Barbara Minshull News Today

A lot of famous people have served their countries well when the need arose. Some stories are well-known---like Ernest Hemingway drawing on his wartime

- It was a song said to have been sung in the streets of Manchester in the late eighteenth century and commemorated one of the town’s most glorified villian and all round cad. Roger Aytoun, better known as Spanking Roger, scandalised eighteenth century society when he married Barbara Minshull, widow of Thomas, a noted apothecary. The pair, it is rumoured met while Roger was taking part in a race on Kersal Moor.Barbara, it is said, attracted to his physique and Rogre, finding that she was th...