Tristram Risdon, writing in about 1630, said that Childe's Tomb was one of three remarkable things in the Forest of Dartmoor ( the others being Crockern Tor and Wistman's Wood ).

However, the harbour was gradually silting up — as early as c. 1630 Tristram Risdon reported that " it hardly beareth small vessels "— and Bideford, which is lower down the estuary and benefits from the scouring action of the fast flowing River Torridge, gradually took over the foreign trade.

Tristram Risdon, in his 1811 Survey of Devon gives an alternate name for the River Erme as the River Arme.

* Tristram Risdon

Tristan ( Latin / Brythonic: Drustanus ; ; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc.

* The Coddled " Terrorists " of South Florida by Tristram Korten and Kirk Nielsen, Salon Magazine, January 14, 2008

* The Coddled " Terrorists " of South Florida by Tristram Korten and Kirk Nielsen, Salon Magazine, January 14, 2008

* The Coddled " Terrorists " of South Florida by Tristram Korten and Kirk Nielsen, Salon Magazine, January 14, 2008

The work exists today as two almost identical manuscripts which were used as source material for many later topographical descriptions of the county: Thomas Westcote's Survey of Devon of 1630, and Tristram Risdon's Chorographical Description or Survey of the County of Devon ( c. 1632 ) are examples.

Nyman was alerted to the potential of this piece by Greenaway in the late 1970s and had previously used it as material for part of the score for Greenaway's The Falls and for " The Masterwork " Award Winning Fish-Knife and Tristram Shandy.

Italo Calvino referred to Tristram Shandy as the " undoubted progenitor of all avant-garde novels of our century.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

In the fifteenth century, Sir Thomas Malory shortened this French version into his own take, The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones, found in his Le Morte D ' Arthur.

It features actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making in a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel Tristram Shandy, which is a fictional account of the narrator's attempt at writing an autobiography.

The Beresford family descends from Tristram Beresford, who originated from Kent but settled in Ireland in the 17th century.

A number of pre-20th century books were also added, and four were dropped: Apollonius ' On Conic Sections, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and Joseph Fourier's Analytical Theory of Heat.

In the second half of the 19th century its prestige was restored by the brilliant work of Swinburne in Tristram and elsewhere.

Although Watt thought Tristram Shandy was the finest novel of the century, he also regarded it as being a stylistic cul-de-sac.

Gillian Anderson and Keeley Hawes also play themselves in addition to their Tristram Shandy roles.

In addition to Davies and Davy, recipients of the DMus award have included: Tristram Cary, OAM ; Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE ; Graeme Koehne ; Bodman Rae ; David Lockett, AM ; and Ross Edwards, AM.

In addition to the Elder Professors, many distinguished composers and performing musicians have been members of staff, including: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies ( composition fellow ); Prof. David Cubbin ( flute ); Clive Carey ( singing ); Jiří Tancibudek ( oboe ); Gabor Reeves ( clarinet ); Beryl Kimber ( violin ); Clemens Leske ( piano ); James Whitehead ( cello ); Lance Dossor ( piano ); Richard Meale ( composition ); Tristram Cary ( electronic music ); Janis Laurs, cello ; Keith Crellin, OAM ( violist, resident conductor and head of strings ).

However, the leading critical opinions of Tristram Shandy tend to be markedly polarised in their evaluations of its significance.

Since the 1950s, following the lead of D. W. Jefferson, there are those who argue that, whatever its legacy of influence may be, Tristram Shandy in its original context actually represents a resurgence of a much older, Renaissance tradition of " Learned Wit " – owing a debt to such influences as the Scriblerian approach.

According to Tristram " A government functioning in its Pelagian phase commits itself to the belief that man is perfectible, that perfection can be achieved by his own efforts, and that the journey towards perfection is along a straight road.

As Tristram explains things, the government grows increasingly disappointed in its population's inability to be truly good, and thus police forces are strengthened and the state becomes Totalitarian.

In the English language, Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, with its heavy emphasis on parody and narrative experimentation, is often cited as an early influence on postmodernism.

Tristram Shandy, a novel by Laurence Sterne, became a " cult " object in England and throughout Europe, with important cultural consequences among those who could afford to purchase books during the era of its publication.

The stone tablet above its doorway states that Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey at Shandy Hall.

The invention of the ' fair terms ' of hunting was attributed by Malory and others to the Arthurian knight Sir Tristram, who is seen both as the model of the noble huntsman, and the originator of its ritual:

Tristram seeks to write his autobiography, but like Swift's narrator in A Tale of a Tub, he worries that nothing in his life can be understood without understanding its context.

" Tristram seeks to write his autobiography, but like Swift's narrator in A Tale of a Tub, he worries that nothing in his life can be understood without understanding its context.

Only one of these stories is reproduced in Tristram Shandy, partially in its ( supposedly ) original Latin, but primarily in English ' translation ' ( a comparison of the Latin and English shows the English ' translation ' to be rather free ; or rather, the Latin is to be regarded as a partial condensation and simplification of the English ).

From Tristram Shandy: " Then, added my father, making use of the argument Ad Crumenam, ' I will lay twenty guineas to a single crown-piece, ( which will serve to give away to Obadiah when he gets back ) that this same Stevinus was some engineer or other, or has wrote something or other, either directly or indirectly, upon the science of fortification.

The last surviving member of Doctors ' Commons, Dr Thomas Tristram, wrote the first editions of a textbook on trusts still in use today.

Therefore all gentlemen who bear old ( coats of ) arms ought to honour Sir Tristram for the goodly terms that gentlemen have and use, and shall until Doomsday, that through them all men of respect may distinguish a gentleman from a yeoman and a yeoman from a villein.

* Coffin, Tristram P .; Cohen, Hennig, ( editors ), Folklore in America ; tales, songs, superstitions, proverbs, riddles, games, folk drama and folk festivals, Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1966.

Jacques le fataliste ( written in 1773, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French ) is similar to Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey.

In the 18th-century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the characters ' hobby-horses, or particular obsessions, are discussed in detail.

* 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships: RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.

He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.

Without Stevenson, Sterne might have been a more decorous parish priest, but then might never have written Tristram Shandy.

It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his most famous novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.

The publication of Tristram Shandy made Sterne famous in London and on the continent.

He began Tristram Shandy.

Sterne was gratified by his reception in France where reports of the genius of Tristram Shandy had made him a celebrity.

His major publication prior to Tristram Shandy was the satire A Political Romance ( 1759 ), aimed at conflicts of interest within York Minster.

Sterne did not begin work on Tristram Shandy until he was 46 years old.

Sterne is best known for his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, for which he became famous not only in England, but throughout Europe.

Tristram Shandy did not last.

" This is strikingly different from the views of European critics of the day, who praised Sterne and Tristram Shandy as innovative and superior.

" Both during his life and for a long time after, efforts were made by many to reclaim Sterne as an arch-sentimentalist ; parts of Tristram Shandy, such as the tale of Le Fever, were excerpted and published separately to wide acclaim from the moralists of the day.

The story starts with the narration, by Tristram, of his own conception.

" The Russian Formalist writer Viktor Shklovsky regarded Tristram Shandy as the archetypal, quintessential novel, of which all other novels are mere subsets: " Tristram Shandy is the most typical novel of world literature.