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12a Rich Windsor gentleman turned by reader (4) P A - E Looks like PAGE, but can't see why.
16d He had his chips at Brookfield (8) W - T - E - B - Whetherby?
11a Eco's publisher's reader encountered in Miss Evan's provincial town? (8)
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All help appreciated.

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12a) the husband of Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor

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16d yes Wetherby - Goodbye Mr Chips- Dr Wetherby , headmaster of brookfield

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Page - described as a Windsor gentleman, & husband of Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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Wetherby

Headmaster of Brookfield where Mr Chips taught

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Casaubon?
Publisher in Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and clergyman in Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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Belated thanks to everyone.