Torquay-born explorer Percy Fawcett was lost in the junlge in search of the Lost City of Z. He inspired Arthur Conan Doyle in his novel The Lost World, and is said to be the basis of Indiana Jones
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HG Wells, the Father of Science Fiction, wrote The Sea Raiders, in which Devon and Cornwall were attacked by a species unknown to science 
A workhouse by any other name, the Newton Abbot Union Institution was visited by the then local press in 1928 to see what happened behind its doors, reflecting that society’s very poor should be punished as well as supported 
Although he wasn’t able to enlist in the First World War, Arthur Conan Doyle (him of Sherlock Holmes) did what he could to support the war effort, cinlude lecturing in Torquay 
Proclaiming his belief in the afterlife Conan Doyle gave a lecture entitled Death and the Hereafter at Torquay Town Hall to a mainly female audience. 
The Sherlock Holmes author visited Devon and Dartmoor to explore the myth that gave rise to his story The Hound of the Baskervilles |
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