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

Christopher Syn is portrayed as a brilliant scholar from Queen's College, Oxford, possessing swashbuckling skills such as riding, fencing, and seamanship.

Christopher Syn set out on a quest for revenge, always managing to reach the eloped pair's destinations ahead of them just in time to terrify them against landing and facing him in a deliberate campaign of terror.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

At night riding Gehenna, the respectable Dr. Christopher Syn became the " Scarecrow ", the feared head of the smugglers.

In 1960 American author William Buchanan used the character in his novel Christopher Syn.

Doctor Christopher Syn

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

It tells the story of how the young clergyman, Christopher Syn, loses his wife to a seducer.

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.

In this story we are introduced to the complex Christopher Syn, the kindly vicar of the little town of Dymchurch.

Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.

On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain of Portland, Oregon, became the first person to swim the Columbia River's entire length, in an effort to raise public awareness about the river's environmental health.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

Kidd became captain, either the result of an election of the ship's crew or because of appointment by Christopher Codrington, governor of the island of Nevis.

They had three children: the filmmaker and screenwriter Christopher Trumbo, who became an expert on the Hollywood blacklist ; Melissa, known as Mitzi, a photographer ; and Nikola Trumbo, a psychotherapist.

In 1927, Christopher Stone became the first radio announcer and programmer in the United Kingdom, on the BBC radio station.

Visiting galleries in Geneva and the Brücke Museum in Berlin, Bowie became, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " a prolific producer and collector of contemporary art.

During his second trip to America, in November 1493, Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Guadeloupe, while seeking fresh water.

Fawkes's fellow students included John Wright and his brother Christopher ( both later involved with Fawkes in the Gunpowder plot ) and Oswald Tesimond, Edward Oldcorne and Robert Middleton, who became priests ( the latter executed in 1601 ).

Isabella and Ferdinand authorized the 1492 expedition of Christopher Columbus, who became the first known European to reach the New World since Leif Ericson.

Under early English rule Jamaica became a haven of privateers, buccaneers, and occasionally outright pirates: Christopher Myngs, Edward Mansvelt, and most famously, Henry Morgan.

Robert Toombs of Georgia was the first Secretary of State, and Christopher Memminger of South Carolina became Secretary of the Treasury.

In 1935, it became the Socony Sketchbook, with Christopher Morley and the Johnny Green orchestra.

Skeptics such as Milbourne Christopher have found that some cases of poltergeist activity can be attributed to unusual air currents, such as a 1957 case on Cape Cod where downdrafts from an uncovered chimney became strong enough to blow a mirror off of a wall and knock things off shelves.

Because Sergius III had reputedly ordered the murder of his two immediate predecessors, Leo V and Christopher and was the only pope to have allegedly fathered an illegitimate son who later became pope ( John XI ), his pontificate has been described as " dismal and disgraceful ".

All real power now devolved onto Theophylact, and Sergius essentially became his puppet, and perhaps the first clear sign of this shift in power was the fate of Sergius ’ two predecessors, Pope Leo V and the Antipope Christopher.

They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer ; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England ; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

* 2000 — Christopher Flavin became President of Worldwatch in October.

He became the Professor of Computing Science at the Queen's University of Belfast in 1968, and in 1977 returned to Oxford as the Professor of Computing to lead the Programming Research Group in the Oxford University Computing Laboratory ( now Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford ), following the death of Christopher Strachey.

European Christendom first became aware of the existence of the Americas after they were discovered by an expedition led by Christopher Columbus in 1492.

The writings of Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Gordon Cullen and Christopher Alexander became authoritative works for the school of Urban Design.

Leicester, after some initial jealousy, also became a good friend of Sir Christopher Hatton, himself one of Elizabeth's favourites.

In 2009, Defence of the Realm, the authorised history of MI5 by Christopher Andrew, held that while MI5 kept a file on Wilson from 1945, when he became an MP – because communist civil servants claimed that he had similar political sympathies – there was no bugging of his home or office, and no conspiracy against him.

Steiner states that the sole original source to claim that he did join a church – in Hudson, New York – is Vernon B. Hampton, in Religious Background of the White House ( Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1932 ), the basis of which Steiner was unable to verify.

The physical nature of Gondor is most prominently illustrated by the maps for The Lord of the Rings and Unfinished Tales made by Christopher Tolkien on the basis of his father's sketches, and can be supplemented by several geographical accounts such as The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor and Cirion and Eorl.

Christopher Marlowe used this work as the basis for his more ambitious play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( published c. 1604 ).

The 1969 performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London of the Schubert Piano Quintet in A major, " The Trout ", was the basis of a film, The Trout, by Christopher Nupen.

The quintet is the basis of Christopher Nupen's influential 1969 film The Trout with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta performing at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

His son, Roger Laurin, worked as a trainer at Christopher Chenery's Meadow Stable and when Roger accepted an offer to work for Ogden Phipps, he suggested to Chenery that his father might help them on a temporary basis.

Of the four four-part Mass cycles, The Western Wind is based on a derived popular melody which also formed the basis of Mass cycles by John Taverner and Christopher Tye.

His 1951 play I Am a Camera, together with Christopher Isherwood's short stories, Goodbye to Berlin ( 1939 ), formed the basis of Joe Masteroff's book for the Kander and Ebb musical, Cabaret ( 1966 ).

It was the legal basis of Don Christopher Columbus's authority as viceregal agent of the Spanish crown in the Americas.

Nishida ´ s essays during the military regime are described by Christopher Ives ( Stonehill College ) as serving: ' a philosophical basis for the state and the war.

In the Yellowthread Street series, the detectives of the Yellowthread Street police station in fictitious Hong Bay, Hong Kong -- DCI Harry Feiffer, a European born and raised in Hong Kong ; Senior Inspector Christopher O ' Yee, half-Chinese, half-Caucasian American, and all neurotic ; and the ever-bickering team of Inspectors Auden and Spencer -- attempt to find the rational basis for inexplicable and seemingly bizarre crimes.

Westron Wynde is an early 16th century song whose tune was used as the basis ( cantus firmus ) of Masses by English composers John Taverner, Christopher Tye and John Sheppard.

As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.

Christopher Ehret argues on this basis that there are two possible homelands for Semitic, Northern Mesopotamia where Western Semitic broke away from Eastern Semitic ; or the Levant.

* Stewart's book became the basis of an opera of the same name by Christopher Theofanidis, with libretto by Donna DiNovelli.

A number of the stories formed the basis of the 1991 four-part BBC1 series Ashenden, directed by Christopher Morahan, with Alex Jennings in the title role, Joss Ackland as Cumming and Ian Bannen as ' R '.