Exuma is a district of The Bahamas, consisting of over 365 islands and cays.
Main street in 1989 in Williamstown, Little Exuma
Men prepeaing for a meal with caught fish
Tourism is a crucial branch of the economy of the area.
John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle
John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle was a British politician and peer who served as a Member of Parliament in general support of William Pitt the Younger and was later an active member of the House of Lords. His violent attacks on Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox in the early 1780s led to his being the target for satirical attack in the Rolliad. He was colonel of the South Devon Militia and was instrumental in forming the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry and the North Devon Yeomanry.
John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1750–1842) in his peerage robes. Portrait by Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830). Collection of Great Torrington Almshouse, Town Lands and Poors Charities, displayed in Great Torrington Town Hall. Donated by Lord Clinton
Sculpture of Lord Rolle (died 1842), inscribed on plinth: "E.B. Stephens sculp. London 1844", in entrance hall of Bicton House, Exeter, Devon. By Edward Bowring Stephens (1815–1882); exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, as: "A marble statue of the late Lord Rolle in the robe worn at the coronation of Her Majesty the Queen". An identical earlier version dated 1843 exists in the entrance hall of Lupton House, Brixham, the home of John Yarde-Buller, 1st Baron Churston (1799–1871)
Heraldic achievement of Lord Rolle (died 1842) in first-floor window at top of grand staircase, Bicton House. Motto: Nec Reg(in)a Nec Populo Sed Utroque ("Not with the Queen, not with the People, but with each"). Arms: Or, on a fesse indented azure between three billets of the second each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants. The canting crest is a dexter cubit arm holding in the hand a roll of parchment, the crests of earlier family members hold a baton (Chittlehampton Church) or a flint-stone (Library Room, Stevenstone).
Badge of Royal North Devon Hussars, as seen on framed mural monument in Exford Church, Somerset, to Major Morland Greig (1864–1915), of Edgcott, Exford, Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, killed in action at Gallipoli. The badge is derived from the crest of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (died 1842), of Stevenstone, who played a significant role in raising the predecessor regiment: A cubit arm erect vested or charged with a fess indented double cotised azure in the hand a roll of parchment. The badge is also shown, but with the hand grasping a palm frond, sculpted on the mural monument in the Church of
