wakefield

     

A view of Wakefiel

Trivia about wakefield

  • George's birthplace & early home shares this name with Goldsmith's vicar's town
  • Oliver Goldsmith's Dr. Primrose is "The Vicar of" this place
  • In an Oliver Goldsmith work, Dr. Primrose is the vicar of this parish
  • In a 1766 novel Squire Thornhill abducts Sophia Primrose, whose father is "The Vicar Of" this
  • Oliver Goldsmith described the vicar of this place as "a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family"

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