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Article: WHAT A ROTTER!(News)
- Article from:
- South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2005
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Byline: By Steve Tucker South Wales Echo
A man whose family gave its name to some of South Wales' best-known streets and roads has been included in a list of the worst Britons of the last 1,000 years.
Hugh Despenser the Younger, who terrorised South Wales throughout the early 14th Century, joins the likes of fascist Oswald Mosley and serial killer Jack the Ripper in the list compiled by 10 historians for the BBC History Magazine by 10 historians.
The news will undoubtedly come as a shock to residents of Riverside, Cardiff, living in Despenser ...