Blue plaque to remember Exeter hero Dr. Peter Hennis, who is buried in the graveyard of St. Sidwell’s Church, is commemorated in a blue plaque erected by Exeter Civic Society on the graveyard wall. He is described as ‘a much admired and revered physician and hero of the cholera outbreak of 1832.’ Peter Hennis was born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland and studied at Trinity College Dublin, London, Paris and Edinburgh before arriving in Exeter in 1830. He gained a reputation for his kindness and hard work tending the city’s poorest people during the cholera outbreak two years later. He
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