantly older, and close by Lympne Hill figures in the Doctor Syn stories.