Comments on: The Cleverest General: the Life and Death of Sir George Pomeroy Colley https://rupertcolley.com/2016/02/27/sir-george-pomeroy-colley/ Novelist and founder of History In An Hour Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:33:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: James Pomeroy Hughes https://rupertcolley.com/2016/02/27/sir-george-pomeroy-colley/#comment-28047 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:33:40 +0000 https://rupertcolley.com/?p=1771#comment-28047 What is interesting is that apparently George’s father George Francis Pomeroy added Colley to the family name in 1930. Do you happen to know why?

]]> By: rupertcolley https://rupertcolley.com/2016/02/27/sir-george-pomeroy-colley/#comment-25188 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:23:11 +0000 https://rupertcolley.com/?p=1771#comment-25188 In reply to Frane.

That’s astonishing. Thanks for letting me know. But let’s not start a blood vendetta!

]]> By: Frane https://rupertcolley.com/2016/02/27/sir-george-pomeroy-colley/#comment-25187 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:51:28 +0000 https://rupertcolley.com/?p=1771#comment-25187 The guy that killed him was my great grandpa’s grandpa. He was supposedly between 8 and 14

]]> By: Lior https://rupertcolley.com/2016/02/27/sir-george-pomeroy-colley/#comment-23507 Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:33:16 +0000 https://rupertcolley.com/?p=1771#comment-23507 The geneticist Bryan Sykes once met another Sykes and thought ‘Sykes is pretty uncommon name; I wonder how many Sykes are related’. So he examined a bunch of guys with the name Sykes to see if they share a y-chromosome and indeed half did.

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