dante's pike

...the church of St Peter the Apostle, Church Knowle. John Clavell, MP for Corfe Castle in 1584, was buried here in 1609. I mentioned the Clavell family in my earlier blips on Smedmore House, the Clavell Tower and Barnston Manor.

The other particularly noticeable graves are those of the Pike family. One of the group is that of Warburton Pike who, in 1881, was the first person to translate Dante's Inferno into English...