A fact from Richard Burchett appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 February 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,300 times ( disclaimer) ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that 13 years after his death in 1875, the future Royal College of Art found a letter from the widow of Richard Burchett, headmaster for over 20 years, asking for a pension? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/February.

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Great article! I would note that DNB as a reference is completely obscure, at least to most Americans; suggest calling it out as the Dictionary of National Biography with full citation in the references. I'm not sure which edition you used, so I can't make the change my self. - PKM ( talk) 19:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC) reply

• Yes - forgot to add to refs. Done now. Johnbod ( talk) 20:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC) reply

A number of additional refs from the London Gazette are available. See here. I'm a bit short of time at the moment or I'd add myself, {{ LondonGazette}} may be useful for formatting these. David Underdown ( talk) 13:33, 25 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Indeed! Many thanks. Nothing about that in the DNB! Johnbod ( talk) 14:01, 25 February 2008 (UTC) reply

I've templated the refs now (there's been at least one complete website re-vamp in the past, using the template means if they do that again, we'll be able to fix all the refs centrally, rather than wading through individual articles), used a named ref for the one you repeated, and added another from after his death to just show it wasn't resolved. David Underdown ( talk) 15:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Thanks, but the first one seems to swallow some text - not sure how to sort this. Johnbod ( talk) 15:17, 25 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Think it's sorted now, I hadn't quite done teh named refs properly. David Underdown ( talk) 15:52, 25 February 2008 (UTC) reply

That's it - thanks again. A Wikipedia exclusive, as no other source mentions this! Johnbod ( talk) 18:08, 25 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Dawn on a Rosshire River by Arthur Burchett Johnbod ( talk) 11:56, 14 December 2012 (UTC) reply