But lizzie, Sam also cuts and pastes whole swathes of content from other sites. Like the Cecil Sharp stuff, and like all the content on the Thomas Hardy page...and a lot of the information about towns and villages.

Sam may have created them "for folk to take away things they may want to", but that doesn't mean that the people who originally wrote all the content felt the same way...Sam does not credit them for their work, which means he's implicitly taking credit for it. And that's stealing. If you're going to use someone else's work, you MUST credit them, and ask permission, too.

Not sure how plagiarism is 'my club', but I was married to a journalist for 15 years as well as having a fair bit of my own work published, and learned to be a bit touchy about people taking credit for all the time and research you invest in your work just because they know how to use "copy" and "paste".

Cecil was a lad in all sorts of ways? Not sure what you mean, but as I suspect your knowledge of him is based exclusively on those two paragraphs in the link you provided, I don't suppose you do either...