PULMAN

George Philip Rigney (son of Philip Pulman 1791–1871). b. Axminster, Devon 21 Feb. 1819; printer and bookseller at Crew kerne 1848; edited the Yeovil Times some years; founded at Crew kerne Pulman’s Weekly news and advertiser 10 March 1857, owner and editor of it to June 1878, when he sold it with his bookselling busine ; obtained a bronze medal for his artificial fishing flies at Great Exhibition 1851; published The western agriculturist about 1843, and the United counties miscellany 1849 to July 1851; author of The book of the Axe 1841, 4 ed. 1875; The vade mecum of fly fishing for trout 1841, 3 ed. 1851; Rustic sketches, being poems on angling in the dialect of East Devon, Taunton 1842, 3 ed. 1871; Local nomenclature, a lecture on the names of places, chiefly in the West of England 1857; author with prince L. L. Bonaparte of The song of Solomon in the East Devons hire dialect 1860. d. The Hermitage, Uplyme, South Devon 3 Feb. 1880. bur. Axminster cemet. 7 Feb. John Trotandot’s [i.e. G. P. R. Pulman’s] Rambles, warnings, and recollections (1870) with portrait of G. P. R. Pulman ; Academy 14 Feb. 1880 p. 120.