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BECHSTEIN'S BAT

Bechstein's Bat (Myotis bechsteini) is the largest species of the Myotis genus. The wing span is about 28 cm, the wings rather narrow and pointed towards the tips. The ear is very long, with a rounded end, and the tragus is long, narrow and curved outwards. The first upper premolar larger than the second, and neither extremely minute. The fur is long and woolly, and extends only a short way on to the wing and interfemoral membranes. The colour is dusky brown above, whitish beneath. Bechstein's bat occurs over the greater part of Europe south from Scandinavia but has very rarely been found in Great Britain, and then always in the southern counties, mainly Sussex and Hampshire including the Isle of Wight. It is gregarious, living in small colonies of up to about twenty in holes in trees. The flight is slow and near the ground, the bats emerging rather late in the evening.
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RED SQUIRREL

The Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is a small, active mammal of the family Sciuridae, order Rodentia, characterized by a long bushy tail, large dark eyes, short snout with long whiskers, chestnut coloured fur and distinctive ear tufts. Essentially a forest dweller, Red Squirrels are to be found in forests of Scots pine, Norway spruce and Siberian pine trees, but also deciduous woodlands. For most of the year red squirrels are solitary, spending most of their life in the treetops, but foraging on the ground for food which is carried up into the trees. The Red Squirrel was once common in the British Isles, but is now restricted to Wales, the Isle of Wight, Brownsea Island and Scotland.
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SEROTINE

The serotine is a large bat, about the size of the noctule, with a very limited distribution in Britain. The wing-span is about 38 cm, and the wings are considerably broader than are those of the noctule. The oval ears are longer than broad, spaced far apart, and the unnotched but sinuous hind margin ends between the base of the tragus and the angle of the mouth. The tragus is fairly long, bluntly rounded at its tip, and has a curved hind edge. The anterior premolar is absent from the upper jaw and small in the lower one. The fur is longer and less velvety than in the noctule; it does not extend far on to the upper surface of the wing nor on to the under surface of the interfemoral membrane both of which are, however, sparsely sprinkled with very fine hairs. A band of hair extends along the under side of the arm bone towards the wrist. The colour is dark brown above and a lighter shade of brown beneath.

Bats of this or closely allied species have a very wide distribution throughout temperate Europe and Asia, but the British Isles are on the extreme limit of the range. The species is locally abundant in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and parts of Devon. Elsewhere it is either unknown or very rare, but it has been recorded from Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Easer and Suffolk. The serotine lives in small colonies of up to twenty individuals, frequently in the roofs of houses.
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TREE FROG

Tree Frog is a family of frogs arboreal in habit (they live in trees). There are over 150 known species and may be recognised by the adhesive disks on their toes which enable them to cling to the leaves and stems of trees. Usually green in colour, which makes them hard to spot among the foliage when they are resting, they spend all their time in trees except in cold or very dry weather when they hide in mud or under stones, and in the breeding season when most of the species visit water for spawning. One species (Hyla arborea) is common to central and southern Europe and has become naturalised in places on the Isle of Wight. It hunts among the foliage for grubs, spiders and insects.
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CERDIC

Cerdic was king of the West Saxons. He invaded England about the end of the 5th century and established the kingdom of Wessex in 516. He died in 534. At his death in 534 his kingdom included the present counties of Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Hampshire (including the Isle of Wight).
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HENRY TEMPLE

Henry John Temple (Lord Palmerston) was an English statesman. He was born in 1784 in Hampshire and died in 1865. He became Conservative MP for Newport, Isle of Wight in 1807 but in 1828 switched sides to the Liberals.
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JUTES

The Jutes were an early Germanic tribe of Northern Europe which settled in Kent and the Isle of Wight, England in AD 449.
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LUCIUS CARY

Lucius Cary (Viscount Falkland) was an English noble. He was born about 1610 and died in 1643. His father being Lord-deputy of Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. After passing a short time abroad he devoted himself to a life of retirement and the writing of polite literature, chiefly residing at his seat at Burford, near Oxford, which be made a kind of academy for the learned men of the neighbouring universities.

In 1639 he joined the expedition against Scotland; and in 1640, his peerage being Scottish, he was chosen member of the House of Commons for Newport, in the Isle of Wight. In the first instance he warmly supported the parliament, but doubts of the ultimate objects of the parliamentary leaders caused him to modify his attitude; and in 1642 he accepted from Charles I the office of secretary of state. When hostilities began he embraced decidedly the cause of the king, though he wished rather peace than victory. He was killed at the Battle of Newbury, on the 20th of September 1643. He left behind him several pamphlets and published speeches, also a few poems, but nothing that explains the universal praises bestowed on him by contemporaries.
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PHILIP FRANCIS 2

Sir Philip Francis was an Irish political writers. He was born in 1740 and died in 1818. In 1773 he went to the East Indies, where he became a member of the council of Bengal, and the constant opponent of Warren Hastings. In 1781 Sir Philip Francis returned to England, and shortly after was chosen member of parliament for the borough of Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. He took a prominent part in the impeachment of Hastings. He published several political pamphlets.
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RICHARD WEBSTER

Richard Everard Webster (Viscount Alverstone) was an English lawyer and politician. He was born in 1842 and died in 1915. Educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge in 1868 he became a barrister and in 1878 a QC. In 1885 he entered the House of Commons as Conservative member for Launceston and was appointed attorney-general. He later represented the Isle of Wight and in 1900 was made Master of the Rolls and transferred to Lord Chief Justice in the same year, a position he held until 1913.
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