Sloggett Bay
Sloggett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Arthur Sloggett (1857–1929), British doctor and army officer * Nellie Sloggett (1851–1923), author and folklorist *Paul Sloggett Paul Sloggett (born 1950) is an abstract painter known for his use of geometric shapes and patterns in creating paintings and for his many teaching and administrative appointments at OCAD University, Toronto. Biography Sloggett was born in C ...

Arthur Sloggett
Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett, (24 November 1857 – 27 November 1929) was a doctor and British Army officer. He served as Director General Army Medical Services in 1914 and Director-General of the Medical Services of the British Armies in the Field during First World War. Biography He was the son of the late Inspector-General W. H. Sloggett, R.N., and of his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cornish-Crossing J.P., of Stoke Damerel, Devon. Sloggett was educated at King's College London. Entering into the army as surgeon on 5 February 1881, he was soon promoted to Surgeon Captain and then Surgeon Major on 5 February 1893. In the Dongola Campaign of 1896, he served as senior medical officer of British Troops, was mentioned in dispatches in November 1896, and was specially promoted to surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel on 18 November 1896. During the Mahdist War, he served as Senior Medical Officer of the 1st Brigade, British Division, ...
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Nellie Sloggett
Nellie Sloggett (29 December 1850 in Padstow, Cornwall, UK – 1923) was an author and folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ... who wrote under the names Enys Tregarthen and Nellie Cornwall. Life and work Nellie Sloggett was born at the end of 1850; not as sometimes stated 1851. She was raised mainly by her mother, Sarah Sloggett, in Padstow; her father, Moses, worked at sea and died when Nellie was just six. At 17 Nellie developed a spinal illness and was paralysed for the rest of her life. She started studying and writing and this practice eventually led to the publication of her first book, ''Daddy Longlegs, and His White Heath Flower'', in 1885, under the pen-name 'Nellie Cornwall'. Of fifteen Cornwall books which would come out between 1885 and 1909: ...
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