siddermouth

Updated: May 13, 2025

And in The Wonderful Visit published in the same year as The Time Machine he comes closer to earth. That ardent ornithologist, the Rev. K. Hilyer, Vicar of Siddermouth, who brought down an angel with a shot-gun, is tenderly imagined; a man of gentle mind, for all the limitations of his training. The mortalised angel, on the other hand, is rather a tentative and simple creature.

J. D. (John Davys) Beresford - H. G. Wells