Beatrix Feodore Cresswell According to Tony Gale on the Crediton Area History and Museum Society website Beatrix Feodore Cresswell (1862-1940) produced dozens of publications on a range of subjects between 1889 and the mid-1920s. Her earliest work to appears to be “The Royal Progress of King Pepito”, published by the SPCK in 1889 with illustrations by the well-established Kate Greenaway. At the turn of the century she produced two books for the Homeland Series : Dartmoor and its Surroundings , cf Cary-Cresswell) and Teignmouth; its Histoy and Surroundings (with two maps described below). It was early in the twentieth century that Cresswell got into her stride as a local historian. In 1908 she published, “Architectural Antiquities of Exeter and the Neighbourhood”. Two volumes appeared in 1910; “A Survey of Devon Churches” and “Chained Books and Libraries in Devon Parish Churches”. Much of her historical research appeared in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association ; she tra...