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The Hero of the Humber

Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe

by Henry Woodcock

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A dock gatekeeper's skill in the water gives Henry Woodcock the subject for a biography of courage and Christian service. John Ellerthorpe, born in Yorkshire in 1806, worked as a sailor and became known in Hull for saving people from drowning. Woodcock connects these rescues with Ellerthorpe's religious conversion, Christian work and commitment to temperance, setting his life against the busy river and docks of the Humber.

Individual rescue accounts bring that setting close. In one, Ellerthorpe hears a splash on a cold November night and pulls Henrich Jenson from the dock basin with help from bystanders. Another describes the difficulty of reaching an elderly man's head through the capes of his heavy coat. Names, dates and witnesses give the incidents a recordkeeping quality. The book offers readers interested in maritime life and religious biography a view of practical bravery and the ways a port community acknowledged it.

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Pages
100
Language
English
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