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diff --git a/36206-0.txt b/36206-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..550e038 --- /dev/null +++ b/36206-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33238 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Norfolk Annals, by Charles Mackie + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Norfolk Annals + A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 + + +Author: Charles Mackie + + + +Release Date: May 23, 2011 [eBook #36206] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NORFOLK ANNALS*** + + +Transcribed from the 1901 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. +Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for allowing +their copy to be used for this transcription. + + + + + + NORFOLK ANNALS + + + CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF REMARKABLE EVENTS IN THE + NINETEENTH CENTURY + + (_Compiled from the files of the_ “_Norfolk Chronicle_”) + + BY + CHARLES MACKIE + + * * * * * + + VOLUME II. + + 1851–1900 + + * * * * * + + “It is beyond the capacity of the human intellect to discriminate + beforehand between what is valuable and what is valueless in the + pursuit of historical research. What would we give now for + newspapers and trade circulars illustrating the social habits of many + bygone times and peoples?”—_The Times_, May 4, 1900. + + * * * * * + + [_Entered at Stationers’ Hall_] + + 1901 + Printed at the Office of the “Norfolk Chronicle” Market Place Norwich + + + + +PREFACE. + + +In the terms of the publishers’ announcement the two volumes of “Norfolk +Annals” were to have contained 800 pages; the work has really exceeded +that estimate by 255 pages. + +Although the period from 1851 to 1900 was marked by many incidents of +great importance in the history of Norfolk and Norwich, the record +thereof in Volume II. of “Norfolk Annals” lacks several of the features +which made Volume I. acceptable to the lover of folk lore and to the +student of local events in the earlier days of the Nineteenth Century. +If, however, the present volume be less interesting than Volume I., it +may yet be useful for the verification of the dates of occurrences +regarding which the public memory is proverbially shortlived and +unreliable. + + + + +CORRIGENDA. + + +Page 40, fourth line of fifth paragraph, _for_ “56 seconds” _read_ “2 +minutes 56 seconds.” + + + + +ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIBERS. + + +George Cubitt, Tombland, Norwich. + +H. R. Ladell, Aylsham Road, North Walsham. + +Arnold H. Miller, The Guildhall, Norwich. + +H. Newhouse, Bella Vista, Thorpe Road, Norwich. + +Colonel H. T. S. Patteson, Beeston St. Andrew Hall. + +Simms Reeve, 29, Thorpe Road, Norwich. + +The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., K.T., 38, Berkley Square, London, W. + +T. O. Springfield, The Rookery, Swainsthorpe. + +F. Oddin Taylor, St. Ethelbert, Norwich. + +Arthur Wolton, 78, Borough High Street, London, S.E. + + + + +NORFOLK ANNALS. +VOLUME II. +1851–1900. + + +[NOTE.—_Marginal dates distinguished by an asterisk are dates of +publication_, _not of occurrence_.] + + + +1851. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—Died at Shipdham, Mary, widow of Mr. Henry Tash, farmer, in the +hundredth year of her age. + +3.—At the Norfolk Court of Quarter Sessions a report was presented upon +the expenditure of the county, into which a committee had inquired in +consequence of representations made at public meetings in various +districts, to the effect that the ratepayers were unable to control the +finances. The Court passed a resolution affirming that the evidence +given before the committee had tended to prove that the financial affairs +of the county had been conducted by the Court of Quarter Sessions with +proper attention to economy, with just regard to the public interests, +and with the publicity required by law. + +18.*—“A few days since the steeple of Drayton church fell to the ground +with a tremendous crash, the lead which covered the falling mass being +completely buried in the _débris_.” + +20.—A prolonged magisterial inquiry took place at Reepham, into +disturbances at Lenwade arising out of the Wesleyan schism. Two parish +constables, Samuel Fairman and John Elliott, were fined for refusing to +perform their duty when requested by the Rev. C. Povah. At Aylsham Petty +Sessions, on February 4th, four persons were charged with disturbing the +Wesleyan congregation at Cawston on January 19th, and three were +committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions. One of the defendants, +Elizabeth Southgate, was ordered by the Court, on March 13th, to pay a +penalty of £40; the other two were discharged on their own recognisances +to appear at the next Quarter Sessions. A singular case arising from the +same disruption came before the Vice-Chancellor, Lord Cranworth, on May +7th. The relators and plaintiffs were the Rev. William Worker and the +Rev. George Badcock, and the defendants the trustees of two deeds dated +1814 and 1837, declaring the trusts of the Methodist chapel at Holt +subject to the trusts of a deed executed in 1784 by John Wesley, by which +the Wesleyan body was organized. The funds for building the chapel were +advanced in 1814 by Mr. Hardy, who, in 1821, received from the trustees a +mortgage of the chapel to secure his advances, which amounted to about +£700. In 1833 the debt was reduced to £350. The congregation having +increased, it was determined, in 1837, to build a new chapel, and a site +was purchased and conveyed to the trustees upon the trusts of a deed of +another chapel, prepared in 1832, and known to the Methodist body as the +“model deed,” to which all subsequent deeds were conformable. By the +trusts then declared, such persons only were to be permitted to preach as +should be duly approved by a Methodist body called the Conference. Mr. +Hardy assisted in advancing money to build the new chapel, and received +as security a mortgage on the chapel. When the schism occurred it was +alleged that the majority of the trustees of the chapels mortgaged were +among the schismatics, who now called themselves Wesleyan Reformers, and +that they had all formed a scheme of wresting the chapels from the +preachers appointed by the Conference. The defendant united with the +character of mortgagee those of acting trustee and treasurer of the two +chapels, and it was alleged that he was using his powers as mortgagee, +and had publicly recommended others to do the same—most of the Wesleyan +chapels being mortgaged—for the purpose of carrying the general scheme +into effect, and thus to deprive the Conference of the old body of +Methodists of the use of their chapels. Mr. Hardy accordingly advertised +the chapels for sale, and actually sold the old chapel, which was then in +possession of the Reformers for their preachers. Similar proceedings by +ejectment were resorted to by a person named Hill, to whom Mr. Hardy had +transferred his second mortgage, for the recovery of the new chapel, and +led to the filing of this information, which disputed the propriety of +the transactions. His lordship was of opinion that Mr. Hardy, as +mortgagee, had a right to assert a title adverse to the trust, and to +transfer his mortgage to Hill. It might be proper to appoint new +trustees in the place of those who had ceased to have any sympathy with +the religious body from which they had seceded, but there was no ground +for immediate interference. The motion was therefore refused, and there +was no order as to costs. + +20.—A great Protestant meeting was held at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, +under the presidency of Mr. Samuel Bignold, at which were adopted +addresses to the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury, protesting +against the aggression of the Pope, and condemning the Tractarian +movement in the Church of England. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +1.—Douglas’s Theatrical Company, which performed in several of the towns +previously visited by the Norfolk and Suffolk Company of Comedians for so +many years under the management of the Fishers, concluded a successful +season at East Dereham. “Those who have witnessed the performances have +been agreeably surprised at finding so great an amount of talent in an +itinerant company.” + +3.—Died at Lynn, Mr. James Smith, many years manager of the Theatre +Royal, Norwich. He was in his 74th year. + +11.—A performance of “Speed the Plough” was given at the Theatre Royal, +Norwich, for the benefit of Mr. George Bennett, the “Father of the +Norwich Stage,” and “a member of the company in the palmy days of the +drama in the city.” Mr. Bennett appeared in the character of Farmer +Ashfield. “The Mayor gave his patronage, and in every part of the dress +circle were to be recognised parties of high respectability, including +the old familiar faces of those who, thirty or forty years ago, were wont +to uphold and maintain the then palmy but now very depressed cause of +legitimate drama.” The night’s receipts amounted to upwards of £90. + +—The Norwich Town Council resolved to petition the House of Commons for +the total repeal of the Window-tax. + +18.—Mr. Peter Master Yarington was presented with a silver salver and a +purse of 283 sovs., in recognition of his efficient discharge of duty as +Superintendent of the Norwich Police. He was appointed Governor of the +City Gaol on July 31st, and was succeeded as head of the police force by +Mr. Dunne, formerly of the Kent constabulary. Mr. Yarington died, in his +41st year, on July 21st, 1852, and on October 19th of that year Mr. +Robert Campling was appointed Governor of the gaol. + +19.—Mr. Albert Smith gave his “new literary, pictorial, and musical +entertainment,” entitled, “The Overland Mail,” at the Assembly Rooms, +Norwich. + +22.—A serious riot occurred at Yarmouth. Samuel Graystone, mate of the +Ant, from Yarmouth to Plymouth, had signed articles to go the voyage, but +was forcibly prevented by seamen from boarding his ship. Masters of +other vessels complained to the magistrates that they had been subjected +to similar treatment. The staff of the East Norfolk Militia and the +Coastguard were called out to keep the riotous seamen in check, and two +troops of the 11th Hussars were conveyed by special trains from Norwich +to assist in quelling the disturbance. The cavalry rode through the +town, and quickly cleared the streets. “The rioters, frightened by the +mere appearance of the troops, flew in every direction up the narrow rows +of the town, and in a few hours tranquillity was restored.” It was +stated that, but for the timely arrival of the troops, a body of +Gorleston seamen would have made an attack upon the town. Several of the +rioters were tried at the Quarter Sessions on March 6th, when, to the +surprise of the Court, a verdict of not guilty was returned. + +26.—Died at his family seat, Kirby Hall, the Hon. and Rev. Lord Berners. +“He succeeded to the title and estates on the death of his brother +Robert, Lord Berners, better known in the sporting world as Col. Wilson. +He only attended at the House of Lords on a few occasions, one of which +was to vote for the Reform Bill; but though absent in person, his proxy +was always given to the support of the Whigs, of which, through life, he +was a firm and constant supporter.” + +—An exhibition of hawking was given on Hellesdon Brakes, near Norwich, by +Mr. Barr, the celebrated Scottish falconer. Many hundreds of persons +were present. Mr. Barr used four young hawks of the peregrine species. +They were flown at pigeons which were let loose, and in two hours two +dozen were brought to the ground. “The first two or three were so +frightened, that when pursued by the hawk they took refuge among the +people, and one of them alighted on the back of a horse, and was taken by +hand.” Mr. Barr gave a second exhibition on March 10th, on Mr. George +Gowing’s land at Trowse. + + +MARCH. + + +9.—A fire occurred at the office of the “Norwich Mercury,” Castle Street, +Norwich. The roof of the building fell in, and the compositors’ room, +with most of the cases of type, was destroyed. + +13.—Dr. White, the eminent translator of “D’Aubigné’s History,” +delivered, in the old Council Chamber at the Guildhall, Norwich, a +lecture on “The Causes and Consequences of the Reformation.” + +27.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Jervis, the libel +action, Abbott _v._ Bacon and Another, was tried. The defendants +published a statement in the “Norwich Mercury,” to the effect that the +plaintiff, a superintendent of the County Constabulary at East Dereham, +had stolen certain articles from the shop of Mr. Abram, a chemist and +druggist in that town. The jury assessed the damages at one farthing. +On April 16th a motion was made in the Court of Exchequer for a new +trial, on the ground of misdirection of the jury, and a rule _nisi_ was +granted. At a meeting held at the Norfolk Hotel, on April 5th, it was +resolved, “That the recent trial offered a most painful illustration of +the gross injustice which may be inflicted upon the editor of a newspaper +who honestly and fearlessly comments on matters of general interest,” and +a public subscription was opened to recoup the proprietors of the +“Mercury” the loss they had sustained by their successful vindication of +the liberty of the Press. In the Court of Exchequer, on June 27th, both +sides agreed to a verdict being entered for one farthing damages. + +28.—George Baldry (33) was found guilty, at the Norfolk Assizes, before +Mr. Justice Erle, of murdering Caroline Warnes, at Thurlton, by striking +her on the head with a hammer. The sentence of death was commuted to +transportation for life. + +29.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Erle, John Whitley Cooper +and Edmund Slingsby Drury Long, solicitors, and Frederick Goose, dealer, +were indicted for unlawfully conspiring to obtain, by false pretences, +from Sarah Roberts Tooke, widow, divers goods, furniture, and effects, +with intent to defraud. Cooper was at the time undergoing sentence of +twelve months’ imprisonment, passed upon him at Norwich Quarter Sessions +on December 31st, 1850, for fraud. He was now sentenced to two years’ +imprisonment in the Common Gaol; Long was acquitted, and Goose, who had +absconded, forfeited his recognisances. The victim of this conspiracy, +said the Judge, had been reduced from a position of respectability to one +of absolute ruin. + + +APRIL. + + +12.—Mr. Fred Phillips, while performing the part of Rob Roy at Norwich +Theatre, fell from a “fictitious precipice” and sustained a compound +fracture of the bones of the leg “implicating the ankle joint.” He was +removed to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and “upon a consultation +among the surgeons it was deemed necessary to amputate the lower +extremity of the bone, an operation which was borne with heroic fortitude +by the poor sufferer.” A performance was given at the Theatre on May 6th +for the benefit of Mr. Phillips, when Mr. George Bennett made his last +appearance on the stage, in the part of Farmer Ashfield, and Mrs. +Phillips sustained the character of Miss Blandford in “The Ladies’ Club.” +Mr. Phillips received a second benefit on April 20th, 1852, and on July +9th, 1853, announced that he had taken the Boar’s Head Inn, Surrey +Street. + +23.—The headquarters of the 11th Hussars, commanded by the Earl of +Cardigan, marched from Norwich Barracks for Nottingham, and were +succeeded on the 25th by the 2nd Dragoon Guard’s (Queen’s Bays). + +—Samuel Woodhouse, of Plumstead, and William Pyle, of Holt, were buried +alive in a well 115 feet deep, at Docking, by the falling in of 36 feet +of soil. “Some of the inhabitants proposed to fill up the well and let +them remain in it, stating that the same thing had been done at +Tittleshall, where an inquest was held at the mouth of the well and the +body or bodies remain there to this day.” Efforts were made, however, to +recover the bodies. That of Pyle was found on May 14th, and of Woodhouse +on the 15th. “Though the bodies had been buried exactly three weeks, on +their being brought to the surface and moved about blood flowed freely +from both of them.” + +30.—Died, aged 78, Mr. Richard Slann, of Southtown, Great Yarmouth, +historical engraver to her Majesty the Queen. + + +MAY. + + +3.—The Census returns for the city of Norwich were published. The number +of inhabited houses was 14,990, of uninhabited 339, and in course of +building 101. The population was 68,706, of whom 31,213 were males, and +37,493 females. + +4.—A pauper named John Rowland, who had had a remarkable career, died at +Lynn Workhouse. He was educated at Eton, and was afterwards a Fellow of +King’s College, Cambridge. Ordained deacon and priest by Bishop Horsley, +he officiated at St. James’s, Westminster, and went out to St. Petersburg +as chaplain to the Embassy. Subsequently he either threw off his gown or +had it taken from him, and became a blacksmith and coach-spring maker in +Norfolk Street, Lynn. He was apprehended, tried, and transported for +stealing iron, the property of Mr. Bottomley, of South Gates, in that +town. At the expiration of his term of transportation he returned to +Lynn, made a settlement in the town, and was for several years an inmate +of the Workhouse. He died at the advanced age of 78 years. + +12.—Died, at the age of 63, at his residence, the Close, Norwich, Mr. +William Ollett, “who obtained justly-deserved eminence as a carver of +wood for ecclesiastical purposes, and whose skill was called into +requisition in most of the cathedrals of this kingdom.” + + +JUNE. + + +5.—The “members of Reffley” celebrated the 62nd anniversary of the +building of their temple, “the society having existed before the memory +of the oldest inhabitant” (of Lynn). + +21.—The hand of a female was found in Miss Martineau’s plantation, +Martineau’s Lane, Norwich, by a lad named Charles Johnson. Other +portions of human remains were discovered between this date and the end +of the month, in various suburbs of the city, namely, at Lakenham, +Hellesdon, Mile Cross, &c. The remains were deposited at the Guildhall, +where they were examined by Mr. Nichols, Mr. D. Dalrymple, and Mr. +Norgate, surgeons, who pronounced them to be those of an adult female. +(_See_ January, 1869.) + + +JULY. + + +12.—The Yarmouth magistrates issued a warrant “to apprehend the bodies of +George Danby Palmer and James Cherry, charged on the oath of William +Norton Burroughes with being about to commit a breach of the peace by +fighting a duel.” The incident arose out of an extraordinary scene at a +public meeting, where “Mr. Palmer gave the lie to Mr. Cherry.” + +14.—Died at Rackheath Hall, in his 83rd year, Sir Edward Hardinge John +Stracey, second baronet. He was born in India, came to this country as a +boy, and was educated at Norwich Grammar School and Christ Church, +Oxford. He was subsequently called to the Bar, was for a time Clerk of +the House of Commons, and succeeded his uncle, Mr. Hardinge Stracey, as +counsel to the Chairmen of Committees of the House of Lords on Mr. Pitt’s +appointment to office. For several years he was Chairman of Quarter +Sessions for Cheshire, and a magistrate for that county as well as for +Norfolk and Suffolk. + +26.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a special +jury, was tried the action, Baldry _v._ Ellis. This was an issue +directed to be tried by the late Master of the Rolls, and involved the +disposal of a sum of about £25,000. The jury had to decide whether one +Bailey Bird, deceased, who contracted marriage in the year 1818, was +competent to make that contract. A large number of witnesses deposed +that Bird was of perfectly sound mind at the time of his marriage; an +equally large number, including several medical men, asserted that he was +an idiot. The jury were of opinion that Bird was not of sound mind at +the time of the celebration of his marriage, and returned a verdict for +the defendant. + +28.—Henry Groom (42) was indicted at the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. +Justice Cresswell, for the murder of John Ayton, by shooting him with a +pistol, at Burnham Thorpe, on July 4th. He was executed on the Castle +Hill, Norwich, on August 16th. + + +AUGUST. + + +8.—The steeple of St. Cuthbert’s, Thetford, fell upon the roof of the +church, carrying away one of the arches and destroying the organ. + +9.*—“A letter from Philadelphia, of the 16th ult., announces the death of +Mr. Davenport, formerly lessee of the theatres on the Norwich circuit. +He had been making a successful tour in the United States with his +talented daughter. He died a few days before, at Cincinnati.” + +16.—On this date was published an extract from the “New York Express,” +giving particulars of a confession of murder by a private named Thomson, +belonging to the 1st Royals, then stationed at Halifax, North America. +He stated that when at Norwich eight years previously he was on terms of +intimacy with a woman. A quarrel had occurred between them, and he had +thrown her into a canal. The crime had so preyed upon his mind that he +determined to give himself up to justice and allow the law to take its +course. On September 13th it was announced that Thomson had been brought +to England and committed to Winchester Gaol, pending inquiries by the +police of that city. Two police-officers came to Norwich, investigated +the affair, and elicited the following remarkable facts: Thomson was +stationed in Norwich with the Carabineers in 1846, and afterwards +exchanged to the 1st Royals, then in Canada. A girl named Anna Barber +was in the habit of frequenting the barracks, and became acquainted with +Thomson, whom she appeared to have displeased. In the month of August, +1846, a tailor named James Taylor was fishing for eels in the river near +Blackfriars Bridge when he heard a scuffle, a shriek, a splash, and the +sound of retreating footsteps. He immediately rowed to the place and +assisted out of the water a young woman, who refused to give him her +name. She went away, and no report was made to the police. In 1850 Anna +Barber was again seen in Norwich. It was evident, therefore, that the +remorse which impelled Thomson to make his confession was groundless. + +28.—The Norwich Corporation adopted the Public Health Act of 1848, and +appointed twenty members as a Local Board of Health. + +29.—The church of St. Matthew, Thorpe Hamlet, was consecrated by the +Bishop of Norwich. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +10.—Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, then on a visit to England, +attended a dinner given at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, by members of the +Valpeian Club, established in 1847. + +25.—A severe gale occurred off the Norfolk coast, and did much damage to +shipping at Yarmouth. + +30.—The opening of the Norwich Waterworks was publicly celebrated. The +band of the Coldstream Guards played selections in the Market Place, 220 +guests dined at the Assembly Rooms, under the presidency of Mr. Samuel +Bignold, chairman of the Waterworks Company, and twenty thousand persons +witnessed a display of fireworks in the Market Place. The works were +commenced by Messrs. Lucas Bros., the contractors, in February. There +were 20,000 yards of excavations, and 2,500,000 bricks, 15,000 yards of +clay, 5,000 yards of filtering sand, 7,000 yards of filtering stone, +3,000 yards of concrete, and 40 tons of lead were used. The rising main +was 4,000 yards in length, and 15 inches in diameter. + + +OCTOBER. + + +4.—Died at Hampton Court, in his 80th year, George William Stafford +Jerningham, Baron Stafford. He inherited a baronetcy as Sir George +Jerningham on his father’s death in 1809, and established his title to +the barony, under letters patent of Charles I., through his great +grandmother, after a reversal of the attainder of Sir William Howard, +Viscount Stafford, in 1824. He assumed the additional name of Stafford +in 1826. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry Valentine. + +7.—Mr. George Cruikshank presided at the annual temperance festival held +at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, and delivered an address. + +16.—Bexfield’s oratorio, “Israel Restored,” was “brought out” at the +Choral Concert, held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. The principal +vocalists were Miss Birch, Miss Williams, Mr. Benson, and Mr. H. +Phillips. Dr. Bexfield conducted his work, which “created the greatest +interest throughout the musical world, and hundreds of applications for +reserved places were received from all parts of the kingdom.” + +26.—Died at Philadelphia, the United States of America, aged 62, Mr. +Richard Cowling Taylor, F.G.S. He was the author of many valuable works +during his residence in Norwich The most important was his “Index +Monasticus,” published in 1821. Mr. Taylor was a member of several +scientific societies in America. + +30.—Mrs. Fanny Kemble gave a reading of “King John,” at the Assembly +Room, Norwich, and on the 31st read “Much Ado about Nothing.” + + +NOVEMBER. + + +4.—A lecture on the “Bloomer costume” was delivered at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, by a Mrs. Knights. “The large audience was composed for the +most part of the male sex, shop assistants, and milliners’ apprentices. +The amount of money taken must have been considerable, and we regret that +there should have been so many persons found in this city ready to be +taken in with such nonsense. Mrs. Knights was attired in Bloomer +costume, an essentially ugly and unfeminine dress. She was greeted with +derisive laughter, applause, and hisses, and she left the orchestra amid +a storm of groans and disapprobation.” + +5.—A sculling match from Surlingham to the New Cut at Thorpe took place +between Lett, of London, and R. Buttle, of Norwich, for £25 a side. +Lett’s boat was overturned soon after the start, and Buttle rowed over +the course. A second match, for £10 a side, was rowed on the 10th, +between Bramerton Wood’s End and the New Cut, and was won easily by the +Norwich man. + +8.*—“Before the Lords Justices of Appeal was heard the case of the +Attorney-General _v._ the Corporation of Norwich. It arose on the +question whether the Corporation have authority to apply the borough fund +in soliciting a Bill in Parliament to enable them to improve the +navigation of the River Wensum. The information was filed at the +relation of two of the ratepayers, and it prayed that the Corporation +might be restrained from promoting and prosecuting a Bill in Parliament +for this purpose and at their expense. The appeal was dismissed, with +costs.” + +10.—Mr. Charles Winter was elected Mayor, and Mr. Robert Wiffin Blake +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +10.—Mr. S. C. Marsh and Capt. Pearson (the retiring Mayor) were nominated +for the Mayoralty of Yarmouth. The voting being equal, Capt. Pearson +gave the casting-vote in his own favour, and declared himself duly +elected. + +18.—Winter set in with great severity; snow fell to the depth of two or +three feet, and a severe frost commenced. + + +DECEMBER. + + +6.—The Eastern Counties Association for obtaining Agricultural Relief +held its first public meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. Its +principal objects were to obtain the repeal of the Malt-tax, a +re-adjustment of the tithe system, security for tenants in making +improvements, a reform in the management of county expenditure, and the +abolition of the Game Laws. + +11.—A coarse urn was turned up by a plough at Easton. The vessel +contained about 4,000 small brass coins of the Lower Empire. The +earliest amongst them were of the period of Gallienus, and there were +about 2,500 of the Constantines; nearly 600 had the wolf and twins, and +about 800 bore the victory with spear and shield. Mr. Goddard Johnson +made a descriptive list of the coins. + +26.—Died, in his 38th year, at Malvern, Worcestershire, Mr. J. B. Wigham, +son of Mr. Robert Wigham, of Norwich. “He was a Fellow of the Royal +Geological Society, and was well known as having personally collected one +of the best cabinets of tertiary fossils in the kingdom.” + +—Macarte’s Circus Company performed in a temporary building erected on +the Castle Meadow, Norwich. + + + +1852. + + +JANUARY. + + +5.—Died at Letheringsett, Johnson Jex, originally a blacksmith and +afterwards a manufacturer of watches. He was born at Billingford in or +about the year 1778. After the death of his mother, in about 1830, he +led a life of complete solitude, and became a scientific anchorite. “The +first watch ever constructed by Jex was made after he had settled at +Letheringsett, for his friend the Rev. T. Munnings, of Gorgate Hall, near +East Dereham. Every part of this watch, including the silver face, and +every tool employed in its construction, was of Jex’s own making.” + +10.*—“Dr. Woolley is resigning the head mastership of King Edward VI. +Grammar School (Norwich), on his appointment as principal of the +University College and professor of classical literature in the +University of Sydney.” He was succeeded by Dr. Vincent. + +10.—Mr. Justice Patteson retired from the Bench. With the exception of +Barons Parke and Alderson, he was, in point of official service, the +oldest judge on the Bench. + +19.—After many delays, the statue of Lord Nelson, executed by Mr. Milnes, +of London, arrived in Norwich, and was placed in St. Andrew’s Hall for +public inspection. The estimated cost of the statue was £700. A public +subscription was opened in Norwich in 1847; by 1848 £175 had been +contributed; in October, 1849, the fund reached £268, and in October, +1851, £300. “At present (1852) the whole amount subscribed, which is +scarcely £400, will not repay the sculptor for the purchase of the block +and his out-of-pocket expenses.” (_See_ March 24th, 1856.) + +21.—Died in London, Lieut.-Col. John Smith, of Ellingham Hall, “a +generous supporter of the trade and interests of the district.” He +served several years in India, in the 2nd Madras Light Cavalry, and +resigned his commission shortly after succeeding to the Ellingham estate. +The funeral took place at Ellingham, on February 27th. + + +MARCH. + + +2.—A requisition, signed by one thousand persons, was presented to Mr. T. +O. Springfield, soliciting him to offer himself as a candidate for the +representation of Norwich. Mr. Springfield declined the request, on the +ground that Parliamentary duties would tend to the shortening of his +life. + +6.*—“Died, lately, on the West Coast of Africa, in the 19th year of his +age, Charles, youngest son of Mr. Wood, of Morston. He was a midshipman +on board H.M.S. Sampson, and was put in charge, under Lieut. Gilbert +Elliott, with twelve of the best seamen and one carpenter, in October +last, of a slave felucca captured by the Sampson, and was last seen off +the island of St. Thomas on the 31st, and departed on that day for +Badajoz, a distance of five or six days’ sail; but although anxiously +expected, and notwithstanding several ships of war having since passed +over her track, she has never been heard of since. Some heavy tornados +are said to have occurred about the time she was missed.” + +12.—A special meeting of the Norwich Town Council was held, “to take into +consideration the recent gross insult to the citizens of Norwich in the +person of their Chief Magistrate.” The Conservative members, with one or +two exceptions, abstained from attending. It was resolved, “That the +Mayor of Norwich for the time being is, by prescription and charter, the +first citizen of Norwich, and by custom and courtesy has been always so +esteemed in public and private; that the Council learn with regret that a +gross insult has been offered to the Mayor in a place of public +amusement, and it is the opinion of the Council that the conduct of the +individual who offered the insult is derogatory to him as a magistrate +and a citizen.” The resolution was adopted, and it was further agreed +“That a copy of the resolution with respect to the insult offered to the +Mayor by Capt. Ives, with the seal of the Council affixed, be transmitted +to the Secretary of State, to the Lord Lieutenant of the county, and to +the Mayor.” (No details were published.) + +19.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Serjeant Adams (sitting as +Commissioner in place of Mr. Justice Crompton), Hannah Neale was indicted +for the wilful murder of William Neale, her husband, by poisoning him, at +Outwell, in July, 1851. The jury acquitted the prisoner. + +24.—Died at Woolwich, Col. Courtenay Cruttenden, R.A. He served in the +Army 48 years, and was present at the capture of Guadeloupe, in 1815. +For several years he was inspector of drills in the garrison at Woolwich. + +27.*—“The late Edward Lombe, Esq., of Melton Hall, Wymondham, recently +deceased at Florence, has left his personal property, subject to a life +interest to his wife, to University College Hospital. The property is +estimated at more than £25,000.” + + +APRIL. + + +10.—A statement was published as to the proposed disposal of the sum of +£1,263 4s. 5d. realised by the two concerts given by Jenny Lind in 1849. +It was her wish “that the money should be employed in founding and +supporting some new charity, and, if possible, a lasting one, for the +poor of Norwich.” The committee, “feeling that no charity could be +permanent which was not in a great measure self-supporting,” resolved to +devote the money to establishing public baths and wash-houses. A large +malthouse in St. Stephen’s, formerly the property of Mr. Crawshay, was to +be purchased for £700, and plans and specifications for converting the +building into baths had been prepared by a London architect, “but +unfortunately the lowest tenders exceed by a very large amount the sum at +the disposal of the committee. They find that unless they can raise +£1,000 in addition to their present fund, they must entirely give up the +undertaking.” The Mayor was requested to convene a public meeting, which +was held at the Guildhall on April 21st, when Mr. Samuel Bignold moved a +resolution in favour of the adoption of the baths scheme. Mr. Henry +Browne strongly protested against the proposed misappropriation of the +money, and the question was adjourned for a month. Meanwhile several +local charities made claims for assistance, and on May 27th a further +adjournment was decided upon. The matter was in abeyance until February +7th, 1853, when Dr. W. H. Ranking, in a letter to the NORFOLK CHRONICLE, +advocated “the endowment of an additional ward or wards in the Norfolk +and Norwich Hospital, to be appropriated to the treatment of diseases of +children.” On May 30th, 1853, a public meeting was held at the +Guildhall, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop, “for the purpose of +promoting the establishment of an institution for sick children.” It was +resolved, on the motion of Mr. J. G. Johnson, seconded by the Mayor (Mr. +Coaks), “That an infirmary for the treatment of the diseases of sick +children be established in Norwich, to be called the Jenny Lind Infirmary +for Sick Children.” The first meeting of the supporters of the new +institution was held under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. Samuel +Bignold), “in the house in Pottergate Street taken for the Charity,” on +December 16th, 1853. + +17.*—“The premises of the old Waterworks Company have been purchased of +the Corporation by the new company, who have liberally offered to give up +their interest in Chapel Field to the Corporation on condition that the +latter shall undertake to lay out the Field as a park and +pleasure-ground, so as to render it an ornament to the city. The +Corporation will have a considerable surplus fund in hand when the +company have paid the purchase-money for the Waterworks. By a plan +submitted by Mr. Lynore, engineer of the Waterworks, the Field will be +enclosed by a dwarf wall and railings, with handsome entrance-gates at +the Theatre Street, Crescent, and St. Giles’ corners, and a porter’s +lodge at the latter. The interior is to be laid out in the style of the +London parks, the reservoir to be retained, but altered in shape, and the +present tower to be ornamented and furnished with waiting-rooms, it is +also proposed to place the Nelson statue on an elegant fountain pedestal +in the centre of the reservoir.” + +18.—Died, Mr. George Bennett, comedian, aged 76. + + +MAY. + + +1.—A detachment of the 4th (Queen’s Own) Light Dragoons arrived at +Norwich Cavalry Barracks, to relieve the Queen’s Bays, who had marched +for Manchester. + +—*“We have now had ten weeks’ drought, the last wet day being the 18th of +February.” + +2.—Died, in his 49th year, at his residence, Grosvenor Street, London, +Mr. John Dalrymple, F.R.S. He was the eldest son of Mr. William +Dalrymple, the distinguished Norwich surgeon. After studying under his +father and at Edinburgh University, Mr. Dalrymple passed his examination +before the College of Surgeons in 1827, and commenced practice in +Norwich. In 1832 he was elected an assistant surgeon to the Royal London +Ophthalmic Hospital, of which institution he became, in 1843, full +surgeon. In 1847 he was appointed consulting surgeon to the North London +Infirmary, and in 1851 became a member of the Council of the College of +Surgeons. Mr. Dalrymple was one of the founders of the Royal College of +Chemistry. + +7.—In the Court of Queen’s Bench an important decision was given in the +case of the Queen _v._ Robert Wiffin Blake, who had been required to show +by what authority he had exercised the office of town councillor at +Norwich. At the previous municipal election Mr. Blake, who was then one +of the six aldermen of the city, became a candidate for the office of +councillor of the Fourth Ward. Mr. Cundall, a Conservative, was his +opponent. Mr. Blake having a majority of five votes, the presiding +alderman and assessor returned him as duly elected, notwithstanding that +notice had been given of his ineligibility. The Court decided that Mr. +Blake could not be elected a councillor while holding the office of +alderman. The defendant filed a disclaimer of the office of town +councillor, and therefore allowed judgment of ouster to pass against him, +with costs. (_See_ November 23rd.) + +8.—Died at Nice, in his 85th year, General Auguste De Bardelin. For many +years the deceased was a highly respected resident in Norwich. A native +of Aix, in Provence, and born of a noble family, he was appointed one of +the _garde du corps_ of Louis XVI., and was on duty at Versailles on +October 6th, 1789, when the Royal palace was assailed by the +insurrectionary mob of Paris, and the King and Queen were defended from +assassination through the heroic sacrifice of life by many gentlemen of +their bodyguard. M. De Bardelin accompanied the French princes in their +exile, and afterwards came to England and settled in Norwich. There he +remained about twenty-two years, supporting himself by teaching the +French and Italian languages. In 1814 he accompanied Louis XVIII. to +Paris, and the Government of the Restoration being established, he +resumed his military occupation. After Bonaparte’s second abdication, he +returned with has lawful Sovereign. For ten years from that time M. De +Bardelin continued to reside at the Royal chateau at St. Germains, in +which a handsome suite of apartments was appropriated to his use, where +he always delighted in welcoming the visits of his Norwich friends. In +1830 he was promoted to be Général Maréchal de Camp. In 1815 or 1816 the +Chevalier married Miss Sutton, a lady well-known to Roman Catholic +families of distinction in Norfolk and Suffolk. Madame De Bardelin died +in 1826. In 1830 General De Bardelin resigned has command and resided in +Paris till 1848, when the Republic being proclaimed, he went to his +native province, and in the winter of 1851 sojourned at Nice. “He always +referred to his residence at Norwich as the best period of his life. His +pupils at Thurgar’s school were enquired after with affectionate +interest; he remembered the hospitalities at Crown Point, where General +Money gave him a second home, and he never could forget the day when he +quitted Norwich by the mail coach from the Angel Inn, on the restoration +of the Bourbons;—passengers, horses, and all were decorated with white +cockades, and a host of friends assembled to cheer and bid him farewell +in true old English style.” The daughter of General De Bardelin became +the Baroness de Fabry. + +14.—St. Martin-at-Palace church, Norwich, was re-opened, after being +restored and in great part rebuilt. In August, 1851, while the church +was undergoing repair, a portion of the roof fell in and brought down +with it the eastern end of the north aisle. + +23.—A serious fire took place at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. The roof +was entirely consumed, and a number of rooms destroyed. The Watch +Committee, on May 21st, held an inquiry into certain allegations +regarding a deficiency in the water supply, and the inefficiency of the +fire-engines. + +31.—Kensington Gardens, Lakenham, were opened to the public, who “found +amusement in the collections of animals and birds.” During the Assize +week “there was a pyrotechnic and scenic exhibition on the meadow side of +the river, called, ‘The Storming of San Sebastian,’ being an imitation of +the pyrotechnic display at Cremorne.” + + +JUNE. + + +5.—Election proceedings commenced in Norwich with the arrival of the +Marquis of Douro and Lieut.-Col. Dickson, who had been adopted +Conservative candidates. The Whig-Radical candidates, Messrs. Peto and +Warner, arrived at Wymondham on the 9th, and proceeded thence by road to +Norwich. At Mile End a procession was formed, headed by men carrying +large and small loaves, labelled respectively “Free Trade” and +“Protection.” In the evening the candidates addressed a great meeting at +St. Andrew’s Hall. (_See_ July 7th.) + +—*“Through the exertions of several persons interested, the city and +county magistrates have taken steps to put a stop to spring netting in +the Wensum and Yare, and a fund is being raised to defray the expenses of +protecting the rivers and prosecuting offenders.” + +15.—A cricket match, between 22 of Lynn and 11 of All England, commenced +at Lynn, and concluded on the 16th. Lynn, 63—58; All England, 41—66. + +19.—The Witton estate was purchased by Mr. John Penrice for £18,900. +“The Cromer Hall estate, the property of the Countess of Listowel, +including the Gothic mansion, several farm-houses, and upwards of 1,200 +acres of land, with several manors, has been purchased by private +contract for £60,000, by Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, M.P. for Boston.” + + +JULY. + + +2.—At the Norfolk Sessions the county justices received the resignation +of Col. Richard Montague Oakes, Chief Constable. Capt. Black was elected +in his place on October 22nd. Col. Oakes was presented, on October 23rd, +with a silver vase, subscribed for by the superintendents and constables +of the Norfolk constabulary. + +7.—The nomination of candidates for the representation of Norwich took +place at the Guildhall. The show of hands was in favour of Messrs. Peto +and Warner, and a poll was demanded on behalf of the Marquis of Douro and +Col. Dickson. The polling-booths were opened at eight o’clock on the +morning of the 8th, and closed at four o’clock in the afternoon, and the +result was officially declared at one o’clock on the 9th: Peto, 2,190; +Warner, 2,145; Douro, 1,592; Dickson, 1,465. The issues on which the +election was fought were Free Trade and Protection. + +—Mr. C. E. Rumbold and Sir E. Lacon, “Moderate Conservatives,” and Mr. W. +T. M’Cullagh and Sir C. Napier, Whig-Radicals, were nominated +Parliamentary candidates for Yarmouth. The polling took place on the +8th: Lacon, 611; Rumbold; 547; M’Cullagh, 521; Napier, 486. + +8.—Lynn election: Lord Jocelyn, 627; Lord Stanley, 551; Mr. Robert +Pashley, Q.C., 383. The two first-named were returned. + +9.—The Hon. Francis Baring and the Earl of Euston were returned unopposed +for the borough of Thetford. + +12.—Mr. Edmond Wodehouse and Mr. Henry Negus Burroughes were returned +unopposed as members for East Norfolk. + +17.—The nomination of candidates for West Norfolk took place at Swaffham. +Mr. William Bagge and Mr. George Pierrepont Bentinck were the +Conservative nominees, and Mr. Anthony Hamond the Liberal candidate. +“Mr. Hamond was formerly a Protectionist, and opposed Mr. Cobden at the +Free Trade meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, only a week before Sir +Robert Peel proposed to repeal the Corn Laws. Mr. Hamond now avows +himself a Free Trader.” He was nominated at the last moment to fill the +vacancy occasioned by the retirement of the Hon. E. K. Coke. The poll +was opened on the 20th and 21st, and on the 23rd the result was declared +as follows: Bagge, 3,421; Bentinck, 3,143; Hamond, 1,973. + + +AUGUST. + + +14.—A general meeting of the Deputy Lieutenants of the County was held at +the Shirehall, Norwich, for the purpose of carrying into effect the +provisions of the Act 15 and 16 Vic., for raising a force not exceeding +80,000 men, of which number 50,000 were to be raised in 1852, and 30,000 +in 1855. The Earl of Orford moved, and it was resolved, that the Lord +Lieutenant be requested to apply to the Secretary of State to obtain her +Majesty’s Order in Council for the subdivision districts to be made +coterminous with the Superintendent Registrar’s districts; and to be +furnished with a list of the number of men liable to serve in each +subdivision and parish. On September 18th measures were adopted for the +enlistment of two regiments of Militia—612 men to serve in the Western +Regiment, and a like number in the Eastern Regiment. Sufficient numbers +of men were forthcoming without having recourse to the Ballot Act. +(_See_ April 19th, 1853.) + +21.—Bylaugh Hall, the stately home of the Lombe family, was completed at +about this date. The mansion was erected under the provisions of the +will of Sir John Lombe, Bart., who died in 1817. The will directed “that +so long as the house remained uncommenced the money should be invested +and allowed to accumulate at compound interest.” The new mansion was +begun in 1849, under the supervision and control of the trustees in whom +the building fund was vested. It was erected from the designs of Messrs. +Banks and Barry, of London, by Messrs. Piper, of Bishopsgate Street, +whose contract amounted to £29,389. The interior was decorated by Mr. +Sang “and his German artists.” (_See_ July 4th, 1857.) + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +14.—Intelligence was received at Norwich of the death of the Duke of +Wellington. The muffled bells of the city churches were tolled for +several hours. On November 18th, the day of the funeral, the principal +shops were closed, and the Mayor and Corporation and the military forces +stationed in the city attended a special service at the Cathedral. + +17.—Mr. S. Chambers, R.N., made a balloon ascent from the Vauxhall +Gardens, Yarmouth, and descended on Mautby marshes. + +18.—Died at Saham Toney, John Thurston, labourer, in the 105th year of +his age. + +21.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. The opening concert included selections from the +works of classical composers, and a reading by Mrs. Fanny Kemble from the +“Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with incidental music. “Israel Restored” was +performed at the morning concert on the 22nd, and selections by popular +composers were given in the evening. On the morning of the 23rd, +“Jerusalem” (H. H. Pierson) was performed for the first time, and a +miscellaneous concert took place in the evening. “The Messiah” was +rendered on the morning of the 24th, and a dress ball was held in the +evening. The principal vocalists were Madame Viardot Garcia, Madame +Fiorentini, Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Dolby, Miss Alleyne, Signor Gardoni, +Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Lockey, Signor Belletti, Mr. Weiss, and Herr Formes. +Mr. Benedict conducted. The gross receipts were £4,665 7s. 2d.; gross +expenses, £4,171 17s. 1d.; surplus, £493 10s. 1d. + +30.—Died, Rear-Admiral William Fisher, captain superintendent of +Sheerness dockyard, and author of two naval novels, “The Petrel” and “The +Albatross.” He was the second son of Mr. John Fisher, of Yarmouth, and +was born November 18th, 1780. Admiral Fisher entered the Navy in 1795, +and was engaged in many important services. He married, in 1810, +Elizabeth, sister of Sir James Rivett Carnac, Bart., Governor of Bombay. + + +OCTOBER. + + +5.—A prize-fight took place on St. Andrew’s Green, near Bungay, between +James Perowne, of Norwich, and James High, of Ellingham. “The former was +seconded by a man named Mace,” and the other by Smith, of Ditchingham. +The police endeavoured to take possession of the ring, but were put to +flight by the mob; and the men fighting to a finish, High was declared +the victor. Principals and seconds, with the exception of Mace, were +subsequently committed for trial, and at Beccles Quarter Sessions, on +October 18th, were bound over to keep the peace. Jim Mace was +apprehended at Litcham, on November 2nd, and at Beccles Quarter Sessions +on January 3rd, 1853, was ordered to enter into his own recognisances to +be of good behaviour. + +6.—Died at Quebec, Stephen Codman, for thirty-six years organist of the +cathedral church in that city. He was a native of Norwich, where he +received his musical education under Dr. Beckwith. + +7.—The Priory Schools, Yarmouth, were opened by the Bishop of Norwich. +“The site of the schools originally formed the refectory of the +Benedictine friars. Many of the walls of the priory still remain, and +the hall has been for many years used for the ignoble purposes of a +stable.” + +27.—A meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, at which a public +subscription was opened for the erection of a statue to the memory of the +Duke of Wellington. On October 4th, 1853, it was decided that the statue +should be of bronze, and Mr. G. Adams was commissioned to prepare the +model. (_See_ November 2nd, 1854.) + + +NOVEMBER. + + +6.—Died at Ormesby, near Yarmouth, in his 82nd year, Rear-Admiral Black, +one of the oldest officers in the Navy. He had seen much active service, +and had been employed on the North-West coast of America. + +9.—For the office of Mayor of Norwich two candidates were nominated—Mr. +Samuel Bignold and Mr. Richard Coaks. The voting was equal, and the +Mayor giving his casting-vote in favour of the latter, Mr. Coaks was +declared duly elected. Mr. George Womack was appointed Sheriff. (_See_ +November 23rd.) + +22.—Election petitions were laid upon the table of the House of Commons, +against the return of Messrs. Peto and Warner, as members for Norwich. +(_See_ February 24th, 1853.) + +23.—In the Court of Queen’s Bench a rule in the nature of a _quo +warranto_ was applied for, calling upon Mr. Coaks, Mayor of Norwich, to +show by what authority he exercised that office. The affidavits stated +that on November 9th there were two candidates for the Mayoralty, Mr. +Bignold and Mr. Coaks, and that the retiring Mayor refused to record the +vote of Mr. Cundall in favour of Mr. Bignold. Consequently the voting +was even, and the retiring Mayor gave his casting-vote in favour of Mr. +Coaks. The affidavits further stated, in support of Mr. Cundall’s right +to vote, that at the election of councillors on November 1st, 1851, Mr. +Cundall was a candidate in opposition to Mr. Robert Wiffin Blake, then +one of the aldermen of Norwich, and therefore ineligible to be elected a +councillor; and that Mr. Cundall had, prior to the election, given notice +of Mr. Blake’s disqualification, but that Mr. Blake was elected by a +majority of five votes. Subsequently, on a _quo warranto_ being filed +against him, judgment of ouster was obtained. Mr. Cundall therefore made +the required declaration before two councillors, and took his seat as a +councillor at the late election of Mayor, and claimed to have his vote +recorded for Mr. Bignold, which, if received, would have placed him in a +majority of one over Mr. Coaks; but such vote was rejected by the +retiring Mayor. The Court granted the rule. The Attorney-General showed +cause against the rule on January 28th, 1853. The Court was of opinion +that Mr. Cundall had made out a clear _prima facie_ case, and the rule +for the _quo warranto_ was made absolute. Lord Campbell gave judgment in +the case on January 21st, 1854. He said it entirely depended on the +right of Cundall to vote. He held that on November 9th, 1852, Cundall +was a member of the Council, and had a right to vote for Mr. Bignold, and +if he had so voted Mr. Bignold would have been duly elected Mayor. Mr. +Coaks had usurped that office, and the _quo warranto_ had been properly +issued. Mr. Justice Crompton was of the same opinion. Judgment for the +Crown. + + +DECEMBER. + + +11.*—“The long-continued rains have increased the floods in the valleys +of the Eastern division of the county. Throughout the valley of the +Yare, a large extent of land has been for some time under water, on +either side of the river, for a distance of thirty miles.” At Southery +and Feltwell about 8,000 acres were flooded, and upwards of one hundred +poor families were compelled to leave their habitations. The estimated +loss to the district was between £25,000 and £30,000, and a public +subscription was opened for the relief of the sufferers. + +21.—The Public Library and Museums Act Committee reported to the Norwich +Town Council that it was desirable to hire the Museum for the use of the +public for two days in the week, and to erect a building for the purposes +of a free library, and that, in compliance with the Act, a rate of one +halfpenny in the pound be levied, one-third to be devoted to the former +object, and two-thirds to the latter. The principle of the rate was +affirmed, and its application postponed for further consideration. +(_See_ September 13th, 1854.) + +24.*—“Died at Reedham, a few days since, at the advanced age of 103, Mr. +John Softly. He retained his faculties and was an active man up to the +time of his death.” + +26.—One of the most terrific storms of wind and rain ever remembered at +Norwich occurred on this date. In the rural districts many stacks were +blown down and scattered in all directions. + + + +1853. + + +JANUARY. + + +8.—M. Gompertz’s panorama of the invasion of British India by the Sikh +Army of the Punjaub was exhibited at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich. One of +the scenic attractions was a representation of “the crypt of the Holy +Sepulchre, under three distinct aspects,” a dioramic illusion which forms +a popular feature in similar entertainments at the present day. + +13.—A miraculous escape was recorded at Swaffham. A drunken man named +Edward Horsepool went into the yard of the Angel public-house, at three +o’clock in the morning, with the intention of lying down in a shed. By +mistake he opened the door of the covering of a disused well, and +stepping in, fell to the bottom, a depth of 117 feet. A tramp sleeping +in the shed was awakened by the man’s cries, and gave an alarm. Mr. +William Laxon, collar maker, procured ropes, and Horsepool was rescued +uninjured, after having been half an hour in 20 feet of water. He had +kept his head above the surface by clinging to the broken sides of the +well. + +22.—In the Prerogative Court, before Sir J. Dodson, was tried the action +Gilbert (administratrix of Woolner) _v._ Hammond. It had reference to +granting administration, with will annexed, to the goods of Miss Margaret +Creak, of Norwich, who died on June 5th, 1850, possessed of personal +property of about £30,000 and realty of the estimated value of £500 per +annum. The will bore date January 13th, 1844, and its effect was to +leave, with some trifling exceptions, the personal property to Mr. +Woolner, a chemist and druggist, who was also appointed executor. The +will was originally propounded by Woolner, who afterwards committed +suicide, and his sister, Mrs. Gilbert, now applied for probate, as his +administratrix, which was, in the first instance, opposed by Mrs. +Hammond, a cousin-german and one of the next-of-kin of the deceased, but +she died during the pendency of the suit, and her husband subsequently +took up the case. When the disposition of the property became known, a +great many rumours were put in circulation, imputing foul play to Mr. +Woolner, which was the cause of his committing suicide. Judgment was +pronounced, on Feb. 4th, in favour of the will. The Judge said the +relatives had a right to inquire into the transaction, and had they +confined themselves within due limits would have been entitled to costs +out of the estate; but they had persisted down to the close of the +argument in charges which they had failed to prove, and, therefore, in +decreeing probate of the will to Mrs. Gilbert, he must accompany it with +the condemnation of Mr. Hammond in £100 costs, _nomine expensarum_. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +17.—Mr. C. J. Palmer, at a meeting of the Yarmouth Town Council, called +attention to the unsatisfactory condition of the Corporation records, and +stated that many of the documents in existence in Manship’s time no +longer existed, whilst several others belonging to the town were in the +hands of private individuals in Norwich. A committee was appointed to +examine and schedule the charters and rolls, and to avail themselves of +the services of Mr. Henry Harrod, of Norwich, “for their better +elucidation and classification,” at an expense not exceeding £20. + +18.—The first snowfall of the season occurred on this date, and was +heavier than had been known for several years. The mails were delayed, +and great inconvenience occasioned. The morning train from London was +detained for fourteen hours at Lakenheath. At Lynn, on the 23rd, the +tide rose to a great height, and the low-lying parts of the town were +under water. A breach occurred in the river bank near Magdalene, and +occasioned the loss of much live stock and farm property. + +21.—Died at Leeds, aged 69, the Rev. Robert Fountaine Elwin, rector of +Wilby-with-Hargham. He was well known in Norwich for the active part he +had taken in the Musical Festivals from their commencement. A few years +before his death he retired to Leeds, where he resided with his only +daughter, Mrs. Hyde. Mr. Elwin not only possessed fine musical taste, +but was skilled in mechanics, and an excellent connoisseur of the fine +arts. “Whether in the company of the great, presiding at the Choral +Society’s meetings, or lecturing to mechanics, it was always delightful +and instructive to listen to him.” Mr. Elwin’s paternal grandfather +married a granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell. + +24.—In the House of Commons, Capt. Baldero presented a petition from +certain electors at Norwich, who had petitioned the House against the +return of the sitting members, complaining that their petition had been +withdrawn without their consent, and praying that the order discharging +the petition might again be put on the orders of the House. Mr. T. +Duncombe presented a protest from Col. Dickson, complaining of the +withdrawal of the petition. It was alleged that Mr. Brown, the +Parliamentary agent, had been guilty of a breach of privilege by +withdrawing the petition. A motion for printing the petition was agreed +to. On March 2nd a Select Committee was appointed to inquire into the +matter. The investigation commenced on March 10th, and concluded on +March 17th, on which day Mr. Duncombe brought up the report of the +Committee. They were of opinion that Mr. Brown had received no +instructions to withdraw the petition, but as they could find no +precedent as to the proper mode of proceeding under the circumstances, +they left it to the House to determine whether it could comply with the +prayer of the petitioner. On March 12th a great Liberal meeting was held +at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. +Coaks), at which resolutions were adopted expressing indignation at the +allegations made before the Select Committee with regard to Messrs. Peto +and Warner. A duel was to have been fought between Col. Dickson and Col. +Forester (a witness before the Committee) on March 19th, but “at the +eleventh hour the matter was fortunately adjusted by the friendly +interposition of an hon. member who sits on the opposite side of the +House. Mr. Culpepper represented Col. Dickson, and Mr. Craven Berkeley, +M.P., was the friend of Col. Forester.” It subsequently transpired that +the withdrawal of the petition formed part of an arrangement and +compromise entered into between Mr. Henry Edward Brown and Mr. James +Coppock, solicitor, in pursuance of which eight petitions were +simultaneously withdrawn, as implicating the seats of ten members of the +House, namely, Norwich, 2; Kidderminster, 1; Gloucester, 1; Middlesex, 1; +Youghal, 1; County Down, 2; and West Norfolk, 2. + +24.—At Norwich Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder, Mr. Prendergast, +the appeal case, Colman _v._ Clarke, was heard. Mr. Evans and Mr. Palmer +were for the appellants, and Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Bulwer for the +respondent. It was proved that in the early part of May, 1852, Messrs. +Colman established at Carrow a business for the manufacture of cake from +refuse rice, and it was alleged that after the process had been carried +on for a short time offensive smells were observed in the neighbourhood. +The firm were summoned before the magistrates for permitting a nuisance, +and were fined. They now appealed against the conviction, on the ground +of informalities in the original proceedings, and of want of jurisdiction +on the part of the magistrates. The conviction was quashed. + +28.—Hengler’s Circus and Roman Amphitheatre, Castle Meadow, Norwich, was +opened with the production of a grand equestrian spectacle, entitled, +“Kenilworth Castle.” + + +MARCH. + + +9.—Died at his residence, Great Stanhope Street, London, in his 78th +year, General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., K.C.B., G.C.H. He entered the +Army in 1796, as Cornet in the 6th Dragoons, and received the rank of +General in 1851. He served at the Helder in 1799, and in 1808 took part +in the campaign of Sir John Moore, and was present at the battle of +Corunna. As Colonel Kerrison, he commanded the 7th Hussars from 1813 to +1815, through various campaigns. At the battle of Orthes he received a +severe wound, and he was again wounded in the battle of Waterloo, where +his horse was shot under him. Sir Edward Kerrison received his baronetcy +in 1821, when he was nominated a G.C.H., and in 1840 a K.C.B. In 1830 he +was appointed to the colonelcy of the 14th Light Dragoons. For forty +years he was member of Parliament for Eye. He married a daughter of Mr. +Alexander Ellice, and left a son and three daughters. + +12.—Died at Pulham, Mr. Cornelius Whur, the author of several volumes of +poems. He was known as “the Suffolk Poet.” + +19.—The Rev. William Beauchamp was driving down the hill into Trowse when +his horse ran away and upset the gig. In his fall he sustained a severe +fracture of the skull and died instantly. Mr. Beauchamp, who was the +second son of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, Bart., of Langley-park, was +35 years of age, and had been rector of Chedgrave about ten years. He +left a widow and five young children. + +21.—Three hundred members of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows dined at +the Royal Hotel, Norwich, and presented to Mr. Samuel Daynes, Past Grand +Master of the Unity, a purse of 133 sovs., in recognition of his +exertions in promoting the interests and extension of the Order during +his year of office. + +29.—A vessel named the Reindeer, belonging to the port of Yarmouth, owned +by Mrs. King, of Gorleston, and commanded by Captain Wilson, was on her +voyage from Valparaiso to Monte Video when the crew mutinied, and +murdered the captain, steward, and two Roman Catholic priests +(passengers). The mutineers then launched a boat, filled it with the +most valuable portion of the cargo, and scuttled the ship. + + +APRIL. + + +4.—A fire occurred at Hunstanton Hall. The rooms were quickly cleared of +the paintings and furniture, which were safely deposited in the school +house. There being no possibility of saving the south and west sides, +great efforts were made to preserve the north and east sides, with which +object the communicating portions of the building were broken down, and +the flames thus prevented from extending. In a few hours the roof of the +west side fell in. “The bed in which it is generally believed Queen +Elizabeth slept was not injured in the slightest degree.” The damage to +the hall was estimated at £10,000. + +7.—Intelligence was received at Norwich of the birth of a Prince (Prince +Leopold), at Buckingham Palace. Flags were hoisted on the public +buildings, and peals rung upon the bells of St. Peter Mancroft. + +19.—The men enrolled to serve in the First or West Norfolk Regiment of +Militia assembled at Norwich for twenty-eight days’ training. The +officers were: Col. the Earl of Orford, Lieut.-Col. Nelthorpe, Major +William E. Lytton Bulwer, Captains Hamilton F. Custance, Charles +Bedingfeld, the Hon. Fred. Walpole, George A. Marsham, Mordaunt Glasse, +H. L. Styleman le Strange; Lieutenants M. Gooda, Gordon Calthrop, Thomas +S. Clarke, H. D. Walff, C. Girling, Chas. E. Bignold, John Edwin Day, A. +W. Smith, Robert G. Hawtayne; Ensign Thomas Edward Baker; Adjutant and +Acting Paymaster and Acting Quartermaster A. W. Smith; Surgeon Thomas W. +Crosse; Assistant Surgeon T. E. Baker. The mess was at the Swan Hotel. +“The corps consists of 612 men, and notwithstanding the vulgar sneers, +reproaches, ridicule, and even hooting which they experienced from the +rabble on their first appearance in the streets, in no instance was this +conduct resented. We are glad that the conduct of our Liberals, by +publicly parading disgusting flags, and the Peace Society in circulating +exciting and seditious handbills, with the view to holding up this force +to contempt and ridicule, has signally failed.” The East Norfolk Militia +assembled at Yarmouth on the same date. “Their appearance was much more +respectable than might have been expected, and many of those who were +prepared to ridicule them acknowledged that they were a much better class +than they expected.” The officers were: Col. the Hon. Berkeley +Wodehouse; Lieut.-Col. William Mason; Major Sir E. K. Lacon; Captains +John Longe, the Hon. Bertram Wodehouse, John Marcon, Henry Cormick, +George Grenville Glover, John Gay; Lieutenants William Robert Freeman, +Richard Hall, Henry Thomas Knapman, William Danby Palmer, Richard Lee +Mayhew, William Reed, Frederick John Reyne, George Chester Wood, +Alexander Robert Chamberlin; Adjutant William P. K. Browne; Surgeon John +Capern Smith; Assistant-Surgeon Spencer Thomas Smyth. Of the 612 men +enrolled, 571 appeared on parade. The Earl of Leicester, as Lord +Lieutenant of the county, inspected the East Norfolk Regiment at Yarmouth +on May 12th, and the West Norfolk Regiment at Norwich on the 13th. The +men of the latter corps were entertained at dinner at St. Andrew’s Hall +after the inspection. The cost of the entertainment was defrayed by +public subscription. + +26.—The foundation-stone of the Wayland Hall, Watton, was laid by Lady +Walsingham. The hall was opened on November 3rd, on the occasion of the +annual meeting of the Wayland Society, at which Lord Walsingham presided. + +27.—A fine schooner, named the Ocean Child, was launched from the +ship-yard of Mr. Southgate, at Wells-next-the-Sea. + +30.*—“Died lately at Bergh Apton, at an advanced age, Mr. John Dawson, +deputy registrar for the Loddon Union. He was likewise known as an +active peace officer. Previous to the establishment of the police force, +the whole business of thief-taking devolved upon petty constables, but as +the requisite tact and intelligence was not found in every parish, what +was called a running constable was usually appointed in each petty +sessional division, who was considered the detective-officer of the +district. Mr. Dawson was justly considered one of the first of his +profession. Upon the formation of the new force these hitherto +indispensable functionaries were entirely superseded, and Dawson, among +others, found his occupation gone.” + + +MAY. + + +20.—There were no prisoners in Lynn gaol. To celebrate the unique +circumstance the prison doors were thrown open, and the Mayor entertained +the whole of the police force and borough officials to a dinner, served +within the building. + + +JUNE. + + +7.—The Norwich Diocesan Training Institution for school-mistresses was +removed to spacious premises in St. George’s Colegate. The Institution +was founded in 1840. + +9.—A cricket match between eighteen of Norwich and eleven of All England, +commenced on the new Cricket Ground, Newmarket Road, Norwich, and +concluded on the 11th. Norwich, 110—46; All England, 58—70. + +14.—The City of Norwich Waterworks New Bill received the Royal assent. +“By this Bill power is given to the Corporation of Norwich to convert +Chapel Field into a public pleasure garden.” + +18.—Announcement was made of the resignation of Superintendent Dunne, of +the Norwich police “on the ground that he had been so much obstructed by +those who ought to have assisted him in the discharge of his duties, that +no alternative had been left him but to resign.” On July 6th Mr. Stephen +English, of Pontefract, was elected to the post. + +25.—Died, at Doughty’s Hospital, Norwich, in her 81st year, Miss Tubby, +“well-known as box-keeper at our Theatre for many years, and highly +respected.” She possessed a remarkable fund of information upon local +theatrical matters, and for nearly half a century “Miss Tubby’s night” +was one of the principal events in the Norwich season. + +28.—The new cult of “table-turning” or spiritualism was introduced in +Norwich for the first time at a _séance_ given at St. Andrew’s Hall by a +Mr. King. + +—The first piles of the Wellington Pier at Yarmouth were driven by the +Mayor (Mr. S. C. Marsh), Mr. D. Waddington, chairman of the United +Norfolk and Eastern Counties’ Railway Companies and of the Pier +directors, and by the Mayoress. A dinner was held at the Victoria Hotel +in celebration of the event. The Pier was opened by the Mayor on October +31st. + + +JULY. + + +1.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions it was reported that the Secretary of +State for the Home Department had ordered the formation of a corps of +Artillery Militia for the county. + +9.—A thunderstorm of great severity occurred at Norwich. The main sewer +in London Street burst from the enormous pressure upon it, and its +contents inundated the adjacent business premises. Every house at the +bottom of Exchange Street was flooded, and fire-engines were afterwards +employed to pump the water from the cellars. The weather continued to be +very stormy during the succeeding week. The newly-completed tower and +spire of Mundham church were wrecked and became a heap of ruins. + +23.—Three troops of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), under the +command of Capt. Sawyer, marched into Norwich from Chobham Camp. The +headquarters were stationed at Ipswich. + +25.—Miss Fanny Vining appeared at Norwich Theatre as Margaret Elmore in +“Love’s Sacrifice.” + +30.—The NORFOLK CHRONICLE announced the repeal of the advertisement duty +and of the duty upon newspaper supplements. + +31.*—Died at Shoreditch Workhouse, London, Benjamin Reeder, of +Helhoughton, who was in many respects a very remarkable character. He +had served sixteen years as a private in the 2nd Dragoon Guards. “Altho’ +of an obtuse and somewhat forbidding appearance, he possessed an uncommon +faculty for mathematical attainments. He had Euclid at his finger ends, +while his knowledge of algebra and logarithms enabled him to solve in a +few minutes the most difficult questions. He once had the management of +a school, but his irregularities reduced him to the level of a common +labourer, and eventually he ended his days in the union house.” + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +3.*—“The degree of Doctor of Music has been recently conferred on Mr. +Buck, organist of Norwich Cathedral, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in +the exercise of the privilege possessed by his Grace as Primate of +bestowing that and other degrees in divinity and arts upon persons of +merit in any of those faculties.” + +4.—An interesting ceremony took place in the tower of the dilapidated +church of Eccles-next-the-Sea. The Rev. Edward Evans, of St. Stephen’s, +Norwich, who had recently been presented to the vicarage, read himself +in, and preached to a congregation of about 200 persons. “Owing to the +want of the church, which has been destroyed upwards of 200 years by the +encroachments of the ocean, this is a sinecure benefice, and the +inhabitants use the neighbouring church of Hempstead. The tower of the +church in which the ceremony took place is embedded in sand to the height +of the former walls of the church.” + +8.—George Borrow performed an intrepid act on Yarmouth beach. “The sea +raged frantically, and a ship’s boat, endeavouring to land for water, was +upset, and the men were engulfed in a wave some 30 feet high, and +struggling with it in vain. The moment was an awful one, when George +Borrow, the well-known author of ‘Lavengro’ and ‘The Bible in Spain,’ +dashed into the surf and saved one life, and through his instrumentality +the others were saved. We ourselves have known this brave and gifted man +for years, and daring as was his deed, we have known him more than once +risk his life for others.” + +17*.—“If the rivalry of the different railway companies in this district +has been agreeable to the public it has been attended with fearful loss +to the shareholders. Excursionists are not expected to object to being +carried from Norwich to London for half a crown, but we should suppose +that the proprietors in the Eastern Union will have a decided objection +to the great increase of their working expenses to 60 per cent. by the +process. The ruinous competition now going on can only be terminated by +a union of interests, and it appears, from the reports of the Eastern +Counties’ and Eastern Union Companies, that an amalgamation is proposed.” + +—The kitchen floor of a house, occupied by Mr. Bunting, on St. Giles’ +Hill (near St. Giles’ Gates?), Norwich, suddenly gave way, and Mrs. and +Miss Bunting, who were in the apartment, were precipitated with the +chairs, table, and other furniture, into a funnel-shaped hole 27 feet in +depth. When rescued they were insensible but uninjured. “Caves were +some time since cut through the hill in different directions and of +considerable length, and the whole of the hill has been at various +periods excavated for chalk. Some of the caves were used for wine +vaults, and it appears that one of these caves passed under the back of +Mr. Bunting’s house. A water-pipe had been leaking for a long time, and +it is supposed that the water descending through the soil caused the roof +of the cave to give way, and the whole of the earth above to fall with +it.” + +24.—A young man named E. Elson completed the task of walking from Lynn to +Dereham and back, a distance of 60 miles, for six successive days. + +26.—A violent hurricane of wind and rain did great damage in the county. +“The injury to orchards and gardens has been immense, and the apple crop, +which was an abundant one, has been reduced probably one-half.” On the +coast there were many shipping casualties, attended by loss of life. + + +OCTOBER. + + +10.—The hand-loom weavers in Norwich struck for a rise of wages. A +memorial was presented to the manufacturers, asking for an advance of +twopence per dozen on all finished fabrics. + +16.—Died at Liverpool, aged 70, Admiral Bell, C.B., son of Mr. J. Barker +Bell, of Gorleston, Yarmouth. He entered the Navy in 1796, and +distinguished himself in many actions against the enemy. He attained to +flag rank in October, 1846. + +26.—A public demonstration took place at Lynn in honour of Lieut. S. +Gurney Cresswell, the bearer of the despatches from Commander M’Clure, +relating to the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. Lieut. +Cresswell was presented with a congratulatory address at a meeting held +at the Guildhall, and afterwards entertained at dinner at the Assembly +Rooms. He was third son of Mr. Francis Cresswell, a partner in the +banking firm of Gurney, Cresswell, and Co., King’s Lynn, and a native of +the borough, where he was born in 1827. Not only was he the bearer of +the despatches announcing the discovery of the North-West passage, but he +had taken an active and important part in the expedition. + +29.—Died at his residence, Monmouth Road, Bayswater, Dr. Bexfield. He +was born in Norwich on April 27th, 1824, and at seven years of age became +a chorister at the Cathedral. At the age of eleven he composed an anthem +in eight parts, which fully satisfied Mr. Buck that he possessed +extraordinary talent. On the expiration of his articles in his 21st +year, he was elected organist of Boston parish church, and in the same +year graduated Mus. Bac. at Cambridge. He afterwards published his +Concert Fugues for the organ, which were played during the Great +Exhibition. In 1847 he composed his “Six Songs,” and earned for himself +the popular distinction of “the Poet-Musician.” He was appointed, out of +thirty-five candidates, organist at St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London. At +about this time he published a collection of pieces under the title of +“Musica di Camera,” and at the age of twenty-four took the degree of Mus. +Doc. Dr. Bexfield was the author of a volume of “Church Anthems,” which +formed part of the repertoire of most English cathedrals. In 1850 he +married a daughter of Mr. J. B. Millington, solicitor of Boston. The +work on which his reputation mainly depended was his oratorio “Israel +Restored,” which on two occasions he conducted at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, viz., at its first production at the Choral Society’s concert in +October, 1851, and at the Musical Festival in 1852. A benefit concert +was given at St. Andrew’s Hall on December 16th for his widow and family. +The sum of £500, including a donation of 20 guineas from the Queen, was +realised. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +6.—Died at St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, the Right Hon. Lord Charles Vere Ferrars +Townshend, of Rainham Hall and Tamworth Castle. He was born in 1783, and +in 1812 married his cousin, the eldest daughter of General William +Loftus. The funeral took place at Rainham on November 24th. He was +succeeded in his estates by his nephew, Capt. John Townshend, R.N., +member for Tamworth, who also became heir to the marquisate. + +9.—Mr. J. R. Gough, of America, delivered a temperance oration at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. He also addressed meetings on the 10th and 11th. + +—Mr. Samuel Bignold was elected Mayor, and Mr. Henry Birkbeck appointed +Sheriff of Norwich. + +11.—A new church was opened at Wootton. It was built on the site of the +old church at the sole expense of the Hon. Mrs. Howard. It cost nearly +£6000. + +13.—The announcement was published that Mr. David Fisher, the actor, who +was so well known and highly respected in Norwich and Norfolk, had made a +successful _début_ at the Princess’s Theatre, London. + + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—In the Vice-Chancellor’s Court application was made in the suit Jermy +_v._ Jermy for the administration of the estate of the late Mr. Jermy, of +Stanfield Hall. The only question that arose was about certain timber +growing on the estate and fines of copyholds. But a difficulty of a +novel character had occurred. Since the murder the mansion had been +untenanted. Although many persons were willing to take it they could not +procure servants who would live in the house, so great was the +superstitious feeling which existed. It was stated that the parties were +willing to allow the house to be occupied for two years for nothing, in +order to overcome the prejudice. The Vice-Chancellor said that Mrs. +Jermy Jermy was entitled to a third of the timber and fines, and he +expressed surprise that such prejudices existed against the house. + +3.—Died, at her residence on the Castle Meadow, Norwich, in her 85th +year, Amelia Opie, widow of John Opie, R.A., and only daughter of Dr. +James Alderson. After her marriage with Opie in 1798 her numerous +literary productions gained her considerable reputation, and as a +novelist she moved in the highest literary circles. Her works included +“Father and Daughter,” “Simple Tales,” 4 vols. (1806); “New Tales,” 4 +vols. (1818); “Temper, or Domestic Scenes,” 3 vols.; “Tales of the +Heart,” 4 vols.; “Detraction Displayed” (moral treatise); “Illustrations +of Lying,” “Lays of the Dead,” and other poems. Mrs. Opie was a member +of the Society of Friends, and her remains were interred in the Quakers’ +Burial Ground, Gildencroft, on December 9th. + +17.—The provision of a time-ball connected by electric telegraph with +Greenwich Observatory, and exhibited in a prominent position in Norwich +Market Place, was, in consequence of the irregularities of the public +clocks, advocated in the NORFOLK CHRONICLE on this date. + +20.—A meeting of the landowners, farmers, and tradesmen of Harleston and +the district was held at the Corn Hall in that town, to consider the +desirability of promoting the construction of a railway from Tivetshall +station on the Eastern Union line. In 1851 an Act of Incorporation was +obtained for making a railway from Tivetshall to Bungay, but from various +causes, chiefly from the depression in the railway world, no further +steps were at that time taken. + +22.—Died, at the house of his son-in-law at Cambridge, aged 69, Mr. Seth +William Stevenson, F.S.A., one of the proprietors of the NORFOLK +CHRONICLE. He was elected Sheriff of Norwich in 1828, he became alderman +in the same year, and in 1832 served the office of Mayor. Literary +pursuits, especially of an antiquarian character, engrossed his leisure. +In early life Mr. Stevenson made several Continental tours. The year +after the battle of Waterloo, he, in company with Capt. Money, visited +the scene of the struggle, and afterwards published “A Journal of a Tour +through part of France, Flanders and Holland, including a Visit to Paris +and a Walk over the Field of Waterloo in the Summer of 1816.” The work +was dedicated to the Norwich United Friars Society, of which literary +body he was almost the last surviving member. In 1828 appeared the +account of a second tour in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the +Netherlands. The book to which he devoted no inconsiderable portion of +the last ten years of his life was the complete “Dictionary of Roman +Coins.” + +24*.—“We have received from Mr. Garthon, one of the district surgeons of +Norwich, a return in a tabular form showing the extraordinary number of +96 cases of small-pox in Heigham and St. Benedict’s, during the last +three months. These arose from the strong prejudice still existing +amongst ignorant and poor people against the only +preventive—vaccination.” + +—The funeral of the Marchioness of Wellesley took place at Costessey +Hall, whither the remains had been removed from Hampton Court. “In +accordance with the good old charitable practice a dole of bread was +given to the poor of Costessey on the occasion of the funeral.” + +26.—Mr. Joseph Clarence produced at Norwich Theatre his grand Christmas +pantomime, entitled, “Harlequin Prince Bluecap and the King of the Silver +Waters, or the Three Kingdoms, Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral.” + + + +1854. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—Died at his residence, Thickthorn, near Norwich, in his 71st year, Mr. +Richard Hanbury Gurney. He was the son of Mr. Richard Gurney, of +Keswick, and in early life was a member of the Society of Friends. In +1818 Mr. Gurney was elected member for Norwich in conjunction with Mr. W. +Smith; he was re-elected in 1820, in 1830, and in 1831. At the General +Election in 1832 he and the other Liberal candidate, Mr. Ker, were, after +a very severe contest, defeated by Lord Viscount Stormont and Sir James +Scarlett. Mr. Gurney was a patron of the Turf and a genuine lover of old +English sports, but he was never known to bet. His remains were +interred, on January 9th, at the Rosary Burial-ground, Norwich. + +3.—A heavy snowstorm, accompanied by a severe gale from the north, passed +over the Eastern district. The snow was deeper than had been known for +many years previously; all the roads were blocked, and railway +communication between Yarmouth and London was stopped. The telegraph +poles were blown down, and the wires broken. A train which left Fakenham +at 6 a.m. did not reach Norwich till 5.15 p.m. At the Norfolk Quarter +Sessions, at Norwich, on the 4th, it was found impossible to form a grand +jury, in consequence of the non-attendance of those who had been +summoned. All travelling by road was suspended for some days; the port +of Lynn was frozen up, and several ships were driven ashore at Yarmouth. + +5.—A serious collision occurred on the line near Thetford. A train +conveying sixty navvies, who were employed to clear away the snowdrifts, +ran into the down train from London. “The engines rose up into the air, +and two men on them were instantly killed; two others in the train from +Norwich were also killed by the tender being driven through the carriage +in which they were seated.” The Rev. Joseph Bell, of Barningham, a +passenger in the London train, died on the 8th from the injuries he +received, and Mr. Thomas Ellison, of Dove Street, Norwich, another +passenger, succumbed on the 14th. The Coroner’s jury, after repeated +adjournments, returned, on February 6th, a verdict of manslaughter +against Mr. Peter Ashcroft, superintendent of the permanent way, and Mr. +John Latham, locomotive superintendent, who, it was alleged, had acted +contrary to the orders of Mr. King, station-master at Harling Road. At +the Norfolk Assizes, on March 24th, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, the +jury, without hearing the defence, acquitted the defendants. + +15.—Died at Heigham Hall (private lunatic asylum), Norwich, aged 84, Mr. +Cockle, “the original proprietor of the antibilious pill which goes by +his name, and who some years ago sold the recipe for several thousand +pounds.” + +21.*—“An invention calculated to prove of great national benefit has been +recently patented by Mr. Samuel Rainbird, carpenter, of Norwich. It is +described in the specifications as an apparatus for grappling and raising +sunken vessels and other submerged bodies.” + +—A meeting of the Deputy Lieutenants of the county decided, by 25 votes +to three, that Yarmouth was the most suitable place in the district at +which to centre the three regiments of Norfolk Militia. At another +meeting, held on February 25th, the former resolution was rescinded, and +it was agreed “that the present Committee be empowered to receive +estimates and tenders for building barracks for one regiment of Militia +at Norwich, and for one regiment of Militia and one regiment of artillery +at Yarmouth, on such plans as they may think best suited for the +purpose.” + +27.—Died near Holston River, in Knox County, East Tennessee, North +America, Mr. William Forster, of Earlham Road, Norwich, in his 70th year. +He was a member of the Society of Friends, and a brother-in-law of Mr. +Fowell Buxton. He went out in the autumn of 1853 to carry petitions to +the slave States of the Union, on behalf of the oppressed Africans. + + +MARCH. + + +8.—At a meeting convened by the Mayor (Mr. Bignold), and held at the +Guildhall, Norwich, petitions to both Houses of Parliament were adopted +in favour of an Act “for the legal prohibition of the sale of +intoxicating drink during the whole of Sunday (except to _bona fide_ +travellers).” A committee was appointed to make arrangements for forming +a Sunday Closing Association. + +10.—A troop of the Carabineers marched from Norwich Barracks, to join the +headquarters at Ipswich. The remaining troop left on May 1st. + +—In the Rolls Court, before the Master of the Rolls, was heard the case, +the Attorney-General _v._ Hudson, in _re_ the Grammar School and Hospital +at Norwich. This was an information filed by the Attorney-General, at +the relation of certain inhabitants of the city, against the trustees +appointed under the Corporation Act, of two charities called the Free +Grammar School and the Great Hospital. The object of the information was +to show that the Grammar School had not received a fair amount of the +funds of the charity, and that undue preference had been given to the +Hospital in their distribution. A decree was made, directing a scheme to +be settled in Chambers. On December 18th it was stated in the Rolls +Court that when the case was in Chambers a deed of covenant, +contemporaneous with the letters patent of King Edward VI., and to which +the Corporation were parties, had been found, by which the whole surplus, +after the stipulated payments, was to be applied to the sustentation of +the poor. The question then before the Court was how far this varied the +case. It was contended that the Hospital and the poor were entitled to +the entire surplus. The Master of the Rolls was of opinion that the deed +did not control the letters patent, that no predominance or priority was +given to one part of the charity over the other, and that the surplus +rents should be equally divided, and in such a way as would be most +consistent with the intentions of the founder. The case was taken before +the Chief Clerk to the Master of the Rolls on February 6th, 1855. “The +result is that upwards of £1,000 per annum in addition to the property +comprised in the charter will be secured for the general benefit of the +charity, including, of course, the School. The matter now stands over, +in order that a scheme may be prepared for the general administration of +the charity under the sanction of the Attorney-General.” On April 7th, +1855, it was announced that the following proposal had been made on the +part of the “promoters of the new Grammar School” as to the future +division of the funds “hitherto belonging to the Great Hospital”: “That +the present salary of the chaplain of the said Hospital be increased £100 +per annum, he having at present £200 per annum besides his residence; +that one moiety of the net income of the charity be annually applied for +the benefit of the School and the objects thereof, and that the other +moiety be applied for the benefit of the poor in the Hospital; and that +no further election of inmates shall be allowed to take place until the +number shall by death or other causes be reduced to 100, and that until +the numbers shall be so reduced, the expenses occasioned thereby shall be +provided for out of the savings of the trust and now invested in the sum +of £11,500 Consols, or out of any other monies in the hands of the +defendants.” Another meeting was held in Chambers on May 9th, 1855, when +the trustees strongly opposed the heads of the scheme; thereupon it was +proposed that the Chief Clerk should proceed to Norwich and hold an +inquiry. The trustees claimed the right to appeal against his decision, +if necessary, and the Chief Clerk then declined to accede to the +proposal. The trustees were invited to carry in the counter claim, but +refused to do so. (_See_ June 16th, 1857.) + +13.—Henry Russell gave his entertainments, “The Far West,” and “Negro +Life,” in the presence of between 2,000 and 3,000 persons, at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. + +16.—A meeting of the citizens was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, +presided over by the Mayor (Mr. S. Bignold), at which it was agreed “that +the wives and children of the Army of England called at this time on the +service of their country to the seat of war, claim the sympathy of the +British public, and that a subscription be forthwith commenced to relieve +all such women and children as may be left in destitution and want.” +Similar funds were raised in other parts of the county. + +23.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Parke, William +Thompson, aged 21, was charged with the murder of Lorenzi Beha, at +Tittleshall, on November 18th, 1853. Mr. Evans prosecuted, and Mr. +Carlos Cooper defended. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to +death. The execution took place on the Castle Hill, Norwich, on April +8th. “The criminal’s struggles continued five minutes.” The lowest and +most degraded classes in the city and county assembled on the Hill, “and +more scenes of drunkenness and immorality were exhibited than had been +seen for a long time previously in Norwich.” + +25.*—“At the Walsingham Quarter Sessions, the Grand Jury, in making their +presentment, called the attention of the Court to the prevailing nuisance +occasioned by carts drawn by dogs, and to the facilities thus afforded +for the commission of felonies. They recommended that some decisive +steps be taken to procure an extension of the Act providing against this +evil in and around London.” The provisions of the Act in force in the +Metropolitan district were extended to the United Kingdom, and came into +force on January 1st, 1855. + +31.—Died at Haddiscoe, Edward Constance, aged 68, “well known for his +sporting tastes, and for a considerable period a pedestrian follower of +the hounds of the late Lord Berners, distinguished for his industrious +habits and his ardent love of the chase.” + + +APRIL. + + +1.*—“An order has been received from the Home Secretary, calling upon the +churchwardens of every parish in Norwich to discontinue forthwith the +burials in the inside of their respective churches, and to discontinue +those in the churchyards from and after February 1st, 1855. Burial +Boards are about to be formed for the purpose of providing a suitable +ground for interment in the vicinity.” + +8.—Mr. G. V. Brooke concluded a week’s engagement at Lynn Theatre. He +appeared in the parts of Othello, Master Walter (“The Hunchback”), Sir +Giles Overreach, Claude Melnot, and Hamlet. + +11.—A public meeting, held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, with the view +of promoting the abolition of capital punishment, resolved to petition +the House of Commons in favour of such abolition. + +19.—An address to the Queen was adopted at a special meeting of the +Norwich Town Council, assuring her Majesty “that she had their +unqualified support in the prosecution of the war.” + +22.—That remarkable character, Philip Coots, better known as “Philip the +Pieman,” and the “Drum-boy,” died at Norwich, aged 49. + +—Died at Yarmouth, Eleanor Warrant, aged 102. + +25.—The West Norfolk Militia, 1,000 strong, assembled at Norwich for a +month’s training. The East Norfolk Militia and the Norfolk Artillery +Militia commenced their training at Yarmouth on the same date. The East +Norfolk Regiment was, on May 16th, presented with colours by the Lord +Lieutenant. + +26.—This date was observed as a day of humiliation. In Norwich shops +were closed, all business suspended, and the Mayor and Corporation +attended service at the Cathedral, where “the Almighty’s blessing was +implored upon the war.” The day was similarly observed at Lynn and +Yarmouth. + +27.—Died at Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, London, Lieut.-Col. +Nelthorpe, of the West Norfolk Militia, in his 83rd year. He was +succeeded in the lieutenant-colonelcy by Major Custance. + + +MAY. + + +3.—At her Majesty’s Levée, Mr. Samuel Bignold, Mayor of Norwich, was +presented and received the honour of knighthood. On the 17th the +portrait of Sir Samuel was placed in St. Andrew’s Hall. It was painted +by J. P. Knight, R.A., in 1850, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, +and afterwards engraved by Jackson. + +21.—Died at Bethel Street, Norwich, aged 70, Robert Forster, formerly +bandmaster of the 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s Own) Regiment. “At Waterloo +he received a ball in his knee, which had never been extracted. He was a +native of Norwich, and the only survivor of the band of the regiment, the +whole having fallen by his side at Waterloo.” + + +JUNE. + + +30.—The Eastern Counties (Amalgamation of Railways) Bill was read a third +time in the House of Commons and passed. One of the clauses was to the +following effect: “That it shall not be lawful for the company to close +or discontinue the Victoria Station at Norwich, now belonging to the +Eastern Union Railway Company.” + + +JULY. + + +3.—Foot-racing was revived on the Old Cricket Ground at Norwich, by Mr. +Thomas Sapey, a local sportsman. A one mile handicap, open to all +England, brought twenty-four competitors, among whom were Thomas +Horspool, of Sheffield (holder of the one mile champion belt); C. Welton, +of Gateshead; William Newman, of London; Robert Bunn, John Brighton (“The +Milk Boy”), Richard Fromow, Jim Mace (pugilist), William (“Cock”) Blyth, +&c. The meeting was continued on the 4th. + +7.—The first meeting of the Norwich Photographic Society (established on +June 23rd) was held at Mr. W. Freeman’s, London Street. The objects of +the society were the reading of original papers, the discussion of +different photographic processes, the collection of pictures, and the +formation of a photographic library. + +20.—A dinner was held at the Town Hall, Yarmouth, to celebrate the +inauguration of Lord Sondes as High Steward of that borough. + +22.—Norwich Theatre was opened for the Assize week, under the management +of Messrs. C. Gill and William Sidney, lessees of the Theatres Royal, +Leicester, Portsmouth, Leamington, and Jersey. They also had the +management of Yarmouth Theatre. The winter season commenced on November +11th. The new managers endeavoured to restore at Norwich the old style +and prices of the entertainments. “On each Friday night the prices will +be as they were a few years since, and on these occasions the pieces +selected will consist of standard plays and comedies, concluding with a +really funny farce.” The company was a good one, and “the starring +system, which sacrifices every supposed subordinate character to two or +three leading ones,” was “studiously ignored.” Mr. Gill (who was +afterwards for several years manager of Lynn Theatre) withdrew from the +partnership in 1855, and on December 10th in that year the winter season +commenced under the sole management of Mr. Sidney. + + +AUGUST. + + +12.—Died at the residence of Lord Palmerston, in Carlton Gardens, London, +Viscount Jocelyn, M.P. His lordship contracted Asiatic cholera while +performing military duty at the Tower of London as Colonel of the Essex +Rifles. The eldest son of the Earl of Roden, he was born on February +20th, 1816, and served on the staff of Lord Saltoun in the China +Expedition in 1842. He was the author of a work entitled, “Six Months in +China.” In February, 1842, on the appointment of Sir Stratford Canning +as Ambassador at Constantinople, a new writ was issued for King’s Lynn, +when Lord Jocelyn was returned for that borough as a +Liberal-Conservative, and continued to represent it until his death. +During the last two years of Sir Robert Peel’s Administration he held +office as Secretary to the India Board. + +15.—A whale of the “beak” species, measuring 29 feet in length and 21 +feet in girth, and weighing nearly nine tons, was captured on Snetttisham +beach. “When boiled, although the operation was unskilful, it produced +120 gallons of oil.” + +16.—Lynn Athenæum, erected at the cost of £4,150, was inaugurated by +addresses delivered by the President (Mr. H. Edwards) and Lord Stanley. +The architects were Messrs. Cruso and Maberly and the contractors Messrs. +J. and W. Purdy. + +20.—A portion of a building at Lynn, originally a chapel-of-ease to St. +Margaret’s church, and utilised as a workhouse, fell, killing a +clockmaker named Andrews, and John Cana, a pauper. Fissures had been +observed in the walls of the building, and measures had been taken to +remove the inmates to another part of the premises, otherwise the loss of +life would have been appalling. The first stone of the new Workhouse was +laid on July 16th, 1855, by the Rev. J. Bransley, chairman of the Board +of Guardians. + +24.—A shocking accident occurred on the River Yare, near the Alder Car at +Trowse Hythe, Thorpe. Mrs. Palmer (wife of Mr. T. H. Palmer, chief clerk +at the Norwich County Court), her son, about six years old; Matilda +Hubbard, a nursemaid; and William Plow, a lad, were drowned by the +overturning of a pleasure-boat which had gone foul of a wherry. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +8.—The first harvest thanksgiving festival held in the county took place +at Brooke. It was the result of an attempt made by the vicar, the Rev. +Dr. Beal, “to put a stop to the disgraceful scenes which too often +characterise the close of harvest, and to the system of _largess_, which +gives rise to cases of the grossest description.” After service at the +church, men, women, and children had dinner on the vicarage lawn. “The +Times” observed: “The attempt to put an end to the system of public-house +harvest feasts, in which neither wives nor children can join, appears in +this instance to have been eminently successful.” Many other villages in +Norfolk, after the harvest of 1855, followed the example set by Brooke. + +10.—The great west window at Norwich Cathedral, designed as a memorial to +Bishop Stanley, was submitted to public inspection. It cost £1,500, and +was designed and executed by Mr. George Hedgeland, of London. + +11.—At the Norwich Police Court, the Rev. Henry Herring, formerly curate +of North Pickenham, was charged with begging, under peculiar +circumstances, on the previous day (Sunday), in the Cathedral Close. The +prisoner, “with his gown on his back,” stationed himself in front of the +great west door and exhibited a placard bearing the following +inscription: “The law ordained that they which preach the Gospel should +live by the Gospel. The Church of England withholds from me the justice +of that tribunal which the civil law grants to the common murderer. Such +is the spirit of that Church which professedly invites even a prodigal to +repentance; I have spent £1,800 in her service, and have been driven to +pass three nights in the streets of Norwich, and six nights in a lock-up +(a hole where there is only straw to lie upon on a stone floor), solely +for the want of better and proper accommodation. The Mayor and +magistrates have encouraged me to apply to everyone that has a heart to +feel for the miseries of a fellow-creature. I earnestly solicit the +sympathy and charity of an enlightened public to enable me to live day by +day and to defend myself by law from the tyranny and persecution of the +Bishop of Norwich.—Henry Herring, late curate of North Pickenham, +Norfolk. Norwich Streets, September 9th.” Superintendent English stated +that he had offered to send the defendant to a situation in Yorkshire, or +to Australia, where his brothers resided; but he had declined to avail +himself of either. Mr. Herring promised not to repeat his behaviour, and +was discharged. + +12.—The opening concert of the Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical +Festival took place at St. Andrew’s Hall. The programme included +Rossini’s “Stabat Mater,” a selection of sacred music, and (for the first +time) “The Ninety-First Psalm.” In the evening there was a miscellaneous +concert, including parts 1 and 2 of “Acis and Galatea.” On Wednesday +morning (13th) Beethoven’s “Service in C” and “The Creation” were +performed; at the miscellaneous concert in the evening selections from +the works of Weber and Spohr were rendered. At Thursday morning’s +concert (14th) “Elijah” was given, and at the evening concert +miscellaneous items and selections from the works of Mozart. “The +Messiah” was performed on Friday morning (15th), and in the evening a +grand dress ball was given at the Assembly Rooms, with music by +Weippert’s Royal Quadrille Band. The Festival _artistes_ were Madame +Angiolina Bosio, Madame Clara Novello, Madame Anaido Castellan, Madame +Weiss, Miss Dolby, Signor Gardoni, Herr Reichardt, Mr. Sims Reeves, +Signor Bolletti, Mr. Weiss, and Signor Lablache. The instrumental solo +performers were Mons. Sainton, violinist to her Majesty, and Mr. H. +Blagrove, violins; Herr Hausmann, violoncello. Mr. Benedict was +conductor. The gross receipts amounted to £4,244 5s. 2d., and the gross +expenses and liabilities to £4,347 14s. 7d.; deficit, £103 9s. 5d. + +13.—The foundation-stone of the Norwich Free Library was laid by the +Mayor (Sir Samuel Bignold). Addresses were delivered by the Duke of +Wellington, the Rev. Edward Sidney, Sir Morton Peto, M.P., Sir John +Boileau, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. W. J. Utten Browne, and Mr. J. H. +Tillett. (_See_ March 16th, 1857.) + +16.—Mr. J. H. Gurney was elected unopposed to fill the vacancy in the +representation of King’s Lynn, created by the death of Lord Jocelyn. + +23.*—“An attempt has been made at the Boar’s Head Inn, Surrey Street, +Norwich, to originate a place of entertainment of a similar kind to +Evans’ or Johnson’s, in the Metropolis. A room capable of seating +upwards of 200 visitors has been very tastefully fitted up by the +proprietor, the walls being adorned by a series of Norwich views +exceedingly well painted by our scenic artist for many years, Mr. Thorne, +and every evening there is a vocal and instrumental concert by parties of +London professionals, who are almost weekly changed, so as to secure as +large an amount of novelty as possible. Another new feature in this city +is the introduction of the imperial measure for wine at the old rate of +2s. 6d. per pint.” This place, known as “The Shades,” was managed by Mr. +Fred Phillips, and was the first music hall or variety entertainment in +the city. The venture was not of a successful character. + +25.—A meeting of the Norwich licensed victuallers was held at the Boar’s +Head Inn, to protest against the Bill for “Regulating the Sale of Beer +and other Liquors on the Lord’s Day,” which sought to prohibit the +opening of public-houses between the hours of 2. 30 and six o’clock, and +after ten o’clock on Sunday. The meeting decided to petition Parliament +in opposition to the measure. At this meeting was formed a society +called the Norwich Licensed Victuallers’ Association, of which Mr. Fred +Phillips was elected president, Mr. Plane vice-president, Mr. Cushing +treasurer, and Mr. S. Daynes secretary. + + +OCTOBER. + + +1.—Intelligence was received at Norwich of the victory of the allied +armies at the Alma on September 20th. The bells of St. Peter Mancroft +were rung after service in the afternoon. A fictitious message reached +Norwich on the same day (Sunday), announcing the fall of Sebastopol, and +the tricolour was hoisted on St. Peter’s steeple. Regret was afterwards +expressed that facilities existed “for circulating such hasty and +erroneous despatches.” + +7.—Died, at Brandon Parva, aged 100, Mary Goward, widow. + +17.—A remarkable discussion arose at Norwich Quarter Sessions as to +certain irregularities which were said to have occurred at Heigham Hall +private lunatic asylum. The minutes of the proceedings of the visiting +justices at an inquiry held by them on June 22nd were read. Dr. Hull +alleged that the Rev. ---, then acting as chaplain at the Asylum, had +been wrongly admitted as a patient. In his evidence he stated that in +June, 1852, Mr. Nichols informed him that a country clergyman, a member +of a high county family, had committed a rape, that his family wished to +make him out to be mad, and that, in order to save him from a criminal +prosecution, they desired to get him into a mad-house. Mr. Nichols +requested Dr. Hull to grant a second medical certificate. Dr. Hull +refused to comply. Mr. Nichols emphatically denied that he had used the +expressions attributed to him by Dr. Hull. The justices came to the +conclusion: “(1) That the Rev. Mr. ---, by being placed in the asylum +under the circumstances disclosed in the inquiry, was rescued from the +grip of the law on a criminal charge; (2) that the order and medical +certificates upon which he was admitted into the asylum were regular and +in the form prescribed by the Act of Parliament; (3) that in the opinion +of the visitors the Rev. Mr. --- is not a proper person to have been +appointed or to continue to officiate as chaplain to the asylum.” A +letter from the office of the Commissioners in Lunacy was read, in which +they stated they were satisfied that when the Rev. Mr. --- was admitted +he was a proper person to be placed under medical care in the asylum. It +was also asserted that the Commissioners had recognised him as the +chaplain of the asylum. Mr. Palmer, who had moved that the licence to +Heigham Hall be refused, ultimately withdrew his motion, and the incident +terminated. At a meeting of the city magistrates in December, a memorial +was addressed to the Secretary of State, asking that a “searching +investigation be made, with power to call before the Commissioners all +parties who may be able to give evidence upon the various points embraced +in the case.” (No further action was taken.) + +18.—The new bridge at Yarmouth was opened by the chairman and members of +the Haven and Pier Commission. The contract price for the work of +construction was £24,500, but the total cost, including the sums paid for +property in the vicinity of the bridge, was estimated at £60,000. + +19.—In an “extraordinary edition” of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE, published on +this date, was given a “nominal return of the casualties among officers +in the action on the River Alma.” “1st Division—Scots Fusilier Guards: +Captain W. G. Bulwer, wounded severely.” + +25.—The first detachment of the V Battery Royal Artillery arrived at +Norwich; and the second detachment marched in on the 26th. “The last +time artillery were stationed in this city was in 1813, and they were +then commanded by General Cockburn, father of Major Cockburn, of +Bracondale.” + +—At a public meeting held at the Guildhall, Norwich, a committee was +appointed to carry out the objects of the Patriotic Fund, in accordance +with the terms of the Royal Commission. + +—Killed at Balaclava, Lieut. Henry Astley Sparke, 4th Light Dragoons, +eldest son of the Rev. J. H. Sparke, of Gunthorpe Hall, and nephew of +Lord Hastings. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +2.—The Wellington statue, erected in Norwich Market Place, was unveiled +by the Mayor (Sir Samuel Bignold) in the presence of 20,000 spectators. +The band of the West Norfolk Militia played the National Anthem, and the +Royal Artillery fired a salute on the Castle Hill. At the luncheon given +at the Guildhall, speeches were delivered by the Earl of Orford, Lord +Ranelagh, Sir John Boileau, Lord Royston, and Mr. H. J. S. Stracey. The +statue cost about £1,000. “The hero is represented in the identical +boots, cloak, and some other portions of dress actually worn by him at +Waterloo, which were placed at the service of Mr. Adams, the sculptor, +when he was modelling the figure. Mr. Adams has placed a copy of last +Saturday’s NORFOLK CHRONICLE in a small space chiselled for the purpose +under the foot of the statue.” + +8.—Swaffham Coursing Meeting, which had greatly degenerated, was held, +but owing to the small number of entries, the sport concluded early in +the afternoon. “Although it does not appear that in other places +coursing meetings have declined, it is clear that the glories of the +Swaffham one have departed. The loss of Mr. Richard Gurney struck a blow +at it almost fatal. This was followed by the withdrawal of Mr. Hamond +and others, leaving the club originally consisting of all the letters of +the alphabet reduced to two members. Although disappointed by the +curtailment of the sports of the field, it was determined that the ladies +should have the assembly as usual. It was held on Tuesday (the 7th), but +it was known that none of the Club would be there to meet them as +heretofore.” The fortunes of the Club could only be restored, it was +said, by throwing the meeting open to all England. + +9.—Mr. Robert Chamberlin was elected Mayor, and Mr. R. J. H. Harvey +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +11.—Mr. J. H. Tillett, it was announced on this date, had resigned his +seat in the Norwich Town Council, in consequence of the Liberal candidate +for the Seventh Ward “being forced upon the reluctant electors by +bribery.” Mr. Tillett wrote: “A due regard to that peace of mind which +is essential to a man’s happiness compels me to separate myself at once +and for ever in the most decided and unequivocal manner possible from any +association with those who are not prepared in public matters to adhere +to a right and honest course.” + +18.—Died at his residence, Pedestal House, Southtown, Yarmouth in his +89th year, Captain Manby, F.R.S., the inventor of the apparatus for +saving the lives of shipwrecked mariners. “His life for the last fifty +years had been spent in serving his country, and his name will be revered +by thousands who would have been widows and orphans but for the +successful application of science which was perfected by his untiring +industry and perseverance.” His remains were buried at Hilgay on +November 24th. + +20.—Mrs. Fanny Kemble commenced a series of Shakesperian readings at the +Assembly Rooms, Norwich. + + +DECEMBER. + + +8.—A writ was received at Norwich for the election of a member to supply +the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Peto, M.P., “in consequence +of the opinion of the law officers of the Crown that though he had +consented to construct a railway in the Crimea without profit to himself, +he would be liable to heavy penalties if he continued to sit in the House +of Commons.” (_See_ December 27th.) + +9.—A description was published of the new Corn Hall at Diss, erected by a +public-spirited resident, Mr. T. L. Taylor. The building was designed by +Mr. George Atkins, jun. “Mr. Taylor intends vesting it in trustees for +the purposes of a corn market at a nominal rental, and he further intends +appropriating a spacious apartment for a reading-room and library.” + +16.—Wombwell’s Menagerie arrived at Norwich, and was advertised under its +new title, “Edmonds’, late Wombwell’s.” The exhibition was removed from +its usual quarters on Castle Meadow to the Market Place. + +22.—Died at his residence in Berkeley Square, Mr. William Howe Windham, +of Felbrigg Hall. He was one of the representatives of the Eastern +Division of Norfolk in 1832, when he was returned with the Hon. George +Keppel, their opponents being Lord Henry Cholmondeley and Mr. Nathaniel +Peach. In 1835 he came forward with Mr. R. H. Gurney, in opposition to +Mr. Edmond Wodehouse and Lord Walpole, when the two last named were +returned. In 1837 another election occurred, when Lord Walpole having +retired, Mr. H. N. Burroughes was brought forward in conjunction with Mr. +Wodehouse. Mr. Windham and Mr. Gurney, who opposed them, were again +unsuccessful. Mr. Windham, who was a staunch Whig, was the oldest son of +Vice-Admiral Windham (formerly Lukin), who took the name and arms in +pursuance of the will of his uncle, the Right Hon. William Windham, in +1824, on succeeding to the estate on the death of Mrs. Windham. On the +decease of his father, the Admiral, Mr. Windham succeeded to the Felbrigg +property. He married, in 1835, Lady Sophia Hervey, daughter of the +Marquis of Bristol, by whom he had one son, then in his fourteenth year. +Mr. Windham died at the age of 53. + +26.—Mr. J. F. Young, who for many years afterwards was a favourite actor +in Norwich, made his first appearance at the Theatre Royal, in the +character of Sir Edward Mortimer (“The Iron Chest”). The play was +followed by a pantomime, entitled, “Harlequin St. George, or the Geni +Czarnickholdofallhecan and the Fairy of Contentment.” + +27.—The West Norfolk Militia assembled at Norwich for the annual +training. The East Norfolk Militia were embodied on the same day, at +Yarmouth. + +—Sir Samuel Bignold and Mr. Anthony Hamond, of Westacre, were nominated +candidates at the election at Norwich rendered necessary by the +retirement of Mr. Peto. A poll, demanded on behalf of Mr. Hamond, took +place on the 28th, and the result was officially declared on the 29th, as +follows: Bignold, 1,901; Hamond, 1,635. After this election were +published, for the first time, the expenses of the respective candidates. +In Mr. Hamond’s accounts, under the heading, “hire of horses and +carriages,” was the item, “W. Slaughter, Sedan chair, 15s.” + +—Died, the Rev. Sir George Stracey, Bart., rector of Rackheath. “It is +rather a singular circumstance that there has been but one presentation +to the living of Rackheath during a period of 115 years. The late rector +held the living from 1796, and his predecessor was presented to it in +1739.” + +30.—A serious railway accident occurred between Thetford and Brandon. +The up mail from Norwich, which left Thetford soon after 11 p.m., was +detained two and a half miles beyond the station by a breakdown of the +engine. Twenty-three minutes later a cattle train, travelling at full +speed, dashed into the rear of the mail train. The engine-driver of the +mail, John Burton, who was at work beneath his engine, was killed +instantly, and three passengers in the rear carriage seriously injured. +One, Mr. Meagher, a London undertaker, who had been attending the funeral +of Mr. Windham, afterwards died. At the inquest, on January 15th, 1855, +the jury found that the accident resulted from the inefficiency of the +railway company’s rules in allowing a heavily-laden cattle train to +follow a mail train at unlimited speed without telegraphic communication +from the preceding station. + + + +1855. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—The railways from Reedham to Yarmouth and Lowestoft were flooded, +owing to the high tides in the rivers. The metals were displaced, and on +the 2nd traffic was stopped. At Yarmouth the water rose above the +quayhead. + +9.—Lynn Corn Exchange was opened for business. It was built from designs +by Mr. Maberley, at the cost of £2,450. + +—A “farewell festival” was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, “as a mark +of respect and sympathy” to the Right Rev. Dr. Colenso, prior to his +return to the diocese of Natal. Dr. Colenso, who was present had spent +the greater part of the previous year in organizing means for carrying on +his work in South Africa. + +20.—Died in Victoria Street, Norwich, aged 67, William Laws, one of the +proprietors of the Norwich Telegraph coach, which he had driven for +upwards of twenty years. + +23.—The Norfolk Artillery Militia were embodied at Yarmouth. The corps, +on March 7th, proceeded to Eastbourne, for garrison duty, and returned to +Yarmouth on April 25th. In the following month it was determined to +increase the strength from 200 to 400 men and to appoint a +lieutenant-colonel. + +29.—Father Gavazzi, the popular Italian preacher and reformer, gave the +first of a series of “Protestant orations” at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +10.*—“Died last week, at Lincoln, Mr. Benjamin Whall, Cathedral organist +of that city, in his 75th year. He was a native of Norwich, and at an +early age was distinguished for his splendid voice. At 19 he was +appointed master of the choristers of Lincoln Cathedral, and subsequently +organist, and held this situation for 56 years. He was distinguished as +an organist, and was celebrated for his pure style of playing the old +ecclesiastical compositions.” + +20.—In consequence of the high price of provisions, the inclemency of the +weather, and the want of employment, it was decided, at a meeting held at +the Guildhall, Norwich, to start a public subscription to aid the +District Visiting Society in the relief of the poor. + +24.—The dignity of a baronetcy was conferred on Mr. Peto, in appreciation +of his services, “and more especially of his disinterested and patriotic +conduct in retiring from the representation of Norwich to carry out the +construction of the railway from Balaclava, originated by the Duke of +Newcastle.” + +26.—Died at Downham Green, Wymondham, Mr. James Neave, aged 68, “chairman +of the market table at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich.” When hundreds of +small farmers in the county were threatened with ruin after the great +hailstorm, in August, 1842, Mr. Neave suggested to his brother +agriculturists the introduction of a voluntary rate, by which about +£10,000 was raised for the relief of the sufferers. Subsequently was +established the Norwich Hailstorm Society, of which Mr. Neave was an +active promoter. + + +MARCH. + + +9.—The Norwich police appeared in a new uniform. “The principal +alteration in the clothing consists in the substitution of a frock-coat +for the unsightly long-tailed coat, which is certainly a most becoming +uniform for a civil force.” + +21.—This day was observed as one of solemn fasting and humiliation, in +accordance with Royal Proclamation. The Mayor and Corporation of Norwich +attended service at the Cathedral, and there were numerous congregations +at other places of worship. + +22.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a special +jury, was tried the libel action, Waldron, clerk, _v._ Bates, clerk. The +Rev. Frederick William Waldron was a clergyman of the Church of England, +and had been chaplain on board H.M. frigate Amazon, lying off the East +India and China stations. On his return to England he became curate to +the Rev. William Bates, rector of Burnham. After two years’ service, +plaintiff gave the defendant three months’ notice of resignation. Mr. +Bates supplied plaintiff with testimonials, by which he obtained the +appointment of headmaster of a public school at Wymondham, in +Leicestershire. In subsequent correspondence with the trustees of the +school, the defendant stated he had “irrefragable proofs of the exceeding +wickedness” of the plaintiff’s character, and, he added, “I call upon +you, in the name of all that is holy and good, to dismiss him instantly +from his employment.” After a trial extending over two days, the jury +gave a verdict for the defendant. + +26.—The battery of Royal Artillery marched from Norwich Barracks for +Woolwich, whence they proceeded to the Crimea for active service. They +were replaced, on April 4th, by the D battery, from Chatham, commanded by +Capt. Mountain. + +29.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Wightman, Mary Ann Fisher, +aged 28, was indicted for the wilful murder of her husband, George +Wright, at Norwich, on November 28th, by poisoning him. The jury +acquitted the prisoner. + +—Died at Cambridge, James Rattee, who was born at Fundenhall in 1820. +After serving his apprenticeship with Mr. Ollett, carver, of Norwich, he +commenced business for himself at Cambridge, at the age of 22. He was +associated with Mr. Pugin in restoring the choir of Jesus College Chapel. +Most of the designs were made by Rattee himself, and submitted to Pugin +before execution. He carried out Mr. G. G. Scott’s designs for the +carvings in Ely Cathedral, and by the advice of that gentleman spent part +of the year 1852 on the Continent, where he studied the carved woodwork +and artistic wrought ironwork and sculptured stone of Quintin Matsy and +the other master spirits of Louvain and neighbouring cities. Returning +to England, he constructed at Ely the reredos composed of choice stone +and alabaster, highly enriched with delicate carving and inlaid with gold +and gems, forming the most glorious piece of art workmanship executed +since the Reformation. His work is to be found in churches in every +county in England. + +31.—Capt. Wodehouse was backed to run one mile in six minutes, on the +Earlham Road, Norwich. In the presence of a large number of spectators, +he ran the first half mile in less than three minutes, and accomplished +the second half in 2 minutes 56 seconds. He was attended by Jim Mace. +On the 31st Capt. Wodehouse performed the feat of walking one mile in 8 +mins. 16 sees. + + +APRIL. + + +1.—The remains of Richard Peck, an agricultural labourer, aged 69, were +buried in Docking churchyard. “The deceased had worked for forty-two +years on the Choseley Farm, an extra-parochial place, and _cottage +property_, distant from Docking two and a half miles, where he was +obliged to reside, no labourers being permitted to live at Choseley. +Thus he walked to and from his work five miles per day, 30 miles per +week, 1,560 miles per year, and the extraordinary number of 65,520 miles +during his forty-two years’ employment. This circumstance might be +multiplied by numbers in England in general, and West Norfolk in +particular, showing cogent reasons for Mr. Baines’ Poor-law Bill being +made the law of the land.” + +6.—Died at her residence, St. Martin-at-Palace, Norwich, aged 38, Harriet +Gurney Gordon, many years a favourite actress at Norwich and at different +metropolitan and provincial theatres. + +16.—Mrs. Fanny Kemble commenced a course of Shakesperian readings at the +Assembly Rooms, Norwich. + +28.*—“Mr. Clare Sewell Read, son of Mr. George Read, of Plumstead, near +Norwich, has been awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society the prize for +the best essay on the farming of Buckinghamshire. Mr. Read obtained last +year the society’s prize for his essay on Oxfordshire, and had also been +a successful competitor in a former year for his essay on farming in +South Wales.” + +29.—Died, aged 86, Mr. J. Watts, of Yarmouth, for many years coachman of +the Telegraph coach running between Norwich and Yarmouth. + + +MAY. + + +3.—A dinner to celebrate the freeing of Duke’s Palace Bridge, Norwich, +was held at the Duke’s Palace Inn, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. +Robert Chamberlin). “Upwards of twelve years have elapsed since the +abolition of the above toll-bridge was first mooted, and the citizens are +to be congratulated on the removal of the toll.” + +15.—A public meeting was held in the hall of the Bazaar (Victoria Hall), +Norwich, presided over by the Mayor, in furtherance of the movement in +favour of administrative reform. An address was delivered by Mr. W. S. +Lindsay, M.P., and a resolution was adopted affirming “that, without +wishing to exclude the aristocratic class from the position in the public +service to which their talents and patriotism may entitle them to assert, +merit is the only principle by which appointments to public offices +should be attained.” + +18.—Among the officers who received the Crimean medal on this date at the +hands of her Majesty were Capt. Bulwer, Capt. Bathurst, Capt. +Micklethwaite, Lieut. Cator, and Lieut. Cresswell. + +24.—Yarmouth Waterworks were opened, with great public festivity. + +29.—The Norfolk coast was visited by a violent gale, which caused +considerable destruction to life and property. Off Yarmouth the smack +Ruby was lost, with her crew of nine men and a boy. + + +JUNE. + + +6.—An exhibition of the Norfolk and Norwich Fine Arts Association was +opened at Norwich. The collection included works by O. Short, J. B. +Ladbrooke, C. J. W. Winter, H. B. Willis, Frederick Howes, C. L. Nursey, +F. R. Pickersgill, R.A., John Wilson, Alfred Cooper, D. Hodgson, J. +Stark, M. E. Cotman, J. J. Cotman, Mrs. J. Stannard, &c. + +13.—Colours were presented to the West Norfolk Militia, on the Cricket +Ground, Norwich, by the Countess of Albemarle. Lord Orford, as colonel +of the regiment, received the colours, and the consecration prayers were +read by the Rev. C. W. Madden, “who wore the Waterloo medal on his +breast.” The non-commissioned officers and men were entertained at +dinner, provided by public subscription, at St. Andrew’s Hall. The Mayor +(Mr. Chamberlin) presided, and Lord and Lady Albemarle, Lady Augusta +Keppel, and other distinguished visitors were present. + +23.—Notice was given that on and after June 30th the new Newspaper Act +would be in operation, and stamped and unstamped editions of the NORFOLK +CHRONICLE would be published. “In compliance with the request of the +Postmaster-General, we would remind such of our subscribers as may desire +to send the stamped edition through the post that the paper must be +folded so that the whole stamp denoting the duty shall be distinctly +visible on the outside. Such papers must be posted within 15 days of +publication.” + +—The Norton Subcourse and Raveningham estate was sold by Mr. George W. +Salter, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, for £16,632. + + +JULY. + + +2.—A ten mile match, for £20 a side, was run at the Green Hill Gardens, +between Robert Bunn, of Norwich, and John Lovett, of London. The +first-named won; time, 58 minutes. + +3.—The West Norfolk Militia, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Custance, +left Norwich for Aldershot. In December the regiment was transferred to +Dublin. + +—Great festivities took place at Ellingham Hall, in celebration of the +coming of age of Mr. Henry Smith, son and heir of Lieut.-Col. Smith. A +dinner, at which 160 guests were present, was followed by sports, and in +the evening dancing was opened upon the lawn by Mr. Smith and Miss Foster +in a “Sir Roger de Coverley.” + +5.—The marriage took place at East Dereham, of Captain William Earle +Gascoyne Bulwer, late Scots Fusilier Guards, eldest son of Mr. William E. +Lytton Bulwer, of Heydon Hall, and Mary Anne Dering, only daughter of Mr. +William Wilson Lee Warner, of Quebec House. The officiating clergy were +the Rev. G. Dashwood, rector of Stow Bardolph, and the Rev. B. J. +Armstrong, vicar of East Dereham. + +7.—Mr. Edmond Wodehouse, M.P., announced that it was his intention to +retire from the representation of East Norfolk, in consequence of his +continued ill-health. Mr. Henry Josiah Stracey was adopted as the +Conservative candidate, and was returned unopposed on the 17th. + +8.—Died at Ems, Sir William Edward Parry, R.N., Lieut.-Governor of +Greenwich Hospital. He was an LL.D. of Oxford, a F.R.S. of London and +Edinburgh, a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. +Petersburg, and author of a work entitled, “Thoughts on the Parental +Character of God.” He married first, on October 23rd, 1826, Isabella +Louisa, fourth daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley, by whom he had issue +two sons and two daughters. She died on May 13th, 1839. On June 29th, +1841, he married, secondly, Catherine Edwards, daughter of the Rev. R. +Hankinson, of Walpole, and widow of Mr. Samuel Hoare, jun., of Hampstead, +by whom he had issue two daughters. Sir William was an honorary freeman +of the city of Norwich. He had commanded four Arctic expeditions, in all +of which he gained high professional renown. For these services he +received the honour of knighthood, and was presented by the Government +with £1,000, his portion of a reward for reaching the meridian of 110 +degs. W. within the Arctic circle. + +18.—Died, at an advanced age, at Norwich, John Osborne. “He was a +well-known character, and for many years drove the Yarmouth coach, and +for some time the mail coach between Norwich and Ipswich. The railway, +however, put an end to his vocation. Every morning he attended service +at the Cathedral. Even when he was the driver of the coach to Yarmouth +he stipulated he should have his Sunday, in order that he might be in his +accustomed place at the Cathedral.” + +26.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Baron Parke and a special jury, +was tried the action, Fisher _v._ Nisbett. This was a will case, which +excited considerable interest on account of the large amount of property +in dispute and the number of persons concerned. The plaintiff was Miss +Mary Ann Fisher, and the nominal defendant Mr. Philip Blundell Nisbett. +The actual defendant was Mr. Richard Blundell Nisbett. The question at +issue was the validity of the will of a lady named Nisbett. The amount +in dispute was between £20,000 and £30,000 in real property, and a larger +amount in personal property. The father of Mrs. Nisbett was a Mr. +Fisher, a banker, of Yarmouth. Mary Ann Fisher, the plaintiff, was one +of his daughters. All the children were dead in 1854 with the exception +of Mary Ann Fisher. In the year 1811, when the deceased Mrs. Nisbett +married, her father settled on her the sum of £10,000, and gave her +during life an annuity of £500, while all that Mr. Nisbett brought was +the sum of £7,000. In 1824 Mr. Nisbett died. Of the marriage there were +three sons; two had died, and at the time of the trial the only one +living was the eldest, Philip Blundell Nisbett, a confirmed lunatic. In +the year 1835 Mr. Fisher died, leaving property to the amount of about +£100,000. Mrs. Nisbett, after her father’s death, left the bulk of the +property to Philip Blundell Nisbett. There now appeared on the scene Mr. +Richard Blundell Nisbett, a son of Mr. Nisbett’s brother, and nephew by +marriage to Mrs. Nesbitt. He took out a commission of lunacy against +Philip, who was found to be a lunatic and incapable of managing his own +affairs. Then he endeavoured to get a commission of lunacy against Mrs. +Nisbett, but the Lord Chancellor, on receiving the report of the medical +men who examined her, dismissed the petition, with costs. As soon as +Mrs. Nisbett discovered the course that Richard was pursuing, she made a +new will, the effect of which was that the property went to Miss Fisher, +the plaintiff, for life, and after her death to blood relations. On +November 10th, 1854, Mrs. Nisbett died suddenly, and these legal +proceedings commenced. After evidence had been given by medical men and +others, the Attorney-General (Sir Alexander Cockburn) who appeared for +the defendant, unexpectedly withdrew from the case, and a verdict was +entered for the plaintiff. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—Died at Malta, of wounds received before Sebastopol, on June 18th, in +the attack upon the Redan, Lieut. Charles A. P. Boileau, of the Rifle +Brigade, aged 19, fourth son of Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., and Lady +Catherine Boileau, of Ketteringham Park. + +15.—Stalham Corn Hall, erected at the cost of £300, raised by 82 shares +of £5 each, was opened. + +16.—A public dinner was held at Fakenham, under the presidency of Sir +Willoughby Jones, Bart., to celebrate the opening of the Corn Hall. A +capital of £4,000 was raised in 160 shares of £25 each. The building was +designed by Mr. Brown, architect, of Norwich, and built by Mr. Pettitt, +of Ipswich, for £3,000. + +20.—Mr. Charles Mathews commenced a two nights’ engagement at Norwich +Theatre. His characters were Sir Charles Coldstream (“Used Up”), Mr. +Affable Hawk (“The Game of Speculation”), and Captain Patter (“Patter +_versus_ Clatter”). For these two nights the Theatre was under the +management of Mr. John Coleman, formerly of the Norwich Company. + +21.—Died at Thorpe, in his 72nd year, Mr. Edmond Wodehouse. He was a son +of Mr. Thomas Wodehouse, by a daughter of Mr. Pryce Campbell, of +Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire. In 1809 he married his cousin, Lucy, +daughter of the Rev. Philip Wodehouse, by whom he had four children, two +sons and two daughters. In 1817 he offered himself as candidate for +Norfolk, in opposition to Mr. Pratt; he was returned, and retained his +seat until the General Election in 1830. At that time the excitement of +the Reform agitation was at its height, which, with other circumstances, +induced him to decline a contest. In that year Mr. T. W. Coke +(afterwards Earl of Leicester) was returned with Sir W. J. H. B. ffolkes. +In 1832 Mr. Keppel and Mr. Windham were returned. When the political +excitement of the former period had subsided, Mr. Wodehouse again +appeared before the constituency, and at the General Election in 1835 he +and Lord Walpole were returned, in opposition to Mr. Windham and Mr. +Richard Hanbury Gurney. Another General Election took place in 1837, and +Mr. Wodehouse was returned with Mr. Henry Negus Burroughes, in opposition +to the same Liberal candidates. In 1842 Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. Burroughes +were again elected; Sir W. J. H. B. ffolkes, who was abroad at the time, +was nominated without his consent as the Liberal candidate. Both +Conservative candidates were re-elected without opposition in 1847. Mr. +Wodehouse sat in Parliament about forty years. He was a Conservative of +the old school, a Protectionist, and a zealous supporter of Sir Robert +Peel until he introduced his Free Trade measures. His remains were +interred at Norwich Cathedral on August 28th. + +—At the Norwich Police Court, Mr. John Coleman, tragedian, and temporary +manager of the Theatre, preferred a complaint against Inspector Amis, of +the city police. On the previous evening, he stated, a number of persons +presented themselves at the dress-box entrance and demanded admission +with, silver tickets. He informed them that the majority of places had +been taken by those who had paid, but the upper circle was open to silver +ticket holders. Some noise and disturbance ensued. Sir William Foster +came up and endeavoured to gain an entrance, Mr. Coleman tried to prevent +him, a scuffle ensued, and the police were sent for by both parties. +Inspector Amis came, and Mr. Coleman directed his attention to a notice +on the play-bill that no one would be admitted to the dress circle +without a reserved seat ticket. Mr. Coleman asked the inspector to +remove the persons who were seeking to gain an entrance; and they, in +turn, requested the inspector to remove Mr. Coleman. The officer, it was +asserted, made an unprovoked and violent assault upon Mr. Coleman, who +denied that silver ticket holders had the privilege to enter the house, +and told them that they must legally prove their right. He had taken the +Theatre for two nights only, at a heavy rental, there was no arrangement +in the agreement with the manager as to the proprietors of silver +tickets, and that was why he had put the notice on the bills. Mr. Hudson +(a magistrate) remarked that the owners of silver tickets were owners of +the Theatre, and had a right to go in when they pleased. Sir William +Foster attended the Court, and stated that unless Mr. Coleman apologised +he would take proceedings against him. Mr. Coleman said he was sorry if +Sir William Foster had been injured (his waistcoat was torn to ribbons), +but beyond that he should make no apology. The case against Amis was +dismissed. Silver ticket holders were admitted without opposition on the +evening of the 21st. + +23.—Died at Norwich, in his 87th year, Mr. John Francis, manufacturer, +who served the office of Sheriff in 1837. + +24.—The foundation-stone of a new chapel on Hempton Green, Fakenham, was +laid. The building was designed by Mr. J. H. Hakewell, architect to the +Church Building Society. “Hempton has been without a church or clergyman +since the Reformation, when the ancient priory church was demolished.” +(_See_ October 6th, 1856.) + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +4.—Died at Brighton, Mr. Henry Dover, of Caston, who, in the previous +July, resigned the office he had long held as a chairman of the Court of +Norfolk Quarter Sessions. + +10.—A telegraphic message announcing the fall of Sebastopol was exhibited +at the window of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE Office, at six p.m. Thousands of +citizens crowded into the Market Place, and the office was besieged by +persons anxious to obtain copies of the dispatch. Peals were rung upon +the bells of St. Peter Mancroft, bands paraded the streets, and the +citizens sang in chorus the National Anthem and “Rule, Britannia.” A +bonfire was lighted in the Market Place, followed by a display of +fireworks. There were great rejoicings in every town and village in the +county. Sunday, the 29th, was observed as a day of special thanksgiving. + +18.—Mr. Walter Montgomery, at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, “repeated from +memory his recital of ‘Othello.’” “Mr. Montgomery is the son of a +respectable Norwich citizen, and has gained much provincial celebrity for +his impersonation of Shakesperian characters.” + +23.—A fire occurred at the Steam Flour Mills, Lower Westwick Street, +Norwich. The large building, much valuable machinery, and 200 sacks of +flour were destroyed. The loss to the owner (Mr. F. W. Waters) was +estimated at £4,000. + + +OCTOBER. + + +19.—At a meeting of the county magistrates, the following resolution was +adopted, on the motion of Mr. T. J. Birch: “That the magistrates of the +county of Norfolk, in Quarter Sessions assembled, take this, the earliest +opportunity, of conveying to Major-General Charles Ash Windham, their +sincere congratulations on his providential escape from the perils +attendant on the assault of the great Redan of Sebastopol on the 8th of +September, 1855, of expressing to him their sense of admiration of his +long-enduring gallantry, of his courage, constancy, self-devotion, and +self-possession, which may be equalled, but cannot be surpassed, and of +tendering to him their warmest and most cordial thanks for the example he +has thus held out to the British soldier.” A “Windham Testimonial Fund” +was afterwards opened. (_See_ August 1st, 1856.) + + +NOVEMBER. + + +3.—The Norfolk coast was visited by a severe gale, which did enormous +damage to the shipping. + +9.—Mr. J. Godwin Johnson was elected Mayor, and Mr. Timothy Steward +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +28.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the unsatisfactory state of +the railway communication between Norwich and London was considered. It +was stated that an apprehension existed on the part of the public, on +account of delays and obstructions, that the Eastern Counties Railway was +insecure. A committee was appointed to inquire into and define the +grievances of the citizens. On December 7th the Committee reported upon +the alleged insecurity of the permanent way; the irregularity and +inconvenience in the working of the line; and the arrangements for the +conveyance of the mails. The Board of Trade made an inspection of the +line, and in January, 1856, reported upon its insecure and dangerous +state between Norwich and Cambridge. + + +DECEMBER. + + +8.*—“The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Joseph Stonehewer Scott, of +Thursford and Pinckney, in the county of Norfolk, eldest son of Mr. +Joseph Scott, of Colney Hall, license and authority that he and his issue +may use the surname of Chad in addition to and after the surname of +Scott, and bear the arms of Chad quarterly with the family arms of +Scott.” + +—*“Of late years some improvements have been made in various parts of +Norwich by widening the streets, but by far the most important and +expensive has been that in London Street. The improvement was badly +designed, and has cost almost as much already as the cost would have been +of pulling down one side of the street entirely. From first to last at +least £20,000 has been expended, and the whole street is a bungle after +all. The lower part of the street remains as bad as ever, and in the +upper part years have been required to make a fourteen feet passage.” + +19.—Mr. W. L. Mendham was elected Town Clerk of Norwich, in succession to +Mr. J. R. Staff, who, since 1836, had held that office with the +appointment of Clerk of the Peace. Mr. A. Dalrymple was elected to the +latter office. + +20.—Died at Dorking, Mr. T. Cubitt, who was well known by reason of the +many important building contracts he had undertaken in London. He was +born at Buxton, near Norwich, on February 25th, 1788. When working as a +journeyman carpenter, he, in his nineteenth year, made a voyage to India, +as a ship’s joiner. On his return to London two years afterwards, he +commenced as a builder in a small way of business. Later he erected the +London Institution, Moorfields, and about the year 1824 entered into an +engagement with the Duke of Bedford and Lord Southampton for contracts on +the ground on which Tavistock Square, Gordon Square, Woburn Place, and +the neighbouring streets now stand. Towards the close of the same year +and the beginning of 1825 he engaged with the Marquis of Westminster and +Mr. Lowndes to cover portions of the Five Fields and grounds adjacent, +and of this engagement Belgrave Square, Lowndes Square, Chatham Place, +and other ranges of houses resulted. He built upon the vast open +district lying between Eton Square and the Thames, now known as South +Belgravia, and carried out similar extensive operations in Clapham, +Kemp-town, Brighton, and other places. Mr. Cubitt had two brothers, Mr. +Alderman Cubitt, M.P. for Andover, and Mr. Lewis Cubitt, the architect of +the Great Northern Railway terminus. + +26.—The title of the Christmas pantomime produced at Norwich Theatre was +“King Goggle-eyed Greedy Gobble and the Fairy of the Enchanted Lake.” +Mr. Sidney was complimented upon the excellence of the production. + +27.—Died, in his 80th year, Mr. W. Shalders, who was for many years a +leather merchant in Norwich. He was the originator and patentee of the +far-famed Norwich invention known as the “fountain pump.” + + + +1856. + + +JANUARY. + + +21.—Mr. John Coleman, lessee of the Worcester circuit, appeared at +Norwich Theatre, in the character of Claude Melnotte. His other +impersonations included Evelyn (“Money”), Hamlet, Richelieu, and Ingomar. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +5.—Madame Jenny Goldschmidt-Lind sang at a performance of “The Messiah,” +at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich and on the 7th took part in a concert at +which a miscellaneous programme was presented. The other performers +included Mr. Lockey, Mr. Weiss, Miss Bassano. M. Otto Goldschmidt, and +Mr. Swift. The total receipts amounted to £2,400, of which £351 was paid +to the account of the Jenny Lind Infirmary. + +11.—The first performance of modern burlesque, “The Yellow Gnome,” by J. +R. Planché, was given at Norwich Theatre on this date. + +19.—Mr. Henry Russell appeared at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in his +entertainment, entitled, “The Far West, or life in America,” illustrated +by a series of views “showing the different scenes of a transit from +Liverpool to the American Continent.” + +23.*—“At the present time there are about forty manufacturers in Norwich, +ten of them being producers of textile fabrics of various kinds. +Altogether they now employ several thousand operatives in spinning yarns +or in the production of immense quantities of goods composed of materials +of that description.” + +27.—The Lord Bishop of the Diocese consecrated the new Cemetery at +Norwich. Thirty-five acres of land were purchased by the Board of Health +of Mr. John Cater, but only twenty-three acres were at first utilised. +The buildings were erected by Messrs. Ling and Balls, from designs by Mr. +Benest, city surveyor, for £1,990. + + +MARCH. + + +12.—Mr. George Dawson, of Birmingham, delivered an address at the Lecture +Hall, St. Andrew’s, Norwich, on “Martin Luther: his private life and +character.” On the 17th he lectured on “Old Books: their uses, beauties, +and peculiarities.” + +13.—Mrs. Fred Philips, for several years a favourite actress on the +Norwich circuit, took her final leave of the stage at Norwich Theatre. +The house was crowded, and between 300 and 400 persons were refused +admission. + +22.—Hoffman’s “Organophonic Band, or Human Voice Orchestra,” with Mr. +Thurton, “the living Valentine Vox,” gave an entertainment at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. The performance was repeated on the 24th and +25th, and the company made a return visit in April. + +24.—Mr. Walter Montgomery, a native of the city, commenced a six nights’ +engagement at Norwich Theatre, during which he appeared as Virginius, +Macbeth, Richard the Third, &c. + +—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a letter was received from Mr. +J. B. Morgan, hon. secretary to the Nelson Statue Committee, stating that +it was proposed, on the suggestion of Sir Richard Westmacott, R.A., +Professor of Sculpture, to remove the statue from the site it had +occupied during the preceding eighteen months, in the Market Place, +opposite the entrance to Dove Street, to a new site in the Upper Close, +immediately facing the Grammar School. The statue was removed, on April +16th, to the site it now occupies. + +30.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the signing of the Treaty of +Peace. On the 31st (Monday) the bells of St. Peter Mancroft were rung, +and flags hoisted upon the tower. In the evening fireworks were +discharged in the Market Place, and, contrary to police regulations, a +bonfire was lighted. It was extinguished by the constables, whereupon +the mob broke many windows in the Market Place, and proceeded to the +Castle Meadow, where a squib was thrown upon a waggon loaded with straw. +When the fire brigade attempted to put out the flames, the firemen were +stoned by the rioters, some of whom were apprehended, and punished next +day by the magistrates. Peace was proclaimed on May 1st by the Mayor +(Mr. J. G. Johnson) and the Sheriff (Mr. T. Steward), who were attended +by the Town Clerk and Under-Sheriff. From an open carriage the Mayor +read her Majesty’s Proclamation in the Market Place “and the other +accustomed spots for such announcements.” Peace was celebrated on May +27th. The Royal Artillery paraded on Mousehold and fired a salute, and +at one o’clock dinner was provided at St. Andrew’s Hall for the +non-commissioned officers and men of the Artillery stationed in the city, +for the recruiting and Militia staffs, for soldiers and sailors residing +in the city who had been engaged in the war, and for the fathers, sons, +and brothers of soldiers and sailors who had fallen in the war or who +were then on active service. Upwards of 8,000 children assembled in +Chapel Field, and walked in procession to the Market Place, where the +National Anthem was sung, and immediately afterwards proceeded to +Victoria Station, where they had tea. In the evening the Guildhall, +Ethelbert Gate, St. Andrew’s Hall, the Shirehall, St. Giles’ church, +Erpingham Gate, the gate at the Bishop’s Palace, and the Wellington and +Nelson statues were illuminated. There were displays of fireworks in the +Market Place and on Castle Meadow, where also a bonfire was lighted. On +the 28th a ball was given at the Assembly Rooms. Similar celebrations +took place at Yarmouth, Lynn, and other towns. + + +APRIL. + + +13.—A serious gas explosion took place at Gurney’s Bank, Norwich. A +clerk, named Utting, who detected an escape of gas, entered with a +lighted candle the office of Mr. Mottram. A tremendous explosion +followed. The walls were rent, the windows blown out, and the ceiling +raised so that the gas escaped to the rooms above. + +—Died at his residence, Redwell Street, Norwich, Dr. Robert Hull, in his +62nd year. He was for many years upon the Commission of the Peace for +the city, and was one of the physicians of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital, a post which he resigned a short time before his death. + +23.—Miss Cushman, the celebrated actress, appeared at Norwich Theatre as +Meg Merrilies. On the 25th she performed the part of Romeo, to the +Juliet of Mrs. Sidney. + +25.—The coming of age of Mr. William Amherst Tyssen Amhurst was +celebrated at Didlington Park. Lord Berners formerly owned the estate, +and in 1849 sold it to Lord William Powlett, from whom it passed by +purchase to Mr. George Tyssen Amhurst, who effected many improvements +upon the property. The celebration was carried out upon a scale of great +liberality. A fine bullock, weighing 80 stones, was killed on the 21st, +steamed on the 23rd, and roasted whole on the 25th in a temporary kitchen +specially erected by Mr. Plowright, of Swaffham. A sheep of six stones +weight was also roasted whole, and the total weight of the plum-puddings +was 700 lbs. Immense quantities of beef, mutton, and pork were cooked in +joints. Three tents, each 130 ft. in length, were provided for the +accommodation of the guests, who numbered upwards of 550. The toast of +“Miss Mitford, the future Mrs. Amhurst,” was drunk with great enthusiasm, +and a series of athletic sports concluded the festivities. [_Note_: The +spelling of the names in the original paragraph is adhered to. William +G. T. Daniel Tyssen by licence exchanged the name of Daniel Tyssen for +Tyssen-Amhurst: his son, by a second licence, altered it to William +Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst.] + + +MAY. + + +5.—The close of the season at Norwich Theatre was marked by the public +presentation to Mr. William Sidney of a handsome silver salver and vase, +“in recognition of his judicious management as lessee.” It was one of +the most successful seasons that had been recorded for many years. + +7.—Died at her house in Green Park Buildings, Bath, aged 76, Lady Betty, +widow of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Berry, Bart., K.C.B., and eldest +daughter of Dr. Forster, formerly headmaster of the Norwich Free Grammar +School. + +11.—The centenary of the opening of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, was +celebrated. A dinner was held at the Royal Hotel on the 13th, under the +presidency of Mr. John Taylor, F.R.S. + +31.—A fire took place on the premises of Mr. Ineson, rag and bone +merchant, St. Andrew’s, Norwich. In addition to the total destruction of +Mr. Ineson’s property, the workshops of Mr. Fisher, builder, and the +paint shop of Mr. Turner were burnt down. + +—In the Rolls Courts Sir John Romilly gave judgment in the case of the +Norwich Yarn Company, which came before the Court upon appeal from the +Master’s certificate. The question was whether the directors of the +company were entitled to levy contributions upon shareholders, in order +to pay certain sums advanced or borrowed by them for carrying on the +business of the company, which had become insolvent. Originally +projected in 1833, with the view of relieving the distress which at that +time affected the poor of Norwich, the company struggled on with +increasing difficulties for sixteen years, until in 1850 it was wound up +by order of the Court. His lordship now discharged altogether a question +of fraud on the part of the directors. He was of opinion that the +directors were entitled to be allowed all sums advanced by them, with +simple interest at five per cent., and to be repaid that amount as far as +the sum in Court would extend, with payment of the costs, and afterwards +by a surplus raised by a call from the contributors in proportion to the +number of shares held by them respectively, and that the cost of the +proceedings must be borne by the estate of the company. + + +JUNE. + + +3.—The Rev. J. Alexander was presented with a purse containing £500, and +a clock, on the occasion of his entering the fortieth year of his +ministry at Prince’s Street Independent chapel, Norwich. The Rev. S. +Titlow and other clergymen of the Church of England were present. + +7.—A male specimen of Savi’s warbler, the rarest of British marsh +warblers, was shot near Brundall. “This is the only bird of the species +obtained in the county since 1842, when a pair were killed at South +Walsham, which, with one in the Norwich Museum, are all that are known to +have occurred in Norfolk. The one in the Museum was obtained by the Rev. +James Brown, at Limpenhoe, in the early part of the century.” + +21.—At a meeting held at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, it was decided to +establish a pack of foxhounds in Norfolk, and to invite Lord Suffield to +become master. The first meet of the pack took place at Melton Constable +Park, on November 25th. + +23.—A panorama, with the present form of variety entertainment, was +exhibited for the first time at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, by Mr. J. +Batchelder. The views were illustrative of a tour in Southern Africa. + +25.—The left wing of the West Norfolk Militia arrived at Norwich from +Fermoy, co. Cork; the right wing reached the city on the 26th. An +influential deputation of the inhabitants of Fermoy, prior to the +departure of the regiment, presented to the colonel a farewell address, +in which they congratulated him upon having the command of “so highly +respectable and well disciplined a corps.” + + +JULY. + + +5.—A fine brig of 200 tons was launched from Mr. J. S. Southgate’s +shipyard at Wells-next-the-Sea. She was christened the Rambler, by Miss +Ellen Rump. From Mr. Henry Tyrrell’s yard at Wells, on September 3rd, +was launched a new schooner, called the Gem. + +11.—The Testerton estate, near Fakenham, comprising a residence and 676a. +3r. 6p. of arable and pasture land, let on lease to Mr. Thomas Henry +Case, at a rental of £1,105 per annum, was sold at the Royal Hotel, +Norwich, by Mr. Butcher, for £34,500, exclusive of timber. The +purchasers were the trustees of Mr. John Morse, deceased. + +16.—Building sites in London Street, Norwich, were offered for sale by +Mr. F. Clowes. “The highest price made was at the rate of 9s. 0½d. per +square foot, or £20,000 per acre.” + +—The new cemetery at Yarmouth was consecrated by the Right Rev. Bishop +Spencer, acting for the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. + +21.—An inquiry was opened at Yarmouth by Mr. W. D. Boase, one of her +Majesty’s Charity Commissioners, “into the present circumstances and +administration of the various endowed charities existing in the borough, +with the view of hearing any complaints that might be made, and to +suggest improvements in the disposition of the funds.” The inquiry +concluded on the 24th. + +23.—A performance of Costa’s “Eli” was given by the Norwich Choral +Society, at St. Andrew’s Hall. The principal vocalists were Madame +Rudersdorff, Miss Dolby, Mr. George Perren, Mr. A. Mann, Mr. Weiss, and +Mr. Thomas. A performance of the same oratorio, under the personal +direction of the composer, had already been advertised by Mr. Gedge, of +Heigham Grove. The Mayor (Mr. J. G. Johnson) had given permission for +the use of the hall, and his action was sharply criticised at the +meetings of the Town Council and in letters to the newspapers. The +following announcement was published on July 19th: “‘Eli,’ for the +benefit of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, under the direction of Mr. +Costa. Postponed. Mr. Gedge respectfully informs the public of the +county and city that, as the Town Council has thought fit to set aside +the Mayor’s prerogative and fixing a day for the performance in +opposition to the one he announced under the early sanction and promise +of the Mayor for the Assize week, in St. Andrew’s Hall, and as the +Council thought fit, at their last meeting, to determine on other +restrictive demands, of which he received a legal notice this day, he has +resolved to postpone ‘Eli,’ under Mr. Costa’s direction, until a future +opportunity, when he trusts he shall be able to benefit the charities and +at the same time to gratify the public.” + +26.—On this date was published a report of the action, Beaven _v._ Lord +Hastings, heard before the Vice-Chancellor, Sir W. P. Wood. This was a +bill by a bond creditor of Edward Astley, deceased, praying an account of +the sum due for principal and interest upon his bond, and a decree for +payment against the defendant, Lord Hastings, on the ground that he had +made himself personally liable to pay the debt without regard to a +sufficiency of the assets of the late Edward Astley. The bill also +brought the declaration that the defendant had constituted himself +executor _de son tort_ of the intestate Edward Astley, and was +accountable on that footing to the plaintiff as the rightful +administrator of the intestate. Mr. Astley, who resided at Eneilles, in +Belgium, having borrowed £1040 from the plaintiff, gave his bond, dated +July 3rd, 1845, by which he became bound to the plaintiff in the penal +sum of £2,080, with the condition for defeasance upon payment on July +3rd, 1847, of £1,040 with interest at 5 per cent. A warrant of attorney +at even date was executed by Edward Astley, but no judgment was ever +actually entered up under the warrant. In April, 1846, the dead body of +Edward Astley was found, with marks of violence upon it, in the River +Ourthe in Belgium. Lord Hastings and his mother, Dame Hester Astley, his +sole next-of-kin, proceeded to Eneilles with his solicitor, and applied +to the Juges de Paix to remove the seals and give him possession of his +brother’s property. A _procès verbal_ having been signed, possession of +the property, “without description or inventory,” was delivered to Lord +Hastings, who, by thus taking possession _pur et simple_ became +personally liable, according to the Belgian law, to pay the debts of the +intestate, without reference to the value of assets. The Vice-Chancellor +dismissed the bill, on the ground that the defendant, who had legally +received the property in Belgium, could not be sued in England as +executor _de son tort_. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—General Windham was received in Norwich with a great demonstration of +welcome, on his return to his native county. The hero of the Redan +travelled from London by the Eastern Union line, and was presented with +congratulatory addresses at various stations along the route. At +Victoria Station he was met by the Mayor and Corporation of Norwich, the +Earl of Albemarle, Lord Hastings, Lord Bury, &c., and escorted by the +Royal Artillery, proceeded to the Guildhall, where he was presented with +an address. A banquet, attended by officers of the Army and Navy +connected with Norfolk and Norwich who had served in the Crimea, was +given in honour of the General, at St. Andrew’s Hall. The Earl of +Albemarle presided, and on behalf of the subscribers to the Windham +Testimonial Fund, presented the General with a service sword and a dress +sword. + +2.—Several deaths were reported to have occurred from small-pox at Lynn. +“In no instance has death ensued here after vaccination.” + +9.—It was reported that at the Suffolk Assizes, at Ipswich, an action was +brought by the Commissioners of Yarmouth Harbour, in the name of their +clerk (Mr. Preston), pursuant to the direction of the Master of the +Rolls, against the Norfolk and Eastern Counties Railway Company. The +plaintiff complained that the defendants had wrongfully diverted and +obstructed the waters of the Yare, the Wensum, and the Waveney, which of +right ought to flow into and through Yarmouth Harbour, and had turned +them into Lake Lothing, and thence into the sea through Lowestoft +Harbour. The Eastern Union, the Norfolk, and the Eastern Counties +Railways, had entered into an agreement for amalgamation, by virtue of +which the latter company assumed the entire control over the network of +railways constructed by those companies and the East Anglian Company, +and, among other matters, they undertook the duties created by the +Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Act, one of which was the maintenance of +Mutford Bridge where Lake Lothing joined Oulton Broad, for the double +purpose of keeping in the fresh waters of the Yare and Waveney and +preserving them for the use of Yarmouth Harbour, and of keeping out the +waters of the sea, which would otherwise flood all the low lands at high +water. These duties had not been discharged to the satisfaction of the +plaintiffs. After discussion, terms of reference to Mr. B. Andrew, Q.C., +were arranged, the defendants undertaking to repair the locks at once, +the plaintiffs being let in to complain of acts of omission as well as of +commission on the part of the defendants. A verdict was then taken for +the plaintiffs, subject to a special case. (_See_ January 26th, 1858.) + +15.—Lieut.-Col. Edwin Wodehouse, C.B., Royal Artillery, on revisiting his +former home at Hingham, after his return from the Crimea, was presented +with an address by the inhabitants of the town. He was the eldest son of +Admiral Wodehouse. At Inkerman a battery called “Wodehouse’s Battery” +was furiously attacked and nearly all the men cut down by overpowering +numbers of the enemy. By heroic courage and determination he rescued +from the enemy the three guns lost early in the action. Two slugs passed +through his cloak, and one, if not two, horses were killed under him. + +18.—The London Grand Opera Company commenced a season at the Theatre +Royal, Norwich. The _artistes_ included Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Miss Fanny +Reeves, Mr. Borrani, Mr. Oliver Summers, Mr. J. B. Bowler, and Mr. +Elliott Galer. Among the operas produced were “La Somnambula,” “The +Bohemian Girl,” “Maritana,” “Lucia Di Lammermoor,’” “Fra Diavolo,” +“Norma,” and “Daughter of the Regiment.” The company came direct from +Drury Lane Theatre, on the termination of the season there. + +24.—Died at Blofield, Captain Onslow, R.N., in his 61st year. He entered +the Navy in 1810, saw much active service, and returned to Portsmouth +from Rio de Janeiro with upwards of 888,000 dollars on June 3rd, 1833. +He was advanced to post rank on August 27th, 1834, and was lastly, from +July 23rd, 1842, until paid out of commission in the early part of 1847, +employed in the Pacific, on board the Daphne, 18. + +26.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the Paving Committee +reported in favour of a scheme for draining the northern part of the +city, at the total cost of £7,893, according to plans prepared by Mr. E. +E. Benest, city surveyor. The Council declined to adopt the scheme, on +the ground that the city could not afford to undertake it. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +1.—A storm of great severity occurred. The district in which it was most +felt was across the track of marsh land lying between Bungay and Ormesby. +At Yarmouth the outbreak began at six p.m., and lasted till midnight. +Several cottages were flooded, and one fell, in consequence of its being +undermined by the water. + +—The first meeting of the provisional committee for erecting the +Britannia Pier, Yarmouth, was held at the Angel Hotel, under the +presidency of Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P. The estimated cost was +£3,900. The pier was opened on July 13th, 1858. + +14.—A white stork was shot in the plantation of Mr. R. H. Saye, at North +Pickenham. Its wings measured 6 ft. 3 in. from tip to tip, it was 4 ft. +in length, and weighed 8 lbs. The bird was preserved by Mr. T. Ellis, of +Swaffham. + +23.—Mdlle. Piccolomini gave a concert at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. +Among the _artistes_ from Her Majesty’s Theatre who accompanied her were +Mdlle. Firioli, Signor Belletti, Mr. Charles Braham, Signor Beneventano, +and Signor Pilotti. + +27.*—“During the past fortnight the catch of herrings at Yarmouth has +been almost unprecedented in the annals of the fisheries. In many +instances the boats have entered the harbour so heavily laden that their +gunwales were almost level with the water. In the last ten days it is +computed that the quantity of herrings brought in and landed here from +the various boats has reached the enormous daily average of 100 lasts, or +1,320,000 fish. From £12 10s. to £14 per last has been realised; but in +some cases this abundance of fish has proved most disastrous to the +owners, entailing the loss of the boats’ nets, stores, &c. Mr. J. T. +Frosdick has sustained in this way the entire loss of the nets of two +boats, to the serious extent of £450, for, owing to the enormous catch of +fish, the men were quite unable to draw the nets on board, and ultimately +the weight proved so great that they sunk the nets and all to the bottom +of the sea.” + +30.—The festival of the Choir Benevolent Fund was held at Norwich +Cathedral. In addition to those of Norwich, choirs from London, Ely, +Cambridge, Rochester, Peterborough, and Canterbury took part. The total +sum accruing from the festival amounted to £273 0s. 9d. + + +OCTOBER. + + +1.—Died, in his 83rd year, the Rev. James Brown, B.D., Hon. Canon of +Norwich, and for fifty years vicar of St. Andrew’s, Norwich. “For more +than twenty years chaplain of the county prison, he was one of the +earliest advocates of educational efforts being directed towards +prisoners, and in his practical suggestions may be traced the germ of +much that is valuable in our reformatory institutions. He lived long +enough to see similar views generally adopted and made compulsory by the +State. His duties as chaplain were performed during a period when +capital punishments were much more frequent than now, and this gave him +the opportunity of seeing vice in its most degrading forms, and to hear +from the lips of its victims the repentance which the certain approach of +death and judgment generally extracted from them.” + +6.—The church of the Holy Trinity, Hempton Green, was opened by the +Bishop of Norwich. + +—The corner-stone of the new Corn Hall at Aylsham was laid by the Marquis +of Lothian. + +7.—Died at Calais, aged 60, Capt. Charles Thurtell, R.N., son of Mr. +Thomas Thurtell, of Lakenham. + +16.—The Earl of Albemarle addressed a large meeting of the industrial +class at the Corn Hall, Diss, upon the subject of “Benefit Clubs.” In +the course of his remarks, he asserted “the Manchester Unity of +Oddfellows is humbug from beginning to end.” The action of his lordship +evoked a large amount of newspaper correspondence, and on November 6th +Mr. Samuel Daynes, a former “Grand Master” of the Unity, introduced at +Diss a Mr. Reeve, who delivered an address to rebut the assertions of +Lord Albemarle. + +20.—Mr. Fred Phillips’ dramatised version of Mrs. Beecher Stowe’s romance +of “Dred” was produced at the Surrey Theatre, and was favourably noticed +by the critics. At the same theatre, on January 19th, 1857, was produced +the comedy, “A Bird in the Hand is worth Two in the Bush,” by the same +author. + +29.—At a meeting held at Yarmouth, it was resolved to take the necessary +steps towards placing the Nelson column in a proper state of repair. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +1.—Mr. T. D. Eaton, president of the Choral Society, was presented by the +members, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, with a silver snuff-box and +silver inkstand. “Mr. H. Pierson, the author of the oratorio +‘Jerusalem,’ and of the opera ‘Faust,’ was present, and wrote a drinking +song for the occasion, dedicating it to the president.” + +5.—Died at Liverpool, Mr. Charles Hodgson, formerly of Norwich. He was +one of the mathematical tutors at Norwich Free Grammar School during the +headmastership of the Rev. Edward Valpy, and nearly the last surviving +member of the Norwich Society of Artists, established in 1803. + +9.—The down parliamentary train was on its way from Thetford to Harling +when the engine left the metals, mounted the bank by the side of the +line, and, after running forty yards, turned over upon its side, crushing +the driver to death. The accident was occasioned by the breaking of the +tire of the leading wheel of the engine. A few minutes after the +accident a goods up-train ran into the tender of the disabled engine, but +only a slight collision resulted. + +10.—Mr. Robert Chamberlin was elected Mayor, and Mr. Robert Seaman +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +13.—A sculling match, for £100, between Henry Kelly, of Fulham, and +Richard Buttle, of Norwich, was rowed on the Thames, from Putney to +Mortlake. Kelly won, by little more than half a boat’s length. Time, 25 +minutes. The return match was fixed to take place on the Yare, from +Surlingham to Thorpe, on November 25th, but owing to a dispute as to the +appointment of referee, the race was postponed until the 26th, when +Kelly, who rowed the distance, about 4½ miles, in 37½ minutes, won +easily. + +19.—Died, the Right Hon. Julia Barbara, Lady Stafford, wife of Henry +Valentine, 9th Baron Stafford, daughter of Edward Howard, of Glossop. +Her ladyship was born in 1807. The interment took place at the private +chapel at Costessey, on November 27th. + +29.—Snow began to fall, and soon reached a greater depth than had been +recorded in Norfolk for many years previously. At nine o’clock on the +morning of December 4th the thermometer stood at 16 deg.; the reading of +the same instrument, in the same place, at eleven a.m. on December 6th +was 60 deg. In thirty-six hours from ten to twelve inches of snow had +disappeared, and the weather thenceforth was very mild. + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—At the Norwich Police Court, George Holl and Stephen Gilbert, of +Magdalen Road, were charged by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue with +having an illicit still. Holl was fined £50, and Gilbert £200. + +3.—The “exercise” written by Mr. Edward Bunnett, of Norwich, “to qualify +himself for taking the degree of Bachelor of Music, was performed with +great success in the chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.” + +25.—Died, in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, Mrs. Ann Jean, widow of Mr. +Roger Jean, artist, in her 74th year. + +26.—Boxing Day was, for the first time, observed in Norwich as a +_general_ holiday, “none of the shops being opened in the Market Place or +principal streets.” The pantomime of “Bluebeard, or the Demon +Curiosity,” was produced at the Theatre, and the other amusements +included Brown’s Circus, with the spectacles, “St. George and the +Dragon,” and “Mazeppa”; and Wombwell’s Menagerie on Castle Meadow. + + + +1857. + + +JANUARY. + + +4.—During a violent gale from the north, several ships went ashore at +Yarmouth. “The beach presented a melancholy appearance, from the number +of vessels upon it.” + +8.—The Rev. A. C. Copeman was elected minister of the parish of St. +Andrew, Norwich. The Revs. T. Rust, J. W. Cobb, and R. Wade withdrew +from the contest, and Mr. Copeman defeated the remaining candidate, the +Rev. J. W. Evans, by 96 votes to 33. + +19.—The D Battery, Field Artillery, commanded by Major Strange, marched +from the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, _en route_ for Aldershot. P Field +Battery arrived from Woolwich on the 21st, under the command of Major +Hoste. + +23.—A sea eagle was shot at Winterton. It measured from its beak to its +tail 3 feet, and from tip to tip of its wings 8 feet. + +27.—A dinner was held at the Angel Inn, North Walsham, to celebrate the +restoration of the Market Cross. + +—Died at his residence, Park Crescent, London, in his 70th year, the Hon. +Sir Edward Hall Alderson, Baron of her Majesty’s Court of Exchequer. He +was the eldest son of Mr. Robert Alderson, barrister-at-law, and Recorder +of Norwich, by the daughter of Mr. Samuel Hurry, of Great Yarmouth, where +he was born in 1787. He received his early education at the Charter +House and at Caius College, Cambridge. Elected a Fellow of his college, +he, in 1812, proceeded M.A. On being called to the Bar, he went the +Northern Circuit. In conjunction with Mr. Barnewell, he edited five +volumes of reports of cases heard in the Court of King’s Bench between +1815 and 1820. In 1830, though still wearing the stuff gown, he was +promoted an additional puisne judge in the Court of Common Pleas, and +received the honour of knighthood. In 1834 he was transferred from that +Court to a puisne judgeship in the Court of Exchequer, where for many +years he was second to Baron Parke. Baron Alderson was a careful, +learned, and conscientious judge, though his mind was naturally inclined +to take a rather hard and dry view of the question at issue, and to strip +it, almost to a fault, of extraneous matter. + +28.—A singular action for defamation of character was tried before Mr. +Justice Williams and a special jury in the Court of Common Pleas. Mr. +Stephen English, Chief Constable of Norwich, was the plaintiff, and Capt. +Black, Chief Constable of Norfolk, the defendant. The damages were laid +at £3,000. According to the opening statement of Mr. Serjeant Byles, +Capt. Black felt himself aggrieved that Mr. English should be styled +Chief Constable of Norwich, and wrote to the Watch Committee several +letters upon the subject, stating that Mr. English’s assumed title, +instead of his proper title, “superintendent of police,” had caused him +(Capt. Black) obstruction and official inconvenience in the discharge of +his duties. These letters had no effect, and Capt. Black then published +handbills reflecting upon the personal character of Mr. English. He +stated that the antecedents of Mr. English in relation to other county +forces were so disreputable as to cause his expulsion from more than one +of them. This was the defamatory statement complained of. Many +witnesses were examined on both sides, and on the 29th the jury returned +a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £50. On February 13th Sir Henry +Stracey, M.P., in Committee on the Chief Constables Bill, moved to insert +in clause 4, “And whereas disputes having arisen as to the title of Chief +Constable, for avoiding the same the title of Chief Constable shall be +exclusively applicable to and borne by the officer appointed by the +justices of any county in General or Quarter Sessions assembled, and the +title Head Constable by the officer appointed by the Watch Committees of +boroughs and cities.” + + +FEBRUARY. + + +4.—A servant girl, named Belinda Wilson, aged 18, was charged at the +County Police Station, Norwich, with stealing, on January 3rd the sum of +£90, in bank notes, the property of her master, Mr. William Claxton, +farmer, of Stoke Holy Cross. After taking the money, Wilson attired +herself in the clothes of a manservant, and starting from Flordon railway +station, proceeded to Edinburgh, where she had some difficulty in +obtaining change, as English notes were not in general circulation there. +She obtained a new suit of clothes of sporting cut, and travelled from +place to place “like a fast young man.” At the end of January she was +again in the Eastern Counties, and took up her abode at Yarmouth. During +a visit to Wombwell’s Menagerie, she was recognised by an old +schoolfellow, through whom information was given to the police, who +apprehended her at the Waterloo Tavern, St. Peter’s Road, where she was +posing as “a lively-looking youth, and smoking a cigar.” She gave the +name of James Smith. The prisoner was committed for trial, and at the +Norfolk Quarter Sessions in March pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by +Sir Willoughby Jones to two years’ imprisonment, with hard labour. + +11.—The new Corn Hall at East Dereham, erected on the sites of old +shambles and slaughter-houses, was opened. A company of 250 guests +assembled at dinner in the hall, under the presidency of Lord Sondes, who +was supported by the Earl of Leicester, Lord Walsingham, Lord Hastings, +Lord Suffield, the Hon. and Rev. E. S. Keppel, Mr. W. Bagge, M.P., Mr. G. +P. Bentinck, M.P., Mr. E. Fellowes, M.P., the Mayor and Sheriff of +Norwich, &c. The hall was built by a company, with a capital of £3,000. +Its cost was about £1,800; Mr. J. B. Goggs, of Swaffham, was the +architect, and Mr. Hubbard, of Dereham, the builder. (_See_ July 29th, +1857.) + +14.*—“A few days since Mr. Wolton, grocer, of Norwich, received by the +London post a letter enclosing the halves of notes to the amount of £140, +with the intimation, written in a disguised hand, that about 14 years ago +the writer, being in a place of trust in his establishment, had +appropriated to himself this amount in a dishonest manner, and taken the +present opportunity of returning it. On Friday morning came the other +halves of the notes, with the request that the rest of the money might be +acknowledged in the ‘Daily News.’” + +20.—An amateur dramatic performance was given at Norwich Theatre, “by a +number of distinguished amateurs, most of whom had formed port of the +_corps dramatique_ during the late campaign in the Crimea.” The pieces +were “The Black Book,” a three-act drama by J. Palgrave Simpson; “The +Thumping Legacy,” and “The Critic.” The performers appeared under +fictitious names. + +—A singular action was tried at the Yarmouth County Court, before Mr. T. +J. Birch. Mr. John Cobb sued Mr. G. D. Palmer and Mr. W. N. Burroughes +for the recovery of certain money paid by the plaintiff at the request of +the defendants for expenses incurred in contesting an election of +councillors for the Market Ward in that borough on November 1st, 1851. +Mr. Cobb was induced, on the solicitation of the defendants, who were +leaders of the Liberal party, to offer himself as a candidate for the +Market Ward. He was not anxious to become a councillor, but the +defendants promised to “see him through,” and on the night before the +election distinctly guaranteed him that he should be reimbursed any +outlay incurred beyond the sum of £10. Mr. Cobb was defeated at the +poll. It was not denied that the guarantee was given, but it was +contended that, in order to render it valid to support the action, it +should have been in writing, which it was not. The Judge concurred, and +nonsuited the plaintiff. It was admitted, in the course of the hearing, +that the money was applied “to bribery, vulgarly so-called.” + + +MARCH. + + +11.—A conference was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, as to certain +complaints respecting the management of the Eastern Counties lines of +railway. The Mayor presided, and deputations were present representing +the Eastern Counties Railway Company, the Norwich Corporation, and the +town of East Dereham. The principal complaints, as stated by Mr. +Tillett, had reference to unequal charges for the transit of goods, and +the alteration in the price of market tickets. Mr. Love, the chairman of +the company, assured the meeting that any communication made to the +company would receive consideration. + +16.—The Norwich Free Library was thrown open for the use of the citizens. +There was no formal ceremony, but in the evening the Rev. A. Bath Power +delivered an inaugural address on the advantages of the study of +literature and science. The building was erected at the total cost of +£5,958, and the internal fittings increased the amount to £6,500. + +19.—At a meeting of the Conservative party in the Eastern Division of +Norfolk, held at Norwich, it was decided that Mr. H. N. Burroughes and +Sir Henry Stracey, Bart., should withdraw from contesting the return of +General Windham and Sir E. N. Buxton. In West Norfolk, Mr. Bagge, “from +private reasons, and from a desire not to disturb the peace of the +county,” retired from the representation, and a compromise was effected +whereby both parties concurred to support Mr. Brampton Gurdon, of Letton, +and Mr. G. Bentinck, the sitting member. + +21.—The Bishop of Norwich issued an address to the clergy of the diocese, +announcing that it was his intention to resign the duties of the +episcopate. On April 21st the Corporation of Norwich voted an address to +Dr. Samuel Hinds, “late Bishop of the Diocese.” + +27.—The nomination of Sir Samuel Bignold, Viscount Bury, and Mr. Henry +William Schneider, as candidates for the representation of Norwich took +place at the Guildhall. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Schneider, +and was opened on the 28th. The result was officially declared on the +30th: Viscount Bury, 2,227; Schneider, 2,235; Bignold, 1,631. + +—The Hon. F. Baring and the Earl of Euston were returned unopposed for +the borough of Thetford. + +—The nomination of candidates for the representation of Great Yarmouth +took place. Sir Edmund Lacon. Mr. McCullagh, Mr. Watkin, and Col. +Vereker were proposed. The poll was opened on the 28th, and resulted in +the return of the Liberal candidates: McCullagh, 609; Watkin, 590; Lacon, +521; Vereker, 451. (_See_ July 24th, 1857.) + +—Lord Stanley and Mr. J. H. Gurney were re-elected, unopposed, members +for King’s Lynn. + +29.—Died at Hackford Hall, aged 80, the Ven. John Bedingfeld Collyer, +archdeacon of Norwich, and vicar of Wroxham with Salhouse. He was the +second son of the Rev. Daniel Collyer, of Wroxham Hall and of Necton, by +Catherine, one of the daughters and co-heiress of John Bedingfeld, of +Caston Castle and of Beeston. Educated at the Charter House, under Dr. +Matthew Raines, he proceeded to Clare Hall, Cambridge, and after taking +holy orders he married, in 1800, Catherine, daughter of William +Alexander, eldest brother of the first Earl of Caledon, and granddaughter +of Dr. Messenger Monsey, of Chelsea Hospital. In 1806–7, upon the +threatened invasion of this country by Bonaparte, Mr. Collyer received a +commission as a major of Volunteers, and acted with great energy and +decision. In recognition of his services in his military capacity, he +was made a deputy-lieutenant of the county and placed upon the commission +of the peace. Throughout his life he was uniformly attached to Whig +principles. He was succeeded in the archdeaconry by the Rev. R. E. +Hankinson. + +30.—Mr. G. P. Bentinck and Mr. Brampton Gurdon were, at the Shirehall, +Swaffham, nominated and returned unopposed as members for West Norfolk. + +31.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Erle, the Grand Jury +returned a bill of indictment against Jacob, Baron Hastings, for a +misdemeanour “in endeavouring to incite Jacob Henry Tillett to fight a +duel.” On the application of Mr. Power, a bench warrant for his +lordship’s apprehension was issued. On April 1st Mr. Kent, solicitor, +appeared on behalf of Lord Hastings, and applied for bail. His lordship +was admitted to bail, himself in £200 and two sureties of £100 each. The +Earl of Leicester and Lord Suffield were his sureties. The case was +traversed to the next Assizes. Further proceedings were, however, +withdrawn, after an interview between Lieut.-Col. Astley and Mr. Tillett. +“His lordship,” it was stated “had no intention of sending a threatening +or offensive message to Mr. Tillett, and he felt that an article +published by Mr. Tillett on November 29th, 1856, was an unjustifiable +attack upon him, which led to the warmth exhibited by his lordship in his +interview with Mr. Tillett, for which his lordship expresses regret and +withdraws his offensive epithets. Mr. Tillett, upon his lordship’s +disavowal, withdraws any remarks offensive to his lordship is the article +above alluded to, and expresses his regret that any unpleasantness should +have arisen between Lord Hastings and himself.” + + +APRIL. + + +6.—General Charles Ash Windham and Sir Edmund North Buxton were, at the +Shirehall, Norwich, nominated and returned unopposed members for East +Norfolk. + +9.—At a vestry meeting held at East Dereham, it was resolved that the +Bath House, an unsightly building in the churchyard, be removed. “By the +removal of this building, the burial-place of St. Withburga, an object of +great local interest, will no longer be hidden to view.” + +14.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the birth of a Princess +(Princess Beatrice). + +17.—Mr. David Fisher, of the Princess’s Theatre, London, appeared at +Norwich Theatre as John Mildmay (“Still Waters Run Deep”). + +18.—It was announced that the Hon. and Rev. John Thomas Pelham was to +succeed Dr. Samuel Hinds as Bishop of Norwich. Mr. Pelham, who was the +second son of the second Earl of Chichester, was born in 1811, and +graduated at Oxford. In 1845 he married a daughter of Mr. Thomas William +Tatten, and was appointed chaplain to the Queen in 1847. Shortly +afterwards he was presented to the rectory of Berghapton, by the Earl of +Abergavenny. In 1852 he removed to Christ Church, Hampstead, and in 1854 +was nominated by the Crown to the rectory of St. Marylebone, on the death +of Dr. Spry. On May 9th a special meeting of the Dean and Chapter was +held at the Deanery, Norwich, when the _congé d’élire_, declaring the +vacancy of the bishopric “and recommending to the Dean and Chapter the +Hon. and Rev. John Thomas Pelham, M.A., to be by them elected Bishop of +the See of Norwich,” was read, and Mr. Pelham was elected accordingly. +The ceremony of confirming the election took place in the College of +Advocates in Doctors’ Commons, on June 6th, and his lordship was +consecrated at the parish church of St. Marylebone on June 11th, by the +Archbishop of Canterbury. The installation took place at Norwich +Cathedral on June 26th, and addresses were afterwards presented to his +lordship by the Corporations of Norwich and Yarmouth. + +25.*—“Lord Hastings has had an interesting addition to his collection of +foreign animals in two wapiti deer, which are among the largest known of +their species in North America. He has also an increase in a young +kangaroo and three young nylgaus having been born the week before last at +Melton Constable.” + +—The chancel of East Dereham church was re-opened, after “additional +embellishment, through the liberality of the sinecure rector, the Rev. W. +C. Wollaston.” The open roof was displayed by the removal of an +unsightly ceiling, early English windows were substituted for those of +more debased style, and a window by Wailes, as a memorial to Mrs. +Wollaston, completed the series of stained glass windows. The reredos +was illuminated by Messrs. King, of Norwich. + +27.—At Docking Petty Sessions it was stated, during the hearing of a case +of assault, that the quarrel had its origin in a belief in witchcraft, +“unfortunately too prevalent in most of the country villages.” The +witnesses “displayed a great amount of ignorance and superstition, +showing how the husband of the complainant had been bewitched and unable +to move for twelve months, but was cured in two days by a witch doctor in +the neighbourhood.” + +27.—The Yarmouth School of Navigation and Art was established at a house +on the South Quay, formerly occupied by Mr. Paget. + + +MAY. + + +7.—The adaptation of steam power to ploughing was exhibited in a field +belonging to Mr. Craske Roper, of Croxton Park, near Thetford. Two +engines, fitted with an “endless railway,” were built by Mr. Burrell, of +Thetford, and both were shown at work. “The new engine is like a railway +locomotive, but with the addition of an apparatus, which answers the +purpose of a railway, attached to the wheels. The endless railway +consists of a series of flat boards, six in number, plated with iron on +both sides of each wheel, equal in length to the radius of the wheel, and +from 10 to 16 inches in width, loosely attached to the felloe of the +wheel in such a manner that they are carried round with it as it +revolves. Each in succession is laid flat on the ground in front of the +wheel, and lifted up in its rear as soon as passed over. On the surface +of the boards next the periphery of the wheel an iron rail is fixed, on +which the wheel runs, the boards thus corresponding to the sleepers of an +ordinary railway, so that the wheels carry their own rails and sleepers +with them, laying down a literally endless railway whenever they are set +in motion.” + +11.—A meeting was held in the old Library Room, St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, “to take into consideration the expediency of forming a society +to prevent persons from taking and destroying fish by illegal practices.” +It was resolved, “That an anglers’ society be established in Norwich, +with the view of aiding the authorities in preventing illegal fishing, +and also for promoting the rational recreation of the members.” The +society was called “The Norwich and Norfolk Anglers’ Society,” and Mr. +Skippon was appointed honorary secretary. + +13.—Mr. Thackeray gave the first of two lectures at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich. The subject was, “George the Third.” The second lecture was +delivered on the 15th, and was entitled, “George the Fourth.” “A very +general feeling of disappointment is expressed at the style and manner of +the lecturer, and at the very high prices charged (4s. and 2s. 6d.). We +have reason to believe that in some instances those who paid for tickets +for the second evening intentionally absented themselves.” Letters were +published in the NORFOLK CHRONICLE expressing strong disapproval of +Thackeray’s strictures upon the personal characters of the Georges. + +18.—The polling for the election of a Coroner for the Lynn district, to +fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. George Sayle, commenced +at Lynn. The candidates were Mr. Jeffery and Mr. Wilkin. “An +extraordinary degree of energy was displayed in bringing up the voters in +all parts of the district, and the expenses incurred in paying railway +and coach fares, breakfasts, and dinners for the voters and hangers on +(to say nothing of the sum of money lavished in other ways to obtain +their suffrages, added to the usual outlay upon a contested election), +must have amounted to something enormous, considering the pecuniary value +of the office at stake, probably at the best averaging £25 or £30 a +year.” The poll closed on the 19th, when Mr. Wilkin was declared +elected. + +18.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dillon commenced a three nights’ engagement at +Norwich Theatre in “Othello,” “Belphegor,” and “Faint Heart Never Won +Fair Lady.” + +—A meeting was held at the Lecture Hall, Norwich, at which resolutions +were passed condemning the Law of Settlement, and advocating the +introduction of a national rate. Another meeting was held at St. +Andrew’s Hall on the 20th, at which similar resolutions were agreed to. + +19.—A sculling match, for £40, was rowed on the Yare, from Surlingham to +Whitlingham (3½ miles), between Stephen Wright, of Norwich, aged 22, and +J. H. Clasper, of Newcastle, aged 18. The former was trained by John +Britcher, and the latter by his father. Clasper’s boat was the lighter +by several pounds, and in length exceeded the Norwich man’s craft by +about four feet. Wright had the better of the start, but in ten strokes +Clasper led by a quarter of a length. At Bramerton, however, Wright +obtained a clear lead, and at Wood’s End led by four lengths. Clasper +made a desperate spurt, and got nearly abreast of his antagonist, who won +by a length, in 23½ minutes. The Newcastle man suffered severely from +exhaustion, and was lifted from his boat in a helpless condition. The +return match was rowed on the Tyne, on July 24th, when Wright again won. + +24.—The yacht Zoe, 170 tons, belonging to the Earl of Yarborough, struck +at midnight on the Lemon Sand, off Happisburgh, while on a voyage from +the Isle of Wight to Grimsby. Lord Yarborough, with the captain and +crew, took to the boats, and landed at Happisburgh Hill House. + +26.—Mr. George Dawson lectured at the Assembly Room, Norwich, on “Daniel +Defoe.” + +30.*—“Lord Orford has addressed the following letter to the editor of the +‘Morning Post’:—‘Sir, I enclose you a paragraph which appeared in your +paper of the 21st inst., to the truth of which I desire you to give the +most emphatic denial. It is a _rechauffé_ of the lie circulated some +thirty years since in a London journal as a hoax, I presume, on the +editor. At the time I did not think it worthy of contradiction, nor at +my age should I deem it worthy of any such contradiction now, but am +solely induced to do so for the satisfaction of those most justly dear to +me.—Yours, &c., ORFORD. May 26th, 1857.’” (The paragraph here alluded +to is the much-quoted reply purported to have been sent by the noble lord +to the secretary of the Norwich Bible Society. It originally appeared in +the “Freemen’s Journal,” Dublin.) + +31.—Died at his residence, Brighton, Mr. Charles Edmund Rumbold, of +Preston Candover, Hants., aged 69. He represented for more than 37 years +the borough of Great Yarmouth, for which he was first returned in 1818. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—The Annual Moveable Committee of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows +commenced its sittings at Norwich. There were 110 delegates present, and +Mr. Cox (“Grand Master”) presided. The meetings, which were held daily +at the Bazaar (afterwards known as Victoria Hall), concluded on the 6th. +The dinner, held at St. Andrew’s Hall on the 3rd, was presided over by +Sir Samuel Bignold, and in the course of the proceedings, Mr. Samuel +Daynes was presented with a gift of 160gs., in recognition of the +valuable work he had done for the Order. + +1.—Died at Costessey, aged 88, Mr. John Culley, one of the leading +agriculturists of the county. “It was to him and a few others that the +farmers in this locality are indebted for the establishment of the Hail +Storm Society, and the subscriptions which followed the memorable +hailstorm in this county a few years since.” Mr. Culley took a prominent +part in the movement for the erection of the Norwich Corn Exchange. + +11.—A familiar object, known as the “Bassingham Gateway,” in London +Street, Norwich, was sold by auction. The purchaser was Mr. William +Wilde, and the price £12. The hope was expressed that this relic of +antiquity would not be removed from the city. On September 5th it was +announced: “The Bassingham Gateway has been erected at the magistrates’ +entrance at the Guildhall, where it is quite out of character with the +building, or, at any rate, that part of it. Above the gate are the arms +of Henry VII., the arms of the Goldsmiths’ Company, to which its builder, +Mr. John Bassingham, belonged, and of the city of Norwich. Having been +cleaned, the carved work is brought out in bold relief.” + +—An amateur sculling match took place for £10, from Bramerton to +Whitlingham (about three miles), between Mr. Henry Watling and Mr. Henry +Balls. A foul resulted, Mr. Watling claimed stakes, and the referee, Mr. +Vyall, decided in his favour. + +13.*—“The Marine Parade (Yarmouth) may now be looked upon as completed, +and certainly in almost every particular it has exceeded the expectations +formed of it. It was planned and carried out under the immediate +superintendence of the Town Surveyor, Mr. A. W. Morant, and the cost will +not exceed the sum estimated, £1,700.” + +16.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the Grammar School +Committee reported that the hearing took place, before the Master of the +Rolls, on June 10th, of the suit, the Attorney-General _v._ Hudson, when +the principal differences which had existed in reference to the new +scheme for the administration of the School and Hospital had been +amicably adjusted. The sum of £1,000 per annum, exclusive of the cost of +buildings, was to be taken from the Great Hospital funds and +appropriated, under the management of separate trustees, to the purposes +of education. Two schools were to be established—a Grammar School and a +Commercial School. The course of instruction in the Grammar School would +embrace English, Latin, French, and German, &c., and in the Commercial +School, English, French, and the rudiments of Latin, &c. Prizes and +scholarships were to be given to both schools, and the boy who obtained +an upper class scholarship in the Commercial School would be entitled to +education in the Grammar School without cost. The payments for boys +educated in the Grammar School were to range from 6 gs. to 8 gs. per +year, and in the Commercial School 30s. per year. The masters were to be +paid a fixed salary, besides which their stipends would be augmented in +the Grammar School by four-sixths of the money received from the pupils, +and in the Commercial School by three-sixths. (_See_ March 23rd, 1858.) + +17.—A revival of the Dereham Race Meeting attracted thousands of +spectators to the Common. The subscriptions amounted to £150, and horses +were run by Lord Suffield and other sportsmen of the county. + +18.—Workmen engaged in deepening a dry dock belonging to Mr. Ambrose +Palmer, at Yarmouth, turned up in one spadeful from 700 to 1,000 silver +pennies of Edward I. and of Alexander III., the contemporary King of +Scotland. The coins were discovered 17 feet beneath the level of the +quay. + +23.—Mr. A. A. H. Beckwith, Governor of the Norwich Court of Guardians, +performed the ceremony of turning the first sod upon the line marked out +for the main front of the new Norwich Workhouse. + +24.—Mr. Spurgeon, “the celebrated revivalist,” preached two sermons at +the Corn Exchange, Lynn, in aid of a fund for repairing the local Baptist +chapel. Two thousand six hundred tickets were issued, and the +collections amounted to £110 15s. + +27.—Died of cholera, at Kurnaul, aged 59, Major-General the Hon. George +Anson, Commander-in-Chief of the troops in India. He was the second son +of Thomas, first Viscount Anson, and brother of the first Earl of +Lichfield, served in the Scots Fusilier Guards, and was present at the +battle of Waterloo. In 1818 he was returned for Yarmouth, and +represented the borough in several Parliaments before and after the +passing of the Reform Bill. By hereditary descent and by personal +conviction he was a Liberal in politics, and invariably sided with the +leaders of the Whig party. He became Major-General on November 11th, +1851. He was a zealous patron of the Turf, on which he was better known +as Colonel Anson. + + +JULY. + + +1.—A reformatory was established at Catton, by Mr. Wright, as an offshoot +of a similar institution at Buxton. + +4.—Application was made in the Court of Chancery, before the Lord +Chancellor, for a re-hearing of the case, Lombe _v._ Stoughton, which was +decided in the year 1841, by the then Vice-Chancellor. The testator, Sir +John Lombe, had left a large fund, to be applied to the purpose of +building a mansion on his estate in Norfolk, with a direction that the +fund should accumulate until the house was finished. Considerable delay +took place in completing the house, and the fund increased to a very +large amount, leaving a surplus of about £20,000. The Vice-Chancellor +directed the fund to be applied to building purposes at a time when it +was not known that the surplus would be so large, but the order was made +without prejudice to any question as to the surplus. This surplus was +now claimed by the representatives of the successive tenants for life, on +the ground that they (the tenants for life) had been deprived of the +enjoyment of the house, and were, therefore, entitled to the fund by way +of compensation. The Lord Chancellor gave leave for the Vice-Chancellor +to re-hear the case, if he found himself fettered by the wording of the +decree. The Vice-Chancellor, on July 31st, ruled that what had been done +was according to the intention of the testator, and held that the surplus +must be considered as capital, and not income. + +7.—The Bishop of Norwich laid the first stone of the new church of St. +John the Evangelist, erected at Yarmouth for the use of beachmen and +sailors. (_See_ April 22nd, 1858.) + +8.—Mr. Arthur Preston, hon. secretary of the Norfolk and Norwich +Horticultural Society, was, at a dinner held at the Bell Hotel, under the +presidency of the Mayor of Norwich, presented with a piece of plate, in +recognition of his valuable services to the society. + +17.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. R. Chamberlin) was presented with a silver +epergne, valued at 200 gs., “in recognition of the strict impartiality, +sound judgment, and munificent hospitality which distinguished his +official career as Mayor in 1854–5.” + +24.—A Committee of the House of Commons commenced the hearing of a +petition lodged by Mr. Richard Ferrier, the elder, and Mr. E. H. L. +Preston, against the return for Yarmouth of the sitting members, Messrs. +M’Cullagh and Watkin. Bribery, treating, and undue influence were +alleged. The inquiry lasted five days. On July 29th the Committee found +that Messrs. M’Cullagh and Watkin were, by their agents, guilty of +bribery, that they were not duly elected burgesses to serve in +Parliament, that the election was a void election, and bribes had been +paid. On August 10th, Mr. Adolphus William Young and Mr. John Mellor, +Q.C., Liberals, were returned without opposition. + +29.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, an +indictment was preferred against the East Dereham Corn Exchange Company, +for obstructing a certain highway over Lion Hill in that town by the +erection of the hall, and further for obstructing Quebec Street and +certain fairs and markets. The jury, after a long hearing, returned a +verdict for the Crown, with the rider: “We find that there was a public +highway over Lion Hill, and we find that there is an obstruction of that +part occupied by the Corn Exchange Company, but we find that the public +are materially benefited by the alteration, and on the second count we +find for the defendants.” (_See_ May 5th, 1858.) + + +AUGUST. + + +6.—Robert Bunn, “the celebrated pedestrian,” on the Ipswich Road, +Norwich, ran a mile against time for a wager of £25. “The wager was that +he would not cover the distance in 4 minutes 45 secs. He accomplished +the feat in 4 minutes 30 secs.” + +13.—A dinner was given in honour of General Windham, at the Corn Hall, +North Walsham, on the eve of his departure for India, on the outbreak of +the Mutiny. + +15.*—“A report is going the round of the papers, copied from the +Australian journals, regarding the death of the person known to our +readers as Emily Sandford. We are assured by a gentleman who interested +himself in her behalf in 1849 that Miss Sandford is not in Australia. +She married a highly respectable merchant in 1850, with whom and their +children she returned to Europe in 1855.” + +20.—The battery of Royal Artillery marched from the Cavalry Barracks, +Norwich, for Shorncliffe, to hold themselves in readiness for India. + +24.—The annual congress of the British Archæological Association was +opened at Norwich, under the presidency of the Earl of Albemarle. The +proceedings ended on the 28th. Caistor Camp, Lynn, Yarmouth, and Burgh +Castle were among the places visited. + +25.—An extraordinary leap was made by a horse ridden by Mr. William Feek, +horse trainer, of Norwich. “Mr. Feek, in the presence of a number of +gentlemen, to show the power of the animal, jumped it over a high fence +on Newmarket Road, without touching it, making a spring from point to +point of 34 feet.” + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +1.—Died at his residence in King Street, Norwich, Mr. Anthony Hudson, +banker, aged 75. In early life he enjoyed the friendship of the Right +Hon. William Windham, and had since been on intimate terms with the +Windham family. For many years he took an active part in the management +of the bank of Messrs. Harveys and Hudsons. After the passing of the +Municipal Reform Bill, he was appointed a magistrate of the city, and for +more than twenty years was a constant attendant on the Bench. He was +chairman both of the “Church” and “General” list of Charity Trustees, a +governor of the Bethel Hospital, and President of the Board of Directors +of the Norwich Union Fire Office. + +4.—A troop of the 15th Light Dragoons (Hussars), under the command of +Major Knox, arrived at the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich. The headquarters +followed, under the command of Colonel Key. + +10.—A public meeting of the citizens, convened by the Mayor and Sheriff, +was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, “to take into consideration the best +means of affording relief to the suffering Europeans in India whose lives +have not been taken by the mutineers, but by whose conduct they are +rendered entirely destitute.” It was decided to open a public +subscription. + +15.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced with a +miscellaneous concert at St. Andrew’s Hall. Spohr’s sacred cantata, +“God, Thou art Great,” Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of Praise,” and Mozart’s +“Requiem” were performed on the morning of the 16th, and in the evening a +miscellaneous concert was given. Beethoven’s “Mount of Olives” and +Haydn’s “Seasons” were rendered on the morning of the 17th, and a +miscellaneous programme was submitted at the evening concert. “The +Messiah” was the attraction on the morning of the 18th, and the Festival +concluded with a fancy dress ball at St. Andrew’s Hall in the evening. +The vocalists engaged for the Festival were Madame Clara Novello, Mdlle. +Leonhardi (her first appearance in England), Madame Weiss, Mrs. Lockey, +Mdlle. Piccolomini, Signor Gardoni, Signor Guiglini, Mr. Lockey, Mr. +Miranda, Mr. Weiss, and Signor Belletti. The receipts amounted to +£4,348, and the expenses to £3,997. + +23.—The first exhibition of the Wayland Agricultural Society was held at +Watton under the presidency of Lord Walsingham. + + +OCTOBER. + + +7.—By Royal Proclamation this day was observed as one of humiliation and +prayer. At Norwich all the principal shops were closed, and services +were held morning and evening at the parish churches. Collections were +made on behalf of the sufferers by the Indian Mutiny. + +22.—Mr. W. H. Russell, LL.D., the special correspondent of “The Times” +during the Crimean War, delivered, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, a +lecture on the principal events of the campaign. He gave a second +lecture on the 23rd. + +—A terrible storm raged on the Norfolk coast. The brig Ontario, of South +Shield’s, from Newcastle to Suez with coals (Capt., Balfour), foundered +on the Barber Sand off Yarmouth, and drifting to the Cockle Gatway, was +lost. The captain, his wife and son, and the crew of 24 hands perished. +The chief mate, William Coates Robinson, alone escaped. The Zillah, of +Whitby, from Hartlepool to London, commanded by Capt. Watson, was lost +off Winterton, and five men, including the master, were drowned, out of +the crew of eight hands. Upon the Norfolk coast between forty and fifty +lives were lost. It was asserted that many lives would have been saved +had the lifeboats and apparatus been in an ordinarily effective +condition. The strictures made upon the life-saving service led to +negotiations for the amalgamation with the National Society of the +Norfolk Association for Saving the Lives of Shipwrecked Mariners. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +2.—A troop of the 15th Hussars left Norwich for Coventry. + +7.—Mr. Cadge was elected surgeon of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, in +succession to Mr. B. H. Norgate, resigned. Mr. T. W. Crosse succeeded +Mr. Cadge as assistant-surgeon. + +9.—Mr. Edward Field was elected Mayor, and Mr. Charles Crawshay appointed +Sheriff of Norwich. + +11.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the relief of Lucknow and the +capture of Delhi. + +20.—Miss P. Horton (Mrs. German Reed) and Mr. T. German Reed gave their +entertainment at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich. + +28.—Norwich Theatre was opened for the winter season. Mr. Sidney doubled +the prices of admission to pit and gallery, and increased the prices of +the dress and upper boxes. Tuesdays and Fridays were set apart as +“subscription nights,” for the production of high-class plays and dramas. +The manager intimated that the hire of silver tickets was illegal, “the +Theatre deed requiring legal transfer and register with the proprietors’ +solicitor to be available for admission.” A printed circular had been +issued by a speculator, offering silver tickets for hire for the night, +week, or the whole season, “on the usual terms.” + +30.—An alarming accident occurred in a building erected for equestrian +performances at the Orchard Gardens, Norwich. Soon after the +commencement of the entertainment, the supports of the gallery gave way, +and the structure fell, with between 300 and 400 persons. “The whole +mass of timber fell under the people, who, with their seats, were thrown +outwards, rolling over one another. Strange to say, nobody was killed, +no legs or arms broken, and nobody seriously hurt.” + + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—The Wells and Fakenham Railway was opened. In 1853 the company was +formed, with a capital of £70,000, £14,000 of which was contributed by +the inhabitants of Wells, £10,000 by the Earl of Leicester, and £30,000 +by the Norfolk Railway Company. Mr. G. Berkeley, of Great George Street, +Westminster, was the engineer, and Mr. Solomon Treadwell the contractor. +The opening-day was observed in the district as a general holiday. A +special train was run over the nine and a half miles of line, the Earl of +Leicester entertained a large party at Holkham, and in the evening his +lordship presided over a public dinner, held at the Crown Inn, Wells. + +5.*—“Norwich manufactures at present may be said to be almost at a +standstill. There has not been so complete a state of stagnation for +some years past. Hundreds of operatives who are usually employed at this +season in the production of spring goods are now out of work.” + +9.—Mr. Alexander Hugh Baring was returned without opposition member of +Parliament for the borough of Thetford, on the retirement of his father +from the representation of the constituency. + +14.—A sculling match, for £10 a side, was rowed from Postwick Hall to +Whitlingham Point, between John Wright and Lancaster. The former won +easily. + +22.—The Norwich Town Council adopted a motion in favour of the erection +of a new Fishmarket. + +23.—The West Norfolk Militia, which assembled on November 10th, 600 +strong, left Norwich by rail for garrison duty. The headquarters and +three companies, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Custance, proceeded to +Chester; three companies, commanded by Major Bedingfeld, to Liverpool; +and two companies, commanded by Capt. Marsham, to Stockport. The +regiment returned to Norwich on April 23rd, 1858. + +26.—The pantomime at Norwich Theatre was entitled, “Harlequin Sinbad the +Sailor, or the Princess with the Diamond Eyes and the Fairy of the Island +of Jewels.” + + + +1858. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—A fire, involving the destruction of several dwelling-houses and a +large amount of other property, originated on the premises of Mr. W. +Colby, fish merchant, St. James’s Place, South End, Yarmouth. + +5.—The premises of Mr. H. F. Butcher, paper and mill-board manufacturer, +St. Martin-at-Palace, Norwich, were destroyed by fire. On the same day a +fire occurred at Mr. Orfeur’s timber-yard, St. Edmund’s; and on the 6th +an outbreak took place at the soap manufactory of Messrs. Andrews and +French, in Fishgate Street. The loss occasioned by the three fires +amounted to upwards of £6,000. + +7.—Intelligence was received at Norwich of the defeat of General Windham +and his division by the Gwalier mutineers, near Cawnpore, on November +27th. + +8.—Miss P. Horton and Mr. T. German Reed appeared at the Assembly Rooms, +Norwich. These favourite performers made a return visit on October 27th, +with their entertainments, “After the Ball” and “The Unfinished Opera.” + +19.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Mr. J. H. Tillett moved, +“That an inquiry be held respecting the manner in which appointments to +the city magistracy are made, and also the manner in which the +magisterial business of this city is conducted, with the view to the +adoption of any measures which may appear likely to promote the better +administration of justice.” The motion was adopted. The committee of +inquiry reported in February that they considered “the mode in which the +magistracy is appointed in cities and boroughs is highly objectionable, +the appointments being the result of party influence,” and recommended +for the magistracy “those gentlemen who have served the office of Mayor +to the satisfaction of the Council.” Complaints were made that from +excitement or infirmity of temper certain gentlemen made use of language +derogatory to their position, and tending to lower the respect of the +Bench, and these complaints the Committee found were not groundless. On +March 16th the Town Council adopted a series of resolutions, requesting +the Mayor to address a letter to those gentlemen whose names appeared in +the report as having never attended petty sessions, or as having rarely +or sometimes attended, requiring them to take upon themselves to +discharge the duties of their office; that a rota of attendance be +established; and that, “in relation to the unseemly proceedings which +have taken place in the Sword Room, the Council forbear to memorialise +the Lord Chancellor on the subject, in the hope that similar proceedings +will not occur again.” + +25.—The marriage of the Princess Royal was celebrated in Norwich by the +ringing of the bells of St. Peter Mancroft, and by public dinners at the +Royal Hotel. A ball took place in the evening, at St. Andrew’s Hall. +The day was similarly observed at Yarmouth, Lynn, and other towns in the +county, and addresses of congratulation were afterwards sent to the Queen +by the respective Corporations. + +26.—The long-pending case, Preston _v._ the Eastern Counties and Norfolk +Railway Companies, was before the Court of Exchequer, and Mr. Baron +Watson delivered judgment. The first count of the declaration charged +the defendants with diverting and obstructing the waters of the rivers, +and the second with omitting to repair certain locks, whereby the water +escaped. Judgment was given against the Eastern Counties Railway Company +for 40s. on all issues, and for the Norfolk Railway Company on their plea +of not guilty, but against them on all other issues. Finally the case +was before the Rolls Court on June 8th, and was entered as the +Attorney-General _v._ the Norfolk and Eastern Counties Railway Companies. +The object of the information was to have it declared that the defendants +were not by their Acts of Parliament empowered to divert or obstruct any +of the waters of the Rivers Yare and Waveney, or other waters connected +with them, except Lake Lothing, for the purpose of supplying the entrance +out between Lake Lothing and the sea with water. The Court made the +injunction already granted perpetual against the Eastern Counties Railway +Company, and ordered the company to pay the costs incurred in equity. + +29.—The Norwich Town Council accepted contracts amounting to over £9,000 +for draining the northern portion of the city. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +5.—A special meeting of the Norwich Court of Guardians, attended by Lord +Bury, M.P., and Mr. Schneider, M.P., was held to consider the subject of +a national poor-rate. It was stated that Norwich paid £20,000 a year +more in poor relief than it would if the principle of a national rate +were adapted as the law of the land. Both members of Parliament +expressed themselves in favour of national rating. + +8.—Mr. Thomas Barnes, R.G.S., was presented by the Corporation of King’s +Lynn with an “honorary address,” in lieu of the freedom of the borough, +“disallowed by the Municipal Reform Act.” Mr. Baines, the son of a ship +captain of the town, was a self-taught artist, who achieved for himself a +very honourable position by his own enterprise and industry. He was +serving as a volunteer at the Cape when he was selected as artist to +accompany the North Australian Exploring Expedition, under Mr. Gregory. +At the time of the presentation he was about to join Livingstone, on his +expedition into the heart of Africa. Mr. Baines had already received +considerable honours from the Royal Geographical Society, of which he was +a member, and from other learned bodies. + +12.—A public meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, to consider a +Bill then before Parliament introduced for the purpose of amalgamating +the Norwich Gas Company with the British Gas Company. A resolution was +adopted affirming that the operation of the proposed Bill would be very +prejudicial to the interests of the ratepayers and inhabitants, by +placing the future management of the gas supply in the hands of a company +which had no local connection or sympathy with the interests of Norwich, +and over whom the rate-payers and inhabitants would have no control. The +meeting having heard the report of the Special Committee appointed by the +Corporation, cordially approved the course adopted by the Committee, and +pledged itself to use every effort to oppose the passing of the Bill. A +petition was addressed to the House of Commons against the Bill, and on +the 16th the Town Council adopted the same petition. The House of +Commons Committee on Private Bills sat on April 20th, for the purpose of +hearing objections to the measure. The proceedings closed on the 23rd, +when the Bill was ordered to be reported to the House. + +27.*—“Sir Henry Stracey, of Rackheath Hall, has obtained provisional +protection for a cartridge which, by a very simple contrivance, gets rid +of the necessity of biting off the end, a proceeding which is always +objectionable.” + + +MARCH. + + +4.—Lord Stanley was re-elected member of Parliament for the borough of +King’s Lynn, on his appointment as Secretary to the Colonial Department. +On June 5th his lordship was again re-elected, on accepting the +presidency of the Board of Control, vacated by Lord Ellenborough. + +—Died at his residence, South Quay, Yarmouth, Sir Eaton Stanley Travers. +A son of Mr. John Travers, of Hethyfield Grange, co. Cork, he was born in +1782, and entered the Navy September 15th, 1798, as midshipman, on board +the Juno. He saw much active service, and was nine times mentioned in +despatches. He was nominated K.H. on February 4th, 1834, and on March +5th in the same year had conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. +Sir Eaton Travers was a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk. He married in +April, 1815, Anne, eldest daughter of William Steward, of Yarmouth, by +whom he had issue five sons and two daughters. + +6.*—“Within the last few days a stone has been placed in the churchyard +at East Dereham, in memory of Jean de Narde, a French prisoner of war, +who, in the year 1796 while _en route_ from Yarmouth to Norman Cross +prison, was lodged in the lower chamber of the bell tower of the church, +and escaped therefrom. He was pursued by the guard, and, after some +search, was espied in a tree on the Scarning Road, and when summoned by a +soldier to descend and surrender he did not comply. His non-compliance +forfeited his life, for he was shot off it like a crow. The stone was +erected by the vicar and two other gentlemen.” + +8.—Miss Vandenhoff, tragic actress, from Drury Lane and Haymarket +Theatres, commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre, in her play, +“Woman’s Heart.” She also appeared in “Love’s Sacrifice,” “Ingomar,” +“Macbeth,” and “The Stranger.” + +22.—In the House of Lords, Lord Sondes presented a petition from the Town +Council and certain magistrates of Yarmouth, praying for an inquiry into +a recent appointment of justices for that borough. It was stated that +the magistrates were constant in their attendance upon the Bench, and +were sufficiently numerous. The borough contained 31,000 inhabitants, +there were 31 magistrates, and 31 policemen. Upon the Bench every shade +of political feeling was represented, but all the newly-appointed +magistrates were of one political party. The Mayor of Yarmouth had +interviewed the Lord Chancellor, and his lordship had intimated that it +was his intention to persist in the appointment, and, moreover, he felt +it his duty to appoint new magistrates of one particular party. The +action of the Lord Chancellor had excited much feeling in the borough. +Lord Cranworth now informed the House that he felt bound to put the +magistracy in a position in which justice should not be partially +administered, and if an inquiry were instituted it should have his entire +concurrence. No further action resulted. + +23.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a resolution was +adopted expressing surprise and indignation that a covert attempt had +been made to pervert the Grammar School and the Commercial School +proposed to be established into exclusive institutions, which would not +only deprive a large proportion of the inhabitants of the advantage of +the schools, but would condemn them in public estimation, and tend to the +frustration and utter subversion of the proposed scheme. The Charity +Trustees were requested to resist this proceeding, to ascertain at whose +instance the suggestion was made, and to consider whether recent +complaints did not imperatively demand that a searching inquiry should be +instituted into the conduct and management of the Grammar School. The +Master of the Rolls, on July 17th, gave his decision upon the Grammar +School case, which had long been before the Courts. It was ordered that +twenty-one governors be appointed; the sum of £1,000 per annum derived +from land and house property was to be appropriated to the maintenance of +the Grammar School and Commercial School; the benefits of the Grammar +School were to be open to all England; and all the expenses to which the +Corporation and those who represented Norwich had been put were to be +paid by the Charity Trustees. On December 4th the NORFOLK CHRONICLE made +the following remarkable statement in relation to the treatment of boys +at the Grammar School: “We have recently been informed of a circumstance +connected with the Grammar School which we could scarcely have credited +but for the authority upon which we have received it. It is that there +exists in that school a form of punishment which ought long since to have +been unknown in a civilised country, amounting very nearly to bodily +torture. We have been assured that for offences of a not very serious +character boys are placed for hours between shelves so constructed that +they cannot stand upright, but are obliged to stoop until the head is +brought nearly level with the knees.” At a meeting of the Governors of +the School, on December 8th, it was resolved, “That in consequence of the +informant declining to come to the Governors and substantiate the charge +referred to in the CHRONICLE newspaper of last Saturday, we proceed no +further in the matter; but that we intimate to Dr. Vincent that we +strongly disapprove of the mode of punishment alluded to in that +newspaper, and if it has been practised, we request it may be +discontinued.” The accusation was not denied, either by Dr. Vincent or +by anyone on his behalf. On December 27th Dr. Vincent resigned his +appointment as headmaster. + +25.—Died at Hempnall, John Holmes, aged 104. “The deceased leaves behind +him a son, Thomas, aged 87 years, and a grandson, aged 60 years, the +latter himself being a great-grandfather, thus presenting the remarkable +fact of a man living to witness the sixth generation, and to see his +great-grandson become a grandfather.” + +30.—The first annual dinner of the Norfolk and Norwich Anglers’ Society +was held at the Bell Hotel, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. R. N. +Bacon. + + +APRIL. + + +3.—Mr. R. Rising, of Costessey, rode his horse for a wager over nine +consecutive single hurdles set up in the centre of a field. “This was +performed in excellent style, coming back also over the same ground, and +not refusing one. The spectators were rather astonished to see Mr. +Rising repeat the feat with cap in hand. The judge of the bet, one of +the first riders in the Norfolk Hunt, asked permission to ride the horse +himself, saying he had ridden many good horses, but never one that would +take a single hurdle. Upon Mr. Rising consenting, he rode the same +round, thus making the animal in all leap 54 single hurdles.” + +11.—Died, in his 82nd year, Mr. John Venning, of Surrey House, Norwich. +A native of Totnos, Devonshire, he spent several years in Russia, as the +representative of a firm of merchants. He became a member of the church +at which the Rev. R. Knill officiated in St. Petersburg, and devoted his +time and means to improving the wretched condition of the neglected and +depraved populace of the Russian metropolis. He founded a school on the +Lancasterian system for poor Russian children, a free school for the +children of foreigners, a refuge for the reception and care of the +helpless and destitute, a lunatic asylum in which the best modes of +treatment were introduced, the Litofsky prison, constructed to admit of +the classification and separation of prisoners; and he remodelled the +great hospital for the reception of invalids. Mr. Venning gained the +esteem of the Emperors Alexander and Nicholas, and the hearty +co-operation of the Empress Dowager, as well as of other members of the +Imperial family. Through his instrumentality all exiles starting for +Siberia were furnished with copies of the Scriptures. When the +destructive inundation of November, 1824, overwhelmed the city with the +waters of the Neva, the Grand Duke Michael sent General Politica with +20,000 roubles to Mr. Venning to distribute among the suffering populace. +“Throughout his long life Mr. Venning was a conscientious Dissenter—an +Independent—but he saw without regret his nearest and dearest relations +staunch members of the Church of England.” He married a daughter of Mr. +Meybohm, of St. Petersburg, by whom he was survived. + +22.—St. John’s church, Yarmouth, erected at the estimated cost of £1,700, +was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich. + +24.—Died, in his 77th year, Mr. Thomas Osborn Springfield, one of the +magistrates of Norwich, and head of the firm of Springfield, Son, and +Nephew, of St. Mary’s, Norwich, and Coleman Street, London. Born in a +comparatively humble sphere, he rose from the position of a small +tradesman to a large silk merchant, “and during his career won and lost +several fortunes, in consequence of the fluctuations of the silk +markets.” His business career ended prosperously. He took an active +part in all local matters, from the election of a parish beadle to that +of a member of Parliament, ranging himself on the side called Radical. +As he himself avowed, whenever he engaged in a contest he went in to win, +and many of his victories were, doubtless, most costly. In 1827 he was +elected one of the Sheriffs, and in 1829 Mayor of the city. After the +passing of the Municipal Reform Act, he was, in 1836, selected to be the +first Chief Magistrate under the new order of things. With a majority of +one only of elected councillors, the Liberals were able to add sixteen +aldermen to their number. This power they then exercised to the fullest +extent, selecting men of their own party only, a one-sided system which +was pursued without a break to the day of Mr. Springfield’s death. In +1852 he was solicited by requisition to become a candidate for the +representation of the city, and if he had been inclined to accede there +is little doubt that he would have secured his election. In private life +Mr. Springfield exhibited many good traits; he was never unamiable nor +ungenerous, and there were not a few persons in the city who could trace +their first advancement in life to his assistance. + + +MAY. + + +5.—The action in relation to the East Dereham Corn Exchange came before +the Vice-Chancellor’s Court. An order was made upon the Corn Exchange +Company to pay the costs of the suit, except so far as they were incurred +by the inquiries raised as to the user of the site occupied by the Corn +Exchange, for the purpose of fairs and markets, and that they also pay +the costs of the proceedings by way of indictment on the several counts +upon which a verdict had been found for the Crown. The case was then +ordered to stand over until after the Trinity term, for the consideration +of the Attorney-General as to what further decree or order, if any, he +might think right to apply for. The Vice-Chancellor declined to order +the building to be pulled down as asked for by the relators, because it +was a great public improvement. On June 26th the final decision was +announced, namely, that upon payment by the proprietors of the new Corn +Exchange of the costs awarded by the Court of Chancery and of £100 to the +East Dereham Corn Market Company, the suit would be withdrawn, and in +case of any indictment laid a _nolle prosequi_ be entered. “These +proceedings are, therefore, terminated. The hall is to remain, and the +payment for admission will continue as heretofore.” (_See_ February +16th, 1866.) + + +JUNE. + + +2.—Mountjoy the pedestrian, then in his 58th year, started from Lynn to +Wisbech for his task of walking sixty-seven miles a day for four +successive days. On August 16th he began a walk from Norwich to Dereham +and back twice every day, but on the 17th was stopped on his way to +Norwich, by order of the magistrates, because of the obstruction caused +by the number of persons who assembled on the roads in the vicinity of +the city. Mountjoy was apprehended in Norwich on September 11th, for +leaving his wife and family chargeable to the funds of the St. Pancras +Union; and on the same night attempted to commit suicide in his cell at +the Guildhall by strangling himself with a pockethandkerchief. + +11.—Died at Colne House, Cromer, aged 46, Sir Edward North Buxton, Bart., +M.P. He was son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, first baronet, by the fifth +daughter of Mr. John Gurney, of Earlham Hall, where he was born in 1812, +and married in 1836 the second daughter of Mr. Samuel Gurney, of Ham +House, Essex. He succeeded to the title on the death of his father, in +1845. From 1847 to 1852 he represented South Essex in Parliament, and in +1857 was returned unopposed with General Windham as member for East +Norfolk. He was succeeded in the title by his son, Thomas Fowell, born +in 1837. + +13.—The Bishop of Oxford preached at Norwich Cathedral and at St. Peter +Mancroft, on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. +His lordship, with Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., attended the annual meeting +at St. Andrew’s Hall, on the 14th. + +15.—A dinner of the Valpeian Club was held at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, +under the presidency of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak. The guest of +the evening was Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson, Bart., K.C.B., the +conqueror of Delhi. General Wilson, who was an old boy of Norwich +Grammar School, was presented with a dress sword, “in commemoration of +his distinguished services in India, 1857–8, and as a memento of old +friendships.” + +20.—Died at Lee Cottage, Old Brompton, Mr. Dawson Turner, F.R.S., F.S.A., +formerly of Great Yarmouth. He was in his 83rd year. + +21.—The London Grand Opera Company appeared at Norwich Theatre. It +included Miss Fanny Reeves, Miss Ethel Thirlwall, Miss Raymond, Mr. Henry +Corri, Mr. J. B. Bowler, Mr. O. Summers, and Mr. Elliot Galer. Among the +productions were “La Somnambula,” “Maritana,” “The Bohemian Girl,” and +“Il Trovatore.” + +26.—The nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy in the +representation of East Norfolk caused by the death of Sir E. N. Buxton +took place at the Shirehall, Norwich. Sir Henry Josias Stracey was +nominated by the Conservatives, and Major Coke by the Liberals. The +polling took place on the 29th,—the first time in twenty years,—and on +July 1st the result was officially declared as follows: Coke, 2,933; +Stracey, 2,720. + + +JULY. + + +5.—A largely advertised “monstre _fête_ and fancy fair,” under the +management of Mr. J. W. Hoffman, was held on the old Cricket Ground, +Norwich, under the patronage of the Mayor and Sheriff, the officers of +the 15th Hussars, &c. Hoffman, who had already visited Norwich as the +manager of an “organophonic” band, announced himself as the +representative of “the Society for the Promotion of Public Amusements”—an +entirely fictitious organization. Business was suspended in Norwich, the +railway companies ran excursion trains, and the streets were thronged by +many thousands of persons anxious to witness the “grand Middle-age +pageant.” This consisted of a procession of between thirty and forty +persons on foot and one horseman. It was everywhere received with groans +and hisses. Ten thousand persons were present on the Cricket Ground to +witness the “Old English Sports”; every item in the programme resulted in +failure, and a _bal champêtre_ was described as “a disgraceful affair, +which ended in indiscriminate fighting among the blackguards on the +ground.” For many years afterwards this “_fête_” was popularly known in +Norwich as “Hoffman’s Humbug.” + +7.—The headquarters of the 15th Hussars marched from Norwich, and were +replaced, on Sept. 11th, by a detachment of Royal Horse Artillery, under +the command of Major Brandling, C.B. + +30.—A cricket match, Norfolk and Norwich _v._ Oxford and Cambridge +Universities, was played on the Norwich ground. Norfolk and Norwich, +148—79; Oxford and Cambridge (1st innings), 122. The return match was +played at Gunton Park on August 9th. Universities, 96—45; Norfolk and +Norwich (first innings), 138. + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—The Mayor and Corporation of Lynn claimed, under the privileges +extended by ancient charter, their right to a sturgeon weighing twelve +stones, captured on the previous day by a fisherman named Norris. The +man compounded with the Mayor by payment of the nominal sum of one penny. + +5.—The residence of the Rev. Sir George Stracey, Bart., deceased, with +eleven acres of land, at Thorpe, was sold by Messrs. Spelman, at the +Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, for £6,035. + +7.*—“The date of the present harvest will be remembered as the year in +which reaping machines were fully established in Norfolk. It was only +last year that they were introduced, for although there had been one or +two in the county previously, they were not of the right sort, and it was +not until M’Cormick’s reaper, as now made by Burgess and Key, that their +number increased or their merits were appreciated by Norfolk farmers. +The fact that the chief part of the Hussey machines, with their back +delivery, have been returned or laid aside, and that on most large farms +there was _one_ of Burgess and Key’s last year there are two this +harvest, will at once point out which machine is best adapted to Norfolk +agriculture.” + +16.—Died at Oulton Hall, Suffolk, Ann Borrow, widow of Captain Thomas +Borrow, aged 87. + +18.—Violent thunderstorms occurred in various parts of the county. The +barn and other buildings at Newfoundland Farm, Cringleford, occupied by +Mr. Drane, were destroyed by fire, with the loss of 340 coombs of barley, +&c. A house was burnt down at Kenninghall, and horses were killed by +lightning at Holt. + +20.—Died at Woodbridge, Mr. David Fisher, aged 70. “He was a highly +talented and respectable public character, and had resided at Woodbridge +since his retirement from the stage twenty years previously. He belonged +to a class much more numerous half a century since than at the present +day. He was not only an actor, as nine-tenths of those who now strut +their hour upon the stage are, by _profession_, but by intuition. Mr. +Fisher was blessed with very rare histrionic and musical attainments. +When he appeared at Drury Lane, as the contemporary and rival of Edmund +Kean, it was felt to be the nearest approximation then or since seen to +the overtowering abilities of that great dramatic luminary. Mr. Fisher, +his father and family, made greater efforts than any other family ever +did to establish and cultivate in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk a +taste for the drama, at a time when this amusement was more calculated to +serve the highest office of the stage than in the present degenerate +days. Mr. Fisher built himself theatres at Bungay, Beccles, Halesworth, +Wells, North Walsham, Dereham, Lowestoft, Eye, and other towns, entirely +at his own cost. He generally used to feel his way by sending a company +in advance for a few seasons, who located themselves in such buildings as +were available for their temporary purposes, and then, having whetted the +appetites of the dwellers in rural districts for one of the most +intellectual of all amusements, he summoned up courage to build a +theatre, generally one of the best structures in the town. For very many +years these speculations proved remunerative, even though the season did +not last more than two or three months, and at intervals generally of two +years. It is rarely that a good actor makes a good manager, but Mr. +Fisher was an honourable exception to this rule—indeed, it was difficult +to say what department this distinguished gentleman could not fill, and +fill well, too. He was a first-rate musician, and for a considerable +time was leader at our choral concerts, and occupied a good position at +our first and early Festivals. So versatile was his genius that he has +been known to play in the overture, then to appear in almost every act of +the tragedy of ‘Hamlet,’ and subsequently re-appear as Dr. O’Toole in the +farce of ‘The Irish Tutor.’ He was also an admirable scene painter. +During the latter years of his management he was much assisted by his two +brothers, Charles and George. Finding that the palmy days of the drama +were fast fading away, Mr. Fisher retired from public life when about 50 +years of age, and before all the little reserve fund he had accumulated +was too much wasted to enjoy the evening of life in a quiet and +unostentatious privacy. He was very much esteemed where he lived and +died.” + +24.—The Thorpe Grove estate, formerly the property of Mr. George Harvey, +deceased, was sold for £11,390, about £2,000 in excess of the valuation +sent in previous to the auction. + +25.—Died at his residence, Crown Point, Norwich, Lieut.-General Money, +C.B., K.C., Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Dragoons. He entered the Army +in 1794, was promoted Lieutenant the same year, and Captain in May, 1800; +Major, December, 1809; Lieut.-Colonel, June 4th, 1814; Colonel, January +10th, 1837; Major-General, Nov. 9th, 1846; and Lieut.-General, June 20th, +1854. He served twenty-five years in the 11th Dragoons, and was in +Flanders and Holland in 1794–95, and in the latter year saw service in +Germany. He took part in the attack on the French lines, was present at +their defeats on the heights of Cateau and near Tournay, and was at the +battles of Roubaix, Launey, and other engagements. Under Sir Ralph +Abercromby, he commanded a detachment of his regiment at Leghorn, +Minorca, at the expedition to Cadiz in 1800, in Egypt in 1801, and was at +the capture of Grand Cairo and Alexandria. In the Peninsula campaigns of +1811 and 1812 he was present at the siege of Badajoz, the battle of +Salamanca, and the affair of cavalry near the Tormes on the following +day, when three French battalions were taken. He was at the cavalry +affairs of Callada Camino and Fenta de Poso. He served also in the +campaign of 1815, and was at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo; +towards the close of the latter the command of the 11th Dragoons devolved +upon him. General Money married, in 1841, Lady Annetta Laura Maria +Waldegrave, daughter of the sixth Earl of Waldegrave. She died in 1856, +leaving two daughters. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +6.—The stone statue above the entrance to the Corn Exchange at East +Dereham was inaugurated on this date. Mr. W. Freeman, of Swanton, was +the principal promoter of the public fund with which the statue was +purchased. It weighed upwards of three tons, and was cut out of a solid +block of stone weighing over seven tons, taken from the Isle of Portland. +Mr. Butler, of London, was the sculptor. The luncheon in celebration of +the inauguration was presided over by Lord Sondes. + +11.—Donati’s Comet was viewed with interest by thousands of the citizens +of Norwich. “The extreme heat of the present month has impressed many +that the comet has something to do with it.” + +28.—A public testimonial, consisting of a piece of plate and a portrait +of himself, painted by Mr. Boxall, of London, was presented by the +inhabitants of Diss to Mr. Thomas Lombe Taylor, in recognition of his +munificence in building, at his own expense, a Corn Hall for the use of +the town, at the cost of £7,000. The presentation took place at the Corn +Hall, where dinner was served, under the presidency of the Earl of +Albemarle. + +30.—The Congregational chapel, Chapel Field, Norwich, was opened for +public worship. The special preacher was the Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B. +The chapel was erected at the cost of £3,000, by Mr. Horace Sexton, from +the plans of Mr. Joseph James, architect, Furnival’s Inn. It was +intended to accommodate one thousand persons. + + +OCTOBER. + + +2.—The theft was reported, from the nave of St. Michael-at-Coslany, +Norwich, of a brass which measured 14 in. by 5½ in., and had engraved +upon it five lines of Latin verse, commemorating Richard Wallour, and +bearing date 1505. + +5.—A meeting was held at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, to initiate +measures for insuring to schools in Norfolk the advantages afforded by +the Cambridge Middle Class examinations. Sir J. P. Boileau presided. +The first examination was held at the Free Library, on December 14th, by +Mr. H. M. Butler, when 31 boys were presented. + +15.—Died at Sprowston, Mr. John Stracey, in his 86th year. He was born +at Fort William, on November 26th, 1772, and was fifth son of the first +baronet. In 1790 he went to India as a cadet in the Civil Service, and +rose afterwards to be a judge, an appointment which he held for several +years. On his return to England he took an active part in the business +of the county, and was instrumental in obtaining the Act of Parliament +for the removal of the Lent Assizes from Thetford to Norwich. He was +twice married, and left three children—Col. Edward Stracey, of the Scots +Fusilier Guards; the Rev. William Stracey, rector of Buxton and Oxnead; +and Emma, widow of Mr. Arckwright. + +23.—Died at his residence, Heigham Lodge, Norwich, Mr. Timothy Steward, +aged 64. Early in life he came from Yarmouth, where he was born, to take +a leading part in one of the largest commercial establishments of the +city—the Pockthorpe Brewery. A member of the old Whig party, he was +elected, after the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, to the Town +Council, but after three years had expired be declined to offer himself +for re-election, and retired from municipal duties with the Gurneys, +Birkbecks, and Geldarts. In 1855, however, he was unexpectedly called +upon to discharge the duties of the Shrievalty. He was a director of the +East of England Bank and of the Norwich Union Fire Office, and was +vice-president of the Norwich Union Life Office. + +31.—The William Corry and Reliance steam vessels, with the North of +Europe submarine cable on board, arrived off Weybourne and commenced +laying the cable to the island of Borkum, at the mouth of the Ems, whence +it was continued to Emden, in Hanover. The work was completed on +November 4th. A line of telegraph was erected between Weybourne and +Norwich, and continued along the old coach road, _viâ_ Newmarket to +London. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +3.—The Gresham Grammar School, at Holt, founded in 1554 by Sir John +Gresham, was re-opened by the Fishmongers’ Company, of London, the +trustees of the foundation. The new building was erected from designs by +Mr. Suter, the architect to the Company, by Mr. Orman, of Ipswich. A +commemoration service was held at the parish church, and luncheon was +served in the school-house, under the presidency of the Prime Warden, Mr. +Thomas Boddington. + +9.—Mr. George Middleton was elected Mayor, and Mr. H. S. Patteson +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +20.—A meeting of agriculturists and merchants was held at the Royal +Hotel, Norwich, presided over by the Mayor, with the object of raising a +fund for the erection of a new Corn Exchange, “upon a site next London +Street and Exchange Street,” at the cost of £20,000. (_See_ February +3rd, 1859.) + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—Died at Bedford Place, Camden Hill, Kensington, aged 27, Robert +Howlett, “well known by his successful applications of photography.” He +was a son of the Rev. Robert Howlett, of Longham, where he spent his +early days. He determined to devote himself to the scientific +application of photography to the illustration and advancement of the +fine arts. He had just perfected a method of transferring microscopic +views of minute dissections to photographic agency without the necessity +of intermediate drawings. The Queen and the Prince Consort were among +his distinguished patrons. + +21.—Mr. T. Townsend, M.P. for Greenwich, appeared at Norwich Theatre, in +the character of Shylock. He also performed the parts of Hamlet and +Richard the Third. He was announced “to address the public, giving he +reasons for a Parliamentary orator adopting the stage as a profession.” + +27.—The Christmas pantomime at Norwich Theatre was written by Mr. J. B. +Buckstone, and entitled, “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, or Harlequin +and the Spiteful Ogress and the Seven Fairy Godmothers from the Realm of +Golden Flowers.” The other Christmas amusements were Brown’s “Royal +Cirque Unique,” on the Castle Meadow, and Wombwell’s Menagerie. + +27.—Mr. Fiddaman’s ch. g. Tinker, under 14 hands high, “very cleverly +performed, with some time to spare,” twenty miles in an hour on the +turnpike road between Lynn and Narborough. + +29.—Died at Wolterton Park, Horatio, Earl of Orford, in his 76th year. +He was son of the second earl by his first wife, daughter of Mr. Charles +Churchill, and granddaughter maternally of Sir Robert Walpole, first Earl +of Orford. Born in Whitehall, in 1783, he married the eldest daughter of +Mr. William Augustus Fawkner, one of the clerks of the Privy Council, and +succeeded his father in 1822. From July, 1812, to April, 1825, he was +attached to the Embassy at St. Petersburg, and was subsequently a Lord of +the Admiralty and a Commissioner for the affairs of India. He was +elected member of Parliament for King’s Lynn in March, 1809, represented +the constituency till June, 1822, and was in 1852 appointed a Deputy +Lieutenant of Norfolk. For many years he held a distinguished position +in the county as an influential leader on the Conservative side, and was +a warm patron of the Turf. He was Colonel of the West Norfolk Militia, +and Lord High Steward of the borough of King’s Lynn. The deceased earl +was succeeded by his son, Horatio William, Lord Walpole, born in Belton +Row in 1813, who married, in 1841, the only daughter of the Hon. Sir +Fleetwood Pellew. + + + +1859. + + +JANUARY. + + +6.—At the Norwich Police Court, Mr. H. Brown, proprietor of the “Cirque +Unique,” Castle Meadow, appeared to answer an information preferred by +Mr. William Sidney, manager of Norwich Theatre, charging him with +performing a stage play without licence from the Lord Chamberlain. It +was contended by the prosecution that the equestrian spectacle of +“Mazeppa,” as presented at the Circus, was a stage play within the +meaning of the Act to Regulate Theatres. The magistrates held that there +was no contravention of the Act, and dismissed the case. + +12.—A public meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the +presidency of the Sheriff, to promote the objects of “The Metropolitan +and County Association for the Equalization of the Poor Rates.” A +resolution was adopted, affirming that as the poor rates generally of the +County of Norfolk were unequally levied, some parishes paying less than +one penny and others more than four shillings in the pound, and as the +city suffered from this inequality and great discontent was caused among +the ratepayers, it was the opinion of the meeting that the rates should +be equalised by establishing a county rate. + +31.—The Norwich Court of Guardians presented an illuminated address to +Mr. A. A. H. Beckwith, on his retirement from the office of Governor of +the Court, after a service of upwards of a quarter of a century. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +3.—The Norwich Corn Exchange Bill was before the examiner of private +Bills in the House of Commons. The Standing Orders of the House were +declared to have been complied with. The Bill passed through its +remaining stages, and on August 1st received the Royal assent. (_See_ +November 9th, 1861.) + +5.*—“Several primroses were gathered in the hedges near Ormesby a few +days ago. The weather is exceedingly mild in this locality, which is not +a little remarkable for this, almost the easternmost, part of England.” + +10.—Mr. Gough, the celebrated temperance advocate, made his second +appearance at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. + +12.—Died at Buxton Vicarage, in his 79th year, Lieut.-General James Claud +Bourchier, Colonel of the 3rd Dragoon Guards. He served under Sir Ralph +Abercrombie in the expedition against Cadiz, in 1800, in the campaign in +Egypt in 1801, and in the campaigns of 1811–12–15. He was present at the +siege of Badajoz, the battle of Salamanca, the cavalry affairs at Callada +de Carino and Venta de Toso, the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and +the capture of Paris. + +14.—Mr. Barnum, the celebrated showman, lectured at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, on “Money-making and the Art of Humbug.” The lecture was +described as “a strange medley—a most anomalous production.” + + +MARCH. + + +6.—East Dereham church was, for the first time, lighted with gas, through +the munificence of an anonymous parishioner. Evening services were held +from this date. + +8.—The Norwich New Street Bill, the object of which was to acquire powers +for constructing what is now known as the Prince of Wales Road, was +before a Select Committee of the House of Lords. It was stated that a +number of Norwich gentlemen had formed themselves into a company to +construct a new roadway and street, and to buy the land fronting the said +street to the depth of about 108 feet, leading from a point near the +Eastern Counties Railway Station to King street, near Harveys and +Hudsons’ Bank, a distance of something less than 500 yards. Rose Lane at +that time formed the only approach from the station to the city. The +Committee decided in favour of the Bill, leaving the question of +compensation to be determined by a jury. The Bill was considered by a +Select Committee of the House of Commons on June 28th, when the whole of +the clauses were passed. (_See_ June 19th, 1860.) + +20.—Died at his residence, Highgate Rise, London, Mr. M. Prendergast, +Q.C., Recorder of Norwich, and Judge of the City of London Sheriff’s +Court. He was called to the Bar in 1820, and was appointed Recorder of +Norwich on the death of Mr. Jermy, in 1848. He was succeeded in the +Recordership by Mr. Peter Frederick O’Malley, Q.C. + +24.—Supt. Robert Hitchman, of Devonport, was appointed Chief Constable of +Norwich, in place of Mr. English. + +31.—The first fall of snow during the winter, which had been very mild, +occurred on this date. On April 6th and 7th the thermometer recorded 90 +deg. in the sun. + + +APRIL. + + +6.—The celebrated dwarf, “General Tom Thumb,” held a series of “levées” +at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, commencing on this date. “The General +left the Hall daily in his miniature carriage, drawn by the smallest +ponies in the world, and attended by an African coachman and footman in +livery.” + +19.—A clipper barque named the Athelstan, of 500 tons burthen, was +launched from the yard of Messrs. H. Fellows and Son, Yarmouth. + +29.—The General Election, consequent upon the defeat of the Derby +Ministry on the Reform Bill and the Dissolution of Parliament on April +23rd, commenced in Norfolk on this date. At Yarmouth Sir Edmund Lacon +(C) and Sir H. Stracey (C) were returned, with 699 and 659 votes +respectively. The Liberal candidates were Mr. A. W. Young, 536, and Mr. +E. W. Watkin, 568. + +—The nomination of candidates for the representation of Norwich took +place at the Guildhall. The Conservative candidates were Sir Samuel +Bignold and Mr. Charles Manners Lushington; and the Liberal candidates +Mr. W. H. Schneider and Lord Bury. The Mayor announced at the +Police-Court that, having received information that probable attempts +would be made to prevent voters from exercising their rights, he had +obtained the assistance of a large body of county police, and had +telegraphed to Sir Richard Mayne to supply a strong party of Metropolitan +constables. The poll was opened on the 30th, and the election resulted +as follows: Bury, 2,154; Schneider, 2,138; Bignold, 1,966; Lushington, +1,900. (_See_ June 17th.) + +—The Earl of Euston and Mr. Baring were returned without opposition as +members of Parliament for Thetford. Mr. J. J. Colman, of Norwich, had +been invited to become a candidate in the Liberal interest, but declined. +The register contained the names of 220 electors. + +—Lord Stanley (C) and Mr. J. H. Gurney (L) were returned unopposed for +King’s Lynn. + + +MAY. + + +2.—Mr. Edward Howes (C) and Col. Wenman C. W. Coke (L) were returned +unopposed for the division of East Norfolk. + +4.—The Governors elected the Rev. Augustus Jessopp, of St. John’s +College, Cambridge, head master of Helston Grammar School, to be head +master of Norwich Grammar School. + +6.—Mr. George William Pierrepont Bentinck (C) and Mr. Brampton Gurdon (L) +were returned without opposition members for West Norfolk. + +16.—The Mayor of Norwich, in compliance with a requisition, convened a +Common Hall, at which a loyal address to the Queen was adopted, praying +that there should be no interference in the war which had arisen on the +Continent, but at the same time assuring her Majesty of the readiness of +the citizens of Norwich to uphold the honour and dignity of her Crown +under any circumstances that might arise. + +17.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Mr. J. H. Tillett moved +that a petition be presented to Parliament praying for a full, searching, +and impartial inquiry into corrupt and illegal practices at elections for +members of Parliament for Norwich. The motion was adopted, and a +committee appointed to draft the petition, which was presented for the +approval of the Council on June 21st. It asserted that extensive and +systematic bribery was practised; that it was rumoured a fund was raised +in London prior to the last General Election for election purposes, and a +considerable contribution from that fund was sent down to Norwich for the +purpose of being used at the late election; and that a large sum of money +had been subscribed in Norwich for the same purpose. The Council adopted +the petition, and requested Mr. J. Bright, M.P., to present it to the +House of Commons. The petition was presented on July 11th, and was +ordered to lie upon the table. At a meeting of the Town Council on July +19th, it was agreed “That it be referred to a special committee to +consider the propriety and expediency of applying in the next Session of +Parliament for an Act for better regulating the election of members to +serve in Parliament.” The Special Committee reported on August 8th, and +recommended the Council to resolve that as soon as it should be known +that an election for a member or members was to take place, the +candidates with their influential and active supporters, to the number of +not less than twenty on each side, be called upon to sign a declaration +pledging themselves to abstain, both directly and indirectly, from and to +discountenance treating and every form of corrupt or illegal practice or +expenditure, and also engaging not to practice canvassing; that in case +of infraction of the above-named, it be referred to the Right Hon. +William E. Gladstone, M.P., and the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, +M.P., as referees, or to such third person as they might name, to +determine whether the understanding had been honourably carried out or +not, and the member or members returned should be bound to abide by such +decision and to resign his or their seats if it were adjudged that his or +their election was secured or promoted by the violation of such +understanding, and that the other candidates and parties subscribing such +declaration should also abide by the decision of such referees or umpire. +The report was adopted, and a committee appointed to give effect to it. +On October 29th a meeting was held at the Guildhall, convened by the +following circular, issued by the Mayor (Mr. Middleton) and the +Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Field): “Having heard from various quarters that an +unusual effort will be made by each political party to secure the +majority at the approaching municipal elections, we take upon ourselves +the responsibility of asking our fellow-citizens to meet . . . with the +view of saving the city, if possible, from a repetition of those +disgraceful proceedings which have recently taken place in Norwich.” At +the meeting the Deputy-Mayor moved the following resolution: “That, in +the opinion of this meeting, the business of the Town Council and the +Corporation of Guardians ought henceforth to be conducted without +reference to political interests, but alone with the view of promoting +the best interests of the citizens.” The discussion showed that the +principle of the resolution was not agreeable to the meeting, whereupon +Mr. Field withdrew it, and the proceedings ended. + +23.—Miss Goddard, a tragic actress of some repute, appeared at Norwich +Theatre, in the character of Hamlet. “Hamlet is now played by a woman,” +wrote the critic, “infinitely better than it has been played by almost +any of the opposite sex who have ever attempted it.” + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated in Norwich by the entertainment +at dinner at St. Andrew’s Hall, of nearly 700 of the poor of the city, at +the joint expense of the Mayor and Sheriff. + +26.—A _déjeuner_ was given at the Town Hall, Yarmouth, in honour of the +Bight Rev. Dr. Hills, Bishop of Columbia, and formerly incumbent of the +parish, who was presented with an address and several gifts by the +townspeople. + +—The Volunteer movement commenced in Norfolk on this date. A public +meeting, convened by the Mayor of Norwich, by request of the Lord +Lieutenant of the county, was held at the Shirehall. It was decided that +the inhabitants of the city and neighbourhood be invited to enrol +themselves as active and honorary members of the Norwich Rifle Corps +Club. All members were to provide their own uniform, the expense of +which was not to exceed £3 or £4, and if the Government did not provide +arms, the Committee would assist in individual cases to such an extent as +the funds would permit. Honorary members were to pay an annual +subscription of one guinea. The drill required from active members was +not to exceed two hours a day on three days a week, and they were assured +that “on no occasion could they be called from Norwich except in case of +actual invasion or rebellion.” Many Volunteers were enrolled at the +conclusion of the meeting. Similar meetings were held in all the towns +of the county, and the movement soon became general. At an adjourned +meeting, held at the Shirehall, Norwich, on July 2nd, and presided over +by Lieut.-Col. FitzRoy, “to consider the best patterns for the clothing +and accoutrements of the Rifle Corps in the towns throughout the county,” +it was resolved, “That the uniform for the city of Norwich and the +boroughs in the county be a gray cloth tunic coat with black mohair braid +and buttons down the centre, with a low, upright collar, and trousers of +the same colour and material, and with a shako of hair cloth of the same +colour as the uniform, that a plume be worn, and that the appointments be +a patent leather black waistbelt, with pouch bags; the officers’ dress to +be distinguished by some embroidery above the cuff of the coat and by a +pouch-belt, with bronzed whistle and chain, and a slung waistbelt, with +sword and steel scabbard.” A general meeting of the members of the three +companies formed in Norwich—the Mayor’s Company, the Sheriff’s Company, +and Mr. Hay Gurney’s Company—was held at the Guildhall, on July 5th, when +the officers were elected as follows: For the Mayor’s Company, Mr. R. +Seaman lieutenant, and Mr. A. J. Cresswell ensign. For the Sheriff’s +Company, Mr. Henry Morgan lieutenant, and Mr. Charles Foster ensign. For +Mr. Hay Gurney’s Company, Mr. Croker lieutenant, and Mr. Charles Henry +Gurney ensign. The captains were respectively Mr. Middleton (Mayor), Mr. +H. S. Patteson (Sheriff), and Mr. Hay Gurney. In the month of September +two additional companies were formed, one commanded by Mr. J. H. Orde, +with Mr. E. P. Youell as lieutenant and Mr. J. Tomlinson as ensign; and +the other by Mr. William Swatman (brevet colonel), with Mr. F. J. +Cresswell as lieutenant. The first public parade of the corps took place +on October 7th, when the muster was 220, and “Capt. Black, an honorary +member of the corps, kindly consented to put them through their +evolutions on the Cricket Field.” Mr. Simms Reeve, the honorary +secretary, announced on November 5th that long Enfield rifles had been +supplied by Government free of cost; and on December 5th, at a general +meeting of the corps, Major Brett was elected Major Commandant. + + +JUNE. + + +17.—A petition against the return of Lord Bury and Mr. Schneider as +members of Parliament for Norwich, was presented in the House of Commons. +Bribery and other corrupt and illegal practices were alleged. The +Special Committee appointed to inquire into the petition sat on July +29th, and on July 30th decided “That the election of Lord Bury and Mr. +Schneider was a void election, and that both, by their agents, were +guilty of bribery.” Sir Samuel Bignold, on his return from London, on +the 30th, was welcomed by an immense crowd at Thorpe Station, and, +escorted by a torch-light procession headed by a band of music, his +carriage was dragged in triumph to his residence in Surrey Street. + +23.—A writ was issued for the election of a member of Parliament for +Norwich, in consequence of a vacancy caused in the representation of the +city by the acceptance of the appointment of Comptroller of Her Majesty’s +Household by Viscount Bury. The nomination took place at the Guildhall, +on the 28th, when the candidates were Viscount Bury, Sir Samuel Bignold, +and Col. Henry George Baldero. The show of hands was in favour of Lord +Bury, and a poll was demanded on behalf of Sir Samuel Bignold and Col. +Baldero. The poll was opened on the 29th, and declared on the 30th, as +follows: Bury, 1,922; Bignold, 1,561; Baldero, 39. Lord Bury was +declared elected. (_See_ March 9th, 1860.) + + +JULY. + + +3.—Died in London, in his 90th year, the Right Rev. Dr. Maltby, formerly +Bishop of Durham. He was born in the parish of St. George Tombland, +Norwich, on April 9th, 1770, and at the age of nine years was sent to the +Free Grammar School, then under the mastership of Dr. Parr. On the +resignation of Dr. Parr, Maltby, who was then head boy, proceeded to +Winchester, and entering Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, he there gained a +University scholarship. He was seventh or eighth wrangler and first +medallist, and obtained a prize for Greek epigrams. Maltby afterwards +became domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln. He was author of +“Sermons on the Christian Religion,” and editor of Morell’s “Thesaurus,” +and wrote a very learned and judicious book on “Divinity.” He held one +of the prebends of Lincoln Cathedral and the living of Brickdon. In 1831 +he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester, and was translated to Durham in +1836. Under Act of Parliament he resigned the latter see in September, +1856, and was allowed an annuity of £4,500. + +7.—Died at Roydon Rectory, the Rev. Temple Frere, canon of Westminster +and rector of Roydon, aged 78. He was son of Mr. John Frere, for some +years member of Parliament for Norwich, and took his B.A. degree at +Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1802, as eighth junior optime, migrating +afterwards to Downing College. Ordained deacon in 1804 and priest in +1805, he was presented, in 1820, to the family living of Roydon (valued +at £400), which he held until his death. He owned the greater part of +Diss, and was an active magistrate in that division of the county. +Having served some time as chaplain of the House of Commons, he was +gazetted to a canonry in Westminster Abbey in 1838. Canon Frere was +remarkable for his businesslike habits, and is said to have considerably +improved in value the Abbey estates. + +12.—The new “marine promenade” at Wells-next-the-Sea, for which the town +was indebted to the Earl of Leicester, was opened on this date. The work +of construction was commenced in March, 1857. The length of the +embankment is 1 mile 132 yards, and its height at the highest part 22 ft. +6 in. + +14.—A fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Noble, organ builder, +Pottergate Street, Norwich. The entire stock was destroyed. The +building adjoined the hospital for invalids of the West Norfolk Militia. +“Ten sick Militiamen escaped from the house in great alarm, and only +partially dressed.” + +18.—Messrs. Butcher, of Norwich, commenced the sale of the Earl of +Orford’s estates; the proceedings concluded on the 21st. The Tivetshall +estate realised £73,775; the Saxthorpe estate, £99,740; the Briston and +Corpusty estate, £8,427; and the Burnham and Weybourne estate, £6,182. + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—Mr. Spurgeon made his first appearance in Norwich, on his mission for +procuring funds to erect a “monstre tabernacle in London to accommodate +the immense congregations drawn together by his peculiar pulpit oratory.” +About 2,500 persons assembled at St. Andrew’s Hall to hear his sermon. +In the evening Mr. Spurgeon preached in the open air, in Chapel Field, to +a congregation of more than 10,000. “The collection at the afternoon +service amounted to £28, which Mr. Spurgeon took occasion to say, in +introducing another collection in the evening, was the shabbiest +collection he had ever had.” In the evening £23 was contributed. + +12.—The Donegal Militia, 300 strong, arrived at Yarmouth, in the ss. +Himalaya. Lieut.-Col. Lord Claud Hamilton was in command of the +regiment, which relieved the Louth Rifles (Militia). + +13.—A meeting of landowners and others interested in a proposed line of +railway from Norwich to Aylsham and Cromer was held at the Royal Hotel, +Norwich, under the presidency of Sir Henry Stracey, Bart., M.P. The +meeting favoured the scheme, and appointed a provisional committee. + +18.—The first recorded angling match took place on this date, at +Limpenhoe Reach, on the Yare, for prizes given by Mr. C. J. Greene, of +Rose Lane, Norwich. The total weight of fish taken by the 28 competitors +in the course of eight hours was 16 st. 7 lbs. 1 oz. Mr. G. Harman +secured first prize, with a catch of 33 lbs. 3 ozs. + +28.—A remarkable case of protracted abstinence from food was discovered +at St. Faith’s. A man, who gave the name of William Watling, of +Felmingham, aged 60, was found in a prostrate and apparently dying +condition in a plantation. His statement was to the effect that five +weeks previously, when tramping the country, he was overcome with heat +and crawled into the plantation. From that spot, he declared, he had not +moved for five weeks, and although persons passed very near the wood, he +failed, in consequence of physical exhaustion, to attract their +attention. He had neither food nor drink during the whole time, and ate +nothing but the grass and leaves around him, and a few blackberries. +“His bones almost protruded through his skin, and his flesh was nearly +all dried up.” The medical opinion was that he would not recover, but +there is no further record of the case. + +31.—The ceremony of laying the first stone of the new church of Holy +Trinity, Norwich, was performed by the Mayor (Mr. Middleton). A special +service was held at St. Peter Mancroft, when the sermon was preached by +the Ven. Archdeacon Bouverie, and, after the laying of the stone, a large +gathering was held in a temporary building adjoining the site. (_See_ +August 8th, 1861.) + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +2.—Died Mrs. Sarah Bickersteth, widow of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, +rector of Watton, Herts. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas +Bignold, of Norwich, and sister of Sir Samuel Bignold. Born on October +3rd, 1788, she married, on May 5th, 1812, Mr. Edward Bickersteth, who was +then a solicitor practising in Norwich. Two years afterwards, at the +call of the Rev. Josiah Pratt, he gave up a lucrative business for the +laborious post of co-secretary in the Church Missionary House, and +visited the missions on the West Coast of Africa. Four fourteen years +Mrs. Bickersteth shared all his toils, until 1830, when he was presented +to the living of Watton, by Mr. Abel Smith, M.P. He died in February, +1850, and Mrs. Bickersteth, for the last nine years of her life, divided +her time among her children. She spent the last month with her son, the +incumbent of Christ church, Hampstead. + +15.—The church of Framingham Pigot, built through the munificence of Mr. +G. H. Christie, at a cost exceeding £5,000, was consecrated by the Bishop +of Norwich. + + +OCTOBER. + + +8.—Died, in the 100th year of her age, Mary Tallowin, of Bowthorpe. + +11.—Charles Dickens gave a reading, at St. Andrew’s Hall, of the +“Christmas Carol” and the trial scene from “The Pickwick Papers,” and on +the 12th read the story of Little Dombey and of Mrs. Gamp. “The +reception of Mr. Dickens, on his first appearing in front of a very +artistically arranged screen, was cordial and enthusiastic. His voice +was far from powerful, but he had remarkable expression and the power of +exhibiting this in face as well as in voice. As a pecuniary speculation, +it must have been highly profitable to Mr. Dickens.” + +17.—The town of Attleborough was, for the first time, lighted with gas, +an event which was celebrated by a public dinner at the New Inn. + +20.—At the Norwich Quarter Sessions, John Plummer (25), shoemaker, was +indicted for stealing a model of a gold nugget, the property of the +trustees of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. Mr. Reeve, the curator of +the Museum, stated that the model was worth only a few shillings, but it +was an attractive object, and generally supposed by visitors, and no +doubt by the prisoner, to be a piece of genuine gold. The prisoner was +sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. + +21.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, the Police Committee called +attention to an Act of Parliament passed in the previous month of August, +empowering the substitution of policemen for javelin men at the Assizes, +and recommending that the Chief Constable be authorised, on the +application of the High Sheriff, to employ a sufficient number of +constables for that purpose, the High Sheriff engaging to pay such sum as +would, in the estimation of the Chief Constable, be sufficient to meet +the additional expense of such employment. The matter was adjourned for +further consideration. (_See_ January 5th, 1860.) + +—Mr. R. M. Phipson was elected County Surveyor. + +24.—A singular question came before the Norwich Town Council, in relation +to the right of the Corporation to the property of convicts. The Police +Committee reported they had been informed by the Chief Constable that on +the apprehension of one George Valentine, on a charge of felony, a large +sum of money was found in his possession. Valentine having been tried +and convicted at the Quarter Sessions, the Town Clerk had stated that the +city was entitled to the convict’s money. The Chief Constable wished to +know how he should dispose of the money. The Committee were advised +that, after the conviction, the city had become entitled to the money +under a Royal charter granted during the reign of Henry IV. The Council +ordered that the money remain in the hands of the City Treasurer, pending +further inquiry. The question was again considered by the Council on May +12th, 1863, when the Town Clerk reported that after Valentine’s +conviction it was found that, in addition to the sum in question (£90), +he had £60 deposited in a savings bank in London. The Town Clerk had +given notice to the bank directors that the Corporation claimed the +money, but since the liberation of the prisoner he had been pressed to +withdraw the notices, and had refused to do so without the sanction of +the Corporation. The difficulty under which the Corporation laboured was +that the money was out of their jurisdiction, and they had no control +over it beyond the notice that had been given. If further steps were +taken the question would arise whether it was a forfeiture to the +Corporation or to the Crown, but as this would involve an inquisition, +the cost of which would probably exhaust the money enquired about, it was +for the Council to say whether, the man, having served his term of three +years’ penal servitude, and having petitioned for some relief from the +fund to place him in a position to gain an honest livelihood, they would +authorise the withdrawal of the notice. It was agreed that the notice be +withdrawn. + +25.—A severe storm occurred off the Norfolk coast. At Winterton two +vessels were wrecked and thirteen lives lost. At Yarmouth there were +several wrecks, and for miles the shore was strewn with remains of +cargoes and portions of vessels. The sloop James and Jessie drifted on +to the Britannia Pier, and severed the structure into two parts. + +26.—Mr. and Mrs. German Reed gave, at the Assembly Rooms, Norwich, their +entertainment entitled, “Seaside Studies.” + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Mr. J. H. Tillett was +elected Mayor, and Mr. Joseph Underwood appointed Sheriff. + +—Mr. Tillett, on taking his seat as Mayor of Norwich, informed the Town +Council that an attempt had been made to bribe one of the Councillors. +Mr. Joel Fox, the member in question, produced the halves of three £100 +bank notes, which, he alleged, the Conservatives had handed to him to +induce him to vote for eight Conservative Aldermen. After the vote had +been recorded the payment was to be completed. Amid much excitement, a +Special Committee was appointed to investigate the case. On November +12th, before the Committee had presented their report, criminal +proceedings were instituted against Mr. Albert John Collins, solicitor, a +member of the firm of Beckwith and Collins, who was charged at the Police +Court with conspiring with Henry Croxford, stationer and others, to bribe +Joel Fox, Town Councillor, by promising and offering him a sum of money +to vote for certain Aldermen. Croxford, the other defendant, had +absconded. Fox alleged that he went to Croxford’s house, where he was +shown the halves of three £100 notes and four £50 notes, which were +offered to him by Croxford, on behalf of Collins, on condition that he +voted for the Conservative Aldermen. After formal evidence, the case was +adjourned. On the 16th the Committee of the Council asked for full power +and authority to proceed with the investigation, and to take such steps +as might be necessary for the prosecution of the offenders. The Council +granted the application. The magisterial proceedings were resumed on the +17th, when Mr. Power, Q.C. (instructed by the Town Clerk, Mr. Mendham), +appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Serjeant Ballantine for the +defendant Collins. After further evidence had been taken, the case was +again adjourned. Meanwhile informations had been laid against William +Wilde, William Wilde, the younger, William George Wilde, James Stowers, +and Sir William Foster, members of the Liberal party, for conspiring to +bribe at the last General Election for the city. By way of reprisal, the +Liberals obtained summonses, through William Randell Lacey, against Sir +Samuel Bignold, the Rev. F. S. Bignold, J. H. Bignold, James Hardy, Capt. +Ives, and G. Priest, for unlawfully conspiring by bribery and other +illegal means to return Sir Samuel Bignold and Mr. Charles Lushington at +the last election of members of Parliament. On Nov. 19th the magistrates +decided to hear all the cases on December 8th. A special meeting of the +Town Council was held on December 6th, to consider the following motion +by Mr. Simms Reeve: “That it is the opinion of this Council that the +peace and welfare of the city will be best promoted by the cessation of +political strife, and, with the view to the attainment of that object, +the resolution of the Council of the 16th November last, with reference +to the charge of bribery made by Mr. Councillor Fox, be cancelled, and +that all further legal proceedings against Henry Croxford and Albert John +Collins and others for conspiracy be stayed.” The motion was seconded by +Mr. Field. Mr. C. M. Gibson moved, as an amendment, “That the due +administration of justice is essential to the peace and welfare of the +city, and it is therefore the opinion of the Council that the resolution +of the 16th November . . . should be again confirmed.” The motion was +carried by 28 votes against 19. On December 8th, when the magisterial +proceedings were resumed, the Town Clerk said he had no instructions from +the Town Council to proceed with the prosecution. After he had formally +withdrawn, Mr. R. N. Bacon, Mr. J. J. Colman, Mr. J. Youngs, Mr. J. +Newbegin, Mr. C. N. Bolingbroke, the Rev. G. Gould, the Rev. J. Crompton, +Mr. E. C. Holland, and Mr. John Pymar appeared as prosecutors, and Mr. +Power claimed to be heard as their counsel. The Bench decided that there +was no _prima facie_ case against Collins, who was discharged on giving +sureties to answer any charge that might be made against him at the +Assizes. Serjeant Ballantine thereupon said that he would offer no +evidence in the charges against the Messrs. Wilde, and Mr. S. H. Asker, +who appeared for the complainant Lacey, withdrew the summons issued on +his information. + +12.—Mr. Louth, landlord of the Rampant Horse Hotel, Norwich, received +fatal injuries by the overturning of his vehicle in London Street. His +father, by whom he was accompanied, also sustained severe wounds, from +which he died on the 18th. + +30.—The foundation-stone of the St. Andrew’s Wherrymen’s chapel, at +Yarmouth, was laid by the Mayor (Mr. W. Worship). The building, which +was erected at the cost of £1,050, by Mr. Stanley, of Yarmouth, from +plans by Mr. C. E. Giles, of London, was consecrated by the Bishop of +Norwich on October 9th, 1860. + + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—The Norwich Operatic Union gave its first concert, from Verdi’s “Il +Trovatore,” at St. Andrew’s Hall. The principal vocalists were Miss +Theresa Jefferys, Mr. Angus Braham, Miss Laura Baxter, and Mr. Durand. +The band and chorus of 80 performers were conducted by Mr. Bunnett, B.M., +Mr. Alfred Bowles was instrumental leader, and Mr. Henry Rudd choral +director. + +—A fatal accident occurred on the works in progress at the new +Fishmarket, Norwich, by the falling in of three of the arches beneath the +“promenade.” A workman, named William Powley, of Necton, was killed, and +another workman sustained a broken leg. At the adjourned inquest, on +December 15th, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with the +rider: “They consider, from the evidence of eminent architects of London +and builders of Norwich, that the buildings are in an unsafe condition, +and require the immediate attention of the Corporation, in order to +insure the perfect safety of the public.” + +10.—Died at Sydenham, Col. the Hon. John Walpole, of 18, Jermyn Street, +Piccadilly, aged 73. He was son of the second Earl of Orford, served +with the Guards in the Peninsula War, and was severely wounded at the +siege of Burgos. From 1827 to 1831 he was member of Parliament for +King’s Lynn; from 1830 to 1833 private secretary to Lord Palmerston; from +1833 to 1841 Consul-General in Chili; and from 1841 to 1849 _chargé +d’affaires_ there. + +17.—A heavy fall of snow and a frost of great severity were recorded. +“In the course of the 17th, the thermometer fell to 14 degrees, and on +the 18th to 9 degrees, or 27 degrees below freezing-point.” + +26.—The pantomime at Norwich Theatre was “founded on the celebrated and +world-known Norfolk ballad,” and entitled, “The Babes in the Wood, and +Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle, or the Forest Queen of the Fairy Dell.” +The other Christmas attraction was Mander’s Menagerie. + +27.—Died, Jacob Astley, Lord Hastings, of Melton Constable and of Seaton +Delaval, Northumberland. He was son of Sir Jacob Henry Astley, fifth +baronet, by the youngest daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Browne, of +King’s Lynn. His lordship was born in 1797, married in March, 1819, the +youngest daughter of Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, Bart., and succeeded his +father in the baronetcy in 1817. As one of the heirs of Sir John de +Hastings, who sat in the Parliament of 18th Edward I., he was summoned to +the House of Peers in 1841. He was appointed first Captain and +Commandant of the Norfolk Militia Artillery in 1853, and Hon. Colonel in +1856. From 1832 to 1837 he represented West Norfolk in Parliament. His +lordship was succeeded by his son, the Hon. Jacob Henry Delaval Astley, +born in 1822. + + + +1860. + + +JANUARY. + + +5.—At the County Sessions, at Norwich, the Committee appointed at the +previous Sessions recommended that the Chief Constable, on the +application of the High Sheriff, be allowed to supply police-constables +for keeping order in the Assize Courts, in place of the javelin men +previously employed, the High Sheriff engaging to pay the additional +expense. The Chairman (Sir Willoughby Jones) remarked that theoretically +the javelin men kept the Courts, but practically they kept the +neighbouring public-houses. The recommendation was agreed to. On March +27th, Mr. Justice Williams was received at Victoria Station by the High +Sheriff (Mr. Henry Birkbeck) and a posse of policemen, “in the place of +the time-honoured body which had long constituted a conspicuous part of +the pomp and circumstance of our Assizes, having at length succumbed to +the utilitarian tyranny of the age. His arrival at the Shirehall and +Guildhall was signalised, however, by the customary fanfaronade on a +couple of inharmonious trumpets.” + +15.—St. Giles’ church, Norwich, was for the first time lighted with gas, +and evening services were held there from this date. + +17.—Mr. E. E. Benest, City Surveyor, tendered his resignation to the +Norwich Town Council, after eight years’ service. He was succeeded, on +March 14th, by Mr. Thomas D. Barry. + +20.—Lord Sondes was presented by his Norfolk tenantry with a piece of +plate, of the value of 140 gs., as a birthday gift and as a testimony of +the esteem in which he was held by them as a landlord and nobleman. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +7.—A fire occurred on the premises of Mr. W. C. Aberdein, pastry cook, +Dove Street, Norwich. The outbreak itself was not of a serious +character, but in a room upon the adjoining premises of Mr. Cubitt, +ironmonger, was stored upwards of 400 lbs. of gunpowder, which was safely +removed in wet blankets. The circumstance caused much sensation, and the +practicability of establishing a public powder magazine was discussed by +the magistrates. + +20.—Died at King’s Lynn, Mr. J. F. Reddie, many years organist at St. +Margaret’s church, in that town. + +24.—A petition against the return of Sir Edmund Lacon and Sir H. Stracey, +as members of Parliament for Great Yarmouth, in April, 1859, commenced +before a Special Committee of the House of Commons. The petitioners, Mr. +Joseph Bayly, surgeon, and Mr. Robert Pilgrim, linen draper, alleged +bribery, undue influence, treating, and intimidation. On March 1st the +Committee declared the members to have been duly elected, and were of +opinion that one of the witnesses, Henry Fayerman, had been guilty of +wilful and corrupt perjury. The members were received with great +enthusiasm on their return to Yarmouth, and were entertained at a public +dinner, given at the Theatre, on April 12th. At the Westminster Police +Court, on June 11th, Fayerman was committed for trial on the charge of +perjury, but at the Old Bailey, on July 12th, the jury gave a verdict of +acquittal. + +28.—A terrible gale raged throughout the country. At Norwich, between +ten o’clock and noon, the thermometer rose from 36 degrees to 47 degrees; +at two o’clock it registered 45 degrees. The wind blew from the west, +veering occasionally to the north and to W.N.W., but during the height of +the gale it blew west by north. Great damage was done to buildings, +trees were uprooted, and “locomotion was extremely difficult and +laborious, and, indeed, quite out of the question to those of the fair +sex whose fashionable expanded dresses, assuming the properties of +parachutes, compelled them to undertake a species of aerial voyage for a +distance of a few yards, or exposed them to the still more unpleasant +predicament of having their parachute garments inverted.” There were +many disasters along the coast, and several lives were lost. + + +MARCH. + + +9.—A Special Committee of the House of Commons sat to decide various +questions arising out of the elections at Norwich in 1859. The first +point to be decided was whether Lord Bury’s claim, by virtue of the +election in July, was not nullified by the bribery which was proved to +have been made by his agents when he was returned with Mr. Schneider in +April; and secondly, whether, in the event of such disqualification, Sir +Samuel Bignold or Colonel Boldero had a valid claim. There were three +petitions: (1) against the return of Lord Bury and the qualification of +Sir Samuel Bignold, on the ground that both had been guilty of bribery at +the April election, and the seat was, therefore, claimed for Colonel +Boldero (signed by Josiah Fletcher, S. Jarrold, and J. J. Kempster); (2) +alleging the disqualification of Lord Bury, and claiming the seat for Sir +Samuel Bignold (signed by J. G. Johnson and R. Kerrison); and (3) +alleging the disqualification of both Lord Bury and Sir Samuel Bignold, +and claiming the seat for Colonel Boldero (signed by P. Back and G. C. +Stevens). No appearance was put in in support of the first petition. +The Committee declared that Lord Bury was not merely disqualified from +sitting in the House of Commons during the then Parliament, but the last +election was void, in consequence of his lordship having been found, +since that return, guilty of bribery by his agents. A writ was then +issued for another election, and on March 28th the following candidates +were nominated: Mr. W. Forlonge (C), Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire; Mr. +W. D. Lewis, Q.C. (C); Sir William Russell (L), and Mr. Edward Warner +(L). The polling took place on the 29th, and the result was officially +declared on the 30th, as follows: Warner, 2,083; Russell, 2,045; +Forlonge, 1,636; Lewis, 1,631. + +24.—Died at his residence, Hillington Hall, aged 73, Sir William John +Henry Browne ffolkes, Bart. He represented the county, and afterwards +the Western Division, as a supporter of Liberal principles from 1830 +through the Reform era, but lost the seat on the redaction of the +Conservative party in 1837, when Mr. Bagge and Mr. Chute were returned. +As a magistrate, country gentleman, and landlord, Sir William was highly +esteemed. He was Chairman of Quarter Sessions at Swaffham, and chairman +of the Norfolk Estuary Company. He was succeeded by his grandson, +William Howell, then in his twelfth year, and eldest son of Martin Brown +ffolkes, who was killed by lightning in July, 1849. + +24.—The Rev. J. W. L. Heaviside was installed Canon of Norwich Cathedral, +in succession to Canon Wodehouse, resigned. Mr. Heaviside was a +professor at Haileybury College, an examiner in mathematics for the +University of London and for the Council of Military Education, and a +brother of Mr. Heaviside, formerly master of the Norwich School of Art. + +29.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a +special jury, was tried a libel action, in which Mr. Samuel B. Cory, +solicitor, Yarmouth, was the plaintiff, and Mr. T. W. Bond, publisher of +the “Norfolk News,” Norwich, the defendant. The libel was contained in a +letter written to the newspaper by a Mr. Fabb, who alleged, among other +things, that Mr. Cory had laid informations in certain game cases, with +the object of putting the fees into his own pocket. Mr. Fabb, it was +understood, had indemnified the “Norfolk News.” The jury returned a +verdict for the plaintiff, with one farthing damages, as to that part of +the libel above quoted, and for the defendant as to other portions of the +libel, on the ground that they had been justified as true. The effect of +the verdict was that plaintiff had to pay his own costs and half the +costs of the defendant. In a second action, Mr. Fabb sued Mr. Cory for +malicious prosecution, and obtained a verdict for £30 damages. + +30.—Died, in her 63rd year, at Cheltenham, while on a visit to her +son-in-law, the Rev. J. F. Fenn, Lady Bignold, wife of Sir Samuel +Bignold. + + +APRIL. + + +2.—An important will case, Wright _v._ Wilkin, commenced at the Norfolk +Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a special jury. It was +brought in the form of an action for ejectment to recover possession of +certain tenements and lands held by the defendant, Thomas Martin Wilkin, +solicitor, of Lynn, under the will of an old lady named Mary Mann. The +plaintiff, who was heir-at-law, alleged that the will was obtained from +an infirm and weak-minded person by fraudulent practices and +contrivances. The will had already been disputed, and in that trial a +verdict was given in favour of Mr. Wilkin; this action was brought +because there had come to the knowledge of the plaintiff facts and +circumstances which had been entirely withheld from the former jury. The +trial lasted until the afternoon of the 3rd, when the jury found for the +defendant, subject to argument upon certain points reserved. These were +stated in the Court of Queen’s Bench on April 9th, and were to the effect +that the devise to the defendant was defeated by his neglect to comply +with a condition of the will, namely, that the devise was conditional on +the devisee paying off certain legacies within twelvemonths in case the +personal estate should be insufficient for that purpose. It transpired +that the personal estate was insufficient, but the defendant did not pay +one of the legacies within the time stipulated. It was also contended +for the plaintiff that the devise to the defendant was void, inasmuch as +it was a contrivance to defeat the Statute of Mortmain, several of the +legacies being for charitable purposes, and that the defendant had misled +the testatrix by not telling her that, under 43rd George III., she could +leave as much as five acres of land for the repair of the church. Lord +Chief Justice Cockburn granted a rule _nisi_. In the Court of Queen’s +Bench, on November 27th, the Lord Chief Justice said the rule must be +discharged, as the words in the will were not intended to impose a +condition, the non-observance of which would involve forfeiture. Mr. +Justice Crompton and Mr. Justice Blackburn concurred. The rule was +discharged. + + +MAY. + + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated at Norwich by a parade on +Mousehold of the Royal Horse Artillery, the West Norfolk Militia, and the +Rifle Volunteers. The Mayor afterwards entertained the officers at +luncheon at the Guildhall, and in the evening the Volunteers dined at St. +Andrew’s Hall, under the presidency of Major Brett. + +28.—A violent gale from the north-west did extensive damage in Norwich +and throughout the county. Terrible disasters were reported on the +coast. Twenty vessels belonging to Yarmouth and Lowestoft were lost, 200 +men and boys perished, and 240 women and children were left in a state of +destitution. On the 29th an inquiry was held at Yarmouth into certain +allegations as to the conduct of the beachmen and crew of the lifeboat. +It was stated that, in consequence of differences which had arisen, much +valuable time was lost in launching the lifeboat, and a resolution +expressing regret at the delay was adopted. A public fund was raised for +the destitute families of the local fishermen. During the gale, the +north-east pinnacle of St. Peter’s church, Yarmouth, was dislodged, the +windows of Cromer church were blown in, and at Blickling 247 oaks were +uprooted in the Great Wood, 216 in Hercules Wood, and 190 in other +portions of the park. It was estimated that 1,500 trees were levelled on +the estate. + +—The American horse tamer, Rarey, gave an exhibition of his system of +training, in the riding school at the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich. + + +JUNE. + + +4.—The Royal Horse Artillery marched from the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, +_en route_ to Woolwich, and were escorted to the city boundary by the +Rifle Volunteers. + +9.—An extraordinary case, arising out of the sudden disappearance of a +lad named Vansittart, came before the Norwich magistrates. The lad was a +son of Mr. Vansittart, member of Parliament for Windsor, and had been +placed at school under the care of the Rev. F. H. S. Hodgson, rector of +Rackheath. At Brighton, some time previously, he had developed Roman +Catholic tendencies, and his friends were anxious to remove him from the +sphere of such influences. Mr. Hodgson, while engaged in parochial +duties, missed the youth, and gave information to the police at Norwich, +who found him at the house of a Roman Catholic jeweller, named Beha. The +lad made a very singular statement, to the effect that an Italian priest, +attired in a long blue cloak, had persuaded him to leave school and join +the Roman Catholics in London; that he had gone to Norwich and met Canon +Dalton, the priest at St. John Maddermarket Roman Catholic chapel, to +whom he had shown a watch belonging to a school-fellow; that Canon Dalton +had advanced him six shillings, and recommended him to take the watch to +Beha, for the purpose of raising sufficient money to pay the balance of +his railway fare to London; and that he was preparing to start for town +when he was detained by the police. Canon Dalton declared that he had +not seen the lad prior to his coming to St. John Maddermarket. The +matter was adjourned for further inquiry, and on the 11th Canon Dalton, +Jacob Beha, Matthew Beha, and Thomas Foulsham were required to attend +before the magistrates, when the proceedings were deferred until the +18th, the persons named protesting against the course adopted by the +Bench, and urging that no charge had at present been preferred against +them. Another adjournment took place until the 25th, when Mr. Serjeant +Ballantine appeared for the prosecution, and preferred a charge of +conspiracy against Canon Dalton and the Behas. The boy Vansittart gave +evidence, and, in cross-examination by Mr. Woollett, counsel for the +defence, admitted that he had told “a tissue of lies,” and that the main +points of his story were entirely invented by himself. The magistrates +dismissed the case, but expressed the opinion that the conduct of Canon +Dalton was exceedingly reprehensible in not advising the lad to return to +his father. + +18.—Died at his residence, at Thorpe, General Sir Robert J. Harvey, C.B., +K.T.S., Knight Commander of the Order of St. Bento d’Avis, F.R.S., F.A.S. +Sir Robert, who was in his 75th year, saw much active service during his +military career. He was present at the battles of the Douro and Busaco, +the battle of Salamanca, the siege of Burgos, and at Vittoria, the +Pyrenees (where he was wounded in the thigh by a musket shot), Nivelle, +Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. The long-protracted war having been brought +to a close in 1815 by the crowning victory at Waterloo, on the +anniversary of which he died, he returned to Norwich and became an acting +partner in the bank of Harveys and Hudson, and was head of the firm at +the time of his death. He was a magistrate and a Deputy Lieutenant of +Norfolk, president of the Norwich Union Life Office and the Norwich Union +Fire Insurance Society, chairman of the General Reversionary Interest +Society in London, and founder of several other important institutions of +a kindred character. In politics he was a Conservative, but took no +prominent part in local affairs. Sir Robert married a daughter of Mr. +Robert Harvey, of Walton, Suffolk, a distant relative, and was succeeded +by his eldest son, Mr. R. J. H. Harvey. The will of the deceased was +proved on February 21st, 1861, when the personalty was sworn under +£350,000. “Mr. R. J. H. Harvey has purchased all his brother’s (Mr. E. +K. Harvey’s) interest under the will, so that he is now in possession of +the whole of the real and personal property of his late father, subject +to Lady Harvey’s life interest in the Mousehold estates and to the +annuities named in the will.” + +19.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, it was agreed, +“That the Lords of the Treasury having sanctioned the sale to the New +Street Company of the property required by them belonging to the +Corporation for the sum of £3,260, and having required to be informed of +the purpose to which the Corporation propose to apply such +purchase-money, this Council agrees, with the sanction of the Lords of +the Treasury, to apply £2,000 towards the making of the new street, +which, on its completion, will be vested in the Corporation, and, the +remaining £1,260 towards the widening of the present approach to the +Cattle Market by Rose Lane.” + +30.—The Channel Fleet, under the command of Admiral Sir C. Fremantle, +K.C.B., arrived in Yarmouth Roads. Since the year 1814 no two ships of +the line had been moored at the same time off Yarmouth. The fleet +consisted of nine ships of the line, two frigates, a corvette, and a +tender. The Mayor and Corporation of the borough waited upon the Admiral +and invited the officers to a ball, but orders came for the fleet to sail +early on the morning of July 2nd. + + +JULY. + + +9.—Mousehold Rifle Range was used for the first time by the Norwich +Volunteers. The first prize-meeting took place on September 17th, when +there were twelve competitors from the city and twenty-four from the +county. + +23.—The Donegal Militia left Yarmouth. + +27.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Chief Baron Pollock and a special +jury, an action, Gillings _v._ Manders, was tried. The plaintiff was a +carpenter at Yarmouth, and the defendant the proprietor of a travelling +menagerie. One of the attractions of the show was the performance of a +Zulu named Maccomo, who was styled a “Lion King,” and fired off pistols +and carbines in a cage containing half a dozen lions and lionesses. In a +performance given at Yarmouth, Maccomo, instead of firing his pistol to +the top of the cage, discharged it among the spectators, and the wad +entering the plaintiff’s eyes destroyed it. Muccomo said it was the +result of an accident. One of his lions attacked him in a fit of temper, +and the trigger, catching in the beast’s mane, was prematurely +discharged. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages £150. + +31.—In the Norwich Episcopal Consistory Court, Mr. Chancellor Evans gave +judgment in a protracted case, Archdeacon Bouverie _v._ the Rev. W. L. +Barnes. The suit was instituted by the Archdeacon of Norfolk, against +the rector of Knapton, for procurations for the years 1856–57–58–59. The +plaintiff alleged, in his libels, that he was entitled to receive from +the rector the sum of 7s. 7½d., due at Michaelmas every year, by reason +of his visiting, of his archidiaconal dignity, or by custom. Mr. Barnes +required the Archdeacon to prove such parts of his case as were not +admitted, and, further, he said that, supposing the case as stated in the +libels were proved, the Archdeacon was not entitled to be paid his +procurations for the years 1857–58–59, because he did not in those years +hold a parochial visitation at Knapton. The Court decreed in favour of +the Archdeacon, with costs, and Mr. Barnes gave notice that he should +appeal against the judgment. No further proceedings, however, were +taken. + + +AUGUST. + + +27.—Died at Hampstead Marshall, Newbury, Berks., the Right Hon. Louisa, +Dowager Countess of Craven, aged 78. She was a daughter of Mr. John +Brunton, manager of Norwich Theatre, and half a century before her death +was a favourite actress upon the Norwich and the London stage. She +married the Earl of Craven in 1807, and of the marriage there were three +sons and a daughter. + +28.—The first festival of the associated choirs belonging to the Norfolk +and Suffolk Church Choral Association, established in October, 1859, was +hold at Norwich Cathedral. + +30.—Died at her residence in Kentish Town, aged 61, Elizabeth, widow of +Frederick Yates, formerly of the Adelphi Theatre. She was a daughter of +John Brunton, the younger, of Norwich and a niece of the Dowager Countess +of Craven. She made her _début_ at King’s Lynn, in the character of +Desdemona, and her first appearance in London at Covent Garden Theatre, +on Sept. 12th, 1817, as Letitia Hardy. At Covent Garden she continued to +play leading high comedy until 1824, when she married Mr. Frederick +Yates, who died in 1842, leaving an only son, born in 1831. After the +death of her husband, Mrs. Yates remained at the Adelphi with Mr. +Webster, played for one season at the Lyceum with Madame Vestris, and +finally retired from the stage in 1849. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +17.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, with an evening performance of “The Creation.” +The morning performances were as follow: On the 19th, the “Dettingen Te +Deum” and “The Last Judgment”; on the 20th, “Abraham” and “As the hart +pants”; and on the 21st “The Messiah.” Miscellaneous programmes were +performed on the evenings of the 19th and 20th. The principal vocalists +were Madame Clara Novello (her farewell appearance), Mdlle. Titiens (her +first appearance), Madame Weiss, Miss Palmer, Madame Borghi Mamo (her +first appearance), Mr. Sims Reeves, Signor Giulini, Mr. Willye Cooper, +Mr. Santley, Mr. Weiss, Signor Belletti; solo pianoforte, Miss Arabella +Goddard; leaders of the band, Mr. Sainton and Mr. H. Blagrove; solo +violon-cello, Signor Piatti; organist, Mr. Harcourt; chorus master, Mr. +J. F. Hill; conductor, Mr. Benedict. A “fancy dress ball” was announced +for the evening of the 21st. “Only three individuals appeared in fancy +dress—costumes which, from their quality, would have far more fitted a +masquerade at the Baronial Hall than an elegant assembly like that of +Friday evening. The wearers of them evidently felt ill at ease, and, +after enduring the rather marked observation that they attracted for some +time, were glad to call a fly and take their departure.” The total +receipts of the Festival amounted to £5,095 16s., and the disbursements +to £4,179 12s. 1d. + +18.—The Earl of Leicester, as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, and +Major-General Wood, C.B., reviewed 1,200 Volunteers of the city and +county on Mousehold Heath, Norwich. + +20.—Prince Jerome Bonaparte, with his suite, consisting of an +_aide-de-camp_ and six members of the French Ministry, visited +Gressenhall Workhouse and made particular enquiries into the management +of the institution. + +28.—Died at Upper Harley Street, London, in his 85th year, Mr. Charles +Lombe, of Great Melton. He was a son of Dr. Beevor, of Norwich, and +succeeded to the entailed estate on the death of his nephew, Mr. Edward +Lombe, son of the first Mr. Lombe. Mr. Charles Lombe was succeeded by +Mr. Edward Evans, eldest son of Mr. T. B. Evans, formerly of Norwich. +(_See_ November 10th.) + +30.—The headquarters of the 10th Hussars, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Baker, +arrived at the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich. + + +OCTOBER. + + +10.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean gave a farewell performance at Norwich +Theatre, prior to their departure for America. “One of the largest and +most fashionable audiences which have ever assembled at the Theatre was +brought together, at twice the ordinary playhouse prices in Norwich.” +Mr. Kean appeared as Sir Walter Amyott, and Mrs. Kean as Lady Amyott, in +“The Wife’s Secret.” On the 13th they performed in “Louis XI.,” and +afterwards appeared at Yarmouth Theatre. + +10.—An inquest was held at the Bethlehem Hospital, London, on the body of +Anthony Abel, a criminal lunatic, who had been removed from Norwich after +being acquitted of a charge of murder on the ground of insanity. He had +been an inmate of the establishment since June 18th, 1817. When 25 years +of age he was indicted for the murder of his uncle near Thetford. “For +many years he was considered so violent and dangerous that he was +confined in a strong room, and under the old _régime_ then in use in the +establishment, he had a strong belt and gloves, and was put into irons.” + +22.—Mr. George Dawson lectured at the Free Library, Norwich, on “Pepys’ +Diary.” + +—Norwich Theatre was opened for a brief season by Mr. Charles Dillon and +Miss Gomersal. + +24.—Mr. Henry Villebois, master of the Norfolk Fox Hounds, was presented +with his portrait, subscribed for by 400 gentlemen, “in appreciation of +his untiring and successful efforts to promote field sports in the county +of Norfolk.” Lord Sondes presided at the dinner held at the Town Hall, +Lynn, and presented the portrait, which was painted by F. Grant, R.A. + +29.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the resignations of +Aldermen Sir W. Foster and Gibson were accepted, and Mr. R. J. H. Harvey +and Mr. Fred Brown were elected to fill the vacancies. “The abolition of +political ascendancy in the Town Council has been accomplished by the +general consent of the influential men of each party, and duplicate +agreements have been signed by at least three-fourths of the Corporation. +To the Mayor (Mr. J. H. Tillett) belongs the honour of having taken the +initiative in this laudable effort.” + + +NOVEMBER. + + +3.—A description was published of an iron lighthouse, completed by +Messrs. Barnard, Bishop, and Barnards, of the Norfolk Iron Works, +Norwich, for the Brazilian Government. It was designed by Messrs. +Bramwell and Reynolds, of Westminster, for erection on the island of +Abrolhos, on the coast of Brazil. Made in sections, it was temporarily +erected by the riverside near St. George’s Bridge. The tower was +circular in form, and constructed of 144 iron plates. Its base was 17 +ft. in diameter, it was 46 ft. in height, and the lantern at the summit +was 16 ft. high. + +—A fearful boiler explosion occurred on the steamship Tonning, off +Yarmouth, by which eight persons were blown out of the vessel and never +again seen, three subsequently died, and several were seriously injured. +The Tonning was an iron vessel of 734 tons register, belonging originally +to the North of Europe Steam Navigation Company, and was afterwards +employed in the conveyance of cattle and passengers between England and +the Continent. + +9.—Mr. W. J. Utten Browne was elected Mayor, and Dr. Dalrymple appointed +Sheriff of Norwich. + +10.*—“The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Edward Evans, of Great +Melton and of Bylaugh, clerk, her Royal licence and authority that he +may, in compliance with a proviso contained in the will of his great +uncle, Sir John Lombe, henceforth take and use the surname of Lombe only, +and use and bear the arms of Lombe in lieu of his present surname and +arms of Evans.” + +—*“Mr. George Allen, of St. Stephen’s, has introduced to Norwich the +manufacture of elastic cloth, a fine material which has hitherto only +been made in the West of England.” + +17.—During a strong gale from the N.N.W., several vessels lying off +Yarmouth parted from their anchors and were driven ashore and wrecked. +Several lives were lost. + + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—A gunpowder explosion occurred at the shop of Mr. Marrison, gun maker, +Little Orford Street, Norwich. The entire shop front was wrecked, as +also was that of the adjoining shop, occupied by Mr. Frankland, +photographer and dealer in art materials. Two lives were lost. Mrs. +Dady, sister of Mr. Frankland, was sitting in a room over Mr. Marrison’s +shop, and was dashed by the force of the explosion to the ceiling. She +fell through the chasm in the floor to the burning ruins beneath, where +she was fearfully injured. Charles Hill, a shop boy in the employment of +Mr. Marrison, was killed outright, and terribly mangled. The force of +the explosion shattered the windows of the Bell Hotel and of other houses +in the vicinity. At the Norwich Assizes on March 26th, 1861, before +Chief Baron Pollock, Mr. Marrison brought an action against the London +Union Fire Office, for the recovery of £300 under a policy of insurance +on his stock and furniture. The plaintiff had been offered and had +refused £100 in settlement of the claim. The company then proved that +the plaintiff had kept more gunpowder on his premises than was allowed by +the terms of his contract, whereupon the judge ordered a non-suit. + +3.—Died at Brighton, in his 61st year, Capt. Frederick Loftus, formerly +of the 17th Lancers, youngest son of General and Lady Elizabeth Loftus, +and grandson of George, first Marquis Townshend and Charlotte, Baroness +De Ferrars and Compton. His remains were interred at Rainham, on +December 11th. + +5.—The suit, Gurney _v._ Gurney and Taylor, came before the Divorce +Court, Westminster. The husband sought dissolution of marriage, on the +ground of misconduct by the wife. A petition had been presented for the +settlement of property then vested in the wife in favour of the children, +the issue of the marriage, and the Solicitor-General applied for a rule +_nisi_ calling on the respondent, Mrs. Gurney, to show cause why a plea +or a pleading in the nature of or intended to be a plea should not be +taken off the file, and why the petition for settlement should not be +treated as unanswered or unopposed. Sir C. Cresswell granted a rule +_nisi_. Evidence was given in the case on January 22nd, 1861, and the +decree was made absolute on May 22nd. + +11.—In the Vice-Chancellor’s Court was heard the action, Berney _v._ the +Norfolk and Eastern Counties Railway Company. By an agreement dated June +6th, 1843, the plaintiff sold certain land to the Norwich and Yarmouth +Railway Company, and it was provided that such company should establish +and for ever maintain a station in connection with their railway at +Reedham, on part of the land sold to them by plaintiff. Nothing was said +in the agreement in reference to stopping trains at the station. In 1844 +the Norwich and Yarmouth railway was completed, and a station was +constructed in accordance with the agreement, and called the Barney Arms +Station, at which certain trains stopped. In 1845 the Norwich and +Yarmouth Company was incorporated with the Norfolk Railway Company, and +trains continued to stop at the station until 1850, when the Norfolk +Company discontinued the practice. The plaintiff thereupon instituted +this suit, praying for a specific performance of the agreement of June, +1843, and an injunction to restrain the Norfolk Company from permitting +the trains on their railway to pass the Berney Arms Station without +stopping thereat, which was, in effect, to compel the company to stop the +trains at that station. The motion for the injunction did not come on, +in consequence of an arrangement whereby the Norfolk Company agreed to +stop at Berney Arms Station one train from Norwich and one from Yarmouth +on every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. The Norfolk Railway was now +worked by the Eastern Counties Railway on an agreement dated in 1854, +which had received the sanction of the Legislature. The Eastern Counties +Company were then made parties to the suit. Although the trains then +stopped in a manner satisfactory to the plaintiff, there was no security +that they would continue to do so. The Vice-Chancellor said there must +be a specific performance of the agreement of June, 1843, and an order +that one train from Norwich and one from Yarmouth should stop at Berney +Arms Station on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday in every week; but he +should also order that each of the companies should pay £100 to the +plaintiff by way of costs. But for the plaintiff’s forbearance in this +respect, it would be difficult to say whether the Eastern Counties +Company would have escaped from the litigation with having nothing else +to pay than the plaintiff’s ordinary costs. + +14.—The Norwich Operatic Union gave its second concert, at St. Andrew’s +Hall. The programme included “Norma” and selections from “Il Trovatore.” +The principal vocalists were Mdlle. Paripa, Mdlle. Vaneri, Mr. Santley, +and Mr. Swift. Mr. Bunnett, B.M., conducted. + +16.—The first of a series of special services was conducted at Norwich +Theatre, by the Rev. T. B. Stephenson, Wesleyan minister. “The boxes +were reserved for the most respectable-looking, and the unmitigated +plebs. were relegated to the pit and gallery. The occupants of the +gallery conducted themselves as the gods usually do, and were rebuked by +the preacher, who took up his position on the stage in front of the drop +scene, surrounded by a number of persons of both sexes.” + +25.—This was the coldest Christmas that had been experienced for at least +a century. “At the Literary Institute at Norwich the minimum registered +was 3 degrees above zero. At Costessey the register was 7 degrees below +zero, or 39 degrees lower than the point at which water freezes. A +peculiarity of the temperature on Christmas-day was the fact of its being +colder in the morning than during the night. The coldest register was +between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., and there was scarcely any appreciable +variation till after two o’clock. Ice was about four inches thick.” + +26.—The pantomime at Norwich Theatre was entitled, “Cinderella, or the +Little Glass Slipper and the Fairy Godmother from the Realms of Golden +Palms.” Wombwell’s Menagerie was stationed on the Castle Meadow, and +performances were given at the Royal Crystal Palace Amphitheatre, Golden +Ball Street, under the management of Messrs. Emidy and Moffatt. The +lessee was Mr. C. Testar. + +27.—Died at 36, Berkeley Square, London, in his 57th year, Dr. Edward +Rigby. He was the eldest son of the celebrated Dr. Rigby, of Norwich, +and was educated at the Grammar School, under Dr. Valpy. He graduated at +Edinburgh, and subsequently commenced practice in London, where he +gradually raised himself to the very highest branches of his profession. + + + +1861. + + +JANUARY. + + +5.—At the annual meeting of the Norfolk Agricultural Association, held at +the Swan Hotel, Norwich, Mr. Clare Sewell Read moved that the annual show +for 1861 be held at East Dereham, instead of at Swaffham. This effort to +abolish the system of holding the exhibitions alternately at Norwich and +Swaffham was defeated by 19 votes to 15. + +6.—The frost continued with unusual intensity, and on this day +snowstorms, which covered the ground to the depth of twelve inches, +occurred. On the 10th a public meeting was held at Norwich, under the +presidency of the Mayor (Mr. W. J. Utten Browne), at which a fund was +inaugurated to relieve the distresses of the poor. In a few days the sum +of £4,139 12s. 11d. was subscribed. The river was frozen from Norwich to +Yarmouth, and on the 16th a large party of ladies and gentlemen assembled +on the ice on Breydon and “skated” quadrilles. The frost continued for +more than five weeks, during the whole of which period the ground was +covered with snow. + +11.—Walsingham Quarter Sessions were held for the last time. Sir +Willoughby Jones, who presided, informed the Grand Jury that the Sessions +would be removed part to Swaffham and part to Norwich, “on account of the +expenses being so great in proportion to the number of prisoners for +trial.” On March lst the Bridewell ceased to be used as a house of +correction, and the prisoners were removed to Norwich Castle. + +16.—Died, aged 85, Mr. Kinnebrook, for many years a proprietor of the +“Norwich Mercury.” + +18.—Died, in his 60th year, Mr. Thomas Lound, for 35 years confidential +clerk at King Street Old Brewery, Norwich. “As an artist, but +principally as a painter in water-colours, he had maintained a high +reputation for many years. The local river and rural scenery afforded +materials for a large proportion of his works. He occasionally painted +street scenes and monastic ruins, and of late years he made excursions +into Wales and Yorkshire, bringing home with him a vast variety of +subjects.” In addition to his own collection, he left many water-colour +drawings by Bright, Thirtle, Cox, and others, some of them of +considerable value. + +26.—At Norwich Castle, James Blomfield Rush, aged 30, “eldest son of +_the_ Rush,” was committed for trial on the charge of breaking into the +dwelling-house of Mr. Abraham Cannell, farmer, Cringleford, on the night +of January 12th. At the Norfolk Assizes, on March 27th, before Chief +Baron Pollock, the prisoner was acquitted. At subsequent dates he was +twice acquitted for housebreaking, but at the Norfolk Quarter Sessions on +March 11th, 1862, was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude for +breaking into a house at North Tuddenham. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +13.—In the Court of Queen’s Bench, before the Lord Chief Justice and a +special jury, an action was brought by Mr. Costerton, solicitor, of +Yarmouth, against Sir Edmund Lacon, M.P., for a scandalous attack made +upon the plaintiff by the defendant in the course of an election speech. +The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 40s. + +25.—Judgment was given by the Barons of the Exchequer in the cause Morant +_v._ Chamberlin. It was an action between the Corporation of Yarmouth +and Mr. G. D. Palmer, who claimed a right to a portion of the south end +of the public quays. Judgment was for the plaintiff, damages £5 5s. +“This decision thus settles this long-pending dispute, now nearly three +years from its commencement, and decides the right of the Corporation to +the soil of the quays and the right of the public to the free use of the +same without any of the inconveniences which for so long a time prevented +the proper enjoyment of the part in dispute. The verdict gives the +plaintiffs the costs of this heavy litigation, except on two unimportant +issues. The defendant will have to pay somewhere about £2,800.” + + +MARCH. + + +16.—On this date was published the announcement that the First Norfolk +Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps had been attached to the City of Norwich +Rifle Volunteer Corps for administrative purposes. The mounted corps, +which numbered 50, was commanded by Capt. F. Hay Gurney. The uniform +consisted of scarlet tunic with blue facings, white cross belt, white +breeches, and Napoleon boots. The head-dress was a busby with blue bag; +the forage-cap was blue trimmed with white. + +16.—Intelligence was received at Norwich of the death, of the Duchess of +Kent. On the 17th (Sunday) special references were made to the +melancholy event at the religious services in the city, and at intervals +the age of the deceased was tolled upon the muffled bells of the +Cathedral and St. Peter Mancroft church. The Town Council, on April 5th, +adopted an address of sympathy with the Queen. + +—The Surlingham estate was sold by Messrs. Butcher, at the Royal Hotel, +Norwich, for £16,895. + +26.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Chief Baron Pollock and a special +jury, was tried the libel action, Cufaude _v._ Cory. The plaintiff and +defendant had taken different sides at the election of a vestry clerk at +Yarmouth, and the libel was contained in a handbill issued during the +contest by the defendant, who referred to the printed statement of the +income and expenditure of the Guardians, to which body the plaintiff was +clerk, as “cooked,” and left the sum of £779 unaccounted for. The +special jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, damages £500. In the +Court of Queen’s Bench, on April 17th, Mr. Lush moved for a rule to set +aside the verdict, on the ground of excessive damages. A rule was +granted. Mr. Cufaude subsequently consented to a reduction of damages +from £500 to £300, “much against the advice of his counsel.” + + +APRIL. + + +2.—The High Sheriff of Norfolk (Mr. J. T. Mott) delivered a lecture at +Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, on “The Paston Letters.” + +10.—The 10th Hussars Steeplechases took place at Crostwick. + +23.—A vessel, named the Harmony, built by Messrs. Fellows and Son, of +Yarmouth, for the Moravian mission in Labrador, was launched. + + +MAY. + + +18.—The census returns were published on this date. In Norwich the +number of inhabited houses was 17,012; uninhabited, 786; building, 97. +The population consisted of 33,717 males, and 40,697 females; total, +74,414. + +20.—A serious military riot took place at Yarmouth, between men of the +Royal Artillery and of the East Norfolk Militia. Belts and stones were +freely used. A party of 200 Artillerymen, armed with swords and knives, +issued from the arsenal, and were going to the assistance of their +comrades, when Mr. R. Steward, by persuasion and threats, kept the +greater portion from proceeding further. Officers of both corps exerted +themselves to quell the disturbance, and strong pickets were stationed at +the bridge, to prevent the Artillery from entering Yarmouth and the +Militia from crossing to Southtown. + + +JUNE. + + +13.—The Norwich Grammar School athletic sports were held for the first +time. + +18.—A memorial was presented to the Norwich Town Council, by farmers, +graziers, dealers, &c., praying the Corporation to enlarge the Cattle +Market. The Market Committee recommended the Council to adopt in its +entirety a plan for executing the work, at a cost not exceeding £20,000. +This scheme involved the demolition of the notorious locality known as +Pump Street. + +20.—Mr. and Mrs. Ringer, of Walcot Green, near Diss, left their house in +charge of a servant, named Susan Garrod, and on their return in the +evening found her suffering from several gunshot wounds in the head and +face, inflicted by a man named Charles Sheldrake, a returned convict, +employed as a groom and gardener by Mr. Ringer. Sheldrake, after +committing the deed, secreted himself in a wood. On being called on by +the police to surrender, he placed the muzzle of a double-barrelled gun +to his mouth and blew out his brains. At the inquest the jury returned a +verdict of _felo de se_, and the Coroner gave a warrant for the interment +of the body between the hours of nine and twelve o’clock. “The body was +accordingly buried at ten o’clock at night, under one of the paths in the +churchyard.” + +24.—The London Royal English Opera Company commenced a week’s engagement +at Norwich Theatre. The repertory included “four new successful operas +never before performed in Norwich,” namely, Balfe’s “The Rose of +Castille,” Loder’s “The Night Dancers,” Macfarren’s “Robin Hood,” and +Balfe’s “Satanella, or the Power of Love.” In addition to the +above-named works, “Il Trovatore,” “Martha,” and “Maritana” were +produced. The _artistes_ included Miss Fanny Ternan, Miss Bronte, Miss +Angel, Miss Fanny Reeves, Mr. Edmund Rosenthal, Mr. J. Manley, Mr. E. D. +Corri, Mr. Oliver Summers, and Mr. Elliott Galer. Mr. W. Meyer Lutz was +the conductor. The performances received very inadequate public support. +The company revisited Norwich for six nights, commencing on September +9th. + +—Herr Kolisch, the celebrated chess-player, contested, at the Rampant +Horse Hotel, Norwich, 13 games simultaneously against some of the best +players in the neighbourhood. He won eight games, lost three, and two +were drawn. + +28.—Died, at Feniton Court, Devonshire, the Right Hon. Sir John Patteson. +The second son of the Rev. Henry Patteson, and nephew of Mr. John +Patteson, who for some time represented Norwich in Parliament, he was +born in that city on February 11th, 1790. He was educated at Eton and +King’s College, Cambridge, and, after talking his degree, removed to +London and entered at the Middle Temple. On being called to the Bar, he +went the Northern Circuit. “He had been only nine years a barrister, he +had not a silk gown, he had never led a cause or once addressed a jury,” +when he was appointed to the Queen’s Bench, and from that time to +February 11th, 1852, continued to discharge the duties of his high office +with a reputation for industry, learning, and integrity. + + +JULY. + + +20.*—“The first number of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE was published on the 18th +of July, 1761. We are, therefore, as journalists, exactly 100 years old. +. . . The difference between the newspapers of the last and present +century is, perhaps, more conspicuous in the quantity of space occupied +than in any other respect, and the present sheet is at least four times +the size of our first publication.” + +27.*—“The repairs at St. Gregory’s church, Norwich, the interior of which +has been undergoing general restoration, have brought to light an +interesting fresco, representing the renowned fight between St. George +and the Dragon, a subject which has a local association, St. George being +the titular saint of the city and patron of a once flourishing civic +company. The painting, which, in all probability, is of a date of the +middle of the fifteenth century, was discovered on the removal of the +organ at the west end of the north aisle, for the purpose of cleaning the +wall. The figures are life-size, and the colours and drawing exceedingly +good.” + +—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Chief Justice Erle and a special jury, a +libel action, Lane _v._ the Yarmouth Free Press and Printing Company, +Limited, was tried. Damages were laid at £300. The declaration alleged +that the defendants published in a paper called the “Yarmouth +Independent,” certain reflections upon the plaintiff in his capacity as +collector of market tolls. The defendants contended that, at the request +of and by agreement with the plaintiff, they had inserted in the +newspaper a paragraph explaining the alleged libel, and had exonerated +him from the imputations made against his character, and plaintiff had +accepted it as satisfaction. The case ended with the withdrawal of a +juror. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—Died at the residence of his son-in-law, 48, Elgin Crescent, Notting +Hill, in his 84th year, Philip John Money, formerly captain of the 17th +Regiment. He was a magistrate of Norwich, and served the office of Mayor +in 1839. + +2.—The celebrated tight-rope walker, Blondin, made his first appearance +at Norwich. The rope was fixed at an altitude of about 60 feet, in a +field on Newmarket Road. “It is a very fortunate circumstance for M. +Blondin that he crossed Niagara and had the Prince of Wales for a +spectator, for it has added a much greater interest to has performances +than they would otherwise have acquired, and even, if we may judge from +what we saw here, they deserved.” + +4.—Mr. Edward Casson, aged 33, medical superintendent of the County +Lunatic Asylum at Thorpe St. Andrew, committed suicide by poisoning +himself. + +8.—Holy Trinity church, Norwich, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of +the Diocese. “The ceremony should have taken place three weeks +previously, but at the eleventh hour the Bishop requested that a capital +fund of about £300 should be provided prior to the consecration. As the +committee were then about £1,000 in debt, it was felt to be indiscreet to +increase their risk, and consequently it was determined to delay the +opening of the church until they had received nearly all that they +required. In less than three weeks more than £1,200 had been subscribed +out of the £1,300 then supposed to be needed.” The consecration was +attended by the Mayor (Mr. W. J. Utten Browne) and several members of the +Corporation. + +29.—A troop of the 15th Hussars left Norwich, _en route_ to York; the +remainder of the regiment marched on September 3rd. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +12.—A great review of the whole of the Volunteer Companies in the county +and city, with the Norwich Mounted Volunteers and the Yarmouth Artillery, +was held at Holkham Park, by Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson, Bart., +K.C.B. This was the first occasion on which the corps had been brigaded +since their formation. The review was fixed for eleven o’clock, but in +consequence of a breakdown in the railway arrangements, and the +consequent detention of companies on their way to the _rendezvous_, the +parade was not formed until 2.15 p.m. The troops numbered upwards of +1,700, and were divided into two brigades, commanded respectively by +Lieut.-Col. Custance and Major the Hon. F. Walpole, West Norfolk Militia. +The railway company displayed the same incompetency in conveying the +corps from Holkham as in taking them there, and the Norwich men did not +reach the city until six o’clock on the morning of the 13th. + +28.—The headquarters of the 5th Dragoon Guards arrived at Norwich Cavalry +Barracks, from Aldershot. “It is known in the service as the ‘Green +Horse,’ being the only cavalry regiment which wears green facings.” + + +OCTOBER. + + +13.—Died, Sir William Cubitt, the eminent engineer. Born in Norfolk, in +1785, he was apprenticed to a joiner, and, becoming a very superior +handicraftsman, he rapidly took a prominent position as a maker of +agricultural implements. Within a short time he became a millwright, and +about 1807 invented self-regulating windmill sails, and ultimately became +connected with Messrs. Ransome and Son, of Ipswich. He was the inventor +also of the treadmill for gaols and houses of correction. His reputation +increasing his engagements, it became necessary for him to remove to the +Metropolis in 1826, and after that period there was scarcely a port, +harbour, dock, navigable river, or canal in the United Kingdom with which +he was not in some way engaged. The South-Eastern Railway from London to +Dover was designed and executed by him. He undertook the bold project of +blowing away the face of the Round Down cliff, which he successfully +executed by exploding 18,000 lbs. of gunpowder in one blast, and +precipitated one million tons of chalk cliff into the sea. The great +landing-stage at Liverpool, the deck of which was nearly one acre in +extent, was a unique example of his work. As consulting engineer of the +Great Northern Railway, he materially contributed to the production of +one of the best lines in England. One of his last public works was the +superintendence of the construction of the palace for the Great +Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851, which he undertook at the pressing +instance of his coadjutors on the Royal Commission, and his services were +recognised in a marked manner by the Queen and the Prince Consort. + +22.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. W. J. Utten Browne) delivered a lecture to +the members of the parochial library, Lakenham, on “The Times of King +Charles the First.” + +24.—Died, suddenly, of apoplexy, at his residence, West Parade, Earlham +Road, Norwich, in his 46th year, Mr. Edward Garrod, editor of the NORFOLK +CHRONICLE. + +28.—Charles Dickens gave the former of two readings at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich. The work selected was “David Copperfield.” On the 29th he read +“Nicholas Nickleby at Mr. Squeer’s School,” and the Trial scene from the +“Pickwick Papers.” “Our opinion is,” the NORFOLK CHRONICLE remarked, +“that Mr. Dickens as a reader fails to do justice to himself as an +author.” + + +NOVEMBER. + + +6.—Norwich Theatre was opened, under the management of Mr. George Owen. +Mr. Sidney, however, retained the lesseeship. + +8.—Died at Hingham, in her 100th year, Mrs. Rebecca Houchen. + +9.—The new Corn Hall at Norwich was opened for business. The contractors +for the building were Messrs. Ling and Balls, of Norwich, and for the +roof Messrs. Barnard, Bishop, and Barnards. The total cost was about +£8,000. The work was executed from the designs of Mr. Barry, of Norwich, +and Mr. H. Butcher, of 37, Bedford Row, London; and the roofs were +adapted and carried into detail from the design of the architects by Mr. +E. A. Cowper, C.E., of Westminster. The first brick of the new building +was laid on May 1st, 1861. + +—Mr. John Oddin Taylor was elected Mayor, and Mr. Addison John Cresswell +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +10.—Died at North Runcton Rectory, in his 85th year, the Rev. James +Cumming, M.A., professor of chemistry in the University of Cambridge, to +which office he was elected in 1815. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, +and had held the living of North Runcton for more than forty years. + +22.—In the Court of the Lords Justices in Lincoln’s Inn, a petition was +presented by Major-General Charles Ash Windham, Capt. Windham, the +Marquis of Bristol, Lord Alfred Hervey, M.P., Lord Listowel, and others, +praying that a writ _de lunatico inquirendo_ might issue against William +Frederick Windham. In support of the petition, affidavits were read +which alleged a variety of eccentricities and extravagances on the part +of William Frederick Windham, and laid great stress upon a marriage he +had contracted with one Agnes Ann Rogers, better known by the name of +Agnes Willoughby. The judges, after hearing the affidavits on the other +side, considered that a _prima facie_ case had been made out, and allowed +the prayer of the petition. On December 4th, in the Vice-Chancellor’s +Court, a motion was heard for the committal of Mr. James Bowen May for +contempt of court, in having, during the infancy of William Frederick +Windham, and without the knowledge of his guardian or the sanction of the +Court, drawn or sided and abetted in drawing the said William Frederick +Windham into a promise of marriage with Agues Rogers or Willoughby, in +which promises had been made of settlements or dispositions of his +property in her favour. The motion was refused, with costs. On December +11th the Court of Chancery granted leave to William Frederick Windham to +raise as a mortgage charge on his property the sum of £2,000, in order +that he might defend himself before the Commission. The Commission held +its first sitting in the Court of Exchequer, Westminster, on December +16th, under the presidency of Mr. Samuel Warren, Q.C., one of the Masters +in Lunacy. Mr. Windham was the only son of Mr. Howe Windham, who died in +1854, and the great-grandson of Mr. Windham, the great politician. He +became of age on August 9th, 1861, when he succeeded to the Felbrigg Hall +estate, worth upwards of £1,200 a year, and to other properties in which +he had a life interest, and which, in the year 1869, would yield him +£9,000 a year more. During his minority he was under the guardianship of +his uncle, General Windham, and of his mother, Lady Sophia Hervey. He +married a woman of loose character, upon whom he bestowed jewellery of +the value of £1,200 or £1,400, and upon whom he settled a present annuity +of £800, with a further annuity of £1,500 contingent upon his coming in +to the whole of his property in 1869. It was also alleged that he sold, +in a wild and reckless way, and upon terms of the utmost disadvantage, +the whole of the timber, ornamental as well as useful, on the Felbrigg +estate. The inquiry lasted thirty-four days, and upwards of 150 +witnesses were examined. It is said to have cost something like £160 per +hour, or nearly £3 per minute, for all the leading talent of the Bar of +England was engaged in the case. On January 30th, 1862, the jury +returned the following verdict: “That the said Mr. William Frederick +Windham, at the time of taking this inquisition, was a person of sound +mind, so as to be sufficient for the government of himself, his manners, +his messuages, his lands, his tenements, his goods, and his chattels.” +The moment the verdict was uttered a loud and enthusiastic cheer rose +from the audience, and was repeated again and again. When Mr. Windham +left the Court he was received outside with the shouts of an admiring +crowd, who almost carried him to the cab in which he drove away, amid a +deafening cheer. In the Court of Equity, on April 23rd, 1862, the Lords +Justices refused to exonerate the alleged lunatic from the payment of the +whole of the costs, amounting to £20,000, consequent upon the enquiry. + +30.*—“The portrait of Mr. J. H. Gurney, M.P., President of the Norfolk +and Norwich Museum, has this week been placed on the walls of that +institution. It was painted by F. Grant, R.A., at the cost of 200 +guineas.” + + +DECEMBER. + + +7.—Died, in his 73rd year, Mr. Charles Turner, who was Sheriff of Norwich +in 1824, elected Alderman in 1832, and was Mayor in 1834. He was the +last Mayor who served the full term of office under the old Corporation. + +9.—A six miles race for £50 was run at the Green Hill Gardens, Norwich, +between Deerfoot, the celebrated Seneca Indian, Brighten, the “Norwich +Milk Boy,” and Long, of Middlesbrough. This was one of the so-called +matches run during a provincial tour by these pedestrians. Deerfoot wore +his Indian costume, decorated with shells and feathers. He stood 5 ft. +11 in., was of muscular frame, but not well knitted, and his limbs were +long and loose, contrasting badly with the neat, compact figure of the +“Milk Boy.” Among the spectators of the “match,” which was, of course, +won by the Indian, were the Duke of Wellington and Sir Samuel Bignold. + +15.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the death of the Prince +Consort. Early on the following morning (Monday) the Mayor requested the +citizens to partially close their business establishments until after the +funeral. On the day of the funeral (December 23rd), business was +entirely suspended, and the Mayor and Corporation, accompanied by the +Rifle Volunteers, attended service at the Cathedral. The Nonconformist +bodies held a united service at St. Andrew’s Hall, at which the Rev. John +Alexander delivered an address. Addresses of condolence with the Queen +were voted by the Norwich Town Council, on December 30th, and by a county +meeting, held at the Shirehall, under the presidency of the High Sheriff +(Mr. J. T. Mott), on January 18th, 1862. + +26.—Mr. George Owen produced the Christmas pantomime, “Puss in Boots,” at +the Theatre Royal, Norwich; and Mander’s Royal Menagerie was exhibited on +the Castle Meadow. The African “lion tamer,” Maccomo, whilst performing +at the latter show, on the 28th, was severely attacked by a young lion, +and narrowly escaped with his life. + + + +1862. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—Mr. Thomas Richmond Pinder, head master of Hingham Endowed School, was +elected head master of the new Commercial School, built on the site of +the old Workhouse, adjoining St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, at the cost of +about £1,500. The school was designed by Mr. James S. Benest, architect +to the trustees, and built by Messrs. Ling and Balls. It was opened as +King Edward the Sixth’s Commercial School, on July 28th. + +19.—An alarming fire occurred in the centre wing of Swaffham prison. The +inmates of the cells, who were greatly terrified, were safely removed, +and afterwards conveyed to Norwich Castle. The roof of the new portion +of the prison was completely destroyed, with three looms and a +considerable quantity of stock in raw materials and manufactured +articles. + +28.—Died at Swainsthorpe, Eleanor Harrison, widow, aged 101. + +30.—A rifle match, between eleven Norfolk and a like number of +Northamptonshire Volunteers, took place at the seat of Earl Spencer, +Althorp Park. The teams were under the respective commands of Lord Bury +and Earl Spencer. Northamptonshire won by 170 points against 164 made by +their opponents. The return match, which took place on the Mousehold +Range, Norwich, on September 27th, was also won by Northamptonshire, by +17 points. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +1.*—“A private named Thomas Nelson, attached to one of the troops of the +5th Dragoon Guards, now stationed in Norwich, is said to have become the +possessor of a fortune of £70,000, besides a fine estate near Liverpool, +of the value of £9,000 per annum.” + +3.—H.R.H. the Prince of Wales visited Norfolk, “for the purpose of +inspecting the Sandringham Hall estate, with the view of purchasing it +for shooting purposes, for which it is well adapted.” On the 22nd it was +announced that his Royal Highness had concluded the purchase for +£220,000, and, it was added, “Norfolk people entertain strong hopes that +they shall see a good deal of their future Sovereign.” + +15.—The subject of the proposed amalgamation of the Eastern Counties, the +Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the East Anglian, and other railways’ +communicating with Norwich obtained publicity on this date. The Norwich +Town Council, on the 21st, decided to petition Parliament against the +Railway Amalgamation Bill, on the ground that the amalgamation was +calculated to injuriously affect the citizens by depriving them of the +advantages of competition in railway transit. + + +MARCH. + + +1.—Died at his house at Charlton, Kent, aged 86, Professor Peter Barlow, +F.R.S. He was born in the parish of St. Simon, Norwich, in October, +1776. Related to one of the leading manufacturing families in the city, +the Columbines, his early life was passed in their warehouse. He +continued there about three years, and during that period acquired, by +his own industry, a considerable knowledge of algebra, geometry, +trigonometry, navigation, and French. Subsequently he obtained a +situation in a school in Essex, and afterwards proceeded to Shipdham, +when, the master dying, he succeeded to the school, and married a +Shipdham lady. He commenced a regular correspondence with the “Ladies’ +Diary,” then under the management of Dr. Hutton, professor of mathematics +at Woolwich, whose attention was favourably attracted by the +contributions furnished by Mr. Barlow. Dr. Hutton recommended him as +candidate, in 1801, for the post of additional master at the Royal +Military Academy, and he was successful. In 1811 he published his first +work, “The Theory of Numbers,” in 1813, “The Mathematical Dictionary,” +and in the same year his “Mathematical Tables.” In 1817 his work, “The +Strength of Materials,” was published. In 1819 he turned his attention +to magnetic experiments, in which he was very successful in developing +the laws of action and in the application of those laws to the correction +of a long-standing error in navigation. For this discovery he received +several honorary and pecuniary rewards. His “Essay on Magnetic +Attraction” was published in 1819. + +25.—The new Poor Removal Act came into force. It materially altered the +law of settlement, and made new regulations as to the manner in which +parishes contributed their share to the common fund charges of the +unions. + +31.—An accident occurred at a circus building at St. Stephen’s Gates, +Norwich, hired by Mace and King, the pugilists, for the purposes of a +benefit performance. The rows of seats elevated one above the other and +forming the pit were densely crowded with spectators, whose weight broke +the frail supports, with the result that the centre of the pit fall with +its load of human beings. Many were severely bruised and shaken, and one +man, suffering from a broken leg, was removed to the Hospital. + + +APRIL. + + +10.—Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt appeared at a miscellaneous concert, +given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, and on the 11th sang in Haydn’s +oratorio, “The Creation.” The other _artistes_ included Mr. Sims Reeves, +Signor Belletti, Mr. H. Blagrove (solo violin), Signor Patti (solo +violoncello), and Mr. Otto Goldschmidt (pianoforte). The chorus for the +oratorio was composed of members of the Cathedral choir and of the +Norwich Choral Society. + +21.—Tom Sayers, “the pugilistic ex-champion,” visited Norwich with his +circus, “exhibited his belts, medals, and the diamond ring presented to +him by the students of Oxford, and set-to with young Hicks, of +Birmingham.” Heenan, the American pugilist, brought a circus to Norwich +on September 11th, and “apologised to the spectators for not sparring, as +the authorities had forbidden him, and it was only on giving this promise +that he was allowed to erect his tent on the Castle Hill.” Mace’s circus +visited the city on October 6th. “The spectators were disappointed at +the non-appearance of Mace, the magistrates having forbidden him to give +an illustration of his noble art.” + + +MAY. + + +3.*—“Died last week, at Rackheath, Phœbe Clayburn, at the advanced age of +103 years. She had 22 children, and her eldest son is now living at +Bramerton, aged 80 years; her grandchild is 50; her great-grandchild is +20, and her great-great-grandchild is now two years of age.” + +4.—The large tract of land known as the Middle Level of the Fens, which +had been greatly improved by the construction of the Middle Level Drain, +a small river which collected the waters of the district and discharged +them into the Ouse near Wiggenhall St. German’s, was inundated, in +consequence of a breach in the sluice erected at the point where the two +streams joined. The tide, no longer confined to the channel of the Ouse, +rushed up the drain, broke through the bank on the west side at two +places, and, in a wild torrent, overspread the adjacent lands. Efforts +were at once made to strengthen the dams, by placing vast quantities of +clinch and gravel at the foot of the piles. On June 20th, a meeting of +the owners and occupiers of land was held at the Globe Hotel, Lynn, under +the presidency of the Rev. Henry ffolkes, at which resolutions were +passed requiring the Middle Level Commissioners to take prompt and +efficient measures to prevent the recurrence of such a disaster. It was +also agreed that more satisfactory means for redress for damage should be +given than were afforded by the Middle Level Act, and that application be +made to Parliament for the insertion in the Middle Level Bill then before +the House of Lords of necessary provisions for securing both objects. At +the Norfolk Assizes, on July 29th, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, +commenced the long course of litigation resulting from the inundation. +Mr. William Mason, lessee of 18 acres of land at Tilney All Saints, +within the Marshland Fen district, sued Mr. Wise, clerk to the Middle +Level Commissioners, for the recovery of £500 damages sustained through +the alleged negligence of the Commissioners in making and maintaining the +Middle Level Sluice and Drain. Leave was given to both sides to move in +the Common Pleas or Queen’s Bench for the removal of the trial to London. +On August 16th it was announced that the expenses incident to the +disaster were estimated at about £25,000, to meet which £20,000 had been +taken up by way of temporary loan. A second disaster occurred on October +4th. One of the outfall sluices of the Marshland Smeeth and Fen Drain, +an important arterial drain running into the Ouse about 200 or 300 yards +northward of the ruined Middle Level Sluice, gave way, and again a wide +extent of country was submerged. Four hundred navvies were at once set +to work to form a dam of many thousands of sacks filled with earth. On +the 5th the temporary dam gave way bodily, and the entire mass having +been carried a score yards up the drain, sank out of sight. The tidal +water having overcome the obstacle, went with a rush and a roar on its +work of devastation, carrying with it great quantities of earth and +timber. About 1,000 acres were flooded; 4,000 acres were under water +before the completion of another temporary dam on the 8th. After that +the water was removed by means of huge syphons. On November 10th the +Court of Common Pleas refused a rule for the changing of the venue of the +trial of the action, Mason _v._ Wise, from Norfolk to Surrey, and with +this decision ended the first stage of the legal proceedings. (_See_ +January 31st, 1863.) + +5.—The Braham Grand English Opera Company commenced a six nights’ +engagement at Norwich Theatre, with the performance of “Il Trovatore.” +The other operas produced during the engagement included “The Bohemian +Girl,” “Robin Hood,” “The Daughter of the Regiment,” “Der Freischutz,” +“Cinderella,” and “Lucia Di Lammermoor.” Among the principals were Miss +Fanny Ternan, Miss Maria Ternan, Mdlle. A. Kemp, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler, +and Mr. Hamilton Braham. + +24.—The Norfolk Volunteer Service Association was formed at a meeting +held at the Shirehall, Norwich, under the chairmanship of the Lord +Lieutenant, who was elected president. Its objects were, “the promotion +of rifle shooting and giving permanence to the Volunteer corps throughout +the county.” The first prize-meeting was held on the Mousehold Range, +Norwich, from September 8th to 11th. + +27.—The Channel Squadron, under the command of Rear-Admiral Robert Smart, +arrived in Yarmouth Roads, and on June 1st was joined by the St. George, +with H.R.H. Prince Alfred on board. The Squadron sailed for the Downs on +the 4th. + + +JUNE. + + +11.—In the Divorce Court, before Sir C. Cresswell, judgement was given in +the action, Burroughs _v._ Burroughs and Silcock. This was a cross suit. +Mrs. Burroughs prayed for the restitution of conjugal rights, and her +husband, in his answer, charged her with adultery, and prayed for a +judicial separation. In the second case Mr. Burroughs prayed for a +dissolution of marriage, on the ground of his wife’s misconduct. The +second case had been tried by a common jury on March 6th, 7th, 8th, and +13th, and terminated in a verdict that neither the petitioner, the +respondent, nor the co-respondent had been guilty of adultery. His +lordship had deferred judgment in the first suit, in order that his +opinion might not affect the opinion of the jury in the second suit, +which had not then been tried. He now said he thought Mrs. Burroughs had +misconducted herself, and he could not order her husband to take her home +again. He, therefore, dismissed her petition for restitution. He +refused, however, to pronounce a decree of judicial separation, on the +ground that as the parties themselves had been examined, he could not +treat the husband’s answer as a counter petition. + +16.—At Swaffham County Court, a jury was engaged in the trial of an +action, Green _v._ Sayers. The plaintiff, a shoemaker, sought to recover +£25 damages for an assault by the defendant, described as “a circus +proprietor, but better known as the ex-champion of England.” The case +excited great local interest. “The defendant,” it was said, “conducted +himself with a degree of modesty, propriety, and decorum that caused no +little feeling in his favour.” The assault arose out of a dispute as to +the withholding of change alleged to be due to the plaintiff on money +tendered for admission to the defendant’s show, and the jury gave a +verdict for Green, damages £5. + +19.—A great Volunteer review took place at Yarmouth. The first brigade +of 910 men was commanded by Lieut.-Col. Astley, Norfolk Artillery; the +second (1,230 men) by Lieut.-Col. Sir E. Lacon, Bart., M.P., and the +third (350 men) by Lieut.-Col. Custance. The reviewing officer was Col. +Guy, C.B., and the proceedings were witnessed by many thousands of +spectators. + +24.—Died, in the Workhouse of the Loddon and Clavering Union, in her +105th year, Mary, widow of Samuel Lock, of Loddon. + +—An extraordinary fight took place between a bull and a stallion, both +the property of Mr. James Coker. The animals were grazing in a field +near the Chase at King’s Lynn, and became engaged in a deadly combat, +which ended in the bull disembowelling the horse with its horns. The +stallion was valued at £60. + + +JULY. + + +1.—The marriage of H.R.H. Princess Alice and the Grand Duke of Hesse was +celebrated throughout the county with great rejoicing. The day was +observed at Norwich as a public holiday; at a special meeting of the Town +Council a congratulatory address to the Queen was adopted; the Mayor gave +a luncheon at St. Andrew’s Hall, and in the evening a firework display +was given in the Market Place. + +—At the Norwich Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder (Mr. O’Malley, +Q.C.), Edward Durrant (27), grocer, surrendered to his bail on the charge +of “having by fraud in playing with cards won the sum of 14s., the money +of Samuel Boughton, at the Star Inn, Haymarket, Norwich.” There were +other counts, charging the defendant with defrauding other persons by the +same means. Mr. Serjeant Ballantyne, specially retained, succeeded in +obtaining a verdict of not guilty. The Recorder observed: “Well, +prisoner, you have had a most merciful jury; that is all I can say.” The +defendant was cheered as he left the Court. + +9.—The first of the peripatetic shows of the Norfolk Agricultural +Association was held at East Dereham. “The cautious and timid members of +the Norfolk Association who prophesied that so many dark and dreadful +events would happen to the society if absolved from her marriage vow +which wedded her entirely to Norwich, and Swaffham, must have been +pleasantly surprised by the entire success of the Dereham meeting.” So +great was the rush to the show-ground that more than once the barrier was +broken down. The sum of £230 was taken in admission money, whereas it +had never before amounted to £150, and rarely exceeded £80. + +17.—Mr. Henry Stevenson, one of the proprietors of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE, +was driving through Upper Surrey Street, Norwich, with his wife, when the +horse started off at full speed in the direction of All Saints’ church, +where the phaeton was upset, and Mrs. Stevenson sustained injuries from +which she died an hour afterwards. + +27.—Died, in St. John de Sepulchre, Norwich, the Widow Rumsby, aged 100 +years. + +—Died, in London, Mr. H. L. Styleman le Strange. He was the only son of +Mr. Henry Styleman, of Snettisham Hall, where he was born in 1815. +Educated at Eton and at Christchurch, Oxford, he travelled, on the +completion of his University career, in Egypt, and, returning home in +1836, his majority was celebrated at Hunstanton Hall, the ancient +residence of the le Stranges. In 1839 he procured the Royal licence to +assume the patronymic surname of le Strange, in addition to that of +Styleman, and in the same year married Jamesina Joice Ellen, daughter of +Mr. John Stewart, of Balladrum, Inverness, by whom he left issue two sons +and three daughters. Mr. le Strange, acceding to the request of the +Conservative party, stood for the Western division of the county, and was +defeated by a small majority. He left the hustings with the promise that +at the next election he would again offer himself; he kept his promise, +but eventually withdrew, and retired from politics. He then commenced +his great work of painting the roof of Ely Cathedral, on the design and +execution of which he bestowed many years of hard toil. At his death the +work was about half completed, and he had only recently received +recognition of his artistic talents by being appointed a member of a +commission for investigating the state of the frescoes in the new Houses +of Parliament. Hunstanton church is a monument to his taste and skill. +Mr. le Strange was senior co-heir to the baronies of Hastings and Foliot, +and co-heir to those of Camoys and Strathbolgie. He had served the +office of High Sheriff of Norfolk, was a magistrate and deputy +lieutenant, and a director of the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway Company. + +30.—Mr. Simmons, of Lydney, Gloucestershire, made a balloon ascent from +the Orchard Gardens, Norwich, and, after attaining an altitude of 5,000 +feet, descended in Spixworth Park. There he lightened the balloon by +landing a fellow-passenger, and having re-ascended to the height of +12,000 feet, finally came to earth in Mr. Trafford’s park at Wroxham. +Mr. Simmons made another ascent from the Orchard Gardens on September +8th, and descended at Little Plumstead; and after re-ascending, came down +among the ruins of St. Benet’s Abbey. + + +AUGUST. + + +28.—A cricket match, between twenty-two of Norfolk and Norwich and eleven +of United All England commenced on the Cricket Ground, Norwich, and +concluded on the 29th. Norfolk and Norwich, 73—75; United All England, +119—31. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +8.—A trial of McCormick’s new reaper took place on Mr. Clare Sewell +Read’s farm at Little Plumstead. The experiments were conducted by Mr. +McCormick, the inventor, and Mr. Burgess, the manufacturer of the +machine, in the presence of Baron Ricasoli, ex-Prime Minister of Italy, +and of several other foreigners of distinction. + +11.—Three troops of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, with headquarters and +band, arrived at Norwich. “Although the regiment has been formed only +five years, the principal portion of the non-commissioned officers and +many of the privates were engaged at Balaclava, being Volunteers from +other regiments to assist in training the present regiment.” + +12.—A great Volunteer _fête_, given at Crown Point, by the High Sheriff +of Norfolk (Mr. Harvey), was attended by many thousands of spectators +from all parts of the county. The city and county corps, in two +brigades, commanded respectively by Lieut.-Col. Custance and Lieut.-Col. +Astley, with the Norwich Light Horse, under Lieut. Hay Gurney, were +reviewed by Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson, K.C.B. The Norwich Cadet +Corps, recently organized by Mr. Noverre, and the Grammar School Cadet +Corps, were also in attendance. After the review the troops were +entertained at dinner, a balloon ascent was made by Mr. Simmons, and +military and other sports followed. + +17.—The foundation-stone of a new church at Hautbois Magna was laid by +Lord Suffield. The new building, which was designed to supplement the +old parish church, was erected mainly by the exertions of the rector (the +Rev. J. C. Girling), who gave the site. The cost was estimated at from +£800 to £900. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich on May +26th, 1864. + + +OCTOBER. + + +6.—Died at his house, Belitha Villas, Barnsbury Park, London, Mr. John +Curtis, F.L.S., aged 72. Mr. Curtis was a native of Norwich, where he +resided many years. He was author of the celebrated work, “British +Entomology,” on the completion of which Sir Robert Peel awarded him a +pension for life. + +13.—A ten miles race, between the Indian Deerfoot and Brighten, “the +Norwich Milk Boy,” for a silver cup of the value of £30, took place on +Figg’s Cricket Ground, Newmarket Road, Norwich. Previous performances of +Brighten and Deerfoot had given rise to suspicion as to the genuineness +of these contests, but on this occasion it was announced that “Deerfoot’s +career in England being about to terminate,” the race would be a +legitimate trial of speed. Brighten won by 30 yards, in 54 minutes, 30 +sees. + +17.—A severe storm occurred at Yarmouth, and numerous shipping casualties +were reported. + +19.—A fire took place on the premises of Messrs. Tillyard and Howlett, +wholesale boot and shoe manufacturers, Water Lane, St. George’s Colegate, +Norwich, and damage was done to the amount of £2000. + +29.—Died at St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, the Dowager Lady Stafford. Her +ladyship was an American by birth, one of four daughters of Mr. C. Caton, +of Baltimore. So remarkable were the sisters for their personal charms, +that they were known as “the beauties of Baltimore,” a reputation which +had the effect of securing for three of them British coronets, one as the +Duchess of Leeds, another as the Marchioness Wellesley, and the third as +the Baroness Stafford. She became the second wife of the 8th Lord +Stafford in 1837. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +10.—Mr. Henry Staniforth Patteson was elected Mayor, and Mr. J. J. Colman +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +18.—The Norwich Town Council adopted an address to the Queen, +congratulating her Majesty upon the attainment of his majority by H.R.H. +the Prince of Wales. The county magistrates adopted a similar address on +January 8th, 1863. + +19.—Died, suddenly, aged 50, Mr. John Wodderspoon, sub-editor of the +“Norwich Mercury.” He had resided in Norwich about fourteen years, and +had previously been connected with the “Suffolk Chronicle,” at Ipswich. +Mr. Wodderspoon devoted his leisure time to the pursuit of the fine arts, +and had achieved considerable proficiency as an amateur artist, a talent +which assisted him materially in his other favourite study, archæology. +He was an active member of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, +and whilst resident at Ipswich, wrote, “Memorials of Ipswich” and +“Historic Sites of Suffolk.” His death occurred under painful +circumstances. On the previous day a summons had been served upon him +for threatening, it was alleged, a reporter on the “Mercury” staff. When +giving instructions to Mr. Bugg, his solicitor in the case, Mr. +Wodderspoon fell down and instantly expired. + +22.*—“The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Henry Evans, the elder, of +Lyng and of Bylaugh, clerk, and to his eldest son, Henry Evans, the +younger, of Elmswell, in Suffolk, clerk, her Royal licence and authority +that they and their respective heirs may, in compliance with a proviso +contained in the last will and testament of Sir John Lombe, late of Great +Melton, baronet, deceased, respectively take and henceforth use the +surname of Lombe only, and use and bear the arms of Lombe in lieu of +their present surname and arms of Evans.” + + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—Father Gavazzi lectured at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, on “Italy, +Victor Emanuel, Garibaldi, and the Pope,” and on the 2nd on “The Progress +of the Gospel in Italy.” + +10.—Mr. Charles Mathews appeared at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in his +entertainment, “Personal Reminiscences, in Eight Chapters.” The +entertainment was repeated on December 13th. + +13.—Died at his residence, Elmsfield, Harrow, Lieut.-Col. Richard +Montague Oakes, formerly of the 1st Life Guards, and Chief Constable of +Norfolk, aged 71. + +18.—A gale of great severity commenced at Yarmouth, and continued until +the 22nd. “The lifeboats were suffered to lie quiescent on the beach, +their crews (of the Young and Diamond Company) standing stolidly by, +indifferent even to the signals of distress which from time to time came +over the raging waters from vessels in great danger.” There was no loss +of life. An inquiry was opened on January 6th, 1863, as to the conduct +of the lifeboat crew, and adjourned to the 12th, when a resolution was +adopted exonerating them from blame. + +20.—Died at his residence, Norton Lodge, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, +Admiral of the Fleet Sir Graham E. Hamond, Bart., G.C.B. He was the only +son of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, R.N., created baronet in 1783, +and was born December 30th, 1779. On the death of his father, at the +advanced age of 90, in September, 1828, he succeeded to the baronetcy. +He commenced his naval career in 1793, as midshipman in the Phaeton 38, +under the command of his cousin, Sir A. S. Douglas; he then removed to +the Queen Charlotte, 100, the flagship of Admiral Lord Howe, under whom +he shared the honour and took part in the victory of “the glorious first +of June.” Joining the Britannia, 100, the flagship of Admiral Hotham, he +served in the Mediterranean, and witnessed the destruction of L’Alcide +74, taken in the action of July 13th. After constant active service on +the Lisbon and home stations, during which he assisted at the capture of +several French privateers and at the blockade of Malta and the siege of +La Valette, he was appointed to the command of the Blanche, 36, in which +ship he participated in the battle of Copenhagen. In 1804 he was +appointed to the Lively, 38, in which frigate he captured, off Cape St. +Mary, three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and destroyed a fourth; +during a subsequent cruise off Cape St. Vincent he captured the San +Miguel, and the same day, in company with the Polyphemus, 64, took the +Santa Gertruyda, 36, laden with a valuable cargo of 11,215,000 dollars in +specie. In December, 1808, he was appointed to the command of the +Victorious, 74, in which he assisted at the reduction of Flushing in +1809. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the South African station +in September, 1834. Sir Graham was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant +for the county of Norfolk. + +21.—The sea broke over the sandhills at Wells and flooded about 700 acres +of the west marshes, which had been reclaimed from the ocean by the Earl +of Leicester. The damage was estimated at £10,000. + +26.—The Christmas pantomime at Norwich Theatre, produced under the +management of Mr. Sidney, was entitled “Jack the Giant-Killer.” +Wombwell’s Menagerie was exhibited on the Castle Meadow. + + + +1863. + + +JANUARY. + + +21.—Died at his residence, Thorpe Hamlet, aged 82, Mr. John Skipper, who +had filled several offices under the old Corporation of Norwich, +including those of Speaker and Chamberlain. + +24.—Died at Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Mr. S. D. Colkett, artist, +formerly of Norwich. + +31.—The litigation arising from the inundation in Marshland commenced on +this date with the hearing, in the Vice-Chancellor’s Court, of an +application for a mandamus to compel the Middle Level Commissioners to +restore the paling path over the breach made by the inundations. At the +suggestion of the Court, it was agreed that the only question in dispute, +that of legal liability, should be raised as a special case. At the +Norfolk Assizes, on April 1st, before Lord Chief Justice Erle, two +actions, Mason _v._ Wise and Coe _v._ Wise (clerk to the Middle Level +Commissioners), were down for trial by special jury. It was understood +that these cases, which were brought for the recovery of damages +consequent upon the inundation, were selected out of a total of 107 +causes in which writs had been issued. In the action Coe _v._ Wise, the +declaration alleged that by a certain Act of Parliament the Middle Level +Commissioners were bound to make and maintain a certain cut, bank, and +sluices; it was complained that, in consequence of their negligence, the +tidal waters burst through them and flooded the lands of the plaintiff. +The defendant entered a plea of not guilty, and alleged that the +plaintiff was not possessed of the lands. The hearing of the case +occupied four days. The Judge, in summing up, directed the jury to +decide whether the damage was caused to the plaintiff by the absence of +due care and skill on the part of the defendants, (1) in respect of the +making of the sluice; (2) in respect of maintaining the sluice; (3) in +respect of providing remedies against mishap after the sluice was +destroyed; and (4) was damage caused to the plaintiff by reason that no +puddled wall was made along both banks of the cut? The jury found for +the defendant on the first point, and for the plaintiff on the other +three points. In the Court of Queen’s Bench, on April 18th, Mr. Fitzroy +Kelly moved for a rule calling upon plaintiff to show cause why the +verdict should not be set aside and entered for the defendant, on the +ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against the evidence. +Lord Chief Justice Cockburn said the Court would grant a rule upon the +question of law involved, but not as regarded the evidence, because their +lordships found that Lord Chief Justice Erle was satisfied with the +verdict. The case was again before the Court of Queen’s Bench on +November 19th, and, alter two days’ argument, was ordered to stand over +until the next term. (_See_ January 21st, 1864.) + + +FEBRUARY. + + +16.—Charles Mower, the Dereham pedestrian, ran a one-mile match for £50 a +side, with Edward Mills, of London, the six miles champion, on the +Brampton Pedestrian Ground. Mower was a runner of considerable repute. +His best performance was at Salford, in December, 1860, when he defeated +Allison for the champion cup, running the mile in 4 minutes 24 seconds, +the ground at the time being covered with snow. In his match with Mills +he was beaten by 20 yards, in 4 minutes 34 seconds. + + +MARCH. + + +3.—The Norwich Poor-law Amendment Bill was considered by a Committee of +the House of Commons. Its object was to repeal the Act passed in 1831, +“for the better management of the several parishes and hamlets of the +city and county of the city of Norwich”; to substitute another body for +the Incorporation of Guardians; and to introduce certain clauses for the +equalisation of the rates between the city and hamlets; and for the +inclusion of the Cathedral Close, which was not then within the +jurisdiction of the Guardians. The Bill passed through Committee on +March 12th, and was directed to be reported to the House. The last +meeting of the old Court of Guardians was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, +on October 6th, and its existence as a corporate body expired on the +22nd, when the new Board was elected. Prior to the election, a meeting, +presided over by the Mayor (Mr. Patteson), was held, at which was passed +a resolution to the effect that, “considering the excessive poor-rates +which have pressed upon this city for so many years, and the abuses which +have sprung up in the administration of the Poor-law, it is incumbent +upon the ratepayers to sink party and other differences and co-operate +for carrying out the new Act with integrity and impartiality.” + +10.—Great rejoicings took place in city and county, in celebration of the +marriage of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. The streets of Norwich were +gaily decorated, and the day was observed as a general holiday. A parade +of the troops, namely, the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, the 1st Norfolk Light +Horse, the enrolled pensioners, the staff of the West Norfolk Militia, +and the Norwich Battalion of Rifle Volunteers, took place on Major +Middleton’s field on Ipswich Road. “All the troops wore wedding favours +of uniform pattern.” After the review a _feu de joie_ was fired in the +Market Place, where the members of the Choral Society sang, “God Bless +the Prince of Wales.” The military were entertained at luncheon in a +marquee erected on the parade-ground at the Militia Barracks; the Sheriff +(Mr. Colman) gave a dinner to the aged poor, at St. Andrew’s Hall, and +14,403 Sunday school children were entertained. At night the city was +illuminated, a firework display took place on the Castle Meadow, and the +proceedings concluded with the lighting of a huge bonfire opposite the +Shirehall. Similar celebrations took place at Yarmouth and Lynn, and +festivities were held in all the smaller towns and villages in the +county. At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council on the 12th, +congratulatory addresses were voted to the Queen and to the Prince and +Princess of Wales, and it was announced that many of the textile +manufacturers had decided to present to her Royal Highness articles of +home manufacture. The citizens gave the famous “Norwich Gates” exhibited +at the Great Exhibition, which were purchased by public subscription and +afterwards erected at Sandringham. A county meeting was held at the +Shirehall on the 14th, and congratulatory addresses adopted. Their Royal +Highnesses arrived at their Norfolk home on March 28th. At Lynn railway +station the Mayor (Mr. L. W. Jarvis) presented an address, and from +Wolferton station to Sandringham the Prince and Princess were escorted by +the Norfolk Light Horse, commanded by Capt. Hay Gurney, and by a large +body of mounted tenantry. + +12.—Died at Brentwood, Mr. Edward Taylor, professor of music at Gresham +College, London, aged 79. He was a native of Norwich, and a son of Mr. +John Taylor, who occupied a prominent position in the city as a wool and +yarn factor, and displayed considerable literary and musical abilities. +Mr. Edward Taylor had been many years resident in London, but he +constantly attended the Norwich Musical Festivals, in the establishment +of which he took a leading part, and was a frequent vocal performer. He +was a pleasing composer, and some of his songs met with deserved +appreciation. + +16.—Professor J. H. Pepper lectured at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, on +“Optical Illusions,” and for the first time exhibited in the city the now +well-known illusion, “Pepper’s Ghost.” + +19.—The Yarmouth Gas Bill, the object of which was to incorporate the +Great Yarmouth Gas Company and to make further provision for lighting the +town and certain neighbouring places with gas, was considered by a +Committee of the House of Lords. The Bill was read a third time in that +House on the 24th, and passed. + +29.—Died at Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire, his Grace the Duke of +Grafton. He was the eldest son of George Henry, fourth Duke, by +Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, second daughter of James, second Earl +Waldegrave and Maria, who afterwards became Duchess of Gloucester. Born +on February 10th, 1790, he married, on June 20th, 1812, Mary Caroline, +third daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley. He +represented Bury St. Edmund’s from 1826 to 1830, and had a seat in the +Lower House for Thetford from 1834 to September, 1844. By his death, his +eldest son, the Earl of Euston, M.P. for Thetford since 1847, inherited +the family honours. + +31.—A remarkable charge of abduction was tried at the Norfolk Assizes, +before Mr. Justice Williams. Frederick Burrell (21), a clerk employed at +the Royal Arsenal, was indicted “for having, from motives of lucre, +fraudulently allured, taken away, and detained Jane Burrell, a person +under 21 years of age, she having a present legal interest in certain +real estates in Norfolk, out of the possession and against the will of +her mother, Mary Ann Hyder, and her guardian, William Silver Hyder, with +intent to marry her, on January 20th, 1863.” Henry Richard Burrell, his +brother, was indicted for aiding and abetting. The defendants were +uncles of the girl, who was the daughter of the eldest son of one Daniel +Burrell, who died without a will. As the eldest son died during Daniel +Burrell’s lifetime, the daughter became possessed of all his freehold +property. The girl left school at Norwich at Christmas, and went to +Fakenham, but instead of staying with her mother and stepfather, went to +the house of Henry Burrell, and on January 19th left for London with +Frederick Burrell. The next day they were married at Plumstead, near +Woolwich, the marriage licence obtained by Frederick Burrell being, it +was alleged, “full of the grossest perjury.” The jury returned a verdict +of guilty, but sentence was deferred, pending the argument of certain +points before the Court for the consideration of Crown cases reserved. +The defendants, on April 25th, appealed against their conviction, and the +Court, after hearing arguments, reserved judgment. The case came before +the Court for the consideration of Crown cases reserved, on November +24th. Their lordships were divided in opinion, not upon any question of +law, but upon the facts of the case. Judgment was delivered upon the +opinion of the majority, who held that the facts did not bear out that +which was necessary to sustain a prosecution, and therefore, “with very +great regret,” they quashed the conviction. + + +APRIL. + + +5.—Died at Chester Terrace, Regent’s Park, London, Mr. John Taylor, +F.R.S. Born at Norwich on August 22nd, 1779, he was trained as a land +surveyor and engineer, and in 1798 was invited to take the management of +a mine near Tavistock. It proved very profitable. In 1803 he projected +and commenced the Tavistock Canal, of which about three miles were +tunnelled through a granite hill. The execution of this work led to the +discovery of two other mines, which produced large quantities of copper, +and yielded considerable profits. The success of these and other mines +in the neighbourhood of Tavistock, in Cornwall, and in the North of +England, brought Mr. Taylor into great repute as a mining engineer. He +was the author of several useful papers on mining, and one of the first +to propose the formation of a Mining School; he was, too, one of the +earliest Fellows of the Geological Society, and for many years acted as +treasurer and vice-president. In 1825 he was elected a Fellow of the +Royal Society, and was one of the founders of the British Association for +the Advancement of Science, of which organization he was treasurer until +1862. An excellent portrait of Mr. Taylor was painted by Sir Thomas +Lawrence in 1825, and afterwards engraved by Charles Turner. Another +portrait was painted in 1861, by Mr. Sydney Hodges. + +6.—Madame Celeste commenced, at Norwich Theatre, a short season, during +which she appeared in a round of her favourite characters. + +20.—The nomination of candidates to contest the seat rendered vacant by +the elevation of the Earl of Euston to the House of Lords took place at +Thetford. Lord Frederick John FitzRoy and Mr. Robert John Harvey Harvey +were proposed. The poll was opened on the 21st, and resulted as follows: +FitzRoy, 93; Harvey, 81. There had been no contest at Thetford for +twenty-two years previously. + + +MAY. + + +1.—Died at his residence, Newmarket Road, Norwich, aged 63, Mr. Isaac +Wiseman, who served the office of Sheriff in 1830. + +6.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. H. S. Patteson), as captain of the Second +Company, Norwich Battalion Rifle Volunteers, was presented by the members +of the company with Mr. Claude L. Nursey’s original painting, “The +Officers of the Norwich Battalion,” in recognition of “his zeal in the +Volunteer cause and of his courtesy to those under his command.” + +9.*—“Challenge: Thomas Jessup, of East Harling, now in his 102nd year, is +willing to walk against ‘Father Time’ or any other man of the same age as +himself now living in England or elsewhere, a fair toe and heel match, +without the aid of stick, crutch, or other auxiliary. The one doing the +greatest distance in one day (or in a month, if preferred) to be entitled +to the stakes, which can be made for any sum not exceeding £50 a side.” + +11.—At Norwich Police Court, Mr. Edward Manning, of London Street, and +Mr. William Edwards, of Sprowston, were summoned for assaulting Jonas +Dye, of Pockthorpe, in contesting the question of common rights on +Mousehold Heath. According to Mr. Simms Reeve, who appeared for the +prosecution, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich owned the Heath, and the +people of Pockthorpe, whether they had the right or not, claimed common +rights. The Dean and Chapter did not dispute those rights, and the +people not only used the Heath themselves, but let it to others to graze +their cattle, to take turf at so much per hundred, and gravel at so much +per load. The revenue formed a common fund, managed by a committee +elected each year at a public meeting, at which the clergyman of the +parish presided. The defendants contested these rights, and liberated +stock which had been impounded. The Town Clerk (Mr. Mendham) objected to +the magistrates’ jurisdiction, under 6th and 7th Vic., cap. 30, which +provided that no justice of the peace “should hear and determine any case +of assault or battery in which any question should arise as to the title +of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or the interest accruing +therefrom.” The magistrates dismissed the case. + +26.—A dreadful accident occurred at Yarmouth. Two negro vocalists, named +Charles Marsh and Henry Wharton, attended the Whit-Tuesday sports on the +South Denes, when the former proposed that they should ascend the Nelson +Monument. The other agreed, and the ascent commenced, Marsh performing +“God Save the Queen” upon his violin, and Wharton playing a banjo +accompaniment. Arrived at the summit, Marsh, who added to his other +accomplishments that of a posturer, scaled the stone fence on the +platform, and, seizing the lightning conductor, climbed upon the +emblematic figure of Britannia and there remained for ten minutes, +singing and waving his hands to the crowd beneath. In descending, he was +compelled to stoop head foremost to grasp the handle of Britannia’s +trident. From some cause he slipped, fell upon the plinth, and thence +rebounded into space, falling with arms outstretched to the base of the +column, a depth of 144 feet. His death was instantaneous. + +27.—The official celebration of the Queen’s birthday at Norwich was +observed as a half-holiday. A review of the military took place on +Mousehold Heath, when colours, given by Mr. R. N. Bacon, were presented +to the Norwich Battalion of Rifle Volunteers by the Hon. Mrs. F. Walpole. +The regimental colour was received by Ensign Steward, and the Union Jack +by Ensign Hansell, after which there was a consecration ceremony by the +Rev. T. Clarke. The first-named colour bore the motto, _Gloria virtutis +umbra_, in the centre, with the city arms and the name of the corps—1st +City of Norwich Rifle Volunteers. The groundwork of the flag was green, +and the armorial bearings and inscriptions were encircled by a floral +border in gilt. + +28.—Died at Edinburgh, aged 52, Mr. Archibald Dalrymple, F.R.C.S., +formerly surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. + + +JUNE. + + +4.—Four specimens of Pallas’s sand grouse—one male and three females—were +shot at Waxham, by the Rev. Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Gibbs. On the 8th a fine +male specimen was shot on Yarmouth Denes, near the old battery; and on +the 9th and 10th a flock of about forty of the birds appeared upon Horsey +beach. A pair was killed on Titchwell beach on the 10th, and another +pair at about the same date in the adjoining parish of Brancaster. +Altogether twenty-six specimens of these rare visitants from the Kirghis +steppes of Tartary were procured in the county, and all were found either +basking in the sands or feeding in grass fields close to the sea shore. + +13.—At the sale of the Rev. John Gilbert’s property, by Messrs. Spelman, +at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, a farm of forty acres realised £2,600, and +the Church Farm, of forty-nine acres, at Heckingham, was sold for £2,000. + +17.—The show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association took place at +Yarmouth, and was the most successful of the exhibitions yet held. + +22.—The 5th Royal Irish Lancers marched from the Cavalry Barracks, +Norwich, for Aldershot, and a few weeks later sailed for India. + + +JULY. + + +1.—A fine barque of 410 tons, named the Egbert, was launched from the +shipyard of Messrs. Fellows and Son, Southtown, Great Yarmouth. + +2.—The Second Administrative Battalion of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, +numbering 22 officers, 30 non-commissioned officers, and 260 rank and +file, encamped at Langley Park, the seat of the Colonel-Commandant, Sir +Thomas Proctor Beauchamp, Bart. This was the first Volunteer camp formed +in the county. “Fifty camp tents, borrowed from the War Office for the +occasion, were pitched in rows beyond the parade-ground, and in these the +Volunteers encamped for the night, a plentiful supply of straw being +provided for them.” The First Administrative Battalion encamped at +Gunton Park, from July 22nd to 25th, and the Dereham and Wymondham +Companies formed a camp at Letton Park, on September 22nd. + +6.—A shocking accident occurred at Burgh Water Frolic. A large wherry, +named the Ruby, belonging to Mr. England, of Limpenhoe, had been +chartered for the day by a Yarmouth publican, and was crowded with +passengers both above and below the hatches. The craft was sailing to +the _rendezvous_, and when between the Dickey-walk and the Cross-stakes, +the Red Rover, a famous yacht, was sighted coming full sail down the +river. The passengers rushed hurriedly from the larboard to the +starboard side of the wherry, to watch her progress, and those beneath +the hatches protruded their heads and necks over the gunwale. The +stanchions, unable to resist the sudden strain, gave way, and the hatches +falling, came with terrific force upon the heads and bodies of the +persons below. Two men, named Charles Aldis Rushmer and James Tripp, had +their necks dislocated and skulls fractured, several persons sustained +minor injuries, and others were thrown into the water, but were rescued +by boats. + +14.—The Channel Fleet of eight ships of war, under the command of +Rear-Admiral Dacres, arrived in Yarmouth Roads. The total number of men +on board was 4,800. The Fleet weighed anchor on the 18th, and sailed for +the Downs. + +15.—The Maharajah Duleep Singh, the new owner of the Elveden estate, +arrived at Thetford for the purpose of inspecting the property. The +church bells were rung in honour of the illustrious visitor. On November +21st it was announced that the Maharajah made almost daily excursions in +pursuit of his favourite sport of hawking, and that a pack of hounds had +also arrived at Elveden. + +16.—A serious fire occurred at East Dereham, on the premises of Mr. +William Hubbard, builder. It resulted in the total destruction of the +large workshops, and entailed a loss of about £2,000. An adjacent +warehouse was stored with £400 worth of goods belonging to Mr. E. Smith +was also destroyed. Furniture and goods were hastily removed from +adjoining houses and placed in the Corn Hall; the tenants of Mrs. +Dingle’s cottages suffered great loss from their articles being broken or +stolen. A public subscription was made to recoup Mr. Hubbard’s workmen +the loss of their trade tools, valued at about £130; and on August 10th, +at a meeting of the townspeople, a fire brigade was organized. The +origin of the fire was never discovered. A groom in the employment of +Mr. Hubbard was apprehended upon suspicion, but was discharged for want +of evidence. + +30.—Died at his residence, Town Close, Norwich, Mr. Samuel Shalders +Bears, aged 76. He was for many years prominently connected with +Norwich, both as a man of business and as a member of most of the leading +institutions, charitable, literary, and political. In 1829, under the +old Corporation, he was elected Sheriff, and in 1837, under the new +_régime_, he served the office of Mayor. Mr. Beare was senior magistrate +on the Norwich Bench, and was upon the commission of the peace for the +county of Suffolk. + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—A dreadful railway accident took place upon the newly-opened line +between Lynn and Hunstanton, by which five persons were killed and +between twenty and thirty seriously injured. The accident was caused by +the over-running of a bullock which had strayed upon the line. At the +inquest, on August 13th, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, +and called attention to the insufficiency of the fences provided by the +Great Eastern Railway Company. The amount paid by the company in claims +and compensation exceeded, it was stated, the sum of £10,000. + +12.—The completion of the restoration of St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, was +celebrated by a dinner given at the hall by the Mayor (Mr. Patteson). +The work of renovation was carried out by Mr. J. W. Lacey, from designs +by Mr. Barry, the City Surveyor. The cost, about £1,500, was defrayed by +public subscription. + +19.—Three troops of the 18th Hussars, with headquarters, marched into +Norwich, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Knox, formerly Major in the +15th Hussars. + +—A great archery _fête_ was held at Crown Point, Norwich. The societies +represented were the Norfolk and Norwich Archery Club, the East Norfolk, +West Norfolk, East Suffolk, West Suffolk, Westwick, Long Melford, Waveney +Borderers, Waveney Valley, Yarmouth, and Copdock Archers. + +31.—Died at his residence, the South Quay, Great Yarmouth, Mr. Samuel +Charles Marsh, aged 53. He occupied for many years a conspicuous public +position in the borough, and twice served the office of Mayor—in 1844 and +1852. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +10.—Died at Raynham Hall, his Norfolk seat, Rear-Admiral the Marquis +Townshend. His lordship was riding in the park on the 9th, when he was +seized with a paralytic stroke. John Townshend was son of Lord John +Townshend, second son of George, first Marquis Townshend. He was born +March 28th, 1798, and succeeded to the family honours on the death of his +cousin, George Ferrars, third Marquis, in December, 1855. He married, +August 18th, 1825, Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter of Rear-Admiral Lord +George Stuart, who survived him, and left issue an only son, John +Villiers Stuart, Viscount Rainham, M.P., and three daughters. He entered +the Navy as midshipman in 1814, but his services, owing to the peace of +1815, were not distinguished. Before his accession to the House of Lords +he was elected member for Tamworth. In politics he was a pronounced +Liberal, “being in advance of the political party to which he professed +to belong, for he had voted in favour of the ballot, and was also for the +admission of Jews into Parliament and the removal of all religious +disabilities.” + +14.—The Earl of Leicester, as Lord Lieutenant of the county, reviewed the +Volunteers of Norfolk and Norwich, on Mousehold Heath. Upwards of 2,000 +were on parade, and were inspected by Col. McMurdo, Inspector-General of +the Volunteer Forces. The troops were afterwards entertained at dinner +at the Corn Hall. The Mayor (Mr. Patteson) presided, supported by the +Lord Lieutenant and many distinguished guests. + +—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced with an +evening performance of “Judas Maccabæus.” On the evenings of the 15th, +16th, and 17th, miscellaneous concerts were given. “Joash” (E. Silas), +conducted by the composer, was produced on the morning of the 16th, +followed by “Scene at the Gates of Nain,” from “Emmanuel,” and a portion +of the “Stabat Mater”; “Elijah” on the morning of the 17th, and “The +Messiah” on the morning of the 18th. The principal performers were +Mdlle. Tietjens, Madame Lemmens Sherrington, Madame Weiss, Miss +Wilkinson, Miss Palmer, Mdlle. Trebelli, Mr. Sims Reeves, Signor Bettini, +Mr. Montem Smith, Mr. Santley, Signor Bossi, and Mr. Weiss. Mr. Benedict +conducted. A “full dress” ball was held on the night of the 18th. + +21.—James Naylor, of Elsing, aged 51, murdered his wife, Charlotte +Naylor, aged 81. “From the time he was committed to Norwich Castle to +take his trial at the Assizes, he endeavoured to lead people to imagine +that he was not of sound mind.” He died in prison on November 23rd, from +cancer in the stomach. + +30.—At a dinner held at St. Nicholas’ Hall, East Dereham, Capt. Bulwer, +the commanding-officer of the 15th Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, was +presented with an album containing photographs of every member of the +company, “in recognition of his valuable services in promoting the +success and efficiency of the corps.” A presentation was also made to +Mrs. Bulwer. + + +OCTOBER. + + +2.—Died in London, Sir William Bellairs, of Mulbarton Lodge, in his 70th +year. From 1811 to 1819 he served in the 15th Hussars, and went through +the campaigns of 1813 and 1814. He was present at Vittoria, the +Pyrenees, Orthes, Tarbes, Toulouse, and other engagements, and also +served in the campaign of 1815, had a horse killed under him in the +retreat from Quatre Bras, and received two wounds at the battle of +Waterloo. In 1837 he was appointed exon of the Yeomen of the Guard, +which he held up to 1849. He married, in 1822, Miss Hooke, daughter and +heiress of Mr. Edmund Hooke, of Mulbarton Lodge. + +10.—Died at his residence, St. Catherine’s Cottage, Norwich, in his 62nd +year, Mr. William Matchett, senior proprietor of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE. +He was the second son of Mr. Jonathan Matchett, a former proprietor of +the journal. Educated at Norwich Grammar School, under the Rev. Dr. +Valpy, he became a partner in the establishment in 1827, from which time +until his death he took an active share in its management. “In former +days, before the science of shorthand writing had become a business in +itself, Mr. Matchett, like his school-fellow and contemporary, Mr. R. N. +Bacon, performed for this newspaper all those duties which the exigencies +of the present age require should be distributed amongst a ‘staff of +reporters,’ and as the representative of the CHRONICLE attended most of +the principal meetings in the city and county, the proceedings at which +were ably condensed for the public eye by the aid of his brief notes and +singularly retentive memory. Under the old Corporation, and for a short +period under the new _régime_, Mr. Matchett was connected with the +Norwich Town Council for upwards of eight years, and at all times took a +warm interest in the welfare and improvement of his native city. + +27.—Elihu Burritt, “the Learned Blacksmith,” delivered a lecture to the +Norwich Young Men’s Christian Association, on “The Higher Law and Mission +of Commerce.” + +29.—Mdlle. Carlotta Patti appeared at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, +accompanied by Madame Fanny Huddart, Herr Reichardt, Signor Ferranti, and +MM. Vieuxtemps and Ascher (violin and pianoforte). “Mdlle. Patti had +been offered an engagement at the Festival, but had declined to come +unless she was paid 500 gs. The Festival Committee were justified in +rejecting her terms, which could only be accorded to a second Jenny Lind, +which she is not. Nevertheless she is a wonderful singer.” + + +NOVEMBER. + + +7.*—“The gales that have visited the coast during the last week have been +terrific. For days there has been an enormous fleet of southward bound +colliers in Yarmouth Roads. With other vessels, the coast, extending +from Caister to Corton, a distance of several miles, has been crowded +with shipping, and several shipwrecked crews have been landed at the +Sailors’ Home.” + +9.—Died at Norwich, in his 76th year, Mr. William Stark, F.G.S. He was +well-known in his day as an able chemist, and was one of the first dyers +of fabrics of Norwich manufacture, “particularly of the colour called +Turkey red, the manufacturers in the North sending large quantities of +goods for dyeing.” He devoted much of his time to the prosecution of +scientific studies, and was a Fellow of the Geological Society. In the +days when Dr. Rigby, William Taylor, Dalrymple, Crosse, C. Austrin, Dr. +Evans, &c., belonged to the Norwich Philosophical Society, Mr. Stark +contributed many papers at its meetings, in which he bore a distinguished +part. For many years he had been afflicted by partial loss of sight, and +a few months before his death became totally blind. + +9.—Mr. Osborn Springfield was elected Mayor, and Mr. Frederick Brown +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +14.—A meeting for the promotion of the East Norfolk Railway was held at +the Swan Hotel, St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, under the presidency of Lord +Suffield. A resolution emphasising the importance of the scheme was +adopted, and the following motion was also unanimously passed: “That the +offer of the Great Eastern Railway Company to render substantial help in +the formation of lines of railway to North Walsham, Aylsham, and Cromer, +and to work the same when made at 50 per cent. upon the gross receipts, +should be cordially accepted by the district, as conferring the means of +accomplishing public works of the greatest benefit, and which otherwise +must have been indefinitely postponed.” (_See_ May 5th, 1864.) + +16.—Mr. James Caird, M.P., Mr. G. Shaw Lefevre, M.P., and Professor T. H. +Huxley, the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the condition of the +sea fisheries of the United Kingdom, attended at the Sailors’ Home, +Yarmouth, for the purpose of hearing evidence. The objects of the +inquiry were to ascertain (1) whether the supply of fish from the +fisheries of the United Kingdom had increased of late years, remained +stationary, or diminished; (2) whether any of the methods of catching +fish involved the wasteful diminution of fish spawn, and whether +legislative interference was required to increase the supply; and (3) +whether any existing legislative enactments operated prejudicially +against fisheries. The Commissioners afterwards visited King’s Lynn. + +22.—The death occurred at Yarmouth, in his 43rd year, of Hales, the +Norfolk Giant. He was born at West Somerton, and for some years was +engaged in seafaring pursuits, until his enormous height, 7 ft. 6 inches, +gained for him such notoriety that he was induced to abandon the sea and +exhibit himself. During his nomadic career he visited almost every town +in the kingdom, and scarcely a fair was considered complete without the +huge yellow caravan which formed his temporary abode. Becoming tired of +his wandering life. Hales took up his abode in London, and whilst there +had the honour of appearing before the Court and of receiving from the +Queen a handsome gold watch and chain. Shortly after his appearance at +Court, the fame of the Norfolk Giant reached Barnum, who lost no time in +engaging his services. Hales remained with Barnum for some years, in the +course of which he visited most of the cities and towns in America. On +his return to England he resumed his wanderings, and, in the course of +the summer of 1862 came to Yarmouth, where his presence on the Britannia +Pier attracted large numbers of visitors. Hales’s parents were +conspicuous for their great height, his father being 6 ft 6 ins., and his +mother 6 ft. He had five sisters, who averaged 6 ft 6 ins. One of them, +Mary, was 7 ft. 2 ins. in height, and for some years travelled with her +brother. She died in Guernsey. His four brothers averaged 6 ft 5 +inches. A few days before his death, Hales was walking about Norwich, +where he attracted great crowds by his immense size. + +23.—Died at the Rectory, Long Stratton, Mr. George Birch Jerrard, son of +Major-General Jerrard. Born at Bodmin, on November 24th, 1804, he +acquired considerable fame as a mathematician, and was the author of +“Mathematical Researches” and of “An Essay on the Resolution of +Equations.” In his first-named work, “he made a great step in Algebra, +and one acknowledged by all mathematicians, namely, the taking away of +_three_ terms from equations of any degree. In his latter work he +maintains he has solved _the_ great problem of Algebra, namely, the +resolution of _all_ equations.” At the time of his death he was engaged +in writing a work on “Prophecy,” a subject in which he was greatly +interested. + +26.—Brother Ignatius, “a clergyman of the English Church, who has the +temerity to come before a public audience attired as a Benedictine monk, +with bare head and bare feet, carrying a rosary and crucifix, which in +this country are regarded as symbolic only of the Romish Church, and +calling himself by a name not accorded to him by his godfathers and +godmother,” lectured at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, on “Monks and +Monasteries for the English Church.” (_See_ February 13th, 1864.) + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—A gale of unusual violence began in the night, and prevailed during +the whole of the 3rd. There was hardly a street in Norwich in which the +roofs of houses escaped damage. Many vessels were lost off the Norfolk +coast. One hundred and forty-four men and boys were drowned, and 68 +widows and 105 children were left destitute. A public subscription, to +which the Queen contributed £100, was opened at Yarmouth to relieve their +distress. + +9.—A meeting of weavers was held at Norwich, to consider the rates of +payment for work. It was stated that in 1846 a list of prices was agreed +to by the manufacturers and operatives for all fabrics then made. These +prices had, with few exceptions, been maintained in Norwich, but a great +deal of work was sent into the country, where it was done at the reduced +rate of 5½d. per dozen skeins, or considerably more than 50 per cent. +difference. The weavers resolved that any departure from the list of +prices would be alike injurious to employers and employed, and a +deputation was appointed to wait upon the manufacturers to enforce this +view. + +—Mr. David Fisher gave, at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, his entertainment, +entitled, “Facts and Fancies,” with which he had achieved great success +during the London season. Mr. Fisher was known in Norwich not only as an +excellent actor and accomplished musician, but as a vocalist of much +taste. + +21.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Baron Martin, James Margatroyed +Hubbard (24), described as a general dealer, and son of a Norwich brewer, +was indicted for forging a bill of exchange for £45, and sentenced to 20 +years’ penal servitude. + +25.—The weather was very mild. A picotee bloom and rose were gathered in +a garden at Norwich. + +26.—Mr. H. J. Byron was the author of the pantomime produced at Norwich +Theatre. It was entitled, “Ali Baba, or the Thirty-nine Thieves.” + +—A revolting performance was given at one of the shows at the Norwich +Christmas Fair. “A man and woman, said to be Kaffirs, actually fed upon +live rats, in the presence of continually succeeding audiences.” The +details, as published in the newspaper, are too horrible to be quoted. +The Mayor, on being informed of the proceedings, prohibited the +exhibition, after which raw flesh was substituted for live rats. At +Walsingham, a few days afterwards, the show was visited by many hundreds +of country folk; at Wells the police expelled the performers from the +town. + + + +1864. + + +JANUARY. + + +6.—The mild weather of Christmas week was succeeded by frost of great +intensity. On this day the thermometer stood at 14 degrees, and the +river above the New Mills at Norwich was frozen. Large numbers of golden +plover made their appearance in the neighbourhood of Thetford, and an +extraordinary quantity of wild fowl came within the bounds of Shadwell, +where Sir Robert Buxton prohibited their being shot or molested. + +9.—Early in the morning intelligence was received at Norwich that the +Princess of Wales had, on the previous evening, given birth to a son +(Prince Albert Victor). Throughout the day rejoicing peals were rung +upon the bells of St. Peter Mancroft, the Royal Standard was displayed at +the Guildhall, and on the 19th the Corporation sent a congratulatory +address to the Queen and to the Prince and Princess of Wales. + +19.—Died at Norwich, Mr. George Fisher, a member of the talented and +well-known local family of that name, and of the Norfolk and Suffolk +Company of Comedians. On retiring from the stage, he conducted a school +at Swaffham, and subsequently resided at Lynn, where he was for many +years known as an enthusiastic votary of the violin, and a useful member +of the band of the Musical Union. He was author of a curious and +voluminous work, entitled, “A Companion and Key to the History of +England,” printed by Skill, of Swaffham, and published in 1832. + +20.—Died at Hove, Brighton, Captain J. J. B. E. Frere, R.N. He entered +the Navy in 1826, and had been for nearly twenty-five years engaged on +active service—against the pirates in the Mediterranean, in the +operations on the coast of Syria, in the Pacific with Lord George Paulet, +and as commissioner for the Government of the Sandwich Islands, while +held temporarily under the British flag. + +21.—The hearing of the action, Cox _v._ Wise, arising out of the +inundation in Marshland, was resumed in the Court of Queen’s Bench, and, +after three days’ argument for the rule in support of the verdict, and +against the rule to set it aside, the case was closed. Their lordships +reserved judgment until May 24th, when Mr. Justice Mellor held that the +Middle Level Commissioners were trustees for public purposes, acting +without reward and deriving no tolls from the works; they had not the +means of raising funds except for the specific performance of the objects +of their private Act. He was of opinion that they were not liable for +damages, and that the rule must be made absolute. Mr. Justice Blackburn +was of the contrary opinion; he thought the plaintiff had a right to his +verdict, and that the rule should be discharged. Lord Chief Justice +Cockburn thought the defendants were not liable, and said that the rule +must be made absolute. Rule absolute accordingly. (_See_ June 9th, +1865.) + + +FEBRUARY. + + +8.—Died, aged 91, Mr. John Bennett, for many years resident in Norwich. +“The deceased wore a pigtail to the day of his death and was the last of +the old school in the city.” + +13.—It was announced that an attempt was being made to form a religious +order or brotherhood in Norwich, and that a house on Elm Hill, formerly +occupied by Mr. Elisha De Hague, had been purchased for conversion into a +monastery. Shortly afterwards a party of five brethren, headed by “the +notorious Brother Ignatius,” took up their quarters in the newly-acquired +premises, and, it was asserted, had the countenance, if not the active +support, of advanced High Churchmen in the city, under whose auspices at +this date lectures were delivered “in defence of Church principles,” one +of the lecturers being the Rev. Dr. A. F. Littledale. On February 24th, +the “Benedictine chapel,” known as the “priory of St. Mary and Dunstan,” +was dedicated by Ignatius. From this date scenes of disorder and riot +were of frequent occurrence in the neighbourhood of the monastery, and +directly and indirectly the existence of the confraternity gave rise to +several remarkable incidents. During Easter week the “monks” made daily +visits to St. Lawrence’ church, which had already been brought into +notoriety by the ritualistic practices of the rector, the Rev. E. A. +Hillyard. There daily Communion was celebrated, and the brethren walking +in procession to and from the church were assailed and insulted by the +mob. The protection of the police was demanded by Ignatius, and the +magistrates were frequently engaged in the hearing of cases of riot and +assault arising out of the proceedings at Elm Hill and St. Lawrence’. A +spirit of unrest manifested itself in other directions. On April 6th a +person calling himself the Baron De Camin, who stated that he was an +ex-priest of the Romish Church, delivered, at the Victoria Hall, St. +Andrew’s, a lecture full of scurrilous and indecent observations. A +scene of great tumult ensued; the gas was extinguished, and, under cover +of darkness, the “baron” escaped. Another lecturer appeared on the 14th +and 15th, in the person of Signor (formerly Father) Allessandro Gavazzi, +who delivered orations at St. Andrew’s Hall, on “Romish Encroachments at +Home” and “Garibaldi and Italy’s Impending Future.” Whilst the High +Church party were taking an aggressive stand in the city, a section of +the Low Church party in the county, led by the Rev. W. Haslam, of +Buckenham, were seeking, under the name of “Revivalism,” to introduce +Nonconformist methods into the services of the Church. Meanwhile +official notice was taken of Mr. Hillyard’s proceedings. At a meeting of +the Board of Guardians, on April 28th, it was agreed, “That the Rev. E. +A. Hillyard having identified himself with certain persons calling +themselves monks, whom he has allowed to participate in the services of +his church, no longer holds the confidence of the Board, and is called +upon to resign his situation as chaplain of the Norwich Workhouse.” Mr. +Hillyard declined to vacate the office, and a deputation of the Board +waited upon the Bishop, who expressed strong disapproval of the reverend +gentleman’s action. A meeting of the parishioners of St. Lawrence’ +passed a resolution on May 6th: “That this vestry views with grief and +indignation the manner in which Divine worship has been performed of +late, particularly as regards the dressing of the Communion table, and +the minister allowing persons calling themselves monks to take a +prominent part in the performance of the services.” The resolution was +numerously signed by the parishioners and presented to the Bishop. St. +Gregory’s church, during the incumbency of the Rev. W. B. Sharpe, became +a centre of ritualism, and on June 9th advantage was taken, on the +appointment of the new incumbent, the Rev. J. Wortley, to petition the +Archdeacon of Norwich to sanction the removal of “a floral cross and +other floral decorations from the chancel and the candlesticks from the +Communion table, of monograms and emblems recently painted on the chancel +steps, and of the curtains and drapery from the walls of the chancel, and +to order the restoration of the Commandments, the Belief, and the Lord’s +Prayer in their place”; and the minister was requested “to discontinue +the weekly offering, as it was strongly objected to by many of the +parishioners.” On August 23rd Mr. Wortley announced that many of the +objectionable ornaments had been removed; and on August 27th it was +stated that the English Church Union had resolved to raise a special fund +to meet expenses that might be incurred by Mr. Smith, churchwarden, in +legally protesting against the action which had led to their removal. On +June 27th a meeting of the supporters of the district schools of the +associated parishes of St. Peter Mancroft, St. John Maddermarket, St. +Gregory, St. Lawrence, and St. Margaret, resolved “That the Rev. E. A. +Hillyard had entirely forfeited the confidence of the committee, by +mixing himself up with certain persons calling themselves monks, and Mr. +Henry Browne finding it impossible, under the circumstances, to collect +subscriptions, had therefore refused to continue to act with Mr. +Hillyard, either as treasurer, secretary, or manager.” Mr. Hillyard upon +this decision severed his connection with the association, but refused to +accede to a request, signed by some of the leading clergy in Norwich and +Norfolk, on July 2nd, to discontinue his practices at St. Lawrence’ or to +comply with the wishes of the Bishop. On August 17th the Guardians +passed a resolution prohibiting his further attendance at the Workhouse; +and on October 25th Sir John Walsham, the Poor-Law Inspector for the +district, held an inquiry at the Guildhall into his conduct. The +Poor-Law Board, on December 14th, intimated to the Guardians that they +had dismissed Mr. Hillyard from the chaplaincy. The Elm Hill monastery +was closed in May, 1866, and the building work of a proposed new chapel +to be erected by Ignatius suspended. (_See_ January 16th, 1869.) + +22.—Died at Sidcup, Kent, in his 96th year, Mr. Edward Smyth, formerly +agent in Norwich of the Bank of England. His early career was spent in +the Army. He served at the fall of Seringapatam, in 1799, with the 25th +Light Dragoons, who, at Mullavelly, routed the cavalry of Tippoo Sahib, +thereby enabling Lord Harris to bring to a successful termination his +siege operations against that important fortress. Mr. Smith afterwards +served with the Duke of Wellington in that Indian campaign which ended +with the famous battles of Assaye and Urgam. + + +MARCH. + + +8.—The agitation for the repeal of the Malt Tax was re-opened with +increased vigour at a large meeting of West Norfolk farmers, held at the +Town Hall, Lynn, under the presidency of the High Sheriff (Mr. H. Lee +Warner). A resolution was passed affirming that the tax was unjust in +principle, utterly opposed to the Free Trade policy adopted on the repeal +of the Corn Laws, and most injurious to British farmers as producers of +barley. Members of Parliament were urged to support its repeal. + +9.—Sir Henry Stracey announced to the electors of Yarmouth his intention +of retiring from the representation of the borough. + +10.—The Mayor of Yarmouth (Mr. R. Steward), who, for the fourth time, had +held that office, was presented with a piece of plate, valued at 200 gs., +in appreciation of his public services and his private worth. + + +APRIL. + + +5.—The church of St. John Maddermarket, Norwich, was re-opened by the +Bishop of Norwich. Extensive repairs and restoration had been carried +out, under the direction of Messrs. Elmslie, Franey, and Haddon, of +London, at the cost of £1,431. + +9.*—“Col. Black, Chief Constable of the county, has accepted the command +of the Norwich Battalion of Volunteers, as offered him by the Lord +Lieutenant, on the retirement of Lieut.-Col. Brett.” + +22.—Died at his residence, Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, Mr. David +Hodgson, artist. He was the son of Mr. Charles Hodgson. “The names of +both father and son are connected with the list of local celebrities in +Art, in which may be included the names of Crome, Vincent, Stark, and +Joseph Stannard.” David Hodgson excelled in architectural subjects, +which he painted with great care and truthfulness of detail. + +26.—The marriage of Viscount Powerscourt and Lady Julia Coke, eldest +daughter of the Earl and Countess of Leicester, was solemnised at St. +George’s church, Hanover Square. + +27.—The first meeting of the Norwich Geological Society was held under +the presidency of the Rev. J. Gunn, F.G.S. + + +MAY. + + +5.—The Bill for the projected East Norfolk Railway was considered before +a Committee of the House of Commons. It was strongly opposed by the +Yarmouth Haven and Pier Commissioners, and by the North Walsham and +Dilham Canal Commissioners, as offering unfair competition with water +communication in that part of the county. (_See_ October 18th, 1865.) + +16.—Mr. Edmund Rosenthal’s grand English opera and burlesque company +commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre. The _artistes_ included +Madame Haigh-Dyer, Miss Ada Taylor, Miss Hodgson, Miss Brooke, Miss +Alessandri, Miss Bronti, Miss Mills, Miss Shepherd, Miss Tempest, and +Miss Marian Taylor; Mr. W. Parkinson, Mr. J. Manley, Mr. Tempest, Mr. +Warden, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Melville, Mr. R. Arthur, Mr. Smith, Mr. Arnott, +Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Edmund Rosenthal. The operas produced were +“Maritana,” “Lucia di Lammermoor,” &c., and the burlesque “Prince +Amabel.” + +19.—The Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, was sold by Messrs. Spelman, at the +Auction Mart, London, for the sum of £4,000. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was observed at Norwich as a general holiday. +The 18th Hussars, the Norfolk Light Horse, the Artillery and Rifle +Volunteers, and the Cadet Corps were reviewed in Chapel Field; the +officers were entertained at luncheon at the Guildhall, and the +Volunteers at the Corn Hall; and at night the Mayor and Miss Springfield +gave a ball at St. Andrew’s Hall. + +30.—Died at his seat, Raveningham Hall, Sir Edmund Bacon, premier baronet +of England. Born in 1779, he was the eldest son of the eighth baronet, +by Anne, eldest daughter of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, Bart., of +Langley Park. He was educated at Rugby, and succeeded to the baronetcy +in 1820. In 1801 he married his cousin, Mary Anne Elizabeth, daughter of +Mr. Dashwood Bacon, of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, who died in 1820, leaving +two sons and three daughters. Sir Edmund served the office of High +Sheriff of Norfolk in 1826, and was a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant +for the county. He was succeeded in his title and estates by his nephew, +a son of Mr. Nicholas Bacon, for many years resident in Norwich. + + +JUNE. + + +2.—Died at his residence, Tombland, Norwich, Mr. Roger Kerrison, aged 61. +He had for some time been in ill-health, and five weeks before his death, +while superintending the cutting down of some timber, sustained a fall +and received a severe shock. Mr. Kerrison was, in many respects, a +remarkable personage. He was the son of Mr. Allday Kerrison, and was +educated for the law, a profession he continued to practise until his +decease, although a large accession of fortune on the death of his uncle, +Mr. Matthew Kerrison, of Ranworth, twenty years previously, had placed +him in independent circumstances. Mr. Kerrison held several important +public appointments, but he was more widely known by reason of his +connection with the Norwich Triennial Musical Festival, of which he was +for some years the active honorary secretary. In politics he was +Conservative, but by no means a prejudiced partisan, and he never +scrupled to act independently when he deemed it right to do so. He was a +bachelor, and the bulk of his fortune went to his brother, Mr. Allday +Kerrison, a partner in the Crown Bank, Norwich. + +3.—Died, in his 78th year, Mr. William Johnson Fox, for many years member +of Parliament for Oldham, and popularly known as “the Norwich Weaver +Boy.” + +7.—The 18th Hussars left Norwich for Shorncliffe, prior to their +embarkation for India. This was the first regiment which departed from +the city by train. + +8.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was held at +Lynn, and was visited by upwards of 14,000 persons. Mr. R. J. H. Harvey +was president for the year. + +18.—Died, near Christchurch, New Zealand, aged 59, the Ven. Octavius +Mathias, Archdeacon of Akaron and formerly vicar of Horsford. He was one +of the first to take an interest in the foundation of Canterbury +Cathedral, New Zealand, and was elected one of the capitular clergy. + + +JULY. + + +5.—A barque, named the Oriental, was launched from Mr. J. W. Rust’s +shipyard at Yarmouth. The vessel, which was intended for the China +trade, was 115 feet long, 24 feet beam, 15 ft. 8 inches in depth, and 320 +tons burthen. + +9.*—“An agreement has been entered into for the purchase, by the +Provincial Banking Corporation, of the business of the East of England +Bank, an unlimited joint stock bank established in 1836, with head office +at Norwich and branches at Yarmouth, Lynn, North Walsham, Fakenham, East +Dereham, Swaffham, Bungay, Halesworth, and Harleston, and agencies at +Wymondham, Wells, and Hingham.” The city was startled on the 20th by the +rumour that the Bank had suspended payment. “On those who had accounts +at the Bank going to that establishment, the doors were found to be +closed, and a printed notice was exhibited in the windows to the effect +that the directors regretted to intimate that they were compelled to +suspend business. Up to the hour of closing on the previous day the +directors, after having resolved to suspend payment, continued to receive +the money of unsuspecting customers.” A few days afterwards was issued a +statement, from which it appeared that the Bank’s liabilities were +£576,963 7s. 6d., and assets £453,256 5s. 3d., leaving a deficit of +£123,707 2s. 3d. Meetings of the shareholders were held, at which +resolutions were passed in favour of registering the company under the +Companies Act, 1862, with the view to a voluntary winding up. On August +13th it was announced that the Provincial Banking Company had issued a +circular to the late customers of the Bank, stating “that being satisfied +there was a probability of the customers being paid in full, they had +authorised the branch managers at once to give credit to each customer of +the East of England Bank in his pass-book for the full amount of the +balance due to him on his current account with the East of England Bank.” +Messrs. Harveys and Hudsons, immediately after the issue of the circular, +offered like terms. Dividends were, in due course, paid to the creditors +of the Bank. In July, 1866, it was stated that the liquidators had +announced “a further dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound, which will make +20s. in the pound distributed, exclusive of interest, payment of which is +postponed.” + +23.—Died at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate, London, Admiral Bertie +Cornelius Cator, younger brother of Mr. John Cator, of Beckenham, Kent, +and of Woodbastwick. He entered the Navy in 1800, under his uncle, +Captain Albemarle Bertie, and was actively employed early in his +professional career in the capture of privateers in the Mediterranean. +In 1810 he assisted at the taking of the Isle of France; commanded the +Actæon on the coast of America in the attack on the enemy’s barracks in +Lynn Haven Bay in 1813, and participated in various other services. +After gaining post rank, he was not employed afloat. He accepted +retirement in 1846. + +29.—Merton Park was the scene of great rejoicing, on the coming of age of +the Hon. Thomas de Grey. Seven hundred cottagers and labourers were +entertained at dinner, and Lord and Lady Walsingham received a large +number of personal friends in a pavilion erected near the famous Merton +oak. At luncheon Lord Ashburton proposed the health of Mr. de Grey, +which was drunk with great enthusiasm. The day’s festivities concluded +with a display of fireworks. On the 30th Lord and Lady Walsingham gave a +ball to 150 tenants on the Merton estate, and on the 31st the celebration +ended with a servants’ ball. + + +AUGUST. + + +26.—Two troops of the 16th Lancers arrived at Norwich Barracks. + +28.—St. George’s Brewery, Norwich, and 40 public-houses were offered for +sale by Messrs. Spelman. Messrs. Youngs, Crawshay, and Youngs were the +purchasers, at the sum of £15,300. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +11.—Died at Norwich, aged 81, Henry Drane, for thirty-six years +proprietor of the Telegraph coach. + +19.—A prize-fight for £5 took place near Lynn, between Pooley Mace and +Grey. Mace was declared the victor, after a contest which lasted 35 +minutes. + + +OCTOBER. + + +4.—The Yarmouth Town Council, by a majority of 25 to 11, adopted the +Public House Closing Act, 1864. + +8.—The first sod of the West Norfolk Junction Railway was turned by Miss +Ellen Simpson, daughter of Mr. Lightly Simpson, the chairman of the +company. Many persons travelled to Heacham to take part in the +proceedings. (_See_ January 8th, 1866.) + +11.—Died, Captain Becher, “the well-known sportsman and father of +steeplechase riders, whose deeds in the pigskin some 30 years back have +immortalised him in the annals of that sport.” Captain Becher was born +in Norfolk, and was the son of a farmer, “who was very conspicuous as a +horseman and the last of the leather breeches school.” + +16.—A new screw steamer, the Ontario, 3,200 tons, Captain Brooklin, upon +her first voyage, from Shields to Alexandria, laden with coals and iron, +struck upon Happisburgh Sand. Three steam tugs and the Caister lifeboat +proceeded to her assistance, and her cargo was thrown overboard, but +every effort made to get her off proved unavailing. On the 17th the +weather became very threatening, and the lifeboat took off 56 coal +heavers, but the captain and officers and 86 of the crew determined to +remain with the vessel. During the night the storm increased, and the +crew, apparently in great distress, sent up rockets and burned blue +lights. The Yarmouth lifeboatmen were implored by the ship’s agent, Mr. +Butler, to go to the ship, but in vain. They refused to launch the +lifeboat unless they were paid from £400 to £500, saying that the steam +tugs had begun the work and had better finish it. The Caister lifeboat +stood by the vessel, which, by the 20th, had so settled down that it was +hopeless to attempt to get her off. On this day 68 of the crew left in a +lifeboat belonging to the steamer, but the captain and officers declined +to desert her. They were, however, compelled to leave on the 22nd, when +she became a total wreck, and was offered for sale. The original value +of the Ontario was £120,000. + +21.—The church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, was opened after restoration, +at the cost of about £6,000. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of +Oxford, and at the luncheon held subsequently, under the presidency of +the Mayor (Mr. R. Steward), the company included the Bishops of Norwich +and Oxford, the Bishop of British Columbia, Lord Sondes (High Steward of +the borough), and many other distinguished guests. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Mr. Charles Edward Tuck was elected Mayor, and Mr. Charles Jecks +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +9.—Died at Keswick, near Norwich, in his 90th year, Mr. Hudson Gurney. +He was the eldest son of Mr. Richard Gurney, who died at Keswick in 1811. +Educated by Dr. Thomas Young, of scientific celebrity, he became +connected early in life with the great banking firm of the Gurneys, of +which he was for many years senior partner, as well as with the noted +London brewery of Barclay and Co., his mother being the daughter and +heiress of Mr. David Barclay, of Youngbury, Herts. In 1809 he married +Margaret, daughter of Robert Barclay, of Ury, descended from the +celebrated Barclay, the Apologist for the Quakers. Mrs. Gurney died at +Keswick on December 16th, 1855. In politics Mr. Gurney was, in many +respects, decidedly Conservative, though on some points he held opinions +more in accordance with the most advanced Liberalism, and, as a perfectly +independent member, allied himself to no party in particular. His +Parliamentary career commenced in 1812, when he was elected for +Shaftesbury; from the year 1816 he represented Newport, Hants., in six +successive Parliaments. In 1835 he served the office of High Sheriff for +the county of Norfolk. He was a man of high literary attainments, and +was vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Royal +and Linnæan Societies, vice-president of the Norwich Museum, the Literary +Institute, and of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society. As an +author his chief production was probably the beautiful poem in English +verse under the title of “Cupid and Psyche,” a mythological tale from the +“Golden Ass” of Apuleius; in 1801 it had reached a third edition, and was +afterwards reprinted in Mr. Davenport’s “Poetical Register.” He also +published, for private distribution, in 1843, a translation into English +verse of the “Orlando Furioso” of Ludovico Ariosto; and in 1847, in a +letter to Mr. Dawson Turner, “Proofs that Norwich, and not Caistor, was +the Venta Icenorum.” In his latter years, confined almost entirely to +his own residence, “he reversed in his hours the usual custom, amusing +himself with his books and writings till four or five o’clock in the +morning, and, of course, rising comparatively late in the day.” His +estate, real and personal included, was valued at £1,200,000. + +—The Lynn Town Council resolved to put an end to the absurd and obnoxious +impost known as “the Lady Mayoresses’ Pin Money.” “For many years the +custom has prevailed in the town of the constables (who perform no other +duties) going round to all the inhabitants in October and November and +collecting from all who were foolish enough to pay it a kind of +blackmail, under the ridiculous title of the Lady Mayoresses’ Pin Money, +pretending that it was legally payable under the charters, and that those +who did not pay would be summoned before the magistrates or the County +Court. It appears that the custom has grown out of the collection of +fines for non-attendance at the Court Leet held annually by the Mayor as +Lord of the Manor; but for many generations past no such attendance has +been either any use or capable of enforcement. The fines have also +completely lapsed, and those who collect the ‘pin money’ are completely +ignorant of its origin. The pretence has been that the money was to buy +a piece of plate for the Mayoress, but in reality the greater part of it +has been appropriated by the collectors themselves, and of the many +pounds obtained not more than some fifty shillings annually found its way +into the borough fund.” + +12.*—“There appears to be some probability that the absurd system of +inspection of weights and measures at Lynn by a ‘jury of headboroughs’ +going round the town in a posse and discharging their functions in such a +manner that the innocent only are punished and the guilty easily escape +detection, is about to come to an end. Several persons have refused to +admit the headboroughs on their premises, and others have declined to pay +the fines imposed on them by the ‘jury’; and as the authority of this +jury is based on ancient charters of very doubtful legal force, and there +is no prospect of that authority being respected or enforced, the jury +have refused to be sworn in again on the Court Leet by which they are +appointed. It may be hoped, therefore, that the farce has come to an +end, and that very shortly a proper and efficient officer will be +appointed under the provisions of the Weights and Measures Act.” + +14.—The newly-erected chancel of St. Mark’s church, Lakenham, Norwich, +built at the cost of about £1,000, was consecrated by the Bishop of +Norwich. + +24.—A severe gale occurred off the Norfolk coast. Many shipping +casualties were reported. The screw steamer William Hutt, 530 tons, +employed as a transport during the Crimean War, was lost off Yarmouth +with her crew of sixteen hands, whilst on a voyage from Sunderland to +London, with coals. + + +DECEMBER. + + +17.*—“Mr. Thomas W. Rutland, carpenter, West Wymer Street, Norwich, has +invented a very ingenious means of communication between the passengers +and guard in a railway train. It has the additional advantage of acting +also as an extra break when required. By its use a passenger can at once +communicate with both guard and driver, and at the same time a signal is +exhibited which shows from what carriage the alarm is given.” + +20.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a communication was +received from the Dean and Chapter as to the giving up of their interest +in Mousehold Heath, with the view of enabling the Council to convert the +Heath into a people’s park. + +26.—The Christmas “burlesque and comic pantomime” produced at Norwich +Theatre was written by F. C. Burnand, and entitled, “Snowdrop, King +Bonbon, and the Seven Elves, or the Magic Mirror and the Fatal Sewing +Machine.” At Sanger’s Circus, on the Castle Meadow, was produced “the +equestrian pantomime,” entitled, “Jack the Giant Killer, or Harlequin and +the Fairies of the Crystal Fountain.” A great novelty at the Christmas +Fair was “the striking feature of a roundabout worked by a steam engine, +which at the same time turns a barrel organ.” + +30.—Died at Dunston, John Fish, aged 100 years and 10 months. + + + +1865. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Holkham Park, on a visit +to the Earl and Countess of Leicester. On the 3rd, 4th, and 5th his +Royal Highness shot over the estate, and on the latter date 2,000 head of +game was killed. On the night of the 5th a distinguished company were +invited to a ball, given by the Earl and Countess; and on the morning of +the 6th the Prince and his noble host engaged in wildfowl shooting. +Their Royal Highnesses returned to Sandringham the same afternoon. + +7.*—“Amongst the recent improvements in Norwich there are none to bear +comparison with the magnificent bank of Messrs. Harveys and Hudson, which +is now approaching completion by Messrs. Lucas, nor will there be one +which has been erected at so small a comparative cost. The contract for +the new bank, of which Mr. P. Hardwicke is the architect, does not exceed +£13,000.” The bank was opened for business on January 1st, 1866. + +13.—The Prince of Wales visited Lord Walsingham, at Merton Hall, and +attended a meet of the West Norfolk Hunt. On the 14th, after a day’s +cover shooting, has Royal Highness returned to Sandringham, accompanied +by the Hon. T. de Grey. + +31.—The agitation against the Malt Tax was re-opened this year at Lynn, +when a great meeting, convened by the West Norfolk Anti-Malt Tax +Association, was held at the Town Hall, under the presidency of the High +Sheriff (Mr. H. Lee Warner). On February 4th, at a preliminary meeting +held at the Swan Hotel, Norwich, presided over by Mr. Clare Sewell Read, +the farmers of East Norfolk formed a similar association, and at a public +meeting which took place on February 18th, Sir Henry Stracey was elected +president, Mr. Robert Gillett treasurer, and Mr. G. H. Murrell secretary. +Many petitions were signed in the district in favour of the repeal of the +tax. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +3.—A meeting of the inhabitants was held at the Corn Hall, Yarmouth, “to +take into consideration the provisions of the Haven and Port Bill, and to +determine whether the scheme should be supported or opposed in +Parliament.” This Bill was intended to supersede the functions of the +Haven Commissioners and to protect the shipowners and fishermen, but +great opposition was raised against it by the class in whose interests it +was avowedly framed. The Norwich Town Council, at a meeting on March +21st, decided to oppose the measure. A Committee of the House of +Commons, by whom the Bill was considered, on March 30th unanimously +resolved that, “in the absence of unanimity of feeling among the parties +affected, including the town of Yarmouth itself, it is not expedient to +pass the preamble of the Bill.” It was, therefore, thrown out. (_See_ +April 30th, 1866.) + + +MARCH. + + +6.—The respective merits of the new iron ploughs introduced by Messrs. +Ransomes and Sims, of Ipswich, and of the common Norfolk plough, were +tested on Messrs. Salter’s farm at Attleborough. “In their lightness and +symmetry the former presented a strong contrast. The Norfolk plough drew +nearly half as heavy again as the iron ploughs, or in the proportion of 3 +to 2 in the shallow work, and in the deep work one quarter heavier, or in +the proportion of 4 to 5.” + +10.—A remarkable incident occurred at Lakenham church. A wedding had +been arranged, and the Rev. C. Baldwin, of St. Stephen’s, Norwich, had +promised, with the approbation of the vicar, the Rev. A. Pownall, to +officiate. When the wedding party arrived at Lakenham, they found the +church closed. An entrance was effected, but the vestry was locked, and +neither surplice nor books were provided for the clergyman. “It was +suggested that a sheet should be borrowed, and the Rev. Mr. Baldwin, +habited in this novel vestment, proceeded to unite the parties in the +bonds of matrimony, and after having sent to the clergyman’s house for +the parish registers, the happy couple were at length enabled to proceed +on their wedding trip. Mr. Pownall, who was himself the cause of the +whole difficulty, having forgotten to inform the clerk of the forthcoming +ceremony, issued the following extraordinary handbill:—‘Lakenham church. +A solemn service will be held on Friday, the 24th inst., to avert the +wrath of Almighty God and to deprecate His righteous judgments in +consequence of the profanation of His sanctuary on Monday last . . . +Ezekiel v., 11.’” The incident gave rise to much comment. + +15.—A great fire occurred at Frazer’s sawmills, near St. Martin-at-Palace +church, Norwich, and resulted in the loss of about £4,000 worth of +property. + +18.—Died at North Walsham, Mary Doughty, aged 101 years. + +28.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, was tried +a remarkable action for assault, false imprisonment, and malicious +prosecution. The plaintiff, Mr. Albert Pell (son of Sir Albert Pell, of +Northamptonshire), with his brother, while on a visit to Yarmouth, +crossed the fields of the defendant, Mr. Mayes Wigg, at Caister. They +had with them a Skye terrier, and defendant, alleging that they were +poaching, gave them into the custody of a policeman, who, after detaining +them at his cottage, took them before a magistrate at Thrigby. The +charge was dismissed, whereupon the present action was commenced. The +jury found for the plaintiff on the first count, charging assault and +false imprisonment, and awarded damages £5; and for defendant on the +second count, charging malicious prosecution. + + +APRIL. + + +4.—Died at Yarmouth, Mr. George Danby Palmer, aged 77. In early life Mr. +Palmer was an active supporter of the Tory party, but previous to the +passing of the Reform Bill he adopted Liberal principles, and after the +introduction of the Municipal Reform Act became decidedly Radical. He +was the oldest member of the borough Bench, and a justice of the peace +for the county. “Possessed of large property, he lavished his wealth +with unsparing hand upon those whom he deemed worthy of his assistance, +but as it was rendered so unobtrusively, with the exception of the +recipients of his bounty, the world was not aware of his generosity. He +was a straightforward Englishman, and was greatly lamented by all classes +in Yarmouth.” + +17.—The English Grand Opera Company, under the management of Mr. G. B. +Loveday, commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre. Madame Haigh-Dyer, +Miss Annie Kemp, Miss Ada Taylor, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler, Mr. Grantham, +Mr. E. Connell, Mr. Oliver Summers, and Mr. Henry Rowland were the +principal _artistes_, and the works produced included “Faust,” “Dinorah,” +“The Crown Diamonds,” “Lucrezia Borgia,” “The Lady of Lyons” (burlesque), +“Satanella,” and “Norma.” + + +MAY. + + +17.—The Snettisham Hall estate of 2,600 acres and a rental of £3,600 was +offered for sale at Garraway’s. The highest bid was £99,000, and the +reserve was declared at £130,000. + +20.—In the Court of Queen’s Bench, the action, le Strange _v._ Rowe, +which raised an important question as to sea-shore rights, came on for +hearing. The defendant was proceeded against for taking shingle, sand, +and shell-fish from the sea shore in the manor of Snettisham, belonging +to the plaintiff. About twenty special pleas were set up by the +defendant and demurred to in point of law, on the broad ground that there +could not be in law any such rights as alleged, “either in all the +subjects of the realm or by Royal grant or by custom or by prescription +in inhabitants or occupiers.” The Court deferred judgment, and +ultimately referred the case to the Norfolk Assizes for decision as to +questions of fact. At Norwich, on August 4th, the case was adjourned to +enable the plaintiff to amend the declarations. The case came before +Lord Chief Justice Erle at the Norfolk Assizes on August 13th, 1866, when +the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages one shilling. In +the Court of Queen’s Bench, on May 28th, 1867, application was made for a +new trial, on the ground of misdirection and that the verdict was given +for the plaintiff against the weight of evidence. The application was +refused. + +23.—An earthquake shock was distinctly felt along the coast from Scratby, +on the north of Yarmouth, to Lowestoft, on the south. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was observed as a general holiday at Norwich. A +detachment of the 16th Lancers and the Volunteers were reviewed in Chapel +Field, and fired a _feu de joie_ in the Market Place; the Mayor gave a +luncheon at the Guildhall, and the Volunteers were entertained at the +Corn Hall. The Mayor’s ball took place in the evening, at St. Andrew’s +Hall. + +27.—Considerable opposition was manifested, not only by the villagers, +but by the citizens of Norwich, to an attempt made by Capt. Bellairs to +enclose Mulbarton Common. A meeting was held in the village, at which a +strong protest was made against the proposal, and it was asserted that if +ever the ancestors of Capt. Bellairs had possessed the power to effect +the enclosure, they had allowed their rights to lapse. + + +JUNE. + + +2.—The detachment of the 16th Lancers, _en route_ to India, marched from +the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, accompanied to the city boundary by the +officers and band of the Norfolk Light Horse Volunteers. + +7.—Mr. A. Dennison, brother of the Speaker of the House of Commons, +visited Norwich, for the purpose of hearing the bells of St. Peter +Mancroft. “He rang the tenor in good style, and was highly delighted +with the quality of tone of this far-famed peal of twelve.” + +9.—In the Court of the Queen’s Bench, application was made in the action, +the Queen _v._ the Middle Level Commissioners, for a rule calling upon +them to show cause why a mandamus should not issue commanding them to +make and maintain a bridge with a commodious road or hailing path in the +place formerly occupied by their sluice which was destroyed in the great +inundation in 1862. A rule was granted. (_See_ January 7th, 1867.) + +13.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a report was +received from Mr. Bazalgette, C.E., who had visited Norwich with the view +of determining what steps could be taken for the immediate purification +of the river Wensum in the vicinity of the city. He stated that it would +be impossible to render the river pure so long as it continued to be a +receptacle for the town refuse; and he had examined the city and suburbs +to ascertain how to improve the drainage and to dispose of the sewage. +The time would come, he added, when a drainage scheme would be urgently +necessary, and very costly. The Council authorised the Sanitary and +River Committees to expend a sum not exceeding £50 in obtaining levels +and plans and other information required by Mr. Bazalgette, “to assist +him in the preparation of his scheme for diverting the drainage from the +river.” On October 17th Mr. Bazalgette’s scheme was laid before the +Council. It provided for two intercepting sewers, one for the higher and +the other for the lower parts of the city, both forming a junction on the +opposite side of the river near Trowse Station, whence the sewage would +be conveyed to a point on Mr. Harvey’s estate at Crown Point, to the east +of the old Whitlingham Road. The plan also comprised the completion of +the drainage of the western part of the city, then unconnected with the +main sewers. For the first part of the scheme £50,000 was required, and +for the latter £30,000. On October 31st the Council adopted a +recommendation of the Sanitary and River Committees, that it was +desirable to try more fully the possibility of cleansing the river by +flushing and sluicing or otherwise before proceeding to carry out Mr. +Bazalgette’s report; that the City Engineer be instructed accordingly; +and that immediate steps be taken to improve the drainage on the south +side of the city, at a cost not exceeding £10,000. (_See_ April 21st, +1866.) + +15.—The first two-days’ show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association +commenced in Chapel Field, Norwich. The society’s dinner was held at the +Royal Hotel, and was presided over by the Marquis Townshend. + +17.—Died at Elm Lodge, near Hampton, Lord Charles FitzRoy, second son of +the fourth Duke of Grafton. His lordship was born on February 28th, +1791, and married, in 1825, Anne, eldest daughter of George Augustus +Henry, first Earl of Burlington. Lord Charles was at the battle of +Corunna, and served in the Walcheren Expedition with the Guards. In 1811 +he joined Lord Hill’s staff, and was present at the siege and capture of +Badajoz, and at the battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Othes, +Toulouse, and Waterloo, and received the war medal with eight clasps. +For two years he served with the army of occupation in France. His +lordship sat in Parliament, as member for Thetford, from 1818 till the +passing of the Reform Bill, and at the General Election which ensued was +elected for Bury, in the Liberal interest. He was Vice-Chancellor of the +Household from 1835 to 1839, and was also appointed a Privy Councillor. +In four successive Parliaments he represented Bury, and resigned his seat +in 1847. + + +JULY. + + +1.—The 5.30 p.m. express from London to Norwich had a narrow escape. On +reaching a portion of the line near Harford Bridges, the engine, on +running down the incline, left the metals, and, tearing up the permanent +way for some distance, stopped on the wooden bridge which crosses the +Yare a little below Old Lakenham. “One of the carriages was overturned, +and the occupants, among whom was Lord Stafford, had to make their escape +by climbing through the windows which were then uppermost.” None of the +passengers were seriously hurt. + +7.—At a Liberal meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, certain +accusations founded upon letters received from Mr. John Bright, M.P., +were made against Mr. Robert Edmond Chester Waters, one of the +Conservative candidates for the representation of the city. The +principal charges were that Mr. Waters (previously a Liberal) had been +compelled to resign his membership of the Reform Club for cheating at +cards, and that while he came before the Norwich electors as a Protestant +Churchman, in Rome he professed to be a Roman Catholic. Mr. Waters +declared these statements to be scandalous and false; and on the 8th +announced that he had authorised legal proceedings to be taken against +Sir William Foster and the Rev. George Gould for making imputations on +his personal character. On the 10th a deputation, consisting of Messrs. +H. S. Patteson, Edward Field, D. Dalrymple, and J. H. Tillett, proceeded +to London to investigate at the Reform Club the truth of the allegations, +and in the course of the day the following telegram was received +simultaneously by Sir Samuel Bignold and Sir William Foster: “We have the +minutes. They have been produced before us, and we find that it is true +that Mr. Waters was accused of cheating at cards at the Reform Club, and +unanimously called upon by the committee to resign to prevent expulsion, +and further that he did, on receiving that communication, resign on the +23rd November, 1860.” The telegram was dated from the Reform Club, and +signed by the deputation. In consequence of the telegram, Messrs. Fred +Brown, J. B. Morgan, F. E. Watson, and Henry Ling issued a notice stating +that they felt it their duty to withdraw their support from Mr. Waters as +one of the candidates for the city. Mr. Waters thereupon stated that he +would stand independently. The nomination took place at the Guildhall on +the 11th. The other candidates were Sir William Russell and Mr. Edward +Warner, Liberals; and Mr. Augustus Goldsmid, Conservative. The polling +took place on the 12th, and was officially declared on the 13th, as +follows:—Russell, 1,845; Warner, 1,838; Goldsmid, 1,466; Waters, 1,363. +Mr. Waters, who was exceedingly popular with what the NORFOLK CHRONICLE +described as “the lower order of Conservatives,” made a return visit to +Norwich on October 10th, and was escorted by a torchlight procession +round the city. Thirty thousand people assembled in the Market Place, +the bells of St. Peter Mancroft were rung, and the late candidate, after +making a complimentary call upon Sir Samuel Bignold, proceeded to the +Norfolk Hotel and addressed from the window a dense crowd assembled in +St. Giles’ Street. On the 11th he was entertained at dinner by the Eldon +Club; and at St. Andrew’s Hall, on the 12th, was received with the utmost +enthusiasm by a crowded audience. Mr. Waters, who was accompanied by +Lord Henry Thynne and Sir Alfred Slade, was presented with a massive +silver epergne, “by a very large number of the Conservatives of Norwich, +as an expression of their cordial sympathy and regard, and in +appreciation of the gallant and chivalrous spirit in which, under +difficulties unprecedented, he fought the battle of the Conservative +cause loyally, courteously, and fearlessly at the Parliamentary election +for Norwich, 1865.” A “testimonial dinner” was given to Mr. Waters at +the Norfolk Hotel on the evening of the 13th, when the Norwich +Conservative Association was inaugurated. Upwards of 100 members were at +once enrolled, and on the 14th Sir Samuel Bignold, in response to the +request of a deputation, accepted the presidency. + +8.—A meeting of the independent electors of East Norfolk was held at the +Swan Hotel, Norwich, for the purpose of selecting a candidate to contest +the constituency in the interests of the supporters of the movement for +the repeal of the Malt Tax. Mr. Clare Sewell Read, who had been for some +time prominently identified with the party in favour of the repeal, was +unanimously chosen. Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett attended the meeting and +made a remarkable speech. If Mr. Read were nominated, he said, he would +help him to the utmost of his power; and he added, “If you want money, if +you want help, if you want what enthusiasm I can put into the cause, let +your chairman write to me and I will respond with all my heart.” The +nomination took place at the Shirehall on the 15th. Several times the +proceedings were stayed and consultations held by the leaders of the +respective parties, with the view of effecting a compromise. The +candidates nominated were Mr. Edward Howes, Sir Thomas Beauchamp, and +Col. Coke. Mr. Robert Leamon offered not to proceed with the nomination +of Mr. Read if the Liberal party would pledge themselves to return to +Parliament a Malt Tax repealer; in the absence of that assurance he +nominated Mr. Read, whose candidature was seconded by Mr. H. S. Grimmer. +It was subsequently agreed by the friends of Mr. Howes to permit the name +of Mr. Read to appear upon the election cards and posters issued by the +former. The poll was opened on the 18th, and was officially declared on +the 20th, as follows:—Howes, 3,100; Read, 2,985; Beauchamp, 2,150; Coke, +1,994 + +11.—The nomination of candidates for the representation of Yarmouth was +held at the Town Hall. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and Mr. J. Goodson, +Conservatives, and Mr. Philip Vanderbyl and Mr. Brogden, liberals, were +nominated. The polling took place on the 12th, and resulted as +follows:—Lacon 828; Goodson, 784; Brogden, 634; Vanderbyl, 589. (_See_ +March 20th, 1866.) + +11.—At Thetford, the Hon. Alexander Hugh Baring and Mr. Robert John +Harvey Harvey, Conservatives, and Mr. Thomas Dakin (Alderman of London +and Sheriff of Middlesex), Liberal, were nominated to represent the +borough. The poll, on the 12th, resulted as follows:—Harvey, 193; +Baring, 137; Dakin, 69. + +12.—Lord Stanley and the Hon. Frederick Walpole, Conservatives, and Sir +T. Fowell Buxton, Liberal, were nominated for the representation of +King’s Lynn. The polling, on the 13th, resulted in the return of Lord +Stanley, 445 votes, and Sir T. Fowell Buxton, 401 votes. Mr. Walpole +polled 339 votes. + +—Died at Herne Bay, aged 43 years, Mr. Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ph.D., +F.G.S., assistant in the Geological Department of the British Museum, and +second son of Mr. Samuel Woodward, of Norwich. He was a member of +several learned societies, and in 1845 was appointed professor of botany +and geology at the Royal Agricultural College. + +19.—The nomination of candidates for West Norfolk took place at Swaffham. +The Conservatives were Mr. William Bagge and the Hon. T. de Grey (the +latter strongly opposed as “an excessive game preserver”); and the +Liberals, Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart. (Conservative member for Cheltenham +in 1847), and Mr. Brampton Gurdon. The poll was opened on the 22nd, and +the following was the result: Bagge, 2,710; de Grey, 2,611; Jones, 2,133; +Gurdon, 2,088. A petition against the return of the successful +candidates was dismissed, owing to informality in the recognisances. +Great disturbances took place at Swaffham, for which several persons were +punished at the ensuing Quarter Sessions. Mr. de Grey, on his return to +Merton, on the 24th, was most enthusiastically received at Watton and +other places on the route. + +26.—The comic singer Vance—“the Great Vance”—made his first appearance in +Norwich at St. Andrew’s Hall. “He is the original singer of the absurd +‘Slap Bang,’ and has better recommendations, but the judicious portion of +the audience could not see enough in him to explain the great success he +has achieved in the Metropolis.” + + +AUGUST. + + +5.—A reminiscence of the old convict days was forthcoming in a case tried +before Lord Chief Baron Pollock at the Norfolk Assizes. Cornelius +Bradnum, a fruit dealer, was indicted for being feloniously and +unlawfully at large at Heckingham on February 6th, 1865, “he having been +transported for the term of his natural life, in pursuance of a certain +judgment against him at the Norfolk Assizes on July 21st, 1847, on an +indictment for burglary.” The prisoner, in his defence, made a +remarkable statement, to the effect that in consequence of his having +given information of an intended mutiny of the convicts at Gibraltar, his +sentence was mitigated to fifteen years. From Gibraltar he was sent to +Swan River, Western Australia, where the Governor gave him his ticket of +leave, and after “serving his ticket” he received a free pardon. He then +went to Callao, in Peru. One evening, when standing on the Mole, he was +kidnapped, put upon an American ship, and brutally ill-used and crippled. +Sixty-five dollars had been paid for him, but as he was useless he was +put ashore at Hamburgh, whence, after remaining some time in hospital, he +came to England. Unfortunately, he had left at Callao the document +conveying to him his free pardon. The prosecution denied that a free +pardon had been granted. His lordship said it was for the prosecution to +show that the prisoner’s statement was untrue, after using that statement +against him as evidence. The statement must be taken as true until it +was contradicted. It had not been contradicted, and, he added, turning +to the jury, “It is for you to say whether you believe it or not. I must +say I don’t see why you should not believe it, and why he is not entitled +to a verdict of not guilty.” The jury acquitted the prisoner. + +5.—A large meeting of agriculturists was held at the Swan Hotel, Norwich, +for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken to combat “a +disease known as the Russian murrain, which had broken out among the +cattle of Norfolk.” Mr. Clare Sewell Read, M.P., presided, and, in the +course of the proceedings, alarming reports were given of the spread of +the contagion and of the immediate steps that were necessary to arrest +its progress. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Read, Mr. Steeds, Mr. W. +Smith, and Mr. R. Leamon, was appointed to wait upon the Home Office, and +at a committee meeting on the 9th Mr. Read reported what had taken place. +It was resolved, on the motion of Sir Thomas Beauchamp, who headed the +list with a donation of £100, that a public subscription be opened at +once, and Professor Simonds, in a long address, showed that the disease +was of foreign importation, and was known in Russia, whence it came, as +rinderpest. At this meeting it was reported that in the neighbourhood of +North Walsham alone losses to the extent of £1,000 and upwards had been +sustained. Isolation of the herds and the slaughter of diseased animals +were the means advocated for stamping out the murrain. A Norfolk Cattle +Plague Association was at once formed, and at a large and influential +meeting, held at St. Andrew’s Hall on the 12th, under the presidency of +Mr. Read, whose great services at this crisis were acknowledged by the +Earl of Leicester, resolutions were adopted (1) recommending to the +consideration of the public the means suggested by Professor Simonds for +dealing with the disease, and urging that no farmer should purchase any +store stock in any market for the period of six weeks; (2) that a +subscription be entered into for the purpose of meeting the losses +sustained by those who should conform to the resolutions drawn up by the +committee, and for defraying the expenses incurred in carrying out the +objects of the meeting; and (3) that no person who did not subscribe to +the amount of twopence in the pound on his assessment should participate +in the relief. At this meeting the Earl of Leicester contributed a +donation of £500. Meetings of the Cattle Plague Association were then +held weekly, reports were presented upon the state of the disease in +various parts of the county, and matters of detail received attention. +On October 21st a public meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, under the +presidency of the Earl of Leicester, “to consider the desirability of +closing all markets in the county of Norfolk.” Sir Thomas Beauchamp +moved, and the Earl of Albemarle seconded, a resolution in favour of the +adoption of this course, which was agreed to. During this month Mr. Read +was appointed a member of the Royal Commission to inquire into the causes +of cattle plague and to suggest remedies. The Commission recommended the +slaughter of animals and the stringent prohibition of the passage of +cattle across public roads, &c. At Norwich and elsewhere there were +frequent magisterial proceedings against dealers and others for +contravention of the Orders of Council; medical men and veterinary +surgeons suggested many remedies for the disease, and quacks advertised +their nostrums, but the end of the year found the fatal rinderpest more +rampant than ever. Science seemed confounded by the insidious character +of the outbreak, and precautionary measures appeared to be vain to +prevent its extension. It was officially announced that from September +6th to December 20th compensation had been given in respect of 1,486 +animals, to the amount of £9,448 3s. 11d. (_See_ February 23rd, 1866.) + +8.—A barque named the Edgar, of 600 tons burthen, built by Messrs. +Fellows and Son, for the South American trade, was launched from their +shipyard at Southtown, Great Yarmouth. + +11.—The Earl of Leicester issued to the tenants on his estate an address, +in which he referred to an election circular sent out to them during his +absence in Norway, the spirit of which he described as “a flagrant +contradiction of the principles and practices that have been professed +and followed on the Holkham estate for nearly a century.” His lordship +had counselled not coercion in any form, but the adoption of every +legitimate measure to achieve the return of Mr. Gurdon and Sir Willoughby +Jones at the West Norfolk election; but the zeal of his agent (Mr. +Shellabear) in carrying out instructions which were only indicated and +not given in detail led him to issue a circular which had caused much +scandal, the impolicy and unfittingness of which no one now saw more +clearly than his lordship himself. + +12.—Died at Kew, Sir William Jackson Hooker, K.H., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., +Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. Sir William was +a native of Norwich, where his father, Mr. Joseph Hooker, a manufacturer, +took much interest in horticulture, and possessed a rich collection of +succulent and other exotics. Hooker spent some of his earlier years in +the study of agriculture with Mr. Robert Paul, of Starston Hall, but the +death of a relative enabled him to devote himself to his favourite +pursuit, natural history. With his brother, Mr. Joseph Hooker, the Rev. +James Brown, and other naturalists, he thoroughly explored the rich +district of the Norfolk Broads in the study of ornithology. He was the +author of several works, and editor of the “Botanical Magazine.” +Resigning the appointment of Regius Professor for the curatorship of the +Royal Gardens at Kew, he received the honour of knighthood in 1835, and +in 1845 had conferred upon him the degree of D.C.L. by the University of +Oxford. He married a daughter of Mr. Dawson Turner, of Yarmouth. His +eldest son, Dr. Hooker, F.L.S., was no less distinguished than his father +for his valuable works in natural history and for the scientific +explorations with which his name was associated. + +13.—Died at Southwell, the Ven. Archdeacon Wilkins, D.D. He was born at +Norwich in 1785, and was the youngest son of Mr. William Wilkins, F.S.A., +and brother of the Professor of Architecture in the Royal Academy. +Educated at the Grammar School, Bury St. Edmund’s, under the +headmastership of Becher, he entered Caius College, Cambridge, in 1803, +and having received his degree, removed to Oxford to prosecute his +favourite study of divinity. He was ordained at Norwich in 1808, and was +ultimately presented to the vicarage of St. Mary’s, Nottingham, where he +ministered single-handed to a population of 28,000. He was the author of +“A History of the Destruction of Jerusalem,” and of several other works. + +18.—A sculling match, known as the “Great Lynn Sweepstakes,” was +contested over the Ouse championship course in the Eau Brink Cut, a +distance of 3,300 yards. The competitors were Robert Chambers, champion +of the Tyne and ex-champion of the Thames; Harry Kelley, who just +previously had wrested the championship of the Thames from his formidable +North country rival; and Robert Cooper, of Newcastle. The sweepstakes +amounted to £50, with £100 added by the Lynn Regatta Committee. The +conditions provided that if three competed the winner should receive £200 +and the second man £50, and if only two came to the post a first prize of +£200 only would be given. The race lay between Cooper and Kelley alone. +The former kept a slight lead, and as Kelley’s efforts to pass him were +unavailing, he rowed past the winning-post a quarter of a length ahead. +The referee decided that Kelley had won, disqualified Cooper on the +ground that he had taken the other man’s water, and awarded second prize +to Chambers. At a meeting presided over by the Mayor of Lynn (Mr. W. +Monement), a protest was lodged by Cooper’s backers against the second +prize being awarded to Chambers. The Mayor decided to withhold the +second prize until the referee had been communicated with, and handed to +Kelley a cheque for £200. Cooper’s protest was ultimately disallowed. + +26.—The 13th Hussars, with headquarters, arrived at Norwich Cavalry +Barracks. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +8.—A prize-fight took place on Grimstone Common, between Pooley Mace and +a man named Rackaby. After five rounds had been contested, the police +stopped hostilities, and Rackaby’s party declining to resume the fight, +the stakes were awarded to Mace. + +30.—Died at Clive House, Beckenham, Kent, in his 71st year, Lieut.-Col. +Henry Alexander, 96th Foot. He was born at Caister, and entered the Army +as ensign in the 28th Foot in June, 1811. He received the war medal with +six clasps for Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. + + +OCTOBER. + + +3.—The first Church Congress commenced at Norwich. The Congress sermon +was preached at the Cathedral by the Archbishop of York, and the first +general meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, presided over by the +Bishop of Norwich. The final meeting took place on the afternoon of the +5th, after which the members of Congress attended luncheon, given at the +new bank by Mr. R. J. H. Harvey, M.P. Two thousand guests were present. +On the morning of the 6th, the Bishop of Oxford preached the annual +sermon at the Cathedral on behalf of the Five Religious Societies. + +9.—Died at the house of Mrs. Church, Lady Lane, Norwich, Bartholomew +Gattey, “the eccentric but clever flute-player at the Theatre Royal.” +For forty years he had scarcely been absent from his place in the +orchestra of the theatres in the Norwich circuit, “a position to which he +fondly clung, in spite of many most favourable offers of engagement that +were made to him, and which, if accepted, would, no doubt, have resulted +in his obtaining a position in the musical world of honour and emolument. +At length a mind never very strong gave way, and he was obliged to have +recourse to the assistance of his friends. Mr. Hewlett and other +gentlemen got up a concert for him in December, 1863, and £50 was +realised, which, with Mr. Gattey’s simple habits, was sufficient for his +maintenance until his death.” He was a son of Mr. Gattey, a yarn +manufacturer, and a native of Norwich, and had attained his 64th year. + +14.*—“Died at his residence, Bury St. Edmund’s, Mr. Frederick Ladbrooke, +portrait painter. The deceased was the youngest son of the late Mr. +Robert Ladbrooke, one of the founders of the celebrated Society of +Norfolk and Norwich Artists. He was a painter of considerable power.” + +18.—The ceremony of cutting the first sod of the East Norfolk Railway was +performed on the estate of Mr. C. Jecks, Sheriff of Norwich, by Lady +Suffield, in the presence of a large number of spectators. In the +evening a dinner, attended by representatives of most of the principal +families in the county, was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in +celebration of the event. Lord Suffield presided. (_See_ August 13th, +1870.) + +21.*—“The Queen has been pleased to grant to Edward John Stracey, of +Sprowston, Lieut.-Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards, her Royal licence +and authority that he and his issue may, in compliance with a clause +contained in the last will and testament of James Clitherow, take and use +the name of Clitherow in addition to that of Stracey.” + +25.—A new lifeboat, named the James Pearce, was launched at Yarmouth. It +was built at the cost of £350, subscribed by the artisans of Birmingham, +and presented through the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to the +Caister station. + +30.—Died at Hilgay, aged 110 years (as was originally stated), Mr. John +Naylor, formerly landlord of the Crown Hotel, Downham Market. An amended +notice, published on November 18th, says: “The late Mr. John Naylor, who +died on the 30th ult., and was supposed by his eldest son to be _only_ +110 years of age, appears from the parish register of Welney to be 117, +he having been born on the 29th of May, 1748. In 1825 the deceased +retired from his business as a publican, he having kept the Crown at +Downham and the George and Dragon at Hilgay in succession, and had since +lived on a small property of his own in the latter village. He was +always a smart, active man, and constant in taking his walk up to +October, 1860. Since that time he had been confined to his house, but +used to sit up in his chair for some portion of the day until June, 1864, +when he did so for the last time. His sight had failed him, but his +hearing was so good that he could distinguish the voices of his friends, +and he was rational until within six weeks of his death.” + + +NOVEMBER. + + +1.—Died of apoplexy, at his residence, Acton Green, Middlesex, John +Lindley, F.R.S., Ph.D., and formerly Professor of Botany at University +College. He was born at Catton, near Norwich, in 1799, and was the son +of a nurseryman. His first literary effort, after devoting much of his +early youth to the practical details of botany, was the translation of +Richard’s “Analyse de Fruit” from the French, and the contribution of +some papers to the Transactions of the Linnæan Society. Afterwards he +proceeded to London, where he was engaged by Mr. Loudon to assist in the +production of the “Encyclopædia of Plants.” In 1832 he published his +“Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany,” but his _chef +d’œuvre_ was the “Vegetable Kingdom.” For more than a quarter of a +century Dr. Lindley filled the chair of Botany at University College, +London, and in 1860 was appointed examiner in the University of London. +He was a member of several learned bodies, and edited the horticultural +department of the “Gardeners’ Chronicle” from its commencement in +January, 1841, to the time of his death. + +7.—Lord Hastings, master of the East Norfolk Foxhounds, was presented +with his portrait in oil, subscribed for by 400 gentlemen of the Hunt. +The portrait was painted by Mr. Eddis, and his lordship was depicted in +hunting dress, mounted on Archer, his favourite hunter. Sir Willoughby +Jones, Bart., made the presentation, on behalf of the subscribers. + +8.—The Marquis and Marchioness Townshend, whose marriage had taken place +a few weeks previously, were welcomed with great enthusiasm on their +return to Rainham, and were presented by the tenantry with a handsome +silver epergne. + +9.—Mr. William Peter Nichols was elected Mayor, and Mr. William Jary +Cubitt appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—Died at Necton Hall, Colonel William Mason. He was the head of an old +county family, whose head, Paul Miller Mason, a citizen of London, built +Necton Hall in the time of Henry VII. Col. Mason served the office of +High Sheriff in 1849, was for many years a chairman of Quarter Sessions +at Swaffham, and was Lieut.-Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia. + +4.—The Prince and Princess of Wales left Sandringham, on a visit to Lord +and Lady Suffield, at Gunton Park. Their Royal Highnesses travelled by +special train from Wolferton to Lynn and thence to East Dereham, where +they were received by Lord Suffield, Viscount Hamilton, and the Hon. +Harbord Harbord. A guard of honour was formed by the 15th Norfolk +Volunteer Company, under the command of Capt. Bulwer, and their Royal +Highnesses, entering a carriage drawn by four greys, proceeded along +Norwich Road and the Market Place. Three triumphal arches were erected +in the town, which was handsomely decorated, guns were fired, and the +church bells rung, and in the evening there was a display of fireworks. +After leaving Dereham, the Royal visitors proceeded by way of Swanton, +Bylaugh, and Bawdeswell to Reepham, where the Aylsham Volunteers, +commanded by Capt. Scott, provided a guard of honour. At Aylsham their +Royal Highnesses were welcomed with great enthusiasm, and at Gunton Park +gates the North Walsham corps, commanded by Major Duff, mounted a guard +of honour. On the 5th and 6th the Prince shot over the estate, and on +the evening of the last-named day a dinner and ball were given at the +hall. On the 7th his Royal Highness attended a meet of the East Norfolk +Foxhounds, and on the 8th shot on the Hanworth side of the hall. The +visit terminated on the 9th. The Prince and Princess had arranged to +honour Lord Sondes by attending luncheon at Elmham Hall, but, owing to +intelligence received of the critical condition of the King of the +Belgians, the visit was postponed. Their Royal Highnesses left Elmham +station by special train, and arrived at Sandringham the same afternoon. + +7.—The Rev. J. M. Bellew gave public readings from the great poets and +other authors, with organ accompaniments, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. +He was described as “a perfect master of the elocutionary art.” + +20.—Died at Yarmouth, in his 71st year, Mr. Edward Cubitt, of Honing +Hall. He served in the Peninsular War with the 4th Dragoons, was at the +retreat from Burgos, and received the medal with clasps for Vittoria, +Pampeluna, and Toulouse. + +26.—The Christmas pantomime at Norwich Theatre was entitled, +“Camaralzaman and Badoura, or the Little God of Love and the Good Fairy +of Lake Lovely.” + + + +1866. + + +JANUARY. + + +6.—At a meeting of the Norfolk Agricultural Association, held at the Swan +Hotel, Norwich, it was decided to abandon the annual show for that year, +“because the bringing of cattle from all parts of the country would be +inconsistent with what is being done to prevent the transit of cattle +during the prevalence of the cattle plague.” + +8.—The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Hon. T. de Grey, +arrived at Holkham, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Leicester. +“Their Royal Highnesses _de facto_ opened the new line of the West +Norfolk Junction Railway, which had been pushed forward by the contractor +so as to be ready for the purpose.” It was by this line that the Prince +and Princess travelled to Holkham. Their Royal Highnesses returned to +Sandringham on the 13th. + +11.—The first wintry weather of the season was experienced on this date, +when there was a considerable fall of snow, accompanied by showers of +rain and sleet, followed by a sharp wind frost. Telegraphic +communication with London was suspended, in consequence of the blowing +down of several miles of the telegraph line. + +—Lost in the Bay of Biscay, by the wreck of the steamship London, on her +voyage to Australia, the Rev. John Woolley, D.C.L., formerly headmaster +of Norwich Grammar School, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and +principal and professor of classics and logic in the University of +Sydney. Mr. G. V. Brooke, the actor, formerly a member of the Norwich +Company, went down in the same ill-fated vessel. + +13.—The new building, then known as the Consolidated Bank, London Street, +Norwich, was opened for the transaction of business. It was designed by +Mr. R. M. Phipson, of Norwich and Ipswich, and built by Mr. Hall, of +Pottergate Street, at the cost of £4,000. It is now known as the +National Provincial Bank. + +—A vessel running through Yarmouth Roads was observed to be flying a +“waif.” Two lifeboats, the Rescuer, belonging to the Ranger Company, and +the Friend of All Nations, the property of the Young Company of Beachmen, +put off to her assistance. The Rescuer, in attempting to pass through +the rough water at the bar, unshipped her rudder, was capsized, and +twelve of her crew of sixteen were drowned. + +15.—Judgment was given in the Arches Court by Dr. Lushington, in the +action, Edwards and Mann _v._ Hatton, otherwise known as the “Mattishall +Church Rate case.” The plaintiffs were the churchwardens, and the +defendant a parishioner of Mattishall. Hatton having refused to pay the +Church Rate, proceedings were taken in the Arches Court to enforce it. +The whole sum in dispute was 6s. 8d., but it had given rise to many +months of litigation, to much unpleasantness and ill-feeling in the +parish, and to rioting and disturbance. Two objections were urged +against the rate: (1) That proper notice had not been given on the church +doors, as provided by the Act of Parliament; and (2) that the rate was +unequal and unjust. The Court entered judgment for the churchwardens, +and condemned the defendant in the costs of the protracted proceedings. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +1.—Under the Prisons Act, 1865, the old borough jail at Lynn ceased to be +used as a prison. + +2.—Mr. F. W. Windham, who for five or six years had enjoyed unenviable +notoriety, died suddenly at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. He had been +unwell for several days, and was seen by his medical attendant, Mr. F. C. +Bailey, on January 31st. Mr. Windham became better on February 1st, and +still further improvement was manifested on the 2nd; but later in the day +his symptoms were completely altered, and became so alarming that Mr. +Bailey called in Dr. Bateman and Dr. Eade. Every effort was made to +restore animation, but without avail; this victim of an ill-spent life +gradually sank, and in a few hours expired, in the presence of the +medical men and of some of the servants of the hotel. Death was due to +the obstruction of the circulation by a clot of blood in the pulmonary +artery. On the 7th the body was removed to Tucker’s Hotel, Cromer, and +the interment took place on the 8th, in the family vault at Felbrigg. +Mr. Windham had completely dissipated the residue of the extensive +property which he inherited, after payment of the law expenses contingent +on the great suit, Windham _v._ Windham (_q.v._ November 22nd, 1861), and +became dependent for a livelihood on the little income he made as driver +of the Cromer coach. His uncle, General Windham, had made arrangements +by which he was supplied with the means of living respectably. He had +rooms at the Norfolk Hotel, but generally spent his time in one or other +of the low public-houses in the city. The effect of his death was to +deprive Mrs. Windham of the annuity granted on Mr. Windham’s life, and of +any interest whatever in the Hanworth estate. + +16.—A case was heard at East Dereham Petty Sessions, in which the points +urged in the Corn Hall litigation in 1857–58 were again brought +prominently before the public. George Squire, a Lincolnshire merchant, +was charged with assaulting Charles Howard, the keeper of the Corn Hall. +He had paid twopence for admission, and Howard informed him that he ought +to take a merchant’s ticket and hire a stand. In the course of the +altercation, defendant took plaintiff by the collar and pinched his neck. +Mr. J. C. Chittock, solicitor, on behalf of the defendant, contended that +any person had a right to go into the hall, whether he paid for doing so +or not, because at the Summer Assizes in 1857 the proprietors were +indicted for obstructing a highway and a verdict was given for the Crown. +The hall was built upon a highway known as Lion Hill, and Lion Hill had +never ceased to be a highway. The Bench determined that they had no +jurisdiction, and dismissed the case. + +18.—Died at Great Yarmouth, Mr. Isaac Preston, aged 92 years. One of the +oldest inhabitants of the borough, he had, previous to the passing of the +Municipal Reform Act, held several important offices in connection with +the Corporation, and was twice Mayor. He was a justice of the peace and +a deputy-lieutenant for the county, and was one of the promoters of the +movement for the erection of the Nelson Column on the South Denes. + +23.—A serious difficulty arose at Norwich, owing to the operation of the +Cattle Diseases Prevention Act. A large number of dealers, apprehending +that the provisions of the Act would not be enforced until the following +week, sent stock to Norwich for the market on the 24th, or for +transmission by rail to London. Two hundred fat beasts arrived at Trowse +for conveyance, but the railway authorities refused to receive them. +Salesmen on the Hill experienced the same difficulty, and dealers had to +dispose of their cattle as best they could. Many beasts were sent to +butchers for immediate slaughter; others were removed to Trowse. The +Mayor (Mr. Nichols) went down on the 25th to see what help he could +render, but the only way out of the difficulty was to send the animals to +the Norwich slaughter-houses, whence the principal portion of the meat +was forwarded to London. In order to obviate any further difficulty of +the kind, the Norwich Town Council, on the 27th, resolved to erect +slaughter-houses and to provide a dead meat market. The cattle plague +continued with unabated virulence. Thursday, March 8th, was observed as +a day of humiliation, business was suspended, and special services were +held at the Cathedral and the parish churches. Similar services took +place throughout the county. On June 30th it was announced, “Rinderpest +is now nearly extinct in Norfolk and Suffolk”; and on October 13th it was +stated: “The non-existence of the cattle plague in the county has +rendered the work of the Central Committee and the Cattle Plague +Association very light.” Norwich Cattle Market was re-opened on November +17th. + + +MARCH. + + +6.—A dastardly attempt was made to destroy the church of St. Lawrence, +Norwich. Mr. David Penrice, the churchwarden, accompanied by a lad, went +to prepare the church for evening service, and found it to be full of +gas. The lad, on endeavouring to open the windows, was overcome by the +fumes. Assistance was obtained, and it was discovered that every burner +in the church had been fully turned on. At the Police Court, on the +21st, a lad named George Nobbs, described as a shoemaker, of St. +Martin-at-Oak, was charged with “wilfully and maliciously turning on the +gas at St. Lawrence’ church, thereby endangering the lives of her +Majesty’s subjects.” The offence was fully proved, but the magistrates +dismissed the case, on the ground that “the lad did not show he had any +knowledge of the consequences of the act.” + +13.—A boiler explosion occurred at the brewery of Messrs. Arnold and +Wyatt, St. Margaret’s Plain, Norwich. William Whitworth, an engine +driver, was killed, “his body being hurled into the beck containing six +quarters of boiling wort.” + +20.—The hearing of the petition against the return of Sir E. H. K. Lacon +and Mr. J. Goodson commenced, before a Committee of the House of Commons. +Bribery, undue influence, and treating were alleged. The inquiry +concluded on the 22nd, when the chairman (the Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray) +announced that the Committee had arrived at the unanimous conclusion that +the members had been duly elected. On April 12th Mr. Mowbray gave notice +of his intention to move the appointment of a Royal Commission “to +inquire into the corrupt practices which prevailed at the last election +for Great Yarmouth.” The Commissioners, Mr. Wyndham Slade, Mr. Lucius +Henry Fitzgerald, and Mr. George Russell, began their sittings at the +Town Hall on August 16th, and on September 11th adjourned until October +3rd, on which day the proceedings recommenced. The final adjournment +took place on October 15th, the thirty-fourth day of the inquiry. Six +hundred and fifty-six witnesses were examined, and full investigations +made as to the elections of 1865, 1859, and 1857. The Commissioners +reported that corrupt and illegal practices extensively prevailed, and in +consequence the borough was disfranchised. + +27.—The 13th Hussars marched from Norwich, _en route_ to Newcastle. + +28.—In the course of a civil action, Creake _v._ Smith, at the Norfolk +Assizes, before Mr. Baron Martin, reference was made to “the science of +Bibliomancy,” as practised by a “cunning woman” in the neighbourhood of +Wells-next-the-Sea. The defendant, who was landlord of the Railway Hotel +at Wells, had lost articles from his house, and had consulted the woman +with the view of discovering the thief. A Bible was suspended by a +string and made to revolve; during its revolutions the names of several +suspected persons were called out, and it was alleged that it stopped on +the name of the plaintiff being mentioned—a clear proof that he was the +guilty person. The defendant returned to the hotel, alleged that Creake +was a thief, “for he knew it by the turn of the Bible,” and dismissed him +from his service. Hence these legal proceedings for slander and wrongful +dismissal, which resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff on the first +count, and for the defendant on the second count. + + +APRIL. + + +2.—Loveday’s English Grand Opera Company commenced an engagement at +Norwich Theatre. The principals included Madame Florence Lancia, Mdlle. +Ella Miraldi, Miss Annie Leng, Miss Fanny Leng, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler, +Mr. Grantham, Mr. Oliver Summers, and Mr. Henry Rowland. The repertory +included “La Somnambula,” “Il Trovatore,” “Don Giovanni,” “Faust,” +“Dinorah,” “Der Frieschutz,” “Lucrezia Borgia,” “Norma,” and “Satanella.” + +3.—Died at Hethel Hall, John Davy Brett, formerly major in the 17th +Lancers, and lieut.-colonel of the 1st Norfolk Battalion of Volunteers, +aged 51. + +5.—The marriage of the Right Hon. Charles Adolphus Murray, seventh Earl +of Dunmore, and Lady Gertrude Coke, third daughter of the Lord Lieutenant +of Norfolk, took place at Holkham. The ceremony was honoured by the +presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, who arrived at the Hall on +the 4th, as the private guests of the Earl and Countess of Leicester. + +9.—Died at Chequers Court, Herts., aged 56, Lieut.-Col. Francis +L’Estrange Astley, commandant of the Norfolk Militia Artillery. He was +born in 1810, and married first in 1835, Charlotte, second daughter of +Mr. N. Micklethwait, of Taverham; and secondly, in 1854, Rosalind Alicia, +fifth daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, Bart. + +21.—The Norwich sewerage scheme was further considered by the Town +Council. A scheme known as the Hope scheme, introduced at a previous +meeting, was abandoned, and the future management of the matter referred +to a committee selected from members opposed to the scheme. On May 12th +appeared the announcement that preliminary steps had been taken in +Chancery by the inhabitants of Thorpe and a bill filed against the Mayor +and Corporation for an injunction to compel them to desist from emptying +sewage into the river. On May 15th a special committee reported that +certain attempts made to cleanse the river had been attended with +considerable success, and at the same meeting a memorial was presented by +the inhabitants of the city, expressing regret and disappointment at the +abandonment of the proposed plan for diverting the sewage from the river, +and stating that under no circumstances whatever should the stream be +made use of as a sewer. Acting upon counsel’s opinion, the Corporation, +on May 31st, determined that it was needful at once to take measures for +the diversion of the sewage from the river. The Sewerage Committee +resigned, and a new committee was appointed. This committee, on July +10th, recommended the hiring “of 1,300 acres of land on the Crown Point +estate, for the purpose of irrigating the same with the Norwich sewage.” +The recommendation was agreed to. On October 9th the Town Clerk was +authorised, under the direction of the Special Sewerage Committee, to +give the necessary notices to enable application to be made in the next +Session of Parliament for an Act of Parliament for carrying out sewerage +works, and for the preparation of the necessary plans to be deposited in +conformity with the Standing Orders of the House. (_See_ January 15th, +1867.) + +22.—The Rev. John Alexander, minister of the Independent congregation +meeting at Prince’s Street, Norwich, resigned the pastorate of the +chapel, after a service of nearly half a century. Mr. Alexander came to +Norwich on April 4th, 1817, and for a time officiated at the Tabernacle +belonging to Lady Huntingdon’s Connexion. His small congregation next +met at the Lancastrian School, and in order to retain his services they +built the Prince’s Street chapel, where he ministered until the date of +his resignation. He was succeeded by the Rev. G. S. Barrett, B.A., of +the Lancashire Independent College. + +24.—Died at Coltishall Hall, Mr. William Burroughes. The younger son of +a family seated in Norfolk for considerably more than one hundred years, +he was educated at Norwich Grammar School “in the palmy Valpeian days,” +and at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He was upon the commission of the +peace for the county, chairman of the visiting justices, and joint +secretary of the Norfolk Agricultural Association. + +30.—The Great Yarmouth Fish Wharves and Tramways Bill and the Great +Yarmouth Haven, Port, and Rivers Bill, were before a Committee of the +House of Commons. The first-named Bill went through Committee without +opposition on May 7th, and the latter was ordered to be reported on May +28th. The Port and Haven Bill, among other matters, provided that the +Commission should consist of thirteen members, namely, four for Yarmouth +(two to be elected by the Corporation, one by the registered shipowners +and payers of dues, and one by the owners of fishing vessels and payers +of dues on fish); three elected by the justices of Norfolk; three by the +justices of Suffolk; and three by the Corporation of Norwich, one of each +set of Commissioners for Norfolk, Suffolk, and Norwich being a merchant +residing and carrying on business within the district for which he was +elected. (_See_ October 28th, 1867.) + + +MAY. + + +2.—The organ at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, restored by Mr. Hedgeland, +at the cost of £430, was used for the first time at commemorative +services held at the church. The instrument was built by Renatus Harris, +in 1707. + +5.*—“Lord Suffield has been appointed Lieut.-Col. Commandant of the +Norfolk Militia Artillery, in place of the late Col. Astley.” + +11.—Intelligence was received from London that the banking firm of +Overend, Gurney, and Co. had been compelled, owing to the panic in the +money market, to suspend payment. The announcement created great anxiety +in Norwich, lest the firm of Messrs. Gurney and Co. were involved. +Public confidence was restored by a notice issued by the firm, who stated +that they were in no way liable, and were not affected by the affairs of +Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co. A meeting of the citizens was at once +convened at the Guildhall, under the presidency of the Mayor, and a +resolution passed “declaring publicly and unhesitatingly its unbounded +confidence in the house of Messrs. Gurneys and Birkbecks, and its +unabated reliance on its perfect financial security.” (_See_ January +1st, 1869.) + +23.—Mrs. Bulwer, wife of Capt. Bulwer, commanding the 15th (Dereham) +Company of Rifle Volunteers, opened a new rifle range at Billingford by +firing the first shot, in the presence of a large gathering of Volunteers +and civilians. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated at Norwich by a parade in Chapel +Field of the 1st Norfolk Light Horse Volunteers and the Artillery and +Rifle Volunteers. The Mayoress (Mrs. Nichols) laid the foundation-stone +of the new Drill Hall, and after the ceremony luncheon was served at St. +Andrew’s Hall. + +—The Norfolk and Norwich Gymnastic Society held their first annual sports +on the Newmarket Road Cricket Ground. The programme included gymnastic +exercises, boxing, high jumping, flat and hurdle racing, &c. + +31.—The new church at Thorpe St. Andrew was consecrated by the Bishop of +Norwich. The site on the north side of the old church was given by Mr. +William Birkbeck; the building was designed by Mr. Thomas Jeckyll, of +Norwich and London, and the contractor and subcontractors were Mr. +Cornish, of North Walsham; Mr. J. W. Lacey and Mr. Rust, of Norwich. The +estimated cost of the work was £4,000. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—The Marquis of Hartington having stated in the House of Commons that +as the troops would be accommodated in the new barracks at Colchester, +the Government intended to give up the Cavalry Barracks at Norwich, and +the lease having expired, the buildings would be handed over to the Dean +and Chapter of Norwich, to whom they belonged, a meeting of citizens was +held at the Guildhall, at which a resolution was passed asking the +authorities to reconsider their determination. A deputation consisting +of the Earl of Leicester, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Suffield, the +members of Parliament for the city, and other gentlemen, waited upon Lord +Hartington at the War Office on June 14th, and on July 7th it was +announced that, after due consideration, the authorities had decided to +continue the barracks at Norwich. + +6.—Earl Fortesque attended at the Free Library, Norwich, and presented +the prizes awarded under the Cambridge Prize Scheme. + + +JULY. + + +11.—Lord Stanley, on his appointment as Foreign Secretary in the new +Conservative Administration, was re-elected without opposition member of +Parliament for the borough of King’s Lynn. + +16.—A meeting was held at the Rampant Horse Hotel, Norwich, to consider +what steps should be taken to prevent the intended closing of Victoria +Station, under the Great Eastern Railway (Additional Powers) Bill. A +memorial was addressed to the Town Council, calling attention to the fact +that this was the fourth attempt made by the company to close the +terminus, and that by the Act of Parliament which sanctioned the +amalgamation of the Eastern Union with the Eastern Counties Railway a +special clause was inserted for the sufficient maintenance of the +station. On these grounds the Corporation were asked to oppose the Bill. +At a meeting of the Town Council on the 17th, a letter was read from the +company, in which they offered, in consideration of being permitted to +close the station, to contribute £1,000 towards the improvement of +Foundry Bridge. The Council were not prepared to accede to the +proposition. When the Company’s Bill was before the Committee of the +House of Commons, in March, 1867, the clause providing for the +abandonment of the station was disallowed. + +19.—St. Giles’ church, Norwich, was re-opened, after extensive +restoration. A new chancel had also been built, and a new organ, costing +£350, erected. The scheme included the widening of the street by the +giving up of a portion of the churchyard. The restoration was carried +out, under the direction of Mr. R. M. Phipson, by Mr. J. W. Lacey, +conjointly with Messrs. Atkins and Hawes. The total cost of the work was +about £4,000, of which £1,000 was given by the rector (the Rev. W. N. +Ripley). + +25.—The National Archery meeting commenced at Crown Point, Norwich, and +was continued on the 26th and 27th. The show of the Norfolk and Norwich +Horticultural Society was held in the grounds on the 26th (when the band +of the 1st Life Guards was present), and a ball was given at St. Andrew’s +Hall in the evening. + +28.—Died at Bramerton, in his 76th year, Mr. William Wilde, Coroner for +Norwich. “In Mr. Wilde the city has lost an active and intelligent +public officer and a useful citizen, and the Liberal party a most +efficient agent. To his shrewdness, accurate judgment, and devotion to +their interests, the Liberals of Norwich and elsewhere have been indebted +for many a triumph.” Mr. Wilde was a member of the Court of Guardians, +and for some time its chairman, and a member of the Festival Committee. +He had been Coroner for thirty years. + +31.—A new lifeboat, named the Leicester, was launched at Gorleston. It +was purchased by a fund amounting to £900 inaugurated by the Mayoress of +Leicester (Mrs. Hodges), and was lodged in a new lifeboat house built at +the cost of £250. + + +AUGUST. + + +5.—Died at his seat at Honingham, the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Bayning. +His lordship was the second son of Mr. Charles Townshend, who was created +Baron Bayning in 1797, and succeeded his brother, Charles Frederick, as +third Baron on August 2nd, 1823, when he assumed, by sign manual (in lieu +of his patronymic, Townshend), the name of his maternal grandfather, +William Powlett. Born on June 8th, 1797, he married, on August 9th, +1842, Emma, only daughter of Mr. W. H. Fellowes, of Ramsey Abbey, +Huntingdon, by whom he had one son, who died twelve months previously to +his lordship’s death, and the barony thus became extinct. Lord Bayning +was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in +1818, and was appointed rector of Brome, Suffolk, in 1821, and rural dean +in the diocese of Norwich in 1844. He resigned the rectory of Brome in +1847, and was appointed to the rectory of Honingham with the vicarage of +East Tuddenham in 1851. His lordship was High Steward of Norwich +Cathedral, Vice-President of the Norwich Diocesan Association for the +Propagation of the Gospel, of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, of the +Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, and of the Institution for the +Indigent Blind, and he was a trustee of the Norwich Savings Rank, &c. +For some years he was treasurer and a most active promoter of the +Diocesan Church Building Society. + +6.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Mr. Edward S. +Bignold was elected Coroner, in place of Mr. Wilde. In order to take the +office, he resigned his seat in the Town Council, and was permitted to +retire without paying the customary fine. + +10.—A new self-righting lifeboat was launched at Happisburgh. The vessel +was presented to the National Lifeboat Institution by the people of +Huddersfield, who contributed upwards of £1,000 for its purchase. + +14.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Erle and a special +jury, was tried the libel action, Athill _v._ Soman. The declaration +stated that the libel was published in a newspaper called the “Norwich +Argus,” of which the defendant was the printer, and was contained in a +letter signed “Honour Lingley,” dated November 25th, 1865. The writer +accused Athill, a superintendent of police, of wrongfully ransacking her +chests of linen at a house at Sprowston called the “Haunted Cottage,” at +which disturbances had taken place, and where Athill had been present in +the discharge of his official duties. The damages were laid at £500; the +jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages one farthing. +Application was made on behalf of the plaintiff for costs, but his +lordship held that “there was not a solitary instance of any personal +malice or ill-will on the part of the defendant,” and refused it. The +county magistrates subsequently contributed to a fund to defray the +expenses of the plaintiff. + +25.—At the sale of the Lessingham House estate, by Messrs. Hewitt and +Capon, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, a portion of Surlingham Broad was +purchased by Mr. R. Pratt, for £1,300. “The last time this lot was sold +by public auction it fetched about £900.” + +27.—The Hon. Thomas de Grey, M.P., shooting on Blubberhouse Moor, made a +bag of 215 brace of grouse, “a feat which has not met with its equal on +any of the Yorkshire moors, nor on any other in England or Scotland.” + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +4.—Died at the King and Miller Inn, Norfolk Street, Sheffield, of +“mortification of the big toe,” William Pilch, the cricketer, formerly of +Norwich, in his 69th year. + +19.—Died at Southsea, aged 80, General Sir William Robert Clayton, Bart., +son of Sir William. Clayton, fourth baronet. He saw much service in the +Peninsular campaign. On the death of his father, in 1834, he succeeded +to the extensive patrimonial estates in Norfolk, Bucks., Surrey, and +South Wales. Sir William’s Norfolk seat was White Hall, Saham Toney. + +22.*—“The Dean and Chapter of Norwich have offered to confer the office +of Lord High Steward of the Cathedral Church, vacant by the death of Lord +Bayning, on the Earl of Kimberley, and his lordship has signified to the +Dean and Chapter his intention to accept the office. The grandfather and +the great-grandfather of the present Earl have been Lord High Stewards of +the Cathedral.” + +25.—Minnie Stratton, daughter of “General Tom Thumb” and Mrs. Stratton, +died at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, and was, on the 26th, buried at the +Cemetery. “Mr. and Mrs. Stratton were chief mourners, and there was a +large number of spectators.” + +—A boiler explosion took place at the dye and chemical works of Messrs. +Stark and Co., Duke’s Palace Street, Norwich. Three men (Taylor, Breeze, +and Clarke) were killed on the spot, and three others died of their +injuries. The Coroner’s jury found that the explosion was due to the +defective construction of the boiler. At the Norwich Assizes, on March +27th, 1867, an action was brought by Mr. Stark against Messrs. Riches and +Watts, for the recovery of damages. A verdict was given for plaintiff, +the amount to be assessed by arbitration. (_See_ February 19th, 1868.) + + +OCTOBER. + + +6.—The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, “to co-operate with the Central +Chamber of Agriculture in watching over the measures affecting the +agricultural interest,” was established at a meeting held at the Norfolk +Hotel, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. C. S. Read, M.P. On October +20th Mr. Read was elected chairman, and Mr. Richard England +vice-chairman. + +13.—Norwich Theatre was opened for the winter season, under the +management of Mr. J. F. Young, who had previously managed, with success, +the Yarmouth and Lynn Theatres. + +—Died at Great Chart Rectory, Kent, the Hon. and Very Rev. George Pellew, +D.D., Dean of Norwich. He was third son of Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, +afterwards Viscount Exmouth, and was born in Tregeny, Cornwall, in 1793. +Educated at Eton and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took his +B.A. degree in 1815 and his M.A. in 1818, he received holy orders in +1817, and in 1820 married the Hon. Frances Addington, second daughter of +the first Viscount Sidmouth. In 1823 he was appointed to a canonry in +Canterbury Cathedral, where he resided until his preferment to the +Deanery of Norwich in 1828, on the death of Dean Turner. The degree of +D.D. was conferred upon him in the same year, and in 1852 he was +presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the living of Great Chart, +which he held at the time of his death. Besides publishing “Sermons +preached in Cathedral Churches on the Leading Doctrines of the Church of +England” (1848), he wrote “The Seven Ages of a Christian’s Life” (1866) +and a “Memoir of Lord Sidmouth” (1847). Dr. Pellew left three daughters +and a son. + +29.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced with an +evening performance of “Israel in Egypt.” Miscellaneous concerts were +given on the evenings of October 30th and 31st and November 1st. On the +morning of October 31st were given an anthem by Spohr (the first time of +performance) and “Naaman” (the first time of performance in Norwich), +conducted by the composer, M. Costa; on the morning of November 1st, +“Saint Cecilia” (composed expressly for the Festival), a selection from +the Passion Music (the first time of performance “in any country”), and +the first and second parts of “The Creation”; and on the morning of +November 2nd, “The Messiah.” The principal performers were Mdlle. +Tietjens, Madame Rudersdorff, Miss Edith Wynne, Mdlle. Sinico, Madame De +Meric Lablache, Mdlle. Anna Drasdel, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. W. H. Cummings, +Signor Morini, Mr. Santley, Mr. Weiss, and Signor Gassier. Mr. Benedict +conducted. The Festival concluded with a “full dress” ball on the +evening of November 2nd. The total receipts amounted to £5,783 11s., and +the balance in favour of the committee to £971 7s. 3d. + +30.—The Prince and Princess of Wales, with her Majesty the Queen of +Denmark and suite, left Sandringham, on a visit to Lord and Lady +Stafford, at Costessey Park. They were accompanied by the Duke of +Edinburgh, who had accepted the invitation of the High Sheriff (Mr. W. A. +Tyssen Amhurst) to spend the Festival week in Norwich. The Royal party, +who travelled by special train to East Dereham, where the Volunteers +formed a guard of honour, were received by Lord Stafford and the Earl of +Leicester at the station, whence they travelled by road to Costessey, and +were enthusiastically greeted by a large gathering in the park. On the +morning of the 31st the illustrious visitors, escorted by the 1st Norfolk +Light Horse Volunteers, under Capt. Hay Gurney, proceeded to Norwich, and +were received by the Mayor (Mr. W. P. Nichols), the Sheriff (Mr. W. J. +Cubitt), and other civic dignitaries at the city boundary, and by members +of the Corporation and Guardians and representatives of friendly +societies, &c., at St. Giles’ Gates. At the Guildhall addresses were +presented to the Prince and Princess and the Queen by the Corporation and +by the Bishop and clergy of the diocese. The party then proceeded to St. +Andrew’s Hall, to attend the Musical Festival. During the interval at +the performance, the Mayor gave a luncheon in one of the rooms to the +Prince and Princess, the Queen of Denmark, and their suite; and the +Princess was presented by Miss C. M. Nichols, on behalf of the ladies of +Norwich, with an album containing photographic views of the city, &c. +Their Royal Highnesses then drove to Chapel Field and planted two trees, +in commemoration of their visit, and the day’s proceedings ended with the +opening, by the Prince of Wales, of the new Volunteer Drill Hall, the +first stone of which was laid a few months previously by Mrs. Nichols, +who was presented with a silver trowel designed for the occasion. A +ball, preceded by a dinner, was given at Costessey in the evening. At +the dinner the party comprised only the Prince and Princess, the Queen of +Denmark, Lord and Lady Stafford, and Mr. and Mrs. Nichols. On November +1st the Royal party passed through Norwich, escorted by a squadron of the +1st King’s Dragoon Guards (from Colchester), on their way to Thorpe +Station, whence they departed for Sandringham. The city was lavishly +decorated in honour of the Royal visit, and on the night of the 30th +there were illuminations and fireworks. The Duke of Edinburgh stayed +with the High Sheriff at Mr. Firth’s house in St. Giles’ Street, where a +distinguished company was invited to meet his Royal Highness. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +5.—A remarkable outrage was perpetrated at Little Walsingham church. A +few minutes after the clerk had tolled the “curfew” bell, a violent +explosion took place in the south transept. It was found that a charge +of gunpowder had been placed beneath the organ and ignited by a train of +cotton. The instrument, with the exception of the swell organ, was +scattered to pieces, the south transept window entirely destroyed, and +other windows seriously damaged. The organ was purchased in 1862, at the +cost of £250, and the total amount of damage done by the explosion was +about £300. A reward of £200 was offered for information that would lead +to the conviction of the perpetrator of the outrage. + +9.—Mr. Frederick Elwin Watson was elected Mayor, and Mr. William Copeman +Clabburn appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +16.—Eight vessels were wrecked and five lives lost, on the Norfolk coast, +between Mundesley and Palling. + +17.—A Bohemian waxwing (_Bombycilla garrulus_) was observed at Old +Buckenham, and another was shot the same day near Thetford. By the first +week of December the birdstuffers received at least 22 specimens, from +Mutford, Worstead, Northrepps, St. Faith’s, Rollesby, Cawston Woodrow, +Wroxham, and other districts. In the last week of December it was stated +that more than one hundred specimens had been procured. “With the +exception of one or two stragglers, this species has not been noticed +here since 1863, when some sixteen specimens were killed in Norfolk.” + + +DECEMBER. + + +3.—A storm of terrific violence occurred off Yarmouth, and several ships +were lost and men drowned. A new gas-holder of 100,000 cubic feet +capacity, surrounded by massive iron columns, was blown over at Yarmouth +Gas Works, and considerably damaged. + +4.—The Rev. Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., incumbent of St. John’s, +Paddington, was installed Dean of Norwich by the Rev. Canon Heaviside, in +the absence of the Bishop of Norwich. + +10.—The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived, +by rail, at Diss, whence the Prince and Princess proceeded to Oakley +Park, on a visit to Sir E. C. Kerrison, Bart., M.P., and Lady Caroline +Kerrison; and the Duke to Thornham Hall, on a visit to Baron and Lady +Hartismere. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Sandringham on the 13th. + +—An extraordinary charge was preferred before the Walsingham magistrates, +against Mr. Miles Brown, a large farmer, of Houghton St. Giles, and his +brother, Mr. William Brown. It was alleged that they had exhibited in +the window of a cottage in High Street, Walsingham, “an apparatus +revolving before a light, and exhibiting in a glass behind an upright +coffin, on the lid of which was a photograph of the Rev. Septimus Henry +Lee Warner, such public exhibition being a threat on the part of the +defendants to take away the life of the said complainant.” The +defendants were bound over in the sum of £1,600 to keep the peace. + +15.*—“The old lighthouse at Cromer, which had for so many years been a +conspicuous object on the edge of the lofty hill, toppled over the other +day, and was immediately buried by a great fall from the cliff, which +followed it. It was first erected in the year 1719, and was lit by a +coal fire until oil lamps with powerful reflectors were introduced.” + +17.—The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Norwich, _en route_ to Gunton Park. +Before proceeding on his journey, his Royal Highness visited the +Cathedral. + +25.—Died at East Dereham, aged 65, Mr. William Drake, many years +Conservative registration agent for West Norfolk. + +26.—The pantomime at Norwich Theatre, written by Mr. R. Soutar, was +founded upon the story of the intrigue of Henry II. and Fair Rosamond. + +31.—A heavy fall of snow occurred, and the roads in many parts of the +county were rendered impassable. + +—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Holkham, on a visit to the +Earl and Countess of Leicester. “So considerable was the destruction of +hares, rabbits, pheasants, &c., during the Royal visit that on one day 2 +tons 19 cwt. of game were forwarded from Wells Station to Leadenhall +Market.” The Prince, with the Duke of Edinburgh, who was also a guest of +the Earl and Countess, left on January 10th, 1867, for Marham House, on a +visit to Mr. and Mrs. Villebois. + + + +1867. + + +JANUARY. + + +6.—During a severe storm off Yarmouth, the brigs Ark, of Sunderland, and +Sarah, of the same port, had a collision in the Roads, and were lost, +with their crews of sixteen hands. + +7.—The actions arising out of the Middle Level inundations now took the +form of an arbitration. The arbitrators were laymen, appointed by both +parties, with a legal umpire, and their investigation of the merits of +the case or cases commenced on this date, at the Incorporated Law +Society’s house, Chancery Lane, London. The proceedings were protracted. +In the first week of March several of the claimants, among them Mr. +Mason, in whose name the first action was brought, accepted offers made +by the Commissioners. The offers were in excess of the following items: +(1) a year’s rent, tithes, taxes, and outgoings; (2) all expenses on the +crops destroyed (tillage, seed sowing, &c.) up to the day of the +inundation; (3) damage to fences, buildings, &c., and (4) the amount of a +full year’s rent, tithes, and drainage taxes as profits to the tenants. +In May the cases Coe _v._ Wise and Sharpe _v._ the Commissioners were +argued in the Rolls Court, before Mr. Serjeant Hayes and Mr. Durrant and +Mr. Bailey Denton, the arbitrators; and on June 22nd it was announced +that Mr. Coe had been awarded £2,575, and Mr. Sharpe £405, the former +getting £500 and the latter £100 more than the defendants offered. The +defendants, therefore, were ordered to pay costs, and the litigation +ended. + +12.—Died at Bedford, Colonel Vincent Matthias, Madras Army, aged 73. +Born at Norwich, he was of a family of fifteen, and nine of his brothers +entered either the Navy or Army. He was appointed a cadet in 1810, and +received his commission as ensign on August 24th, 1811, Colonel Mathias’ +service extended over a period of more than thirty years. He was an +ardent sportsman, and while in India made a valuable collection of +natural history specimens, which he presented to the Norfolk and Norwich +Museum. + +15.—The proceedings of the Town Council relative to the Norwich sewerage +scheme commenced this year with the payment to Mr. P. E. Hansell, +solicitor, of £205, the amount of taxed costs allowed to the informants +in obtaining the injunction restraining the Corporation from putting +sewage into the river Wensum. On the 22nd the Council, after +considerable debate, decided that the dry earth system advocated by Mr. +Edward Boardman was not applicable to the district. The Court of +Reference appointed by the House of Commons to try the merits of the +Norwich Local Board of Health Bill with reference to its engineering +details and the estimated cost of the proposed works, commenced its +investigations on March 11th. The object of the Bill was “to provide for +the better sewering of the city and the applying of the sewage to the +irrigation of land.” The referees reported to the House on the 14th that +the works and estimates were sufficient for the objects proposed. The +Bill was before a Select Committee of the House of Commons on March 13th, +and on March 26th it was, with certain amendments, reported to the House. +(_See_ January 28th, 1868.) + +16.—A deep snow caused considerable inconvenience to railway traffic. A +train from Norwich to Lowestoft came to a standstill in the Mutford +cutting, and was not got out until the afternoon of the 17th. The snow +drifted to the depth of seven feet upon most of the lines, some of which +remained closed for three days. Many of the roads were impassable for +vehicular traffic, and in some instances the mail bags were carried +across country on foot. Great distress prevailed amongst the poor, and +special funds were raised in several towns for their relief. At Norwich +the amount contributed was £2,227. On the 22nd a rapid thaw commenced. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +14.—Sir S. W. Baker, the discoverer of the sources of the Nile, delivered +a lecture at St. Peter’s Hall, Norwich, upon the political condition of +Egypt. The Mayor presided over the large audience, who accorded a warm +reception to Sir Samuel, who, at that time, was a resident in the county. + + +MARCH. + + +19.—The boiler of an engine at work in a field near Watlington Station +exploded, killing five persons outright, and injuring seven others, two +of whom died on the following day. Such was the force of the explosion +that the boiler was blown a distance of forty yards. It was proved at +the inquest that the accident resulted from the tying down the +safety-valve. + +29.—Charles Dickens appeared at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, and read, +before a numerous audience, “Dr. Marigold” and the trial scene from +“Pickwick.” + + +APRIL. + + +5.—Mr. Sothern appeared at Norwich Theatre, in the character of Lord +Dundreary. On the 6th he performed the part of David Garrick. The house +was crowded to excess on both occasions. + +22.—Mr. Loveday’s English Grand Opera Company commenced an engagement at +Norwich Theatre. Madame Haigh-Dyer was the _prima donna_, and Mr. and +Mrs. Aynsley Cooke were of the company. The works produced included +“Robert le Diable,” “The Fairy and the Cobbler,” “The Puritan’s +Daughter,” “The Barber of Seville,” “Faust,” “Don Giovanni,” “Satanella,” +“The Quaker,” &c. + +24.—Lord Hastings and Mr. Anthony Hamond, masters of Norfolk foxhounds, +were entertained at dinner at the Corn Hall, Fakenham, “in appreciation +of their efforts to provide sport during the season.” The Earl of +Leicester presided. + + +MAY. + + +8.—Died at Yarmouth, aged 76, Lieut. William Simpson, R.M., of North +Walsham. He was one of the officers who received the Emperor Napoleon on +board the Bellerophon, on July 15th, 1815. + +14.—A great public meeting, in support of the United Kingdom Alliance, +was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, and was addressed by General Neal +Dow, who had taken a prominent part in the passing of the Maine Liquor +Law. + +18.—A meeting of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, presided over by Mr. +C. S. Read, M.P., was held “to discuss the future aggregate +representation of the county in Parliament, in the event of the loss of +three of its borough members,” namely, of two on the disenfranchisement +of Yarmouth, and of one on Thetford being constituted a “single membered” +borough. The following motion was adopted: “That the attention of the +Chamber having been directed to the clauses in the Bill before Parliament +for the redistribution of seats, it is resolved that the proposal to take +away three members from the county is unjust, and that the most strenuous +efforts be made to retain twelve members, to which it is justly entitled, +by reason of its population, wealth, and importance.” It was announced +on June 15th that, under the redistribution scheme, Norfolk would in +future have three divisions, namely, West, North-East, and South-East. +The Boundary Commissioners appointed under the provisions of the +Representation of the People Act held inquiries at Thetford on September +24th, at Norwich on September 27th and October 9th, at Lynn on October +2nd, and at the Shirehall, Norwich, on October 7th. (_See_ June 18th, +1868.) + +21.—Died at West Bilney Hall, Mr. Thomas William Coke. He was born in +January, 1793, and was the eldest son of Edward Coke, of Longford, +Derbyshire. In his youth he was frequently at Holkham, and was long +regarded as heir to the estate, but this prospect ended by the marriages +in 1822, of his uncle, Thomas William Coke (created Earl of Leicester in +1837), to Lady Anne Keppel, the issue of which was the large family of +whom the present Earl is the head. Mr. Coke was very popular, and in +early life was a fearless and accomplished horseman. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was observed at Norwich by a parade of the +Volunteers and the firing of a _feu de joie_ in the Market Place. The +Volunteers were entertained at dinner at the Drill Hall, 700 old people +were invited by the Mayor and Sheriff to a feast at the Corn Hall, and +luncheon was served at St. Andrew’s Hall for many of the leading +residents in city and county. + +28.—A modified observance of the old custom of “beating the bounds” took +place in the parish of Colkirk. “The existence of tithe maps and other +circumstances halving rendered actual perambulation comparatively +unnecessary, the circuit of the parish was omitted; but two brief +services were held in the pretty green lanes at the opposite extremities +of the parish, and were attended by 60 or 70 persons, including the +little children of the village school, who marched through the village +singing hymns, preceded by a modest banner.” An address was given at +both services by the Rev. W. A. Chapman. + + +JUNE. + + +4.—Died, at the age of 53, Dr. W. H. Ranking, formerly of Norwich. He +was descended from a family living on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, +who had for three generations been engaged in the practice of medicine. +Dr. Ranking received his early education at Hastings, and subsequently +entered the University of Cambridge. After spending some time in the +hospitals of Paris, he settled at Bury St. Edmund’s, and became physician +to the Suffolk General Hospital, a post which he filled for seven years. +After the death of Dr. Lubbock, Dr. Ranking removed to Norwich, and +became physician to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and editor of the +Journal of the Council of the Provincial Medical and Surgical +Association. “He was a most uncompromising enemy to quackery in all its +forms, and he always testified to the absurdity of what he considered the +fashionable humbug of the age—homœopathy.” + +19.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at +Fakenham, and was continued on the 20th. By special permission granted +by the Privy Council, at the request of a deputation introduced on May +9th by Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., cattle were exhibited under certain +restrictions. At the dinner, presided over by the Earl of Kimberley, Mr. +E. C. Bailey was presented with a handsome testimonial, on his +resignation of the office of secretary, after twenty-five years’ service. + +24.—The First Administrative Battalion of Norfolk Volunteers, commanded +by Col. James Duff, encamped in Hunstanton Park. + + +JULY. + + +5.—Mr. J. L. Toole commenced a two nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre, +and appeared in “The Spitialfields Weaver,” “Ici on parle Français,” and +“The Area Belle.” + +6.—Died, in his 70th year, at his residence, Surrey Road, Norwich, Mr. +William Day, who for upwards of forty years had held the office of +magistrates’ clerk. + +9.—Died, Sir George James Turner, the senior Lord Justice of Appeal. He +was born at Great Yarmouth in 1798, where his father, the Rev. Richard +Turner, was for thirty years vicar. His education commenced at the +Charterhouse (of which he was afterwards a governor), and finished at +Pembroke College, Cambridge, where his uncle, Dr. Joseph Turner, Dean of +Norwich, was then master. In 1819 he took his degree as wrangler, and +was soon afterwards elected a Fellow of Pembroke. Having entered at +Lincoln’s Inn, he was called to the Bar in 1821, and became Queen’s +Counsel in 1840, and from 1847 to 1851 sat in the House of Commons as +member for Coventry. In 1851 he was selected as a Vice-Chancellor, and +in 1853, when Lord Cottenham was appointed Lord Chancellor, he was +promoted Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal. Sir George married in +1823, Louisa, youngest daughter of Mr. Edward Jones, of Brackley, +Northamptonshire. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—A new lifeboat, the cost of which had been generously defrayed by a +lady residing at Bath, was launched at Sheringham. It was named the +Duncan, and was housed in a commodious building, with reading-room +attached for the use of the fishermen. + +8.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Byles, Hubbard Lingley, +aged 22, was indicted for the murder of Benjamin Black, his uncle, by +shooting him at Barton Bendish, on May 17th. The prisoner was found +guilty and sentenced to death. The execution was carried out by +Calcraft, on the Castle Hill, Norwich, at eight a.m. on August 26. “The +holding of an execution upon Monday instead of on the market-day +(Saturday) is a vast improvement, but it is to be hoped the time is not +far distant when executions will take place within instead of outside the +prison walls.” (This was the last public execution in Norwich.) + +—Died at her residence, at Weybridge, Mrs. Austin (Sarah Taylor, of +Norwich). She was born in 1793, and married, in 1820, Mr. John Austin, a +barrister on the Norfolk Circuit. A miscellaneous writer of some repute, +she never aspired to original literary compositions, but devoted the +singular power of her pen to the reproduction in English of many of the +best contemporary works of German and French literature. Her +translations, from the German especially, were of the highest excellence. + +12.—Chapel Field, Norwich, which had for some months been closed to the +public, was re-opened. Several portions of the old city wall had been +removed, and railings erected, and efforts were also made to level the +area. + +14.—The Norfolk and Eastern Counties Working Classes Exhibition and +Industrial Festival was opened at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by the +Mayor (Mr. F. E. Watson). The exhibition consisted of works of art, +industry, and mechanical invention, and remained open for one month. + +30.—Mr. George Buttler Kennett, formerly of Great Yarmouth, was appointed +clerk to the justices of Norwich, in place of Mr. William Day, deceased. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +4.—A new lifeboat, named the “Licensed Victualler,” was launched at +Hunstanton. Its cost was defrayed by a fund inaugurated by Mr. James +Wyld, editor of the “Licensed Victuallers’ Guardian.” + +10.—A surf lifeboat was launched at Caister-next-the-Sea. It was +provided, at the cost of £300, by means of a fund raised by the editor of +“Routledge’s Magazine for Boys,” and was christened by Mrs. Routledge, +“The Boys’ Lifeboat.” + +11.—The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report on the +employment of children, young persons, and women in agriculture, for the +purpose of ascertaining to what extent and with what modifications the +principles of the Factory Acts could be adapted for the regulation of +such employment, and especially with the view of the better education of +such children, commenced its investigations in Norfolk in the Docking +Union. The Assistant-Commissioner (the Rev. James Frazer) held similar +inquiries in other parts of the county, and, in an address to the members +of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, on September 28th, said he had met +at forty-eight meetings 500 Norfolk farmers, “and not on one occasion had +he heard a single painful or discourteous word drop from anybody’s lips.” + +16.—The first annual regatta of the Norfolk and Norwich Rowing Club was +held at Whitlingham. + +17.—The Norfolk and Norwich Licensed Victuallers’ Association was formed +at a meeting held at the Three Pigeons, Charing Cross, Norwich. + +19.—A new church erected at Overstrand, in place of the old church, which +had fallen into decay, was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich. The +architect was Mr. A. Salvin, of London, and the builder Mr. R. Cornish, +of North Walsham. The necessary funds were provided principally by the +Dowager Lady Buxton and the descendants of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, +deceased, by Mr. Gurney Hoare, Mr. Joseph Hoare, and others. + +21.*—“A destructive parasitical weed has made its appearance on some of +the small farms at Navarina, an open district forming a part of the very +extensive manor of Lord Ashburton, at Thetford. It is known as ‘the +dodder.’ It completely absorbs or destroys the crop wherever it appears, +and leaves the land barren of all but its own hair-like fibres. So +powerful and fatal is the grasp of this singular plant, that even the +hardy and prickly gorse succumbs to the pressure of its delicate fibres.” + + +OCTOBER. + + +1.—The 15th Hussars, from Aldershot, marched into Norwich, under the +command of Col. F. W. J. Fitzwygram. + +12.*—“The county having for upwards of a year been free from cattle +plague, the Norfolk Cattle Plague Association has been wound up, and the +balance in hand, amounting to upwards of £4,000, has been invested in the +names of trustees, Mr. Howes, M.P., and Mr. Read, M.P., to be available +in case of any further emergency.” The “London Gazette,” on October +23rd, contained an Order to take effect on November 4th, for the +withdrawal of restrictions on the movement of cattle in the interior of +the kingdom. + +14.—A huge female elephant, weighing five tons, and belonging to Edmonds’ +(late Wombwell’s) Menagerie, started from Diss with the show, but had not +gone far when she fell in Denmark Street. Poles and tackle had to be +procured, and after four hours’ labour the ponderous animal was raised, +put in the caravan, and taken back to the fair green, where she was +placed in slings. Cordials and other restoratives were administered, but +the animal died on the following day. She was valued at between £800 and +£900, and had been fifteen years in the collection. + +22.—An immense eel was taken from the river Ouse, near Denver Sluice. It +measured 5 ft. 8 in. in length, 17¼ in. in girth, and weighed 36 lbs. +before and 28 lbs. after being skinned. “Yarrel, in his ‘British +Fishes,’ mentions having seen the skins of two at Cambridge which +together weighed 50 lbs.—one 27 lbs. and the other 23 lbs., which were +taken within a few miles of this spot.” + +28.—The new fishmarket, wharves, and tramways constructed at Great +Yarmouth, at the total cost of £15,799, were opened. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +5.—The new Drill Hall at Great Yarmouth, erected at the cost of £1,300, +by Mr. Leggett, from designs by Mr. J. T. Bottle, was opened. + +6.—St. Andrew’s church, Norwich, was re-opened after restoration. The +architect who superintended the work was Mr. William Smith, the Adelphi, +London, and the contractor, Mr. Burrell, of Norwich. The Bishop of +Norwich preached the sermon. + +—Died at Yarmouth, aged 82, James Sharman, the keeper of the Nelson +monument on the South Denes. He was a native of Yarmouth, and entered +the Navy in 1799, having been “pressed” when a waiting lad at the +Wrestlers Inn, and taken on board H.M.S. Weazel, Captain Durben. After +four years’ service he was wrecked off Cabaratta Point, near Gibraltar. +He then joined the Victory, under Captain Thomas Hardy, and at Trafalgar +“assisted in carrying the dying Nelson from the lower deck to the +cockpit.” + +9.—Mr. Jeremiah James Colman was elected Mayor, and Mr. Robert Fitch +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a memorial was received from +the parents of boys educated at the Commercial School, praying that the +efficiency of that school should not be impaired in consequence of the +large outlay required for making alterations in and additions to the +Grammar School premises. The Parliamentary and Bylaws Committee, to whom +the memorial was referred, reported to the Town Council on November 26th +that they strongly deprecated any increase in the fees of the Commercial +School, but they considered the successful maintenance of the Grammar +School of great advantage to the city. The report was adopted. + +10.—Died in Paris, aged 63, Mr. W. Wilshere, of Welwyn, Herts., and +formerly member of Parliament for Yarmouth. He became a candidate for +that borough with Mr. Rumbold, in the Liberal interest, in 1837, when the +Conservative candidates were Messrs. Baring and Gambier. On the +dissolution of Parliament in 1847, he retired from the representation of +the borough. “It is said that his various contests cost him a very large +sum of money, and that in other respects the expenses incident to the +representation of a borough on Liberal principles were too much for +endurance.” + +16.—Reference was made to the disbandment of the 1st Norfolk Light Horse, +which had been under the command of Capt. Hay Gurney since its +institution by him in 1861. The members presented to their +commanding-officer a testimonial “representing in frosted silver, on an +ebony stand, a mounted officer and trumpeter in full dress.” + +20.—The Scratby Hall estate, comprising 280 acres, was sold by auction by +Messrs. Butcher, at the Star Hotel, Yarmouth, for £16,760. + +26.—The Rev. Edward Marjoribanks Nisbet, M.A., was installed a +residentiary canon at Norwich Cathedral. + +30.—The Right Hon. Edward Stratham Gordon, Lord Advocate of Scotland, was +elected to represent the borough of Thetford in Parliament, upon the +resignation of the Hon. A. H. Baring. Lord Frederick FitzRoy, who had +come forward as a candidate, withdrew from the contest on the day +appointed for the nomination. “He departed for London, leaving behind +him an address telling the electors that, by means of treachery, +opposition had been brought against him.” + + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—The Norfolk coast, in common with the whole of England, was visited by +a gale of unusual violence. It resulted not only in great destruction of +property, but in the loss of many lives. At Yarmouth the waters +overflowed the banks of the river, inundated all the low-lying lands from +the harbour’s mouth to Reedham, and, flooding the neighbouring railways, +stopped the traffic. Several vessels were driven ashore and their crews +lost. On December 2nd the lifeboat Rescuer was entering the harbour with +the shipwrecked crew of the ship George Kendall, from Liverpool to Hull, +on board, when she fouled with a fishing-boat and was capsized. Of the +shipwrecked crew of twenty-three only four were saved, and of the +lifeboat crew six were drowned. Many widows and children were left +destitute, owing to the large number of lives lost during the gale. + +—The parish church of Little Ellingham was destroyed by fire. The +building had recently undergone extensive restoration, and the damage, +due to the overheating of a new warming apparatus, amounted to upwards of +£1,000. Efforts were made by the Hingham fire brigade to preserve the +chancel, and were in part successful, but the nave was wholly demolished. +Under the supervision of Messrs. T. H. and F. Healey, architects, of +Bradford, the nave was rebuilt and the chancel repaired by the +contractor, Mr. Clarke, of Hingham; and the church was re-opened for +public worship on Ascension Day, 1869. + +24.—A common hall was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the +presidency of the Mayor (Mr. J. J. Colman), at which the citizens +expressed their “detestation of the late Fenian outrage at Clerkenwell, +their sympathy with the sufferers, and their loyal attachment to the +Queen and the Constitution.” + +26.—The Christmas pantomime produced by Mr. Sidney at Norwich Theatre was +entitled, “Hush-a-Bye Baby on the Tree Top, or Harlequin Fortunio, Clown +King Frog of Frog Island, and the Fairy Queen of the Golden Flowers.” At +Mander’s Menagerie, stationed on the Castle Meadow, “the electric light +was exhibited in the interior during Maccomo’s performance with the +lions, tigers, and elephants.” On the 30th was produced at Henry and +Adams’ Circus an “equestrian pantomime,” entitled, “O’Donaghue of the +Lakes, or Harlequin Dermot Astore and the White Horse of Killarney.” + +30.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Holkham, on a visit to +the Earl and Countess of Leicester, and returned to Sandringham on +January 4th, 1868. Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar was of the party. + + + +1868. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, held at Norwich, Mr. Day, the County +Treasurer, gave notice of his intention at the Easter Sessions, to resign +that office, which he had held for thirty-three years. Mr. Day took +leave of the Court on April 2nd, and Mr. Herbert William Day was elected +in his place. + +—Lord Suffield, at the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, moved the adoption of an +address to her Majesty, expressing indignation at the Fenian outrages +committed throughout the kingdom, and promising the hearty and vigorous +co-operation of her Majesty’s loyal subjects in the county in supporting +the Government in any efforts that might be made “to repress this odious +conspiracy.” It was stated on January 11th that at Yarmouth precautions +had been taken to prevent an outbreak in the borough. Each ward was +under the special supervision of two magistrates; the store of gunpowder +was removed from the outlying magazine at the North Battery to the South +Battery, where a strong guard was stationed; and directions were given to +the Artillery and Rifle Volunteers as to the course to be pursued in the +event of their services being required. + +14.—The Norwich Churchmen’s Club was established at a meeting held at the +Clerical Rooms. It was intended for “the self-culture and rational +recreation of young men.” For some years afterwards the society +continued to flourish, and was instrumental during the early period of +its existence in introducing to the city several eminent lecturers on +scientific and other subjects. + +16.—A remarkable seizure of about one hundred coombs of wheat was made at +the New Mills, Norwich. This “mass of filth, one-tenth wheat and +nine-tenths rats’ dung and maggots,” had been sent to the mills by Mr. +Orlando Barnes, of Beeston, “for the purpose of being dressed for the +preparation of human food.” The magistrates granted an order for its +destruction, and on the 22nd and 23rd it was publicly burned in the +Cattle Market. At the Norwich Police Court, on February 7th, Mr. Barnes +was summoned for sending the wheat to the mills with the view of +preparing it for human consumption, and was fined 40s. and costs. The +Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, on February 8th, discussed “the policy of +destroying agricultural produce by any local authority under the +Nuisances Removal Act, 1863, without sufficient proof of its unfitness +for feeding or some other useful purpose.” A motion was adopted +affirming that such a practice was impolitic. In the following week +handbills were circulated calling upon the citizens to make an +“indignation visit” to Mr. Barnes’ premises at Beeston on Sunday, +February 16th. The Mayor issued notices warning all persons to abstain +from taking part in the proposed proceedings, and the Chief Constable of +the county (Col. Black) drafted to the district thirty police-officers +and eight mounted inspectors and sergeants to prevent trespass upon the +farm. Several thousands of persons visited the village during the +afternoon, but a hostile demonstration was prevented. + +18.—The colours of the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment, bearing the marks of +the severe conflicts through which they had passed, were “laid up” at +Norwich Cathedral. They were brought from Aldershot on the 17th, in +charge of Capt. Shirecliff Parker, Lieut. Smart, Ensign Ibbetson, and two +colour-sergeants, and were deposited for the night at the Guildhall. On +the morning of the 18th the colours, escorted by the 15th Hussars, and +preceded by the band of that regiment, were borne to the Cathedral. +After Morning Prayer had been said, Lieut. Smart carried the Queen’s and +Ensign Ibbetson the Regimental colour to the altar rails, and, kneeling, +handed them to Canon Nisbet and Canon Heaviside, “who placed them leaning +across the altar, one on the north and the other on the south side”; the +National Anthem was played upon the organ, and the officers and escort, +who wore their busbies, saluted. Canon Nisbet preached from Psalm xx., +part of the 5th verse. The colours were subsequently placed in the +positions they now occupy in the choir. + +23.—A fire, involving the loss of three lives and the destruction of much +valuable property, occurred at the house of Mr. Frederick Pigg, hosier +and boot and shoe manufacturer, Market Row, Yarmouth. Mrs. Pigg, in +heroically attempting to save her two children, was buried beneath the +falling roof of the building, and the charred remains of the mother and +infants were found the following day. The value of the property +destroyed was about £3,500. + +28.—The first of the many long discussions upon the sewerage question +during this year took place at a special meeting of the Norwich Town +Council, on a recommendation of the Sewerage Committee that a memorial +from the citizens, praying for the introduction of the dry earth system, +instead of an expensive scheme of drainage, be not adopted. It was +decided that the works had progressed too far to admit of any +reconsideration of the plans. On February 28th a large meeting of +ratepayers was held at the Lecture Hall, St. Andrew’s, under the +presidency of Sir Samuel Bignold, at which the following resolution was +passed:—“That the Local Board of Health be respectfully requested to +postpone the proposed drainage works, and that Messrs. Hay Gurney, +Charles Foster, J. Davey, and W. H. Clabburn and the other promoters of +the injunction be earnestly entreated not to interpose any obstacle to +the Board’s compliance with this request.” The “injunctionists,” on +March 2nd, received a deputation appointed by the meeting, and, after +hearing their statements, Dr. Dalrymple replied on behalf of the relators +in the suit that they were of opinion “the question of proceeding with +the scheme of drainage did not rest with them but with the Town Council, +and they were not prepared to take any steps which would prejudice their +legal position for enforcing the purification of the river.” On March +10th a memorial was presented to the Town Council, urging that the +drainage scheme in the then perplexity of sanitary science was “a +speculation with the health of the city,” and that it was “stark madness +to plunge into a gulf of unplumbed expenditure unwarned by the failures +in other cities.” A motion was adopted authorising the Sewerage and +Irrigation Committee to negotiate for a loan not exceeding £60,000, +required for the construction of sewerage works. On the 17th a band +paraded the city to attract the citizens to a common hall, at which +resolutions were adopted affirming that the rates were too high and the +trade of Norwich too depressed to warrant this costly experiment in +drainage. The Town Council, on April 7th, entered into a contract with +Messrs. Shrimpton and Co., of Uxbridge Road, London, for the construction +of certain sewerage works, at the cost of £28,874; and it was agreed to +take up at interest of the Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Office the sum of +£30,000, of which £20,000 was to be paid as soon as the necessary +security was prepared, and the remaining £10,000 at the expiration of six +months, at the rate of £4 15s. per cent. per annum. (_See_ March 5th, +1869.) + +31.—Died at Welborne, aged 100 years, Benjamin Tooley, “leaving a widow +at the advanced age of 99.” + + +FEBRUARY. + + +1.—During the prevalence of a severe gale from W. and S.W., shipping +casualties of a very serious character occurred off the coast of Norfolk, +and inland considerable damage was done to property. Trees were +uprooted, stacks overturned, and many houses partially unroofed. + +6.—A collision occurred off Happisburgh, between the screw steamer Swan, +of and for Newcastle, and the paddle steamer Seagull, of Hull. The +Seagull, which foundered, with the loss of a passenger, was valued at +£15,000, and her cargo at £10,000. + +13.—During a run of the Norfolk and Suffolk Harriers over land at West +Tofts, in the occupation of Mr. Colman, the hare was shot by a gamekeeper +in the service of that gentleman. During the altercation which ensued +Mr. Colman appeared, and blows were exchanged between the members of the +Hunt and himself. Reinforcements came to Mr. Column’s assistance, and +the engagement became general, the conflict ending in favour of the Hunt. +At the Norfolk Assizes, on March 31st. before Mr. Baron Martin, was tried +the action, Colman _v._ Larkman, in which the plaintiff claimed damages +for injury done to his crops and fences and for being assaulted with a +hunting-whip by the defendant. The special jury gave a verdict for the +plaintiff, damages £50. + +15.—Died at his residence, St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, Mr. Arthur +Dalrymple, who had held the office of Clerk of the Peace since 1856. He +was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a lover of science and art, +and possessed a unique and valuable collection of Norfolk portraits. + +19.—In the Court of Exchequer, before the Lord Chief Baron, Messrs. Henry +Morgan and others, as assignees of the estate and effects of Messrs. +Riches and Watts, engineers, of Norwich, brought a claim against William +Cafferata, engineer, of Newark, for the recovery of £5,000 damages which +had been sustained by the estate of the bankrupts by reason of the +explosion of a steam boiler which they purchased of the defendant and had +supplied to Mr. Richard John Stark. It was warranted to be of the very +best metal, but was really of inferior quality, and burst with disastrous +consequences. The defendant accepted a verdict against himself of £2,000 +damages. + +20.—Died at Portsmouth, Rear-Admiral Robert Sharpe, K.T.S., aged 76 +years. A native of Tunstead, he entered the Navy in 1807, on board the +Mars (Captain Lukin), and retired with the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1865. +“Whilst in command of the Siska, he conducted the King of Musquito from +Blasford to Belize to be crowned.” + + +MARCH. + + +8.—Died at Thetford, in his 73rd year, Mr. Isaac Carr. He was described +as “a veteran politician of the old school, who was deputed some two +years since by Mr. Harvey, M.P., to compile a history of Thetford, which +he had not completed at the time of his death.” + +9.—The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new dock at Lynn +was performed by Mrs. Jarvis, wife of Mr. L. W. Jarvis, chairman of the +Dock Company. (_See_ July 7th, 1869.) + +10.—The first screw steamboat built in Norwich was launched from Field’s +boatbuilding yard, Carrow Abbey. She was named the Alexandra, and was +intended for passenger traffic on the local rivers. Mr. John Hart +Boughen was the owner of the vessel. + +—Mr. Elijah Crosier Bailey was appointed Clerk of the Peace for the city +and county of the city of Norwich. + +—The Norwich Town Council, on the motion of Mr. Field, adopted a +resolution affirming the desirability of arranging with the Board of +Guardians for the collection by one set of paid collectors of all the +public rates within the corporate district of Norwich. On April 21st the +Town Council adopted the report of a joint committee of the Corporation +and the Guardians, who recommended that the corporate district be divided +into eight districts; that the then four collectors be retained at the +salary of £140 per year each; that four new collectors be appointed, at +the salary of £100 a year each; that in future two poor rates be made +yearly, namely, one in January and one in July, both of such rates to be +collected in two instalments, the first in January and July, and the +second in April and October; and that a like arrangement be made as to +the making and collection of the rates of the Board of Health. This +arrangement was known as the consolidation of the rates. + +27.—Died at North Creake, in his 71st year, the Ven. R. E. Hankinson, +M.A., Archdeacon of Norwich. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, +Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1821, and was ordained in the +same year by Bishop Bathurst, of Norwich. For some years he was minister +of Well Walk Chapel, Hampstead; in 1847 was presented by the Dean and +Chapter of Norwich to the incumbency of St. Margaret and St. Nicholas, +King’s Lynn, which he held until 1863, when he was presented to the +rectory of North Creake; and was appointed to the Archdeaconry of Norwich +in 1857. He was succeeded by the Rev. Augustus Macdonald Hopper, +honorary canon and rural dean, and proctor for the Archdeaconries of +Norfolk and Norwich, who was collated on April 26th. + +31.—At the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, a meeting of the Conservative and +Constitutional Association passed a resolution condemnatory of Mr. +Gladstone’s resolutions on the Irish Church. Many meetings were held for +the same purpose in different parts of the county, and on April 23rd the +Norwich Diocesan Church Association recorded its protest against the +measure. + + +APRIL. + + +8.—A complimentary dinner, attended by about 150 gentlemen, was given to +Lord Hastings at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, in recognition of the +successful manner in which he had hunted the East Norfolk Foxhounds. + +13.—The English Grand Opera Company, managed by Mr. G. B. Loveday and Mr. +Oliver Summers, commenced a season’s engagement at Norwich Theatre. +Madame Haigh-Dyer was the _prima donna_, and Mr. Henry Haigh and Mr. +Henry Rowland were members of the company. The works produced included +“Un Ballo in Maschira,” “Fidelio,” “Masaniello,” “Faust,” “Lurline,” “Il +Trovatore,” “Satanella,” “Rose of Castile,” and “Crown Diamonds.” + +14.—The headquarters of the 15th Hussars marched from Norwich Cavalry +Barracks, _en route_ to York. + +17.—East Raynham church was re-opened, after restoration. The Marquis +Townshend had entirely rebuilt the nave, at the cost of upwards of +£4,000, and the rector, the Rev. R. Phayre, the chancel, at the cost of +£1,000. The work was commenced in May, 1866, by the contractor, Mr. +William Hubbard, of East Dereham. + +25.—Died at Ballycroy, Ballina, co. Mayo, where he had occupied an +extensive farm, Mr. T. J. Birch, Judge of the Norfolk County Court +circuit. The second son of Mr. Wyrley Birch, of Wretham Hall, he was +born prior to the settlement of the family in the county. He was +educated at Eton, and having graduated at Oxford, entered the Inner +Temple, and was called to the Bar on November 18th, 1831. His first +official connection with the county was as a magistrate and joint +chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions. After the passing of the +first County Courts Act, the Liberal Government of the day appointed him, +in March, 1847, to the judgeship of the Norfolk district. He was +succeeded in his appointment by Mr. William Henry Cooke, Q.C., Recorder +of Oxford. + + +MAY. + + +1.—Died at the South Kensington Hotel, London, Mr. Albemarle Cator, of +Woodbastwick Hall, aged 55. He was one of the most prominent sportsmen +in the county, was a Conservative in politics, and was upon the +Commission of the Peace. In the year preceding his death he served the +office of High Sheriff of Norfolk. + +4.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, an address was +adopted congratulating the Queen upon the failure of the attempted +assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh. + +25.—The Queen’s birthday was observed at Norwich as a public holiday. +The Rifle Volunteers fired a _feu de joie_ in the Market Place, and the +Artillery Volunteers a salute on the Castle Hill. The Mayor’s _déjeuner_ +at the Drill Hall was attended by 1,000 guests, and his entertainment at +the Corn Hall by over 1,000 of the aged poor, among whom were an old lady +aged 98 and her daughter aged 80. + +30.—Died at Thetford, Mr. Leonard Shelford Bidwell, aged 86. Mr. Bidwell +had several times served the office of Mayor, was upon the Commission of +the Peace for the county and for the borough, and was senior Alderman of +the Corporation. In politics he was a Conservative, and had always given +his support and influence to the house of Baring in the representation of +the borough. + + +JUNE. + + +11.—Died at his residence, Burrator, Devon, Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., +Rajah of Sarawak. + +13.—The name of Lord Ranelagh, High Sheriff of the county, was brought +into unpleasant prominence at Bow Street Police Court, during the hearing +of a charge against Madame Rachel for fraudulently obtaining from a Mrs. +Borradaile the sum of £1,000, upon pretence of making her “beautiful for +ever.” Madame Rachel had informed her dupe that Lord Ranelagh had fallen +desperately in love with her, and was ready to marry her “providing he +had £1,400 for Volunteering purposes.” Lord Ranelagh emphatically denied +having had anything to do in the matter further than that he had received +letters from Mrs. Borradaile, and had suggested to her family that she +should be taken care of, believing that she was under delusions. + +—Died at his residence, the Crescent, Norwich, in his 83rd year, Mr. J. +N. V. Cooper, who was for more than 56 years clerk to the Governors of +the Bethel Hospital. + +18.—In the House of Commons it was agreed, on the motion of Mr. Howes, +that the three divisions of the county be thenceforth known as North, +South, and West Norfolk, instead of “North Eastern, South Eastern, and +West.” + +—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at +Downham Market, and was continued on the 19th. Mr. W. Amhurst Tyssen +Amherst was President. + +20.—The Norwich Volunteers attended the review held by the Queen in +Windsor Park. The Rifles, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Black, +numbered 455; and the Artillery, under Capt. Barber, 111. Both corps +mustered on Tombland at 5.30 a.m., left Thorpe Station at 6.15 a.m., and +returned from Windsor the same day. + +27.—The 1st Administrative Battalion Norfolk Volunteers went into camp at +Hunstanton Park, 500 strong, and remained under canvas until July 2nd. +The battalion was inspected by Col. Boileau. + +30.—The Norwich Electoral Union selected Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett as +Liberal candidate for the city, in view of the pending General Election. + + +JULY. + + +23.—A two days’ cricket match commenced on the Lakenham Ground, Norwich, +between a team of “Aboriginal Australians” and the Carrow Club. The +Australians showed surprising skill with the bat, and in the first day’s +play made 177, against the Carrow score of 82. + +26.—Died, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth of Cranworth. His +lordship was the eldest and only surviving son of the Rev. Edward Rolfe, +and was born December 18th, 1790. His father, like his uncle, +grandfather, and great grandfather, was a plain country clergyman, +holding the livings of Cockley Cley and of Cranworth, and it was at the +rectory house of the latter parish that he was born, and from which he +selected his title just 60 years afterwards. His mother was a Miss +Alexander, a granddaughter of Dr. Monsey, the physician of Chelsea +Hospital. Having received his early education at Bury St. Edmund’s, he +was transferred to Winchester College, and in due course proceeded to +Cambridge, took his B.A. degree as 17th wrangler in 1812, and was elected +to the Fellowship of Downing College. He entered Lincoln’s Inn, and was +called to the Bar in 1816. One of his first public appointments was that +of Recorder of Bury St. Edmund’s, and he more than once, as a Liberal, +contested the representation of the borough against the powerful interest +of the Marquis of Bristol. In 1832 he obtained a silk gown, and in the +same year was returned to Parliament. On becoming Solicitor-General, in +1834, he received the honour of knighthood, and at the close of 1839 +accepted a puisne judgeship as one of the Barons of Exchequer. In 1850 +he was nominated a Vice-Chancellor, a post which, in the following year, +he exchanged for that of a Justice of Appeal in Chancery, which he +continued to hold until the Great Seal of the kingdom was entrusted to +his hands by Lord Aberdeen, on the formation of the Coalition Cabinet in +December, 1852. In the same year he was raised to the Peerage, and as +Lord Cranworth again held the Great Seal in 1865–66. His lordship +married Miss Carr, of Froghall Park, Hampstead. + +27.—Mr. Simmons ascended in his large balloon from the Victoria Gardens, +Yarmouth, and descended at Caister. On August 6th he made an ascent from +the Greenhill Gardens, Norwich, and descended in Horstead Park. Mr. +Simmons, on August 13th, exhibited the balloon in Norwich Market Place, +where, in a captive state, it made several ascents. The aeronaut, +accompanied by Mr. William Maris, then ascended to the height of 10,000 +feet in the space of two minutes, when the balloon drifted away in a +north-easterly direction. The passengers made a perilous descent near +the sea coast. They narrowly escaped with their lives by jumping out of +the car, and the balloon, blown out to sea, fell into the water two and a +half miles off Sheringham. The voyage from Norwich lasted only fifteen +minutes. + +29.—A great Volunteer _fête_ and _al fresco_ entertainment took place in +the grounds of Quebec House, East Dereham, the residence of Capt. Bulwer. +The _fête_, which was attended by many hundreds of persons, was in aid of +the funds of the corps. + +31.—Died at his residence, St. George’s Middle Street, Norwich, aged 75, +the Rev. John Alexander, for nearly 50 years pastor of Prince’s Street +chapel. “He was honoured and loved by his congregation as a +kind-hearted, liberal-minded, and truly Christian gentleman.” + + +AUGUST. + + +7.—The dismounted party of the B and C Batteries, Royal Horse Artillery, +arrived by rail at Norwich. The mounted portion marched in on the 13th, +under the command of Major H. P. Bishop. + +8.*—“The death, of Mr. George Cattermole, the well-known artist, is +announced. He was born at Dickleburgh, near Diss, in 1800. At an early +age he acquired proficiency as a draughtsman, and some of the most +elaborate drawings in Britton’s ‘Cathedrals’ emanate from him.” + +—Chang, the Chinese giant, was exhibited at the Lecture Hall, St. +Andrew’s, Norwich. “He is between 8½ ft and 9 ft. high, and his natural +suavity of manner is very agreeable to those he meets.” + +10.—The Grand English Opera and Ballet Company appeared at Norwich +Theatre. The _artistes_, included Miss Annie Thirlwall, Miss Blanch +Cole, Miss Fanny Rowland, Mr. William Parkinson, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. +Eugene Corri, Mr. Charles Durand, &c. In the company’s repertory were +“Un Ballo in Maschira,” “Faust,” and a _ballet divertissement_, in which +the sisters Louie and Marie Smithers appeared. + +19.—The British Association for the Advancement of Science commenced its +thirty-eighth congress at Norwich. The General Committee met at St. +Pater’s Hall in the morning, and in the evening the President, Mr. J. D. +Hooker, F.R.S., D.C.L., delivered his inaugural address, at the Drill +Hall. The various sections were presided over by the following +gentlemen:—Mathematical and Physical Science, Professor Tyndall, LL.D., +F.R.S.; Chemical Science, Professor Frankland, F.R.S.; Geology, Mr. R. A. +C. Godwin Austen, F.R.S., F.G.S.; Biology, the Rev. J. M. Berkeley, M.A., +F.R.S.; Geography and Ethnology, Capt. Richards, F.R.S., Hydrographer to +the Royal Navy; Economic Science and Statistics, Mr. Samuel Brown, +President of the Society of Actuaries; Mechanical Science, Mr. G. Bidder, +C.E. On the 22nd the members were invited to Crown Point by Mr. R. J. H. +Harvey and Lady Henrietta Harvey. The concluding meeting was held at St. +Peter’s Hall on the 26th, after which excursions were made to Lynn, +Hunstanton, Wolterton, Walsingham, Burgh Castle, and Holkham Hall, where +the members were entertained by the Earl of Leicester. The International +Congress of Prehistoric Archæology, presided over by Sir John Lubbock, +was held simultaneously with the gathering of the British Association. +Its meetings took place at the Public Library. + +19.—Died at his residence, Craven Hill Gardens, Bayswater, General Sir +George Petre Wymer, K.C.B., Colonel of the 107th Regiment. He was a son +of Mr. George Wymer, of Reepham, where he was born on August 19th, 1788. +Educated at North Walsham, he entered the military service of the East +India Company in August, 1804, served in Lord Lake’s campaign of 1805, +and throughout the Nepaul War in 1814–15. In 1840 he joined the army +under Sir William Nott at Candahar, and was present during the investment +of that city. He was appointed brigadier, and in command of the First +Brigade of the Candahar Force saw much active service. In 1842 he was +appointed _aide-de-camp_ to the Queen, in recognition of his services in +Afghanistan, and in 1857 he was made a K.C.B. for his military services +in India. His military career extended over 64 years. General Wymer +married, in 1833, a daughter of Sir C. F. Crespigny. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +4.—A new lifeboat, built at the cost of £1,000 subscribed to the National +Lifeboat Institution by Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, of Cromer Hall, was +launched at Cromer. Mr. Bond Cabbell also provided all the necessary +appliances, the transport carriage, and the boat-house. The Bishop of +the diocese delivered an address at the launch, and the ceremony of +christening the boat by the name of Benjamin Bond Cabbell was performed +by Miss Buxton. + +7.—Died, Francis Baring, third Baron Ashburton. His lordship was second +son of Alexander, first Baron, by his wife Anne Louisa, eldest daughter +of Mr. W. Bingham, of Philadelphia. He was born on May 20th, 1800, and +married in January, 1831, Mdlle. Claire Hortense, daughter of the Duke de +Bassano, by whom he left issue Alexander, his successor in the title, and +formerly Member of Parliament for Thetford, the Hon. Denzil Hugh Baring, +and an only daughter, Mary Louisa Anne, married to the Duke of Grafton. +Previously to his accession to the family honours, the deceased nobleman +represented Thetford in Parliament, namely, from 1832 to 1841, and from +July, 1848, to December, 1857. He was a Conservative in politics, but, +like his father and brother, was moderate in his views, and generally +voted with the class of politicians formerly known as “Peelites.” + +10.—Died at Westgate House, near Bury St. Edmund’s, Rear-Admiral Sir +William Legge George Hoste. He was the eldest son of Sir William Hoste +(who was created baronet in 1814 for his naval services, but particularly +for the victory he gained over the combined French and Italian squadrons +off the island of Lessa in 1811), and Lady Harriett, third daughter of +Horatio, second Earl of Orford. Born on March 19th, 1818, he succeeded +to the baronetcy on the death of his father, in December, 1828. He was +Gentleman Usher to Queen Adelaide from 1845 to 1849, and was appointed +Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1860. + + +OCTOBER. + + +21.—Died, from the effects of an accident, caused by a fall from his +horse whilst riding from Cringleford to Earlham, Mr. Charles Evans, +barrister-at-law, and Chancellor for the Diocese of Norwich. Mr. Evans +was born at Harrow in 1798, and was the eldest son of the Rev. Benjamin +Evans, formerly a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and for many +years assistant-master at Harrow School. After remaining a short time at +Eton, he proceeded to Pembroke College, where he took his degree in 1819, +as twelfth wrangler, and was afterwards elected a Fellow. On being +called to the Bar Mr. Evans joined the Norfolk Circuit, and in 1824 +settled in Norwich, where he practised to the time of his death. In 1845 +he was appointed by Bishop Stanley to the Chancellorship of the diocese. +He was acting judge of the Court of Record, Chairman of the Board of +Guardians, to which office he was elected on the passing of the new Act +in 1863; president of the directors of the Norwich Union Office, a +magistrate of the city, chairman of the Governors of the Grammar School, +&c. Mr. Evans married in 1829 Emily, daughter of Mr. George Morse, of +Catton, by whom he left eight children—five sons and three daughters. + +31.—The Earl of Leicester presided at a meeting of the inhabitants of the +county and city, held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, “for the purpose of +bringing the affairs of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital before the +public.” Resolutions were adopted affirming that the resources of the +institution were inadequate to meet the annual expenditure, and as a +means of increasing the revenue it was desirable “that on one Sunday at +least in every year, as far as possible on the same Sunday, collections +be made for the benefit of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in places of +worship throughout the diocese, where such collections shall not +interfere with the claims of other hospitals.” As the resources of the +Hospital were heavily drawn upon by casualty cases, a separate fund +called the Accident Fund was established. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Mr. Edward Kerrison Harvey was elected Mayor and Mr. John Robison +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +15.—For the second time since its erection in 1857–8, the Britannia pier +at Yarmouth was partially destroyed. Built at the cost of £6,000, it was +originally 750 feet in length. On October 25th, 1859, during a +tremendous gale, a sloop, driven from her anchors, was dashed upon the +pier and divided it into two portions. It was deemed advisable not to +rebuild the severed portion, 80 feet in length, and the terminal portion +was subsequently removed. During a heavy north-east gale on this date +the schooner Seagull, of Lynn, parted from her anchors, and, drifting +towards land, struck against the north side of the pier. The crew of six +hands speedily scrambled upon the structure and escaped, but about 105 +feet of the centre portion of the pier was completely torn away and +damage done to the amount of nearly £1,000. + +16.—The nomination of candidates for Norwich, to be elected under the new +Reform Act, took place at the Guildhall. The Liberal candidates were +Col. Sir William Russell, Bart., C.B., Charlton Park, Charlton Kings, +Gloucester, and Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett; and the Conservative candidates +Sir Henry Josias Stracey, Bart., of Rackheath, who had been selected +about a fortnight previously. The show of hands was in favour of the +Liberals, and Sir Samuel Bignold demanded a poll, which was opened on the +17th “at 29 polling places most conveniently arranged in the different +wards.” The pronouncement of the electorate at this election was upon +the Irish Church, and at Norwich, as elsewhere, a severe contest +resulted. The poll closed at four o’clock with the return of Sir William +Russell and Sir Henry Stracey, the figures being officially declared on +the 18th as follow:—Stracey, 4,521; Russell, 4,509; Tillett, 4,364. Sir +Henry Stracey, accompanied by Lady Stracey, on the morning of the 18th +was escorted from Rackheath Park to Norwich, by his mounted tenantry, and +received at Magdalene Gates by an imposing procession of Conservative +electors, who, amid the playing of brass bands and the ringing of St. +Peter Mancroft bells, accompanied him to the Guildhall. After the +declaration the procession, half a mile in length, marched through the +city. Mr. Tillett, in an address to the electors, stated: “The Tory +party have, beyond all precedent, and in the most undisguised manner, +committed themselves to the disgrace involved in the wholesale purchase +of votes.” (_See_ January 14th, 1869.) + +16.—The nomination of representatives to serve in Parliament for the +Western Division of the county took place at Swaffham, when Sir William +Bagge, Bart., and the Hon. Thomas de Grey were re-elected without +opposition. + +17.—The nomination of candidates for the borough took place at King’s +Lynn. Lord Stanley and the Hon. Robert Bourke were nominated by the +Conservatives, and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., by the Liberals. The +poll was opened on the 18th, and resulted as follows:—Stanley, 1,265; +Bourke, 1,125; Buxton, 1,012. (_See_ March 16th, 1869.) + +—Died at his residence, Surrey Street, Norwich, in his 82nd year, Mr. +Thomas Brightwell. A native of Ipswich, he married the only daughter of +Mr. W. M. Wilkin, of Costessey, and settled in Norwich, where he resided +for 60 years, and practised as a solicitor. An earnest Nonconformist, he +joined the congregation which assembled at the Old Meeting in St. +Clement’s, where to the close of his life he officiated as one of the +deacons. He was the author of a work on the Pentateuch, and his +intellectual attainments and scientific pursuits gained him admission +into the circle which included William Taylor, Doctors Sayers, Martineau, +Rigby, and Barrow, Sir James Smith, and other Norwich celebrities. Men +bearing historic names, and of widely different sentiments, had from time +to time been entertained beneath his roof—Williams, Dr. Gary, Moffat, +Doctors Philip and Wolff, of missionary fame; Joseph Kinghorn, the +eloquent Irving, Belzoni, the Egyptian explorer; Professor Sedgwick, +George Borrow, and many others who had done good service in the cause of +religion, literature, and science. A close observer of nature, Mr. +Brightwell gave much of his time to entomology, and a fine collection of +insects in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum was formed by him. But the +study to which, in his later years, he devoted especial attention was +that of Infusoria. A treatise upon Infusoria, illustrated from drawings +by his daughter, was written by Mr. Brightwell and printed for private +circulation. At the Norwich Congress of the British Association, of +which he was a vice-president, he was greatly amused by the anxious and +ineffectual endeavours made by several of the scientific men present to +procure copies of the work, then out of print. In 1821 Mr. Brightwell +became a Fellow of the Linnæan Society, and he also rendered considerable +assistance in the formation of the Norfolk and Norwich Literary +Institution and of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. + +21.—The nomination of candidates for South Norfolk took place at the +Shirehall, Norwich. The Conservative candidates were Mr. Edward Howes, +of Morningthorpe, and Mr. Clare Sewell Read, of Honingham Thorpe. Mr. +Henry Lombard Hudson, of Harleston, was nominated by the Liberals. The +polling, on the 24th, resulted as follows: Read, 3,097; Howes, 3,055; +Hudson, 1,679. + +23.—The following gentlemen were nominated at Aylsham to contest the new +constituency of North Norfolk:—Sir Edmund Knowles Lacon, Bart., and the +Hon. Frederick Walpole, Conservatives; Mr. Edward Robert Wodehouse and +Mr. Robert T. Gurdon, Liberals. The polling took place on the 26th, at +nine polling-places—Aylsham, Cromer, Holt, North Walsham, Ormesby, +Reepham, Stalham, Wells, and Yarmouth. The official declaration was made +at Aylsham on the 28th, as follows:—Walpole, 2,630; Lacon, 2,563; +Wodehouse, 2,235; Gurdon, 2,078. (_See_ May 17th, 1869.) + + +DECEMBER. + + +19.*—“A club bearing the name of the Norwich Football Club has been +started, and has already begun to play upon the Norfolk and Norwich +Cricket Ground. Mr. Croker has been elected president, and Mr. Edward A. +Field treasurer and secretary.” The members made their public _début_ on +February 5th, 1869, in a match against King Edward VI. School. (This is +the first reference to football, as distinct from the old game of camp +ball, made in the columns of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE.) + +26.—The pantomime produced at Norwich Theatre was entitled “The White +Fawn, or the Loves of Buttercup and Daisy and the Fairies of the Coral +Lake.” At Wombwell’s Menagerie (then owned by Mr. Fairgrieve, of +Edinburgh) was exhibited, “Prince Bonta Workey, son of the late King +Theodore, who held levées in his grand state saloon at stated intervals +during the day.” + +—Died at his residence, Chapel Field Road, Norwich, Mr. Trivet Allcock, +in his 80th year. “He was an active politician and staunch Liberal, and +had associated in his earlier life with men like William Taylor and +others, whose superior learning formerly made Norwich celebrated.” + + + +1869. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—At the justices’ room of the Mansion House, London, John Henry Gurney, +Henry Edmund Gurney, Robert Birkbeck, Henry Ford Barclay, Henry George +Gordon, and William Rennie, directors of Overend, Gurney, and Company, +Limited, were summoned for having, in July, 1865, and at divers other +times, conspired to defraud Dr. Adam Thom and others who became +shareholders in the company, of money to the amount of three millions +sterling. The defendants, on the 27th, were committed for trial, and +were admitted to bail, each of them in the sum of £10,000, with two +sureties of £5,000 each. The trial commenced in the Court of Queen’s +Bench on December 13th, before the Lord Chief Justice, who summed up on +December 22nd, and the jury, after a few minutes’ deliberation, returned +a verdict of not guilty. Intense excitement prevailed in Norwich during +the trial, and on December 22nd, when the result was telegraphed to the +city, it was everywhere hailed with great satisfaction. A remarkable +scene occurred at Norwich Corn Hall, where a sale was in progress when +the intelligence was received. The proceedings were stopped by cheering, +the waving of hats, and other demonstrations of approval, and the +auctioneer, addressing the company, said, “The name of Gurney was an +honoured name in Norwich. The Gurneys had ever been friends of the poor +and kind and good to all classes, and all were glad that the trial had +resulted in the honourable acquittal of all the defendants.” + +2.—At the Lambeth Police Court, William Sheward, aged 57, was charged +upon his own confession with the wilful murder of his wife, Martha +Sheward, at Norwich, on June 15th, 1851. On the night of January 1st the +prisoner went to the Carter Street Police Station and said to the officer +in charge, “I have killed my wife. I have kept the secret for years, but +I can keep it no longer.” In a further statement he said he had intended +to destroy himself, “but the Almighty would not let him do it.” He added +that he had cut up his wife’s body, and that a portion was kept in +spirits of wine at the Guildhall at Norwich, by order of the magistrates. +At the Norwich Police Court, on January 4th, the Chief Constable (Mr. +Hitchman) detailed to the magistrates the particulars reported to him by +the London police, and stated that on June 21st, 1851, portions of a +human body were found in different parts of the city and deposited at the +Guildhall. The magistrates issued a warrant for the apprehension of +Sheward, who, on January 7th, was brought to Norwich, and appeared before +the Bench on January 8th. He was described as a licensed victualler, of +the Key and Castle public-house, St. Martin-at-Oak, and it was proved +that he married his first wife, a Norfolk woman, who formerly lived at +Wymondham, at Greenwich, on October 28th, 1836. In 1838 he came to +Norwich, opened a pawnbroker’s shop in St. Giles’, and became bankrupt. +When living in Tabernacle Street, in 1851, his wife suddenly disappeared, +about the 9th or 10th of June. Upon this evidence the prisoner was +remanded, and at subsequent hearings witnesses were called who deposed to +finding various portions of human remains in different parts of the city +and suburbs in the summer of 1851. Relatives of the deceased woman +stated that the prisoner accounted for her disappearance by saying that +she had left Norwich for a time. On February 1st the prisoner was fully +committed for trial. At the Norwich Assizes, on March 29th, before Mr. +Baron Pigott, Sheward was placed upon his trial, and on the second day of +the hearing Mr. Metcalfe, Q.C., for the defence, contended that the +accused was labouring under delusions when he made the confession. The +jury, after three-quarters of an hour private deliberation, returned a +verdict of guilty, and the prisoner, who had nothing to say, was +sentenced to death. Immediately after the trial anonymous letters were +published in the London newspapers asserting the innocence of the +prisoner; similar letters were addressed to the Magistrates’ Clerk at +Norwich, and one communication actually purported to have been written by +Mrs. Sheward herself. Efforts were made to obtain a commutation of +sentence, on the ground of the long interval that had elapsed between the +perpetration of the murder and the trial of the accused. These efforts, +however, were of no avail, and the capital sentence was carried out by +Calcraft at the City Gaol on April 20th. This was the first private +execution that had taken place in Norwich. It was announced that on +April 13th the culprit made a full confession of his crime, and gave +detailed particulars of the manner in which he had disposed of the body +of the murdered woman. In a letter to his second wife he also admitted +his guilt. + +14.—The trial of the election petition presented by Mr. Jacob Henry +Tillett against the return of Sir Henry Josias Stracey, Bart., as member +of Parliament for Norwich, commenced at the Shirehall, before Mr. Baron +Martin. Counsel for the petitioner were Mr. Serjeant Ballantyne, Mr. +Keane, Q.C., and Mr. Simms Reeve; and for the respondent, Mr. Rodwell, +Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, Mr. E. L. O’Malley, and Mr. J. C. C. Wyld. +Bribery, treating, personation, and other matters were alleged. In his +opening address, Mr. Ballantyne asserted “that the bribery was most +profligate and most wholesale, and that houses were opened by persons of +apparent respectability for the mere purpose of carrying out this +bribery, and men of position who ought to have known a great deal better +were concerned in it.” After three days’ hearing, the trial resulted in +the unseating of Sir Henry Stracey. The learned judge, in his report to +the Speaker of the House of Commons, stated that although no corrupt +practice was proved to have been made with the knowledge or consent of +any of the candidates, and, further, it was proved to his entire +satisfaction that neither Sir Henry Stracey nor the other candidates at +the said election had any personal knowledge of or connection whatever +with bribery or any other illegal or corrupt practice, he had determined +that Sir Henry Stracey was not duly elected, and that his election was +rendered void by the acts of his agents. The persons reported for being +guilty of corrupt practices were Robert Hardiment, Arthur Hunt, Robert +Callow, and Thomas Hutchings. The first-named absconded after the +petition was presented. It was also stated in the report that a number +of persons went to the poll in a gross state of drunkenness. (_See_ +April 1st.) + +15.—A trout weighing 15 lbs. was captured in a drop net near the New +Mills, Norwich. + +16.—Messrs. Jolly and Son, coachbuilders, Norwich, advertised that they +had “arranged to supply from a noted French maker the celebrated bicycle +velocipede, so much in vogue in Paris.” The price of the machine was +from 8 gs. upwards. On the 30th there was an editorial announcement to +the effect that “an attempt is being made to introduce this latest +novelty in locomotive machinery, now so fashionable in Paris, to the +Norwich public, by Mr. C. Thorn, who has two at his establishment, for +the inspection of the curious.” The “first velocipede journey of any +considerable distance from Norwich” was performed on March 30th by Mr. B. +W. Jolly, who travelled from Norwich to Yarmouth, including a stoppage of +fifteen minutes at Acle, in 2 hours 30 minutes. “The progress of the +traveller was considerably retarded by the roughness of the roads and a +powerful gale.” A short time previously Mr. G. W. Bellamy, of +Saxlingham, on a velocipede built by Messrs. Jolly and Son, but under +much more favourable conditions as to roads and weather, accomplished a +distance of 56 miles in 6 hours 25 minutes, exclusive of a short delay +midway on the journey. A Norwich Velocipede Club was established in the +month of April, and on the 29th an exhibition of the machines was held at +the Corn Hall, under the management of Mr. Thorn. On the same occasion +was exhibited “one of the old-fashioned dandy horses, the original or the +velocipede tribe,” but, it was added, “the now velocipede is more easily +managed.” The first velocipede races took place at the athletic sports +of the Norwich Gymnastic Society, held on Newmarket Road Cricket Ground, +on May 24th. A “slow race,” ridden by Messrs. Jolly, Griffiths, and +Goldsmith, was won by the last-named. A “plank race,” in which the +bicycles were ridden upon a seventy yards’ length of plank, was won by a +competitor named Ewing. A one mile “fast race” was ridden in heats, the +first of which was won by Kent, of Beccles, and the second by Bellamy. +Kent was the winner of the final heat, in 4 minutes 49 seconds. “He came +over on his bicycle from Beccles in the morning, and returned the same +way after the sports.” By the end of the year there was a marked +increase in the number of local cyclists. Accidents to inexperienced +riders were frequently recorded, and many complaints were made by drivers +of the alarm occasioned to horses by the appearance of these new-fangled +machines. + +16.—The so-called monastic chapel erected at Elm Hill, Norwich, by Father +Ignatius, was the subject of further discussion. Miss Robinson, a “lady +preacher,” had hired the “monastery,” and named it the “Jehovah Jireh +chapel,” whereupon Ignatius issued a notice warning her and others +concerned that he was the owner of the building. On this date “Brother +Philip” and one or two other members of the confraternity came to +Norwich, under instructions from Ignatius, and demanded the keys of the +building from Mr. Liddlelow, who refused to give them up unless +authorised by his principal, Mr. Backhouse, surveyor, of Ipswich. At +midnight on the 18th Ignatius, who had arrived in Norwich a few hours +previously, with other brethren, gained access to the old sanctuary by, +they asserted, miraculous intervention, and thence made their way to the +new chapel. The police were sent for, and Ignatius was informed that he +had no right there; as he declined to leave the building, the police +refused to interfere. Mr. Liddlelow, on the 19th, applied to the +magistrates for an order of ejectment, but as a question of right was +involved, they would have nothing to do with the matter. On the same +evening Ignatius performed service in the chapel, and stated, in the +course of his address, that Miss Robinson had acted in the most +honourable manner, but had been misled by others. He alluded to her as +his “sister in Christ,” and Miss Robinson, who preached in the chapel on +the evening of the 20th, spoke of Ignatius as her “brother in Christ.” +Ignatius addressed the congregation at the close of the proceedings, and +informed them that he should never allow the chapel to be used for any +other purpose than that of monastic worship. “Although the members of +Father Ignatius’ congregation and the members of Miss Robinson’s flock +could not be more opposed in their mode of thought, yet the greatest +harmony prevailed, and at the close they offered up the Lord’s Prayer in +perfect unison.” + +18.—The new Cemetery at Diss was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich. +The total cost of the chapels, lodge, &c., was about £1,750, but this sum +was exclusive of the price of the land. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +5.—Died, in his 87th year, at Norwich, Thomas Hurry, church bell-hanger, +and for more than 50 years a member of the St. Peter Mancroft company of +ringers. + +12.—A severe gale occurred on the Norfolk coast. The barque Try Again +was lost off Yarmouth, and the crew saved by means of the rocket +apparatus. Other vessels were wrecked, and several lives lost. + +13.*—“We are sorry to learn that the Norfolk County Cricket Club has been +brought to an untimely end. The officers of the club hold out no hope +that it can be carried on, as the persistent apathy of those who call +themselves members, many of whom have failed to pay their subscriptions, +has left the treasurer with a large amount of debts and no hope of being +able to meet them.” At a meeting held on the 17th, it was agreed by the +Dereham Cricket Club to hire the ground hitherto let to the County +Cricket Club. + + +MARCH. + + +5.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a report was received from +the Sewerage and Irrigation Committee, stating that an intimation had +been made by the contractor for the construction of the intercepting +sewers that he would be unable to proceed with his contract unless the +Committee advanced him a sum of money. As neither the Committee nor the +Board of Health had power to do so under the contract, proposals were +made to the contractor (Mr. Wainwright), which resulted in the Committee +taking possession of the works, materials, &c. The opinion was expressed +that the Committee had acted with due consideration of the interests and +safety of the public, and at the same time with consideration for the +contractor, who appeared to have met with unforeseen difficulties in the +prosecution of that part of the works in course of construction at +Trowse, the soil there consisting of sand instead, as was supposed, of +chalk. The Town Council, on March 16th, agreed that the contract with +Mr. Wainwright be cancelled, upon payment to the parties entitled thereto +of £2,800, in full satisfaction of all claims and for the purchase of +plant and materials. On July 20th the Sewerage and Irrigation Committee +reported that, in consequence of the nature of the soil through which so +large a portion of the tunnelling had to be carried, and other unforeseen +circumstances, the original estimate would be exceeded, but the ultimate +cost of the works would not be more than £81,500, to be reduced to +£78,500 by the sale of plant, &c. A description of the sewerage works +was published on December 24th, from which it appeared that all the money +authorised to be raised by Act of Parliament, £75,000, had been borrowed, +and the greater part of it already expended. The whole of the high level +sewer was completed on this date. It extended from the Ipswich Road, +along Town Close Road, through Mount Pleasant Lane, across the fields and +under Mill Hill Lane to West Pottergate street, Bedford Street, Opie +Street, the Cattle Market, and King Street, to a point near Messrs. +Morgan’s Brewery, where it joined the low level sewer, a distance of more +than two and a half miles. Branch sewers had been laid in various +directions. The low level sewer, from the New Mills, along Westwick +Street, Charing Cross, St. Andrew’s, Prince’s Street, Tombland, Upper +King Street, and along King Street to the gates had also been completed, +a few short distances excepted. The work was carried out under the +direction of the engineer, Mr. Morant, and of the Sewerage and Irrigation +Committee, of which Mr. J. G. Johnson was chairman. (_See_ October 1st, +1872.) + +9.—Died at Torquay, Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., of Ketteringham Park. +The eldest son of Mr. John Peter Boileau, he was born in 1794, educated +at Eton and Merton College, Oxford, and in 1813 entered the Rifle +Brigade, from which he retired in 1818. He married, in 1824, Lady +Catherine Sarah Elliot, daughter of the first Earl of Minto, by whom he +had two sons, Francis George Manningham, born in 1830, who succeeded to +the baronetcy, and Edward William Pollin, born in 1831, and five +daughters. Sir John was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for the +county of Norfolk, and served the office of High Sheriff in 1844. As a +memorial to his wife, who died in 1862, he founded the Catherine ward in +the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was devoted to the pursuit of +science and the arts, was a vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries, +a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Artists, president of +the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, vice-president of the +Norfolk and Norwich Museum, and a member of the committee of the Norfolk +and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival. + +11.—Prince’s Street chapel, Norwich, was re-opened, after having been +re-arranged and improved, under the direction of Mr. Edward Boardman, +architect, at the cost of £2,600. As originally planned, in 1819, it was +a building of heavy and uninteresting appearance; the new designs by Mr. +Boardman gave to it an imposing façade. The Rev. Newman Hall preached at +the opening services. + +12.—A race took place between Joseph Tuck, a pedestrian, of Little +Snoring, and a trotting pony belonging to Mr. Gutteridge. The match was +for £40, the distance 500 yards, and the start was from scratch. Tuck +had the race in hand the whole way, and passed the winning-post thirty +yards ahead of the pony. + +13.*—“Mr. Bunnett, of Norwich, has successfully undergone the necessary +preliminary of the searching examination in music by Professor Sterndale +Bennett. As a corollary of the examination, the exercise of Mr. Bunnett +for the degree of Doctor in Music was performed in the chapel of Trinity +College, Cambridge, on the 8th instant, in the presence of Professor +Bennett, and produced a very good impression.” + +16.—The trial of the election petition against the return of the Hon. R. +Bourke, one of the Conservative members for the borough, commenced at +King’s Lynn, before Mr. Baron Martin. The petitioners alleged corrupt +practices, treating, and intimidation. The hearing concluded on the +17th, when the Judge stated that he was clearly of opinion that the +object of the petition had failed, and it would be his duty to report to +the Speaker of the House of Commons that Mr. Bourke had been duly +elected. + +27.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Baron Pigott, Francis Howard Clare +(42), shoemaker, was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Ann +Frances Clare, on October 16th, 1868. The woman was found with her +throat cut, and it was alleged that the prisoner had inflicted the wound. +Mr. Metcalfe, for the defence, set up the theory of suicide, and the +jury, adopting that view, returned a verdict of not guilty. + + +APRIL. + + +1.—In the House of Commons a motion was agreed to for the appointment of +a Royal Commission to inquire into alleged corrupt practices at Norwich +at the last election of members to serve in Parliament. (_See_ August +21st.) + +14.—The Watton and Swaffham Railway Bill was considered by a Select +Committee of the House of Commons. The company asked for powers to +extend from Watton in the direction of Thetford the line of railway +constructed between Swaffham and Watton. The Committee decided that the +preamble had been proved. On June 25th a Select Committee of the House +of Lords ordered the Bill to be reported to that House. The estimated +cost of the construction of the line was £72,500; the capital proposed to +be raised under the Bill was £80,000—£62,000 by shares, and the remaining +£20,000 by borrowing powers. The line to Roudham was opened for +passenger traffic on October 18th. + +15.—The Committee appointed by the House of Commons to investigate the +condition of turnpike trusts considered the affairs of the Norfolk group. +The Committee decided that the New Buckenham, the Norwich, Swaffham, and +Mattishall, the Norwich and Watton, and the Thetford trusts be not +continued, and that the Aylsham and Cromer trusts be continued. + + +MAY. + + +12.—Died at King’s Lynn, Mr. Charles Gill, “the well-known and highly +respected lessee and manager of theatres in the East Anglian district, +and talented comedian.” Mr. Gill had attained the age of 74 years, and +left a daughter with whom he was about to proceed to Australia. In his +earlier days Mr. Gill performed with the great Kean and many other +eminent actors. + +17.—Loveday’s English Opera Company commenced an engagement at Norwich +Theatre. Mdlle. Mariana and Miss Ella Collins made their first +appearance in Norwich. + +—The hearing of the election petition against the return of the Hon. +Frederick Walpole and Sir E. H. K. Lacon, as members for North Norfolk, +commenced at the Shirehall, Norwich, before Mr. Justice Blackburn. The +nominal petitioner was Mr. Edward Colman, merchant, of London, who +alleged bribery, treating, undue influence, employment of roughs, illegal +payment of travelling expenses, and, what was a novel feature in election +inquiries, the employment of canvassers. Counsel for the petitioner were +Mr. Serjeant Ballantyne and Mr. Littler, and for the respondents Mr. +O’Malley, Q.C., Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., and Mr. Blofeld. The trial concluded +on the 24th, when his lordship, in delivering judgment, said the petition +had completely failed. Both members were duly elected, and in the +present case there was no reason for departing from the rule that the +petitioner must pay the costs. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was observed in the usual manner at Norwich. A +parade of the Royal Horse Artillery and the Volunteers took place. The +event was officially observed on June 2nd, when the troops were reviewed +on Mousehold; the Mayor and Mayoress entertained the aged poor at the +Corn Hall, and gave a feast to the inmates of the Workhouse. + +26.—The foundation-stone of the new church of St. James’, Yarmouth, was +laid by the Dean of Norwich. The church was partially opened on April +27th, 1870. + + +JUNE. + + +4.—A crane was shot at South Pickenham. It was a young male, in good +condition, measured 64 inches in length, and weighed 10½ lbs.; the +expanse of its wings was 93 inches. On the 12th two were killed out of +four seen at Burnham, and about the same time another was shot on the +Thornham salt marshes. The occurrence of so many cranes in one year was +remarkable, as not more than three or four specimens were known to have +been procured in Norfolk during the preceding half century. + +8.—A great demonstration was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in +opposition to the Irish Church Bill. The meeting was convened by the +Norwich Conservative and Constitutional Association, and was presided +over by Sir Samuel Bignold. + +9.—Died at Lugano, Switzerland, where he had gone for the benefit of his +health, Mr. Charles Cory, Town Clerk of Great Yarmouth, aged 57. He was +a son of Mr. Robert Cory, solicitor, a former Mayor of the borough, and +was elected Town Clerk in 1851, in succession to Mr. J. Clowes. Mr. +Charles Diver was elected to the vacant office on June 21st. + +15.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, it was reported +that new governors had been appointed under the amended Grammar School +and Commercial School scheme. The Town Clerk, it was stated, had +obtained for the Corporation the right of interfering in the trust, and +had procured the adoption of the lists furnished by the Council. The +principle obtained was an important one—that no body of trustees +exercising a trust for the benefit of the city and neighbourhood should +be allowed to make enormous and various changes in their government and +management of the school, which was the property of the Council as much +as theirs, without the sanction of the representative body. + +24.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at +Attleborough, and was continued on the 25th. The members’ dinner took +place at the Corn Hall, and was presided over by the Hon. Thomas de Grey, +M.P. + +26.—The annual camp of the 1st Administrative Battalion of Norfolk +Volunteers was formed at Hunstanton Park. The Battalion was inspected by +Lieut.-Col. Elliott, and the camp was struck on July 2nd. + + +JULY. + + +7.—The new dock at Lynn, completed at the cost of upwards of £80,000, was +opened by the Prince of Wales, who was accompanied by the Princess of +Wales. Their Royal Highnesses arrived by special train from London, and +were received at the railway station by the Chairman of the Dock Company +(Mr. L. W. Jarvis), the Mayor (Mr. J. Thorley), the members of Parliament +for the borough, and others. Escorted by a troop of the 3rd (Prince of +Wales’) Dragoons, from Colchester, the Prince and Princess proceeded to +the Town Hall, where an address was read by the Recorder. After a visit +to the Grammar School, where his Royal Highness presented the medal +annually given by him to the head boy, the procession went to the Common +Staithe Quay, where the twin screw steamer Mary, of London, was lying +ready to receive the party on board. The band of the Grenadier Guards, +under Mr. Dan Godfrey, played a selection of music as the vessel steamed +down the Estuary Channel. Returning to the harbour, the Mary passed +through the lock gate into the Dock basin, amid the loud cheers of the +spectators, the playing of the National Anthem, and the ringing of the +church bells. His Royal Highness having declared the Dock duly opened, +said that it would thenceforth be called the Alexandra Dock. The Royal +visitors and a distinguished company next proceeded to the Town Hall for +luncheon. The Prince and Princess afterwards left for Sandringham. In +the evening the town was illuminated, and a display of fireworks was +given in the Tuesday Market Place. + +8.—After lying high and dry for upwards of nine weeks, the large screw +steamer, Lady Flora, was launched from Caister beach. She was a +first-class vessel, of 750 tons register, and 1,000 tons gross, 205 feet +in length, 29 feet beam, and was valued at £16,000. On May 1st she ran +hard and fast on the beach, in close contiguity to the dangerous shoal +known as the Patch. Early in June the services of Mr. T. B. Carr, +engineer, of Hull, were engaged by the underwriters, and efforts were +made to get her off. The steamer had become embedded in the sand to the +depth of eight feet, but by the aid of very powerful hydraulic cranes and +other appliances, and assisted by 120 men, Mr. Carr succeeded in lifting +the vessel four feet above the beach. In these operations upwards of +£2,000 was expended. Three thousand persons assembled to witness the +launch. When the blocks were knocked away the vessel, by her own weight, +glided broadside off, and rolled in magnificent style into 4½ feet of +water. Her draught (empty) was eight feet; as the tide rose she floated +with it, and was towed to Hull for repair. On November 20th it was +announced that the Lady Flora, which was then engaged in the Baltic +trade, had been lost at sea. + +16.—In recognition of the great services he had rendered to the Norwich +Battalion of Rifle Volunteers during the five years it was under his +command, Col. Black was presented with a service of plate by the +officers, non-commissioned officers, and members of the corps. Col. +Black was succeeded in the command of the Battalion by Col. G. M. +Boileau. + +19.—Robertson’s comedy, “Caste,” which marked a new era in the character +of theatrical representation, was produced for the first time in Norwich, +by a company which appeared at the Theatre Royal, under the management of +Mr. Frederick Younge. The transition from sensational drama and broad +farce to refined comedy was by no means appreciated by local playgoers, +and the attendance during the week was unusually small even for Norwich. +“School” was the other piece performed by the company, which comprised +Mr. Frederick Younge, Mr. Craven, Mr. J. W. Ray, Mr. G. Canninge, Mr. +Fortune, Mrs. E. Dyas, Miss Ada Dyas, and Miss Brunton. + +21.—Died at Saham, Mr. Jonas Silvanus Wright, aged 71. He was the author +of “The Prodigal Son,” “Rambles in Wales,” and other poems. + + +AUGUST. + + +12.—A two days’ cricket match, between eleven of the South of England and +twenty-two of Norfolk and Norwich, commenced on the Newmarket Road +ground, Norwich. Scores: South of England, 33—161; Norfolk and Norwich, +172—124. + +13.—The advance party of the D Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, arrived at +Norwich, and on the 16th the B Battery marched _en route_ to Ireland. + +19.—The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the existence of +corrupt practices at the last election of members to serve in Parliament +for the city of Norwich commenced its sittings at the Shirehall, Norwich. +The Commissioners were Mr. George Morley Dowdeswell, Q.C., Mr. Horatio +Mansfield, and Mr. John Biron. On September 4th (the fifteenth day) the +Court adjourned until the 27th, when the inquiry was resumed. Sir Henry +Stracey was examined on October 9th (the 27th day), and Mr. J. H. Tillett +on October 11th (the 29th day). The inquiry terminated on October 15th +(the 32nd day). The Chief Commissioner acknowledged the assistance given +by the police and the Guardians. “We feel,” he said, “that these bodies +have rendered us most efficient and signal assistance, and we only wish +that other officials in this city had also offered us that assistance, +and that we had not experienced obstacles on their part. We fear that +the encouragement which has been given by them to persons to withhold +information has led to many of those spectacles which have been to us a +source of signal pain in the course of our inquiry.” The Commissioners, +in their report, dated February 15th, 1870, stated that corrupt practices +did not extensively prevail in Norwich at the election in November, 1868; +that Sir Henry Stracey was returned through such practices; and that +corrupt practices did not extensively prevail at the election of 1865 or +that of 1860. Several persons were scheduled for bribery and for +corruptly influencing voters by treating. The Norwich Voters +Disfranchisement Bill, by which it was proposed to disfranchise 119 +electors, passed its second reading in the House of Commons on May 2nd, +1870, and received the Royal assent on July 4th in the same year. (_See_ +January 31st, 1870.) + +30.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, with an evening concert, at which the “Hymn of +Praise” and “Acis and Galatea” were performed. The other works in the +programme were the following:—Wednesday morning, September 1st, selection +from “Hezekiah” and “The Fall of Babylon”; Thursday morning, September +2nd, Sacred Cantata, by Horace Hill, “Messe Solennelle” (first time of +performance out of London), and the Dettingen Te Deum; Friday morning, +September 3rd, “The Messiah.” Grand miscellaneous concerts were given on +the evenings of August 31st and September 1st and 2nd. The principal +vocalists were Mdlle. Tietjens, Mdlle. Ilma de Murska, Madame Talbot +Cherer, Madame Patey, and Madame Trebelli Bettini, Mr. Vernon Rigby, Mr. +Arthur Byron, Mr. W. H. Cummings, Signor Bettini, Signor Foli, and Mr. +Santley. Mr. Benedict conducted. A “dress ball” took place on the +evening of September 3rd. Financially the Festival was a failure, and +the total receipts, about £4,000, barely covered expenses. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +15.—A Conservative banquet was held at the Town Hall, Great Yarmouth, to +celebrate the return of the Hon. Frederick Walpole and Sir E. Lacon, +Bart., as members for North Norfolk. Upwards of 1,000 electors of the +Flegg Hundreds were present, and presented to Sir Edmund Lacon a piece of +plate weighing nearly 900 ozs., in recognition of the services he had +rendered during the period he represented Yarmouth in Parliament. + +20.—Blondin gave tight-rope performances at Norwich Theatre during the +week commencing on this date. + +30.—An ascent was made from Norwich Market Place in a “fish balloon,” by +Mr. Orton, accompanied by Mr. William Maris. The descent took place at +Tuddenham, near East Dereham, a distance of fourteen miles from Norwich. + + +OCTOBER. + + +12.—Died at his residence, the Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, Mr. Bernard +Bolingbroke Woodward, B.A. (Lond.), F.S.A., aged 53 years. He had for +some years held the post of librarian to the Queen at Windsor Castle, and +was the eldest son of Mr. Samuel Woodward, of Norwich. + +16.*—“The mansion that Sir Robert Harvey, Bart., is erecting on his +estate at Crown Point is approaching completion. It has been built from +the designs of Messrs. Coe and Peake, architects, of London.” + +18.—The Prince of Wales, with his suite, passed through Norwich, on his +way to Gunton Hall, on a visit to Lord Suffield. + +19.—A heavy gale took place at Yarmouth, where shipping casualties +occurred and several lives were lost. The sea rose to within a few feet +of the houses on the Marine Parade. + +—A week’s festivities commenced at Holkham Hall, in celebration of the +majority of Viscount Coke, which his lordship attained in the previous +month of July. The proceedings had been postponed in consequence of the +illness of the Earl of Leicester. + +20.—Died at Thorpe Hamlet, in his 81st year, Mr. John Kitson, Registrar +of the Diocese of Norwich. He had for 58 years held the office of +secretary to the Bishop, having been appointed in 1811 by Bishop +Bathurst, and continued in the office by his successors, Bishop Stanley, +Bishop Hinds, and Bishop Pelham. Mr. Kitson was appointed Registrar in +1825, and was Chapter Clerk and Registrar to the Dean and Chapter, and +district registrar in her Majesty’s Court of Probate. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +1.—That portion of Dereham Cemetery appropriated to the Church of England +was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich. The chapels were designed by +Mr. Brown, architect, of Norwich, and built by Mr. Hubbard, of East +Dereham. “The old churchyard is said to have been used as a +burial-ground for 600 years.” + +9.—Mr. Augustus Frederick Coke Bolingbroke was elected Mayor, and Mr. +Henry Morgan appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +12.—A new self-righting lifeboat, 33 feet in length, was launched at +Wells-next-the-Sea. It was purchased with the proceeds of “penny +readings” given in various parts of the kingdom. The fund, which was +inaugurated by Mr. E. B. Adams, surgeon, of Bungay, amounted to the sum +of £500, and represented the contributions of eighteen different +counties. Of this amount Norfolk raised £161. In the presence of +several thousands of spectators, the Countess of Leicester christened the +boat the Eliza Adams. Luncheon was served at the Crown Hotel, under the +presidency of the Earl of Leicester, and in the evening a ball was held. + +18.—Died at his residence, St. Clement’s, Norwich, Mr. Henry Ladbrooke, +landscape painter. He was a member of the accomplished family of Norfolk +artists and a pupil of the celebrated Crome, the influence of whose style +was apparent in his works. After residing many years in Lynn, he removed +to Norwich. + +20.*—“Mr. W. T. Bensly, LL.D., has been appointed by the Dean and Chapter +of Norwich to be Chapter Clerk, in the place of the late Mr. Kitson.” + +25.—Mdlle. Christine Nilsson, Mdlle. Anna Drasdil, Madame Gilardoni, +Signor Foli, and Mr. J. M. Wheli, with Mr. Benedict as conductor, +appeared at a concert at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, on this and the +following evening, in aid of the local charities, which had suffered from +the non-success of the late Festival. The concerts were arranged by Mr. +Howlett and Mr. C. S. Gilman, who handed to the charities a sum of nearly +£200. + +27.*—“The catch of herring last week was a most extraordinary and +exceptional one, not only as regards the present season, but also as +compared with those of the wonderful voyage of 1868. The quantities of +herring delivered on Yarmouth fishwharf exceeded 2,400 lasts (13,200 fish +per last), a catch probably unprecedented. Several of the smacks had +‘made up’ before the recent successes, being compelled to do so in +consequence of the terrible disasters that had befallen them.” + + +DECEMBER. + + +7.—Lord Claud Hamilton and Mr. Richard Young were nominated candidates +for the representation of King’s Lynn, rendered vacant by Lord Stanley’s +succession to the Earldom of Derby. The proceedings were of a most +tumultuous character, and the show of hands being in favour of the +Liberal candidate, the supporters of Lord Claud Hamilton demanded a poll. +In apprehension of a disturbance, detachments of the 4th and 8th Foot +were drafted into the town, and were stationed in the National +Schoolroom, St. Margaret’s. The polling took place on the 8th, and +resulted as follows:—Hamilton, 1,051; Young, 1,032. + +13.—Died at Westacre, aged 64, Mr. Anthony Hamond. He was the +representative of a Norfolk family of considerable antiquity, and +succeeded to the Westacre estate on the death of his father, Mr. Philip +Hamond, in 1824. In 1828 he married Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. +John Chaworth Musters, of Colwick, Notts. He was succeeded in his estate +by his son Anthony, born in 1834, Mr. Hamond served the office of High +Sheriff in 1836, and twice unsuccessfully contested the representation of +the Western Division of the county—in 1847 and 1852; and in 1854 accepted +an invitation to become a candidate for Norwich, in opposition to Sir +Samuel Bignold, by whom he was defeated. Mr. Hamond took a great +interest in country pursuits, and was ever foremost in promoting +experiments for the advancement of agricultural science. + +14.—Holkham church was re-opened after restoration by the Earl and +Countess of Leicester, at the estimated cost of £10,000, of which £7,000 +was expended for wood carving alone. + +27.—The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor and +Prince George, arrived at Holkham, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of +Leicester. Their Royal Highnesses left on January 1st, 1870, for Gunton +Park. + +—The pantomime at Norwich Theatre was produced by Mr. J. F. Young. It +was entitled, “The King of the Peacocks.” Circus entertainments were +provided at Messrs. Henry and Adams’ establishment on the Castle Meadow. + + + +1870. + + +JANUARY. + + +31.—In the Court of Common Pleas, before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and +Justices Smith and Brett, Mr. Mellish, Q.C., showed cause against the +rule calling upon the Master to review his taxation of the costs in the +Norwich election petition. The bill of costs of the petitioner (Mr. J. +H. Tillett) had been reduced from £3,015 7s. to £703 3s., and of the +respondent (Sir H. J. Stracey) from £793 14s. 2d. to £168 6s. Four +hundred witnesses had been subpœnaed. The Lord Chief Justice said the +rule must be discharged. “Sir Henry Stracey,” it was stated on March +19th, “has this week paid to Mr. Tillett’s solicitors £583 17s. 8d., +which has been accepted as payment in full for his costs in the matter. +The total amount of the petitioner’s costs was £3,800, and deducting Sir +Henry’s contribution, it leaves upwards of £3,200 to be paid by the +petitioner.” (_See_ March 31st.) + + +FEBRUARY. + + +1.—Died in Florida, while on leave of absence from Montreal, +Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ashe Windham, K.C.B., commanding the forces in +Canada. He was the fourth son of Vice-Admiral Windham, of Felbrigg Hall, +who was the son of the Rev. George William Lukin, Dean of Wells, and who +assumed the name of Windham on succeeding to the estates of his +distinguished relative, the Right Hon. William Windham. His mother was +Anne, daughter of Mr. Peter Thellusson, of Broadsmouth, Yorkshire, and +sister of the first Baron Rendlesham. He was born at Felbrigg in 1810, +and married first, in 1849, Marianne Catherine Emily, daughter of Admiral +Sir John P. Beresford, Bart., K.C.B., who died in 1865; and secondly, in +1866, Charlotte Jane, eldest daughter of the Rev. Henry Des Vœux. +Educated at Sandhurst, he entered the Army in 1826, as ensign and +lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and served in Canada during the time +of the rebellion, from 1838 to 1842. He continued with the regiment +until the outbreak of the war with Russia, when he accompanied the +Eastern Army as Assistant Quarter-master General of the 4th Division, and +served from September, 1854, to July, 1856, without a day’s absence. He +was present at the battle of the Alma, at Balaclava, and at the repulse +of the powerful sortie on October 26th, 1854, and was with Sir George +Cathcart when the latter was killed at the battle of Inkerman. At the +second assault on the Redan, on September 8th, 1855, Windham (then +Colonel) greatly distinguished himself by his personal daring and +gallantry in command of the storming party of the second division, and +for his intrepid conduct was promoted Major-General. In September, 1855, +he was appointed Governor of the British portion of Sebastopol, and in +the following month was entrusted with the command of the 4th Division. +For his services in the Crimea he received numerous clasps, medals, and +orders. In 1857 General Windham proceeded to India and commanded a +division in the field, under Lord Clyde, during the advance to Kallee +Nuddee. On June 17th, 1861, he was appointed to the command of the 46th +Regiment of Foot, and in October, 1867, became Commander of the Forces in +Canada. On the return of General Windham from the Crimea, in July, 1856, +he was enthusiastically received at Norwich and presented with two +handsome swords, purchased by public subscription. In April, 1857, he +was returned to Parliament for East Norfolk, and remained its member for +two years. + +5.—A meeting of the Norwich Diocesan Church Association was held at the +Church Societies’ Rooms, Norwich, for the purpose of discussing the +question of national education, a subject which was brought prominently +before the country during this year. The Bishop of Norwich presided, and +the Dean moved, “That in any legislative enactments for promoting the +education of the children of the working classes called for by the +destitution in this respect of many places in England and Wales, the +inculcation of Christian truth ought to form an essential feature, and +that provision for this purpose can be best made under existing +circumstances through the medium of parochial and other schools attached +to the Church of England or to other religious communions.” A further +resolution was moved by the Hon. Frederick Walpole, M.P., “That the +present system, which has been successfully in operation during the last +thirty years, carried on by means of voluntary efforts, and maintained by +school fees, charitable contributions, and grants from the Consolidated +Fund, is capable of further extension and improvement, and is able, if +adequately assisted by the State, to supply the national wants of the +country without resorting to local taxation for the purpose, unless in +those extreme cases for which provision can be made in no other way.” A +third resolution was moved by Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., “That compulsory +education, except under especial circumstances, such as the case of +vagrant, criminal, and destitute children, would be an unnecessary +interference with the rights and responsibilities of parents, and unless +applied to all classes of the community, create an unjust and invidious +distinction between rich and poor, and its enforcement by pains and +penalties would cause a general feeling of hardship and discontent, while +its objects could be attained by other means, such as the extension, +under due restrictions, of the Factory Acts and of similar measures +regulating the employment of children’s labour.” The final resolution +was moved by the Rev. Canon Heaviside, “That in the opinion of this +meeting it is expedient that the promoters of Church education should +consent that in schools aided by the Government grant provision should be +made for securing perfect liberty of distinctive religious teaching +combined with perfect liberty of declining it.” These resolutions were +adopted. The Elementary Education Bill, introduced by Mr. W. E. Forster +on February 17th, was passed, and received the Royal assent on August +9th. On October 11th a meeting of the clergy was held, under the +presidency of the Mayor (Mr. A. F. C. Bolingbroke), at the Girls’ Model +School, Norwich, “for the purpose of consulting as to the steps to be +taken under the Elementary Education Act,” and it was resolved to convene +a public meeting for the discussion of the question. This meeting was +held on October 19th, at the Free Library, and was composed of “school +managers and supporters of Church education.” The Mayor again presided. +The Lord Bishop moved, “That, with the view of carrying out the objects +of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, in this city, steps be immediately +taken to supply and maintain sufficient, efficient, and suitable schools +on the voluntary principle, in order to secure in Church schools +religious education in accordance with the teaching of the Church of +England.” This was seconded by Mr. Henry Birkbeck. The Sheriff (Mr. +Henry Morgan) moved, “That an immediate appeal be made to the citizens of +Norwich to provide funds on the voluntary principle for carrying out the +object of this meeting.” A further resolution was adopted, “That the +Bishop of the Diocese, with the clergy of the city, the managers of +Church schools, and such donors and subscribers as may be willing to act +be constituted a council, and shall appoint, as soon as possible, a +committee to carry out the former resolutions, and to report progress to +the council from time to time.” The body thus constituted was afterwards +known as the Church Education Council. On November 28th the supporters +of voluntary education held a large meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall, at +which were adopted resolutions framed on similar lines to the foregoing. +The supporters of unsectarian education held a meeting at the Free +Library on the 30th, under the presidency of Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett, at +which the Rev. G. S. Barrett moved, “That a request be sent to the Mayor +to convene a common hall, in order that steps may be taken immediately +for the formation of a School Board in the city.” The Rev. J. Hallett +seconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted, and a committee was +formed for the purpose of carrying it into effect. The Church Education +Council, on December 13th, announced that sufficient subscriptions had +been obtained for providing necessary school accommodation in Norwich. +At a special meeting of the Town Council on December 20th, the return +made under the provisions of the Act to the Education Department of the +Privy Council was approved. It stated that the estimated population of +the city was 82,000, the rateable value £212,129; the total number of +assessments, 21,397; and the number of voters on the municipal register, +10,909. “The returns from elementary schools as being in operation were +93; the number of schools to which forms were delivered but refused to +fill them up was 27.” (_See_ February 28th, 1871.) + +6.—Died at Bethel Street, Norwich, in his 78th year, Mr. Henry Browne. +He was the youngest son of Mr. Alderman John Browne, and a liberal +supporter of the charitable institutions of Norwich. In his early days +of business life Mr. Browne was led to join in those well-intentioned but +unfortunately not permanently successful enterprises, the Yarn Company +and the movement for making Norwich a port by communication with the sea +at Lowestoft. + +9.—Strong gales from the E. and E.N.E., accompanied by snow squalls, +prevailed off the Norfolk coast, and increased in severity until the +14th. Several shipping disasters occurred. On the 13th the screw +steamer Sea Queen, with her crew, was lost on the Scroby Sands, and the +American-built barque Victoria, 700 tons, bound from North Shields to +Barcelona, with a cargo of coals, went down. Of her crew, several hands +were lost. + +12.—The Assembly Rooms, erected in 1862, on the Victoria Esplanade, +Yarmouth, at the cost of £6,000, were destroyed by fire. + +24.—Sir R. J. H. Harvey declined to accede to a memorial signed by 3,000 +electors of Norwich, requesting him to allow himself to be adopted as +Conservative candidate for the city. + +26.*—“Since January 1st several rare birds have been met with in the +neighbourhood of Swaffham, namely, a fork-tailed petrel, picked up at +Gooderstone; little gull (_Larus minutus_), in good condition, and +weighing only 3 ozs., shot at Beechamwell; stormy petrel, picked up at +Narborough; bittern, shot at Weeting; pied thrush, shot at Cockley Cley; +pied common partridge, shot at Didlington; dusky grebe, shot at +Castleacre; and a peregrine falcon, a fine old female bird weighing 43 +ozs. and measuring 47 inches from tip to tip of its wings, shot at +Beechamwell.” + +28.—The organ at Yarmouth parish church was opened after restoration. +The instrument was built by Jordan, Bridge, and Byfield, in 1733, +repaired by England (Jordan’s grandson) in 1812, and again in 1840 by +Gray. It was finally restored and enlarged by Messrs. Hill, of London. + + +MARCH. + + +20.—A movement known as “The Church’s Call” commenced in Norwich. A +simultaneous and united effort was made at all the churches in the city; +“all seemed resolved to cast aside minor differences, and High Churchmen, +Low Churchmen, and Broad Churchmen apparently vied with each other in +doing the work set before them.” + +23.—Died at Warham All Saints, Margaret Green, aged 100 years. “The +Thursford register testifies to her baptism in that parish on March 27th, +1769.” + +31.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Byles, Robert Hardiment, +tanner and fellmonger, was charged on five counts with bribing voters at +the last General Election to vote for Sir H. J. Stracey. The +Attorney-General appeared for the prosecution, and the defendant was +found guilty. His lordship remarked that this was a very serious crime, +and, as he was desirous that sentence should be pronounced by the highest +judicature of the country, judgment was reserved. Another person, named +Banfather, charged with bribery at the same election, was acquitted. On +April 1st, at the same Court, John Hughes Hulme was found guilty of +bribery, and sentence was reserved. Edward Stracey, son of Sir Henry J. +Stracey, was next charged. The Attorney-General conducted the case for +the prosecution, and Mr. A. Staveley Hill, Q.C., was specially retained +for the defence. On April 2nd the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. +“No sooner was the announcement made than deafening cheers were raised in +the Court, and it was in vain that the officers tried to suppress them.” +The defendant Hardiment was indicted, before Mr. Justice Blackburn, on +various counts, for committing acts of bribery at the Eighth Ward +Municipal Election, on November 1st, 1869. On being found guilty, he was +sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Joseph Stanley, solicitor, was +charged with unlawfully conspiring with Robert Hardiment and others to +induce, by means of bribes, certain persons to vote for Edward Bennett +and George Gedge, candidates at the municipal election in question. The +jury acquitted the defendant. Anthony Freestone, baker, and Henry Ellis, +shoe manufacturer, were also indicted for conspiring to bribe at the +municipal election, and were acquitted. On April 8th Messrs. W. H. +Tillett and Co., solicitors, addressed a letter to the newspapers, +asserting that “the jury drew lots to decide what their verdict should be +in the cases of Freestone and Ellis.” They added, “The verdict is, of +course, bad, and we shall feel it our duty to lay the facts before the +committee of gentlemen who instructed us in the prosecutions.” No +further action was taken, however. In the Court of Queen’s Bench, on May +10th, before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and +Hannen, Hardiment and Hulme were brought up for sentence. Mr. Bulwer, +Q.C., applied for mitigation of sentence in the case of Hardiment, on the +ground that he was then undergoing imprisonment for municipal bribery; in +the case of Hulme it was urged that imprisonment would be injurious to +his health. The Court passed sentence of ten months’ imprisonment upon +the first-named defendant, to run concurrently with the six months he had +received for municipal bribery, two months of which he had already +served, to be classed as a second-class misdemeanant, and to be fined +£100. Hulme was fined £100. Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., subsequently +presented to the Home Secretary a memorial, signed by 1,500 citizens, +praying that Hardiment should be classed as a first-class misdemeanant. + + +APRIL. + + +4.—The Rev. Canon Greenwell, of Durham, “the well-known opener of the +Yorkshire wold tumuli,” who had been making scientific investigations at +Weeting, opened one of the peculiar mounds known as “Grimes’ Graves,” and +discovered therein “two primitive picks _in situ_, with a splendid ground +axe, the skeleton of a bird, a chalk bowl or lamp, and other curious +relics.” + +18.—The Loveday Opera Company commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre. +The celebrated pantomimists and dancers, the Paynes, and Mdlle. Esta, +appeared with the company. + +20.—Died at Aigle, Switzerland, the Rev. W. Beal, LL.D., vicar of Brooke, +aged 54. Dr. Beal was the well-known originator of harvest festivals. + +21.—Died at Holkham, the Countess of Leicester. Her ladyship was the +eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel Charles Whitbread, of Cardington, +Bedfordshire, and was married to the Earl of Leicester in 1843. + +26.—The portrait of the Rev. John Gunn, F.G.S., painted by Capt. H. H. +Roberts, of Thorpe, was hung at the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, “in +acknowledgment of his munificent gift to the geological department of his +unrivalled collection of local mammalian remains.” + +28.—The south aisle of Yarmouth parish church was opened. The Bishop of +Rochester and the Bishop of the Diocese were the preachers. + +—Died, aged 84, William Gurney, compositor, of Norwich. He had been for +seventy years in continuous employment at the NORFOLK CHRONICLE Office. + +30.—Died at his residence, Horsforth Hall, near Leeds, in his 74th year, +Mr. John Marshall, who was Sheriff of Norwich in 1834 and Mayor in 1838 +and 1841. Mr. Marshall, who was an advanced Liberal, went to Leeds in +1843, and there took an active part in the affairs of that town. His +remains were interred at the Rosary burial-ground, Norwich. + + +MAY. + + +8.—Died at Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, George Horatio Cholmondeley, +second Marquis and Earl of Cholmondeley. He was the eldest son of George +James, the first Marquis, by his wife, Lady Georgina Charlotte Bertie, +second daughter of Peregrine, third Duke of Ancaster. Born January 16th, +1792, he married, first, on October 20th, 1812, Caroline, second daughter +of Lieut.-General Colin Campbell, who died in October, 1815; and +secondly, on May 11th, 1830, Lady Susan Caroline Somerset, fourth +daughter of Henry Charles, sixth Duke of Beaufort, by whom he was +survived. He succeeded to the marquisate on the death of his father, in +1827. + +16.—Miss Heath, principal tragedienne of the Drury Lane, Haymarket, and +Princess’ Theatres, London, supported by Mr. Wilson Barrett, commenced an +engagement at Norwich Theatre, in “East Lynne,” “The Jealous Wife,” “The +Bond of Life,” and “Masks and Faces.” Mr. Wilson Barrett was described +as “a painstaking and conscientious actor.” + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated at Norwich by a review of the +Royal Horse Artillery and the Volunteers on Mousehold Heath. The Mayor +entertained a large party at the Drill Hall, and gave a dinner at the +Corn Hall to the indigent blind and to poor children; and the Norwich +Athletic Club held sports on the Newmarket Road Ground. + + +JUNE. + + +13.—At a meeting of 2,000 Liberal electors, held at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett was adopted a candidate for Norwich. A +meeting of the Whig party, convened by Sir William Foster, was held at +the Royal Hotel on the 14th, under the presidency of Mr. I. O. Taylor, at +which it was decided to adopt the candidature of Mr. Edward Warner. + +17.—Died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, in his 72nd year, Mr. Robert +Martineau, brother of the Rev. James Martineau and Miss Harriet +Martineau. He was a native of Norwich, but settled in Birmingham as a +manufacturer at an early period of his life, and took an active part in +the Reform agitation preceding the Bill of 1832. For the last fourteen +years of his life he lived in retirement, owing to almost total +blindness. + +23.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at +Harleston, and was continued on the 24th. Mr. Edward Howes, M.P., +presided at the dinner. + +—The Earl of Rosebery visited his Norfolk estate for the first time. His +lordship was met at the entrance to the village of Postwick by a brass +band, which preceded the carriage to the rectory, where he was received +by the Rev. W. and Lady Margaret Vincent, the Countess of Buchan, Lord +Cardross, and other guests. The cottage tenants were entertained at +dinner, and “the orator of the village” proposed his lordship’s health, +to which the Earl replied. A dinner to the tenantry was given in the +school-room, at which his lordship presided, and the festivities ended +with a display of fireworks. + + +JULY. + + +1.—The first annual meeting of the Norwich Meteorological Society was +held at the Literary Institution. After the visit of the British +Association to Norwich in 1868, the local committee, having defrayed all +the expenses, had a balance in hand of upwards of £300. At a meeting of +subscribers, £100 of this balance was devoted to the purchase of +meteorological instruments, and on December 3rd, 1868, the society was +formed, with Mr. S. Gurney Buxton as president. + +4.—Died at his London residence, Clapham, the Right Hon. William +Schomberg Robert Kerr, Marquis of Lothian. He was the eldest of the four +surviving sons of John William Robert, seventh Marquis, by Lady Cecil +Chetwynd Talbot, daughter of Charles, second Earl Talbot. Born on August +12th, 1832, he married, on August 12th, 1857, Lady Constance Harriet +Mahonesa Talbot, eldest surviving daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury and +Talbot. He succeeded to the marquisate on the death of his father, in +November, 1844. Educated at Christchurch, Oxford, he took high honours, +having been first class in classics in 1853, and first class in +jurisprudence and modern history in 1854. After he had finished his +University career, he went to India for a year, but the climate had an +injurious effect upon his naturally feeble constitution. His lordship +died without issue, and the family estates in Scotland and Norfolk were +inherited by his brother, Lord Schomberg Kerr. + +6.—The foundation-stone of St. Philip’s church, Norwich, was laid by the +Mayor (Mr. A. F. C. Bolingbroke), who was accompanied by members of the +Corporation. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich on +August 3rd, 1871. The architect was Mr. Edward Power, of London, and the +builder Mr. J. Nelson, of Necton. It was designed to seat 775 persons, +and the cost was estimated at about £3,575. + +9.—The 1st Administrative Battalion Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went into +camp at Hunstanton Park. The battalion was inspected by Col. Freer, 27th +Regiment. + +11.—The nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy in the +representation of Norwich caused by the unseating on petition of Sir +Henry Josias Stracey, took place at the Guildhall. Mr. Jacob Henry +Tillett was nominated by Mr. J. J. Colman, and seconded by Mr. Henry +Birkbeck; and Mr. John Walter Huddleston, Q.C., by Sir Samuel Bignold, +seconded by Mr. H. S. Patteson. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. +Huddlestone, and a poll was demanded by the Liberals. The polling took +place on the 12th, and resulted as follows: Tillett, 4,236; Huddlestone, +3,874. Mr. Tillett, on the 14th, took the oath and his seat in the House +of Commons. (_See_ August 3rd.) + +15.—Great consternation was caused in Norwich by a report that Sir Robert +Harvey had committed suicide in his grounds at Crown Point. As it +subsequently proved, the rumour was well founded. Sir Robert was in his +shrubbery when two pistol shots were heard. Two workmen employed upon +the premises, on proceeding to the spot, found Sir Robert in a sitting +posture, bleeding from a severe wound in the chest. He was at once +removed into the house and placed in the library. Mr. Nichols, the +family surgeon, and Mr. Cadge were summoned, and on arriving found Sir +Robert in a critical condition. Dr. Copeman was subsequently called in, +and every effort was made to preserve life. On the 16th the patient +rallied slightly, and on the 17th he was pronounced to be better, but on +the 18th he became worse, and was visited by the Dean of Norwich, who +prayed with him and afforded him spiritual consolation. Later his +prostration increased, and he passed away in an unconscious state on the +19th. With the report of the suicide was circulated the rumour that Sir +Robert had speculated and lost heavily, and having been unable to meet +his engagements, was posted a defaulter on the Stock Exchange. At an +early hour on the 16th the following notice was exhibited upon the closed +doors of the Crown Bank: “Norwich Crown Bank. In consequence of the +lamentable catastrophe which has happened to Sir Robert Harvey, it has +been determined by the other partners to suspend the business of the Bank +for the present.” This notice gave rise to increased anxiety. Messrs. +Gurneys offered to afford every possible accommodation to the customers +of the Crown Bank, and a few hours later the National Provincial Bank +made a similar offer. The affairs of the Crown Bank being inextricably +involved, Mr. Allday Kerrison, one of the partners, signed, on the 16th, +a declaration of insolvency, and on the same day the largest city +creditor, Mr. George Gedge, presented a petition for bankruptcy. The +sale of the good-will and premises of the Bank was provisionally made to +Messrs. Gurneys and Co. on the 18th. Mr. Allday Kerrison and his son, +gentlemen of unsullied honour, had their fortunes shattered by one dire +stroke, through the reckless speculations of their partner, speculations +of which they were entirely ignorant. The inquest was held upon the body +of the deceased baronet at Crown Point on the 20th, by Mr. W. H. N. +Turner, one of the Deputy Coroners for the Liberty of the Dean and +Chapter of Norwich, and the jury returned the following verdict: “The +jury are of opinion that Sir Robert Harvey’s death was caused by firearms +discharged by himself while in a state of temporary insanity.” A meeting +of the principal creditors was held at the Royal Hotel on the 21st, under +the presidency of the Mayor, and the following resolution was passed: +“That this meeting entirely approves of the steps taken by Messrs. +Kerrison in suspending the business of the Bank, the measures taken to +protect the assets of the Bank by the immediate filing of a petition in +bankruptcy and the negotiations for the sale of the goodwill and the +business and premises to Messrs. Gurneys and Co.” On the 27th a meeting +was held at the Royal Hotel for the purpose of considering and discussing +the best course to be taken in liquidating the estate of the bankrupts. +Mr. E. C. Bailey was appointed trustee of the estate, and the Mayor and +Messrs. F. E. Watson, H. S. Patteson, H. Woods, and C. Hornor a committee +of inspection. The first general meeting of creditors was held on August +3rd, when it was reported that the total liabilities to rank for dividend +would be £1,600,321, and the total assets £910,187. [Sir Robert John +Harvey Harvey was the eldest son of General Sir Robert John Harvey, C.B., +K.T.S., of Mousehold House, Norwich, by Charlotte (his cousin), daughter +and heiress of Mr. Robert Harvey, of Walton, Suffolk. Born in 1817, he +married, in 1845, Lady Henrietta Augusta, daughter of George, Viscount +Kilcoursie, and granddaughter of the eighth Earl of Craven. He was High +Sheriff of Norfolk in 1863, and represented Thetford in Parliament from +July, 1865, to November, 1868, when the borough was disfranchised under +the new Reform Act. His son and heir, Charles Harvey, was born at +Bracondale in 1849.] + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—The Grand English Opera Company, under the management of Mr. Henry +Corri, appeared at Norwich Theatre. The principal _artistes_ were Madame +Ida Gilliers Corri, Miss Fanny Harrison, Mr. Henry Corri, and Mr. Haydn +Corri. + +3.—In the Court of Common Pleas a petition was filed by Mr. Gardiner C. +Stevens against the return of Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett, as member for +Norwich. In addition to the usual allegations of bribery and undue +influence at the last election, there was a special one of +disqualification on account of corrupt practices at the election in 1868. +On November 3rd Mr. Tillett obtained an order in the Court of Common +Pleas for the striking out of this clause, but leave was given to the +petitioner to move the full Court for a rule to show cause why the order +should not be rescinded. On November 23rd motion was made accordingly, +and the Court unanimously ordered the clause which had been struck out to +be restored. (_See_ January 5th, 1871.) + +8.—Died at Great Yarmouth, in his 90th year, Mr. Edward Youell, a partner +in the banking-house of Lacons, Youell, and Co. He retired from the firm +in 1863, after having been in the house nearly 70 years, for 42 of which +he was a partner. For several years he had been afflicted with total +blindness. + +13.—A half-yearly meeting of the East Norfolk Railway Company was held at +Norwich. This company was formed for the purpose of constructing a +railway from Norwich to North Walsham, and thence to Cromer. After +commencing operations, it was unable to proceed from want of capital and +other circumstances. It was reported that the estate of the contractor +was in the Court of Chancery, a further survey of the proposed line was +ordered, and steps were taken to ensure the resumption of the works. +(_See_ October 20th, 1874.) + +30.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a proposed tramway scheme +was discussed. The Wensum Valley railway scheme, for which an Act of +Parliament was obtained in 1864, having been abandoned, it was considered +that a tramway taking its place would prove useful for conveying produce +from the several mills in the district to Norwich. The estimated cost of +construction was £2,000 per mile, and the total estimated cost £14,000. +The matter was referred to the Paving Committee, and no further steps +were taken. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +2.—Mr. Sothern appeared at Norwich Theatre as Lord Dundreary (“Our +American Cousin”) and Hugh de Brass (“A Regular Fix”). On the 3rd he +played the part of Colonel John White (“Home”), and appeared in +“Dundreary Married and Settled,” and “Whitebait at Greenwich.” + +3.—Mr. B. V. Winch was appointed Postmaster at Norwich, in place of Mr. +S. Base, retired. + +15.—A three days’ bazaar was opened at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, +in aid of a fund for converting the Hospital field into an ornamental +garden. The sum of £462 was realised. + +27.—An explosion took place on the premises of Mr. George Coe, firework +manufacturer, New Catton. Two persons were severely injured, and removed +to the Hospital. + + +OCTOBER. + + +6.—Died at Landfort House, Portsmouth, Col. Edwin Wodehouse, C.B., +commanding Royal Artillery in the Southern District. He was the eldest +son of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Philip Wodehouse, and was born at Halifax, +Nova Scotia, on April 17th, 1817. Entering the Army as lieutenant in the +Royal Artillery, on December 19th, 1834, he served in the campaign of +1854–55, was present at the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman +(where his horse was killed beneath him), at the siege and fall of +Sebastopol, and at the repulse and sortie of October 26th, 1854. Col. +Wodehouse was three times mentioned in dispatches, and received the medal +with four clasps. + +10.—The first number of the “Eastern Daily Press” was published. A rival +newspaper, called the “Eastern Daily Journal,” published at the price of +one halfpenny, was issued this month, and had but a very brief existence. + +31.—The first Diocesan Conference was held at Norwich. At the +ruri-decanal meetings held in the spring of the year, the question +propounded by the Bishop for consideration was, “Is it desirable that +there should be held in this diocese a Diocesan Conference, in which both +the clergy and laity should be fully represented, for the purpose of +considering and eliciting the opinions of Churchmen upon matters +affecting the Church in general, or our own diocese in particular?” A +large majority of the clergy and laity were in favour of the Conference, +and the Bishop, considering the large area of the diocese, decided that +the meetings should take place in five different centres. The first +Conference was held at St. Andrew’s Hall on this date; the second at +Fakenham Corn Hall, on November 1st; the third at Ipswich Public Hall, on +November 2nd; the fourth at Halesworth, on November 3rd; and the fifth at +Lynn Athenæum, on November 4th. At each Conference papers were read, +followed by the moving of resolutions and by discussions. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Mr. Frederick Elwin Watson was elected Mayor (for the second time), +and Mr. William Butcher appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +21.—The Prince of Wales arrived at Merton Hall, on a visit to Lord and +Lady Walsingham. + +29.—The building known as the temporary church in the parish of St. +Bartholomew, Norwich, was opened by the Bishop of the Diocese. It was +intended for the accommodation of 500 persons, and was erected at the +cost of £600. + + +DECEMBER. + + +14.—The Widow Steavenson, residing in St. Gregory’s parish, Norwich, +completed her 101st year. “Several of the parishioners called upon her, +congratulated her on the event, and supplied her with all the needful +viands and wine to enable her to entertain several old friends. Her +daughter, now 77 years old, is a widow, having had to mourn the loss of +three husbands, but is on the point of marrying again.” (_See_ January +2nd, 1874.) + +24.—Mr. Sidney produced his “farewell pantomime” at Norwich Theatre. It +was entitled, “St. George, the Dragon, and the Seven Champions of +Christendom.” + +31.—The Prince of Wales, on his journey from Gunton to Sandringham, +lunched at the County Club, Norwich. The party travelled from Gunton to +Norwich in sleighs and closed carriages, and his Royal Highness +afterwards proceeded by rail from Thorpe station to Wolferton. + +—Died at Merton Hall, the Right Hon. Thomas, Lord Walsingham. He was the +eldest son of Thomas, fourth Lord Walsingham, by his wife Lady Elizabeth, +fourth daughter of the Hon. and Right Rev. Brownlow North, Bishop of +Winchester, and was born July 5th, 1804. On the death of his father, on +September 8th, 1839, he succeeded to the barony, and married, on August +6th, 1842, Augusta Louisa, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Frankland +Russell, Bart. Of this marriage he had issue a son, the Hon. Thomas de +Grey. Lady Walsingham died in 1844, and his lordship married, secondly, +on October 25th, 1847, the Horn Emily Elizabeth Julia Thellusson, eldest +daughter of John, second Lord Rendlesham, by whom he left issue three +sons and three daughters. His lordship was educated at St. John’s +College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1824, was called to the +Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1827, and in 1842 was made LL.D. of his +University. Although educated for the law, he devoted himself to +agriculture, the improvement of his estate, and of his cattle and sheep. +He was a member of the leading agricultural societies and of the +Smithfield Club, an excellent landlord, and one who carried out to the +fullest extent the motto of his house, “Excitari non hebescere.” His +lordship was succeeded in his title and estates by his son, the Hon. +Thomas de Grey, M.P. for West Norfolk, who was born in 1843. + +—*“The December of 1870 has been no less remarkable for its cold than its +heat. In the opening days of the month the temperature was unusually +high, and only a fortnight before winter made its appearance in stern +reality the thermometer registered in Norwich 55. On the 21st there were +four degrees of frost, and on the 23rd the thermometer fell as low as +8.5. On Christmas Eve the cold was so intense that the register on the +following morning was as low as 5.5. Christmas Day was the coldest +experienced since Christmas Day, 1860, when the cold was more intense by +some two or three degrees.” There was a deep fall of snow throughout the +county. + + + +1871. + + +JANUARY. + + +5.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, a memorial was received from the +Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, affirming the necessity of the revision +and re-adjustment of the existing mode of assessment, and of inducing the +Government to contribute more largely to the rates levied under the +authority of Courts of Quarter Sessions. Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., moved, +“That, inasmuch as many of the charges at present paid by county rates, +such as police, lunatic asylums, military stores, coroners, gaols, &c., +are rendered necessary not for the benefit of any particular class or +locality, but of the community at large, it is both just and politic that +those charges should be much more liberally supplemented from the +National Exchequer, and that a petition from Quarter Sessions be +presented to the House of Commons to this effect.” The resolution was +seconded by Mr. Dalrymple, M.P., and agreed to. + +5.—The trial of the election petition presented by Mr. Gardiner C. +Stevens against the return of Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett, as one of the +members of Parliament for Norwich, commenced at the Shirehall, Norwich, +before Mr. Justice Keating. Mr. O’Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Griffits were +counsel for the petitioner, and Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant +Ballantine, and Mr. Simms Reeve for the respondent. The case for the +petitioner closed on the 6th, and on the 7th Mr. Rodwell commenced his +address on behalf of the respondent. On the 10th Mr. Serjeant Ballantine +summed up the respondent’s case, and on the same day Mr. O’Malley +replied. His lordship gave judgment on the 11th, declaring the election +void, and stated that he should report to the House of Commons “the names +of everyone engaged with this shameful and disgraceful bribery.” (_See_ +February 20th.) + +18.—Died, in his 93rd year, at Alexandra Road, Norwich, Christopher +Bunting. “He was present at the capture of the French ship Généreux, +whose ensign now hangs in St. Andrew’s Hall. In his early days he was a +steward in the Royal Navy, and not only saw the ensign strike to the +Foudroyant, but on the quarterdeck of that vessel saw it packed and +addressed to Robert Harvey, Esq., then (1800) Mayor of Norwich, little +imagining that he would subsequently reside in Norwich, and for more than +half a century have the opportunity of seeing the flag decorating the +walls of its principal building.” + +24.—Died, suddenly, at 2, Rectory Grove, Clapham, Mr. Henry Harrod, +F.S.A., aged 53. Mr. Harrod was a native of Aylsham, and commenced +practice as a solicitor, at Norwich, where he resided some years. He was +best known for his devotion to antiquarian pursuits and by his +contributions to the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich +Archæological Society, of which he was an honorary secretary, in +conjunction with Mr. R. G. P. Minty. His principal work was “Gleanings +from the Castles and Convents of Norfolk.” Possessed of remarkable skill +in deciphering old documents, his services in this respect were taken +advantage of by the Corporations of Norwich, Lynn, and other boroughs, +whose ancient records he undertook to arrange. Mr. Harrod was local +secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was a Fellow, and of +the Archæological Institute, and a corresponding member of the New +England Historic Genealogical Society. + +27.—A new reservoir constructed by the Norwich Waterworks Company at +Lakenham, from designs by Mr. Thomas Hawkesley, C.E., of London, engineer +in chief to the company, was opened. It cost between £6,000 and £7,000, +and was of 1,400,000 gallons capacity. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +4.—Died at Cambridge, Mr. Robert Steward, of Yarmouth. He served the +office of Mayor of Yarmouth for four consecutive years, namely, from 1858 +to 1861. In addition to being a borough magistrate, he was upon the +Commission of the Peace for the county of Norfolk. + +6.—A new type of traction engine (Thompson’s patent) was tested in the +streets of Thetford by Messrs. Burrell, of the St. Nicholas Ironworks. +“The peculiarities of the engine consist of its wheels, three in number, +being fitted with a length of indiarubber, six inches thick and twelve +inches wide, covered with steel and kept on the wheels by endless chains. +The great use of these indiarubber tyres is to give elasticity.” + +8.—Mr. George William Perrepoint Bentinck, of Davies Street, Berkeley +Square, London, was, at Swaffham, returned unopposed to fill the vacancy +caused in the representation of West Norfolk by the elevation to the +Peerage of the Hon. Thomas de Grey. + +10.—A storm of great violence swept over the Eastern coast, and strewed +the shores from Yarmouth to the Humber with wrecks and drifting spars. +“Off Yarmouth vessel after vessel went down bodily with all hands, and +left no clue as to their names or of the ports to which they belonged.” +Six Lynn vessels were lost in the Deeps. On this day large flocks of +wild geese and swans, with mallards and widgeon, were seen in the +neighbourhood of Yarmouth, and the stormy petrel was observed. + +20.—The nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy caused in the +representation of Norwich by the unseating of Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett for +bribery took place at the Guildhall. Sir Charles Legard, of Ganton, +Yorkshire, was the Conservative, and Mr. J. J. Colman, of Carrow House, +Norwich, the Liberal candidate. The show of hands was in favour of the +latter, and a poll was demanded by Sir Samuel Bignold, on behalf of the +Conservative nominee. The election took place on the 21st, with the +following result: Colman, 4,637; Legard, 3,389. + +28.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a report was received from +a special committee appointed on January 17th to consider the question of +the necessity of a School Board for the city. The committee stated that +after communication with the Education Department of the Privy Council, +they considered the appointment of a School Board for the corporate +district to be inevitable. Mr. Tillett moved the adoption of the report, +which was seconded by Mr. Youngs. Mr. Priest moved, and Dr. Copeman +seconded, a resolution—“That, in the opinion of the Council, a School +Board is not at present desirable, and that they see no sufficient reason +why it should be inevitable.” Mr. Tillett’s motion was carried, by 29 +votes to 5. (_See_ April 12th.) + +—The Norwich Town Council authorised the Sewerage and Irrigation +Committee to borrow a further sum of £10,000 for the completion of the +drainage works. On April 17th the works were used for the first time for +delivering sewage upon the land at Kirby Bedon. + + +MARCH. + + +3.—The foundation-stone of the new passenger station for the Great +Eastern, the Midland, and the Great Northern Railways, at King’s Lynn, +was laid by the Mayor (Mr. E. E. Durrant). + +8.—Died at his Norfolk seat, Melton Constable, Jacob Henry Delaval +Astley, twenty-third Baron Hastings. His lordship, who was in his 49th +year, succeeded his father in 1859. He married, in 1848, the Hon. +Frances Diana Manners Sutton, daughter of Viscount Canterbury. He took +no part in public affairs, but he was much esteemed for his amiable +disposition, and deservedly popular in the county for the spirited manner +in which he promoted field sports, and for his courteous bearing as a +Master of Foxhounds. Having no issue, his lordship was succeeded by his +brother, the Hon. and Rev. Delaval Loftus Astley, of East Barsham. + +9.—At Norwich Police Court, Richard Hoskins, a clerk in the employment of +the National Provincial Bank of England, was charged with feloniously +stealing divers sums, amounting altogether to £1,835, the moneys of his +employers. The magistrates consented to deal with the case summarily, +and, on the prisoner pleading guilty, he was sentenced to six months’ +imprisonment, with hard labour. + +10.—Mr. Henry Haigh’s Opera Company, with Madame Haigh-Dyer as _prima +donna_, opened the Easter season at Norwich Theatre with a performance of +“The Grand Duchess.” + +15.—Died at his residence, St. Andrew’s, Norwich, Mr. James Newbegin, +aged 51. He was Chairman of the Norwich Board of Guardians, and was +possessed of considerable scientific attainments. Mr. Edward Field was +elected to the chairmanship of the Board on April 17th. + +21.—The marriage of Princess Louise was celebrated at Norwich by the +ringing of bells and by the partial decoration of the city. The Town +Council, at a special meeting, adopted a congratulatory address for +presentation to the Queen, and in the evening the Scottish residents in +the city held a banquet at the Norfolk Hotel. “Although a number of +their English friends were invited to join it, the gentlemen from North +of the Tweed assembled in sufficiently preponderating numbers to give a +distinctive character to the gathering, and the whole of the arrangements +were carried out by a committee of Scotchmen.” The “Number Twenty-Four” +Club also dined at the same hotel, and the event was similarly celebrated +at Yarmouth, Lynn, and Thetford. + +26.—Died at Morningthorpe, Mr. Edward Howes, member of Parliament for +South Norfolk. Born July 7th, 1813, he was the eldest surviving son of +the Rev. George Howes, rector of Spixworth, his mother being a daughter +of Mr. Robert Fellowes, of Shotesham Park. From St. Paul’s School he +proceeded to Cambridge, and came out high in the list of Wranglers of his +year (1835); in 1836 he was elected a Fellow of his College (Trinity), +and three years after was called to the Bar. In 1859 Mr. Howes was +returned without opposition for the Eastern Division of the county, in +conjunction with Colonel Coke, and in 1865 he was again elected, with Mr. +Clare Sewell Read as his colleague. In 1868, when the county was +subdivided, Mr. Howes and Mr. Read selected the Southern Division, and +were again returned. Mr. Howes was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese +on the death of Mr. Chancellor Evans; he was a Chairman of Norfolk +Quarter Sessions, and one of her Majesty’s Ecclesiastical Commissioners. +He married first, in 1842, Agnes Maria, daughter of Mr. Richard Gwyn, who +died in 1843; and secondly, in 1851, his cousin, the fourth daughter of +Mr. R. Fellowes, deceased, by whom he left a son and a daughter. + + +APRIL. + + +1.—Died, in his 88th year, Mr. George Samuel Kett, of Brooke House. He +served the office of High Sheriff in 1820, and was a magistrate and +Deputy Lieutenant of the county. + +4.—Died, suddenly, while on a visit to Norwich, Mr. G. Middleton, of +Wimbledon. Mr. Middleton, who was a magistrate of the city, served the +office of Mayor in 1859. + +11.—The dedication-stone of a new church at Harleston was laid by Mr. +Sancroft Holmes. The building was designed to accommodate 400 persons, +and the contract amounted to £3,150, exclusive of fittings. Mr. Phipson +was the architect, and Mr. Grimwood, of Weybread, the contractor. + +—The nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy in the Southern +Division of the county, occasioned by the death of Mr. Howes, took place +at the Shirehall, Norwich. Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Conservative, and +Mr. Robert Thornhagh Gurdon, Liberal, were nominated. The polling took +place on the 14th, and resulted in the return of the Conservative +candidate. The official declaration was made at the Shirehall on the +17th, as follows: Buxton, 2,868; Gurdon, 2,547. + +12.—The first School Board election took place at Norwich. “There was a +total absence of excitement, and not much interest was shown.” The +following candidates were elected:—Mr. J. H. Tillett, Mr. H. Morgan, Mr. +H. Birkbeck, Mr. J. W. Dowson. Mr. T. R. Pinder, Mr. R. A. Cooper, the +Rev. Hinds Howell, Mr. A. J. N. Chamberlin, Mr. C. J. Bunting, the Rev. +E. P. Costello (Roman Catholic), the Rev. A. C. Copeman, the Rev. J. W. +L. Heaviside, and Mr. J. C. Barnham. The unsuccessful candidates were +Mr. John Youngs, Mr. F. Paul, the Rev. G. S. Barrett, and the Rev. A. +Jessopp. On April 27th Canon Heaviside was elected Chairman, and Mr. +Barnham Vice-Chairman; and on May 22nd Mr. E. P. Simpson was appointed +Clerk. + +15.*—“In consequence of the Purchas judgment, the clergy of Yarmouth +intend to wear the surplice in future instead of the black gown when +preaching. This resolution was carried into effect during Passion week, +and on Easter Sunday at the various churches. At St. John’s, St. James’, +and St. Andrew’s churches the black gown has long been discarded.” + +18.—The sale of the stud and foxhounds of the late Lord Hastings, at +Melton Constable, attracted an enormous number of persons from all parts +of England. About £4,000 was realised. On the 19th the daily cows and +red and fallow deer were sold for £1,600. + +21.—Died at his residence, the Crescent, Norwich, the Rev. Samuel Titlow, +vicar of St. John Timberhill and rector of St. Peter Hungate, aged 78. +Mr. Titlow was a native of Harleston, and was seventh Wrangler in the +mathematical tripos of 1817. Ordained deacon in the same year, he was +appointed curate of Broxbourne, and in 1818 received priest’s orders. He +came to Norwich in 1819, as mathematical master at the Grammar School, +under Dr. Valpy, and held the curacy of St. Clement. Mr. Titlow +afterwards opened a school in Pottergate Street, which he carried on for +several years with great success. In 1831 he was appointed to the +vicarage of St. John Timberhill, and in 1839 the Lord Chancellor +presented him to the rectory of St. Peter Hungate. + +22.—Died at his residence, Hellesdon House, Norwich, Mr. John Norgate, a +warm supporter of the benevolent and educational institutions of the +city, and a good judge of the fine arts. + +27.—A great meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the +presidency of the Mayor (Mr. F. E. Watson), “for the purpose of +protesting against the Intoxicating Liquors (Licensing) Bill introduced +into the House of Commons by the Home Secretary, Mr. Bruce.” The +principal speakers were Sir Samuel Bignold, Mr. W. P. Nichols, Mr. S. +Gurney Buxton, and Mr. H. Patteson. Resolutions were adopted affirming +that the Bill was unjust in its character and indefensible in its +confiscating the rights of property, and ought to be opposed by every +constitutional means, and that it was an undue interference with the +rights, liberties, and necessities of the working man, and inconsistent +with the true spirit of freedom. + + +MAY. + + +7.—Died, at Great Plumstead, Robert Maidstone, in his one hundredth year. +For the last twenty years of his life he was postmaster of the village, +and had served for more than half a century the office of parish clerk. + +13.—The census returns for Norwich were published on this date. The +number of houses inhabited was 18,328; uninhabited, 1,117; building, 181; +the total population was 80,382—males, 36,583; females, 43,799. + +17.—Snow fell at Norwich, “and the weather was more like that of +midwinter than of the merrie month of May.” + +18.—The sale of the late Lord Walsingham’s Merton herd was conducted by +Mr. John Thornton. Forty-six cows realised £1,906 16s., and eleven +bulls, £402 3s., a respective average of £41 9s. and £36 11s. 2d. The +total amount was £2,308 19s. The Southdown flock was sold by Mr. +Thornton on June 29th. The highest price paid for a yearling ram was 180 +guineas, and the total amount realised £5,489 15s. + +21.—Died, at St. Augustine’s, Norwich, Mr. John Sultzer, in his 69th +year. Since the year 1839 he had carried on an extensive manufacturing +business; he was a magistrate of the city, a member of the Town Council, +and chairman of the Norwich Waterworks Company, and of the Board of +Management of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Mr. Sultzer was a native +of Leicester, and at the age of 25 settled in Lichfield, of which city he +was Mayor at the time of the Coronation of Queen Victoria. In politics +he was a Liberal. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated in the customary manner at +Norwich. The Royal Horse Artillery and Volunteers were reviewed on +Mousehold, and the Mayor and Sheriff, besides entertaining a large number +of guests at the Drill Hall, gave a dinner at St. Andrew’s Hall to 1,200 +of the aged poor. + + +JUNE. + + +7.—A rifle match between two teams of 22 men each, representing the +counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, took place on the Billingford range, +East Dereham, and was won by Norfolk by 589 points against 562. + +20.—A fine barque, classed A 1 at Lloyd’s for fourteen years, named the +Oleander, was launched from the shipyard of Mr. J. H. Fellows, at +Southtown, Yarmouth. The vessel was 440 tons builder’s measurement, and +386 tons register, 133 feet in length, and 27 feet beam, and was intended +for the South African trade. + +21.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at +East Dereham, and was continued on the 22nd. It was the most successful +that the society had held. Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., presided at the public +dinner, which took place at the Corn Hall. + + +JULY. + + +14.—Mrs. Elizabeth Watts, of Badding’s Lane, St. Martin-at-Palace, +Norwich, attained her one hundredth year. + +15.—The 2nd Administrative Battalion of Norfolk Volunteers and the 1st +Administrative Battalion of Suffolk Volunteers were encamped on the North +Denes, Yarmouth. Major-General F. Murray inspected the battalions on the +20th. + +18.—The projected establishment of a Norfolk County School for the +education of the middle classes “on similar principles to those which +have been successfully carried out in other counties,” was discussed at a +meeting of the West Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture held at King’s Lynn. +The movement, which was initiated by the Rev. J. L. Brereton, was deemed +worthy of support not only by the chamber, but by the county generally. +On September 30th the announcement was made that the school was being +experimentally conducted at Great Massingham. (_See_ January 22nd, +1872.) + +22.—The 1st Administrative Battalion of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went +into camp at Holkham Park. The North Walsham corps marched the whole +distance of thirty miles; they started the day before, and were billeted +for the night at Holt. Lieut.-Col. Wilkinson inspected the battalion on +the 26th, and the camp was struck on the 29th. + + +AUGUST. + + +2.—The Eastern Counties Industrial and Fine Arts Exhibition commenced at +St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. It remained open for two months. + +5.—At a special meeting of the Governors of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital, the Centenary Committee appointed for the purpose of suggesting +a scheme for affording increased accommodation for in-patients, and for +soliciting donations and subscriptions to carry out the object, reported +that in consequence of conflicting opinions they had been unable to come +to a decision. It was agreed by the Board that no additional building be +commenced not only until the necessary funds for completing the building +were provided, but until increased subscriptions for the maintenance of +additional in-patients were forthcoming. (_See_ November 20th, 1876.) + +7.—The first Monday in August falling upon this date, “the banks at +Norwich were closed, under the Bank Holiday Act.” At East Dereham “the +first of the holidays mentioned in the new statute was officially +observed by the various bank officials, for whose convenience the measure +was passed into law.” A meeting of the merchants, manufacturers, +traders, and others was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, on December 14th, +“to determine whether the holidays mentioned in the Bank Holiday Act +should be permanently adopted in this city.” Those present pledged +themselves to adopt the holidays. + +15.—The Yarmouth Town Council voted an address to Sir James Paget, a +native of the borough, congratulating him upon the honour of a baronetcy +conferred upon him by the Queen. + +22.—The D Battery, B Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, marched from Norwich +for Aldershot, and were accompanied to the city boundary by the bands of +the Artillery and Rifle Volunteers. + +26.—Died, Mr. James De Carle Sowerby, aged 84. He belonged to a Norwich +family of naturalists, and was chiefly employed in drawing, engraving, +and colouring. “There were few departments of natural history in which +his attainments were not considerable, and he published many papers on +shells and other subjects in the Transactions of the Geological and other +societies.” + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +2.—Mr. Walter Montgomery, the well-known actor, committed suicide by +shooting himself at Shelly’s Hotel, Stafford Street, London. Only on the +30th of the previous month he married, at St. George’s, Hanover Square, +Miss Laleah B. Bigelow, an American lady. Mr. Montgomery, whose real +name was Richard Tomlinson, was a native of Norwich, and for some years +resided at Walsingham, where he was apprenticed to Mr. William Coker, a +grocer and draper. At an early age he showed a predilection for the +stage, and after a series of recitals in private, made his first +appearance at Norwich Theatre, and subsequently played at Yarmouth, Bath, +Bristol, and other provincial towns. He went to Birmingham in 1854, and +thence to the Theatre Royal, Manchester, where he became a great +favourite. He performed also at Drury Lane and the Haymarket, and made a +tour in Australia, where he established for himself a high reputation. +Returning to England, he sustained heavy pecuniary losses by his +connexion with the Gaiety Theatre, and had resolved to emigrate to +America. Mr. Montgomery was 44 years of age. + +11.—Mdlle. Beatrice appeared at Norwich Theatre with “Frou-frou” Company. +During the engagement, “The Happy Pair” and “The Ticket-of-Leave Man,” in +which Mr. Horace Wigan sustained his original character of Hawkshaw, the +Detective, were produced. + +27.—The All England and Norfolk Ploughing Matches commenced at Booton, +near Reepham, and were continued on the 28th. There were seven +contests—three for implement manufacturers and four for Norfolk +ploughmen. A public dinner was held at Hackford schoolroom on the +evening of the first day, when Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., presided, and +several local members of Parliament were present. + + +OCTOBER. + + +4.—The headquarters of the 7th Dragoon Guards arrived at Norwich, under +the command of Lieut.-Col. Peyton. The Cavalry Barracks being under +repair, the officers took up their quarters at the Royal Hotel. + +6.—Great excitement was caused at Diss by the closing of the doors of +Messrs. Fincham and Co.’s Bank. In a circular issued shortly afterwards, +Mr. Simpson stated that he was compelled to adopt this course owing to +the continued strain upon his resources. On the 7th it was announced +that arrangements were being made by which it was hoped the business of +the Bank would be carried on; and on the same day Messrs. Gurneys +intimated that they would afford banking facilities to the customers of +Messrs. Fincham and Simpson during the temporary suspension of business. +A meeting of the creditors was held on the 10th, and a committee +appointed; and representatives of the London and Provincial Bank carried +out negotiations which resulted in the Bank being re-opened on the 11th. +Another meeting was held on November 2nd, for the purpose of proving +debts and of realising the estate. Payment to the creditors of 10s. in +the pound was arranged, it being understood that further dividends would +be paid as the estate was realised. The liabilities were reported to be +£87,305 5s. 6d., and the assets £54,491 18s. 2d. + +13.—Sir Samuel Bignold, on the completion of his 80th year, was presented +by the clerks at the Union Offices with a silver inkstand and an +illuminated address. Several of the Conservative Ward Associations +adopted congratulatory addresses, and, on the 17th, a resolution was +passed by the Town Council expressive of the congratulations of that +body. On January 9th, 1872, the proprietors of the Norwich Union Fire +Office presented Sir Samuel with a service of plate and his portrait, +painted by Ventnor. + +15.—Died at his residence, Buckingham Palace Road, London, Mr. Richard +Young, who, on the 13th inst., had been re-elected by the Livery of the +Corporation Sheriff of London and Middlesex. Mr. Young, who was a +merchant and shipowner, and a director of the Great Eastern Railway and +other companies, was born at Scarning, in 1809, and was a self-made man. + +16.—Died at the house of her nephew, Mr. H. Wilkin, West Pottergate +Street, Norwich, Sarah Nolbrow, aged 100 years. + +17.—The Norwich Town Council accepted a portrait of Mr. Jacob Henry +Tillett, painted by Sandys, to be placed in St. Andrew’s Hall. + +—The Sanitary Committee reported to the Norwich Town Council that the +number of outbreaks of small-pox in the city was such as to occasion +considerable alarm. It was stated that the necessary precautions had +been taken, and, in case of death, burial within forty-eight hours had, +as far as possible, been enforced, and arrangements made to prevent the +bodies of children being carried to the Cemetery in cabs. Dr. Eade, at a +meeting of the Town Council on November 28th, referred to the alarming +spread of the disease, and urged the necessity of enforcing vaccination. +During this and the succeeding month several persons were prosecuted for +neglect of precautionary measures. On December 19th it was reported to +the Town Council that the Marchioness of Lothian had munificently given +to the city a small-pox hospital. (_See_ March 23rd, 1872.) + +18.—A new Corn Hall, erected through the enterprise of Mr. J. W. Davey, +was opened at Yarmouth. It was designed by Mr. J. B. Pearce, and built +by Mr. J. W. Lacey, at the cost of £3,800. “For many years past the corn +merchants had met in all weathers in front of the Duke’s Head Hotel, +without the slightest shelter, and transacted their affairs at great +inconvenience to themselves and to the annoyance of the general public.” + +26.—At Norwich Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder, Mr. O’Malley, Q.C., +Henry Brown Woolsey (36), formerly a clerk at Carrow Works, pleaded +guilty to feloniously embezzling £558, the monies of his employers, Mr. +J. J. Colman and others, and was sentenced to five years’ penal +servitude, although recommended to mercy by the prosecutors. +Considerable comment was made upon the disparity of the sentences in this +and in the Hoskins case (_q.v._ page 210). + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Mr. Robert Chamberlin was elected Mayor, and Mr. Frederick Grimmer +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +23.—A telegram was received at Norwich announcing that the Prince of +Wales was suffering from an attack of typhoid fever at Sandringham. +“There are,” it was added, “no unfavourable symptoms.” Later bulletins +were of a most alarming character, and the inhabitants of county and city +soon realised that his Royal Highness was in a critical condition. The +Queen arrived from Windsor on the 29th, and was met at Wolferton station +by the Duke of Edinburgh, who escorted her to Sandringham. This was her +Majesty’s first visit to Sandringham, and her second to Norfolk. [As +Princess Victoria, she, with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visited Mr. +Coke at Holkham, in 1835.] Her Majesty returned to Windsor on December +1st. On the 8th his Royal Highness had a very serious relapse, and his +Royal mother, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Louise, +hurried back to Sandringham. On December 10th a special form of prayer +was used in all churches, and supplications were made at Nonconformist +places of worship. Public suspense continued until the 14th, when a turn +for the better took place, and on the 19th her Majesty returned to +Windsor. On the same day a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council +was held, at which, on the motion of Sir William Foster, seconded by Sir +Samuel Bignold, a resolution was adopted expressing to her Majesty and +the Princess of Wales the deep sympathy felt by the citizens during the +dangerous and painful illness of his Royal Highness. Throughout this +trying period the newspaper offices in Norwich were besieged by anxious +crowds, eager to receive intelligence. (_See_ January 4th, 1872.) + +30.—A severe gale burst over the East coast, and was productive of the +most terrible disasters to shipping and the fishing fleet. + + +DECEMBER. + + +26.—The pantomime produced at Norwich Theatre, by Miss May Holt, was +entitled, “The Fair One with the Golden Locks, or Harlequin Zephyr and +the Peris’ Paradise on the Jewelled Island.” At Charles Adams’ Circus +was produced the equestrian pantomime, “Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury +Cross, or Harlequin Mother Goose.” + + + +1872. + + +JANUARY. + + +4.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, held at the Shirehall, Norwich, the +Earl of Kimberley moved an address to the Queen, conveying to her Majesty +the assurance that the magistracy and all her loyal subjects in the +county had felt the sincerest sympathy with her during the alarming +illness of the Prince of Wales; and Lord Sondes moved a congratulatory +address to his Royal Highness and the Princess of Wales. The clergy of +the diocese, at a meeting held at the Palace on the 27th, adopted similar +addresses. “Thanksgiving Day” was observed throughout the county on +February 27th. At Norwich the principal business establishments were +closed, and services held at the Cathedral, the parish churches, and +other places of worship. + +11.—The centenary of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital was celebrated by +an entertainment given at the institution. + +22.—The Norwich, Costessey, and Taverham Tramway Scheme was considered by +the Board of Trade, to whose satisfaction the promoters proved that the +preliminary steps required under the Tramways Act, 1870, had been +complied with. + +—The Norfolk County School Association held its first meeting at the +temporary school at Great Massingham, under the presidency of Sir +Willoughby Jones. The Rev. J. L. Brereton reported that the Prince of +Wales had become a patron of the school, and the sum of £5,920 had been +subscribed by about seventy shareholders. At a meeting held at the Earl +of Leicester’s, house in Grosvenor Square, London, on April 24th, it was +decided to erect the school on Bintry Hill, near North Elmham. (_See_ +April 14th, 1873.) + +24.—The Norwich Waterworks Company opened a second covered reservoir at +Lakenham, and, in celebration of the event, luncheon was served within +the works, under the presidency of the chairman of the company, Mr. H. S. +Patteson. The reservoir was 128 feet in length and 120 feet in width. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +7.—Died at his residence, Notting Hill, London, the Right Rev. Samuel +Hinds, D.D., formerly Bishop of Norwich. Born at Barbadoes in 1793, he +came at an early age to England, and was educated at a private school at +Ridland, near Bristol. He entered Balliol College, Oxford, but migrated +to Queen’s, where he took Second Class Honours in Classics and the +University Latin Essay. After ordination by the Bishop of London, he +returned to Barbadoes as the first missionary to the negro population. +Soon afterwards the headmastership of Codrington College fell vacant, and +Dr. Hinds was appointed thereto by Bishop’ Howley. On returning to +England, he held a small living in Hertfordshire, and the rectory of +Castle Knock, near Dublin; in 1848 was appointed Dean of Carlisle, and in +1849, on the death of Bishop Stanley, he became Bishop of Norwich. On +account of ill-health he resigned the See in 1857. Bishop Hinds was the +author of “A Treatise on Logic,” “A History of the Rise and Early +Progress of Christianity,” “An Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of +Inspiration,” and “Sonnets and Sacred Poems.” “His beautiful hymn, to +which Dr. Buck set such appropriate music, is familiar to every attendant +at our Cathedral services.” + + +MARCH. + + +1.—Died at Gateley, Mr. Money Griggs, in his one hundredth year. + +9.*—“Under the provisions of Mr. Cardwell’s Army Organization Bill, +Yarmouth has been selected as the headquarters of the _depôt_ of the 9th +East Norfolk Regiment of Foot.” + +11.—Died, at 21, Taviton Street, Gordon Square, London, Emily Taylor, +daughter of Mr. Samuel Taylor, of New Buckenham. She was born April 8th, +1795, and for nearly fifty years resided in Norfolk. At the age of five +her singing was said to be wonderful; before seven years of age she had +read the Iliad of Homer and made herself acquainted with many books of +history. Among her writings were “Tales of the Saxons,” “Tales of the +English,” “The Ball I live on,” “Poetical Illustrations,” &c. Her last +work was “Contemporary Poets,” issued in 1868. Miss Taylor, who was a +native of Banham, removed to London in 1858, and established the West +Central Collegiate School, Southampton Road, Russell Square. Her remains +were interred in Highgate Cemetery, on March 14th, near the resting-place +of Miss Martineau. + +14.—Died at his residence in Duke Street, Norwich, very suddenly, aged +51, Mr. Henry Rudd, chorus master of the Norfolk and Norwich Triennial +Musical Festival. Mr. Rudd was originally a sawyer, but his taste for +music was observed by Mr. Taylor, organist of St. John’s Roman Catholic +chapel, from whom he received his musical education. For many years he +was a member of the Choral Society and of other musical associations, +held the situation of music master at the Diocesan Training Institution, +and was instrumental in forming the Norwich Gatehouse Choir. On the +resignation of Mr. J. F. Hill, he obtained the post of director of the +Festival Choral Society. Mr. Rudd was succeeded as chorus master by Mr. +James Harcourt. + +20.—Died at Northrepps Hall, aged 88, Hannah, widow of the first Sir +Thomas Fowell Buxton, whom she survived twenty-seven years. Lady Buxton +was sister of the well-known philanthropist, Elizabeth Fry, and of Mr. +John Joseph Gurney. + +22.—Died at Burlingham Hall, Mr. Henry Negus Burroughes, aged 81. He +succeeded to the family estates at an early age, and in 1815 served the +office of High Sheriff. In 1837, in conjunction with Mr. Edmond +Wodehouse, he successfully contested the representation of East Norfolk +against Mr. W. H. Windham and Mr. R. H. Gurney, and he continued to +represent the division until 1857, having meanwhile stood a second +contest, in 1841, with Sir William ffolkes, and been twice re-elected, in +1847 and 1852, without opposition. In 1857, however, he and his +colleague, Sir Henry Stracey, who had been elected in 1855, in the room +of Mr. Wodehouse, declined to come forward again, the then popularity of +their chief opponent, Major-General Windham, who had just returned +triumphant from the Crimea, rendering success doubtful. Mr. Burroughes +had taken an active part in the public business of the county. + +23.—In the week ending this date there was a marked decline in the +mortality from small-pox in Norwich. The largest number of deaths in any +week was 37, and for several weeks the number was reported as 30. + +30.—Died at Coltishall, in his 80th year, Mr. Nathaniel Palmer, of the +Inner Temple, barrister-at-law. By his death the Recordership of +Yarmouth and the Judgeship of the Norwich Court of Record became vacant. +The first-named office was filled by the appointment of Mr. Simms Reeve, +and the latter by the election of Mr. Carlos Cooper. Mr. Palmer was one +of the oldest of the Norwich magistrates, and for many years occupied a +leading position in the Liberal party. Born in 1792, he was the son of +Mr. Nathaniel Palmer, Government contractor for the Navy and distributor +of stamps, and was articled to Mr. Worship, solicitor, of Yarmouth, in +which borough he practised as an attorney, with considerable success. In +1827 he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple. He married Rachael, +only daughter of Mr. Thomas Hitchin, of Norwich, by whom he had five +children. One of his sons was Mr. T. H. Palmer, registrar of the Norwich +County Court. + + +APRIL. + + +1.—Mr. Henry Leslie’s Opera Bouffe Company commenced an engagement at +Norwich Theatre, in “Princess of Trebizonde.” + +13.—The agricultural labourers’ agitation began in Norfolk with a meeting +held at Old Buckenham. The movement was shortly afterwards taken up in +earnest in many parts of the county. The principal object of its +supporters was to obtain an increase in the rate of wages. (_See_ +February 20th, 1873.) + +22.—Died at Norwich, aged 50, Mr. Frederick Simpson, for many years City +Treasurer. Mr. T. Hancock, a member of the Town Council, resigned his +seat, and on May 3rd was elected to the vacant office. + + +MAY. + + +1.—The arbitration case, Coaks _v._ Tillett, was opened at the Shirehall, +Norwich, before Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart. The inquiry had reference to +a claim made by Mr. I. B. Coaks against Mr. J. H. Tillett, arising out of +the winding-up of the affairs of the East of England Bank. An action was +originally brought in the Court of Queen’s Bench, and was intended to +have been heard at the previous Norwich Assizes, but by consent of both +parties the matter in dispute was referred to the arbitration of Sir +Willoughby Jones. Mr. Merewether appeared for Mr. Coaks, and Mr. Tillett +conducted his own case. The amount claimed was £2,160, and the +arbitrator, after an exhaustive inquiry was due consideration, awarded +£1,881 4s. 5d. + +8.—In the Court of Queen’s Bench, the Attorney-General moved for a rule +_nisi_ calling upon the Town Council of Norwich to show cause why a +_mandamus_ should not issue directing them to build a new asylum for +pauper lunatics. The question had been in abeyance since 1863, and +various reasons were urged why the asylum should not be erected. The +Court granted the rule _nisi_. On the 17th it was resolved, at a meeting +of the Town Council, to write to the Secretary of State, pointing out +that on April 17th a resolution was passed in the House of Commons +affirming that occupiers in counties and boroughs should be relieved +either in whole or in part of charges imposed for lunatics, the +expenditure for such purpose being almost entirely independent of local +control. The Home Secretary was asked whether he felt it imcumbent by +compulsory measures to force upon the local rates of Norwich an +expenditure estimated at between £40,000 and £50,000. On the 21st the +Town Council sent a memorial to the House of Commons, asking them “to +intervene for the protection of this municipality, or at least obtain a +postponement of the threatened proceedings until Parliament shall have +definitely settled by whom the cost of maintaining lunatics shall be +permanently borne.” The Court of Queen’s Bench, on June 10th, made the +rule absolute against the Corporation, and on June 18th the Corporation +decided, by 33 votes to 7, to offer continued resistance to the +_mandamus_. (_See_ January 15th, 1873.) + +14.—A meeting, presided over by Colonel Hugh FitzRoy, was held at the +Town Hall, Aylsham, to discuss the feasibility of constructing a narrow +gauge railway between Norwich and Aylsham, and thence to Aldborough and +Beeston. Mr. Minshull, engineer, estimated the cost of construction at +£5,000 per mile. The meeting was in favour of the scheme, and appointed +a committee to consider details. + +16.—The first stone of Christ church, Eaton, was laid by the Mayor of +Norwich (Mr. R. Chamberlin). The church was opened on November 4th, +1873, by the Bishop of Norwich. Mr. H. Bolingbroke gave the site; the +architects were Mr. J. H. Brown and Mr. J. B. Pearce, and the contractors +Mr. W. Wright and Mr. J. W. Lacey. “It is said that the bell fixed in +the turret was formerly the sanctus bell at the Cathedral.” + +20.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated at Norwich on this day +(Whit-Monday). “It was a demonstration of regard towards the person of +her Majesty and of joy that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had +recovered from his illness.” The streets of the city were decorated, a +military review took place on Mousehold, civic entertainments were given, +and the festivities terminated with a display of fireworks on the Castle +Meadow. + +21.—Captain Bates, the Kentucky Giant, and Chrissie-Millie, better known +as the “Two-headed Nightingale,” appeared at the Lecture Hall, St. +Andrew’s, Norwich. Of this mulatto girl it was said, “Chrissie and +Millie are fairly educated, and sing either solos or duets with ease and +effect.” + +23.—Died at Naples, the Right Hon. Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, Baron +Dalling and Bulwer. Born in 1804, his lordship was the second son of +General William Bulwer, of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, by Elizabeth +Barbara Lytton, sole heiress and last descendant of the Lyttons of +Knebworth in Hertfordshire. His career as a diplomatist is familiar to +every student of history. His lordship was the author of “Historical +Characters,” which appeared in two volumes in the winter of 1867, and +rapidly ran into a sixth edition; and of a “Life of Lord Palmerston,” +published in 1871. The remains of the deceased nobleman were interred at +Heydon on June 25th. + +27.—A one hundred yards’ race took place on the West Winch Road, Lynn, +between Thomas Akers and a horse belonging to Mr. W. L. Proctor. “Akers +led off, the horse not starting directly the signal was given, but he had +not proceeded far when he was overtaken by the animal and beaten by about +ten yards.” + +29.—The tower of the church of Beeston-next-Mileham was struck by +lightning. “The Litcham fire-engine was taken into the church, but the +molten lead and burning timber fell so rapidly that nothing could be +done, and the tower was entirely destroyed.” + +—A remarkable mirage was witnessed at Yarmouth. “The weather was +exceedingly sultry, with heavy banks of clouds towards the east and +south-east, just opposite Yarmouth, and extending from the Scroby to the +Corton Sands there appeared a sharply-defined and magnificent outline of +Gorleston and Corton cliff, with the entrance to the harbour and even the +white sands. A stranger visiting the locality for the first time would +have supposed that Yarmouth was embayed by a narrow peninsula.” + + +JUNE. + + +3.—Mr. G. B. Loveday’s Gaiety Operetta Company, under the direction of +Mr. John Hollingshead, appeared at Norwich Theatre. + +6.—The Prince of Wales visited Yarmouth for the first time. His Royal +Highness, accompanied by the Earl of Leicester, arrived at Southtown +station, and was received by the Mayor (Mr. E. H. L. Preston), the +members of the Corporation, and the Recorder (Mr. Simms Reeve), who read +an address of welcome. The Militia Artillery and the Rifle Volunteers +formed guards of honour, and the Royal carriage was escorted from the +station to the Town Hall, by the 7th Dragoon Guards from Norwich, under +the command of Colonel Peyton. After luncheon at the Town Hall, his +Royal Highness proceeded to the newly-erected Grammar School, at the +junction of Trafalgar Road and Apsley Road, and declared the buildings +open; in the evening he dined at the Artillery mess and attended a +performance in which Mr. Toole appeared, at the Regent Hall. On the 7th +the Prince was present at a review of the Artillery Militia, of which he +was honorary colonel, and on the 8th returned by special train to London. + +10.—Mr. J. L. Toole and Miss E. Farren appeared at Norwich Theatre on +this and the succeeding evening in “Dearer than Life,” “The +Steeplechase,” “The Weavers,” scenes from “Paul Pry,” and “Ici on parle +Français.” + +19.—The show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association, of which the Prince +of Wales was this year President, commenced at King’s Lynn, and was +attended by his Royal Highness, who was accompanied by the Princess of +Wales. The Prince presided at the luncheon, which, for the first time, +took place in a marquee erected in the showground, and was attended by +upwards of 900 guests. In addition to the Prince of Wales, the speakers +at the gathering included the Earl of Leicester, the Bishop of Norwich, +Lord Sondes, Lord Suffield, Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, the Hon. R. Bourke, +M.P., Sir W. Bagge, M.P., Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., Mr. G. W. P. Bentinck, +M.P., &c. + + +JULY. + + +2.—Died at the Roman Catholic Presbytery, Willow Lane, Norwich, the Rev. +Edmund Costello, S.J., aged 44. Father Costello had been in ill-health, +and his death was accelerated by his devoted ministrations among the poor +when the small-pox epidemic was at its height. He was a son of Mr. James +Costello, of Eyre Square, Galway, was educated at the Irish College, +Paris, at Maynooth, and at Stonyhurst, and entered upon the Norwich Roman +Catholic Mission in 1868. + +27.—The 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers (formerly the 1st Administrative +Battalion), commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Duff, went into camp at +Ketteringham Park. The North Walsham corps marched from that town to the +camp, a distance of twenty-two miles. The 2nd Battalion, commanded by +Lieut.-Colonel R. T. Gurdon, was brigaded with the 3rd Battalion. The +camp was struck on August 2nd. + +29.—The sale of Crown Point and Whitlingham estate took place at the +Royal Hotel, Norwich, by order of the Court of Chancery. Messrs. J. and +J. Colman were the purchasers, at £55,700. + +30.—Sir Henry Stracey was presented, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by +the Conservatives of the city, with a valuable piece of plate, as “a mark +of their appreciation of his political conduct during the recent +contests, and their admiration of his example as a straightforward +English gentleman.” Lady Stracey received from the ladies of Norwich a +diamond bracelet, and silver bouquet-holders were presented by +working-men to the Misses Stracey. + + +AUGUST. + + +5.—The High Sheriff (Mr. Angerstein) was fined £50 by the Judge of Assize +at Norwich. (Mr. Justice Keating), for non-attendance with his carriage +at the Judge’s lodgings. His lordship had driven to the court in a cab, +which he considered to be “a way not fitting her Majesty’s Judges.” The +High Sheriff subsequently explained that a mistake had been made as to +the time fixed for the sitting of the court, and having tendered an +apology, the fine was remitted by his lordship. + +5.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Byles, James Johnson, of +North Walsham, sought to recover from Mr. W. H. Cooke, Q.C., Judge of the +Norfolk County Court, damages for false imprisonment and assault. It was +alleged that the defendant wrongfully imprisoned the plaintiff for thirty +days; when the plaintiff left Norwich Castle he personally served the +Judge, as he was leaving the court, with a notice of action for false +imprisonment, and his Honour, mistaking the man’s intention, seized him +by the collar, and a second time ordered his arrest. For the defendant +it was alleged that he had acted within his jurisdiction. After two +days’ trial the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages one +farthing. + +8.—An alarming flood occurred at Walsingham. Owing to heavy rains, the +stream in the vicinity overflowed its banks, and the low-lying part of +the town was submerged. Forty women and children were rescued from the +upper rooms of the cottages by means of ladders, and conveyed in boats to +a place of safety. On the 9th a temporary dam was erected, which had the +effect of diverting the flow of water. The village of East Barsham was +also flooded, and the high road at West Barsham was under water. + +10.—At a meeting of the Norfolk Central Committee, held at the Shirehall, +Norwich, it was reported that foot-and-mouth disease had spread to an +alarming extent among cattle and sheep. On the motion of Mr. C. S. Read, +M.P., it was ordered that markets for fat stock be held under the same +restrictions that were in force during the time of the cattle plague, and +that similar regulations should govern the movements of store stock as +were then in force. In Norfolk alone during the previous five weeks the +loss to stockowners from foot-and-mouth disease was estimated at £22,500, +in respect of 10,000 cattle and 5,000 sheep. The committee sent a +memorial to the Privy Council to prohibit the opening of all fairs and +markets for the period of six weeks. + +12.—Died suddenly, at Hills Road, Cambridge, Mr. George Kett. He was +born at Suton, near Wymondham, on June 26th, 1809, and commenced life in +a small way of business as a wood carver at Wymondham. After copying +poppyheads at Wymondham church, he undertook the carving of the seats for +Ketteringham and Mulbarton churches. He then removed to Norwich, where +he was engaged upon the restoration of the Cathedral stalls and canopies. +Whilst he was working there Mr. James Rattee was placed under him as an +apprentice, and the two afterwards became partners. Mr. Kett was next +offered employment upon the works for the new Houses of Parliament. In +1845 he removed to London, where he was principally employed under the +immediate direction of Sir Charles Barry, in supplying designs for the +wood carving. Among other portions of the work on which he was specially +engaged were the Royal Arms at the back of the Throne in the House of +Lords. Mr. Rattee, in 1848, consulted him upon an estimate for the +restoration of the choir of Ely Cathedral, and Mr. Kett agreed that if +the tender were accepted he would remove to Cambridge and assist him in +carrying it out. The business partnership thus commenced continued after +Mr. Rattee’s death, in 1854, with his widow, under the style of Rattee +and Kett. Mrs. Rattee died in 1866, when Mr. Kett assumed sole control +of the establishment, and was largely engaged in the work of church +restoration in all parts of the United Kingdom. + +15.—Died at Felbrigg Park, Mr. John Ketton, in his 61st year. Mr. Ketton +was a native of Norwich, where for many years he was engaged in +commercial pursuits. His success enabled him, when Mr. Windham’s affairs +became embarrassed, to purchase the Felbrigg estate, where he resided +until the period of his death. + +—Died at Reigate, Surrey, from the effects of injuries inflicted upon +himself, Mr. Benjamin Land, better known as “Ben Land,” a sporting +character of great celebrity in his day. Mr. Land began life as a +Norfolk farmer, and gave great encouragement to steeple-chasing in the +county, upon the introduction of that sport in the first half of the +century. One of his earliest winning mounts was in 1836, a horse named +Predictor. Then he owned a very useful nag called Neewood, and another, +Lottery, an exceedingly clever animal over a country. Land made himself +further known by his doings on Jim Crow, Faith, the Novice, Yellow Dwarf, +Little Nell, Victoria, and Wonder, who could all run and jump a bit, and +sad teasers they were to other Norfolk sportsmen. While still holding on +his farm, Land hunted a pack of staghounds, but he gradually got out of +business as an agriculturist, and took to riding and training as a +profession. + +17.—The provisions of the new Licensing Act came into operation in +Norwich. A notice had been issued by the Chief Constable that on Sunday, +Christmas-day, and Good Friday, licensed houses were not to open before +12.30 at noon and to close at 2.30 in the afternoon; not to open again +before six in the evening, and to close at ten o’clock. On week-days +they were not to open until six in the morning, and to close at eleven +o’clock at night. “This application of the Act came on the city suddenly +and unexpectedly, the general opinion having prevailed that everything +would go on as usual until the next annual licensing-day. In Union Place +and King Street many people determined to have their own way as far as +they could, and accordingly just before closing time they made a great +demand upon the can accommodation of the houses. Large cans and small +cans, when filled with beer, were borne off in triumphant defiance to the +pavement outside, or to the men’s private gardens or houses, where friend +and neighbour remained drinking, and, in some cases, singing, together +long after the lights of the various public-houses had been extinguished. +In two or three instances some ill-advised publicans persisted in keeping +their houses open.” Several licensed victuallers were fined for +infringing the regulations of the new Act, and in the early days of its +operation the Norwich magistrates were very liberal in granting +extensions of time on the occasion of the Christmas, Easter, and Whitsun +holidays. At East Dereham the justices permitted the public-houses to +remain open until twelve o’clock during four months of the year. + +19.—The first really notable journey upon a bicycle was performed by +Percy Everett, of Ryburgh, a lad aged 16. He started at 4.45 a.m. from +Ryburgh station, and rode to Newmarket, where he had breakfast; thence to +Whittlesford, where he lunched; and at 5.30 p.m. he reached Ware, in +Hertfordshire, having accomplished the distance of 110 miles in about 12½ +hours. Everett rode one of the first of the rubber-tyred bicycles—a +machine of Coventry make, known as the “Aeriel.” + +20.—Died, Mr. Edmund Harbord Lushington Preston, Mayor of Great Yarmouth. +Mr. Preston was born in 1806, at the period when the Hon. E. Harbord +(second son of the then Lord Suffield) and Mr. Stephen Lushington were +returned to Parliament as members for Yarmouth—hence two of his Christian +names. After the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, he was one of the +first burgesses returned to the Town Council on Conservative principles, +and, with the exception of a short period, from November, 1868, to +November, 1869, he continued to be a member of the Corporation. Mr. +Preston was for twenty years one of the magistrates of the borough, and a +member of the Port and Haven Commission. + +27.—The Blake-Bignold incident occurred at the Norwich Police-court. Mr. +Blake, on September 2nd, was charged with assaulting a publican, and +fined, and, on his leaving the court, was followed by a mob, who +endeavoured to overturn the cab in which he had taken refuge. + +28.—Lord Walsingham, while shooting on Blubberhouse Moor, Yorkshire, +killed with his own gun 842 head of grouse, between the hours of 5.30 +a.m. and 3 p.m. The birds were driven, and before one o’clock 550 had +been bagged. + +29.—A portion of the Reserve Squadron, consisting of nine ironclad war +vessels, under the command of Admiral Randolph, entered Yarmouth Roads, +and sailed on the 30th for the Nore. The officers and men numbered +4,500. + +—A 300 yards swimming match took place at Thorpe, between John Morris, +ex-champion of England, and “Victor Natator, the champion under-water +performer,” for £10 a side. “Natator” received ten yards’ start, and, +after an exciting race, was beaten by three yards. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +2.—Died at Slough, Buckinghamshire, aged 95 years, Mrs. Anne Rigby, widow +of Dr. Rigby, of Norwich, whom she survived 51 years. + +5.—The Norwich Board of Guardians, after a long and acrimonious +discussion, agreed, on the motion of the Rev. A. C. Copeman, seconded by +Dr. Bateman, to accede to the request of Professor Humphrey, of +Cambridge, that he be supplied, for the purposes of dissection, with the +unclaimed bodies of persons who died in the Workhouse. At a meeting on +October 3rd an attempt was made to rescind the resolution, which, +however, was confirmed by 16 votes against 12. On December 12th a third +debate resulted in the rescission of the original motion by one vote. + +9.—The first election in the Eastern Counties under the new Ballot Act +took place at Great Yarmouth, when a councillor was returned to fill in +the Town Council the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Preston. + +10.—Lord Walsingham was presented by his Merton tenantry with an address +of welcome upon his return after a prolonged visit to America. + +16.—Norwich Theatre was opened for the winter season, under the +management of Mr. G. H. Chaplin. “It has been our lot to witness some +very indifferent acting upon the Norwich boards, but we never remember +having seen a whole company (with the exception of Mr. Chaplin) so +thoroughly destitute of histrionic talent, or so wretchedly poor in the +dresses whereby to represent the characters.” + +—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced with an +evening performance of the “Festival Te Deum” (composed in celebration of +the recovery of the Prince of Wales) and of “The Creation.” The morning +performance on the 18th was “Elijah,” on the 19th “St. Peter” (first time +of performance in Norwich); and on the 20th “The Messiah.” On the +evening of the 17th a grand ballad concert took place, and on the 18th +and 19th miscellaneous concerts. The principal vocalists were Mdlle. +Tietjens, Mdlle. Florence Lancia, Mdlle. Albani, Madame Patey, Madame +Trebelli-Bettini, Mr. W. H. Cummings, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Kerr Gedge, +Mr. J. G. Patey, and Mr. Santley. Sir Julius Benedict conducted. The +Festival ball was held on the night of the 20th. + +25.—Great rejoicings took place at Gunthorpe, in celebration of the +return of Mr. and Mrs. E. Bowyer Sparke, from their wedding tour. The +squire was presented by the tenantry with an illuminated address. + +27.—Died, Mr. John Longe, of Spixworth Park. He was the second son of +the Rev. John Longe, vicar of Coddenham, Suffolk. Educated at Norwich +Grammar School, under Valpy, and subsequently at Cambridge, he succeeded +to the estate in 1828, on the death of the widow of his cousin, Mr. +Francis Longe, who was High Sheriff in 1786. He married, in 1829, +Caroline Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Lieut.-Colonel +Warnford, of Warnford Place, Wilts., and niece of Henry, fourth Viscount +Ashbrook. As a Valpeian, Mr. Longe always took the greatest interest in +the success of the Norwich Grammar School, of which he was a governor. +He was a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county, and for some years captain in +the East Norfolk Militia, and was succeeded in his estates by his +brother, the Rev. Robert Longe, vicar of Coddenham, who was born in 1800. + +—A heavy gale prevailed off the East coast, and many shipping casualties +were reported. + +28.—Died at his seat, Melton Constable, the Right Hon. and Rev. Delaval +Loftus, ninth Baron Hastings, in his 48th year. His lordship had been +summoned from Wiesbaden, in consequence of the alarming illness of Lady +Hastings. He was at the time recovering from a severe attack of gout, +and little fitted to undertake a long journey. On reaching Melton +Constable he was seized with an illness which proved fatal. Lord +Hastings was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and, on taking holy +orders, was appointed to the family living of Foulsham, and subsequently +to that of East Barsham and Little Snoring. He married, in 1848, the +Hon. Frances Diana Manners Sutton, daughter of the first Viscount +Canterbury, by whom he left three sons and a daughter, and succeeded to +the title and estates on the death of his brother, in March, 1871. His +successor was the Hon. Bernan Edward Delaval Astley, who was born in +1855, and was, at the time of his father’s death, completing his term at +Eton. + + +OCTOBER. + + +1.—The Norwich Town Council decided to purchase, for sewerage and +irrigation purposes, a portion of the Crown Point estate, for £27,000. +(_See_ February 11th, 1873.) + +—Died at his residence, Cambridge House, Westling-on-Trym, Bristol, in +his 77th year, the Rev. William Charles Wollaston, for upwards of thirty +years rector of East Dereham. “Mr. Wollaston was the thirty-seventh and +last of the sinecure rectors of Dereham, and the exceptional custom of +tolling the muffled bell, which had long been held in this parish when +any of its rectors or vicars died, was observed.” + +14.—The ceremony of laying the first rail of the East Suffolk Tramway was +performed at Yarmouth by Sir E. H. K. Lacon, M.P. for North Norfolk. As +originally planned, the tramway was to extend from Southtown Railway +station to Gorleston, and thence to Lowestoft and Southwold, and +eventually to form a junction with Halesworth. On March 22nd, 1873, it +was announced: “From present appearances, it would seem that the East +Suffolk Tramway scheme has been abandoned. The works have been wholly +stopped for months past, and the Southtown Road has been restored to its +former state.” (_See_ April 1st, 1875.) + +19.—At a meeting of the Governors of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, +the thanks of the Board were accorded to Mr. William Peter Nichols “for +his able, humane, and successful services as surgeon to the charity +during the last 21 years, and for the active and zealous part he has +taken during the same period in promoting the general interests of the +Hospital.” Mr. Nichols afterwards became honorary consulting surgeon to +the institution, and on March 22nd, 1873, was presented by public +subscription with a valuable, silver centrepiece, in recognition of his +eminent services. Mr. T. W. Crosse was elected to the office rendered +vacant by the resignation of Mr. Nichols. + +23.—The second Diocesan Conference was held at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, +and was continued on the 24th, whereby the meeting in the Fakenham +district was dispensed with. The remaining meetings were held at Lynn on +the 25th, Ipswich on the 30th, and Halesworth on the 31st. + +28.—The ceremony of opening the first school built by the Norwich School +Board—the Mariners’ Lane School—was performed by the Rev. Canon +Heaviside, chairman of the Board. It was intended for the accommodation +of 125 boys. + +31.—Died at Costessey, where he laboured as a Roman Catholic priest for +more than fifty years, the Very Rev. Frederick Charles Husenbeth, D.D., +President of the Brotherhood, Provost of the Chapter of Northampton, and +Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Diocese. Dr. Husenbeth, who was in +his 77th year, was a frequent contributor to “Notes and Queries,” and was +the author of many works, the best known of which was “Emblems of the +Saints.” + + +NOVEMBER. + + +1.—The municipal elections were, for the first time, conducted under the +provisions of the Ballot Act. At Norwich, where fourteen out of a +possible sixteen Conservative candidates were returned, the elections +were rendered noteworthy by all the members of the firm of Messrs. +Bullard and Sons intimating that in future it was their intention to +adopt Conservative principles. + +4.—The Prince and Princess of Wales passed through Thetford, on their way +to Elveden, on a visit to the Maharajah Duleep Singh, and were received +with great enthusiasm by the inhabitants of the borough. + +—Mr. George Grossmith, “of the Temple, London,” made the first of his +visits to Norwich, and appeared at Noverre’s Rooms in an entertainment +entitled, “The Comic Side of Life.” + +9.—Sir Samuel Bignold was, for the fourth time, elected Mayor of Norwich; +Dr. Frederic Bateman was appointed Sheriff. + +10.—Hospital Sunday was, for the first time, observed in Norwich. The +amount collected was £454 6s., 3d. + +14.—The new schools of St. Philip, Heigham, Norwich, completed through +the munificent donation of Mr. James Harford and his late sister, and the +voluntary efforts of the friends of Church of England education, at the +cost of £2,000, were opened by the Bishop of Norwich. The architect was +Mr. Edward Power, of London, and the builder Mr. James Youngs. + +18.—Died, in his 60th year, Mr. Henry Kett Kett-Tompson, of Brooke House +and Witchingham Hall. He was the last representative of an old Norwich +family, whose connection with the city dated back more than three +centuries, and who during nearly two centuries were extensive brewers in +King Street. Messrs. Morgan, in 1846, purchased the business of Mr. +Kett-Tompson and his brother, their landed property in the county +rendering it unnecessary for them to continue the brewery. Mr. +Kett-Tompson was one of two sons of Mr. Charles Tompson (High Sheriff in +1827), by Juliana, second daughter of Thomas Kett, of Seething Hall, and +sister and co-heiress of George Samuel Kett, of Brooke House. His +grandfather was Timothy Tompson, formerly of Denton, and afterwards of +Witchingham Hall. He was born in 1813, and married, in February, 1843, +Margaret Amelia, second daughter of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Frederick Paul +Irby, C.B., of Boyland Hall, and second son of the second Lord Boston. +The name of Mr. Kett-Tompson stood first upon the list of gentlemen to +fill the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1873. + +19.—Died, Elizabeth Harvey, widow of James Harvey, of Rollesby, in her +102nd year. + +20.—A heavy gale occurred. Several vessels were lost off Yarmouth, and a +ship wrecked at Wells. + +21.—A grand fancy dress ball, attended by representatives of the +principal families in Norfolk, was held at Hillington Hall, in +celebration of the twenty-fifth birthday of Sir William ffolkes, Bart. + +24.—Died at his residence, Heigham Grove, Norwich, aged 73, Major-General +Burton Daveney, formerly of the Royal Scots Regiment. He was born at +Colton, in December, 1799, and obtained his commission as ensign in the +57th Regiment. In 1825 he went to Australia as lieutenant in command of +a detachment which had charge of nearly 200 convicts. On the voyage +small-pox broke out, and the vessel was placed in quarantine. The young +lieutenant throughout a period of the greatest difficulty discharged his +duties with conspicuous success. In 1830 he exchanged into the 1st +Royals (afterwards the Royal Scots), and served in one or other of the +battalions of that regiment for thirty-one years. He passed through the +Canadian Rebellion in 1837, was present at the affairs of St. Charles and +St. Eustache, and returned to England in 1841. In the Crimea, as +commandant at Balaclava, his duties were so arduous that when he left, +completely broken down in health, in January, 1855, the work was divided +among three officers. In the absence of the colonel he brought the +regiment to Aldershot, and afterwards had the honour of dining with her +Majesty, to whom he was presented by the Prince Consort. He next sailed +to India, and assisted in quelling the Mutiny, and returned in 1862, when +he retired on full pay, with the rank of Major-General. He had seen +forty-one years of active service without passing a single day on +half-pay. General Daveney was the possessor of three clasps for the +Crimea, the Order of the Medjidié, and several other decorations +presented by the Sultan to British officers who had served in the war +against Russia. + + +DECEMBER. + + +8.—A fearful storm swept over East Anglia. At Norwich and other towns in +the county great damage was done to buildings; in the country trees were +uprooted and stacks overturned; and on the coast there were many shipping +casualties. + +21.—Mr. James Bacon was elected secretary of the Norfolk Agricultural +Association, in place of Mr. Cross, resigned. Mr. E. C. Bailey resigned +the office of honorary director. + +—A conference was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, at which +representatives of the sanitary authorities in city and county discussed +the best method of carrying out the provisions of the new Public Health +Act, more particularly as to the appointment of medical-officers of +health and inspectors of nuisances. It was suggested that the county be +divided into seven districts, exclusive of the city of Norwich; that a +medical-officer of health be appointed to each district, the election to +be made by representatives of the sanitary authorities; and that a +similar course be adopted in regard to inspectors of nuisances. Mr. T. +W. Crosse, on January 23rd, 1873, resigned his seat in the Norwich Town +Council as a representative of the First Ward, and was appointed +Medical-Officer of Health for the city, at the salary of £200 per annum. + +26.—A pantomime (titled not stated) was produced at Norwich Theatre by +Mr. G. H. Chaplin. “The transformation scene,” it was stated, “has not +been surpassed for gorgeous beauty on our stage.” Edmonds’ (late +Wombwell’s) Menagerie was exhibited on the Castle Meadow. + +30.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Holkham, on a visit to +the Earl of Leicester. + +31.—Colonel Peyton and officers of the 7th Dragoon Guards gave a grand +invitation ball at the Crown Bank building, Norwich. It was attended by +many of the leading families of the county. + + + +1873. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—Died at his residence, Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, Mr. Claude L. Nursey, +artist, the painter of the well-known pictures illustrating scenes in the +early days of the local Volunteer movement. He was a son of Mr. Perry +Nursey, of Little Bealings, Suffolk, and was in his 54th year. + +15.—The Norwich Town Council received a letter from Whitehall, intimating +that as Mr. Secretary Bruce had received no information that any steps +had been taken by the Corporation for erecting a pauper lunatic asylum, +he had instructed the Solicitor to the Treasury to proceed in the matter +of the _mandamus_. (_See_ July 21st, 1874.) + +21.—The resignation of Mr. A. W. Morant, City Engineer, and the author of +the first sewerage scheme, was received by the Norwich Town Council, on +his appointment as engineer to the borough of Leeds. On March 25th Mr. +Christopher Thwaites, C.E., of London, was appointed to the vacant post. + +27.—Died at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, LL.D., +aged 87, Woodwardian Professor of Geology. He came of a North country +family, and was born at Dent, in Yorkshire. In due course he entered at +Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his Bachelor’s degree in 1808, +as fifth wrangler. In 1810 he was elected to a Fellowship in his +College, of which at his death he was the senior member. He succeeded, +in 1818, Professor Hailstone in the chair of Geology, founded at +Cambridge by the celebrated Dr. John Woodward. Professor Sedgwick had +been a Canon of Norwich Cathedral since 1834. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +11.—A Local Government Board inquiry was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, +by Mr. R. Morgan, C.E., as to an application made by the Town Council to +borrow the sum of £32,500, for the purchase of a portion of the Crown +Point estate, for sewerage and irrigation purposes. The amount required +for the purchase of the land was £27,500, for legal and other charges, +£500, and the remainder was for erecting buildings, &c. The application +was opposed by the Norwich Ratepayers’ Protection League. Another phase +of the sewerage question occupied the attention of the Town Council at a +special meeting on May 13th, when the City Engineer presented a report +stating that serious defects existed in the low-level sewer, and part of +the works had given way. It was resolved to borrow £20,000, at four per +cent., on mortgage of the sewerage farm, as a permanent loan for ten +years. On August 19th the City Engineer submitted to the Council three +alternative plans for dealing with the difficulty—(1) By plating the +sewer, at a cost of not less than £17,178; (2) by reconstruction, at a +minimum cost of £25,000; and (3) of providing a new lining at not less +than £33,000. Up to that time the total expenditure on the works +amounted to £113,000. On October 21st the Council decided to consult +Messrs. Hawkesley and Bazalgette, who, on December 16th, presented a +report suggesting that certain remedial works be carried out at an +approximate cost of £34,000. (_See_ January 20th, 1874.) + +20.—In consequence of the demand by agricultural labourers for increased +wages, an important meeting of employers resident in the district of the +Wayland Agricultural Association was held at Watton, under the presidency +of Lord Walsingham, when resolutions were adopted whereby the meeting +pledged itself to decline to recognise the system of compulsion exercised +by the Labourers’ Union, and to refuse any demand for higher wages made +by those who were members of the Union, “although willing to give +favourable consideration to any request made in a proper manner whenever +circumstances might be found to justify it.” It was further decided to +invite co-operation from a larger area, and to form a society to be +called the Wayland Farmers’ Defensive Association. Similar action was +taken by employers in the North Walsham district, at Swaffham, and in the +Blofield and Taverham Hundreds. (_See_ March 14th, 1874.) + + +MARCH. + + +25.—The Sheriff of Norwich (Dr. Bateman) and the Mayor (Sir Samuel +Bignold) attended at the Shirehall, on the conclusion of the Norfolk +Assizes, when the former, addressing Mr. Baron Martin, presented his +lordship with a pair of white kid gloves, in commemoration of the fact +that for the first time in forty-three years the city of Norwich had had +a maiden Assize. The Mayor corroborated the statement, and said that in +that year, 1830, he happened to be Sheriff of the city. His lordship +remarked it was extremely creditable that a city of 80,000 inhabitants +should have no cases for trial at the Assizes. + +29.—Two meetings were held at Norwich, in furtherance of an effort to +secure a visit of the Royal Agricultural Society to the city in 1874. +The Norfolk Agricultural Association agreed to suspend its own show, and +to vote £500 to the funds of the Royal; and a gathering of county and +city gentlemen promised subscriptions to the amount of £1,100. The Mayor +authorised the secretaries to guarantee the full amount required—£2,000. + +29.—A fire occurred at Mr. Darken’s music warehouse, Norwich, and damage +was done to the amount of £1,500. + + +APRIL. + + +2.—The Docking Union Association, founded in 1839 for the purpose of +promoting habits of industry and frugality and of rewarding good conduct +amongst labourers, was dissolved, and the balance of £87 paid to the +funds of hospitals in the county. + +4.—Died at Southtown, Great Yarmouth, aged 82, Commander George Jenner, +R.N. He entered the Navy in 1806, and served on board the Milan; in 1810 +he joined the Desiré, was at the taking of San Sebastian, and was awarded +the medal for gallant service. + +12.—At the All England Champion Athletic meeting, held at Lillie Bridge +Grounds, London, A. R. Upcher won the quarter-mile and H. K. Upcher the +120 yards hurdle race. “This makes seven championships won by Norfolk +men, namely, the walking, in 1868, by W. Rye; the four miles, in 1870, by +H. C. Riches; the quarter-mile, in 1870–71–73, by A. R. Upcher; the pole +jump, in 1872, by H. C. Fellowes; and the hurdle-race, in 1873, by H. K. +Upcher.” + +14.—The foundation-stone of the Norfolk County School was laid by the +Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness, with whom was the Princess of +Wales, left Wolferton station by special train, and was accompanied by +the Bishop of Norwich, Lord and Lady Suffield, and Viscount Newry. At +Holkham the Royal party was joined by the Earl of Leicester and Lady Anne +Coke, and other members of the family. At Elmham station the Prince and +Princess were received by Lord and Lady Sondes. A detachment of picked +men of the 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, under the command of Captain +Bulwer, formed a guard of honour at the entrance to the enclosure on the +school site. After an address had been read to their Royal Highnesses by +Prebendary Brereton, chairman of the Board of Directors, the Prince laid +the stone, inscribed, “Albert. Edward, Prince of Wales, April 14, 1873.” +The Lord Bishop offered prayer, and a hymn was sung, after which a large +and distinguished company, presided over by the Earl of Leicester, +partook of luncheon in a marquee. Their Royal Highnesses, after taking +tea with Lord and Lady Sondes, at Elmham Hall, returned to Wolferton by +special train. The school was opened on September 16th, 1874, when an +inaugural luncheon was held, and an address delivered by the Right Hon. +Earl Fortesque. + +—Mr. Henry Leslie’s Opera Bouffe Company commenced an engagement at +Norwich Theatre. The pieces produced included “Lischen and Fritzchen,” +“Genevieve de Brabant,” “The Princess of Trebizonde,” and “The Brigands.” + +28.—The headquarters of the 7th Dragoon Guards marched from Norwich for +Manchester. On the regiment reaching the Market Place, the officers +adjourned to the Royal Hotel, where the Mayor, on behalf of the traders +of the city, presented to Colonel Peyton and the officers a massive +silver cup and an illuminated address. The cup was filled with +champagne, and the officers drank “Health end Prosperity to the City of +Norwich.” At Costessey Park the regiment was entertained by Lord +Stafford. + + +MAY. + + +6.—The depôt of the 51st Regiment, from Yarmouth, arrived at Norwich and +took over the Cavalry Barracks. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was observed at Norwich with the customary +festivities. The event was further marked by the presentation to the +Mayor and Sheriff of a set of official robes, purchased by public +subscription. + +26.—A specially-organized company, under the management of Mr. Craven +Robertson, performed the comedy of “Caste” at Norwich Theatre. “School” +was also produced during the six nights’ engagement. On this occasion +the favourite actress, Miss Fanny Addison, made her first appearance in +Norwich, and Mr. J. F. Young was a member of the company. + +30.—A detachment of the Honourable Artillery Company, numbering 64 +officers and men, arrived at Yarmouth by train, and on the 31st marched +for Norwich. At Blofield the detachment was met by the band of the +Norwich Artillery Volunteers, and at Brundall the men boarded the +Alexandra steamer, by which they performed the remainder of the journey +to Norwich. Headquarters were established at the Royal Hotel. On +Sunday, June 1st, the Honourable Artillery Company and the Norwich +Artillery Volunteers attended service at the Cathedral, and on June 2nd +the Norwich corps accompanied the London men on their march to Wymondham. +The London corps proceeded to Attleborough, where they took train for +London. + + +JUNE. + + +9.—Mr. and Mrs. Rousby commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre, in +“Twixt Axe and Crown.” On subsequent evenings, “The School for Scandal,” +“Romeo and Juliet,” and “Joan of Arc,” were produced. + +19.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at +Thetford. Mr. Angerstein presided at the members’ luncheon. + +30.—The Earl of Leicester was invested by the Queen with the Riband and +Badge of the Garter. His lordship previously received the honour of +knighthood. + + +JULY. + + +10.—Mr. J. L. Toole commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre, during +which he appeared in a round of his favourite characters. + +19.—The 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went into camp at Heacham Park, and +on the 23rd were inspected by Colonel Knox, C.B., commanding the 31st +Depôt. + +21.—A company, under the management of Captain Disney Roebuck (late Royal +Welsh Fusiliers), commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre. The +repertory included “David Garrick,” “Society,” “The School for Scandal,” +“East Lynne,” and the bouffe burlesque, “The Rows of Castille.” + +21.—Mr. David Fisher gave a dramatic reading at North Walsham. “Since +the closing of the theatrical circuit under the management of the Fisher +family, no member had visited it until Mr. David Fisher, now of the +London theatres, and known to us first as a boy actor with his father and +grandfather, came to read ‘The School for Scandal.’ Mr. David Fisher in +London has carried out the promise of his early life, and in coming upon +scenes of his boyhood finds those who tell him tales of former years, and +pleasure no doubt arises on the other side from the opening up of old +associations. We have spoken of Mr. Fisher’s reading—he does not read, +he acts two-thirds of the whole play from memory; every character is +given with perfect clearness. He visits all the towns where formerly +theatres stood under the management of his family.” On this tour Mr. +Fisher was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Mary Fisher, who displayed +her musical abilities. + +30.—The valuable collection presented to the Norfolk and Norwich Museum +by Mrs. E. P. Clarke, of Wymondham, was opened to the public. This +collection was formed by Mr. Edward Lombe, of Great Melton, and set up by +the first taxidermist of his day, the elder Leadbeater, of London. +Regret was expressed at the absence of any memoranda of dates and +localities. The British birds alone numbered 551 specimens, representing +280 distinct species. + +—The headquarters and six troops of the 3rd Dragoon Guards marched into +Norwich, under the command of Colonel Conyers Tower, C.B. + +—A new iron bridge over the River Ouze, constructed in place of the +wooden structure known as the Free Bridge, near Lynn, was formally opened +by Mr. E. Fellowes, M.P., chairman of the Ouze Outfall Commissioners. It +was designed by Messrs. Brunlees and McKerrow. + + +AUGUST. + + +14.—An extensive fire occurred at the engineering works of Messrs. Holmes +and Sons, Cattle Market, Norwich. The damage was estimated at £10,000. +Effective assistance was rendered to the fire brigade by three troops of +the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and by members of the Norwich Rifle Volunteers. + +18.—Mr. Charles Wyndham’s company appeared at Norwich Theatre in the +political and satirical burlesque, “The Happy Land.” The piece was +interdicted by the Lord Chamberlain on its production at the Court +Theatre, London, on account of its caricature of three Liberal +Ministers—Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Ayrton. It was played at +Norwich, it was announced, with the excised portions restored. + +26.—At Norwich Brewster Sessions, the licensed victuallers of the city +applied for an alteration of the hours of closing, namely, an extension +of the time from 11 to 12 on week-days, and from 10 to 11 o’clock on +Sunday. A memorial in favour of the alteration, signed by 7,000 persons, +was presented. The Dean of Norwich handed in a memorial containing 7,925 +signatures against the alteration. The magistrates declined to alter the +hours of closing. + +2.—The marriage took place at Holkham of Lady Winifred Coke, fifth +daughter of the Earl of Leicester, and Mr. Robert Clements, only son of +the Hon. and Rev. Francis Nathaniel Clements, vicar of Norton, Durham, +and heir to the Earldom of Leitrim. + +11.—The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new Congregational +chapel, built on the site of Cowper’s house, at East Dereham, was +performed by Mr. Henry Wright, of Kensington. The building, which was +erected by Mr. Hubbard, of Dereham, from designs by Mr. Edward Boardman, +architect, Norwich, at the cost of £3,500, was intended for the +accommodation of 500 worshippers. It was opened for public worship on +September 24th, 1874. + +12.—Mr. Charles Durand’s English Opera Company appeared at Norwich +Theatre, and on the 19th produced, for the first time in the city, +Meyerbeer’s opera, “L’Africaine.” + +19.—Died at Caldecot, near Botley, Hampshire, Dr. Dalrymple, M.P. He was +born in 1814, and was the fourth son of Mr. William Dalrymple, an eminent +surgeon, of Norwich. He married a daughter of Mr. T. O. Springfield, on +whose death he was placed in possession of an ample fortune. Dr. +Dalrymple then relinquished his practice in favour of his partner, Mr. +Cadge. In 1862 he made a tour through Egypt and Palestine, and on his +return published a work on “The Climate of Egypt.” On the invitation of +the Liberal electors of Bath, he, in 1868, contested the representation +of that city, and was returned. His chief Parliamentary labours were +most conspicuous in connection with his well-known Habitual Drunkards +Bill, a measure which, while not in accordance with the spirit of English +legislation, evinced that devotion to philanthropic objects which was the +characteristic of Dr. Dalrymple’s life. He served the office of Sheriff +of Norwich in 1860–61, was a director of the Norwich Union Fire Office, +chairman of the Governors of King Edward VI. School, and at various times +had taken part in the management of the local charitable and scientific +institutions. Dr. Dalrymple was a magistrate and Deputy-lieutenant of +the county. + +21.—Died at Ipswich, Mr. Henry Bright, the well-known artist. He was +born at Saxmundham, in June, 1814, and, after serving his apprenticeship +to a chemist and druggist at Woodbridge, removed to Norwich, where he +acted as dispenser to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. An acquaintance +with Crome, Cotman, the elder Ladbrooke, Stark, Vincent, and others of +the Norwich School of Artists, stimulated him to work with his pencil. +Proceeding to London, he devoted himself entirely to art, and, by +teaching drawing and painting, realised nearly £2,000 a year from that +branch of his profession. For splendid sky effects Bright is second only +to Turner, and his crayon drawings are almost unequalled. + + +OCTOBER. + + +1.—Miss E. Farren and Mr. Lionel Brough, supported by the London Gaiety +Company, commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre. The productions +included, “A Nice Girl,” “The Rough Diamond,” “Good for Nothing,” “Stage +Struck,” “Betty Martin,” “Lischen and Fritzchen,” &c. The company made a +return visit on November 25th. + +1.—The Social Science Congress commenced its proceedings at Norwich, +under the presidency of the Right Hon. Lord Houghton, D.C.L., F.R.S. The +meetings terminated on the 8th. + +13.—The eighty-second birthday of Sir Samuel Bignold, Mayor of Norwich, +was celebrated. The Cathedral choristers, under Dr. Buck, assembled in +the garden of Sir Samuel’s residence in Surrey Street, at eight a.m., and +sang “Lift up thine eyes” (Handel), “The Old English Gentleman,” and the +_Nunc Dimittis_. The bells of St. Peter Mancroft were rung, the boys of +the Grammar and Commercial Schools were granted a holiday, the inmates of +the Boys’ Home and the Girls’ Home were entertained at St. Andrew’s Hall, +and a feast was given to the paupers in the Workhouse. + +20.—Died at the Charterhouse, London, Mr. James S. Garthon, aged 74, +formerly a surgeon in Norwich. He was the son of a farmer at Costessey, +and was himself originally in business as a corn dealer. It was not +until he was well advanced in life that he entered the medical +profession. In addition to his private practice, he undertook the duties +of surgeon to the Norwich police force. Mr. Garthon was a Liberal in +politics. + +23.—The Sheriff of Norwich (Dr. Bateman) delivered a lecture to the +members of the Churchman’s Club, on “Darwinism tested by Scientific +Researches in Language.” The Dean presided. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +3.—The Prince of Wales passed through Thetford, on his way to Elveden +Hall, to visit the Maharajah Duleep Singh. + +10.—Mr. Samuel Gurney Buxton was elected Mayor, and Mr. Alexander Robert +Chamberlin appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +—The Prince of Wales arrived at Merton Hall, on a visit to Lord +Walsingham, and left on the 15th. + +18.—Died at Bournemouth, Mr. Thomas Baring, member of Parliament for +Huntingdon. Mr. Baring, who was 73 years of age, was second son of Sir +Thomas Baring, second baronet, nephew of the first Lord Ashburton, and +brother of the first Lord Northbrooke. At the General Election in 1835 +he successfully contested Great Yarmouth in the Conservative interest, +but in 1837, 1838, and 1841 he was defeated. Elected for Huntingdon in +1844, without opposition, he held undisputed possession of the seat for +nearly thirty years. Mr. Baring was head of the great house of Baring +Brothers and Co. He twice refused the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, +and twice declined the offer of a peerage. + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—A meeting of the creditors of the Crown Bank was held at the Royal +Hotel, Norwich, under the presidency of Sir Samuel Bignold, to receive an +account of the receipts and payments of the trustee in bankruptcy to +November 15th, and to consider the question of the remuneration of the +Committee of Inspection. It was reported that the estate, under +judicious management, had produced 11s. 6d. in the pound. The +solicitors’ law costs amounted to upwards of £10,000, and it was decided +that £8,000 be paid as remuneration. + +15.—The death took place, at Yarmouth, of Samuel Brock, aged 69, who, on +October 6th, 1835, performed the remarkable feat of swimming fourteen +miles after the wreck of the Young Company’s yawl Increase, of which he +was one of the crew (_q.v._ Vol. I., p. 344). + +23.—The first annual meeting of the Norwich Hospital Sunday Fund was held +at the Guildhall, under the presidency of the Sheriff (Mr. A. R. +Chamberlin). It was reported that the Sunday collection amounted to £670 +8s. 11d., and the Saturday collection to £188 16s. 3d. + +26.—The pantomime of “The Babes in the Wood, or Harlequin Robin Hood and +the Fairies of the Forest,” written by Mr. F. Robson, was produced at +Norwich Theatre by Mr. Richard Younge’s company. “Jack the Giant Killer” +was the Christmas attraction at Batty’s Circus. + + + +1874. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—Died at Neal’s Square, St. Benedict’s Church Alley, Norwich, Susannah +Steavenson, in her 105th year. “A few days ago she repeated no less than +thirty verses which she had learnt at school 95 years ago. She attended +the Mayor’s feast, given to the aged poor last Whit-Monday, and was +accompanied by her daughter, aged 79. Mrs. Steavonson was born December +14th, 1769, and, according to a certificate given in 1836 by the Rev. W. +F. Blakewell, the then minister at the Octagon chapel, was baptised there +on December 24th, 1769. She was the daughter of Joshua Sabberton, +chairmaker, in St. George’s Colegate.” + +7.—Died at Saxlingham Hall, Mr. Edward Steward, aged 67. He was the last +Tory Alderman elected under the old Corporation, and, owing to his youth, +was known as “The Boy Alderman.” In 1832 he fought a severe contest with +Mr. (afterwards Sir William) Foster, for the office of Freemen’s Sheriff, +and was defeated by seven votes only. In the following year he was +elected without opposition, and served in conjunction with Mr. W. J. +Utten Browne. Mr. Steward was president of the Norwich Union Fire +Office. + +13.—Died at his residence, St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, Mr. John Godwin +Johnson, in his 77th year. Born November 26th, 1797, he was the youngest +son of Mr. John Johnson, for many years Governor of Norwich Castle. He +became a pupil of Dr. Rigby, and afterwards joining Mr. Page Scott, +commenced a long and successful career as a medical practitioner. Mr. +Johnson was a member of both the old and “reformed” Corporations, was +elected Mayor in 1855, and for twenty-five years was on the Haven and +Pier Commission. He took a prominent part in founding the Jenny Lind +Infirmary for Sick Children. + +13.—Died at Amélie les Bains, Mr. Charles Mends Gibson, F.R.C.S., aged +65. He was for many years resident medical-officer of the Norwich +Bethel, devoted much of his time to scientific pursuits, was a member of +the Royal Microscopical and other societies, and a warm supporter of the +Norfolk and Norwich Museum and Literary Institution. + +—At a meeting of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Sir Samuel +Bignold was presented by the proprietors with his portrait (painted by +Sandys), in recognition of his long and successful services as secretary. + +16.—The marriage of Lady Anne Coke, second daughter of the Earl of +Leicester, with Lieut.-Colonel Edmund Manningham Buller, of the Rifle +Brigade, second son of Sir Edward Manningham Buller, of Dilhorn Hall, +Staffordshire, was solemnised at Holkham church. + +20.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the report of Mr. +J. W. Bazalgette on the condition of the low-level sewer was adopted, and +it was agreed to consult Sir John Hawkshaw and Mr. J. F. Bateman. On +July 21st it was decided, on their recommendation, to line the sewer with +cast-iron tubing; and on November 17th the Council passed a resolution in +favour of applying to the Local Government Board for powers to raise for +the purpose a sum not exceeding £25,000, on mortgage of the General +District Rates. + +23.—The marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh was celebrated in Norwich by +the partial decoration of the city. The 3rd Dragoon Guards and the +Volunteers paraded in the Market Place and fired a _feu de joie_, and at +a special meeting of the Town Council congratulatory addresses were +adopted and the loving-cup passed round. At night a display of fireworks +took place on the Castle Meadow, and on the 27th the Mayor gave a +_soirée_ at St. Andrew’s Hall. + +31.—The General Election, the first contested under the Ballot Act, +commenced in Norfolk, with the unopposed return for the Northern Division +of the Hon. Frederick Walpole and Sir Edmund K. Lacon, Bart. + +—King’s Lynn election took place. The candidates were the Hon. R. +Bourke, 1,163 votes; Lord Claud Hamilton, 1,093; Sir William ffolkes, +Bart., 999; and Mr. E. R. Wodehouse, 895. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +2.—Sir William Bagge, Bart., and Mr. G. W. P. Bentinck were returned +unopposed for West Norfolk. + +4.—Polling took place at Norwich, “when, owing to the operation of the +Ballot Act, there was less excitement than usual.” The votes were +counted on the 5th, and the poll was declared at five o’clock, as +follows: Mr. J. J. Colman, 6,138; Mr. J. W. Huddleston, Q.C., 5,823; Mr. +J. H. Tillett, 5,776; and Sir H. J. Stracey, Bart., 5,290. The number of +votes polled was 11,786, and the time occupied in counting, eight hours. +(_See_ August 16th, 1875.) + +10.—The South Norfolk election took place. The votes were counted at the +Shirehall, Norwich, on the 11th, and the result was declared as follows: +Mr. C. S. Read, 3,146; Sir R. J. Buxton, Bart., 3,010; Mr. R. T. Gurdon, +2,699. Mr. Read, M.P., and Sir R. J. Buxton, M.P., were, on April 9th, +entertained at a banquet given at Wymondham by the Conservatives of the +district, when Mr. H. W. B. Edwards, chairman of the South Norfolk +Conservative Registration Association, presided. + +14.—Died at Snetterton, Sarah Edwards, aged 100 years. + +15.—Died at St. John Maddermarket, Norwich, the Rev. John Dalton, canon +of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton, in his 60th year. Canon +Dalton was of Irish parentage, and passed the early years of his life at +Coventry. After his ordination, he was employed on missions at +Northampton, Lynn, and Norwich. In 1858–59 he resided at St. Alban’s +College, Valladolid, in Spain. He returned to that country in 1866, to +collect subscriptions towards the erection in London of a cathedral in +memory of the illustrious Cardinal Wiseman, who was himself born in +Spain; his mission was, however, unsuccessful. Canon Dalton was the +author of several theological works. “Amiable, genial-hearted, +charitable, and good, no sectarian difference was ever suffered to affect +that thorough respect and esteem which was extended to him from the +representatives of all creeds.” + +28.—At a meeting of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, held at the +Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, a resolution was adopted expressive of +satisfaction on the appointment of the President, Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., +as Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board. + + +MARCH. + + +14.—A meeting of the agriculturists of the county, whose interests were +affected by the action of the Labourers’ Union, was held at the Norfolk +Hotel, Norwich, “to take action with reference to the demands now being +pressed upon the occupiers of the soil.” It was decided to form a +Norfolk Farmers’ Labour Defence Association. Another meeting took place +on April 25th, for promoting the objects of the association. Many +meetings were held throughout the county by the Labourers’ Union during +this year, and much strong feeling was manifested. At the Norfolk Lent +Assizes, on March 28th, before Mr. Justice Blackburn, the Rev. John +Spurgin, vicar of Hockham, brought an action against Mr. John Edward +Matthew Vincent, of the “Labourers’ Union Chronicle,” for publishing a +false and malicious libel, “whereby he was injured in his credit and +reputation as a clergyman.” The paper, which was published at +Leamington, alleged that the “reverend divine” claimed tithe on charity +coals supplied to the poor parishioners, and “had two tons out of the +twenty carted to his divine rectory, for his own consumption.” The +defendant afterwards expressed deep regret for publishing the imputation, +and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £100. + + +APRIL. + + +19.—Died, while on a visit to Norwich, Mr. Robert Seaman, of Tunbridge +Wells, aged 63. He served the office of Sheriff in 1856–57, and was a +magistrate for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. + + +MAY. + + +2.—The marriage of Lady Margaret Coke, sixth daughter of the Earl of +Leicester, with the Hon. H. Strutt, eldest son of Lord Belper, took place +at Holkham church. + +5.—Died at his residence, Newmarket Road, Norwich, Mr. John Robison. He +was born in Norwich in November, 1809, was for many years a partner in +the firm of Grout and Co., and in 1868 served the office of Sheriff. + +9.—Died in London, Lieut.-General Sir Archdale Wilson, G.C.B., Colonel +commandant Royal Artillery. Born in 1803, he was a son of the Rev. +George Wilson, of Kirby Cane (uncle of Lord Berners), by a daughter of +the Rev. C. Millard, Chancellor of Norwich. He entered the service of +the East India Company, and went through some of the earlier campaigns in +India. For his eminent services during the Indian Mutiny he received the +thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and was nominated in succession +Companion, Knight Commander, and Knight Grand Cross of the Most +Honourable Order of the Bath. General Wilson was granted a pension of +£1,000 a year by the East India Company, and created a baronet. He was a +brother of Mr. Philip Wilson, a Lynn solicitor, with whom he resided for +some time after his return from India, and was succeeded in the baronetcy +by his nephew, Mr. Rowland Knyvett Wilson, Fellow of King’s College, +Cambridge. + +15.—Died at his residence, Unthank’s Road, Norwich, Mr. John Briggs, who +for many years was connected with the firm of Messrs. Bullard and Sons. +Early in life Mr. Briggs married a sister-in-law of Mr. Richard Bullard, +and sailed for America, where he landed with only a few shillings in his +pocket. He offered his services as an assistant in a lithographic +establishment, and though practically unacquainted with the business +beyond a taste for drawing, he not only secured the appointment, but in a +short time acquired sufficient knowledge of the art to earn a fair +competence for himself. Amongst other work which subsequently came into +his hands was the drawing of plans for many of the streets and blocks of +buildings in Chicago, of which the chief part were destroyed in the great +fire. Mr. Briggs made several remunerative purchases of land in the +United States. Ill-health compelled him to return to England, and, +settling in Norwich, he joined his brother-in-law in the Anchor Brewery, +the success of which was greatly promoted by his active business habits. + +19.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, certain members expressed +strong disapproval of the action of the City Committee “in ordering the +destruction of the chapel of Thomas à Becket, one of the archæological +gems of the city.” Several members stated that they had never heard of +the place, and the Town Clerk informed the Council that the chapel was “a +vault at the back of the Dutch church,” and had been converted into a +place of storage. The subject was discussed at a meeting of the Norfolk +and Norwich Archæological Society, on the 20th, when Mr. Gunn referred to +the members of the Town Council as “a pachydermatous set,” and Sir +Francis Boileau described them as “ruthless Goths.” + +25.—The Mayor and Sheriff of Norwich entertained, at St. Andrew’s Hall, +1,600 of the aged poor of the city, in celebration of the Queen’s +birthday. + + +JUNE. + + +3.—Died, aged 69, Mr. John Oddin Taylor, of Norwich. He was an Alderman +of the city, “and the grand Cattle Market and Prince of Wales Road, for +which we are mainly indebted to him, are monuments of his far-seeing +judgment and untiring zeal.” Descended from a long line of Norfolk +yeomen, Mr. Taylor was born at Thuxton, on April 26th, 1805, and in due +course was articled to Mr. T. Bignold and Mr. T. Brightwell. In politics +he was one of the old school of Whigs, and on the passing of the +Municipal Reform Act in 1835 became a member of the Corporation. Mr. +Taylor was one of the Liberals who protested against the displacement of +the old Corporation officials. He served the office of Mayor in 1861–62; +was made a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county in acknowledgment of his +political services as Liberal agent, and was a trustee of the Grammar and +Commercial Schools, and an active member of the Committee of the Norfolk +and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival. Mr. Taylor married the eldest +daughter of Mr. Brewer, of Mile End House, Norwich, and of the marriage +there were two sons and three daughters. + +15.—A fire took place on the premises of Mr. Dixon, silversmith and +jeweller, of London Street, Norwich, and did damage to the amount of +£2,000. + +17.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at +Norwich. It was held upon the grounds of the Sheriff (Mr. A. R. +Chamberlin), on Ipswich Road, and the luncheon was under the presidency +of Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P. + +18.—A meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Provident Building Society was +held at the Bell Hotel, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. H. S. +Patteson, when it was reported that the secretary, Mr. Josiah Buttifant, +had left the city on the 2nd inst., ostensibly for the purpose of taking +a holiday; but it was afterwards discovered that he had committed +defalcations to the amount of about £5,000. A committee was appointed to +consider the best course to be adopted, and soon afterwards a petition +was presented for the winding-up of the society, and a warrant issued for +the apprehension of Buttifant. On July 6th William Frederick Fish, a +clerk in the employment of Buttifant, was taken into custody, on the +information of Samuel Beckett Hook, a shareholder in the society, on the +charge of cheating and defrauding Agas Goose and others, trustees, of the +sum of £10 7s., and on other days of divers other sums, amounting in the +whole to £10,000. The accused was finally committed for trial on July +20th; and on July 27th Mr. Justice Blackburn granted an application for a +writ of _certiorari_ to remove the trial of Fish to the Central Criminal +Court. On August 14th a telegram was received in Norwich, announcing +that Buttifant had been arrested at Valentia. The arrest was effected on +August 7th, by Detective Williamson, of the Norwich police. Buttifant +and his son Archibald were staying, under the name of Biron, at the Hotel +de Ville Madrid, Valentia. He was brought to England, _viâ_ Marseilles, +reached Norwich on August 14th, and underwent his preliminary examination +before the magistrates on the 15th, on charges of forgery and +embezzlement. After several remands he was committed for trial at the +Norwich Assizes. At the Central Criminal Court, on November 25th, Fish +was placed upon his trial, on the charge of stealing £39 2s., and of +aiding and assisting Buttifant in the embezzlement, and was sentenced by +Mr. Baron Pollock to sixteen calendar months’ imprisonment, with hard +labour. (_See_ March 25th, 1875.) + + +JULY. + + +6.—The first prize-day was held at the resuscitated Grammar School at +North Walsham. In 1606 Sir William Paston founded a free Grammar School +in the town for forty boys, sons of inhabitants of the Hundreds of +Tunstead, North Erpingham, Happing, and East and West Flegg. The school +gradually decayed until only the head-master remained. In 1871 Mr. +Robert Wortley called attention to the fact that the endowment was lying +perfectly useless; an appeal was made to the Endowed School Commission to +take action, and finally the Committee of Council on Education adapted a +scheme for the management of the school. New governors were appointed, +with Lord Suffield as president, the school house and master’s house were +restored, and the Rev. F. R. Pentreath, formerly master of Retford +Grammar School, appointed head-master. The school was re-opened in +February, 1874. + +8.—The foundation-stone of the Baptist church in Unthank’s Road, Norwich, +was laid by Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P. The building, which was designed by +Mr. Edward Boardman, and was estimated to cost £5,000, was opened for +public worship on July 8th, 1875. + +11.—During the week ending this date the 3rd Dragoon Guards marched from +the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich, _en route_ to York. + +18.—The 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went into camp at Hunstanton Park, +and were inspected on the 23rd by Colonel T. E. Knox, C.B. + +21.—The Norwich Town Council, at a special meeting, decided to comply +with the order of the Home Secretary, directing them to build a new +asylum for the reception of pauper lunatics; and a memorial was adopted +praying the Public Works Loan Commissioners to grant the necessary loan +at 3½ per cent., repayable in fifty years. (_See_ February 5th, 1875.) + +24.—At a meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held at Wymondham +Vicarage, Mr. Edward Hutchinson, lay secretary of the society, presented +to Jacob Wainwright, one of the Nassick boys in attendance upon Dr. +Livingstone in his last journey, the bronze medal of the Royal +Geographical Society. Wainwright, who addressed the meeting in very good +English, described how they preserved the body of Livingstone and +conveyed it to Zanzibar. + +25.—A new lifeboat, presented to the Royal Lifeboat Institution by Mrs. +Boettefure, was launched at Brancaster. It was christened by Mrs. Simms +Reeve, in the name of the Joseph and Mary. + +27.—At a meeting held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of +the Mayor, it was decided to establish a branch of the Girls’ Public Day +School Company, and the Rev. W. Vincent was appointed local secretary. + +—A mulatto woman, known as Madame Angelo, was credited with completing +the feat of walking, at the Hoppole Gardens, Norwich, one thousand miles +in one thousand hours. “Although the greatest vigilance has been +exercised,” says the report, “it has not yet transpired that she has ever +failed to come to the scratch at the appointed times. During the last +week she showed signs of flagging, her limbs swelling, and considerable +difficulty was experienced in keeping her awake. It was announced that +she would walk the last mile with her infant baby in her arms, but it was +evident from her appearance that this would be too much for her, and her +infant was handed to her when she had only four laps to walk.” + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Keating, Frederick Sutton, +formerly medical-officer of the Norwich Pauper Lunatic Asylum, and Emma +Styggles, head female attendant, were charged with conspiring to cheat +and defraud the Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the sum of £3 10s. 6½d., +in the month of January. Sutton was sentenced to one calendar month, and +Styggles to seven days’ imprisonment. + +5.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Keating, Frederick Wales, +aged 21, a labourer, was charged with the wilful murder of Thomas +Pettingill, at Raveningham, on July 16th. He was found guilty of +manslaughter, and ordered to be kept in penal servitude for the term of +his natural life. + +7.—Mr. J. R. Bulwer, Q.C., M.P., and Mr. William Graham, Crown +Commissioners, opened an inquiry at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, into the +circumstances of what was known as the Creak case (_q.v._ Vol. I., p. +485; Vol. II., p. 18). A special jury was empanelled. Miss Margaret +Creak was an eccentric person, who died in 1850. It transpired at the +trial of certain actions brought in 1866 by Mr. Kent, solicitor, that the +deceased’s property in the parishes of St. Andrew and St. George Colegate +had been purchased by Margaret Creak’s mother during her widowhood. +Margaret Creak having died without leaving legal heirs, it was held that +her property devolved upon the Crown, for a strange will made by her had +been decided to be void and of no effect. Since her death the property +had been held by different individuals, some of whom had exercised the +rights and enjoyed the profits of landlord, whilst others had lived upon +the property rent free. The Crown, on being informed of these facts, +issued a Commission under the Great Seal to ascertain (1) what property +Margaret Creak possessed at the time of her death, and (2) what had +become of her brothers and sisters. The jury, on the 8th, found that +Margaret Creak was seised of the fee simple of three lots of property; +that she left no heir thereto; that the property was of the yearly value +of £330 at the time of her death; and that as the property was holden of +the Crown in common socage, it devolved to her Majesty, in virtue of her +prerogative Royal. The jury further said that mesne profits amounting to +£7,920 had accrued since the death of Margaret Creak, of which about +£2,000 had been received by Jonathan Flowers, of Gressenhall, and various +sums by other persons. The Commissioners thereupon seized the property +into the hands of her Majesty, and ordered the inquisition to be returned +to the Court of Chancery. (_See_ July 24th, 1876.) + +11.—The forty-second annual meeting of the British Medical Association +commenced at Norwich, under the presidency of Sir William Fergusson, +Bart., Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen. The President-elect was Dr. Edward +Copeman. During the proceedings, which concluded on the 14th, addresses +were delivered by Sir James Paget, Dr. Eade, Mr. Cadge, &c. A prominent +feature of the visit was an exhibition at St. Andrew’s Hall of the works +of deceased and living Norfolk and Suffolk artists. This remarkable +collection included examples by Old Crome and his sons, Stannard, Stark, +the Cotmans, Thirtle, Opie, Vincent, Colkett, and others. (_See_ +December 9th.) + +12.—The 7th Hussars arrived at Norwich. The Duke of Connaught was an +officer of the regiment, and his Royal Highness was welcomed by the +citizens with great enthusiasm. At the south entrance to the Guildhall, +Lieut.-Colonel Hale and the officers were received by the Mayor (Mr. S. +Gurney Buxton), the Sheriff (Mr. A. R. Chamberlin), the Deputy-Mayor (Sir +Samuel Bignold), the magistrates, and members of the Town Council. An +adjournment was then made to the Council Chamber, where the loving cup +was passed round, and the proceedings were concluded by the Duke of +Connaught proposing the health of the Mayor. + +17.—A great Liberal demonstration was held at Whitlingham, at which +addresses were delivered by Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., Mr. Henry Birkbeck, +Mr. J. H. Tillett, and other prominent local leaders of the party. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +10.—A terrible railway collision occurred at Thorpe. The mail train +leaving Yarmouth at 8.46 p.m. was joined at Reedham by another train from +Lowestoft. The combined train proceeded to Brundall, where, owing to the +existence of only a single line, it had to wait until the arrival of the +express train from Norwich to Yarmouth, or until permission should be +given to the engine-driver to proceed. The accident was caused by the +down express being allowed to leave Norwich while the mail train was +permitted to come on from Brundall. The telegraphic message to Brundall, +which had been written by Night-Inspector Alfred Cooper, but not signed, +was sent through some mistake by the telegraph clerk, John Robson. A few +minutes later the inspector, not knowing that the message had gone, +allowed the down express to proceed. Hardly had he done so when the +fatal error was discovered. A second message was immediately dispatched +to Brundall to stop the mail, if possible, but the answer came back, +“Mail gone,” and nothing remained but to make arrangements for dealing +with the inevitable catastrophe. Both drivers had reason for putting on +increased speed, believing, as they did, that each train was waiting for +the other. The speed of the up mail, which consisted of thirteen +carriages, was from thirty to thirty-five miles an hour, while the rate +of the down express of fourteen carriages was from twenty to twenty-five +miles. The trains met near Thorpe village, the impact producing a +terrific crash which resembled a peal of thunder. The drivers and +firemen of the locomotives were killed, eighteen passengers were killed +on the spot, and about fifty were severely wounded, of whom five died in +the course of a few days, making a total of twenty-five killed. The dead +and dying were removed to Field’s boathouse and to the Tuns Inn, and the +injured were taken to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. On the following +morning the scene of the catastrophe was visited by many hundreds of +persons, among whom was the Duke of Connaught, then stationed in Norwich +with his regiment, the 7th Hussars. The City Coroner (Mr. E. S. Bignold) +opened an inquest on the bodies of two persons who had died at Thorpe +station, and, after formal evidence, adjourned the inquiry to the 25th, +when the jury found that the accident was due to the negligence of Robson +and Cooper, against whom they returned a verdict of manslaughter. The +County Coroner (Mr. E. Press), on the 12th, held an inquest on the bodies +lying at Thorpe, and adjourned the inquiry to the Shirehall. On October +5th the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Robson only. The +Board of Trade inquiry commenced at the Guildhall, before Capt. Tyler, +R.E., and Mr. Ravenhill, on September 21st, and on the 22nd was adjourned +_sine die_. It was resumed on October 5th, and again adjourned. (_See_ +February 23rd, 1875.) + +15.—Madame C. Nilsson, assisted by Madame Patey, Mr. E. Lloyd, Signor +Foli, &c., gave a concert at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in aid of the +endowment fund of the Jenny Lind Infirmary. A second concert was given +on the 16th. Sir Julius Benedict conducted on both occasions. Madame +Nilsson was presented with an address by the Mayor and Corporation, in +acknowledgment of her valuable services to the institution. + +17.—The memorial stone of the Norwich Presbyterian church was laid by Mr. +C. E. Lewis, M.P., and at a public meeting subsequently held at St. +Andrew’s Hall an address was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Chalmers, of +London. The estimated cost of the church was £3,600. It was designed by +Mr. Edward Boardman, architect, of Norwich, and built by Mr. Samuel Hall. +Efforts to establish a Presbyterian church in the city were made in 1866, +when a “station” was opened and meetings for worship were held at the +Lecture Hall in St. Andrew’s. A communion was formed, and in 1867 St. +Peter’s Hall, Theatre Street, was purchased by the congregation. The +church, which is built upon a site adjoining the hall, was opened for +public worship on June 23rd, 1875, by the Rev. John Matheson, the +Moderator, and the Rev. Dr. Fraser. + +20.—Three war vessels, the Northumberland, the Sultan, and the Monarch, +forming part of the Channel Fleet, entered Yarmouth Roads, under the +command of Rear-Admiral Hancock. On the 22nd the Mayor and Corporation +gave a ball at the Town Hall, at which the officers were present. The +vessels sailed for Spithead early on the morning of the 23rd. + +20.—Died, from injuries received in the Thorpe collision, Mr. Bransby +Francis, surgeon, of Norwich, aged 59. Mr. Francis, who was a native of +Bungay, was an excellent botanist and naturalist. + +26.—At a general meeting of the members of the Norfolk Cattle Plague +Association, held at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, it was agreed, “That +this meeting recommend the presentation of a testimonial to the chairman, +Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., out of the funds of the association, in +acknowledgment of the great services rendered by him to the association.” +It was also decided to present Mr. C. R. Gilman, secretary to the +association, with a testimonial of the value of £50. + + +OCTOBER. + + +7.—Died at Langley Park, Sir Thomas W. H. Proctor Beauchamp, Bart., in +his 60th year. Educated at Eton, he entered the Royal Horse Guards in +1836, and in 1852 married the Hon. Catherine Esther Waldegrave, daughter +of Admiral Lord Radstock. On the death of his father, Admiral Sir +William Beauchamp Proctor, third baronet, he succeeded to the baronetcy +in 1861. A Liberal in politics, Sir Thomas consented, at the request of +the party, to contest the representation of the Eastern Division of the +county in 1865, in conjunction with Colonel Coke, but was unsuccessful. +Upon the commencement of the Volunteer movement, he gave it his active +support, and was for some years Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd +Administrative Battalion. He served the office of High Sheriff in +1869–70, and was a Deputy-Lieutenant and magistrate of the county. Sir +Thomas was a warm supporter of local charities, and shortly before his +death gave a donation of £1,000 to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He +was succeeded by his eldest son, Reginald William, who was born in 1853. + +9.—Died at Costessey Hall, the Hon. Francis Stafford Jerningham, aged 59. +He was the youngest brother of Lord Stafford, and formerly an examiner in +the Audit Office. For many years he took an active part in the +management of the Costessey estate. + +11.—Died, Mr. Edward Freestone, solicitor, of Norwich. The youngest son +of Mr. Anthony Freestone, he was born at South Elmham St. Margaret, and +educated at Mr. Brewer’s school at Norwich. After serving his articles +with Mr. Crabtree, at Halesworth, he was admitted an attorney and +solicitor in 1825, and commenced practice in Norwich and Bungay, in +partnership with Mr. J. C. Copeman. In politics Mr. Freestone was a +Liberal, but systematically declined to take part in municipal affairs. +He, however, held several important public appointments. The Freestone +family lived and owned property at South Elmham for nearly 200 years. +For three generations, ranging over the long period of 150 years, they +hunted their own hounds. Mr. Freestone’s only sister married the +celebrated botanist, Dr. Lindley and was mother to Mr. Lindley, Q.C., the +eminent equity barrister. + +16.—An operetta, in two acts, by Mr. J. Arthur Harcourt, entitled, “The +Science of Love,” was performed for the first time by a company of +amateurs at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich. + +20.—The East Norfolk Railway, from Norwich to North Walsham, was opened +for traffic. The line was constructed by Messrs. Lucas Bros., from plans +by Mr. E. Wilson, C.E. + +22.—Mr. W. H. Cooke, Q.C., Judge of the Norfolk County Court, resigned +his appointment. He was succeeded by Mr. Edwin Plumer Price, Q.C., +Recorder of York. + +23.—Died at Chapel Field Road, Norwich, Mr. Henry Ninham, aged 82. He +was the son of John Ninham, who, in 1792, at the request of Mr. William +Stevenson, F.S.A., drew, with the assistance of the _camera obscura_, the +ancient gates of Norwich, then about to be demolished. He succeeded to +his father’s business as an heraldic painter and copper-plate printer, +and was for many years employed by the principal coachbuilders of the +city to paint armorial bearings on their patrons’ carnages. A few days +prior to his death, he completed, for the Very Rev. Dr. Goulburn, a large +painting of the arms of the Deans of Norwich. Mr. Ninham was a frequent +contributor to the Norwich exhibitions, both in oil and water-colours, +and made many careful and truthful delineations of picturesque old houses +and churches in the city and its neighbourhood. A good etcher, he +published (without letterpress) “Eight Etchings of Antiquities of +Norwich,” including the Strangers’ Hall, Sir Benjamin Wrenche’s Court, +&c.; and afterwards “Views of the Gates of Norwich,” from drawings made +by Kirkpatrick about the year 1720. For private circulation only, he +etched a series of small but spirited plates, principally views in +Norwich and Norfolk. The illustrations of Bloom’s “Castle Acre,” and +Grigor’s “Eastern Arboretum,” were also etched by him. The well-known +works, “Remnants of Antiquity in Norwich,” and “Norwich Corporation +Pageantry,” were illustrated in lithograph by Ninham from his own +drawings. He was a large contributor of illustrations to “Norfolk +Archæology” and other local antiquarian works. + +24.—Mr. Paynton Pigott, barrister-at-law, of the Oxford Circuit, and +revising barrister of the Western Division of Staffordshire, a nephew of +Mr. Baron Pigott, was admitted to the office of Deputy Chief Constable of +Norfolk. + +30.—Died at his residence, Tombland, Norwich, Mr. Thomas Hancock, City +Treasurer. Mr. Hancock, who made himself prominent by his efforts to +revive the ancient office of City Chamberlain, took an active part in +many public movements, and is said to have fallen a victim to over-work. +Mr. Edwin Syder Steward was, on November 9th, elected to the vacant +office of City Treasurer. + +31.—Died at Topcroft Rectory, the Rev. Edward Wilson, aged 75. Mr. +Wilson, early in life, wrote “The Martyr of Carthage” in “Burns’s +Englishman’s Library.” Soon afterwards, his mind, unhappily, became +clouded, and his services were lost to the Church for over twenty years. +When at length a surprising recovery restored him to his friends, he +returned to the study of theology and the arts with a vigour and +perseverance that would have been remarkable in a young man of unbroken +health. In his youth Mr. Wilson was no mean poet, and his unpublished +verses received the warm praise of Wordsworth. He had, too, the makings +of a great painter, and some of his best efforts in colouring were +executed only a few weeks before his death. Mr. Wilson was brother of +Sir Archdale Wilson, Bart., of Delhi, and first cousin to Henry Wilson, +Lord Berners, at whose decease the barony, one of the oldest in England, +passed, through an heiress, into another name. The family was descended +from Bourchier, Lord Berners, the translator of Froissart, and through +him from Bourchier, the Earl of Essex and his wife, a granddaughter of +Edward III. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +6.—Died at Lynn, Mr. F. Reynolds, formerly of Newton next Castleacre, at +an advanced age, and in very reduced circumstances. “The deceased for +many years was known by the sobriquet of ‘The Marquis,’ which was given +him when he kept a pack of harriers at his own expense, and with which he +had good sport. Once in pursuit of a stolen horse, for a neighbour, he +drove one of his hunters, a bay blood horse, 100 miles in ten hours, only +stopping once, namely, at Six Mile Bottom, near Newmarket, where he gave +his horse some corn from his own bag, and fetched him water in his hat +from a brook. One of his first, and, perhaps, best hunters, that he +trained to such perfection, was a bay thoroughbred mare by Old Whisker, +bred by Chifney, the celebrated jockey. She became a distinguished +hunter with the Marham Staghounds. For Chip he gave but £8, and this +horse was afterwards sold by Mr. Anderson for 500 guineas. Grey Tail, +too, was sold by Mr. Taylor for 400 guineas, and Sweep, bought for £10, +was sold by Mr. Percival for 300 guineas; whilst poor old Hawk struggled +on with him in his decline, winning him a few pounds at country races by +his indomitable pluck, and carrying him miles and miles when other people +were at rest. Although Mr. Reynolds had his failings, no one could +impeach his honour. He possessed such peculiar blandness, free from +haughty and unkind feeling, that he was always regarded with something +more than the common courtesy of life. He received, in his dying +illness, the greatest attention from his old servant Peter, his former +whip.” + +7.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Sandringham, from +Coventry, accompanied by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, and by +the Czarewitch of Russia, Prince Wolkonsky, Prince Bariatinsky, &c. It +was on this occasion that the new railway-station erected at Wolferton +was formally opened. On the 20th a grand county ball was given at +Sandringham. + +9.—Mr. Edward Kerrison Harvey was elected Mayor, and Mr. John Youngs +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +18.—Died in London, the Hon. George Sulyarde Stafford Jerningham, C.B., +formerly Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Sweden, aged 69. He +was third son of the eighth Lord Stafford, and was born February 17th, +1806. Mr. Jerningham was attached to the embassies at St. Petersburg and +the Hague in 1826, was appointed an attaché at the Hague in 1832, and +Secretary of Legation in 1833, and was _chargé d’affaires_ there until +1836, when he was sent as secretary of legation to Turin, where he was +_chargé d’affaires_ in 1838. He subsequently filed similar offices at +Madrid and Paris. + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—Died at his residence, St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, Sir William Foster, +Bart., aged 76. For half a century he had taken a prominent position in +Norwich in all matters connected with its municipal and charitable +institutions, and, as the head of one of the oldest legal firms in the +city, was greatly esteemed in his professional career. Under the old +Corporation he served the office of Sheriff in 1832, and in 1838 was +created a baronet. Sir William was elected Mayor of Norwich in 1844. In +politics he was a warm supporter of Liberal principles, and was for many +years the recognised leader of the old Whig school in Norwich. He was +succeeded by Capt. William Foster, formerly in the 11th Hussars. + +6.—Died at Golding Street, Heigham, Norwich, Mrs. Winifred Johnson, aged +101 years. + +9.—Died at 39, Chapel Street, Marylebone Road, London, Mr. Benjamin Bond +Cabbell, F.R.S., F.S.A., of Cromer Hall, in his 94th year. Educated at +Westminster and at Exeter College, Oxford, and called to the Bar in 1816, +he was a Bencher of the Middle Temple, a justice of the peace and +Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex and Norfolk, and Provincial Grand Master +of Freemasons in the latter county. In 1846 he was returned to the House +of Commons for St. Alban’s, and represented Boston from 1847 to 1857. On +purchasing the Cromer Hall estate, Mr. Bond Cabbell became identified +with Norfolk, presented to Cromer a fully-equipped lifeboat, and +contributed largely to the restoration of the parish church. + +—A remarkable charge of cruelty to dogs was preferred at Norwich +Police-court, against Dr. Eugene Magnan, of London, Mr. Haynes S. +Robinson, Mr. John Ballard Pitt, Mr. Richard Wentworth White, and Mr. +Horace Turner, well-known medical men residing in Norwich. It was +alleged that on the occasion of the visit of the British Medical +Association to Norwich, application was made by a committee of gentlemen +that a certain experiment, namely, the injection of alcohol and absinthe +into the veins and bloodvessels of dogs, should be made. Dr. Magnan +performed the operation, and the other defendants took part. Among the +witnesses called for the prosecution was Dr. Tuffnell, President of the +Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, who said the experiment was cruel +because unnecessary, and similar evidence was given by Sir William +Fergusson, Professor William Pritchard, R.C.V.S., Professor Varnell, +R.C.V.S., Mr. G. Fleming, Examining Member of the Council of Veterinary +Surgeons, and one of the editors of the “Veterinarian,” and others. For +the defence it was denied that Dr. Magnan performed the experiment simply +for the amusement of those present, and Dr. Beverley, Dr. Bateman, Dr. +Eade, Dr. Copeman, Mr. Cadge, Mr. W. P. Nichols, Mr. G. W. W. Firth, Mr. +Joseph Allen, and others were called to prove that the operation was +justifiable. The magistrates dismissed the charges, but expressed the +opinion that the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals +were justified in bringing the case. + +10.—Died at 7, Lowndes Street, London, Mr. Peter Frank O’Malley, Q.C., +last surviving son of Mr. Charles O’Malley, of Castlebar, co. Mayo. Born +in 1804, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated +M.A. in 1828, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in May, 1834. +He married, in August, 1839, Emily, second daughter of Mr. William +Rodwell, of Woodlands, Suffolk, sister of Mr. B. B. Hunter Rodwell, M.P., +Q.C. In 1850 he was appointed Queen’s Counsel and made a Bencher of the +Middle Temple. On the elevation of Mr. Serjeant Byles to the Bench, in +1858, Mr. O’Malley succeeded to the leadership of the Norfolk Circuit, +and in the following year was appointed to the Recordership of Norwich. +In politics he was a Conservative, and, as an advocate, was remarkable +for his eloquence, earnestness, and zeal. Mr. O’Malley was succeeded as +Recorder of Norwich by Mr. W. J. Metcalfe, Q.C. + +15.—The Duke of Connaught presented the prizes at Norwich Grammar School. + +—Died at Bracondale, Norwich, Mr. Samuel Jarrold, in his 69th year. Mr. +Jarrold, who was head of the wall-known firm of publishers, was an ardent +temperance reformer, and one of the earliest advocates of the cause in +Norwich. + +17.—Died at his Norfolk seat, Elmham Hall, George John Milles, fourth +Baron Sondes. The deceased nobleman had almost attained his 81st year. +The second son of Lewis Thomas Watson, second Lord Sondes, by Mary +Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Milles, of North Elmham, he succeeded to +the title on the death of his brother, in 1836. He was educated at Eton +and at Christ Church, Oxford, and entered the Royal Horse Guards, in +which regiment he served in the Peninsular War, and was present at the +battle of Waterloo. In 1823 he married Eleanor, fifth daughter of Sir +Edward Knatchbull, Bart., and in 1824, on succeeding to the Elmham +estate, assumed the name of Milles in lieu of that of Watson. After his +retirement from military service, he took great interest in agricultural +pursuits, and was very successful in his efforts to improve the breeds of +cattle and sheep. The Elmham herd of red polled cattle and flock of +Southdowns attained universal reputation. His lordship was High Steward +of Great Yarmouth, to which office he was elected in 1854. + +26.—The pantomime at Norwich Theatre was “Dick Whittington and his +Wonderful Cat.” At the Prince Arthur Royal Circus, on Castle Meadow, the +pantomime, “King Bombast, or Harlequin Reckless Ralph and his Lilliputian +Army,” was produced. + + + +1875. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—The frost, which, during the preceding week, had been very severe, +suddenly broke up, and, under the influence of a south-west wind, a rapid +thaw set in. + +—Died at his residence, Surrey Street, Norwich, Sir Samuel Bignold. He +was the third son of Mr. Thomas Bignold, of Westerham, Kent, who came to +Norwich towards the close of the eighteenth century, and established the +Norfolk and Norwich General Assurance, “for the insurance of houses, +stock, and merchandise from fire.” The office was in the Market Place, +where Mr. Bignold also carried on the business of a wine and spirit +merchant until the end of 1807. Mr. Samuel Bignold was elected +Corporation Sheriff on August 9th, 1830, and in 1831 succeeded Mr. John +Patteson as Alderman of the Great Mancroft Ward. In 1832 he was +instrumental in introducing to the city Lord Stormont and Sir James +Scarlett, as candidates for its representation in Parliament. During his +Mayoralty in 1833 he wrote a letter to the Governor of the Court of +Guardians, suggesting the establishment of a joint stock company for +spinning yarn, in order to give employment to the poor. The result was +the formation of the Norwich Yarn Company, and the first stone of their +factory was laid by Mr. Bignold on December 1st, 1836. This undertaking +was commenced with every indication of success, but it finally succumbed +to the powerful competition of the North. In 1848 Mr. Bignold was a +second time elected Mayor, and was chosen a third time for the office in +1853. On May 3rd, 1854, having been requested by the Corporation to +present to the Queen an address pledging its loyal support to her Majesty +in the prosecution of the Crimean War, he received the honour of +knighthood, and his portrait was painted by public subscription, by J. P. +Knight, R.A., and placed in St. Andrew’s Hall. In the same year Sir +Samuel was returned as member of Parliament for the city, in opposition +to Mr. Anthony Hamond, the Liberal candidate. On seeking re-election, in +1857, he was defeated by Lord Bury and Mr. Schneider, and again in April, +1859, by the same gentlemen; but that election was declared void. In +June, 1859, when Lord Bury sought re-election, having vacated his seat by +accepting the appointment of Comptroller of her Majesty’s household, Sir +Samuel was again defeated, and Lord Bury was a second time unseated on +petition. In all subsequent elections, although not a candidate himself, +Sir Samuel Bignold continued to take an active part. He was associated +with many public companies and charitable and other institutions. After +the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, he was elected a Councillor for +the Fifth Ward, which he continued to represent until his death. He was +placed on the Commission of the Peace for the County in 1835, and became +a Deputy-Lieutenant, and was appointed a city magistrate in 1841. + +4.—The Norwich Choral Society, founded by Professor Taylor, in 1824, for +the performance of choral and orchestral music, was voluntarily dissolved +by the few remaining members. + +—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Holkham, on a visit to the +Earl of Leicester. + +20.—Died at her residence, Thorpe St. Andrew, in her 69th year, Miss Mary +Ann Bacon, third daughter of Mr. R. M. Bacon, of Costessey. She +possessed varied accomplishments and poetical talent. Early in life she +assisted her father by translating and writing several valuable articles +for the “Musical Review”; and she was associated with Mr. Owen Jones in +the production of some volumes of combined art and poetry which attracted +much attention at the time of their appearance. Miss Bacon was +particularly happy in her metrical translations of German, French, and +Italian songs, and the books of the Norwich Festivals for many years +attested her ready talent in giving the spirit of those languages when +combined with music. She contributed many fugitive verses and serial +tales in prose to the “People’s Journal” and other periodicals and +magazines. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +3.—A special meeting of the Norwich Town Council was held for the purpose +of considering and passing resolutions authorising the Council to +petition Parliament against the Norwich Gas Bill, by which the British +Gaslight Company sought to acquire additional lands and to raise further +capital. It was decided to oppose the Bill, and the action of the +Council was confirmed at a common hall held on the 4th. + +—Died at 26, Highbury Place, London, the Rev. Luke Hoult Wiseman, aged +53. He was a son of Mr. Samuel Wiseman of Norwich, so well known for his +long and devoted services to the British and Foreign Bible Society. He +became private secretary to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, and afterwards +entered as a candidate for the Wesleyan Methodist ministry. A popular +and powerful preacher, he was appointed, in 1868, one of the general +secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. In 1871 he was elected +secretary to the Conference, and in 1872 was appointed its president. +Mr. Wiseman wrote much for the Press, and all his writings bore the +impress of a clear and vigorous intellect. His best known works were +“Christ’s Temptation in the Wilderness” and “Men of Faith.” + +4.—A fire, which resulted in the destruction of the treadmill-house and +of a small storage building, occurred at the City Gaol, Norwich. An +alarming rumour of an attempted escape of the prisoners was circulated, +and a detachment of the 7th Hussars was summoned from the Cavalry +Barracks. The prisoners, however, were safely removed from the south to +the north side of the gaol, the fire was extinguished by the city police, +and the cavalry were ordered back to quarters. + +5.—The Norwich Town Council discussed the question of the proposed site +for the new pauper lunatic asylum, and decided to erect the building at +Hellesdon. + +23.—The Sheriff of Norwich (Mr. J. Youngs) and the Under-Sheriff (Mr. F. +Foster) opened a court at the Shirehall for the assessment of damages in +the claims brought against the Great Eastern Railway Company by the +relatives of certain persons who had been killed or injured in the Thorpe +collision. At Norwich Assizes, on April 6th, before Mr. Justice +Blackburn, Alfred Cooper, formerly night inspector, and John Robson, +formerly telegraph clerk at Thorpe railway station, were indicted for +feloniously killing and slaying George Robert Womack, on September 10th. +Mr. Womack was one of the victims of the collision. The jury acquitted +Robson, and returned a verdict of guilty against Cooper, who was +sentenced to eight calendar months’ imprisonment. At the same Assizes, a +special jury tried the civil action, Morse _v._ the Great Eastern Railway +Company, in which the Rev. Charles Morse sued the company for +compensation for injuries sustained in the collision. The jury awarded +plaintiff £2,050 damages. On April 17th it was announced: “It is now +expected that the amount of compensation claims will not exceed £40,000. +About £10,000 has been paid in the amicable adjustment of minor claims, +and juries have awarded some £15,000 more.” At the Summer Assizes, on +August 6th, before Mr. Baron Bramwell, a special jury awarded Mr. C. R. +Gilman the sum of £6,497 3s. 8d. for damages, medical attendance, and +extra expenses consequent upon injuries received by him in the collision. + + +MARCH. + + +1.—Mr. Craven Robertson’s company commenced an engagement at Norwich +Theatre. “Caste,” “School,” “Ours,” and “M.P.” were produced. + +5.—An election to fill the vacancy caused in the representation of +Norwich by the elevation to the judicial bench of Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., +took place. The candidates were Mr. J. H. Tillett and Colonel Josiah +Wilkinson, Southampton Lodge, Highgate. The result was declared as +follows: Tillett, 5,877; Wilkinson, 5,079. On April 2nd a petition +against the return of Mr. Tillett, M.P., was filed in the Court of Common +Pleas, by Frank Ames, a workman at Messrs. Barnard and Bishop’s +Ironworks. (_See_ May 6th.) + +7.—Died at Brighton, Mr. Edward Warner, of Hingham Hall, Woodford, Essex, +formerly member of Parliament for Norwich. He was first returned in +1852, in conjunction with Sir Morton Peto, and in opposition to the +Marquis of Douro and Lieut.-Colonel Dickson; and sat in the House of +Commons until the dissolution in 1857, but did not present himself for +re-election. In 1860 he again came forward, with Sir William Russell, +with whom he was returned, defeating the Conservative candidates, Mr. W. +Forlonge and Mr. W. D. Lewis. In 1865 he and Sir William Russell were +unsuccessfully opposed by Mr. A. Goldsmid and Mr. R. E. Chester Waters. +After the passing of the new Reform Act, the advanced Liberals selected +Mr. J. H. Tillett as their candidate, and the Whigs adhered to Sir +William Russell. In 1870 Mr. Warner took the field in opposition to Mr. +Tillett, but, after consulting the electors, he decided to retire from +the contest. Thereafter he lived in comparative retirement. + +11.—A severe gale raged on the East Coast. The schooner Elizabeth, +belonging to Messrs. Bessey and Palmer, of Yarmouth, struck on the Barber +Sand, and the crew of four hands were drowned. Several other casualties +occurred. + +25.—Application was made in the Court of Common Pleas, on behalf of +Josiah Buttifant, charged with the building society frauds at Norwich, +for an order that a writ of _certiorari_ might issue to remove the +indictments into the Court of Queen’s Bench. The order was granted, and +the case came for trial before Mr. Justice Archibald, on May 6th, when it +was stated that the prisoner’s defalcations amounted to £20,000. +Buttifant pleaded not guilty to the charge of forging certain documents, +but guilty to embezzling various sums. A jury was sworn to try the +charge of forgery, and returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was +sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude. + +31.—St. Margaret’s church, Lynn, which had been restored at the cost of +£7,000, as an act of thanksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of Wales +from his severe illness, was re-opened for Divine worship. The sermon +was preached by the Lord Bishop, and a distinguished company assembled +for luncheon at the Town Hall, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. E. +E. Durrant). The Prince and Princess of Wales attended afternoon service +at the church on Sunday, April 18th, and were received by the Mayor and +Corporation. The work of restoration was carried out under the direction +of Mr. Ewan Christian and Sir E. Gilbert Scott. + +—A new organ, erected at North Walsham church, by Messrs. Hill and Son, +of London, at the cost of £487, was opened by Mr. James Turle, organist +of Westminster Abbey, at a special service, at which the sermon was +preached by the Dean of Norwich. + + +APRIL. + + +1.—The Yarmouth and Gorleston tramway was formally opened by the Mayor of +Yarmouth (Mr. R. D. Barber). + +5.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Grove, William Sillis, 25, +labourer, was found guilty of feloniously assaulting Miss Ann Elizabeth +Blyth, at Great Massingham, on October 12th, 1874, and was sentenced to +eighteen years’ penal servitude and twenty lashes of the “cat.” The +whipping was inflicted at Norwich Castle on April 20th. “The prisoner’s +back having been bared, he was securely fastened by the hands and feet to +the whipping-post and the flagellation duly administered by Mr. Pinson, +the Governor, with a ‘cat’ having nine tails of braided whipcord. When +the third lash had been given the prisoner turned his head round and +implored, ‘For God’s sake, don’t hit twice in the same place,’ and, +howling and wincing, threatened to break down at the eighth lash; but the +whipping proceeded until the punishment was completed. When released +from the post he appeared faint, and required assistance to get on his +shirt. ‘A poor devil had better be hanged than punished like that,’ he +said.” + +9.—At a military tournament given by the 7th Hussars at Norwich, the +“cavalry ride,” now known as the “musical ride,” was performed for the +first time. It was introduced by the bandmaster, Van Der Huevil, who was +afterwards transferred to the Household Cavalry, and under his direction +the display became one of the most prominent features of the Royal +Military Tournament. + +17.—Died at her residence, Surrey Street, Norwich, Miss Cecilia Lucy +Brightwell, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Brightwell. For nearly forty +years she was the devoted and inseparable companion of her father. Miss +Brightwell was a voluminous writer, and more than twenty works of hers +had issued from the press, the first of which was a biography, the only +one extant, of her old friend, Amelia Opie, whose diary and +correspondence she had access to through her father, Mrs. Opie’s +executor. Amongst her other works was a “Life of Linnæus,” “Early Lives +and Doings of Great Lawyers,” “Annals of Curious and Romantic Lives,” +“Palissy, the Huguenot Potter,” “Footsteps of the Reformers,” “Heroes of +the Workshop,” “Men of Mark,” “Annals of Industry and Genius,” &c. +Proficient in the use of the etching needle, she illustrated her father’s +works on “Infusoria.” “A singular evidence of Miss Brightwell’s skill in +etching may be found in the British Museum, where, side by side with the +work of Rembrandt, known as ‘The Long Landscape,’ is a copy by her which +the gentleman then in charge of that department could not believe to be +such until vouched for by others.” + + +MAY. + + +6.—The hearing of the election petition against the return of Mr. Jacob +Henry Tillett as member of Parliament for the city commenced at the +Shirehall, Norwich, before Mr. Justice Lush. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., was +leading counsel for the petitioner, and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., for the +respondent. It was alleged on the part of the petitioner that a large +number of voters had received employment of a colourable character. +“Wherever possible a voter was made a messenger, clerk, or something. +The majority for Mr. Huddleston at the General Election was between 40 +and 50, but by this kind of device the Conservative majority was +converted into a minority of one under 800.” The inquiry proceeded, and +on the 15th Mr. Hawkins announced that “Mr. Tillett had come to the +conclusion it had been sufficiently established that a great number of +the lower class voters were employed unjustifiably in his behalf, and he +felt he could not struggle further to retain the seat.” After hearing +the evidence of Mr. Tillett and a few other witnesses, his lordship said: +“The result is the respondent has become disqualified by reason of this +corruption by his agents, and I have nothing more to do than to declare +the election void and award costs to the petitioner.” (_See_ August +16th.) + +13.—The centenary of the banking house of Messrs. Gurneys and Co. was +celebrated by a dinner given at Stoke Holy Cross, the seat of Mr. Henry +Birkbeck. “The original founders of the Bank were John and Henry Gurney, +who, in addition to their ordinary trade, that of merchants, carried on a +banking business, first in Pitt Street, and afterwards in Magdalen +Street. They were the sons of John Gurney, who earned the title of the +‘Weavers’ Friend,’ by reason of his advocacy of their cause. The Gurneys +having, in 1779, devoted themselves exclusively to banking, the business +was transferred to Bartlett Gurney (son of Henry Gurney), who removed to +the present premises on Bank Plain, having as a partner his uncle, John +Gurney. Bartlett Gurney died in 1803, and John Gurney was left sole +proprietor, being joined shortly by his cousins, Richard and Joseph +Gurney. John Gurney lived at Earlham Hall, Richard Gurney at Keswick, +and Joseph Gurney at Lakenham. Changes from time to time occurred, and +Hudson Gurney, Richard Hanbury Gurney, James John Gurney, Henry Birkbeck +(the father of the present head of the firm), and Simon Martin became at +subsequent periods partners in the great banking house. The panics of +the years 1792 and 1825, which caused the failure of many banking houses, +only resulted in establishing the Gurneys on a firmer and more prosperous +basis, for they not only survived these financial disasters, but assisted +others to tide over their difficulties. The year 1866 will be remembered +as one which tested the stability of the house. The run on the Bank in +that and the following year was as remarkable for its intensity as it was +lasting. The run having ended, the business was further extended in 1870 +by the addition of that of Harveys and Hudsons, the goodwill of which was +purchased, and, by the liberality of the firm, that which might have +ended in a catastrophe for Norfolk was averted. It is now by far the +largest private banking house in the provinces.” + + +JUNE. + + +5.—The Reedham Hall estate was sold by auction by Messrs. Spelman, at the +Rampant Horse Hotel, Norwich, for £31,568. The purchaser was Mr. John +Rose. + +8.—Mr. Frank Buckland, Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, opened an inquiry +at Yarmouth, at the request of the Home Secretary, into the crab, +lobster, and other sea fisheries on the Norfolk coast, with the view of +ascertaining the expediency of adopting regulations for the prevention of +waste and the preservation of fish. Similar inquiries were held at Lynn, +Wells, and Cromer. + +16.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association opened at +Fakenham, and was continued on the 17th. Mr. Anthony Hamond was +president for the year. + +19.—An important meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, for the +purpose of conferring with Mr. Frank Buckland as to the possibility of +extending legislative protection to the fishing in the rivers and broads +of Norfolk. Mr. Buckland expressed his full concurrence in the necessity +of an Act of Parliament, for placing restrictions on the fishing, and +resolutions to that effect were adopted. (_See_ January 22nd, 1876.) + +21.—The centenary of the opening of the bells of St. Peter Mancroft, +Norwich, was celebrated by the ringers of that church. + + +JULY. + + +3.—Extracts from an article in the “Natal Mercury” of May 11th, on the +life and labours of Mr. Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S., “just then deceased,” +were published. Mr. Baines was a native of King’s Lynn, where he was +born in 1822. At an early age he gave evidence of artistic instincts, +and of his love of travel and adventure. His first experiences of the +kind were in South Australia. When little more than a youth, he took +part in an expedition which traversed a then unpenetrated portion of the +Continent. He and his companions carried their lives in their hands, and +many were the hairbreadth escapes from the perils of both sea and +savages. Baines arrived in South Africa about the year 1848, and took an +active part in the Kaffir wars of 1850–51–52. In 1860 he joined Dr. +Livingstone’s expedition to Zanzibar, but differences arose between him +and his illustrious chief. The next few years were spent in devious +travel, and in 1866 he returned home and published several important +works. He subsequently went to Natal as leader of a party sent out by +the South African Gold Fields Exploration Company, and it was at Natal +that he spent a large portion of the last few years of his life. + +8.—Died at Mulbarton, Mary Ann Todd, aged 100 years. + +22.—The Norfolk polled cattle and flock of pure Southdown sheep on the +North Elmham estate were sold by Messrs. Thornton and Long. The total +amount realised was £4,953 5s. + +23.—The last detachment of the 7th Hussars left Norwich for Manchester by +special train; and on the 24th the dismounted party of the 6th Dragoon +Guards (Carabiniers), from Shorncliffe, took over the Cavalry Barracks. + + +AUGUST. + + +2.—A vessel named the Ponda Chief, intended for trading between this +country and Port Natal, was launched from the shipyard of Messrs. J. +Fellows, at Southtown, Yarmouth. She was 140 feet long, 26 feet beam, 14 +ft. 6 in. deep, and 416 tons register. This was one of the largest +vessels ever built at the port. + +3.—H.M.S. Favourite, an armour-plated corvette of 2,094 tons and 490 +horse-power, ran upon the south spit of Scroby Sand, when endeavouring to +make the gatway. At the flood tide the vessel floated off and steamed +out to sea. + +9.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Mellor, William Harper +Stewardson, printer, of Norwich, was charged with publishing in a +newspaper called the “Herald and Dispatch,” a malicious and defamatory +libel of and concerning Frederick Lawrence Phillips, editor of the +“Norwich Argus.” The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the +defendant was fined £20, and ordered to enter into his own recognisances +of £100 to be of good behaviour for twelve months. + +16.—A Royal Commission, issued in consequence of the report of Mr. +Justice Lush, “that he had reason to believe corrupt practices +extensively prevailed at the election which took place in Norwich on +March 5th, on the elevation to the Bench of Mr. Baron Huddleston,” +commenced its proceedings at the Shirehall, Norwich. The Commissioners +were Mr. John Morgan Howard, Q.C., Mr. Patrick MacMahon, and Mr. Gabriel +Prior Goldney, with Mr. Tyndal Atkinson as secretary. On the 43rd day, +Wednesday, October 28th, the court terminated its sittings in Norwich, +and the inquiry was resumed in the House of Lords on November 8th. The +fiftieth day was reached on December 3rd, when a further adjournment took +place. (_See_ March 15th, 1876.) + +26.—The marriage was solemnised, at Latimer, of the Earl of Leicester and +the Hon. Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Chesham. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +20.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced with an +evening performance of “Elijah.” The morning performances were as +follow: 22nd, “Hymn of Praise” and selection, “Jerusalem”; 23rd, “Stabat +Mater” and “Woman of Samaria”; 24th, “The Messiah.” Miscellaneous +concerts were given on the evenings of the dates named, except on the +24th, when a dress ball took place. The principal vocalists were Mdlle. +Albani, Mdlle. Mathilda Enequist, Madame Lemmens Sherrington, Mdlle. Anna +de Belocca, Miss Enriquez, Madame Patey, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. H. J. +Minns, Mr. Henry Guy, Mr. J. L. Wadmore, and Signor Foli. Sir Julius +Benedict conducted. + +26.—Died at his residence, Bracondale, Norwich, Mr. Frederic Brown, aged +67. He served the office of Sheriff in 1863–64, was a magistrate of the +city, and a director of the Norwich Waterworks and Corn Exchange +Companies. + + +OCTOBER. + + +4.—Don Edgardo Colona, a Mexican tragedian, appeared at Norwich Theatre, +and during a week’s engagement played a round of Shakesperian and +classical characters. + +9.—The foundation-stone of Yarmouth Aquarium was laid by Lord Suffield. +The building was opened on September 5th, 1876. + +16.*—“Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve the Norfolk +Regiment of Artillery Militia being in future designated the Prince of +Wales’ Own Norfolk Artillery Militia, and of the officers, +non-commissioned officers, and men of the regiment being permitted to +wear, as a distinctive badge, on the collars of the tunics, the Prince of +Wales’ plume and the motto, ‘Ich Dien.’” + +20.—During a severe gale, the barque Young England, of Middlesbrough, 371 +tons (Captain Brown), bound from the Baltic to London with deals, drifted +on the Cockle Sand. The crew of twelve men and a boy took to the boat, +which was capsized, and all, with the exception of the boy, were drowned. + +26.—A public meeting was held at Yarmouth, to consider a project for +constructing a railway from that town to Stalham, _viâ_ Caister, Ormesby, +Martham, Potter Heigham, and Catfield. Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., M.P., +presided, and resolutions were adopted affirming the desirability of the +undertaking, which was estimated to cost £70,000. (_See_ August 7th, +1877.) + +28.—A preliminary meeting of landowners and others interested in the +construction of a new line of railway from March to Wymondham, to be +known as the Central Norfolk Railway, was held at the Crown Hotel, +Watton, under the presidency of Mr. W. A. Tyssen-Amherst. Mr. A. F. +Jerningham, C.E., described the proposed route, and it was agreed that +the railway was desirable. Its cost was estimated at £450,000, or +£10,000 per mile. A Bill for the promotion of the undertaking was +introduced in Parliament, but was withdrawn in January, 1876. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +5.—Mr. Charles Tadman, for many years manager at Norwich Gasworks, +committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. + +8.—Mr. Anthony Hamond, Master of the West Norfolk Hunt, was presented +with his portrait, painted by Mr. Graves, R.A. Sir William ffolkes, +Bart., made the presentation, on behalf of 400 subscribers. + +9.—Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett was elected Mayor, and Mr. Henry Stevenson +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +10.—The first Poor-law Conference, attended by delegates from twenty-two +Norfolk unions, was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency +of Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., “to take counsel on the important point of the +more uniform administration of poor relief.” + +13.—Died at St. Leonard’s, the Rev. Dr. William Brock. Dr. Brock, who +was upwards of 70 years of age, was formerly minister of the Baptist +congregation, in Norwich, and resigned that post about twenty-five years +previously, and became minister of Bloomsbury chapel, London, then +recently built. There he remained until he retired from the ministry. +Dr. Brock was one of the most popular ministers in the Baptist +denomination, and took an active part on the Liberal side in many of the +political movements of his time. + +—An extremely high tide occurred at Lynn, owing to heavy rains and strong +gales. On the 15th Denver Sluice was in jeopardy, and large numbers of +men were employed to strengthen the banks. At Hunstanton great masses of +cliff were washed away; on the 19th railway traffic between Brandon and +Ely was suspended, owing to the floods, and considerable damage was done +to the line between Reedham and Haddiscoe by the overflow of water. + +17.—Sir William Bagge, Bart., M.P., presided at a luncheon at Downham +Market, held in celebration of the opening of the new Public Hall. The +building was converted from the old Theatre by a company formed for the +purpose of carrying out the project. + +18.—At the adjourned Norfolk Quarter Sessions, held at the Shirehall, +Norwich, a report was received on the advisability of amalgamating the +county prisons and of transferring the Governor of Swaffham Prison to +Norwich Castle, the Governor of the latter prison, Mr. Pinson, having +given notice of his resignation of office. The report recommended that +Swaffham Prison be discontinued from January 13th, 1876; that the +prisoners at the time under detention be removed to Norwich Castle; and +that Mr. Duncan Stuart, Governor of Swaffham Prison, be appointed to +succeed Mr. Pinson at Norwich. The report was adopted. Mr. Stuart took +over the governorship of Norwich Castle in January, 1876, but resigned +office in the following month, when he was succeeded by Mr. Miles Joseph +Walker. + +19.—A gale, the severity of which had been unequalled for many years +previously, visited the coast of Norfolk. Several wrecks occurred off +Yarmouth and Caister, and many lives were lost in the Wash. The Scotch +fishing fleet suffered terrible privations. Five bodies of the crew of +the smack Beautiful Star, of St. Monance, Fifeshire, were picked up at +the entrance to Lynn Well, and at a subsequent date the bodies of other +unfortunate fishermen from the North were discovered in the same +locality. + +20.—The Hon. Frederick Walpole, M.P., F.R.G.S., was installed Grand +Master of the Norfolk Provincial Grand Lodge of Freemasons, in place of +Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, deceased. + +21.—On this day (Sunday) a mad freak was perpetrated at Yarmouth by a +Scotch fisherman, named Watson. Having gained admittance to the Nelson +column, he climbed the figure of Britannia and clasped his arms about its +neck. He then came down to the platform, and, dangling his legs over the +edge of the capital, took off his shoes and proceeded to descend by the +lightning conductor which runs down the outside of the column. The +conductor was only seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, and placed close +to the stone work, “and how he managed to get over the edge of the +projecting capital was a marvel.” The man, however, reached the ground +in safety; but his hands were terribly lacerated, “as in several +instances he had to pull the conductor from the wall to get his fingers +in. He was under the influence of drink when he performed the feat.” + +30.—Died, in his 75th year, Mr. Francis John Blake, solicitor, for forty +years treasurer of the Norfolk County Lunatic Asylum, and thirty-eight +years Superintendent Registrar for the city of Norwich. Mr. Blake was +for many years treasurer of the Norwich Musical Festival, and a director +of several public companies. + +—St. Andrew’s Day was celebrated in Norwich by the members of the +newly-formed St. Andrew Society dining at the Maid’s Head Hotel. Mr. T. +Muir Grant, the founder and president of the society, was in the chair, +and Dr. Waddell, the vice-president, officiated as croupier. + +—A suit, the Archdeacon of Norwich _v._ William Delph and William Thomas +Gilbert, churchwardens of St. Augustine, which came before the Consistory +Court at Norwich, excited much public comment. The case was heard +originally in November, 1874, when the Chancellor decreed that the +respondents, who had desecrated the churchyard by throwing a portion of +it into the public road, should, by placing certain stones in the pathway +and wall, mark the ancient boundary of the churchyard. The respondents +not having obeyed the decree of the court, application was made on +October 5th by Mr. Walter Overbury, as Proctor for the Archdeacon, that +they might be pronounced contumacious. The case was adjourned until this +date, and the decree not having been obeyed, the Chancellor pronounced +the respondents contumacious, and issued a certificate to her Majesty in +the High Court of Justice, in order that an attachment might forthwith +issue against them. This action resulted in the arrest and imprisonment +of Mr. Gilbert. At a meeting of the Town Council, on December 21st, Mr. +J. D. Smith called attention to the case, and stated that Mr. Gilbert was +imprisoned for alleged contempt of court in not paying the costs of the +suit. He moved a resolution expressing regret that the ecclesiastical +authorities should have instituted the prosecution, and urging that the +Parliamentary and Bye-Laws Committee confer immediately as to the best +steps to be taken to obtain the release of the prisoner. The motion was +carried by 27 votes against 1, “the Conservatives having vacated their +seats, leaving only Mr. H. W. Stafford, who voted against the motion.” +Mr. Gilbert was liberated on December 24th, an undertaking having been +given on the part of Mr. Delph that the decree of the Consistorial Court +should be carried out. + + +DECEMBER. + + +4.—A heavy gale prevailed on the coast of Norfolk, and continued until +the 6th. There were many shipping casualties, and much loss of life. + +7.—At the annual dinner of the Farmers’ Club, held at the Salisbury +Hotel, London, Mr. Clare Sewell Read announced that he would no longer +continue a member of the Government. He took office, he said, on the +stipulation that he should have perfect freedom to speak upon all +agricultural matters, and that if he believed the interests of +agriculture were neglected by any department of the Government he should +resign. “I believe,” he added, “that the interests of the stockholders +of this country have been persistently ignored by the Veterinary +Department of the Privy Council, and that being the case, I have to +inform you that I am no longer the Secretary of the Local Government +Board, and that I only hold office until my successor be appointed.” Mr. +Read further said that, to a tenant-farmer whose principal income was +derived from the occupation of 600 or 700 acres of land, £1,500 a year +was an extremely convenient addition to his income; but he was quite sure +that all present would approve of what he had done. During the Cattle +Show week it was announced that some suitable recognition would be made +of Mr. Read’s services to agriculture, and, at a large meeting of the +agriculturists of the county—Conservative and Liberal—held at the Norfolk +Hotel, Norwich, on December 18th, a deputation was appointed to attend a +meeting at the Salisbury Hotel, on the 20th, in support of the +testimonial fund which was forthwith inaugurated. (_See_ January 1st, +1876.) + +13.—A dreadful tragedy occurred at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. A +weaver, 42 years of age, named Robert Edwards, who resided at Marsham, +had been admitted to the Hospital on an indoor recommendation obtained +from the Rev. J. Gunton, rector of the parish. The physician who +examined him prior to admission believed that he was suffering from some +bodily ailment of a dyspeptic character. Ten or twelve weeks previously +his case was regarded as one of insanity; he had been restless and +violent at times, and his friends had placed him under surveillance. +Early on the morning of this date, Edwards, in a fit of homicidal mania, +escaped from the Catherine ward, and, finding his way to the children’s +ward, seized a pair of tongs from the fireplace, and, before he could be +secured, made a murderous assault upon some of the unfortunate young +patients, which resulted in two being slain outright, a third died +shortly afterwards, and grievous injuries were inflicted upon two others. +Edwards was disarmed by Mr. Baumgartner, the house surgeon, taken into +custody, and charged on the 14th, at Norwich Police Court, with +feloniously killing William Martin, aged 14, of Ryburgh; John Lacey, 10, +of Griffin Yard, Pockthorpe; and Joseph Colman, 11, of Barton Turf. A +fourth lad, Alfred Clarke, aged 9, died on February 20th, 1876. On the +18th the magistrates committed him for trial at the Assizes, but +meanwhile he was certified to be insane and incapable of pleading, and +was sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. At the Coroner’s inquest, +held on December 18th, a verdict of wilful murder was returned, and the +jury expressed, in the strongest terms, their disapproval of the +circumstances under which Edwards had been admitted to the institution, +and their high opinion of the courageous conduct of Mr. Baumgartner. + +22.—Died at Bombay, Bernard Edward Delaval Astley, tenth Baron Hastings, +aged 20. His lordship left England early in October, for India, +accompanied by Viscount Ebrington, and, after staying with Sir Philip +Wodehouse, the Governor, at Parell, during the Prince of Wales’ visit +there, he proceeded to Calicut, and thence to the Annamally Hills, for +shooting. He there fell a victim to jungle fever. Born September 9th, +1855, his lordship was eldest son of the Rev. Delaval Loftus Astley, some +time vicar of East Barsham, and afterwards ninth Lord Hastings, and +grandson of Jacob Astley, Lord Hastings, better known by his former name +of Sir Jacob Astley, M.P. He was educated at Eton, and succeeded to the +family honours in 1872. The title passed to his next brother, the Hon. +George Manners Astley, who was born in April, 1857. + +26.—The Christmas pantomime produced by Mr. George H. Chaplin, at Norwich +Theatre, was entitled, “Bluff King Hal the Bluffer and his Crippled Guy, +or Harlequin Darnley, the Pet of the Court.” + + + +1876. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—At a meeting of Norfolk agriculturists, held at the Norfolk Hotel, +Norwich, it was decided to support the national movement for presenting +Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., with a testimonial in recognition of his services +to agriculture. Upwards of £600 was subscribed in the room, the Earl of +Leicester, Lord Lieutenant of the county, heading the subscription-list +with a handsome donation. The presentation was made at the Cannon Street +Hotel, London, on May 2nd, at a banquet presided over by Mr. Charles +Howard, of Bidenham, and attended by 160 of the leading agriculturists of +the three kingdoms. The testimonial consisted of a massive silver salver +weighing 115 ozs., and inscribed, “Presented, the 2nd May, 1876, to Clare +Sewell Read, M.P. for Norfolk since 1865, with a cheque for £5,500, in +testimony of his valuable services to Agriculture.” + +19.—The first of the entertainments known as “Spelling Bees” was given at +Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich. It was claimed that they “served the twofold +purpose of testing the orthographical and philological knowledge of the +competitors and of providing amusement for the public.” The Mayor (Mr. +J. H. Tillett) presided. The referees were Mr. Carlos Cooper, the Rev. +A. C. Copeman, and Mr. A. Master, and their decisions were in accordance +with the Imperial, Richardson’s, and Walker’s dictionaries. Mr. T. +Richmond Pinder was interrogator. “Spelling Bees” enjoyed for some +months the same popularity as their precursors, “Penny Readings,” and +every town and village in the county took up the movement, which, +however, was very short-lived. + +22.—The members of the Yare Preservation Society and the riparian owners +of the county adopted a memorial to the Home Secretary, praying for the +legislative protection of local sea and inland fisheries. A deputation, +which included the members of Parliament for the county and city, +approached the Home Secretary upon the subject on February 1st, and +received the assurance that “if the Government could see their way they +would take the matter up at some future time.” (_See_ February 2nd, +1877.) + +29.—Died at his residence, Unthank’s Road, Norwich, Mr. Abel Towler, one +of the senior magistrates of the city, aged 83. He was head of the firm +of Towler, Allen, and Co. In politics Mr. Towler was “a Liberal of the +old school.” + + +FEBRUARY. + + +1.—A fire occurred at the works of Messrs. Riches and Watts, agricultural +engineers, Duke’s Palace, Norwich. The damage amounted to between £3,000 +and £4,000. + +12.—Died at his residence, the Depperhaugh, Diss, Admiral Sir John +Baldwin Wake Walker, Bart., K.C.B. Born in 1803, he entered the Navy in +1812, and saw much service. In 1847 he was appointed Surveyor to the +Navy; in 1861 he assumed command of the Cape of Good Hope station, and +attained the rank of Admiral in 1870. He was created a baronet in 1856. + +16.—Died at his residence, Drayton Lodge, near Norwich, Mr. James Winter, +aged 79. He was the last member but one of the old Corporation, in which +he held the important office of Speaker. Mr. Winter remained a member of +the new Corporation from its formation in 1835 until a few years before +his death. + +19.—An outbreak of small-pox was announced to have taken place amongst +the prisoners confined in Norwich Castle. There were twelve cases, two +of which were serious, but no deaths occurred. + +27.—Died at his residence, Surrey Street, Norwich, Mr. John Harwell, in +his 78th year. His mother was a daughter of John Samuel Sedley, of +Barford and Morley, a lineal descendant of Sir Charles Sedley, the wit +and poet. Mr. Barwell married, in 1824, the eldest daughter of Mr. +Richard Mackenzie Bacon, proprietor and editor of the “Norwich Mercury.” +He succeeded his father in his wine merchant’s business, was for many +years an alderman for the Mancroft Ward, and served the office of Sheriff +in 1839–40. On the occasion of the marriage of Queen Victoria, he was +one of the deputation who presented, on behalf of the city, an address of +congratulation to her Majesty and the Prince Consort. Mr. Barwell +engaged largely in artistic pursuits, and was an accomplished musician +and vocalist. A skilful amateur artist, he painted a portrait of Miss +Julia Smith, daughter of Mr. William Smith, M.P., and aunt of Florence +Nightingale, which was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, South +Kensington, in 1868. He did much to promote art in Norwich, and, in +conjunction with Cotman, Crome, and other Norwich artists, established a +drawing academy. Many years later he had the satisfaction of seeing his +views carried out by the establishment of a Science and Art Department of +the Government, and by the opening of Schools of Science and Art in +Norwich and most of the principal towns in the kingdom. With the +assistance of Mr. Burt, he established the Norwich Cricket Club, and, in +co-operation with Bentley, and afterwards with Fuller Pilch, formed the +Cricket Ground at Lakenham, which was one of the best in England. Mr. +Barwell was a Liberal in principle, but always refrained from taking an +active part in local politics. + + +MARCH. + + +6.—Mr. Craven Robertson’s “Caste” Company commenced an engagement at +Norwich Theatre, and produced, for the first time there, Mr. T. W. +Robertson’s latest comedy, “Play.” + +14.—In the House of Commons, Mr. C. S. Read called attention to the +report of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act Committee, 1873, and +moved, “That, in the opinion of this House, the general orders and +regulations for the stoppage of disease should cease to be varying or +permissive, and should be uniform throughout Great Britain and Ireland.” +On an assurance from Viscount Sandon that the Government accepted the +principle of uniformity, Mr. Read said he would not be justified in +asking the House to divide, and withdrew the motion. + +15.—The Norwich Election Commissioners issued their report. They found +that corrupt practices extensively prevailed in Norwich at the election +in March, 1875, and in February, 1874. The number of persons scheduled +was as follows: Schedule I., persons guilty of bribery at the election of +1874 or 1875, 72; Schedule II., persons bribed at the election of 1874 or +1875, 31; Schedule III., guilty of personation, 1; Schedule IV., persons +guilty of procuring personation, 2. In the House of Commons, on May +29th, the Attorney-General announced that the scheduled voters were to be +disfranchised, and the writ for the vacant seat suspended during the then +Parliament. At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, on February 26th, +1878, the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty’s Treasury requested payment +by the city of £3,943 19s. 2d., the cost of the Commission. This charge +was equal to a rate of 5d. in the pound. + + +APRIL. + + +1.—Died at Dean Street, Park Lane, London, the Hon. Frederick Walpole, +M.P. He was third son of Horatio, third Earl of Orford, by Mary, eldest +daughter of Mr. W. Fawkner, and was born September 18th, 1822. In 1837 +he entered the Royal Navy, became Lieutenant in 1845, and retired from +the service in 1864, as Commander. He served in the first China War, in +India, and in the campaign on the Danube. Mr. Walpole unsuccessfully +contested King’s Lynn at the General Election in November, 1865, when Sir +Thomas Fowell Buxton and Lord Stanley (afterwards Earl of Derby) were +returned. At the General Election in November, 1868, he was elected one +of the members for the Northern Division of Norfolk, and at the next +General Election was returned unopposed. Mr. Walpole was the author of +“Five Years in the Pacific,” “The Ansayrii, or Further East,” and a +novel, “May and December.” He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of +Antiquaries and of the Geological Society. Mr. Walpole also served in +the West Norfolk Militia, of which he was Major, and shortly before his +death received the honorary rank of Lieut.-Colonel. He married, on +February 12th, 1852, his cousin, Laura Sophia Frances, only daughter of +Mr. Francis Walpole, by whom he left issue two sons and a daughter. Amy +Rachael, who married the Hon. Henry Charles Manners Sutton, eldest son of +Viscount Canterbury. One of the last acts of Mr. Walpole’s Parliamentary +career was the introduction of the Bill for the protection of the crab +and lobster fisheries on the Norfolk coast. + +3.—A serious disturbance took place at Hethersett, on the occasion of the +Norfolk and Norwich Steeplechases. A large number of roughs from Norwich +had planned the robbery of the tills of the person who had received the +gate-money and had charge of the refreshment department. An effort was +made to unhorse Hickman, Mr. Angerstein’s huntsman, who was engaged in +keeping the course, and in the _mêlée_ which ensued an officer of the +Carabiniers brought up at the trot a mounted detachment on duty at the +races, and speedily quelled the disturbance. + +5.—The Norwich Town Council, on the recommendation of the Executive +Committee, decided to proceed with the work of widening London Street, +from the Market Place to Castle Street, at a cost not exceeding £22,000, +and appointed a committee to negotiate with owners of property and to +inquire into the best mode of carrying out the improvement. The subject +was discussed in detail at various meetings during the year. (_See_ +April 7th, 1877.) + +10.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Baron Cleasby, Henry Webster, aged +61, a labourer, was found guilty of the murder of his wife, Sarah +Webster, aged 53, at Cranworth, on September 17th, 1875. Sentence of +death was passed, and the culprit was executed at Norwich Castle on May +1st. Marwood was the executioner. + +17.—Mr. Charles Durand’s Grand English Opera Company commenced an +engagement at Norwich Theatre, in Rossini’s comic opera, “Cinderella, or +the Fairy of the Glass Slipper.” Miss Florence St. John was a member of +the company. + +18.—At an early hour in the morning the emigrant ship Humboldt, of +Hamburgh, 729 tons register, bound from Hamburgh to the Brazils, with 349 +emigrants on board, ran ashore on Winterton beach. With the assistance +of tugs the vessel was got off and taken to Yarmouth Roads for repair. +The master, Henrisch Detlof Busch, had lost his bearings, and believed +himself to be off the coast of France! + +20.—The first Starr-Bowkett Building Society was established at Norwich, +by Mr. Starr, one of the originators of the system. + +—The nomination of candidates for the election in the Northern Division +of the county, consequent upon the death of the Hon. Frederick Walpole, +M.P., took place at Aylsham. The candidates were Lieut.-Colonel James +Duff, of Westwick House, and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., of Warlies, +Waltham Abbey. The polling, which took place on the 21st, resulted as +follows: Duff, 2,302; Buxton, 2,192. Colonel Duff, during the election +campaign, was confined to his house by sickness. + +29.—A meeting of gentlemen interested in the field sports of the county +was held at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, to consider the advisability of +accepting the offer made by Mr. Angerstein, namely, that he would give to +the county his pack of staghounds and deer, on condition that the county +subscribed a sufficient sum “to hunt them in a proper manner.” The +meeting agreed to take over the hounds if adequate funds were +forthcoming. + + +MAY. + + +15.—Mdlle. Beatrice’s Comedy-Drama Company commenced an engagement at +Norwich Theatre. The repertory included “The School for Scandal,” “Mary +Stuart,” “Frou-frou,” “Nos Intimes,” “The Ticket-of-Leave Man,” “John +Jasper’s Wife,” and “East Lynne.” + +18.—Died at his residence, Theatre Street, Norwich, in his 82nd year, Mr. +William Butcher, a well-known land surveyor and auctioneer. He was a +native of Brooke, and entered the office of Mr. Robert Corby, of +Kirstead, a land surveyor, who had one of the largest practices in the +district, if not in the kingdom. Mr. Butcher had unusual opportunities +of acquiring a practical knowledge of the business at the time when +enclosures of commons in Norfolk and Suffolk were being carried out, for +Mr. Corby was the surveyor employed. For nearly sixty years he carried +on a most lucrative practice, which was not confined to local limits, but +extended throughout the kingdom, from the remotest parts of Scotland to +the Land’s End. Mr. Butcher served one term as an alderman of the city, +and was Sheriff of Norwich in 1870–71. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated in Norwich by an entertainment +given to the inmates of the Workhouse by the Sheriff (Mr. Stevenson). It +was stated that the Easter Monday and Whit Monday holidays provided by +the Bank Holidays Act had affected the public observance of the day, and +Volunteer reviews, sham fights, and civic feasts were no longer held to +commemorate the occasion. + +27.*—“The early closing of our shops on Thursdays in the summer months +seems now to be the universal custom in Norwich, with the solitary +exception of the chemists and druggists.” (_See_ March 26th, 1879.) + +—*“Some days since some men at work on Feltwell Fen found a quantity of +Roman silver coins, many of them distinctly bearing the names of Hadrian, +Antoninus, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Divas Antoninus, Vespasian, &c. They +were contained in a vessel which was broken to pieces by the plough which +turned it up.” + +31.—The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new building in +Little Orford Street, of the Norwich Church of England Young Men’s +Society, was performed by the President, Mr. F. E. Watson. The building, +which was designed by Mr. Edward Boardman, architect, and erected by Mr. +G. E. Hawes, was formally opened on December 6th. + + +JUNE. + + +14.—The annual show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association opened at +Swaffham. Sir William ffolkes, High Sheriff of Norfolk, presided at the +luncheon. + +15.—Died at his residence, South Quay, Great Yarmouth, Vice-Admiral +Thomas Lewis Gooch, aged 69, youngest son of Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, +Bart., of Benacre Hall. Born at Bramfield, he joined the Royal Naval +College in 1820, and entering the Navy, obtained Lieutenant’s rank in +1828. He was appointed to the command of H.M.S. Kite, went to the West +Coast of Africa, and brought home the survivors of the first ill-fated +Niger Expedition. In 1865 he attained the rank of retired Rear-Admiral, +and became Vice-Admiral in 1871. In 1828 he married Anne, eldest +daughter of General the Hon. William Gardner, Lieutenant-Governor of +Malta. + +18.—Father Ignatius announced that he would commence an eight days’ +mission at the Monastery, Elm Hill, Norwich. Miss Ware, a lady residing +at Claydon, to whom, it was stated, the property belonged, was +communicated with, and she instructed her solicitors to take the +necessary steps for the ejectment of Ignatius. Mr. J. Clabburn, of +Norwich, as agent to the solicitors, went to the Monastery, accompanied +by three process-servers, and forcibly removed Ignatius and a brother +monk as they were in the act of celebrating mass. On the 20th Ignatius +summoned Mr. Clabburn and his men for assault, and, after a prolonged +hearing at the Police Court, the magistrates dismissed the case. +Meanwhile Ignatius held his services in the large room at the Bell Hotel, +in the yard of the Rampant Horse Hotel, and at St. Andrew’s Hall. + +27.—Died at Ambleside, Miss Harriet Martineau, who was born in Norwich on +June 13th, 1802. “Although she was not a great she was a most +industrious writer, and thoroughly in earnest in whatever she undertook.” + +28.—The new organ erected at East Dereham church by Messrs. Hill and Son, +of London, at a cost of between £700 and £800, was opened by Dr. E. T. +Chipp, organist of Ely Cathedral. + +30.—Died at Catton House, Norwich, Mr. Robert Chamberlin, aged 74. He +thrice served the office of Mayor—in 1854–5, 1856–7, and 1871–2, and was +Sheriff in 1848–9. Mr. Chamberlin was a magistrate for the counties of +Norfolk and Suffolk, and for the city of Norwich, and was a +Deputy-Lieutenant of the first-named county. + + +JULY. + + +1.—The 3rd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel +Duff, M.P., went into camp at Hunstanton Park, and were officially +inspected on the 6th by Colonel Harenc, commanding the 31st Brigade Depôt +at Yarmouth. + +2.—Two troops of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) marched from +Norwich, _en route_ to York; the headquarters left on the 8th. + +19.—Died, Mr. Wace Lockett Mendham, Town Clerk of Norwich. He was in his +66th year, and was appointed to the office on the death of Mr. J. R. +Staff, in 1855. A Liberal in politics, “previous to his appointment he +might have been a warm partisan, but in his office of Town Clerk he most +carefully concealed his political feelings, and acted with strict +impartiality.” Mr. Mendham married Miss Tillett, a sister of Mr. J. H. +Tillett. He was succeeded as Town Clerk by Mr. Henry Blake Miller. + +21.—The Norwich Central Conservative Club was formally constituted at a +meeting of the party, held at the Bell Hotel. + +22.—Died at Cardiff, aged 38, Mr. Henry Powel Smith, fourth son of Mr. +George Smith, formerly manager of the Norwich Theatrical Circuit. + +24.—In pursuance of a writ from the Exchequer Division of the High Court +of Justice, the Sheriff of Norwich, by his Under-Sheriff (Mr. F. Fox), +empanelled a jury at the Royal Hotel to inquire what lands and tenements, +and their yearly value, were possessed by James Frederick Neale, of St. +Andrew’s Hall Plain, grocer, and what goods and chattels any person had +in trust for him, as he was truly indebted to the Crown in the sum of +£801 10s., “which sum was in danger of being lost unless some method more +speedy than the ordinary course of procedure at law be had.” These +proceedings constituted another phase of the notorious Creak case. The +jury found that Mr. Neale possessed property to the amount of £855, +including £300 book debts, £505 stock-in-trade, and £50 paid on a life +insurance policy, besides freehold property of the value of £16 a year. +The jury thought they were not bound to find what was Mr. Neale’s +indebtedness to the Crown, or what was the yearly value of the property +he held belonging to the late Margaret Creak. + +29.—The 1st Dragoons (Royal)—five troops with headquarters—arrived at +Norwich, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Graham. + + +AUGUST. + + +11.—A fire, involving damage to the amount of about £10,000, occurred at +Messrs. Boulton and Paul’s Ironworks, Rose Lane, Norwich. + +12.—Died at his residence, Unthank’s Road, Norwich, Mr. Josiah Fletcher, +aged 70. He was born at Henley-on-Thames, and in 1822 was apprenticed to +Mr. Simon Wilkin, printer, &c., of the Haymarket, Norwich, with whom, on +the completion of his term, he entered into partnership. Mr. Fletcher, +in 1834, succeeded to the business, which was subsequently removed to the +Market Place, and was there carried on by him until 1871, when, in +consequence of his failing health, he retired, and was succeeded by his +only son, who erected the extensive premises at Davey Place Steps. “Mr. +Fletcher may be said to have been the originator of the ‘Norfolk News,’ +of which journal he was for some time the editor and chief manager.” + +18.—Died at Ingoldisthorpe Hall, in his 88th year, Captain John Davy, +R.N. He entered the Navy in 1803, was midshipman of the Barfleur in Sir +Robert Calder’s action in 1805, saw much gunboat service in 1807 and 1808 +in the Faro off Messina, and was present at the reduction of the islands +of Ischia and Procida. + +29.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, it was decided to purchase +the Oxford Hotel for a sum not exceeding £2,000, for the purpose of +converting it into municipal offices. A special meeting was held on +September 19th, at which it was reported that immediately after the +decision of the Council a Norwich solicitor had offered £2,250 for the +building. Mr. J. D. Smith, on behalf of the Corporation, offered £2,275, +at which price it became city property. Considerable indignation was +expressed at the action of the solicitor in question, which, it was +pointed out, involved an increase in the rates of one farthing in the +pound. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +1.—Mr. and Mrs. German Reed appeared at Norwich Theatre, and were +assisted in their entertainment by Mr. Corney Grain, Miss Fanny Holland, +and Mr. A. E. Bishop. + +4.—Madame Blanche Cole’s Crystal Palace Opera Company began a six nights’ +engagement at Norwich Theatre. + +6.—In compliance with a requisition signed by persons of both political +parties, the Mayor of Norwich (Mr. J. H. Tillett) convened a Common Hall, +“for the purpose of giving expression to the views entertained by the +requisitionists on the atrocities committed in Bulgaria.” The Mayor +presided, and the Lord Bishop and many other leading citizens were +present. Resolutions were adopted expressing indignation and horror at +the atrocities perpetrated by troops in the service of the Turkish +Government. Meetings of a similar character were held in many of the +towns and villages of the county, sermons were preached in churches and +chapels, and relief funds organized. + +9.—Mr. R. T. Gurdon was presented with his portrait (painted by Mr. +Sidley, of London), in recognition of his political services to the +county. The presentation was made by Sir Francis Boileau, Bart., at the +Liberal Club, Norwich. + +10.—Swaffham church was re-opened for public worship. It had undergone +extensive restoration, under the superintendence of Mr. W. O. Milne, +architect, of London. + +11.—Mr. H. Loraine and Miss Edith Kingsley opened Norwich Theatre for a +short season with a performance of “Othello.” Among the other plays +produced were “The Gamester,” “Hamlet,” and “Richelieu.” + +12.—An explosion occurred on board the Alexandra steamer, which had been +chartered for the conveyance of the workpeople of Pockthorpe Brewery, +Norwich, on a river excursion. A case of fireworks placed in the bar +exploded, and filled the cabin with fumes by which many of the party were +seriously affected. Four deaths resulted. At the subsequent inquest, +the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and expressed their +strong opinion “that in future no fireworks or combustibles be taken on +board steamers without being declared as such and placed under proper +charge.” + +13.—A disastrous gas explosion occurred at the church of St. John +Maddermarket, Norwich. The Rev. H. L. Rumsey and several members of the +choir were at practice when an escape of gas was noticed. Mr. Rumsey, +with a lighted taper in his hand, was in the act of turning off the gas +at one of the standards when a brilliant flame shot across the north side +of the nave, followed by a terrible explosion, which completely wrecked +the interior of the church. The choir escaped without injury, but Mr. +Rumsey was hurled a distance of several yards, and severely shaken and +bruised. The damage was estimated at £1,000. + +19.—A skating rink, built at the cost of £9,000, including fittings, &c., +was opened at St. Giles’ Street, Norwich. It was 103 feet in length, 55 +feet in width, with promenade gallery, smoking rooms, &c. An outer rink, +abutting upon Bethel Street, covered an area of 80 feet by 40 feet. For +some months roller skating proved a very popular amusement, and weekly +returns were published of the number of persons who visited the +establishment. This popularity was, however, of short duration, for on +May 26th, 1877, it was announced: “The passion for rinking having fallen +to zero, the managers have introduced additional attractions in the shape +of a couple of clever bicyclists and a troupe of performing dogs.” A +theatrical licence was subsequently obtained, and the rink was opened, on +September 10th, 1877, as “The Vaudeville Theatre of Varieties,” under the +management of Mr. Hugh J. Didcott, with Mr. B. Isaacson as musical +director. The originator of the skating rink was Mr. Warner Wright, a +local solicitor. + +24.—A brilliant meteor “fell about half-past six o’clock directly over +the planet Saturn, which was then shining in a cloudless sky.” It was +observed throughout the Eastern and Southern Counties, and upon the +Continent. + +25.—Messrs. H. M. Pitt and H. Hamilton’s Company commenced a three weeks’ +dramatic season at the Theatre Royal, Norwich. The pieces produced +included “False Shame,” “Partners for Life,” “Old Sailors,” “Two Roses,” +“Forgiven,” “Queen Mab,” “Still Waters Run Deep,” “New Men and Old +Acres,” “Money,” “London Assurance,” &c. In the company were Miss Fanny +Addison, Miss Alma Murray, Miss Dora Santon, Mr. and Mrs. George +Canninge, Mr. John Burton, Mr. J. Watkins, Mr. Sidney Weatherilt, Mr. +Edward Fowler, Mr. E. D. Ward, Mr. A. Walters, and Mr. Barry. Mr. H. +Cecil Beryl (Mr. W. H. Sparrow, of Norwich) was the acting manager. + +27.—Died at Great Yarmouth, Commander Horatio Nelson Atkinson, “named +after his god-father, the hero of Trafalgar.” He was the eldest son of +Thomas Atkinson, master attendant on Nelson’s flagships, and entered the +Navy in January, 1817. When mate of the Seringapatam, in 1825, he +received three severe gunshot wounds. He attained the rank of Lieutenant +on November 27th, 1827, and served from February 23rd, 1831, until July, +1834, in the Alfred on the Mediterranean station, where he witnessed the +establishment of King Otho on the throne of Greece, and was presented, +when off Alexandria, with a sword by Mehemet Ali. From March 31st, 1836, +until his retirement he was employed in the Coastguard, owing to his +inability to procure further occupation afloat. Commander Atkinson was +in his 74th year. + + +OCTOBER. + + +14.—A new County Cricket Club was formed at a meeting held at the Royal +Hotel, Norwich. Lord Suffield was elected president. + +30.—The Boileau drinking-fountain, erected at the junction of the +Newmarket and Ipswich Roads, Norwich, was inaugurated. Sir John Boileau, +Bart., had bequeathed the sum of £1,000 to defray the cost of the work, +which was designed by Mr. T. Jeckyll, St. George’s Terrace, Queen’s Gate, +London. The statuary was designed and executed in bronze by Mr. J. E. +Boehm, the well-known sculptor, and the structure was built by Mr. +Hubbard, of East Dereham. Sir Francis Boileau, Bart., performed the +ceremony of asking the city to accept the fountain, and was thanked by +the Mayor (Mr. J. H. Tillett), in the name of the citizens. + +30.—Norwich Theatre was opened for the winter season by Mrs. W. Sidney, +with an excellent production of Dion Boucicault’s Irish drama, “The +Shaughraun.” + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Mr. Richard Coller was elected Mayor, and Mr. William Cadge appointed +Sheriff of Norwich. + +13.—The Prince of Wales arrived at Morton Hall, on a visit to Lord +Walsingham. + +20.—The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Norwich, with the object of +furthering an important scheme promoted by the governing body of the +Norfolk and Norwich Hospital for enlarging the institution. Their Royal +Highnesses, who travelled by special train from Wolferton, were received +at Thorpe Station by the Mayor, Sheriff, and Deputy-Mayor, and presented +with an illuminated address, after which they drove to St. Andrew’s Hall, +where a distinguished audience had assembled, under the presidency of the +Earl of Leicester, Lord Lieutenant of the county. The High Sheriff (Sir +William ffolkes, Bart.) moved, “That the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital +fully deserves the confidence and support of the county of Norfolk and +city of Norwich, on account of its services, extended over a hundred +years, to the sick and suffering poor.” The Lord Bishop seconded the +motion, which was adopted. His Royal Highness then moved, “That it is +desirable, both for the accommodation of the patients and the improvement +of the sanitary condition of the Hospital, that the proposed alterations +and additions be carried out, and that for this purpose an application be +made to the county and city to raise the sum of £35,000 for a building +and sustentation fund.” Votes of thanks were accorded to their Royal +Highnesses for attending the meeting, and to Lord Leicester for +presiding. Lord Leicester, who had previously offered to subscribe +£5,000, on condition that the remaining £30,000 of the £35,000 required +were raised within a stipulated time, now announced that he would give +£13,000 to be invested for the future sustentation of the Hospital. At +the conclusion of the proceedings the Prince and Princess were +entertained at luncheon at the Bishop’s Palace, where a distinguished +company had been invited to meet them; and in the afternoon his Royal +Highness attended a Masonic gathering at the Drill Hall, and installed +Lord Suffield as Provincial Grand Master. Later their Royal Highnesses +proceeded by rail to Gunton, to spend a few days with Lord and Lady +Suffield; and in the evening a concert was given at St. Andrew’s Hall, at +which Madame Albani was the principal performer. (_See_ February 3rd, +1877.) + +—A man named William Nelson was severely injured in St. Peter Mancroft +Church Alley, by the explosion of a gaspipe charged with gunpowder. He +was removed to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, where he died on the +following day. At the Coroner’s inquest, on the 22nd, the jury returned +a verdict of manslaughter against some person or persons unknown. A +reward was offered by the Mayor for the discovery of the perpetrator of +the outrage, but no information was forthcoming. + + +DECEMBER. + + +18.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Holkham, on a visit to +the Earl and Countess of Leicester, who, on the 21st, gave a grand ball +in honour of the event. + +23.—Died at Norwich, Mr. William Cooke Stafford, aged 83. Mr. Stafford +was one of the oldest journalists in the kingdom. After a visit to +America, he commenced his professional career in London, in 1818, as a +contributor to the “Anti-Jacobean Review,” the “White Dwarf,” &c., for +which he wrote leading articles. He afterwards became editor of the +“Leeds Intelligencer,” and proceeded to York to edit the “Yorkshire +Gazette.” Leaving York, he established the “Doncaster Chronicle,” and +had subsequent engagements on the “Hull Packet” and the NORFOLK +CHRONICLE. His later years were spent in London, where he did a +considerable amount of literary work as “publisher’s editor,” by writing +a history of the Crimean War, and part of “The World as It Is,” for Mr. +Peter Jackson. Mr. Stafford also re-edited Hume and Smollett’s History, +and did much work of a similar character. + +26.—The pantomime of “Beauty and the Beast, or Harlequin Prince Azor and +the Good Fairy of the Wedding Ring,” produced under the direction of Mrs. +Sidney, at Norwich Theatre, was one of the best and most successful +pieces of the kind in the annals of the house. Stoodley and Harmston’s +Circus and Edmunds’ Menagerie were exhibited on Castle Meadow; and Madame +Rose Hersée, supported by an excellent concert party, appeared before a +meagre audience at Noverre’s Rooms. + +27.—Died at the Grove, Chapel Field Road, Norwich, Mr. Joshua Swann, aged +71. He was a partner in the firm of Messrs. Willett, Nephew, and Co., +and an alderman of the city. Mr. Swann’s literary and scientific tastes +rendered him a valued and most active member of the committees of the +Norfolk and Norwich Museum and Literary Institution, and he was a warm +supporter of the School of Art and the East Anglian Art Society, formed +shortly before his death. He left a collection rich in portraits of +local celebrities and etchings by Norwich artists. + +30.—Died at Catton, Mr. George Gedge, aged 78. For many years Mr. Gedge +carried on an extensive business as a dyer, by which he realised a +fortune. He was a Conservative in politics, and long served the city as +a member of the Town Council and of the old Court of Guardians. He +directed his attention especially to the advocacy of a system of national +rating, in the furtherance of which he spent both time and money. It was +to Mr. Gedge’s enterprise that the city was indebted for the first visit +of Jenny Lind, the precursor of so much benefit to local charitable +institutions, and of the founding of the Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick +Children. + + + +1877. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—A deputation of the clergy and tenantry on the Royal estate waited +upon the Prince of Wales at Sandringham, and presented him with a silver +casket and an address, congratulating his Royal Highness upon his safe +return from India. + +4.—Castleacre church was re-opened for public worship after its +restoration, at the cost of about £3,000, almost entirely subscribed by +the parishioners. The chancel was renovated through the munificence of +the Earl of Leicester, lord of the manor, and holder of the impropriate +tithes. + +—Died at Ashwicken Rectory, the Rev. John Freeman, aged 61. He was the +author of a life of Kirby, the entomologist, published in 1852. + +5.—The trial of a petition filed by Mr. J. D. Smith against the return of +Mr. Philip Back and Mr. Josiah Harrison Ladyman, as members for the +Fourth Ward, at the Norwich Municipal Election, in November, 1876, +commenced in the Sessions Court at the Guildhall, before Mr. Thomas +William Saunders, barrister, and Recorder of Bath, the Commissioner +appointed for the purpose. This was the first municipal inquiry of the +kind that had been held in the city, and the greatest interest was taken +in the proceedings. The petitioner, who alleged bribery, treating, and +other corrupt practices, was represented by Mr. Merewether, Q.C., M.P., +and Mr. Blofeld; and the respondents by Mr. Grantham, M.P., and the Hon. +John de Grey. The inquiry lasted eight days, and on the 13th the +Commissioner delivered judgment, declaring the respondents to be duly +elected. The scene which ensued in the court was one of the wildest +enthusiasm, which was increased by the announcement that costs followed +the event. In the evening the bells of St. Peter Mancroft were rung, and +a band paraded the streets of the city. + +18.—The first annual meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Bicycle Club was +held at the Grapes Hotel, Norwich. The first road race of the club took +place on April 30th. Six competitors entered for the run, which was from +the Grapes Hotel by way of Unthank’s Road to Wymondham, Wicklewood, &c., +and thence to Carleton Forehoe, through Colney and Earlham, to the top of +Belvoir Street, Earlham Road—distance about 24 miles. The winner was J. +Campling; F. D. Wheeler second. The club uniform consisted of “a cloth +helmet with a metallic monogram in front, a smart dark gray tunic, and +knickerbockers.” The first sports organized by the club were held, by +permission of the Corporation, in Chapel Field, on October 18th. + +19.—Died at Bracondale, Miss Fanny Anne Martineau, only daughter of Mr. +Philip M. Martineau, aged 64. She was a cousin of Harriet Martineau, the +authoress, and, like other members of the family, possessed intellectual +gifts of a high order. + +—Died at Nice, Lord George William Loftus, third son of John, second +Marquis of Ely, by Maria, daughter of Sir H. W. Dashwood, Bart. He was +born in May, 1813, and in June, 1846, married Martha, eldest daughter of +Mr. J. Fuller, of Norwich. + +27.—A meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of +the Mayor (Mr. R. Coller), at which it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. +C. S. Read, seconded by Mr. George Forrester, “That it is desirable to +hold a Christmas show for the county of Norfolk and city of Norwich, of +fat stock and other produce of the farm and garden.” A second meeting +was held on February 10th, when the Norfolk and Norwich Christmas Show +Association was established, with the Prince of Wales as patron. The +first show commenced on Thursday, November 22nd, and closed on Saturday, +the 24th. The general exhibits were displayed in the Volunteer Drill +Hall, and the live stock shown in an annexe erected in Chapel Field. + +30.—A severe gale occurred at Yarmouth. The sea rose to a great height, +broke over the Marine Parade, and did considerable damage, and many +houses on the North Quay were flooded. Several fishing vessels were lost +in the storm. The Lords of the Admiralty sent the Valorous and Seamew, +Government vessels, in search of the missing boats, but they returned to +the Roads on February 24th and 25th, and reported that no intelligence +had been gained. Of the Yarmouth, men alone 112 perished, leaving 46 +widows, 11 aged parents, and 101 children. A fund was raised for their +relief, and £5,255 collected, including £2,715 from the Mansion House. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +2.—A meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of +the Mayor, for the purpose of considering a Bill proposed to be +introduced in Parliament for the preservation of fish in the rivers +Wensum, Yare, and Waveney. Mr. Frank Buckland and Mr. Spencer Walpole, +inspectors of fisheries, attended the meeting, and resolutions were +adopted in favour of legislation. The Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Bill +passed the Select Committee of the House of Commons on May 8th, and was +reported to the House, and before the end of the year became law. + +3.—Died at her residence, High Street, Lowestoft, Dame Pleasance Smith, +widow of Sir James Edward Smith, of Norwich, formerly president of the +Linnæan Society. This venerable lady, who was 103 years of age, had +received from Queen Victoria a copy of “Our Life in the Highlands,” +containing the inscription, in her Majesty’s own handwriting, “To Lady +Smith, on her one hundredth birthday, from her friend, Victoria R., May +11th, 1873.” + +—The Earl of Leicester presided at a meeting held at the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital, “for the purpose of turning to the best account the +large sum of money offered to the Hospital by the public.” It was stated +that £24,000 had been subscribed, and that £35,000 was the maximum sum +required. The Sheriff (Mr. Cadge) moved, “That, in the opinion of this +meeting, it is expedient that a new hospital should be erected, in lieu +of any plan for improving the old building.” Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., +seconded the motion, which was adopted. (_See_ June 17th, 1879.) + +5.—Mr. C. J. Palmer, author of “The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth,” was +presented with a silver epergne and gold watch by the inhabitants of the +borough, in recognition of his labours in antiquarian work and +literature. + +9.—Died at Norwich, aged 59, Mr. James Frederick Hill, for twenty-five +years chorus master of the Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical +Festival. + +15.—A resolution having been passed by the owners and ratepayers, +declaring the expediency of the parish of East Dereham being constituted +a local government district, Mr. Arnold Taylor, the inspector appointed +for the purpose, held an inquiry at the Assembly Rooms, and received +evidence on the subject. The first Local Improvement Board was elected +on August 1st. + +19.—At Norwich Theatre, Mr. W. H. Pennington, “the celebrated tragic +actor, one of the Six Hundred, formerly of the 11th Hussars, and one of +the few wounded survivors of the world-famed light cavalry charge at +Balaclava, on October 25th, 1854,” made his first appearance, in the +character of Hamlet, and was supported by Miss Viola Dacre as Ophelia. +On subsequent evenings Mr. Pennington appeared as Macbeth, Richard the +Third, &c., and on the 23rd recited, in the uniform of his old regiment, +“The Charge of the Light Brigade.” + + +MARCH. + + +5.—Died at Great Yarmouth, Major-General Francis Montague Ommanney, R.A., +aged 50 years. He was the youngest son of Mr. E. S. Ommanney, formerly +of Yarmouth, by Henrietta, daughter of Sir Edmund Lacon, Bart. With the +Royal Artillery he served in the West Indies, and saw much service in the +Indian Mutiny, when he commanded a siege train under Sir Hugh Rose, +afterwards Lord Strathnairn. He married Harriet Ellen, youngest daughter +of Mr. John Mortlock Lacon. + +6.—Died at Scratby, Benjamin Daniels, “the last of the giants of East +Anglia.” His age was 54; height, 6 ft. 6 in.; weight, 24 stones; width, +from shoulder to shoulder across the back, 24 inches. He possessed great +strength, and frequently loaded has own waggon by carrying four bushels +of wheat under both arms at one time. “When in great haste to have his +farm work done, the horses being much engaged, he has harnessed himself +to one of his harrows and cultivated the land.” Daniels was buried at +Ormesby St. Margaret, on March 12th. + +10.—An unprecedented incident occurred in the ring at Messrs. Stoodley +and Harmston’s Circus, at Norwich, during the performance of “Dick +Turpin’s Ride to York.” After the “ride,” which results in the death of +Black Bess, the mare is removed from the scene on hurdles. On this +occasion, when the grooms, at the conclusion of the performance, +attempted to raise the animal, it was found that life was really +extinct—Black Bess had sustained an internal rupture in leaping the +“turnpike” gate. The animal was the property of a French-woman named +Gaertner, and, as a trick horse, was valued at several hundred pounds. + +15.—The Norfolk Staghounds had an extraordinary run. The meet was at +Hempnall House, and fifty horsemen were present. The stag ran to Shelton +and Alburgh, and then made to the right for Redenhall, through Stanton, +Pulham St. Mary, and Pulham Market, crossing the turnpike by Carpenter’s +Walk, on through Wacton and Moulton, to Tivetshall station, where the +first check of two minutes occurred—time, 1 hour 3 minutes; distance, 14 +miles. The hounds again upon the line, went through Gissing to +Dickleburgh, Burston, and Diss, made for the right to Shelfanger, when +another slight check occurred. The field by this time had dwindled down +to twelve. On again through Winfarthing to Kenninghall, to the left to +Bridgham and East Harling, and back to Kenninghall, where the deer was +recaptured and placed in a stable belonging to Messrs. Murton and Turner. +The distance was supposed to be 45 miles, and the run occupied 3 hours 5 +minutes. “Among those who rode straightest to the end of this wonderful +run were Hickman, the huntsman, who went like a bird, and handled his +horse well; Mr. E. Fellowes, Mr. T. N. Ward, Mr. James Limmer, Mr. Cross, +and two officers of the Royal Dragoons, from Norwich.” + +23.—A petition having been sent to the Local Government Board by the +Corporation of Norwich, asking them to issue a provisional order +confirming an improvement scheme made under the Artisans’ and Labourers’ +Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, with reference to an area in the parish +of St. Paul which had been declared by the Medical-Officer of Health as +unhealthy and unfit for habitation, Lieut.-Colonel Ponsonby Cox, R.E., +one of the inspectors of the Local Government Board, held an inquiry at +the Guildhall, for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the +official representation. The inspector commended the scheme, and stated +that it was of a most satisfactory character. + +24.—Captain Tyler, inspector of railways, made an official inspection of +the newly-constructed railway between Gunton and Cromer, and consented to +its being opened for traffic on the 26th. + +—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Baron Bramwell, Ann Farrow, a widow +living at Nordelph, brought an action against John Robert Childs, +stonemason, of Norwich, to recover damages for breach of promise of +marriage. After a trial which lasted two days, and in which the +plaintiff made some remarkable allegations, the jury returned a verdict +for the defendant. + + +APRIL. + + +5.—A new organ, erected at Swaffham church, by Messrs. Bishop and Son, of +London, was opened. + +7.—At the adjourned Norwich Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder (Mr. W. +J. Metcalfe, Q.C.), a special jury was empanelled to assess the value of +certain property in London Street, which the Corporation proposed to take +under the compulsory provisions of their Act of Parliament for the +purpose of widening the thoroughfare. At a meeting of the Town Council +on May 8th, it was agreed that the owners be offered sums amounting to +£9,818. + +9.—Lieut.-Colonel Bignold was elected president of the Norwich Central +Conservative Club, a position which conferred upon him the leadership of +the Conservative party in Norwich. + +9.—The Norwich Corporation farms at Whitlingham and Kirby Bedon having +entailed a loss to the city of £4,000 in five years, the Town Council +accepted the tender of Mr. Garrett Taylor, of Easton, to hire them at the +annual rent of £1,710. + +12.—At a meeting held at the King’s Arms Hotel, North Walsham, nearly +£300 was subscribed to start a pack of harriers in North Norfolk, and an +offer by Lord Suffield to keep the pack in his kennels at Gunton was +unanimously accepted. + +13.—Mr. Samuel Brandram, M.A., gave a dramatic recital at Noverre’s +Rooms, Norwich, in aid of the building fund of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital. It was the first appearance in Norwich of this accomplished +elocutionist, who was regarded as the legitimate successor of the great +Bellew. + +18.—The 5th Royal Irish Lancers, commanded by Colonel Dunham Massy, of +Redan fame, marched into Norwich from Aldershot, to relieve the 1st +Dragoons (Royal). + +30.—At Norwich Theatre, H. J. Byron’s comedy, “Our Boys,” was presented +for the first time by Mr. Duck’s company. The part of Perkyn Middlewick +was played by Mr. F. Marshall. + +—Died at Norwich, aged 36, Mr. Robert Edward Gibson, surgeon. He was the +son of a solicitor, a former Mayor of Plymouth, and a nephew of Mr. C. M. +Gibson, his predecessor in the office of medical superintendent of the +Norwich Bethel. For some years he was surgeon to the Jenny Lind +Infirmary, and held the appointments of surgeon to the City Police, the +Post Office staff, and the Workhouse. Mr. Gibson married a daughter of +Mr. I. O. Taylor. + + +MAY. + + +19.—Died at his residence at Catton, Mr. Osborn Springfield, in his 65th +year. He was a son of Mr. T. O. Springfield, and served the office of +Mayor of Norwich in 1863–4. For many years he was a member of the Town +Council and a magistrate for the city, and was reputed to be one of the +largest owners of cottage property in Norwich. Mr. Springfield was a +Liberal in politics. + +26.—The Norwich Town Council accepted the resignation of Mr. C. Thwaites, +City Engineer, on his appointment to a similar post in the borough of +Sunderland. Mr. Peter Paul Marshall, of Stone, near Dartford, was +elected to fill the vacancy. + + +JUNE. + + +7.—A grand military tournament, the first of its kind in Norwich, was +given on the Lakenham Cricket Ground by the officers and men of the 5th +Royal Irish Lancers, in aid of a fund for the widow and orphans of Mr. A. +Frayling, late bandmaster of the regiment. + +14.—The veteran actor, Mr. Charles Mathews, commenced a three nights’ +engagement at Norwich Theatre, as Adonis Evergreen, in the comedy of “My +Awful Dad.” + +20.—The two days’ show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened +in the grounds of Walcot Hall, Diss. Sir Edward C. Kerrison, Bart., +presided at the luncheon. + +24.—Died at 12, Queensbury Place, London, Sir John Henry Thomas Manners +Sutton, third Viscount Canterbury and Baron Bottesford. His lordship was +the younger and only surviving son of the first Viscount Canterbury, +better known as Sir Charles Manners Sutton, for seventeen years Speaker +of the House of Commons. Educated at Eton and at Trinity College, +Cambridge, he sat in Parliament in 1839–40 as member for Cambridge. He +was again elected in 1841, on his appointment as Under-Secretary of State +for the Home Department under Sir Robert Peel’s second Administration. +From 1854 to 1861 he was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, and from +1864 to 1866 Governor of Trinidad. In the latter year he was appointed +Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Victoria. On his lordship’s return to +England in 1873, he resided chiefly on his estate in Norfolk. He +married, July 5th, 1838, Georgiana, youngest daughter of Mr. Charles +Tompson, of Witchingham Hall, by whom he had, with other issue, the Hon. +Henry Charles Manners Sutton, who married Amyée Rachael, only daughter of +the Hon. Frederick Walpole, M.P. + + +JULY. + + +5.—Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., gave evidence before the Select Committee +appointed by the House of Commons to consider what further legislation +might be necessary for the repression of cattle disease, and for the +regulation of the importation of foreign cattle. Mr. Read insisted upon +the necessity of slaughtering foreign fat beasts at the port of +debarkation, and of a period of quarantine for store stock, which he +would only allow to be landed at certain ports. + +7.—At the Norwich Police Court, John L’Estrange, of Union Place, “the +well-known archæological authority, who has published one or two highly +important and valuable works on the archæology of Norfolk,” was charged +with forging the name of Francis Gostling Foster, distributor of stamps, +with intent to defraud, and with stealing stamps to the amount of £1,400. +The prisoner had been in the office for twenty years, and had charge of +the stamp department. He was committed for trial on the 13th, and at the +ensuing Assizes, on August 4th, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by Sir +James Fitzjames Stephen to seven years’ penal servitude. L’Estrange died +in Millbank Prison, from fistula, on October 15th. + +14.—The Norfolk team won the China Cup at the Wimbledon meeting. +Exceedingly good shooting was made by Norfolk Volunteers, and upwards of +£150 was brought to the county. + +21.—Died at St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, the Rev. John Nathaniel Micklethwait, +of Taverham, aged 65. He was the eldest surviving son of Mr. Nathaniel +Micklethwait, who was High Sheriff in 1810. In 1849 he married Emily +Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Mills, of Hillingdon Court, +Middlesex, and succeeded to the family estates on the death of his +brother, in July, 1856. Mr. Micklethwait had no family, and was +succeeded by his next brother, Henry Nathaniel, born in 1814. He was a +warm supporter of the Conservative party, took a great interest in +agriculture, and, in his later years, turned his attention to the +breeding of shorthorns, of which he had formed a fine herd. + +21.—Died at Portman Square, London, Mr. William Earle Lytton Bulwer, of +Heydon Hall, the chief representative of the old Norman family of Bulwer, +which has held a leading position in Norfolk since the time of the +Conquest. Mr. Bulwer was born April 29th, 1799, and was the eldest son +of General William Earle Bulwer, who married Elizabeth, daughter and sole +heiress of Mr. Richard Warburton Lytton, of Knebworth Park, Herts., and +whose other sons were the celebrated novelist and statesman, Lord Lytton, +and the well-known diplomatist, Baron Dalling and Bulwer. Mr. Bulwer +succeeded to the estates of his father in 1807, and married, in 1827, +Emily, youngest daughter of General Gascoyne, by whom he had three sons +and three daughters. He married subsequently, in 1841, Elizabeth, +daughter of William Green, of Forty Hill, Enfield. He was succeeded by +his eldest son, William Earle Gascoyne Lytton, formerly of the Scots +Fusilier Guards, who married, in 1855, Marion Dering, daughter and +heiress of Mr. W. Lee Warner, of Quebec House, East Dereham. Mr. Bulwer +was a Liberal in politics, and took a leading part in all political +movements in North Norfolk, where he was popular as a landlord, and had +considerable influence. + +—The 3rd and 4th Battalions of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, commanded +respectively by Lieut.-Colonel Duff, M.P., and Lieut.-Colonel Gurdon, +went into camp at Yarmouth, and on the 26th were inspected by Colonel +Harenc. + +25.—The two principal stones of the nave of St. James’ church, Yarmouth, +were laid by the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Steward). The +sum of £2,300 had been collected for the erection of the nave. The +architect was Mr. J. P. Seddon, and the contractor Mr. W. E. Martin, of +Hereford. The work was completed at the cost of about £3,250, and the +new building was opened on May 1st, 1878, when the sermon was preached by +Dean Goulburn. + + +AUGUST. + + +7.—The first section of the Yarmouth and Stalham Railway—the portion +extending from the first-mentioned town to Ormesby—was inspected by +Major-General Hutchinson, R.E., and the first train was run on the 8th. +(_See_ July 15th, 1878.) + +20.—The Norwich Rifle Volunteers were, for the first time, officially +inspected in their new scarlet uniform. The inspecting officer was +Colonel Harenc. + +21.—By the death, on this date, at Duntrune, Forfarshire, of Miss +Clementine Stirling Grahame, in her 96th year, Mr. J. Edmund Lacon, of +Yarmouth, succeeded to the estate of Duntrune, and to the relics and +papers of the great Viscount Dundee. + +22.—The first stone of the Hunstanton Convalescent Home was laid by the +Countess of Leicester. The building was erected as a memorial of the +convalescence of the Prince of Wales. + +24.—Died at Denton Rectory, near Harleston, the Ven. William Arundell +Bouverie, B.D., Hon. Canon of Norwich, and formerly Archdeacon of +Norfolk, in his 80th year. He was appointed to the living of Denton in +1839, accepted the archdeaconry in 1850, and resigned it in 1869, in +consequence of ill-health. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +17.—Died, Mr. William Cooper, barrister, and Recorder of Ipswich. He was +the eldest son of Mr. W. Cooper, barrister, of Norwich, and brother of +Mr. Carlos Cooper. Called to the Bar in 1831, he practised in Norwich +and on the Norfolk circuit for some years, but ultimately settled in +London, and devoted his attention to the Central Criminal Court, where he +enjoyed a large practice. He was the author of several dramatic pieces, +the principal of which, “Mokanna, or the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,” a +play in blank verse, was produced at Norwich Theatre, with great success, +on April 21st, 1843. Mr. Cooper was succeeded in the Recordership of +Ipswich by Mr. Thomas Calthorpe Blofeld. + +22.—Norwich Theatre was re-opened for the winter season, under the +management of Mr. G. H. Chaplin. The house had undergone partial and +much-needed cleansing and decoration. + +24.—The newly-formed Diocesan Bell Ringers’ Association held its first +annual meeting in Norwich. The society was established by the Rev. G. H. +Harris, Mr. Gervas Holmes, and other gentlemen interested in bells and +bell ringing. + + +OCTOBER. + + +16.—A remarkable case of fraud was tried at the Norwich Quarter Sessions, +before the Recorder (Mr. J. W. Metcalfe, Q.C.). The prisoner, one +William Dowman, was charged with defrauding accident insurance companies. +He insured under various names with different companies, and by a +peculiar formation of his joints was enabled to assume the appearance of +having been injured. By this means he obtained medical certificates, and +made successful claims upon the offices. He was sentenced to fifteen +calendar months’ imprisonment. + +25.—The sale of the Taverham Hall herd of pure-bred shorthorns and +whole-coloured Jerseys was conducted by Mr. John Thornton. The total +amount realised was £3,041 1s. 6d. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +1.—The restored chancel and newly-erected organ of Diss church were +opened. The instrument was built by Messrs. J. Rayson and Sons, of +Ipswich, at the cost of £360. + +—At Ipswich Assizes (where Norfolk prisoners were, on this occasion, +tried), before Mr. Justice Hawkins, Henry March (59), blacksmith, was +indicted for the wilful murder of Henry Bidewell, blacksmith, and Thomas +Moys, shoeing-smith and farmer, at Wymondham, on October 20th. The +prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death. The execution took +place at Norwich Castle on November 20th. Marwood was the executioner. + +3.—Died at Camperdown Place, Great Yarmouth, Mr. William Thurtell, in his +83rd year. Mr. Thurtell, who was a staunch supporter of Conservative +principles, was appointed a magistrate for the borough in 1846. His +father was Mayor of Norwich in 1828. + +6.—In the House of Lords, before the Lord Chancellor, Lord Penzance, Lord +Blackburn, and Lord Gordon, the action, Read _v._ Bailey, was heard, on +an appeal from a decision by the Lords Justices. On an inspection of the +books of the Bank on the failure of the firm of Harveys and Hudsons, in +1870, it was discovered that Sir Robert Harvey had abstracted large sums +of money from the coffers of the Bank, and had sought to cover the +deficiency by the opening of fictitious accounts, and by crediting forged +bills to his private account. In consequence, the trustee under the +bankruptcy of the firm preferred a claim against the separate estate of +Sir Robert Harvey, amounting to the sum of £600,000, for the moneys so +abstracted by Sir Robert Harvey in his lifetime. This claim was, in +1876, supported by a great mass of evidence before the Master of the +Rolls, who decided in favour of the claim, and gave the trustee of +Harveys and Hudsons the right to rank as a creditor against the private +or separate estate of Sir Robert Harvey, in competition with the +stockbrokers and other private creditors. The importance of the decision +of the Master of the Rolls, as affecting the interests of the +stockbrokers, was great. But for this claim of £600,000 they would have +received 20s. in the pound on their debts, whereas the allowance of the +claim to rank in competition with their debts prevented Sir Robert +Harvey’s private estate paying more than 6s. 8d. in the pound. The +stockbrokers accordingly appealed to the Lords Justices against the +decision of the Master of the Rolls, and their lordships upheld the claim +of £600,000, and dismissed the stockbrokers’ appeal, with costs. The +stockbrokers now appealed to the House of Lords, who confirmed the +judgments of the Lords Justices and the Master of the Rolls, and +dismissed the appeal, with costs; in other words, admitting the trustee’s +claim for £600,000. (_See_ December 3rd, 1880.) + +9.—Mr. Joseph De Carle Smith was elected Mayor, and Mr. Harry Bullard +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +10.—It was announced that Mr. Francis Edmund Gladstone, Mus. Bac., +Cantab., had been appointed organist of Norwich Cathedral, in the room of +Dr. Buck, who resigned the appointment in the month of June. Regret was +expressed that Dr. Bunnett’s claims for the post should have been “so +strangely and perversely ignored.” Much adverse feeling was manifested, +and on November 28th a complimentary concert was given to Dr. Bunnett, +under the patronage of the leading inhabitants of the county and city. + +11.—During a heavy gale at Yarmouth, six vessels were driven ashore, and +many other shipping casualties were reported. + +21.—A meeting of the promoters of the Lynn and Fakenham Railway was held +at Fakenham, and the necessary steps taken in furtherance of the scheme. +(_See_ May 21st, 1880.) + +24.—Died, suddenly, at Norwich, in his 65th year, Mr. Thomas Jarrold, the +last survivor of the three brothers who comprised the well-known firm of +Jarrold and Sons. Mr. Jarrold took especial interest in the education of +the poor, in acknowledgment of which his friends, shortly before his +death, presented him with his portrait. + +26.—The new Middle Level Sluice, at Wiggenhall St. Mary, near King’s +Lynn, was opened by Mr. E. Fellowes, M.P., chairman of the Middle Level +Commission. This sluice replaced the one designed by Mr. J. Walker and +constructed by Brogden, of Manchester, at the cost of £30,000, in 1842, +which gave way on May 4th, 1862, with the widespread and disastrous +consequences known as the Middle Level inundation. After many +unsuccessful attempts to construct a dam across the drain, Sir John +Hawkshaw, C.E., was called in, and he eventually succeeded in that +object, and under his advice sixteen large iron syphons, with the +necessary engine and apparatus for exhausting air from them, were +constructed upon the dam, so as to secure an outlet of the drainage +without admitting sea water from the Ouze. These syphons answered very +well for years, but were not equal to the task. The Commissioners went +to Parliament in 1874, and obtained powers to raise money to construct a +new sluice, from designs by Sir J. Hawkshaw, at an estimated cost of +between £50,000 and £60,000, and the work was commenced by the +contractor, Mr. Webster, in September, 1874. + + +DECEMBER. + + +3.—Died at Hindringham, in his 93rd year, Mr. William Freeman, formerly +resident in Norwich. He was appointed Sheriff in 1842, and elected Mayor +in 1843. + +7.—Mr. Harry Bullard, Sheriff of Norwich, was presented by the clerks and +heads of departments at the Anchor Brewery with his portrait, painted in +oil by Mr. Ventnor. + +19.—Died at Birmingham, in his 79th year, Mr. George Smith, for many +years manager of the Norwich Theatrical Circuit. “If unsuccessful in his +managerial speculations, he was much esteemed for his kindly disposition, +and had in Norwich at one time hosts of friends.” + +26.—The pantomime produced at Norwich Theatre, by Mr. G. H. Chaplin, was +entitled, “Sinbad the Sailor.” At the Skating Rink, then known as the +Vaudeville Theatre, was performed the extravaganza, “Turko the Terrible; +or Prince Amabel and the Fairy Roses.” Messrs. Stoodley and Hamilton’s +Circus was opened on the Castle Meadow. + + + +1878. + + +JANUARY. + + +3.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, the Committee of Visitors of the +County Lunatic Asylum at Thorpe made certain recommendations as to the +best means of raising the sum of £35,000 for the erection of new +buildings and for enlarging the Asylum chapel, as decided upon at a +previous sessions. Thirty-five acres of land had been purchased on which +to erect the new buildings, which were intended to accommodate 250 +additional patients. + +5.—Died at Unthank’s Road, Norwich, in his 96th year, Mr. Stephen Wilde, +for many years Governor of the City Gaol. “He was paymaster-sergeant and +last surviving member of Mr. J. Patteson’s Volunteer Corps raised in the +year 1798.” + +7.—Died at Starston Rectory, the Ven. Augustus Macdonald Hopper, +Archdeacon of Norwich, and thirty-two years rector of Starston, aged 61. +He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, as Senior Optime, and first +class in the Classical Tripos in 1839. Subsequently he obtained by +competition a Fellowship at St. John’s College, and in 1845 was appointed +to his living. After holding the offices of Rural Dean and Proctor for +the Diocese in Convocation, Mr. Hopper became Archdeacon of Norwich in +1868. He was succeeded as Archdeacon by the Rev. T. T. Perowne. + +8.—Died at Cassell Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, the residence of her +son, Mr. Vivian Crome, artist, grandson of Old Crome, Mary Ann Crome, +widow of William Henry Crome, aged 75. “She was an amateur pupil of that +worthy master, and for many years, while yet Miss Steel, was governess in +several Norfolk county families.” + +—Died at Middle Market Road, Great Yarmouth, Mrs. Gunn, aged 74. “She +was a poet of no inconsiderable merit. Many of her poems have reference +to local events, but the greater number are quite imaginative. Mrs. +Gunn’s writings were printed and published, and found such acceptance +that a further edition was necessary.” + +25.—Severe weather prevailed at Yarmouth. Great damage was done to +vessels at sea, and several lives were lost. + +26.—A special meeting of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was held at +the Royal Hotel, Norwich, under the presidency of Lieut.-Colonel FitzRoy, +at which it was decided to hold a spring show of cart horses. The first +show took place at Norwich, on March 9th. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +2.—A telegram from Shanghai announced the death of Mr. Charles Wyncliffe +Goodwin, assistant judge at that place. Mr. Goodwin, who was 60 years of +age, was a scholar of considerable eminence, and the author of several +learned works, including the article on the “Mosaic Cosmogony,” in +“Essays and Reviews.” He was a son of Mr. C. Goodwin, solicitor, of +King’s Lynn, and elder brother of the Bishop of Carlisle. + +8.—The Lynn Town Council unanimously resolved to take steps to abolish +“the annual collection of rubbish and roguery which passes under the +title of the Cheese Fair.” The fair, which for many years had been held +in King Street, was abolished by an order issued by the Home Secretary in +the month of April. + +18.—The Amateur Dramatic Club of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers commenced a +series of performances at Norwich Theatre, with the production of +“Ingomar.” On succeeding evenings, “The Lady of Lyons,” “Black-eyed +Susan,” and other pieces were performed. The proceeds were in aid of the +new uniform fund of the Norwich Rifle Volunteers, and of the Soldiers’ +Monument on Norwich Cemetery. + +21.—Interesting experiments were made with the telephone in the +counting-house of Messrs. J. and J. Colman, Carrow Works, under the +direction of Mr. H. Sack, superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway +telegraph department. Telephones were attached to Messrs. Colman’s +private wire to London, _viâ_ Ipswich, and to the railway company’s wire +_viâ_ Cambridge to Liverpool Street Station, a distance of about 120 +miles. “Parties of ladies and gentlemen at both ends were able to +converse freely with each other, the words being clearly understood and +distinctly heard. This was considered to be a very successful +experiment, although it does not appear that at present the telephone can +be adapted to public use.” + +22.—Died at Heckingham, in her 100th year, Kezia, widow of Richard +Haywood. + + +MARCH. + + +7.—Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., addressed a meeting held at St. Andrew’s +Hall, Norwich, in furtherance of the Permissive Bill. + +9.*—“The rules approved by the Secretary of State for the regulation of +prisons in England and Wales under the Act of Parliament (the Prisons +Act) passed last year have been issued. From these it appears that upon +an order being directed for the discontinuance of Norwich Gaol and +Wymondham Bridewell, the prisoners therein will be transferred to the +County Gaol, Norwich Castle.” The prisoners were transferred from the +Gaol to the Castle in the early part of May. + +11.—Mr. H. M. Pitt’s Comedy-Drama Company commenced an engagement at +Norwich Theatre. The company re-appeared at the Theatre on November +25th, for a season of eighteen nights—its farewell visit. + +15.—Died at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, from cancer on the tongue, +Mr. John Joseph Cotman, aged 63. “As an artist he would have rivalled +his father, John Sell Cotman, but unhappily his unquestionably great +genius was marred by an eccentricity which at times verged on insanity, +and ruined a career which should have been one of honour and renown to +himself and of profit to his family.” + +—Died at Lewes, Sussex, Mr. George P. Bacon, in his 71st year. He was +the second son of Mr. Richard Mackenzie Bacon, proprietor and editor of +the “Norwich Mercury.” In 1843 he became proprietor of the “Sussex +Advertiser,” which he conducted in a very spirited manner. Mr. Bacon +joined his brother in forming the “Norwich Mercury” Company. He was also +well-known as secretary to the Association for the Repeal of the Hop +Duty. + +16.—A silver inkstand and a purse of 200 gs. were presented to Mr. H. J. +Martin, in recognition of his services as honorary secretary of the +Norwich Central Conservative Club. + +17.—Died at the Cathedral Close, Norwich, Mr. Henry Hansell, proctor, +solicitor and notary public, and registrar of the Archdeaconry of +Norfolk, aged 71. Mr. Hansell was a warm supporter of the local +charities, and was for several years honorary secretary of the Jenny Lind +Infirmary. His knowledge of ecclesiastical law and of the rules and +practices of the courts was most profound. He was succeeded in his +registrarship and other appointments by his son, Mr. Thomas William +Hansell. + +25.—The celebrated Vokes Family commenced an engagement at Norwich +Theatre, in “Belles of the Kitchen,” “The Wrong Man in the Right Place,” +&c. + +28.—The 5th Royal Irish Lancers gave a mounted and dismounted +assault-at-arms at the Circus building, Castle Meadow, Norwich, in aid of +the local charities and other objects. The performance was repeated on +the 30th. The regiment received from the Town Council the thanks of the +city for its valuable services. + + +APRIL. + + +13.*—“The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Hoseason, of Lynn, at the age +of 68. It is said that he was the last representative of one of the +famous Dutch families who came over to England with William III., and +took a foremost part in the settlement and cultivation of the country of +Marshland, so much resembling their native land. The Hoseasons were for +many years large landed proprietors, but their estates have changed +hands, and the deceased had gradually fallen into a state of utter +destitution, and for a long time past had been dependent upon the aid of +friends, and lived in a secluded lodging in a back street in the town.” + +17.—A public meeting was held at Yarmouth, in opposition to the proposal +of the Corporation to erect a new town hall, with courts and public +offices, at the cost of £24,000. A resolution condemning the scheme, and +asserting that the outlay would be £36,000, and would involve an addition +to the rates of 3d. in the pound for the next fifty years, was adopted. +The Town Council, on July 15th, approved the plans of Mr. J. B. Pearce, +architect, Norwich. (_See_ May 31st, 1882.) + +22.—Died at the Wilderness, Bracondale, the Rev. Joseph Crompton, rector +of St. Lawrence’, Norwich, in his 65th year. Mr. Crompton began his +career in Norwich as a Nonconformist minister, in about 1848. For many +years he was minister at the Octagon chapel; but his views underwent such +a change that he relinquished the pastorate and established what was +known as the Free Christian Church, which assembled at the Dutch church, +Elm Hill. After a ministry of several years, Mr. Crompton, whose views +had approximated to those of the Broad Church party, began to show strong +sympathy with that section of the Establishment. He avowed himself “a +Dissenter against his will,” and stated that the Athanasian Creed was the +last stumbling-block in his way to joining the Church of England. At his +own request the Bishop shortly afterwards admitted him to Holy Orders, +and he officiated as curate to the Rev. Charles Morse, both at St. Mary’s +and St. Michael-at-Plea. On the Rev. E. A. Hillyard leaving St. +Lawrence’, Mr. Crompton was appointed rector of the parish. He took +great interest in scientific pursuits, and his name was associated with +the Norfolk and Norwich Museum as a lecturer with Professors Lindley and +Sedgwick, Thomas Brightwell, and the Rev. R. Lubbock. Mr. Crompton was a +zealous supporter of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, of +which he was President in the first two years of its existence. In +politics he was a decided Liberal. A window erected to his memory by +public subscription was unveiled at St. Lawrence’ church by Mr. Harry +Bullard, Mayor of Norwich, on November 6th, 1879. + +22.—The farcical comedy, “Pink Dominoes,” was produced at Norwich Theatre +by a company under the management of Mr. S. Genese. “It is a class of +piece which we are sorry to see introduced on the English stage. +Originating in France, it had better be kept in an atmosphere for which +it may be specially adapted.” + +26.—Mr. Frank Buckland and Mr. Spencer Walpole, fishery commissioners, +held a public inquiry at Lynn into the use of trawl and seine nets, and +into the alleged destruction of the fry and spawn of sea fish. A similar +inquiry was held at Yarmouth. + + +MAY. + + +9.—At a meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, a branch of the +Church of England Temperance Society was established. The Lord Bishop +presided, and addresses were delivered by the Rev. Canon Ellison, the +Rev. Canon Wilberforce, Mr. Cadge, and Dr. Eade. + +12.—A fire occurred on premises on the South Denes Road and Exmouth Road, +Yarmouth, by which damage was done to the amount of £3,000. + +15.—Died at Norwich, Mr. Edward Press, in his 77th year. He was a son of +the Rev. Edward Press, B.A., and was born at Barnham Broom. For many +years he practised as a solicitor at Hingham, and held several local +appointments of a public character. He was, however, more widely known +as County Coroner, the duties of which office he discharged with marked +ability for fifty years. In politics Mr. Press was a Liberal. He was +succeeded as County Coroner by Mr. Robert Thomas Culley, who was elected +unopposed on June 6th. + +23.—The 5th Royal Irish Lancers’ Christy Minstrel Troupe gave +performances at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in aid of the local +charities. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—Died at his residence, Theatre Square, Norwich, Mr. Frank Noverre, +aged 71. Mr. Noverre was descended from a French family long associated +with Norwich. His father was one of the original directors of the +Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, and he was himself for many years a +director of the same institution. At one time he was honorary treasurer +of the Norwich Choral Society, honorary secretary of the Norwich +Philharmonic Society, and a member of the sub-committee of management of +the Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival. + +10.—The celebration of the coming of age of Lord Hastings, on April 4th, +commenced on this date, at Melton Constable. The festivities lasted five +days. + +19.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +North Walsham, and was continued on the 20th. Lord Suffield presided at +the luncheon. + +—At a meeting of the Governors of the Norwich Dispensary, it was agreed, +on the motion of Mr. John Gurney, to adopt the provident system in the +working of the institution. + +24.—Colonel Massy and the officers of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, on the +occasion of the departure of the first detachment of the regiment from +Norwich, were entertained at a civic luncheon, given at the Guildhall, +under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. J. D. Smith). The Mayor, on +behalf of the citizens, presented to the officers a massive silver-gilt +cup, “in appreciation of the exemplary conduct of the regiment during its +stay among them, and in grateful remembrance of the many benefits +conferred by it upon the city and its institutions.” The remainder of +the regiment marched on the 25th. The Town Council, on July 1st, passed +a special resolution, recording its high estimation of the regiment, and +ordering the entry in the minutes of the fact that “no complaint has been +made nor any collision taken place between the military and the citizens +during the time the regiment has been quartered in the city.” The +Lancers were relieved by the 21st Hussars, commanded by Colonel Wake. + +29.—Died at Constantinople, aged 32, Mr. Robert Pulvertoft Master, +Commissioner of the Turkish Compassionate Fund. He was the second son of +Mr. Alfred Master, of Norwich, and rendered great services in the cause +of humanity during the Russo-Turkish War. Mr. Master was educated at +Norwich Grammar School, and, after spending a year in Germany, and a like +period in a commercial house in London, proceeded to Ceylon, where he +became manager of a coffee estate, and married Amelia, second daughter of +Sir Edward Creasy, Chief Justice of the island. + + +JULY. + + +4.—Died at Pottergate Street, Norwich, Mr. William Smith, veterinary +surgeon, aged 61. Mr. Smith attained to considerable eminence in his +profession. During the time of the Cattle Plague, he did good service to +the county in his official capacity as inspector to the Central +Committee, and at the meeting of the British Association at Norwich read +an able paper on the disease, its origin and treatment. + +9.—Winterton church was re-opened by the Bishop of Norwich. It had been +restored at the cost of £3,000. + +13.—The 3rd and 4th Battalions of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went into camp +at Yarmouth, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Duff, M.P., and +Lieut.-Colonel Gurdon. + +15.—The Hemsby to Martham extension of the Yarmouth and Stalham Railway +was opened on this date. Powers having been obtained for carrying the +line to North Walsham, it was thereafter known as the North Norfolk +Railway. (_See_ June 8th, 1881.) + +20.—Died at Norwich, in his 93rd year, Commander Crane, R.N. He was the +son of Mr. Edward Crane, Coroner of Norwich, and entered the Royal Navy +as midshipman on board the Repulse, in 1798. During the summer of 1805 +he accompanied Nelson in his pursuit to the West Indies of the combined +French and Spanish fleets. After continuous service he joined the +Reynard, 18 guns, as Acting Commander in the advance on Riga, and was the +first to bring to the Admiral of the station lying off Carlscrona news of +the great defeat of Napoleon at Moscow. He was in May, 1813, while in +charge of a prize, driven by a gale into Frederickstadt, in Norway, where +he was detained a prisoner for some months. In 1843 he received the rank +of commander, and since 1848 had resided in Norwich. + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Justice Thesiger, Mr. W. G. +Loftus, of Bracon Lodge, brought an action against the Rev. T. T. Berney, +rector of Braconash, for trespass. The defendant claimed the right, as +lord of the manor, of shooting over thirty-four acres’ of land around +Bracon Lodge. This land was principally garden ground. The plaintiff +objected to defendant sporting in his kitchen garden, and wished to put +an end to the nuisance. In the course of argument between Mr. Day, Q.C., +for the plaintiff, and Sir Patrick Colquhoun, Q.C., for the defendant, +reference was made to several “musty deeds” produced by Mr. Berney. The +jury found for the plaintiff, damages 40s. + +5.—A singular claim to the Stanfield Hall estate was made at the Norfolk +Assizes, before Lord Justice Thesiger. The action was brought by George +Taylor, a railway guard, against Mr. Reginald Gwyn and the Rev. Henry H. +H. Lubbock, the owners of the estate, who pleaded that they had a +possessory title, and that plaintiff’s title and right of action were +barred by the Statute of Limitations. The estate was originally in the +possession of William Jermy, of Bayfield, who died in 1752, and plaintiff +alleged that, as a lineal descendant of Robert Jermy, who died in 1758, +he was heir-at-law. Mr. Bulwer, Q.C., after opening the case for the +plaintiff, said he was not justified in occupying the time of the court +and putting the parties to further trouble in the matter, when he knew +perfectly well that he must be beaten in the end. The jury returned a +verdict for the defendants, for whom his lordship gave judgment. + +18.—Died at Whitwell Hall, Mr. Robert Leamon, aged 56. Mr. Leamon, who +was described as “a good specimen of the old Norfolk yeoman,” broke down +the Whig monopoly in East Norfolk, “and became the political godfather of +Mr. C. S. Read, for whom he entertained the warmest personal regard.” +Mr. Leamon was born in 1822, and inherited from his father a fine +property and extensive business. He married, in 1848, a daughter of Mr. +John Brooke Gill, of Wood Norton. + +22.—Died at Runton, aged 76, Favell Lee, widow of the Rev. Thomas +Mortimer. She was the authoress of “The Peep of Day,” and other works of +a similar character. + +24.—A fire took place at Messrs. Bagshaw’s paper mills, St. Miles’, +Norwich, and did damage amounting to several thousands of pounds. + +30.—Among the most notable of architectural improvements in Norwich was +the new building known as Cooper’s Restaurant, which was opened on this +date. It was designed by Mr. Edward Boardman, architect, and occupies a +site on which stood the old business premises of Messrs. Butcher, cheese +factors. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +5.—Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, assisted by Miss Fanny Holland, Mr. Dale, +Mr. Corney Grain, and Mr. Arthur Law, commenced a three nights’ +engagement at St. Giles’ Hall, Norwich. + +9.—Mr. Henry Walsham opened an operatic season at Norwich Theatre. The +company included Madame Rose Hersée, Miss Palmer, Madame Telma, and Mr. +Ludwig. + +11.—The Sheriff of Norwich (Mr. Harry Bullard) provided the first of his +annual excursions for the _employés_ at the Anchor Brewery. The +workpeople in the service of the firm (with their wives), to the number +of 600, were conveyed to the Crystal Palace and back by special train. + + +OCTOBER. + + +2.—A four-oared race, between a crew of the 21st Hussars (Capt. Lovewell, +stroke) and of the Norwich Police, took place between Field’s boat-house, +Thorpe, and Trowse railway-bridge—distance, a mile and a quarter. After +a very close race, the police crew won. + +10.—Died, the Rev. Henry Lombe, of Bylaugh Park, aged 86. He was fifty +years a parochial clergyman, and for twenty-six years rector of Lyng. At +Swanton Morley, in 1831, when the poor-rates were at an appalling figure, +and poverty excessive, he set on foot and carried on for years on his own +responsibility an extensive cotton weaving business, reduced a turbulent +population to order, and saved the whole parish from starvation. In the +days of incendiarism he was the main instrument in hunting down into +their hiding-places the leaders of that infamous movement, and the means +of bringing the notorious Nockolds to justice (_q.v._ Vol. I., p. 304). +Before the days of the rural police, he organized a voluntary system of +constabulary in his desperately disturbed parish of Lyng. In company +with the farmers, he patrolled the parish during the whole winter, +visited every farmstead, and preserved the village from utter ruin. +Clubs, coal charities, and penny banks were under his personal +superintendence to the last day of his active life. Mr. Lombe was +succeeded in the possession of his extensive landed estates by his son, +Mr. Henry Evans Lombe, of Melton Hall, a B.A. of Corpus Christi College, +Cambridge, and a magistrate for Norfolk and Suffolk. + +14.—Died at his residence, St. Giles’, Norwich, Mr. George Warren Watts +Firth, F.R.C.S., aged 64. He was senior surgeon to the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital, a magistrate of the city, and honorary consulting +surgeon to the Norfolk County Lunatic Asylum, a distinction conferred +upon him after his retirement from the office of surgeon to that +institution. + +15.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, with an evening performance of “Acis and +Galatea,” and of “Spring” (from “The Seasons”). The morning performances +were as follow:—16th, “Joseph,” and 1st Mass in C (Mozart); 17th, +“Elijah”; 18th, “The Messiah.” On the evening of the 16th a grand ballad +concert was given, and on the evening of the 17th an operatic concert. +The vocalists were Madame Albani, Miss Catherine Penna, Miss Anna +Williams, Madame A. Sterling, Madame Trebelli, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. H. +J. Minns, Mr. W. Shakespeare, Mr. R. Hilton, and Mr. Santley. Sir Julius +Benedict conducted. The total receipts amounted to £4,140 4s. 9d., and +the expenditure to £3,898 2s. 6d. + +17.—The Rev. Sidney Pelham, curate-in-charge of Aylsham, was elected +vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, in place of the Rev. Charles +Turner, who had accepted the living of Bixley with Framingham Earl, after +31 years’ ministry at St. Peter’s. + +—The monument erected at Norwich Cemetery “to the memory of deceased +soldiers of regiments stationed in this city or who may die while on +service here,” was unveiled by Lord Waveney. It was designed by Mr. John +Bell, a Norfolk man. The figure forming the finial, called by the +designer “The Spirit of the Army,” was cast in terra cotta by Messrs. +Doulton, of the Lambeth Pottery. Colonel Wake, of the 21st Hussars, in +the name of the British Army and on behalf of his brother officers, +thanked the representatives of the county of Norfolk and city of Norwich +for erecting the memorial. + +20.—Died at Norwich, James Truman, aged 70, for upwards of fifty years a +member of the St. Peter Mancroft Company of Ringers. In 1831 he rang +with the St. Peter’s company an intricate peal of Double Norwich Court +Bob Major, at St. Michael at Coslany tower, and in 1844 conducted a long +peal of Stedman’s Cinques on the twelve bells of St. Peter’s. The peal +consisted of 7,126 changes, and occupied 5 hours 17 minutes in ringing. +At that time it was the longest peal that had been accomplished in the +method. + +28.—Mr. J. B. Gough, the American temperance advocate, gave an “oration” +at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, at a meeting presided over by Canon Lee +Warner. + +—Died at Norwich, aged 27, Mr. W. Wilson Turnbull, a member of the +literary staff of the “Eastern Daily Press.” He was the author of +Messrs. Weldon’s annual, “Benjamin D---,” illustrated by a Norwich +amateur, and of several able pamphlets on the Permissive Bill. At the +time of his death, Mr. Turnbull was engaged in the preparation of another +annual for Messrs. Weldon. + +29.—A meeting of the clergy and lay representatives of the diocese was +held at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, “for the purpose of deciding upon the +question of the institution of a diocesan conference or synod.” The Lord +Bishop presided. The Very Rev. Dean Goulburn moved, “That this meeting +do advise the Lord Bishop that, in their judgment, it is inexpedient to +constitute a diocesan conference to meet periodically.” Lord Walsingham +seconded the motion. Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., moved a direct negative—“That +it is desirable that a conference of the clergy and laity be established +in this diocese.” The Ven. Archdeacon Groome seconded. After a long +discussion, Mr. Read’s proposition was adopted by the votes of 140 laity +and 115 clergy, against the votes of 15 laity and 6 clergy. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +5.—The marriage of Viscount Anson, eldest son of the Earl of Lichfield, +and Lady Mildred Coke, youngest daughter of the Earl of Leicester, was +solemnised at Holkham church. + +6.—The first general meeting of the shareholders of the Norwich Café +Company was held at the Guildhall, under the presidency of Mr. John +Gurney. The company was incorporated in July, with a nominal capital of +£20,000, in 20,000 shares of £1 each. About 8,000 shares had been +subscribed for at this date, by about 90 shareholders. + +7.—The extension of the franchise to female householders was advocated at +a public meeting held at St. Giles’ Hall, Norwich, presided over by the +Mayor (Mr. J. D. Smith), and addresses were delivered by Miss Helen +Taylor and Miss P. H. Downing. + +9.—Mr. Harry Bullard, on the expiration of his term of office as Sheriff +of Norwich, was elected Mayor. For the office of Sheriff there were two +nominees, Mr. William Howlett and Mr. Donald Steward. After a long and +acrimonious discussion, Mr. Steward was appointed. + +16.—At a meeting of the Board of Management of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital, Mr. Samuel Herbert Burton was elected house-surgeon, Mr. +Charles Williams surgeon, and Mr. H. S. Robinson assistant surgeon. + +—The memorable and disastrous flood occurred at Norwich. A heavy fall of +snow on the 12th, followed by a rapid thaw and continuous rain, had the +effect of greatly swelling the tributaries of the Yare and Wensum. +Simultaneously, a north-west wind occasioned a high tide at Yarmouth, so +that the river waters were denied their natural outlet. Instead of +ebbing with the tide, the Yare rose steadily on the 15th, and many +thousand acres of marshes lying between Norwich and Yarmouth were +inundated on the following day. The New Mills at Norwich, were, however, +responsible for the greater part of the damage from which the city +suffered. The obstruction caused the waters to overflow the banks of the +river, and, in a short time, many of the streets in the low-lying +localities were flooded, and hundreds of the inhabitants were compelled +to leave their houses by means of boats. An enormous amount of distress +prevailed. The Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard) convened a meeting at the +Guildhall on the 17th (Sunday), at which it was decided to establish +centres for the distribution of provisions; and permission was obtained +from the Government authorities to make use of the governor’s house at +the disused City Gaol for the accommodation of the houseless people, of +whom 200 found refuge there. The Sessions Court at the Guildhall was +opened during the day as a store-house, in which 2,600 loaves of bread +and many hundreds of blankets, received from the County Gaol, Asylum, +Workhouse, and Cavalry Barracks, were placed ready for distribution. At +6.30 on the same evening another influential meeting was held at the +Guildhall, when the Mayor and the Sheriff (Mr. Donald Steward) were +publicly thanked for the active part they had taken in mitigating the +distress of the people. On the 18th a third meeting took place, at which +a relief fund was inaugurated, when, in a few minutes, £2,271 13s. 6d. +was subscribed, an amount which, by the end of the week, was increased to +£4,200. Three or four persons lost their lives in the flood. In various +parts of the county rivers overflowed their banks, and much damage was +done to property. (_See_ January 4th, 1879.) + +18.—An art loan exhibition, largely contributed to by noblemen and others +in the Eastern Counties, was opened at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by the +Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard) in aid of a fund for the restoration of the +church of St. Peter Mancroft. An inaugural ode, specially written by Mr. +E Oxenford, and composed by Dr. Bunnett, was performed by members of the +Norfolk and Norwich Musical Union. The exhibition remained open until +December 14th, when a balance of £820 3s. 6d. was handed over to the +credit of the fund. (_See_ October 4th, 1881.) + +19.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the Provincial Tramways +Company applied for permission to construct tramways in the city. The +proposed route was to commence at the Cemetery and to proceed by Dereham +Road, St. Giles’ Road, Chapel Field Road, Queen’s Road, Upper Surrey +Street, All Saints’ Green, Golden Ball Street, Castle Meadow, Prince of +Wales Road, Foundry Bridge, and Thorpe Road to Whitlingham Railway +Station. An adjourned meeting was held on December 17th, at which it was +agreed not to oppose the Bill, provided the Tramways Company consented to +the insertion of such clauses, conditions, and restrictions as, in the +opinion of the Parliamentary and Bylaws Committee might be deemed +necessary. The Norwich Tramways Bill was considered by a Select +Committee of the House of Commons, on May 6th, 1879. It was opposed by +the Great Eastern Railway Company and Mr. Foster, a local resident, and +thrown out after only the promoters’ case had been heard. (_See_ January +16th, 1883.) + +21.—The Norfolk and Norwich Fat Cattle Show was opened at Chapel Field, +Norwich. + + +DECEMBER. + + +12.—The old parish church of St. Bartholomew, Heigham, Norwich, which had +undergone complete restoration and enlargement, by the addition of a +north aisle, at the cost of £2,500, was opened by the Lord Bishop of +Norwich. + +17.—A special meeting of the Norwich Town Council adopted a vote of +sympathy with the Queen and other members of the Royal Family, on the +death of the Grand Duchess of Hesse (Princess Alice of England), and a +muffled peal was rung upon the bells of St. Peter Mancroft. Similar +votes were adopted by the Corporations of Yarmouth and Lynn; and the +county magistrates voted an address to her Majesty on January 4th, 1879. + +19.—Mr. E. C. Bailey resigned the office of Clerk to the Norwich Board of +Guardians, after a service of thirty-four years. He was succeeded in the +appointment by Mr. John Cross. + +22.—Died at his residence, Surrey Street, Norwich, Mr. William Peter +Nichols, F.R.C.S., aged 77. Mr. Nichols was born at Yelverton, and was +educated at King Edward VI. School, Norwich, under Valpy. He was +subsequently articled to Mr. Dalrymple, and, having studied at St. +Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospitals, under Sir Astley Cooper, passed his +examinations, and in 1823 established himself in Norwich, where he +speedily made a reputation, although it was not until late in life that +he reaped the full honours he deserved. On the death of Mr. J. G. +Crosse, Mr. Nichols was elected surgeon of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital, a position he held for twenty-two years, and relinquished the +post in 1872, when probably the highest possible testimony was paid to +his skill as an operator by Dr. Copeman, who mentioned that in lithotomy +his average of successful cases was higher than that of Dr. Donne, Dr. +Martineau, or Mr. Norgate, all giants in their day. On his retirement +from office he was unanimously appointed honorary consulting surgeon. +Mr. Nichols was also consulting surgeon to the Bethel Hospital, and, with +Mr. J. F. Watson, successfully carried on for many years the private +asylum at Heigham Hall. He was elected Mayor of Norwich in 1865, and had +the honour to take the lead in the reception of the Prince and Princess +of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Queen of Denmark, when they +visited the city in 1866. In politics he was a Liberal, and occupied at +various times a seat in the Town Council. He was also a magistrate of +the city. + +23.—Died at his town residence, 36, Upper Brooke Street, Lieut.-Colonel +James Duff, M.P. He was born at Innis House, Elgin, on July 29th, 1831, +and was the son of General Sir James Duff, who married Miss Eliza +Charlotte Prescott, eldest daughter of General Sir Beeston Prescott, +Bart., of Theobald’s Park, Herts. Educated at Rugby, he entered the Army +in 1851, as ensign in the 23rd Fusiliers, with which regiment he +afterwards went to the Crimea, and obtained his captaincy in 1854. At +the battle of Inkerman he was taken prisoner, and on his release acted as +_aide-de-camp_ to General Syssons, who commanded the Second Brigade Light +Division until the end of the war. Captain Duff then embarked with his +regiment for China, but the Indian Mutiny breaking out meanwhile, they +were ordered to Calcutta, to assist in its suppression. Captain Duff was +present with Lord Clyde at the capture of Lucknow, and was specially +mentioned in dispatches for his services. He received the Crimean medal +with two clasps, the Turkish medal, the 5th class of the Medjidie, &c. +In 1858 he left the service, and the following year married Mary, only +daughter of Mr. Edward Dawkins, of Upper Brooke Street, London, and niece +of Mr. John Berney Petre, of Westwick House. On taking up his residence +in the county, he was appointed to the command of the 3rd Administrative +Battalion of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, and, on the death of the Hon. +Frederick Walpole, was returned as Conservative member for North Norfolk. +In conjunction with Sir Robert Buxton, Mr. Clare Sewell Read, Mr. Colman, +and Sir Edmund Lacon, he was unwearied in his exertions to secure the +passing of the Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Preservation Act, and the +modification of Mr. Mundella’s Fisheries Bill to the advantage of the +district which he represented. + +26.—The Christmas amusements at Norwich included Messrs. Edwards and +Waldegrave’s pantomime of “The Children in the Wood, or Harlequin Good +Humour, the Wicked Uncle, and the Good Fairy Birds of the Forest,” at the +Theatre; and Bostock and Wombwell’s Menagerie on the Castle Meadow. + + + +1879. + + +JANUARY. + + +4.—A meeting, convened by the Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard), and attended by +many of the riparian owners of the county, was held at the Guildhall, +Norwich, “for the purpose of determining whether an inquiry should be +made into the causes of the recent floods, and for devising some means to +prevent their recurrence.” A committee was appointed to hold an inquiry, +and in the month of June Sir John Hawkshaw, C.E., made a report, in which +he stated that floods might be prevented by suitable works, the cost of +which would be heavy if charged entirely on the flooded lands, but +moderate if spread in suitable proportions. Mr. Bullard, on November +10th, was presented with his portrait, painted by Mr. Ventnor, in +recognition of the services he had rendered to his fellow-citizens during +the floods. + +5.—Died at St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, Mr. Horatio Bolingbroke, aged 80. +He was educated at Norwich Grammar School, under Valpy, was for many +years engaged in business as a manufacturer, and did much to enhance the +reputation of Norwich for the production of textile fabrics. Mr. +Bolingbroke was a prominent figure in the political life of the city, was +the first Sheriff appointed under the Municipal Corporations Act, and was +amongst the first of the Liberal members returned to the “reformed” +Corporation. He was a generous supporter of local charities, chairman of +the Norwich Charity Trustees (General List), and a Justice of the Peace. +Labouring under the affliction of blindness, he had for some years prior +to his death retired from active public life. + +16.—The nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy in the +representation of North Norfolk, occasioned by the death of Colonel Duff, +took place at Aylsham. Mr. Edward Birkbeck, of Horstead Hall, was the +Conservative, and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., the Liberal nominee. +The polling took place on the 21st, and the result was declared on the +22nd, as follows:—Birkbeck, 2,742; Buxton, 2,252. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +8.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before the Lord Chief Baron, an action was +brought by Mr. Hamon le Strange, lord of the manor of Snettisham, and his +tenant, William Harding, against Richard Auker, for trespassing upon the +foreshore at Snettisham and removing shingle, mussels, and cockles. Mr. +le Strange in 1866 took legal proceedings to maintain his proprietary +rights on the foreshore, and obtained a verdict, against which an appeal +was entered; but a full bench of judges confirmed the verdict. Since +then he had issued licences to persons to remove mussels from the +foreshore, and had leased it to Harding, who had found the defendant +carrying mussels away. The special jury returned a verdict for the +plaintiffs, damages one shilling, and the learned Judge said he would +make the injunction issued against the defendant perpetual. (_See_ +January 21st, 1885.) + +13.—Died at Kirstead, the Rev. Jonathan Bates, rector of Kirstead with +Langhale. He was the son of a Wesleyan minister, and was born at New +Buckenham, on June 13th, 1829. When still a child he removed with his +family to Edinburgh, where he was placed in the High School. Thence he +went to Huddersfield College, and at eighteen became junior master. He +had not only passed the examinations of the London University, but had +saved sufficient money, with the help of the scholarships he had won, to +enable him, on leaving Huddersfield, to enter St. John’s College, +Cambridge, where he graduated in 1854, taking his place as eleventh +Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos. On completing his University +career, he was appointed second classical and mathematical master of the +Colchester Grammar School. This post he held four years, and was then +chosen senior or classical tutor and chaplain to the Queen’s Medical +College at Birmingham. Ordained deacon in 1854, and priest in 1855, by +the Bishop of Rochester, he returned to Colchester as mathematical master +at the Grammar School, and did duty as a curate in the vicinity. In 1860 +he was appointed Vice-Principal of the Chester Diocesan College, and in +1862 was presented by Caius College to the living of Kirstead. Mr. Bates +married the youngest daughter of the celebrated Dr. Medhurst, for many +years a missionary in China. + +16.—Died at the Rectory, Toppesfield, the Rev. Professor Brewer, M.A., +Preacher at the Rolls Chapel, and rector of Toppesfield. He was a son of +Mr. John Sherren Brewer, of Mile End House, Norwich, and was born at +Calvert Street, in March, 1809. After receiving his early education at +the hands of his father, he proceeded to Queen’s College, Oxford, where +he graduated B.A. in 1833, taking first class honours in Classics. In +1841 he was appointed to a Professorship, and in November, 1870, was +elected an honorary Fellow of his College. Professor Brewer was editor +of “Fuller’s Church History,” published by the University of Oxford, and +of the Calendars of State Papers relating to the Reign of Henry VIII., +published by the Master of the Rolls. He was for some time honorary +librarian to the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, and, in addition +to his appointment as Preacher at the Rolls Chapel, he held the +Professorship of English Literature in King’s College, London. In 1876 +he was presented by Lord Beaconsfield to the Crown living of Toppesfield, +which had a gross income of £1,120 and a parsonage house. + +21.—Edward Payson Weston, the American pedestrian, passed through +Norwich, on his walk of 2,000 miles in 1,000 consecutive hours (except on +Sundays). He arrived from Dereham, and at one o’clock lectured at the +Victoria Hall, St. Andrew’s, where a large audience had assembled, under +the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard). In the afternoon Weston +continued his walk, and arrived at Yarmouth in the evening. + +—Died at Wandsworth, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, secretary of the Society of +Arts. He was born in 1809, and educated at Norwich Grammar School, prior +to studying at Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1830. A few years +afterwards he was called to the Bar, and, after working zealously with +the Prince Consort to promote the success of the Exhibition of 1851, was +appointed Secretary of the Society of Arts in 1853. + +24.—Under the auspices of the Anglo-American Electric Lighting Company, +Limited, a descriptive lecture was given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, +upon the possibilities of the electric light, by Mr. H. Edmunds, a +representative of the company. The hall was brilliantly illuminated by a +special electric installation. + +27.—Died at Bournemouth, Lieut.-Colonel Hugh FitzRoy, formerly of the +Grenadier Guards. He was born in 1808, and was second son of the Rev. +Lord Henry FitzRoy. He married, in 1831, Lucy Sarah, second daughter of +Sir Thomas Buller Lethbridge, who died in 1855. In December, 1856, he +married, secondly, Emily Louisa, widow of Mr. Charles William Marsham, of +Stratton Strawless. Colonel FitzRoy was an active county magistrate, and +chairman of the Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Commissioners. + + +MARCH. + + +6.—The twelve hours’ roller skating championship of the Eastern Counties +was competed for at St. Giles’ Hall, Norwich. The winner was Candler, of +Norwich, who, between eight a.m. and eight p.m. covered 77 miles 7 laps; +second, G. Woolsey, of Yarmouth, 74 miles 20 laps. + +13.—The marriage of the Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise Marguerite +was celebrated in Norwich by the ringing of St. Peter Mancroft bells, and +by a civic luncheon given in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, by the Mayor +(Mr. Harry Bullard). A congratulatory address adopted by the Corporation +was presented to the Queen by the Mayor and Sheriff, at St. James’s +Palace, on May 3rd. + +22.—The first of the Saturday evening popular concerts, inaugurated in +Prince’s Street Schoolroom, and transferred to St. Andrew’s Hall, was +given, under the presidency of the Mayor of Norwich. + +26.—A Common Hall was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the +presidency of the Mayor, “to consider the question of the continuance of +the half-holiday movement on Thursdays during the approaching summer +months.” A memorial was presented by the traders of the city, affirming +that the two o’clock closing was not conducive to the welfare of the +assistants nor to the commercial prosperity of the city. After much +discussion, the meeting was adjourned _sine die_, and a few weeks later +official notice was given that “the shops of Norwich, with few +exceptions, remain open on Thursdays till five o’clock.” + + +APRIL. + + +6.—Died at Great Yarmouth, Sir Thomas Branthwayt Beevor, Bart., of +Hargham. Born on April 7th, 1798, he was thrice married—in 1819, to +Elizabeth Bridget, daughter of Dr. Richard Lubbock, of Norwich; in 1832, +to Martha, daughter of Mr. Archibald Hardiment, of Old Buckenham; and in +1845, to Mary, daughter of Mr. F. Davies. Sir Thomas had for some years +resided in a quiet and unostentatious manner at Yarmouth, but in his +early years, as a Liberal of the advanced school, he took a leading part +in the political contests of the county. + +7.—Mr. T. W. Robertson, son of the author of “Caste,” and other favourite +comedies, made his first appearance with the Caste Company at Norwich +Theatre. The company made a return visit on November 3rd. Mr. +Robertson, junior, who had been articled to a veterinary surgeon in the +city, afterwards became very popular as an actor. + +11.—Died at Hereford, Miss Christiana Glover, second and last surviving +daughter of the Rev. Edward Glover, M.A., of Norwich, aged 91. For +several years she lived with the family of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, and +afterwards became a devoted coadjutor of her talented sister, Miss Sarah +Glover, in the work of imparting Christian education in accordance with +the principles of the Church of England to the poorer classes in the +city. The sisters originated the Norwich Sol-Fa System of Psalmody, +“which may be said to be entirely unrivalled in its results, as producing +perfect intonation and good harmony at comparatively small expense of +time and labour. The system in a somewhat modified form has been very +widely and successfully diffused by Mr. Curwen.” + +15.—A new oratorio, “Nehemiah,” by Dr. Hill, of Norwich, was performed +for the first time. It was produced at the Corn Hall, Diss, by the +members of the Diss Choral Society. + +—Considerable excitement was caused at Thorpe, near Norwich, by the +action of Mr. Henry Blake, who had enclosed the strip of grass land known +as Thorpe Green, by the side of the river. Mr. William Birkbeck, as lord +of the manor, announced that if the palings, &c., were not removed by +noon on this day they would be forcibly taken down. The notice was +disregarded, and Mr. P. E. Hansell, as steward of the manor, directed the +removal of the obstruction. After the posts and palings had been taken +down, Mr. Hansell intimated that Mr. Birkbeck was prepared to take the +matter into the law courts, and to the House of Lords, if necessary. + +16.—A remarkable scene was witnessed at a meeting of the Norwich School +Board. A motion to increase the staff was supported by the majority and +opposed by the Denominational minority, the latter of whom asserted that +the proposal could be carried out only by rescinding a resolution passed +almost unanimously at a previous meeting. “Finding their last effort +useless to stem the current of expenditure into which the Board had +plunged, and justly indignant at the treatment they received, the +minority left the room, and Canon Heaviside intimated that it would be a +matter for consideration whether they ever again entered it.” On May 8th +a deputation went to Canon Heaviside’s residence and presented to the +gentlemen constituting the minority a memorial, signed by the ratepayers, +urging that by their presence at the Board they could “continue to +protest against reckless extravagance, and so keep the ratepayers better +informed of what is going on.” Ultimately the minority agreed to resume +their duties, “at the request of their constituents, and in the hope that +the public attention called to the proceedings which led to their +withdrawal would have the effect of strengthening their hands in the +endeavour to discharge effectively the duties that devolved upon them.” + +28.—Mr. Sims Reeves sang at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. His engagement +was originally announced for April 17th, but the usual postponement +occurred. + +—Application having been made by the Norfolk Court of Quarter Sessions +that nine disturnpiked roads in the county should, by a provisional +order, be declared ordinary, not main, roads, Mr. Courteney Boyle, an +inspector of the Local Government Board, attended at the Shirehall, to +hear the grounds of the application and any objections thereto. The +application had been made on the following grounds: (1) That in +consequence of the increase of railways, there was comparatively but +little through traffic along the disturnpiked reads; (2) there being no +highway districts in the county, the Court was not prepared to encounter +the difficulty and expense of dealing separately with the surveyors of +the large number of parishes through which the disturnpiked roads passed; +(3) that should a highway board be established in the county, the unions +through which the disturnpiked roads passed would not be unfairly +burdened by their maintenance, while it would be hard upon outlying +districts of the county to contribute to the repair of roads which they +never used; and (4) that the Court having previously expressed itself in +favour of county boards, hesitated to sanction so novel and large an +expenditure for the county rate as would be involved in paying half the +cost of repairing the disturnpiked roads until the ratepayers were more +directly represented in the county authority. Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., +stated his reasons for moving these resolutions at the Court of Quarter +Sessions, and after evidence had been taken in regard to each road in +question, the Inspector said that he should make his report. + + +MAY. + + +19.—A glove fight took place at the Corn Hall, Norwich, in the presence +of an immense audience, between Walter Emms and Arthur Shaw. At the +Police Court, on the 26th, the principals, and John Hicks, James Clarke, +James Laxton, Robert Watson, sub-editor of the “Sporting Life,” London; +Thomas Snelling, and Edwin Cunningham were summoned for unlawfully +assembling together for the purpose of a prize-fight. Emms and Shaw were +ordered to enter into their own recognisances of £100, to find two +sureties of £50 each, and to keep the peace for six months. The other +defendants were bound over in the sum of £20 each to keep the peace for +six months. + +20.—The Norwich Omnibus Company, Limited, was formed. The first +omnibuses were put upon the Dereham Road route on June 23rd. + +—Died at the Crescent, Norwich, Mr. John M. Croker, aged 57. His ample +leisure enabled him to be of great service to many of the public +institutions of the city, and he was for several years honorary secretary +of the Norfolk and Norwich Cricket Club. + +21.—A fire occurred on Messrs. Willis and Southall’s shoe premises, the +Upper Market, Norwich. The damage was estimated at £1,000. + + +JUNE. + + +2.—A case of considerable importance to the agricultural community, in +which the Earl of Leicester, Lord Lieutenant of the county, was +defendant, was heard by the Walsingham magistrates. His lordship was +alleged to have infringed the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, +and the Animals Order of 1878. The informations, laid by the Veterinary +Inspector of the district (Mr. Edward Case), charged his lordship (1) +with unlawfully causing to be driven on March 3rd a sheep affected with +sheep scab; and (2) with causing 200 suspected animals to be removed. +After a hearing which lasted eight hours, the Bench dismissed the case, +“because the defendant had satisfied them that there was no cause for +suspecting the animals removed.” + +5.—A singular accident occurred at Wells railway station. The driver of +engine of a passenger train from Norwich was unable to control the +brakes, and the engine dashing into the station, knocked down the buffer +stops, ran through the end platform, and, crashing into the lavatories +and porter’s room, demolished the outer wall of the station, and came to +a standstill when partly in the public street. A young man named John +Cook was killed. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was +returned, and at the subsequent Board of Trade inquiry the engine-driver +was exonerated of blame. + +9.—St. Giles’ Hall, Norwich, originally opened as a skating rink, and +afterwards used as a variety hall and theatre, was on this date opened +for the summer season as a circus by Mr. Stoodley. + +11.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +East Dereham, when the entries were larger than on any previous occasion. +Mr. R. T. Gurdon was president. + +15.—The Norwich Artillery Volunteers paraded for the first time in their +new uniform. The regulation scarlet facings and helmet of the Royal +Artillery had been substituted for the white facings and busby previously +worn. + +17.—The Prince of Wales visited Norwich, for the purpose of laying the +foundation-stone of the new Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. The visit was +of a semi-private character. His Royal Highness, who was received at +Thorpe Station by the Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard), the Sheriff (Mr. Donald +Steward), the Earl of Leicester, Lord Suffield, and Lord Carrington, +proceeded to the site of the new building, and having performed the +ceremony, returned to the station and travelled by special train to +Yarmouth. The cost of the new Hospital was originally estimated at +£35,500, but the Board of Governors subsequently decided to purchase +adjoining property, at an additional outlay of £5,000. The Board +afterwards adopted a building design jointly prepared by Mr. T. H. Wyatt, +of London, and Mr. Edward Boardman, of Norwich, and accepted the tender +of Messrs. Lacey and Co. for the completion of the work. (_See_ June +30th, 1881.) + +—The Prince of Wales arrived at Yarmouth, and on the 18th inspected the +Prince of Wales’ Own Norfolk Artillery. His Royal Highness left on the +morning of the 19th. On both evenings of his stay in the town, the +Prince attended performances given by the Gaiety Company at the Theatre +Royal. + +27.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Mr. J. H. Tillett +moved, “That this Council objects to the proposed schemes of the Charity +Commissioners, particularly to those relating to the Boys’ Hospital and +the Girls’ Hospital Schools, on the ground that educational and other +funds given expressly and emphatically for the benefit of the poor are +thereby diverted from their proper objects, and applied to the increase +of the endowments in middle and upper schools, which schools, if in need, +should be helped otherwise than at the expense of the poor.” The motion +was adopted, and the Parliamentary and Bylaw Committee were requested to +prepare a petition against the scheme. A Common Hall was held on July +16th, at which resolutions were adopted expressing dissatisfaction with +the scheme; and at a meeting of the Town Council, on August 26th, the +Parliamentary and Bylaws Committee, in a draft report upon the scheme, +urged that to apply grants originally given for the maintenance, +education, and advancement of the children of the poor, in aid of the +Grammar and Commercial Schools, or either of them, would involve a +misappropriation of the funds and a violation of the intentions of the +founders. (_See_ October 24th, 1882.) + + +JULY. + + +3.—At the Norfolk county magistrates’ meeting, a report was received from +the Committee of Visitors that several serious cases of erysipelas, sore +throat, and diarrhoea had occurred at Thorpe Asylum, “and it would appear +that the very offensive smell which pervades the Asylum whenever the wind +blows from the Sewage Farm on the opposite side of the river is the cause +of the above-named epidemics.” + +4.—In the House of Commons, Mr. C. S. Read supported, in a long and able +speech, Mr. Chaplin’s motion, for a Royal Commission to enquire into the +depressed condition of the agricultural interest. + +6.—Died at the Vyne, Basingstoke, Mr. W. L. Wiggett Chute, aged 79, +formerly of Pickenham Hall, near Swaffham. He was called to the Bar by +the Middle Temple in 1827, in which year he assumed, by Royal licence, +the additional name and arms of Chute, on inheriting the estates of that +ancient family in Hampshire and Norfolk. He was elected with Sir William +Bagge in the Conservative interest at the General Election of 1837, and +held the seat until 1847, when he retired. In 1837 he married Martha, +second daughter of Mr. Theophilus Russell Buckworth, of Cockley Cley. + +9.—A “silver cradle,” in the form of a massive epergne, was presented by +the Corporation to the Mayor of Norwich (Mr. Harry Bullard), “in +commemoration of the birth of his daughter, Hilda May, on May 13th, +1879.” + +11.—Died at Kett’s Castle Villa, Mousehold, Norwich, Mr. John Berney +Ladbrooke. Born in 1803, he was a son of Robert Ladbrooke, painter and +drawing master, and nephew of Old Crome, whose pupil he became after he +had received rudimentary instruction from his father. “Crome’s influence +is traced in nearly all his pictures, although of late years in tone and +colour they more closely resemble the best works of Henry Bright. He +especially excelled in the representation of woodland scenery.” As a +drawing master Ladbrooke was much valued. + +12.—Died at Norwich, Mr. John Withers Dowson. A son of Mr. Benjamin +Dowson, merchant, of Geldeston, he was born in 1800. Educated at Norwich +Grammar School, he was articled to a London firm of solicitors, and +afterwards commenced practice in Norwich. The pursuit of professional +emolument was, however, less an object with him than the furtherance of +the education and the improvement of those around him, especially the +poor, and probably no one in the city or county had in his time done more +practical work in the cause of education. + +14.—An inter-county bicycle race, between Norfolk and Suffolk cyclists, +was ridden from Ipswich to Norwich. The competitors started from Ipswich +at 3.5 p.m., and the race was won by Popplewell, of Ipswich, who arrived +at the Boileau fountain, Norwich, at 6.5 p.m. Morgan, of Yarmouth, was +second. The distance ridden was forty-three miles. + +15.—An important question affecting the boundary of the city came before +the Norwich Town Council. The Town Clerk reported that, in the +preparation of the Ordnance Survey, a question had arisen as to whether +two pieces of land, one containing about 38 acres, situate in the parish +of Catton, and the other of about 45 acres, with 150 houses thereon, +situate in the parish of Sprowston, should not be included within the +Parliamentary and municipal boundary of the city and county of the city +of Norwich. On investigating the matter, it appeared that, by the +charter of Philip and Mary, granted to the city in 1556, these two +inclosures of land were clearly defined as being within the city +boundary, and by several ancient manuscripts and books, including +Blomefield’s “History of Norfolk,” reference was also made to these lands +as belonging to the city. It also appeared by the report of the +Commissioners appointed to report on the boundaries of boroughs and +corporate towns, by order of the House of Commons, on April 25th, 1837, +that such lands were within the city jurisdiction, and a plan attached to +such report corroborated the fact. The matter being important, and the +Town Clerk having been requested to state whether the city authorities +were willing in the new survey to allow such lands to be shown as forming +part of the county of Norfolk, it was referred to the Parliamentary and +Bylaws Committee, for further investigation and consideration. On August +26th, the Committee reported that they had consulted the Town Clerk and +Major Jones, of the Ordnance Survey, had referred to extracts from +charters and from Blomefield, and had resolved that sufficient evidence +had not been produced to set forth where the boundary of the city of +Norwich should be drawn, and that, therefore, they left Major Jones to +define it as he might think best, without prejudice to the rights of any +party. + +19.—The 3rd and 4th Battalions of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went into camp +on Yarmouth South Denes. Colonel Bulwer, who had succeeded Colonel Duff, +was in command of the 3rd Battalion, and Lieut.-Colonel Gurdon commanded +the 4th Battalion. + +20.—Owing to a heavy and continuous downpour of rain and a strong wind +blowing from the north-west, the waters of the Yare were “backed up,” +overflowed the banks of the river, and submerged many thousand acres of +marshes between Norwich and Yarmouth. Most of the hay crop in Norfolk +was ruined by the wet weather. + +23.—A silver epergne was presented to Mr. E. H. H. Combe, Mayor of +Yarmouth, as a “silver cradle,” to commemorate the birth of a daughter in +his year of office. + +26.—Particulars were published on this date of the establishment of the +Norwich Steam Laundry and Public Baths, at North Heigham. + +27.—A remarkable landslip occurred at Attleborough. As Mr. Gathergood, a +farmer, whose land lay partly in Attleborough and Rockland, was crossing +a turnip field, he was stunned by a loud report resembling the roar of a +cannon, immediately followed by a rustling noise within a yard or two of +him. On recovering his presence of mind, he discovered that a space of +land twenty-four yards in circumference had sunk out of sight, and water +was rising in its stead. On the 28th the water subsided, and revealed a +chasm from thirty-five to forty feet deep, with perfectly perpendicular +sides. This strange phenomenon was attributed to the action of the heavy +rainfall. + + +AUGUST. + + +2.—A terrible thunderstorm and hurricane commenced in the night and +prevailed during the early hours of the morning of the 3rd (Sunday). It +was accompanied by a deluge of rain and a heavy hailstorm. Great damage +was done to property in city and county. But the greatest calamity was +the destruction of Wells church, the tower of which was struck by +lightning at 5.50 a.m. on the 3rd. The roof of the nave was soon in +flames, and fell in with a crash, and by nine o’clock the whole church +was reduced to a state of utter ruin. The fine peal of bells was totally +destroyed, and the entire damage was estimated at from £10,000 to +£15,000. (_See_ April 18th, 1883.) + +4.—Died at Oxford Street, Unthank’s Road, Norwich, Mr. Thomas William +Bond, in his 76th year. Mr. Bond was some time subeditor, and afterwards +publisher, of the “Norfolk News,” and before removing to Norwich kept a +school at Barton Mills, near Stoke Ferry. He was the compiler of a small +book for children, known as “Bond’s Catechism,” which was published by +Jarrold, and for many years extensively used in all parts of the country. + +5.—Died at the residence of his son, Belmont House, Newport, Essex, +Zachariah Buck, Mus. Doc. He was born at Norwich on September 19th, +1798, and at an early age attracted the attention of Dr. Beckwith, the +then organist of the Cathedral, who took him into the choir. Dr. +Beckwith died in 1809, and was succeeded as organist by his son, Mr. John +Beckwith, with whom young Buck continued, and to whom he was articled. +On the death of Beckwith, in 1819, Buck, at the early age of twenty-one, +succeeded in obtaining the appointment of Cathedral organist, his chief +competitor being Alfred Pettet, a fellow-pupil, who was appointed to St. +Peter Mancroft. Buck soon obtained a large and lucrative practice as a +teacher, and established his reputation as a trainer of boys. For nearly +forty years he continued to perform the active duties of organist and +choirmaster, but during the last twenty years of his life he relinquished +the organ to his subsequent assistant and partner, Dr. Bunnett. Besides +instructing during his long career some 7,000 amateur pupils, Dr. Buck +trained a very large number of professional students, most of whom were +selected from his choir. He composed no great work, but was the author +of a number of pleasing anthems, and of the hymn, “Come hither, angel +tongues invite,” which, it was understood, gained for him his Lambeth +degree of Doctor of Music, conferred upon him by the Archbishop of +Canterbury. He resigned, on June 5th, 1877, his appointment at the +Cathedral, after seventy years’ connection therewith. Dr. Buck was twice +married—first to Miss Hansell, and secondly to Miss Holloway, and left +three sons. + +11.—The British, Archæological Association opened its congress at +Yarmouth. Lord Waveney, as president, delivered an inaugural address. +The members of the Congress visited Norwich on the 18th. + +26.—Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., having declined the invitation of the +Government to become a member of the Royal Commission appointed to +enquire into the depressed state of agriculture and its causes, and +believing that he could serve farmers better another way, sailed on this +date from Liverpool for America, in the City of Montreal liner, in +company with Mr. Albert Pell, M.P. The object of the hon. gentlemen was +to collect, in the United States, information conducive to the inquiry, +and this duty they undertook as unpaid assistant commissioners. They +made a tour through the Western agricultural regions of Manitoba, Dakota, +Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, went south-west to Texas, and returned to +Philadelphia on November 26th. They thoroughly examined the system of +cultivation, transportation, and ocean shipment of provisions and grain; +they travelled an average of 120 miles each day, besides making minute +investigations; and in this work they were greatly assisted by the St. +Paul and Sioux City Railway, who gave them the use of a special train for +a week. They examined the terminal and shipping facilities of the +Pennsylvania railroad, the American steamship line at Philadelphia, and +the Abbatoir Company’s arrangements for the shipping of live and dead +meat. After visiting Baltimore, Washington, and New York, Mr. Read and +Mr. Pell sailed for home on December 10th. Mr. Read arrived in Norfolk +on December 22nd, and was welcomed at Wymondham station by Mrs. Read and +several personal friends. + +26.—The Town Clerk reported, at a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, +that the Norwich Improvement Act received the Royal assent on July 22nd. +Among the works which it enabled the city to undertake was to remove +Foundry Bridge and construct a new one forty-five feet wide; to build a +bridge across the Wensum at St. Martin-at-Oak, and to exercise increased +powers in the sanitary administration and local government of the city. + +30.—The death was announced, at Brussels, of Lord Gordon of Drumearn, +who, when Lord Advocate for Scotland, in 1867, was returned as member of +Parliament for the borough of Thetford. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +16.—The Norwich Town Council adopted a resolution authorising the paving +of the Provision Market with wood, at a cost not exceeding £1,100. +(_See_ August 31st, 1880.) + +—The improvement of Chapel Field, Norwich, was, after many delays, +ordered by the Town Council to be undertaken, at a sum not exceeding +£1,000, the cost to be charged to the sanitary rate. On November 7th the +Mayor and Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. Bullard) and Mrs. Donald Steward planted +the first of the new trees. (_See_ November 4th, 1880.) + + +OCTOBER. + + +6.—Died at Norwich, in his 70th year, the Rev. William Grigson, M.A., for +thirty-three years rector of Whinburgh and Westfield. A son of Mr. +Edward Harvey Grigson, of Saham Toney, he was educated at Corpus Christi +College, Cambridge, and married, in 1844, Margaret, third daughter of Mr. +James Hales, of Norwich. The first of his ancestors to settle in the +county was the Rev. William Grigson, M.A., rector of Hardingham, in 1584, +and since that period they have continued to reside in Norfolk, where +they once held a large extent of landed property. Mr. Grigson’s +favourite studies were archæology and genealogy. As an authority upon +the latter, his assistance was sought from all parts of the kingdom, and +his name will always be remembered in connection with the “Visitations of +Norfolk,” of which work he was a joint editor. + +15.—Died at the Chantry, Norwich, in his 77th year, Mr. G. Pinson, +formerly Governor of Norwich Castle. + +28.—Died at Knapton House, Sir Henry Robinson, K.B., in his 76th year. +He was a son of Mr. George Robinson, and served for some years in her +Majesty’s Bodyguard of Gentlemen-at-Arms, of which he was appointed +Standard-Bearer in 1840, and Lieutenant-Commanding in 1845. In 1842 he +married Lucy, daughter of Mr. W. D. Cooper-Cooper, of Toddington Manor, +Bedford. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +6.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference was opened at Noverre’s Rooms, +Norwich, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop. The proceedings were +continued on the 7th. + +10.—The Norwich Town Council, owing to political differences, were unable +to elect a Mayor. Mr. Willis was nominated and declared elected, but +refused to take office. Mr. Philip Back having been appointed Sheriff, +the meeting was adjourned until the 22nd, when the Liberal party +declining to nominate, Colonel Bignold proposed Mr. Samuel Newman, who +refused to accept the position. Another adjournment was made to the +28th, when Mr. Harry Bullard declared his readiness, by accepting the +office for another year, to relieve the city of the stigma cast upon it. +The meeting then adjourned until December 2nd, when Mr. Bullard was +re-elected. + +18.—Mr. Frank Buckland and Mr. Spencer Walpole, Inspectors of Fisheries, +opened an inquiry at Cromer as to an application for an Order prohibiting +either entirely or subject to such exceptions and restrictions as the +Board of Trade might determine, the fishing for and taking of small +edible crabs and berried hen lobsters. A similar inquiry was held at +Sheringham on the 19th. + +20.—The Norwich Fat Cattle Show was opened at Chapel Field, and was +continued on the 21st and 22nd. + + +DECEMBER. + + +3.—Died at Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, London, Mr. John Unthank. The +third son of Mr. William Unthank, of Norwich, a solicitor in considerable +practice and agent to Mr. Coke, afterwards Earl of Leicester, he was born +in 1798. In 1842 he was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn, and joined +the Northern Circuit, where, for several years, he practised as a special +pleader. In 1859 he was appointed a Master of the Court of Queen’s +Bench, and held the post until 1878, when he retired, in consequence of +ill-health. + +7.—Died at 18, Bethel Street, Norwich, Mr. Frederick Lawrence Phillips, +journalist, for many years editor and part proprietor of the “Norwich +Argus.” Mr. Phillips, who was sixty years of age, was originally +intended for the legal profession, but took to the stage, upon which he +achieved fair success, and married Miss Ellen Daly, a prominent actress +of her day. An unfortunate accident, while playing Rob Roy, at Norwich +Theatre, terminated his hope of advancement in the theatrical profession. +Confined to his couch for some time, he employed himself in the study of +languages, and subsequently devoted himself to the translation of tales +and dramas, and to the production of original dramatic works. + +9.—The Rev. Osborne W. Tancock, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, +seventeen years master at Sherborne School, was appointed master of +Norwich Grammar School, in place of the Rev. Dr. Jessopp, on his +presentation to the rectory of Scarning. + +18.—The marriage of William Heveagre Legge, Viscount Lewisham, Member of +Parliament for West Kent, eldest son of the Earl of Dartmouth, with Lady +Mary Coke, fourth daughter of the Earl of Leicester, took place at +Holkham. + +25.—Died at Threxton, aged 68, Mr. Thomas Edward Walter Barton. The +Watton and Thetford Railway was originated mainly through Mr. Barton’s +instrumentality. His favourite study was archæology, and he possessed a +valuable antiquarian collection and library. + +26.—The Christmas pantomime produced at Norwich Theatre by Mr. R. Hall +was entitled, “Aladdin the Great.” + +27.—Died at his residence, Upper Surrey Street, Norwich, aged 68, Mr. +Thomas Brightwell, a well-known solicitor, and clerk to the Charity +Trustees, in which office he was succeeded by Mr. E. S. Bignold. + + + +1880. + + +JANUARY. + + +17.—Died at St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, in his 63rd year, Mr. Arthur +Morris Foster Morgan, surgeon. He was third son of Mr. Richard Morgan, +actuary of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, and after completing +his professional studies was appointed medical-officer of the Norwich +Dispensary, a post which he relinquished on entering into private +practice. Mr. Morgan was president of the Board of Directors of the +Norwich Equitable Fire Insurance Company, and held several other public +appointments. For twenty years he was a member of the Corporation, and +for some time was an alderman of the city. In polities he was a Liberal. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +12.—Died at his residence, Stradsett Hall, near Downham Market, Sir +William Bagge, Bart., M.P. One of twins born on June 17th, 1810, he was +a son of Mr. Thomas Philip Bagge, and priority of birth entitled him to +the family estates, to which he succeeded on the death of his father, on +June 30th, 1827. In 1833 he married Frances, fourth daughter of Sir +Thomas Preston, Bart., of Beeston Hall, and two years after made his +entry into public life by acceding to a request to contest the +Parliamentary representation of West Norfolk, which had hitherto been in +undisturbed possession of the Whigs. In this first attempt to break down +the political monopoly exercised in the division Mr. Bagge was +unsuccessful; three years subsequently, however, he and Mr. Chute were +returned. In 1841 he and his colleague were returned unopposed. In 1847 +the Liberals made another attempt, and succeeded in electing one of their +candidates, the Hon. E. K. Coke, but were unable to displace Mr. Bagge +from his position. In 1852 Mr. Bagge was joined by Mr. G. W. P. +Bentinck, and the contest resulted in an easy victory over Mr. Hamond. +It was deemed advisable by both sides in 1857 to have a compromise, and +Mr. Bagge, “from private reasons, and a desire not to disturb the peace +of the county,” retired to make room for Mr. Gurdon, who, with Mr. +Bentinck, thereafter represented the division. At the General Election +in 1865 the Conservatives resolved to take the entire representation, and +Mr. Bentinck’s state of health not allowing him to undertake the fatigue +of a contest, Mr. Bagge was asked to come forward with the Hon. T. de +Grey. The result was a large increase of Conservative strength and the +return of both candidates. In 1867 the honour of a baronetcy was +conferred upon Mr. Bagge, in recognition of his valuable political +services. Sir William was succeeded by his eldest son, William Henry +Ernest, who was born in 1840. + +14.—A public meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, for the +purpose of making known in the county the aims and objects of the +Farmers’ Alliance. Mr. Henry Birkbeck presided, and it was asserted that +the society was non-political. “Everything passed smoothly until the +hon. member for South Norfolk, Mr. C. S. Read, ventured to take a +different view from that of preceding speakers, and he was subjected to +persistent interruption by certain well-known Liberal politicians.” Mr. +J. Howard, president of the Alliance, and Mr. J. W. Barclay, M.P. for +Forfarshire, were among the speakers. + +17.—Two monster pike were captured in private waters in the county. One, +taken by Mr. Joseph English, of Upper St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, weighed +30½ lbs., and measured from the nose to the fork of the tail nearly 46 +inches; its girth was 24 inches, and the length of its head 13 inches. +The other, killed by Mr. Frank Thorns, of Exchange Street, Norwich, was +47 inches in length, and 27 inches in girth; its head from the tip of the +lower jaw to the edge of the gill covers was 13½ inches. + +21.—Died at Yarmouth, Mr. James Henry Orde. He was born in Jersey, +graduated at Oriel College, Oxford, and was appointed a clerk in the War +Office through the influence of his uncle, Lord Raglan. Mr. Orde was +appointed private secretary to General Peele, Secretary of State for War, +and held that office until 1859, when he went to Yarmouth, and devoted +himself to public affairs in that town. He married Margaret Barclay, +fourth daughter of Mr. Daniel Gurney, of North Runcton. + +24.—Died at Ber Street, Norwich, Mr. Samuel Richardson, aged 73. He was +well-known in scientific circles as a geologist and antiquary, and as a +contributor to various periodicals. + +25.—Died at his residence, the Upper Close, Norwich, Dr. Edward Copeman. +For nearly half a century he occupied a prominent position in the medical +profession of East Anglia. The eldest son of Mr. Edward Breese Copeman, +merchant, he was born at Great Witchingham on December 26th, 1809, and +was educated at Trunch Grammar School, then conducted by the Rev. W. +Rees. He became a pupil of Mr. Arthur Brown, of Norwich, on whose death +he was transferred to Mr. J. G. Crosse; he subsequently studied at St. +George’s Hospital, London, and became M.R.C.S. and L.A.C. in 1832. Soon +afterwards he was elected house-surgeon of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital, which institution he left to enter into general practice with +Mr. W. Taylor, at Coltishall. In 1848 he returned to Norwich, and, +having graduated as M.D. at Aberdeen University, established himself in +consulting practice. Dr. Copeman was afterwards elected a Fellow of the +Royal College of Surgeons, became a member of the Royal College of +Physicians, and in 1871 was made a Fellow of that body. In 1851 he was +elected physician of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital; he was also +physician to the Norwich Eye Infirmary, the Norwich Magdalen, and the +Lying-in Charity, and was one of the founders of the Jenny Lind Infirmary +for Sick Children, of which institution he was the first physician. Dr. +Copeman was a magistrate of the city and a trustee of Doughty’s Hospital. +A frequent contributor to the medical literature of the day, he was the +author of several standard works, among which were “A Treatise on +Apoplexy,” “Records of Obstetric Practice,” “Illustrations of Puerperal +Fever,” “Cerebral Diseases of Infancy,” “A History of the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital,” &c. + + +MARCH. + + +6.—A disastrous fire occurred at New Buckenham, in a range of shops and +private houses. Damage was done to the amount of £3,000. + +8.—Mr. William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst was returned unopposed as the +representative of the division of West Norfolk, to fill the vacancy +caused by the death of Sir William Bagge, Bart., M.P. + +16.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the Town Clerk reported the +receipt of a letter from the Home Office, informing him that the old City +Gaol had been sold for £7,505, and that, in accordance with the +provisions of the Prisons Act, the sum of £1,984 0s. 5d. was due from +that amount to the Corporation. + +29.—Mr. Charles Dillon, “one of the few living actors of the old school” +commenced a twelve nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre. He was +supported by Miss Bella Mortimer. Among the plays produced were +“Richelieu,” “Othello,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “The Gamester,” “Much +Ado about Nothing,” and “Macbeth.” The last-named tragedy was performed +on Saturday, April 10th, on which occasion Mr. Dillon made his final +appearance on the Norwich stage. (_See_ June 24th, 1881.) + +30.—The nomination of candidates for the representation of Norwich took +place. The nominees were Mr. J. J. Column and Mr. J. H. Tillett +(liberals), sad Mr. Henry Harben, of Seaford Lodge, Hampstead, and the +Hon. F. W. B. Massey-Mainwaring, 30, Grosvenor Place, London +(Conservatives). The potting on the 31st resulted as follows: Colman, +6,549; Tillett, 6,512; Harben, 5,242; Massey-Mainwaring 5,032. + +31.—Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Bart., and Mr. Clare Sewell Read +(Conservatives), and Mr. Robert Thornhagh Gurdon (Liberal) were nominated +candidates for the representation of South Norfolk. The polling took +place on April 6th, and the counting of the ballot-papers was proceeded +with at the Shirehall, Norwich, on the 7th. “The result of the first +count was a dead heat between Mr. Read and Mr. Gurdon, the numbers for +both being 2,906. Mr. Read’s agent demanded a second count, and on the +clerks going through the papers, one of them discovered a voting-paper +for Buxton and Read, on the back of which the voter, in distinct +violation of the Ballot Act, had inscribed his name. The rejection of +this paper made the numbers as between Mr. Read and Mr. Gurdon 2,905 and +2,906. Thus the seat was lost by one vote, and the official return was +made as follows; Buxton, 2,917; Gurdon, 2,906; Read, 2905.” A proposed +petition against the return of Mr. Gurdon was abandoned. + + +APRIL. + + +3.—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and Mr. Edward Birkbeck were returned +unopposed for the division of North Norfolk. + +4.—The funeral took place at Langham of William Nelson, who died at the +age of 101 years 4 months. + +8.—Mr. Kay, Q.C., was appointed third Chairman of the Norfolk Court of +Quarter Sessions. + +—King’s Lynn election took place, and resulted as follows: Sir W. ffolkes +(Liberal), 1,286; the Hon. R. Bourke (Conservative), 1,257; Lord Claud J. +Hamilton (Conservative), 1,192; Mr. Frank Lockwood (Liberal), 1,151. + +9.—Polling took place in the Western Division of Norfolk, and resulted as +follows: Mr. William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 2,671; Mr. G. Bentinck, +2,433; Mr. Anthony Hamond, 2,304. + +10.—Mr. Thomas Johnson Seppings, of Wormegay Grange, Mayor of King’s +Lynn, died suddenly when presiding at a meeting of a Committee of the +Corporation, held at the Town Hall. Mr. Seppings was in his 69th year. + +14.—Lord Walsingham was elected second Chairman of Swaffham Quarter +Sessions, in place of Sir William Bagge, deceased. + +23.—Mr. Bret Harte, the celebrated American author, delivered, at +Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, a lecture descriptive of early Californian +life, entitled, “The Argonauts of ’49.” + + +MAY. + + +3.—The Norwich City Asylum, at Hellesdon, built by Messrs. Cornish and +Gaymer, from plans by Mr. R. M. Phipson, was formally handed over to the +Committee of Visitors by the contractors. The wards were designed for +the accommodation of 311 patients, and the total cost of the Asylum, +including land (£1,841), and building (£48,708) was £62,159. + +15.*—[Advt.] “The Erpingham Coach-and-Four is now running every Tuesday +and Saturday, calling at the several parishes on the way. Times and +fares can be had at the Maid’s Head Hotel, Norwich, the starting-place.” + +17.—The Annual Moveable Committee of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows +commenced its proceedings at King’s Lynn, and was attended by 400 +delegates. + +19.—The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Yarmouth, in the discharge his +duties as Admiral-Superintendent of Naval Reserves and Coastguards. In +the evening his Royal Highness attended a ball given by the officers of +the Prince of Wales’ Own Norfolk Artillery Militia, and left Yarmouth on +the 21st. + +21.—A meeting was held at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, under the presidency +of the Mayor (Mr. H. Bullard), in furtherance of the proposed new line of +railway between Lynn, Fakenham, and Norwich. Mr. Walrond Smith, C.E., +stated the details of the scheme, and a committee was appointed to +promote the progress of a Bill before Parliament. The Corporation of +Norwich had previously presented a petition against the railway, but, on +the promoters giving an undertaking to construct a new road from Barn +Road to a point in St. Martin-at-Oak Street, to be carried over the +Wensum by a bridge, the Town Council, on May 26th, consented to the +withdrawal of the petition. Before the end of the year a more elaborate +scheme was submitted by the promoters, who suggested an extension of the +line beyond the intended terminus at North Heigham. It was to cross the +Wensum and pass beneath the Fakenham and Aylsham turnpikes to the hamlet +of Pockthorpe, to be again carried over the river near Bishop Bridge, and +to pass through the Lower Close and St. Faith’s Lane to the Prince of +Wales Road, where it was proposed to erect a central station for the +accommodation of passengers, goods, and cattle. Application was made to +the Corporation to contribute £50,000 towards the cost of the land +required for this undertaking. The matter was considered at a meeting of +the Town Council on December 21st, when the proposals generally, and the +suggested contribution in particular, were ridiculed. The Dean of +Norwich, on behalf of the Cathedral body and the inhabitants of the +Close, wrote an indignant protest against the contemplated intrusion upon +their privacy and injury to their property. The subject was referred to +the Parliamentary and Bylaws Committee, who, in due course, condemned the +scheme. (_See_ March 31st, 1882.) + +24.—The Sheriff of Norwich (Mr. Philip Back) revived the observance of +the Queen’s birthday, a custom which had been in abeyance for some years, +by giving a grand ball at St. Andrew’s Hall. + +27.—The headquarters of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons arrived at Norwich +Cavalry Barracks. + + +JUNE. + + +3.—At a meeting of the Norwich Board of Guardians, a series of +resolutions and amendments on the subject of the Boys’ Home and the +education and industrial training of pauper children was considered. Mr. +Daynes moved that from and after June 24th the Boys’ Home in St. Faith’s +Lane be discontinued, and the boys transferred to the Workhouse, and that +the Home be offered for sale. Canon Copeman moved that it was desirable +to provide education and industrial training for the children of the poor +apart from the Workhouse. The amendment was adopted by 24 votes against +12. + +3.—The centenary anniversary of the Yarmouth Monthly Book Club was +celebrated by a dinner held at the Crown and Anchor Hotel. “In former +days the custom was for each member present at the dinner to propose the +health of a lady. The society was promoted by the Rev. Richard Turner, +afterwards vicar of the parish, who, at the first meeting, was elected +honorary secretary, and held that office fifty years. He was succeeded +by Dr. G. Penrice, who was followed by the Rev. Mark Waters, B.A., in +1841. After the decease of that gentleman, in 1864, the business was +conducted by the Rev. Bowyer Vaux, who, five years ago, resigned, and was +succeeded by Mr. J. F. Waters. The club is remarkable for its age, for +having had during its century of existence only five secretaries, and for +being still as flourishing as it was in its early years.” + +12.—A special meeting of the Norwich Diocesan Conference, summoned by +requisition, was held at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, to consider the +Burials Bill introduced by the Government. The Conference adopted +resolutions protesting against the principle of the Bill, and suggesting +certain amendments thereto, the chief of which were that its provisions +should not extend to the consecrated parts of cemeteries nor to +churchyards to which land had been added by living donors, and that the +permissive clause as to the modification of services be omitted. + +14.—Died at North Runcton, Mr. Daniel Gurney, in his 90th year. He was +for many years senior partner in the Lynn and district banks of Messrs. +Gurney and Co. Mr. Gurney was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, +and wrote some useful essays on banking and “A Record of the House of +Gurney,” printed for private circulation. He was a magistrate and Deputy +Lieutenant for the county, and served the office of High Sheriff in 1858. + +15.—Died at St. Leonard’s Precincts, Mousehold, Norwich, Mr. John Henry +Druery, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law. He was a member of the +Antiquarian Society of London, of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological +Society, membre de la Société Française d’Archæologie, &c. + +—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the corporate seal was affixed +to an agreement between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England and +the Corporation, for carrying into effect the arrangement made in 1866 +with the Dean and Chapter of Norwich for conveying Mousehold Heath to the +Corporation for the purpose of public pleasure grounds. The proposal met +with strenuous opposition from the inhabitants of Pockthorpe, who claimed +the Heath as the property of themselves and their successors, and +asserted that while they were entitled to the rents, rights, and profits, +the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had no title whatever. (_See_ June +21st, 1881.) + +16.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was held at +Downham Market, and was continued on the 17th. Mr. H. Villebois was +president. + +27.—The celebration of the centenary of the Sunday School movement +originated practically by Robert Raikes, the newspaper editor, of +Gloucester, commenced at Norwich with a special service at the Cathedral +and children’s services at the parish churches. The proceedings of the +week closed on July 1st. The centenary was celebrated throughout the +county. + + +JULY. + + +1.—Colonel Black, Chief Constable of Norfolk, resigned his appointment, +and received from the magistrates the highest superannuation allowance +permitted by law. On September 23rd Mr. Paynton Pigott, who, for six +years, had been Deputy Chief Constable, was elected to the vacant post. +Colonel Black, on his retirement, was presented with valuable +testimonials by the magistrates and the constabulary. + +10.—A fifty miles walking match, for £20 a side, took place at the +Hop-pole Gardens, Norwich, between George Parry, winner of O’Leary’s +champion belt of the world, at Chicago, and William Clarke, the Norfolk +champion. Heavy rainstorms occurred during the day, and at times the +track was flooded. Clarke left the path after completing 40 miles, and +Parry, who was three miles ahead, also retired. + +14.—The Duke of Norfolk visited Norwich, and presided at an influential +meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall, on behalf of the Eastern Counties’ +Asylum for Idiots. The principal streets of the city were decorated in +honour of the visit, peals were rung upon the bells of St. Peter +Mancroft, and his Grace was received at the hall by the Mayor (Mr. Harry +Bullard), the Sheriff (Mr. Philip Back), the Deputy Mayor. (Mr. J. D. +Smith), and other civic dignitaries. The Mayor presented to the Duke an +address of welcome, adopted on the previous day by the Town Council, and +afterwards entertained his Grace and 200 guests at a _déjeuner_. + +17.—The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture adopted a resolution, moved by Mr. +C. S. Read, expressing satisfaction with the steps taken by the +Government for the repeal of the Malt Tax by the substitution of a beer +duty, “as repeatedly recommended by the chamber.” + +22.—Died at Munich, three weeks after her arrival there from London, +Madame Anna Caroline de Belleville Oury, one of the most distinguished +pianists of her time. + +24.—The 3rd and 4th Battalions of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went into camp +at Great Yarmouth, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Bulwer and +Lieut.-Colonel Gurdon, M.P. The total number of men under canvas was +1,301. + +27.—The Norwich Town Council, on the motion of Mr. George White, adopted +the following resolution: “Several months having elapsed since this +Council requested the Parliamentary and Bylaws Committee to consider the +legal position in which the Corporation stands with the British Gaslight +Company, and, considering the enormous interests at stake, the Council +urges upon the Committee the necessity of at once reporting as to what +steps, if any, they advise to be taken, in order to relieve the citizens +from the unjust and unnecessary burdens imposed upon them through the +extravagant charge made for gas.” The Committee were also instructed “to +take into consideration the question of electric lighting, as lately +adopted by several corporations.” (_See_ August 30th, 1881.) + +27.—A grand bazaar was held in Holkham Park, in aid of the restoration +fund of Wells church. The proceedings realised a profit of £845. + +28.—Died at Castle Rising, the Hon. Theophilus Howard, second son of +Charles John, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire. Mr. Howard entered into +possession of the estate of Castle Rising at the close of 1876, having +received it by deed of gift from Mrs. Howard, of Ashstead. By his +succession this property, which came into the possession of the Howard +family in 1545, again reverted to the Suffolk and Berkshire line, from +which it was separated by the death of Henry, twelfth Earl of Suffolk and +Berkshire, in the year 1779. Mr. Howard married Lady Audrey Townshend, +youngest daughter of the Marquis Townshend, in 1873, and left two sons +and two daughters. He was called to the Bar in 1863, and in 1873 was +appointed a Commissioner in Lunacy, a post which he resigned in 1878. +“He was the first of the great Howard family who made Castle Rising his +permanent residence and home, for though the estate had been possessed by +the Howards since 1545 it was always as a political occupation when +Castle Rising was a Parliamentary borough, or as a temporary residence +for the shooting. Consequently, through the long period of 335 years not +one of the family is known to have died there, and certainly none, with +the exception of Mr. Howard, have been buried in the parish church or +churchyard.” + + +AUGUST. + + +9.—At the Norwich Police Court, William Davies, of the Army Hospital +Corps, Henry Pritchard, and William Solly, privates in the 6th +Inniskilling Dragoons, and Staff-Sergt. Alexander W. Browne, Army +Hospital Corps, were charged with attempting to kill and murder John +Smith, a private of the 17th Regiment of Foot, at the Cavalry Barracks, +on August 3rd. Smith had been left in the military hospital by a +detachment of the 17th, who had handed the barracks over to the +Inniskillings. Smith was suffering from a loathsome disease, and it was +alleged that the orderlies of the dragoons and Davies, who had charge of +him, with the cognisance of Browne, stuffed up the fireplace of the ward +with straw, closed the windows and door, and placed plates of burning +sulphur upon the floor, for the purpose of suffocating him. The man died +a few days subsequently from the effects of the disease from which he was +suffering. The prosecution alleged two motives against the +prisoners—first, that some of them were interested in a will made by +Smith in their favour, and, secondly, that they were desirous of getting +rid of an unpleasant patient. After several remands, the prisoners were +committed for trial at the Assizes. The case was heard before the Lord +Chief Justice on November 12th, when the jury acquitted the prisoners. +Sergt. Browne was shortly afterwards promoted to the post of Acting +Sergt.-Major in the Army Hospital Corps at the North Camp, Aldershot, and +headmaster of the 3rd District Station Hospital. + +16.—Mr. Traverner’s English Opera Company commenced a six nights’ +engagement at Norwich Theatre, in the opera of “Martha.” The company +included Miss Annette Albu, Mdlle. Joyce-Maas, Mr. Michael Dwyer, Mr. +William Parkinson, and Madame Arabella Smythe. + +—The annual meeting of the National Association of Architects commenced +at Norwich. Visits were made to different parts of the county, for the +inspection of the church architecture of the district. + +30.—The extension of the East Norfolk Railway from Aylsham to Cawston was +inspected by General Hutchinson, and was opened for public traffic on +September 1st. + +31.—The Norwich Town Council received a report from a special committee +recommending a scheme for repairing the main streets of the city with +wood, at the cost of £19,284. The scheme was adopted on September 15th. +On October 13th Mr. Arnold Taylor, an Inspector of the Local Government +Board, held an inquiry at the Guildhall as to an application by the +Corporation for powers to borrow £30,300 for street improvements and wood +paving. It was stated that of the amount named, £25,000 would be +required for the latter work. The Town Clerk reported, on November 16th, +that the Local Government Board had sanctioned a loan of £25,000, +repayable with interest within a period not exceeding twelve years. +(_See_ January 22nd, 1883.) + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +3.—The Grantully Castle steamship, with Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone on board, +arrived in Yarmouth Roads. Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., and several members +of the local Liberal party put off in the steam-tug Meteor, and boarded +the steamer. Mr. A. Peaton read to the right hon. gentleman an address, +conveying to him the congratulations of the Liberal party in Yarmouth +upon his recovery from his recent severe illness. Mr. Gladstone, who had +most cordially received the deputation, returned thanks in a +characteristic speech. + +—The staff of the Anchor Brewery, Norwich, to the number of 650, were +conveyed by special train to the Alexandra Palace, by invitation of the +head of the firm, Mr. Harry Bullard, Mayor of the city. + +17.—Died at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, aged 84, the Right Hon. Sir +Fitzroy Edward Kelly, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Division of the +High Court of Justice. He was elected High Steward of Norwich, an office +which was abolished by the Municipal Reform Act. Sir Fitzroy received +three years’ annuity to January 1st, 1839, and a life pension of £48 a +year. + +18.—The appointment was announced of Dr. Horace Hill as chorus-master of +the Norwich Festivals. + +21.—The Norwich Town Council appointed Dr. Bunnett City Organist, at the +salary of £50 per annum. + +26.—Died at Aylsham, in his 86th year, Mr. Robert William Parmeter, who +held the office of Clerk of the Peace for the county of Norfolk from 1842 +to 1868, when he was succeeded by Mr. Charles Foster. + +27.—Died at Fawley Court, Buckinghamshire, Mr. Edward Mackenzie, aged 69. +He was a member of a family who were largely identified with railway +enterprises, especially in France, where he resided sixteen years. Mr. +Mackenzie’s connection with Norfolk and Suffolk began in 1869, when he +purchased the estates of Thetford and Santon-Downham. “He is best +remembered by the public for his foundation of the British Orphan Asylum +at Slough.” + + +OCTOBER. + + +5.—A meeting of the Wells and Fakenham Turnpike Trustees was held at +Wells, for the purpose of letting the toll-gates for a term of eleven +months expiring on November 1st, 1881. The trust would have ceased in +1876, but Mr. E. B. Loynes, clerk to the trustees, was instructed to +attend a Select Committee of the House of Commons, to give information on +the subject. This resulted in a further period of five years being +granted, and certain restrictions and conditions were imposed to be +observed by the trustees. It was only in 1824 an Act was obtained for +making this road. “Under no conditions, however, can the trust be +maintained beyond November 1st, 1881, and therefore after that date the +Wells and Fakenham Turnpike Trust will be a thing of the past.” + +11.—Died at Unthank’s Road, Norwich, the Rev. John Hallett, aged 57, for +twenty-four years minister of the Old Meeting House. + +18.—The “Caste” Company, under the management of Messrs. Robertson and +Bruce, commenced a farewell engagement at Norwich Theatre. Miss Cora +Stuart (Mrs. T. W. Robertson) made her first appearance on the Norwich +stage. + +22.—A new organ, erected at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by Messrs. +Bryceson Bros. and Ellis, Charlton Works, Islington, was formally handed +over by Mr. Hugh Barclay, on behalf of the subscribers, to the Mayor (Mr. +Harry Bullard). The organ and its accessories cost £1,874. The receipts +amounted to £1,841, and Mr. R. A. Gorell made up the deficiency by +handing in a cheque for £35. Dr. Bridge, organist of Westminster Abbey, +Dr. Bennett, and Dr. Gladstone played selections upon the new instrument, +and the Mayor entertained the large company present on the occasion. The +public opening of the organ took place on the 23rd, when Dr. Bunnett gave +the first recital of his annual series. + +26.—Died at Lowestoft, Mr. John Bathurst Graver-Browne, of Morley Hall, +aged 43. He was a son of Mr. John Graver-Browne, by his wife Frances +Bathurst, granddaughter of the Bishop of Norwich, and married, in 1871, +Frances Julia, daughter of Sir Henry Stracey, Bart. Mr. Graver-Browne +was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of the county, and served the +office of High Sheriff in 1873. + +29.—A dreadful disaster occurred at Wells-next-the-Sea. The Eliza Adams +lifeboat, manned by thirteen men, capsized while going to a ship in +distress, and eleven of the crew were drowned. Great public sympathy was +expressed, and to the fund inaugurated for the relief of the bereaved +families the Royal National Lifeboat Institution contributed £1,000. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +4.—Chapel Field, Norwich, renamed Chapel Field Gardens, was re-opened for +the use of the public. This hitherto neglected area had been tastefully +laid out as a garden, and in the centre was erected the wrought-iron +pavilion manufactured by Messrs. Barnards and Bishop, and exhibited by +them four years previously at the Philadelphia Exhibition. It was +designed by Mr. T. Jeckyll, and purchased for the city by public +subscription. The Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard) performed the opening +ceremony, and after the band of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons had played +the National Anthem, his worship entertained a large company to luncheon +at the Drill Hall. + +—The Norwich Diocesan Conference commenced its sittings at Noverre’s +Rooms, Norwich, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop. The proceedings +concluded on the 5th. + +—Died at Tasburgh, Mr. Ernest H. Willett, only son of Mr. Henry Willett, +of Norwich. He was a well-known cricketer, and although he fell away +from the early promise of his Radley days, did good service as captain of +the county eleven. With Mr. H. Birkbeck, jun., and the Rev. H. W. +Turner, Mr. Willett resuscitated the County Club, which played its first +match with Essex, at Brentwood, on July 28th and 29th, 1876. + +9.—Mr. Samuel Grimmer was elected Mayor, and Dr. Eade appointed Sheriff +of Norwich. + +14.—Died at Stow Hall, Downham Market, Sir Thomas Leigh Hare, Bart. Born +July 18th, 1807, he was formerly captain in the 2nd Life Guards, and +afterwards captain in the West Norfolk Militia. A magistrate and a +Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, he had served the office of High Sheriff. + +18.—The annual exhibition of the Norfolk and Norwich Christmas Show +Association opened at the Drill Hall and Chapel Field, Norwich, and was +attended by the Patron, the Prince of Wales, who arrived from Horstead +Hall, where he had been staying as the guest of Mr. Edward Birkbeck. His +Royal Highness, after leaving the show, was entertained to luncheon by +Mr. and Mrs. Colman, at Carrow House. The Prince, before returning to +Horstead, inspected the various departments at Carrow Works. + +20.*—“A final dividend of 9½d. in the pound is announced in connection +with the bankruptcy of Messrs. Harvey and Hudsons, bankers, Norwich, who +failed for upwards of £1,700,000, in July, 1870. The total return to the +creditors has been 14s. 3½d. in the pound.” (_See_ December 3rd.) + +22.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Melton Constable, on a +visit to Lord and Lady Hastings. Their Royal Highnesses left on November +26th. + +—The dead body of Henry Jonathan Minns, lay clerk at Norwich Cathedral, +and a well-known local tenor, was discovered suspended by the neck upon a +ladder in the presbytery triforium over St. Luke’s chapel at the +Cathedral. At the adjourned inquest, held on the 26th, the jury returned +a verdict to the effect that deceased committed suicide while of unsound +mind. On the same day “a special service of humiliation” was held at the +Cathedral, when an address was delivered by the Dean. + +23.—The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Didlington Hall, on a visit to Mr. +W. A. Tyssen-Amherst, M.P., and left on the 26th. His Royal Highness was +engaged in the inspection of the Coastguard and Naval Reserves on the +East Coast. + +24.—A special choral service, in aid of the Choir Benevolent Fund, was +held at Norwich Cathedral. Members of the choirs of her Majesty’s +Chapels Royal, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Ely, Norwich, and +Peterborough Cathedrals, Eton College, and St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, +took part, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Swainson, Canon of +Chichester. + +29.—The bells of Blofield church were re-opened, after re-hanging by the +Redenhall firm of bell-founders—Captain Moore, Mr. Gervas Holmes, M.A., +of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and Mr. Mackenzie, C.E. + +—The Conservative party at Lynn presented to Lady Hamilton, wife of Lord +Claud J. Hamilton, a valuable diamond bracelet, and congratulated his +lordship, who formerly represented the borough, upon his election for +Liverpool. + + +DECEMBER. + + +3.—Application was made in the Rolls Court for leave to bring an action +in connection with the Harvey and Hudsons bankruptcy. It was alleged +that a certain asset of the firm (a life interest on property which had +been sold by Mr. E. K. Harvey to his brother, Sir Robert) was disposed of +for a sum far below its value; Messrs. Boswell and Baxter, wine +merchants, who were creditors of Messrs. Harvey and Hudsons, claimed that +the matter should be re-opened and re-adjusted. Divested of +technicalities, the claim of the plaintiffs, who sued for themselves and +other creditors of Sir R. J. Harvey’s joint and separate estates, was to +have the purchase of the life interest by the defendants set aside, and +to have the benefit of the policies effected, and payment of the income +arising from the life interest which had been already received by the +defendants, after allowance had been made for the purchase-money and +interest of the premiums paid on the policies; and also the costs of the +suit. The Master of the Rolls granted the application to December 9th. +(_See_ December 7th, 1882.) + +8.—Trinity Wesleyan chapel, Dereham, the foundation-stone of which was +laid in the month of April, was opened for public worship. The work, +executed from designs by Mr. Edward Boardman, architect, Norwich, cost, +inclusive of minister’s house, &c., £3,400. + +15.—A new warehouse, erected at the cost of many thousands of pounds, at +Lynn docks, and stored with large quantities of cotton seed, belonging to +different merchants, was destroyed by fire. The damage was estimated at +£15,000. + +18.—At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the county of Norfolk, +held at the Shirehall, Norwich, the Chairman (Mr. C. S. Read) reported an +alarming outbreak of foot-and-mouth diseases affecting 1,754 cattle, +1,640 sheep, and 66 pigs. (_See_ February 28th, 1881.) + +24.—The Christmas pantomime produced at Norwich Theatre by Messrs. +Herbert and Collingwood was entitled, “Robinson Crusoe and Harlequin +Billee Taylor, or Man Friday among the Afghans.” This was the last +Christmas pantomime performed at the Theatre. At Messrs. John Sanger and +Son’s Circus, on December 27th, was produced, “Little Red Riding Hood, +the Wicked Wolf, and the Princess’s Fairy Garden Party.” + + + +1881 + + +JANUARY. + + +8.—Dr. F. E. Gladstone, it was announced, had resigned the post of +organist of Norwich Cathedral, upon receiving a similar appointment at +Christ church, Lancaster Gate, London. He was succeeded by Mr. Frederic +C. Atkinson, organist of Manningham church, Bradford, a native of Norwich +and pupil of Dr. Buck. + +12.—Winter set in with great severity, and during the night upwards of +six inches of snow fell. The frost was intense. On the 17th the Yare +was frozen over and navigation stopped, and on the 18th an extraordinary +snowstorm and gale occurred. The thermometer registered 32 degrees of +frost, and the wind, which during the preceding night had veered to the +east, suddenly assumed the strength of a hurricane, which raged for +nearly twenty-four hours. “A velocity of 548 miles was recorded, a force +very rarely experienced in this part of the country.” Little snow fell +until about five o’clock in the afternoon, when the clouds discharged +themselves with a virulence almost unprecedented. From six to eight +inches of snow fell in a few hours, and in places there were drifts ten +feet in depth. The traffic on most of the branch lines of the Great +Eastern Railway was suspended nearly twenty-four hours. The mail train +from Norwich to Yarmouth—four hours late—ran into a drift near Buckenham, +and remained embedded six hours. The use of five engines and the efforts +of sixty men proved unavailing, and there was no alternative but to take +the train back to Norwich. Many of the roads being impassable, the +mail-cart drivers abandoned their journeys. Terrible shipping disasters +occurred off Yarmouth; thirteen vessels were wrecked, and nearly fifty +lives lost. The surf lifeboat was capsized a few yards from the shore, +and of the crew of ten who were entangled in the tackle beneath the craft +six were drowned. From the 14th to the 21st never once did the +thermometer rise above freezing-point. On the 26th the temperature rose +to 38 degrees, and rain fell on the 27th. + +17.—Prince’s Street Sunday schools and Lecture Hall, Norwich, were +opened, as an adjunct to the Congregational church. The fine block of +buildings was designed by Mr. Edward Boardman, architect, and erected by +Messrs. Downing and Sons, at the cost of about £12,600. + +24.—The National Skating Association held a race-meeting on Wroxham +Broad. Fixed originally for the 18th, but postponed in consequence of +the gale, it was attended, amongst other competitors, by George (“Fish”) +Smart, Champion of England, W. (“Turkey”) Smart, and many prominent Fen +skaters. + +28.—Killed at the battle of Lang’s Nek, South Africa, aged 21, Lieut. +Robert Hamond Elwes, Grenadier Guards, _aide-de-camp_ to Sir G. Pomeroy +Colley. He was the eldest son of Mr. Robert Elwes, of Congham House, +near King’s Lynn. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +9.—A squadron of the 3rd Hussars arrived at Norwich Cavalry Barracks, +from Colchester. + +14.—The comic opera, “Les Cloches de Corneville,” was performed at +Norwich Theatre for the first time by a company under the management of +Mr. Charles Bernard. A company of children presented the same opera at +the Theatre on March 28th. + +28.—In accordance with a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Norfolk +Chamber of Agriculture on the 26th, a deputation waited upon Earl +Spencer, President of the Privy Council, when Mr. C. S. Read, as +president of the Chamber and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the +County, expressed, on behalf of Norfolk agriculturists, the desire that, +in view of the prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease, greater restrictions +should be observed in regard to store cattle, and that a certain +relaxation should be made in the case of fat cattle, which, it was +proposed, should be sent direct from licensed sales and markets to +slaughter-houses, to be killed within four days. It was also suggested +that the Privy Council should prohibit the importation of live animals +from countries where they knew disease existed. A further deputation, +headed by the Mayor of Norwich (Mr. S. Grimmer), interviewed Earl Spencer +on March 25th, with the view of obtaining such relaxation of the Orders +in Council as to permit the sale of store stock at Tombland Fair. A +fresh outbreak of the disease occurred in the autumn, and on October 28th +the county authority passed a resolution affirming that, notwithstanding +its recurrence, the time had not arrived for the closing of the markets; +that should the Privy Council consider it necessary to stop the spread of +the disease by closing the store stock markets, such order should not +take effect before the first week in December; that the existing +regulations for preventing the importation of diseased cattle from +foreign countries were entirely insufficient, and that until more +stringent regulations were in force the system of closing markets was +vexatious. (_See_ January 7th, 1882.) + + +MARCH. + + +8.—The Spring Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was held at +Lynn, but the change of venue resulted in a very small entry. + +19.*—“Died, a few days ago, in a modest dwelling in Yarmouth, Charles +Crawshay Wilkinson, the inventor of perforated sheet stamps. The +Government offered a very handsome reward for a contrivance by which +postage and other stamps might be most easily separated. Mr. Wilkinson, +then only a working-man, in the service of a distinguished firm, +exercised the considerable technical knowledge and natural cleverness he +possessed, and constructed a perforating machine similar to those now in +use. This success was made known to his employers, who presented him +with a sum for the invention, but obtained the credit for it, and also +the large reward offered. The inventor gained a competency by his +industry, went to Yarmouth, and lived happily in retirement. With the +exception of intimate friends, very few knew him as the real originator +of a device which had benefited countless millions of people.” + + +APRIL. + + +2.*—“Mr. Edward Ebenezer Kay, Q.C., of Thorpe Abbots, near Scole, has +accepted the Judgeship vacant by the retirement of Vice-Chancellor Sir +Richard Malins. He does not become Vice-chancellor, but simply one of +the Judges of the High Court of Justice.” + +18.—The National Fisheries Exhibition was opened at the Drill Hall, +Norwich, by the Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness, who was accompanied +by the Princess of Wales, Prince Leopold, the Lord President of the Privy +Council and the Countess Spencer, Sir W. Vernon Harcourt and Lady +Harcourt, his Excellency Count Dannesekjold-Samsoë, Count +Frijs-Frijsonborg, Lord and Lady Charles Beresford, Mr. Mundella, M.P., +and Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, arrived from Wolferton at Thorpe station at +12.20, and was received by the Mayor (Mr. S. Grimmer), the Sheriff (Dr. +Eade), and the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard). The Artillery +Volunteers supplied a guard of honour in the station yard, and the Royal +visitors were escorted by a detachment of the 3rd Hussars. At the Drill +Hall, where the Rifle Volunteers mounted a guard of honour, their Royal +Highnesses were received by the President of the exhibition (Mr. Edward +Birkbeck, M.P.) and other officials. The President presented an address +to the Prince of Wales, who replied, and declared the exhibition open. +The Mayor afterwards entertained their Royal Highnesses and a +distinguished company to a _déjeuner_ at St. Andrew’s Hall. At four +o’clock the Royal party returned to Thorpe station, whence they proceeded +to Wolferton. The exhibition, which was promoted by the Norfolk and +Suffolk Fish Acclimatization Society, remained open until May 7th, was +visited by 70,000 persons, exclusive of exhibitors and their assistants, +and nearly £2,800 was received for admission. Several distinguished +scientists delivered lectures at the Prince’s Street Lecture +Hall—Professor Huxley on “The Herring,” on April 21st; Mr. Edward Jex, on +“Deep Sea Fisheries,” on April 22nd; Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, on +“Fish-eating Birds,” on April 25th; and Mr. H. N. Moseley, naturalist to +the Challenger Expedition, on “Deep-sea Dredging,” on April 28th. On the +last day of the exhibition, Earl Ducie distributed the prizes and +diplomas to the exhibitors. + +19.—A meeting of the members of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture and of +farmers and agriculturists residing in West Norfolk was held at the Town +Hall, Lynn, under the presidency of Mr. C. S. Read, when a resolution +affirming “that the present state of the agricultural interest demands +the serious attention of the Government of the country” was unanimously +adopted. In compliance with a letter addressed to the parochial clergy +by the Lord Bishop, services of humiliation and of intercession for a +plentiful harvest were held throughout the diocese during the last week +of May. + +26.—On the occasion of the funeral of Lord Beaconsfield, flags were +displayed at half-mast on the churches and public buildings of Norwich, +muffled bells were tolled, and many business establishments were +partially closed. A funeral sermon was preached at the Cathedral by +Canon Heaviside. + +28.—Died, in his 84th year, Mr. Brampton Gurdon, of Letton Hall and +Grundisburgh Hall, Suffolk. He was the eldest son of Mr. Theophilus +Thornhagh Gurdon, of Letton, and in 1855 served the office of High +Sheriff. In 1857 Mr. Gurdon was elected unopposed one of the members for +the Western division of the county, and was again returned, with Mr. +Bentinck, in 1859. He retained the seat until July, 1865, when he and +Sir Willoughby Jones were defeated by Mr. Bagge and the Hon. T. de Grey. +Mr. Gurdon married the Hon. Henrietta Susannah, daughter and co-heiress +of the first Baron Colborne, of West Harling Hall. + +29.—Charles Monsey, a superannuated Excise officer, murdered his wife at +Worstead, by inflicting wounds upon her head with a hatchet. At Ipswich +Assizes, before Mr. Justice Hawkins, on May 9th, affidavits were produced +as to the insanity of the accused, and the trial was postponed. Monsey +was afterwards detained as a criminal lunatic. + + +MAY. + + +7.—The Census returns for Norwich were published on this date, as +follow:—Houses: Inhabited, 19,777; uninhabited, 1,011; building, 246. +Persons: Males, 40,281; females, 47,560; total, 87,841. + +29.—Died at Hoveton House, the Rev. Thomas John Blofeld, vicar of the +parish, aged 74. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, +where he graduated in 1829. Ordained in 1830, he was for a short time +vicar of Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire, and exchanged the living for the +rectory of Drayton and Hellesdon. Mr. Blofeld was rural dean of the +deanery of Taverham, which he resigned, with the rectory of Drayton, in +1851, on his appointment to the living of Hoveton. He married, in 1834, +Catherine Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. Anthony Collett, of +Heveningham, Suffolk, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. Mr. +Blofeld was an active county magistrate, chairman of the visiting +justices of the County Gaol, an auditor of the county accounts, and a +Deputy Lieutenant. For many years he was one of the most able and +energetic of the leaders of the Conservative party in North Norfolk. In +his youth he was a great oarsman, was stroke of the Trinity boat, and one +of the founders of boating on the Cam. With a taste for outdoor +pursuits, he was a keen and skilled naturalist, and a sportsman of the +best type. + +30.—Died at Les Avants, the Rev. Herbert Pelham, aged 26, curate of St. +Philip, Heigham, and youngest son of the Bishop of Norwich. “He had been +staying at Gleion, in Montreaux, on the banks of Lake Geneva, with his +brother, the Rev. Sidney Pelham. In the morning, at four o’clock, both +brothers left their hotel for a walk amongst the mountains, aiming at a +point which they reached at seven o’clock. After resting half an hour, +they began to descend. Not more than ten minutes had elapsed after their +starting, when, on a grassy slope, Mr. Sidney Pelham, who was in front, +heard a rushing sound, and perceived that his brother was falling head +foremost down a cliff some 240 feet in extent.” On hurrying to the spot +he found the body motionless, and a surgeon who was summoned pronounced +that death had been instantaneous. Great public sympathy was expressed +in Norwich and the diocese, and many resolutions of condolence were sent +to the Bishop. + +31.—Died at his residence, at Thorpe, Norwich, Mr. William Howlett, aged +78. He had been an alderman and town councillor. Identified with the +musical profession, Mr. Howlett had rendered very valuable assistance to +the funds of many of the Norwich charities. + + +JUNE. + + +8.—The new section of the Yarmouth and North Norfolk Railway, between +Stalham and North Walsham, was inspected by Major-General Hutchinson, +R.E., and was opened for passenger traffic on the 13th. A public dinner +to commemorate the event was held, under the presidency of Mr. C. S. +Read, at the King’s Arms Hotel, North Walsham, on the 15th. + +9.—The Prince of Wales arrived at Yarmouth, and inspected the Norfolk +Artillery Militia on the South Denes. The Duke of Cambridge, +Commander-in-Chief, arrived in the evening, and on the 10th inspected the +Militia, and the 2nd Norfolk Artillery Volunteers. + +21.—The Norwich Town Council granted to the promoters of the proposed +Agricultural Hall the lease of a piece of land 174 feet long by 103 feet +wide, for a term of seventy-five years, commencing September 29th, 1881, +at an annual ground rent of £100, subject to the promoters expending at +least £7,000 for the erection of the building thereon. (_See_ March +25th, 1882.) + +—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, a scheme for the regulation +and management of Mousehold Heath was adopted. On June 24th, at Norwich +Quarter Sessions, eleven persons were indicted for committing damage to +certain roadways on the Heath, the property of the Corporation. The case +was adjourned to the October Sessions. In the High Court of Justice, on +July 29th, before the Master of the Rolls, application was made for an +injunction to restrain the “Pockthorpe Committee” and others from dealing +in any way with Mousehold Heath. The injunction was granted. At the +October Sessions, the prosecution was withdrawn, on the ground that the +injunction had been obeyed by the defendants. (_See_ June 5th, 1883.) + +22.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Wymondham, and closed on the 23rd. The Earl of Kimberley presided at the +public luncheon. + +24.—Died, in his 64th year, the Rev. Thomas Lyon Fellowes, vicar of +Honingham and East Tuddenham, and Hon. Canon of Norwich Cathedral. He +was a son of the Rev. J. Fellowes, rector of Shotesham, took a great +interest in agriculture, and was for many years chairman of the Executive +Committee of the Norfolk Agricultural Association. Mr. Fellowes gave +valuable assistance to the Norfolk and Norwich Christmas Show +Association, and was a renowned breeder and successful exhibitor of +poultry. He married Miss Reeve, of Lowestoft. + +24.—Died, suddenly, at Hawick, N.B., where he was fulfilling an +engagement, Mr. Charles Dillon, the well-known actor. Mr. Dillon, who +was in his 62nd year, was a native of Diss, and first appeared upon the +provincial stage, where he acquired considerable reputation as an +elocutionist and exponent of legitimate drama. He made his first +appearance on the London stage at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, and +subsequently became lessee and manager of the Lyceum Theatre. Mr. +Dillon’s last appearance in London was in September, 1878, and in Norwich +on April 10th, 1880. + +29.—An extensive fire occurred at Carrow Works, and resulted in the +destruction of a pile of lofty buildings. + +30.—The wards of that portion of the new Norfolk and Norwich Hospital +known as the pavilion and central administrative block having been +completed for the reception of patients, were opened. Mr. Edward +Boardman was the architect of the building. Mr. T. H. Wyatt, of London, +was originally associated with him, but, by the failure of his health and +subsequent death the whole of the work devolved upon Mr. Boardman. +(_See_ August 20th, 1883.) + + +JULY. + + +9.—The Norwich Rifle Volunteers, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel +Boileau, proceeded by special train to Windsor, and took part in the +Volunteer review before her Majesty the Queen in the Great Park. On the +return journey the train by which they travelled dashed into a train of +empty carriages at Egham. The accident delayed the return of the +Volunteers, who reached Norwich at four o’clock on the morning of the +10th. + +19.—The Strumpshaw Hall estate was sold, at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, by +Messrs. Spelman, for £33,145, exclusive of timber. + +—Died at Ipswich, Mr. John Worlledge, Chancellor of the Diocese of +Norwich, and for twenty-four years Judge of the Suffolk County Court +circuit. Mr. Worlledge, who was in his 72nd year, was a son of Mr. John +Worlledge, of Chevington, and was educated at Felstead Grammar School and +Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated fourth wrangler in 1831. +Called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1838, he became well known as a +pleader on the Norfolk Circuit, and was appointed Chancellor of the +Diocese in April, 1871. + +26.—Died at Oulton, Mr. George Thomas Borrow, author of “The Bible in +Spain,” “Lavengro,” and other works. “The deceased was in his usual +health up to the afternoon of the 25th, when he complained of feeling +unwell, and was assisted to bed. On the following morning he was found +dead in bed.” The writer of the obituary notice, after stating that +Borrow was a son of Captain Borrow, Adjutant of the West Norfolk Militia, +and was born at East Dereham in 1803, records several more or less +familiar incidents in his career, and concludes a summary of his literary +work with the remark: “His most important book was ‘Romano Lavo-Lil,’ a +vocabulary of the English gipsy language, which represents the labour of +many years, and was published in 1874.” + +30.—The 3rd and 4th Battalions of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went into camp +at Yarmouth, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Bulwer and +Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, M.P. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—The first Norwich Cricket Week commenced on the Lakenham Ground. + +3.—North Walsham pariah church was re-opened, on the completion of the +new roof to the nave. The work was carried out at the cost of £2,208, by +Messrs. Cornish and Gaymer, under the direction of Mr. J. B. Pearce, +architect, of Norwich. + +13.—Died at Bilney rectory, the Rev. Henry Collison, aged 89. Mr. +Collison, who was one of the oldest clergymen of the Church of England, +was the eldest surviving son of Mr. Nicholas Cobb Collison, a merchant of +London, by his marriage with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Peter +Stoughton, of Wymondham. He was formerly chaplain of the King’s Bench +Prison, of the old Marshalsea in the Borough, and of the Court of the +Palace of Westminster. For some time he served as military chaplain at +the Cape of Good Hope, and afterwards held the rectory of Bilney for +nearly half a century. Mr. Collison married, in 1851, Harriett Mary, +younger daughter of Mr. Thomas Abel Ward, of Watford, Herts. + +30.—The Norwich Town Council, who had erected two electric lights in the +Market Place, decided to extend the system experimentally to several of +the principal streets, at a cost not exceeding £400, for twelve months. +(_See_ April 24th, 1883.) + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +5.—Mr. Thomas Calthorpe Blofeld, who had been appointed to the office of +Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. +Worlledge, presided for the first time at the Norwich Consistory Court, +and received the congratulations of the officials. + +8.—The Church of England portion of Wymondham Cemetery was consecrated by +the Bishop of Norwich, and a dedicatory service was held by the +Nonconformists in that part of the burial-ground appropriated to their +use. The entire cost of the Cemetery, including the chapels, designed by +Mr. Edward Boardman, of Norwich, was £2,000. + +20.—The Norwich Town Council adopted a resolution of condolence with the +American nation on the death of President Garfield. + +29.—Sidestrand church was consecrated by the Bishop of Norwich. “In +1846, owing to a landslip, caused by the action of the sea, considerable +anxiety was felt for the safety of the old church, and a fund was started +with the object of removing it to another site. About £300 was +contributed, but as there seemed no immediate necessity to remove the +church, the money was invested, and it was not until November, 1880, that +the vestry definitely decided to build the new church. With accumulated +interest, the original fund amounted to £850, and the balance of the cost +of removal and restoration, which is now over £2,000, has been generously +provided by the lord of the manor, Mr. Samuel Hoare, who also gave the +site.” + + +OCTOBER. + + +4.—The church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, was re-opened after +restoration, at the cost of £7,500. The contractor was Mr. G. E. Hawes, +and the architect Mr. G. E. Street. The Restoration Committee decided to +proceed with the work upon the tower, and a special appeal was made to +the citizens to assist the completion of this great undertaking. (_See_ +January 11th, 1882.) + +11.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. The _artistes_ included Madame Albani, Miss Mary +Davies, Mrs. Osgood, Madame Patey, Madame Mudie-Bolingbroke, Mr. Edward +Lloyd, Mr. Barton McGuckin, Mr. Santley, Mr. Frederic King, and Mr. +Brockbank. Mr. Alberto Randegger conducted for the first time. The +following productions were included in the programme: 11th, evening, “St. +Paul”; 12th, morning, “The Martyr of Antioch”; evening, “Faust”; 13th, +morning, “St. Ursula” (Cowen), composed expressly for the Festival, and +Racine’s “Athalie”; evening, grand operatic and ballad concert, including +“The Sun Worshippers,” composed for the Festival by A. G. Thomas; 14th, +morning, “The Messiah”; evening, operatic and ballad concert, including +“The Harvest Home,” composed expressly for the Festival by J. F. Barnett. + +14.—A hurricane, which prevailed throughout Great Britain, did great +damage in the towns and villages of Norfolk. Many fine trees were +uprooted, and houses unroofed; railway signal-boxes were blown down, and +several shipping disasters occurred along the coast. + +18.—The jubilee anniversary of the Eldon Club, formed in 1831, was +celebrated at the Bell Hotel, Norwich, when the members dined under the +presidency of Lieut.-Colonel Bignold. + +21.—A girl, named Hannah Brett, was brutally murdered at Saham Toney, by +an ex-convict, named Henry Stebbings. At the Norfolk Assizes, on +February 9th, 1882, before Mr. Justice Grove, he was found guilty and +sentenced to death, but was respited, on the ground of homicidal mania. + +23.—Died at Woking, Sir William Henry Ernest Bagge, Bart., of Stradsett +Hall, aged 41. In default of issue, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by +his only brother, Commander Alfred Thomas Bagge, R.N. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +1.—Salhouse church was re-opened, after restoration at the cost of +£2,100. + +3.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference met at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, and +the proceedings were continued on the 4th. A special meeting was held on +December 19th, to consider proposals for the revision of the Education +code. + +—The Ven. Archdeacon Nevill was elected vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, +Norwich, on the resignation of the Rev. Sidney Pelham. + +9.—Mr. William Hunter was elected Mayor, and Mr. J. J. Winter appointed +Sheriff of Norwich. + +10.—Died at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, aged 53, Edmund Stephen +Weller, formerly of the 16th Landers. As colonel’s trumpeter, he sounded +the famous charge of the regiment at Aliwal, on January 28th, 1846. + +15.—The squadron of the 3rd Hussars marched from Norwich, for Aldershot. +The headquarters of the 7th Dragoon Guards, commanded by Colonel Colin +Campbell, arrived on the 17th. “Since the regiment was last quartered +here, Captain Mollyneaux, a former officer, obtained from the Tower of +London and presented to the regiment a pair of kettledrums captured by +the 7th at the battle of Dettingen, in 1743.” + + +DECEMBER. + + +17.*—“A line of wire has been suspended between Messrs. Morgan’s Brewery, +King Street, and Mousehold House, the residence of Mr. W. H. Hackblock, +who is a member of the firm.” This is the first record of a telephone +wire erected in Norwich. The line was constructed by the United +Telephone Company. + +19.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Holkham, on a visit to +the Earl and Countess of Leicester. + +26.—For the first time for many years there was no pantomime at Norwich +Theatre. The Christmas attraction was the appearance of Mr. George +Loveday’s London Folly Company, in Paul Merritt’s “Rough and Ready” and +Pinero’s “Hester’s Mystery.” The company included Messrs. John +Billington, E. D. Ward, E. W. Garden, Misses Ada Mellon, Emily Thorn, +Eliza Johnstone, &c. At John Sanger and Son’s Circus, on Castle Meadow, +was produced the equestrian spectacle, “Dick Whittington and his +Wonderful Cat.” + + + +1882. + + +JANUARY. + + +7.—Great discontent was caused among the agriculturists of the county by +the issue of a Privy Council Order directing the closing of the markets +for the sale of store stock, owing to the recurrence of foot-and-mouth +disease. At a meeting of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, a +resolution was adopted and forwarded to Earl Spencer, declaring “that the +severe restrictions imposed on the sale of cattle in the county were +uncalled-for, and that a heavy penalty inflicted upon all persons moving +diseased cattle would be a sufficient protection from disease.” On the +14th Mr. Edward Birkbeck, M.P., presided at a large meeting held at +Norwich Corn Hall, at which resolutions were adopted protesting against +“harassing and unnecessary restrictions, entailing serious loss upon the +farming community”; and on the 18th a deputation appointed by the meeting +waited upon Earl Spencer, with the object of obtaining relaxation of the +restrictions. An important conference of the local authorities and Privy +Council inspectors was held on the 21st, to discuss the state of the +cattle lairs at Trowse and Lakenham, when it was resolved that as the +local authorities had done all in their power to check the spread of the +disease through the lairs, the Privy Council be requested to take such +further steps as might seem desirable. On the 28th a telegram was +received from the Privy Council, stating that the Order relating to the +sale of fat beasts had been so far relaxed as to permit animals that had +been offered at a public sale in a place not infected being sent within +six days to the Metropolitan markets; and on February 17th the “London +Gazette” announced that the restrictions in Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk +had been removed. Another outbreak occurred in December, and on the 9th +of that month Norwich market was closed in respect to the sale of fat +cattle. On the same day a large meeting of farmers, graziers, and +dealers was held, under the auspices of the Norfolk Chamber of +Agriculture, for the purpose of supporting an application made by Mr. +Birkbeck, M.P., to the Vice-President of the Privy Council (Mr. +Mundella), “that other than the Metropolitan market be opened to fat +cattle sold on Norwich Hill and at the cattle sales held in the county.” +On December 23rd it was announced that the authorities of the county and +city were taking energetic measures to stop the sale of store stock +unless the animals had been on a farm or premises fourteen days, and +persons were appointed to watch the movements of animals, with the view +of detecting any evasion of the Privy Council Order. (_See_ March 17th, +1883.) + +10.—Mr. J. L. Toole appeared with Mr. G. Loveday’s London Folly Company +at Norwich Theatre, and continued his performances on the 11th, 12th, and +13th. His characters were Barnaby Doublechick (“Upper Crust”), Spriggins +(“Ici On Parle Français”), Paul Pry, Tom Cranky (“Birthplace of +Podgers”), Caleb Plummer (“Dot”), and Tittums (“The Steeplechase”). + +11.—An “Old English Fair,” in aid of the restoration fund of the church +of St. Peter Mancroft, was opened at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, and +continued on the 12th and 13th. A total profit of £1,880 10s. 6d. +resulted, and by the first week in March the required sum—£4,000—for the +completion of the work had been raised. (_See_ April 29th, 1883.) + + +FEBRUARY. + + +13.—Died at his residence, Unthank’s Road, Norwich, the Rev. George +Gould, minister of St. Mary’s chapel, aged 63. Mr. Gould was a native of +Bristol, and, on entering the Baptist ministry, took charge of the Abbey +church, Abbey street, Dublin. Thence he removed to Exeter, and in the +spring of 1849 succeeded the Rev. W. Brock in the Norwich pastorate. He +was president of the Baptist Union in 1879–80, chairman of the Norwich +School Board, and for several years a governor of the Grammar School and +Commercial School. Mr. Gould was very decided in his religious and +political opinions, and firm in upholding them; in private life he was +greatly esteemed. + + +MARCH. + + +1.—A fine steamer, named the Levadia, of Newcastle, bound from Shields to +Alexandria, with coals, was wrecked on the Middle Cross Sand, five miles +off Yarmouth. Several men were drowned by the upsetting of one of the +ship’s boats, others who had lashed themselves to the masts of the vessel +perished from cold and exposure, and of the crew of twenty-five a +solitary survivor, Thomas Sewell, a Yarmouth man, was rescued by the +Gorleston lifeboat. + +2.—Mr. Arthur H. Mann, B.Mus., of New College, Oxford, organist at King’s +College, Cambridge, whose exercise, “Ecce Homo,” had been performed on +the previous day in the Sheldonian Theatre, was admitted to the degree of +Doctor of Music. + +7.—The first Good Friday performance of “The Messiah,” took place at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. Mr. F. W. B. Noverre was leader of the band, Dr. +Bunnett organist, and Dr. Hill conductor. + +21.—The Norwich Town Council adopted a memorial to the Secretary of State +for War, in which the War Office was petitioned to retain Norwich as a +cavalry station. The Mayor, Sheriff, and the members of Parliament for +the city, on May 5th, waited upon the Secretary of State for War, and +urged the retention of cavalry headquarters in the city, in addition to +its being made the brigade depot of the Norfolk Regiment. (_See_ March +24th, 1883.) + +25.—The Spring Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was held on +the Lakenham Cricket Ground, Norwich. + +—The Earl of Leicester performed the ceremony of laying the +foundation-stone of the Norfolk and Norwich Agricultural Hall, at +Norwich. On April 27th, in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, +before the Vice-Chancellor, Sir C. Hall, application was made on behalf +of Mr. Philip Back for an injunction against the Corporation of Norwich +and the Agricultural Hall Company, Limited, to restrain them from +erecting the hall, on the ground that the Corporation had no power to let +the land, which had been dedicated from time immemorial to fairs and +markets. The hearing was adjourned until May 20th, when the Court +refused the application; and on November 11th it was announced that Mr. +Back had consented to abandon the action. (_See_ November 16th.) + +31.—In the House of Commons, the opposition of the Dean and Chapter and +other residents in the Cathedral Close, Norwich, to the invasion of the +precincts of the Cathedral by the Lynn and Fakenham Railway Company was +successful, the company being compelled, by the strong feeling expressed +against the proposed route, to withdraw that portion of their Bill +affecting the Close. + + +APRIL. + + +14.—The last sections of the line of railway from Wroxham to the Wells +branch of the Great Eastern Railway Company, by which the union of East +and West Norfolk was effected, was inspected, on its completion, by +Major-General Hutchinson. The line was opened for traffic on May 1st. + +15.—A party of about twenty members of the North Walsham and Aylsham +Agricultural Association started from Norwich on a trip to Holland, the +expenses of which were defrayed by Mr. Samuel Hoare and Sir T. Fowell +Buxton, Bart. They arrived at Rotterdam on the 16th. In the course of +the tour much valuable information was obtained regarding the Dutch +systems of agriculture and dairying. + +18.—The portrait of Mr. Harry Bullard, to which fifteen hundred persons +subscribed, in recognition of his eminent services to the city, was hung +in St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. It was painted by Mr. Frank Holl, A.R.A. + +22.—A county meeting, in furtherance of the movement originated by the +Prince of Wales for establishing a Royal College of Music, was held at +St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of the Earl of +Leicester. + +25.—Mary Ann Plunkett, aged nineteen, was murdered at Mill Hill, Catton, +by a youth of twenty-two, named William George Abigail, who shot her in +the head with a revolver. He was tried at Ipswich Assizes, before Mr. +Baron Pollock, and sentenced to death. The execution was carried out at +Norwich Castle, by Marwood, on May 22nd. + + +MAY. + + +13.—The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture discussed the financial proposals +made by Government with regard to the maintenance of highways. The +following motion, by Mr. C. S. Read, was adopted: “That this Chamber +approves of the principle of relieving local rates by applying some +special taxes towards the repair of main roads, but considers the +proposals of the Government are no sufficient remedy for the extra cost +of maintenance of main roads, and expresses its disappointment that a +contribution of only £250,000 from the Imperial finances can be given in +aid of local rates without the imposition of additional taxation.” + +17.—Cardinal Manning addressed a great meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, in furtherance of the principle of Local Option. His Eminence, +on August 30th, again visited Norwich, and at the Victoria Hall addressed +the members of the Roman Catholic temperance society—the League of the +Cross. + +21.—Died at his house in Grosvenor Square, London, William Henry FitzRoy, +Duke of Grafton. His Grace was the eldest son of Henry, fifth Duke, by +Mary Caroline, third daughter of Admiral the Hon. George Cranefeld +Berkeley. He was born on August 4th, 1819; served as an _attaché_ of the +British Legation at Naples in 1841, and represented Thetford in the House +of Commons from 1847 to 1863. In politics his Grace was a Whig of the +old school. + +31.—The new Town Hall at Yarmouth was opened by the Prince of Wales. +After the ceremony, at which a loyal address was read on behalf of the +burgesses by the Recorder (Mr. Simms Reeve), the Mayor (Mr. C. C. Aldred) +entertained his Royal Highness and a distinguished company to luncheon. +On June 1st the Prince of Wales inspected the Norfolk Artillery, and left +the town on June 2nd. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—A sacred and operatic concert was given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, +under the direction of Sir Julius Benedict, in aid of the funds of the +Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children. The performers included Madame +Blanche Cole, Miss Lucy Franklein, Madame Alice Barth, Mr. Faulkner +Leigh, Mr. Aynsley Cook, &c., and the band and chorus were composed of +the opera company performing at the Theatre Royal and of the members of +the Norfolk and Norwich Festival Choir. + +2.—At Norwich Theatre was produced Sir Julius Benedict’s romantic opera, +“The Lily of Killarney,” under the personal direction of the composer. +The performance was repeated on the 3rd. + +22.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Norwich, in the grounds of Mr. A. R. Chamberlin, Ipswich Road, and was +continued on the 23rd. Mr. Henry Birkbeck presided at the public +luncheon. + + +JULY. + + +2.—The Right Rev. Samuel Crowther, D.D., Bishop of the Niger district of +Africa, preached at St. Giles’ church, Norwich, and at the Cathedral. +Originally an African slave-boy, he was the first Bishop of the negro +race, and at the time of his visit to Norwich was 70 years of age. + +8.—It was announced that Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart., had resigned the +senior chairmanship of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, to which position he +was elected in October, 1856. On October 19th, Mr. J. R. Bulwer, Q.C., +M.P., Recorder of Cambridge, was elected to fill the vacancy. + +22.—The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Battalions of Norfolk Rifle Volunteers went +into camp at Yarmouth, under the respective commands of Lieut.-Colonel H. +E. Buxton, Lieut.-Colonel Bulwer, and Lieut.-Colonel R. T. Gurdon, M.P. + +24.—Bishop Pelham, who, on June 11th, completed the twenty-fifth year of +his episcopate, received at the Palace, Norwich, a congratulatory address +from the clergy of the several archdeaconries. (A portrait of his +lordship, painted by Mr. W. Owles, R.A., was presented to him on October +18th, 1883.) + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—The officers of the 7th Dragoon Guards were entertained to luncheon at +the Guildhall, Norwich, by the Mayor (Mr. W. Hunter), prior to the +departure of the regiment for active service in Egypt. The right wing +left Trowse station on the 4th, and sailed from the South West India +Docks, in the Egyptian Monarch, on the 5th. The left wing proceeded from +Trowse to Southampton on the 6th. On the departure of the cavalry, the +Barracks were temporarily occupied by a detachment of the 1st Battalion +Norfolk Regiment, from Colchester. In September the citizens sent a +petition to the Secretary of State for War, asking that the 7th Dragoons +might be permitted to return to Norwich, but the authorities were unable +to accede to the request. + +12.—The first reference was made to the commencement of operations in +Norwich by the Salvation Army, who had “secured St. Giles’ Hall, formerly +the Skating Rink, and converted it into suitable quarters.” Frequent +complaints of nuisances created by the “Army” were from time to time +addressed to the magistrates. “General” Booth made his first visit to +Norwich on September 9th. + +23.—Mr. J. J. Henley and Dr. Airey, Local Government Board Inspectors, +opened an inquiry at Norwich Workhouse into certain cases of alleged +injury from vaccination reported to the Department by Mr. Ralph Lee +Bliss. Eight definite cases were submitted, and in each the operation +had been performed by the public vaccinator (Dr. Guy), at the vaccination +station. Six of these cases were investigated. Subsequently five other +cases were submitted, but only two were the subject of inquiry, the +others being private cases, into which the Inspectors had no power to +enquire. The inquiry concluded on September 4th. The Commissioners, in +their report, dated October 21st, stated that no blame was to be attached +to the public vaccinator as to the performance of his duties; “but we +think,” they added, “he should discontinue the use again and again of the +same ivory points, and we consider it was an error of judgment on his +part to continue vaccination attendance while he was daily visiting cases +of erysipelas, without taking more than ordinary precautions to guard +against the spread of infection.” + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +1.—A three weeks’ mission, in furtherance of the Blue Ribbon movement, +was commenced in Norwich by its founder, Mr. Francis Murphy. The new +pledges taken during the mission numbered 10,000, and upwards of 15,000 +blue ribbons were distributed. + +—The express service from the Eastern Counties to Doncaster was opened by +the Great Eastern Railway Company, over their own and the Great Northern +joint line. + +5.—The coming of age of Mr. Russell J. Colman, eldest son of Mr. J. J. +Colman, M.P., was celebrated by a dinner given in the grounds of Carrow +House, to between 3,000 and 4,000 of the _employés_ at Carrow Works. + +9.—The death was recorded of Mr. John Laffan Hanly, proprietor and editor +of the “Levant Times,” at Constantinople, at the age of 48. Mr. Hanly +was for some time chief reporter on the NORFOLK CHRONICLE, and +subsequently editor of the “Lincolnshire Chronicle.” + +13.—The French fishing lugger, La Reine des Anges, deeply laden with +herring, was wrecked on the Middle Cross Sand off Yarmouth, and of her +crew of eighteen, ten were drowned. + +17.—Special thanksgivings were offered in the churches in Norwich “for +the glorious success achieved by our arms at Tel-el-Kebir, with the +consequent collapse of the rebellion of Arabi and the prospect of the +restoration of peace in Egypt.” + +24.—Died at Yarmouth, Mr. Charles John Palmer, F.S.A. He was Mayor of +the borough in 1835, 1854, and 1855, and was very zealous in promoting +various local undertakings, among which was the restoration of the parish +church. Mr. Palmer was the author of several antiquarian works, the best +known of which is his “Perlustration of Great Yarmouth.” + +27.—The coming of age of Mr. Edward Evans Lombe, eldest son of the Rev. +Henry Evans Lombe, was celebrated at Bylaugh Park. + + +OCTOBER. + + +21.—Died at East Dereham, Mr. George Alfred Carthew, F.S.A., M.A., aged +75. Mr. Carthew, who was known throughout the kingdom as an able +archæologist, contributed many valuable papers to the journals of learned +societies. He was the author of “A History of the Hundred of Launditch,” +and of a similar work, passing through the press at the time of his +death, on the topography, archæology, genealogy, and biography of East +and West Bradenham, Necton, and Holme Hale. He had vast stores of +curious information, acquired in the course of a life-long study of +matters illustrating the history of the county in ancient times. He was +a descendant of the old Cornish family of Carthew, a member of which, +Thomas Carthew, of Canalidgy, married, in the year 1685, Mary Colby, of +Banham. Mr. Carthew helped to found the Norfolk and Norwich +Archæological Society, and to establish its position among the learned +societies of the kingdom. + +24.—An inquiry, directed by the Charity Commissioners for England and +Wales, under the Endowed Schools Act, 1869, was opened at the Guildhall, +Norwich, by Mr. C. H. Stanton, into the matter of the endowments commonly +known as the Grammar School of the foundation of King Edward VI., the +Commercial School of the same foundation, the Boys’ Hospital, the Girls’ +Hospital, and Norman’s Charity. Many prominent citizens made statements +before the Commissioner, who closed his inquiry on the 25th. (_See_ +August 11th, 1883.) + +26.—A remarkable case of somnambulism occurred on this date. A girl of +seventeen, employed as general servant by a shopkeeper at Felthorpe, +after retiring to rest at nine o’clock, got out of bed, and, having put +on a dress and a pair of boots, climbed out of the bed-room window, and, +without waking, reached the ground by groping along the roof of a lean-to +shed. She then walked to Cawston, a distance of five miles, and was +found about four o’clock in the morning sitting fast asleep on the +doorstep of her father’s house. She was stiff, cold, and speechless, and +on being restored to warmth and consciousness, stated that she had no +recollection whatever of having left her bed. + +28.—A severe gale, accompanied by wrecks and loss of life, occurred on +the Norfolk coast. + +—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Lindley, James Charles +Edwards, 37, solicitor’s clerk, pleaded guilty to forging certain +documents. The prisoner read a written statement, in which he said, “A +love for pictures was my ruin, a craving desire and mania to possess +myself of something better than my neighbours gradually developed, until +at last it became a madness with me.” He was sentenced to ten years’ +penal servitude. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +2.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference was opened at Noverre’s Rooms, +Norwich. The sittings concluded on the 3rd. + +9.—Mr. Charles Rackham Gilman was elected Mayor, and Mr. Samuel Newman +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +16.—The new Agricultural Hall at Norwich was opened by the Prince of +Wales, on the occasion of the first exhibition held within the building +by the Norfolk and Norwich Christmas Show Association. Among the +distinguished company who received his Royal Highness were the Earl of +Leicester, the Marquis of Hamilton, the Earl of Rosebery, Lord +Walsingham, Lord Hastings, Lord Claud Hamilton, the High Sheriff, the +Mayor of Norwich and Mrs. Gilman, &c. The Prince of Wales, having +declared the hall open, made a tour of the show, and subsequently +attended a meeting in the Farmers’ Room, at which the recently-formed +Prisoners’ Aid Society was inaugurated. [The Christmas Show has since +been held annually at the hall in the month of November.] + +17.—The Rev. W. L. Blackley, rector of North Waltham, Hampshire, author +of “Essays on the Prevention of Pauperism,” delivered an address at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, on his scheme of “national insurance or +compulsory providence.” On the 18th Mr. Blackley addressed a second +meeting, held at Noverre’s Rooms, under the presidency of Lord +Walsingham. + +21.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Merton Hall, on a visit +to Lord and Lady Walsingham. + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—The opening of the Norwich extension of the Lynn and Fakenham Railway, +completed on November 21st, was celebrated by a _déjeuner_ given at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by the contractors, Messrs. Wilkinson and Jarvis. +Sir William ffolkes, Bart., presided over the large and representative +gathering. + +7.—The action, Boswell _v._ Coaks, came before Mr. Justice Pearson. His +lordship stated that he was intimately acquainted with one of the +defendants, and suggested that the action be taken elsewhere. All +parties agreed, and the trial was consequently deferred. (_See_ February +26th, 1883.) + +18.—A large portion of Gunton Hall, the seat of Lord Suffield, was +destroyed by fire. + +—An important public meeting, presided over by the Mayor (Mr. C. R. +Gilman) was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, at which resolutions were +adopted in favour of the entire prohibition of the use of drag-nets in +the Yare and Wensum. + +26.—Messrs. T. W. Robertson and H. Bruce’s Company appeared at Norwich +Theatre, in the farcical comedy, “The Guv’nor.” + +28.—A meeting of the clergy and laity of the diocese was held at the +Clerical Rooms, Norwich, at which Dean Goulburn moved, “That the proposed +memorial to Dr. Pusey, embodying as it does a scheme for the purchase of +his library and the appointment of clergy of the Church of England as +librarians, who shall devote themselves to theological research and +instruction, and to the help and counsel of junior members of the +University, deserves the cordial and earnest support of all Churchmen.” +The motion was adopted, and a committee appointed to obtain funds towards +the establishment and maintenance of the proposed memorial. + +29.—Woodbastwick Hall, the seat of Mr. Albemarle Cator, was destroyed by +fire, involving the loss of about £40,000. + + + +1883. + + +JANUARY. + + +6.—Died at Norwich, Mr. William Henry Daly, solicitor, aged 30. Mr. Daly +was nephew of Mr. Frederick Lawrence Phillips, editor of the “Norwich +Argus.” Upon the death of Mr. Phillips, he assumed for a short time the +editorial control of the “Argus.” Mr. Daly, who was a man of brilliant +attainments, and had before him a very promising career, had been a +member of the Norwich Town Council, and was solicitor to the Norfolk and +Norwich Licensed Victuallers’ Association. + +12.—Professor Huxley, F.R.S., Inspector of Fisheries, held a public +inquiry at Cromer, as to the desirability or otherwise of granting an +order under the provisions of the Fisheries (Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) +Act, to continue or vary the existing Order, dated February 2nd, 1880. A +similar inquiry was held at Sheringham. As the result of the evidence, +the Order was renewed and made more stringent. + +16.—The Norwich Tramways Bill, promoted by the Hallidie Patent Cable +Tramways Corporation, Limited, was reported upon by the Parliamentary and +Bylaws Committee of the Norwich Town Council, who recommended “that, in +consequence of the nuisance and discomfort caused by their construction +and working,” a petition be presented against the Bill in its entirety. +The discussion was adjourned until the 22nd, when an amendment, “That the +Bill be opposed only so far as to protect the interests of the citizens,” +was negatived by 25 votes to 18. The recommendation of the Committee was +thereupon adopted, and the company ultimately abandoned the scheme. +(_See_ November 16th, 1886.) + +22.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, it was reported that the +wood-paving scheme had been completed. An area of 75,638 yards had been +laid, at the total cost of £24,036 17s. 10½d. The scheme was +subsequently extended to districts in which special application was made +by the ratepayers. + +29.—The first of the touring pantomime companies appeared at Norwich +Theatre—Messrs. Sheridan and Watkin’s Company, in “Little Red Riding +Hood,” originally produced at Yarmouth Theatre. + +30.—The centenary anniversary of the Norwich Public Library was +celebrated by a _conversazione_, given by the President (Mr. C. E. +Noverre), the Vice-President (Mr. T. Muir Grant), and the ex-President +(Mr. Bosworth Harcourt). + +31.—The Great Yarmouth Golf Club was formed, at a public meeting held in +that town. The game had for some months previously been played on the +Denes. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +6.—M. Guilmant, the celebrated French organist, gave organ recitals at +St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. He revisited the city on December 18th. + +9.—A meeting under the auspices of the Marriage Law Defence Union was +held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. H. S. +Patteson. Earl Percy, Earl Beauchamp, the Right Hon. A. J. R. Beresford +Hope, M.P., and the Rev. Dr. Badenoch were announced to speak. The +proceedings were very disorderly, and ultimately the promoters of the +meeting were compelled to vacate the platform. The opposing party +thereupon proposed and adopted resolutions in favour of legalising +marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. + +14.—At the Guildhall Police Court, Norwich, Mr. Joseph Stanley, +solicitor, was charged, on the information of Edward Burgess, described +as a printer and publisher, with assaulting him. The defendant, it was +alleged, met the complainant in London Street, and, producing a +riding-whip from beneath his coat, struck him several blows across the +face. The assault was admitted, and defendant pleaded, in mitigation, +that he horsewhipped the complainant in consequence of certain statements +published by him in a paper called “Daylight.” The Bench inflicted a +fine of one shilling, and declined to make an order as to costs. This +was the first of a remarkable series of cases arising directly or +indirectly from the publication of the print above referred to. At +Norwich County Court, on February 21st, before the Judge (Mr. E. P. +Price, Q.C.) and a jury, William Hammond, “otherwise E. Field and Co.,” +brought an action against Edward Burgees and J. A. Burgis, the +proprietors of “Daylight,” for an alleged libel. The action was +originally entered for trial in the High Court of Justice, the plaintiff +laying his damages at £1,000, but it was remitted to the County Court, on +the application of the defendants, on the plaintiff failing to give +security for costs. Mr. Horace Brown was for the plaintiff (who did not +appear), and Mr. Montague Williams for the defendants. The case was +partly heard when Mr. Brown said that, having regard to what had +transpired, he did not think it right to ask the jury for damages. A +verdict was therefore entered for the defendants. On February 24th, +Arthur Ventnor, artist, of Bridewell Alley, was charged at the Police +Court with wilfully breaking the plate-glass windows at the office of +“Daylight,” and doing damage to the amount of £20. The defendant was +committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions, held on April 3rd, before +the Recorder (Mr. W. J. Metcalfe, Q.C.). It was urged on behalf of the +defendant that he had broken the windows owing to a caricature of himself +being exhibited therein. The Grand Jury made the following presentment: +“We consider that considerable provocation was given to Mr. Ventnor by +the exhibition of the caricature before he broke the windows.” The +Recorder, who deplored the publication of such a paper, addressing the +defendant, said, “The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned for +three hours, which means that you have been in the dock a great deal too +long already, and that you now be discharged. Who is to pay the costs of +this prosecution? Not the public, certainly, but the people who provoke +other people to smash their windows.” The verdict was received with +great applause by a crowded court. At the Police Court on April 23rd, +Messrs. Burgess and Burgis appeared in answer to an information laid by +Lewin Samuel, clothier, of St. Giles’ Street, for publishing in +“Daylight” a defamatory libel of and concerning him. This was a criminal +prosecution, on the fiat of the Public Prosecutor. The defendants +alleged in their paper that the complainant and his brother were “Jew +money-lenders, who sold up the homes of hard-working men and the beds +from under women and children, and extorted 150 per cent. and more, +interests for small loans.” The case was sent for trial at the Assizes. +The defendants appeared before Mr. Justice Day, on August 9th. After the +case had been part heard, Mr. Horace Brown, counsel for the prosecution, +asked leave to withdraw. His lordship granted the request, and remarked +that Mr. Brown’s client “had attained his object in having the character +of his business thoroughly exposed to the public.” The defendants were +then discharged. + +26.—The trial of the action. Boswell _v._ Coaks, commenced before Mr. +Justice Fry. On the fifth day of the trial, March 12th, his lordship +gave judgment. In his opinion, he said, the plaintiff’s case had failed, +and he dismissed the action, with costs. Later in the day the judge +remarked that there was a certain point in the case which he had not +appreciated, and ordered the action to be restored to the paper as part +heard. At the further hearing, on March 19th, his lordship said he +adhered to the view which he previously expressed, and pronounced +judgment unreservedly in favour of the defendants, who were entirely +acquitted of the charge against them. On June 19th an appeal was entered +against the decision of Mr. Justice Fry. (_See_ May 19th, 1884.) + +27.—Hengler’s Grand Circus, the first exhibition of the kind given in a +permanent building in the city, was opened at the Agricultural Hall, +Norwich. + +—At a meeting held at the Globe Hotel, Lynn, under the presidency of Sir +William ffolkes. M.P., Mr. A. C. Fountaine, of Narford Hall, was +selected master of the West Norfolk Foxhounds, in place of Mr. Anthony +Hamond, who had hunted the hounds for eighteen years. At the suggestion +of the Prince of Wales, a fund was inaugurated for the purpose of +presenting Mr. Hamond with a testimonial upon his retirement. The +presentation took place at Sandringham, on December 1st, when a large +number of the subscribers were entertained to breakfast by his Royal +Highness, who handed to Mr. Hamond “his portrait in oil, mounted upon his +favourite hunter, with the huntsman, Bob Claydon, and the whips, H. +Browne and F. Clayden, in attendance.” The picture was painted by Mr. +Samuel Carter, who was born upon the Westacre estate. + +—The new railway from Acle to Yarmouth was inspected by Major-General +Hutchinson, and shortly afterwards opened for traffic. + + +MARCH. + + +6.—A strong gale and high tide occurred at Yarmouth. Many of the houses +on the Marine Parade were in danger of being flooded. Many thousands of +fish were killed in the Yare by the ingress of salt water. + +—The Mayor and Mayoress of Norwich (Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Gilman) attended +the launch, at Hull, of a new steamer, the Norwich, built by Messrs. +Earle’s Shipbuilding Company, for the Great Eastern Railway Company’s +service between Harwich and Antwerp. The Mayoress performed the ceremony +of naming the vessel. + +10.*—“Lieutenant M. W. M. Edwards, 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry, +son of Mr. H. W. B. Edwards, of Hardingham, has been presented by the +Queen with the Victoria Cross, for conspicuous bravery, displayed by him +at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir.” + +11.—A remarkably high tide took place at Lynn. The waters overflowed not +only the quays, but the high banks of the river, a circumstance +unprecedented for at least half a century. The lands reclaimed by the +Norfolk Estuary Company from the bed of the old river were flooded to the +extent of 400 acres. The low-lying streets of the town were inundated by +the overflow from the river and “flats,” and by sewage driven up through +the gullies. At Wells the waters overflowed the quay and entered the +adjacent houses. + +17.—It was announced that the Privy Council had granted licences for the +sale of store sheep at Tombland Fair, on March 2nd. Norwich Cattle +Market was opened for the sale of fat and store stock on April 7th, under +certain conditions. (_See_ January 5th, 1884.) + +22.—The Spring Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was held on +the Old Cricket Ground, Lakenham. + +24.—A public subscription was inaugurated to enable the city of Norwich +to purchase a site for the erection of brigade depôt barracks for the +Norfolk Regiment. The War Office, it was announced, had agreed to retain +the Cavalry Barracks on condition that the city provided a site for the +infantry depôt. On July 24th the War Office intimated their acceptance +of the site on Plumstead Road, which was purchased at the cost of £1,600. + +26.—The accomplished young tragedienne, Miss Alleyn, made her first +appearance at Norwich Theatre in the character of Juliet, with a company +under the management of Mr. Charles Bernard. Among her other +impersonations during the engagement were Marguerite Gauthier (“Woman’s +Love”), Lady Teazle, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Rosalind, Pauline, Iolanthe +(“King René’s Daughter”), and Portia. Miss Alleyn was described as +“incomparably the best actress seen on the Norwich stage within the last +thirty years.” + +30.—Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone passed through Lynn railway-station, on their +way to Sandringham, to visit the Prince and Princess of Wales. “Mr. and +Mrs. Gladstone travelled in a first-class carriage, and on the arrival of +the train they were apparently asleep. Mr. Gladstone, however, soon woke +up, and immediately one of his admirers, in the form of a ‘working-man,’ +proceeded to the carriage window and introduced himself as one of his +supporters, and thereupon shook hands with the Premier. On Sunday +morning (April 1st), some prominent members of the Liberal party in Lynn +received fictitious invitations to lunch with Mr. Gladstone at +Sandringham, the envelopes in which the notes were enclosed bearing the +postmark of that village.” The visit terminated on April 2nd. + + +APRIL. + + +11.—Mr. Melton Prior, special artist of the “Illustrated London News,” +delivered at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, a pictorial lecture on the +Egyptian War. + +13.—A specially-invited company visited Carrow Works, Norwich, to witness +the lighting of the premises for the first time with the electric light +installed by the Hammond Electric Light and Power Supply Company. The +machinery in the printing works was, for the first time, driven by +electric power. + +18.—The parish church of Wells-next-the-Sea, rebuilt at the cost of +£10,000, after the destruction of the original building by lightning, on +August 3rd, 1879, was opened. Mr. Herbert Green, of Norwich, was the +architect, and Mr. S. C. Parmenter, of Braintree, Essex, the contractor. + +20.—Died at Bank Street, Norwich, aged 48, Mr. R. T. Culley, Coroner for +the County of Norfolk, to which office he was appointed in June, 1878, +after discharging for sixteen years the duties of Deputy Coroner. + +21.*—“Major-General Seager died the other day, at Scarborough, aged 71. +General Seager rose from the ranks. He was regimental sergeant-major of +the 8th Hussars when that regiment was stationed in Norwich in 1840, and +formed an attachment for a young lady residing in the Close, whose +parents interfered and stopped the further progress of the engagement, +which they would hardly have done could they have anticipated the career +which lay before the disdained young sergeant-major. Though in the +ranks, he was the son of a Liverpool merchant. He won his honours and +promotion in the Crimea and in the Indian Mutiny. For the former he was +‘specially mentioned’ for his bravery in the heroic Balaclava charge, +when he broke through the Russian lines, for which he was made captain.” + +22.—A porpoise was killed in the Yare at Buckenham Ferry. “A capture of +this kind is unparalleled on the river Yare. It is supposed the fish +came up on the night of the 21st, with the strong flood tide.” + +24.—The Norwich Town Council decided to discontinue the experimental +lighting of the city with the electric light. In the House of Commons, +on August 1st, a Bill to confirm a provisional order of the Board of +Trade, in reference to electric lighting at Norwich, was considered, and +reported to be read a third time. + +29.—The Mayor and Corporation of Norwich attended the re-opening service +at St. Peter Mancroft church, on the completion of the great work of +restoration. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Liverpool. “By +means of the liberal donations of Messrs. Gurney and Co., the twelve +bells have been repaired and re-hung, three houses which stood on the +churchyard have been purchased and taken down, and the accumulated soil +has been removed from the church walls and the churchyard levelled.” + + +MAY. + + +3.—Mr. Hugh Aylmer’s herd of shorthorns was sold at West Dereham, by Mr. +John Thornton. The cows and heifers (55 lots) averaged £69 11s. 3d., and +the bulls (18) £72 14s. 10d. The total amount realised was £5,108 5s. + +3.—A meeting of the freeholders in the Norwich district was held at the +Shirehall, under the presidency of the High Sheriff (Colonel W. E. G. L. +Bulwer), for the nomination of candidates for the office of County +Coroner. Mr. John Furness, solicitor, of Forncett, was nominated by Sir +Francis Boileau, and seconded by Mr. C. S. Read; and Mr. Joseph Stanley, +solicitor, of Norwich, was proposed by Mr. Fred Bullard, and seconded by +Mr. John Hotblack. The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr. +Stanley; whereupon a poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Furness. The +election took place on May 7th, and the result was declared as follows: +Stanley, 707; Furness, 628. The last contested election for the County +Coronership took place in 1827. + +8.—The first steam fire-engine for the use of the city was tested in +Norwich Market Place. It was purchased for £600, partly contributed by +the Norwich Union Fire Office, and partly subscribed by the public. + +26.*—“The Queen has been pleased to approve the 1st City of Norwich and +the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Norfolk Rifle Volunteer Corps to be known +respectively as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Volunteer Battalions of the +Norfolk Regiment regular force.” + +27.—Died at his residence, St. Andrew’s Broad Street, Norwich, Mr. James +Harcourt, aged 64, formerly choirmaster of the Norfolk and Norwich +Musical Festival. He was a pupil of Mr. Pettet, a musician of great +local repute, and organist of St. Peter Mancroft and St. Stephen’s +churches. Mr. Harcourt succeeded to his master’s position at St. +Peter’s, on its being relinquished by Mr. Critchfield, also a pupil and +the successor of Mr. Pettet. He held that post for twenty-seven years. +On the death of Mr. Hill he was chosen Festival choir-master, and was +also conductor of the Norwich Philharmonic Society and of the Norfolk and +Suffolk Church Choral Association. + + +JUNE. + + +2.—Died at Broad House, Wroxham, Mr. Alfred John N. Chamberlin, in his +60th year. He was a prominent supporter of aquatic sports, and the +annual regatta on Wroxham Broad was mainly kept up by his energy. Mr. +Chamberlin had been a member of the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club from +its commencement, and was one of the promoters of the National Fisheries +Exhibition at Norwich. + +5.—In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, before Mr. Justice +Chitty, was heard the action, the Mayor and Corporation of Norwich _v._ +Browne and other inhabitants of Pockthorpe, by which the plaintiffs +sought to establish the title of the citizens to Mousehold Heath. +Judgment was given on the 7th, in favour of the Corporation, to whom the +Ecclesiastical Commissioners had transferred their rights in the Heath. +It was understood that if the defendants loyally accepted the judgment, +no attempt would be made by the Corporation to enforce costs. On +November 5th an official inquiry was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, by +Mr. H. S. Milman, Assistant Land Commissioner, into objections or +suggestions respecting a draft scheme prepared for the regulation of +Mousehold Heath. (_See_ April 28th, 1884.) + +18.—Died at Bournemouth, Major Charles Loftus. A son of General William +Loftus, of Kilbride, co. Wicklow, Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, and +lieutenant of the Tower of London, by his second wife, Lady Elizabeth +Townshend, only surviving daughter of George, first Marquis Townshend, he +was born at Stiffkey, on September 21st, 1796, and entered the Royal Navy +in 1809. He served until the conclusion of the war, in 1815, when an +accidental fall from the main rigging to the quarterdeck of his ship +necessitated his retirement. He so far recovered as to be able to take a +commission in the Coldstream Guards, which, however, he was compelled to +resign by increasing affliction. In 1835 he married a daughter of +Colonel John Dixon, of Gledhow, Yorkshire, and settled at Dunham Cottage, +Norfolk. On Lord Sondes’ retirement from the command of the Norfolk +Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, in 1838, he was made Major Commandant of +the corps, which in 1841 was, by Royal permission, entitled Prince +Albert’s Own Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry. When in 1849 blindness compelled +him to live in retirement, Major Loftus occupied his time by dictating +recollections of his youth and after life, which were published in two +series, “My Youth by Land and Sea,” and “My Life from 1815 to 1849.” + +20.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Fakenham. Prince Albert Victor came from Sandringham and made a tour of +the showyard in company with Lord Hastings, the president for the year. +The show was continued on the 21st. + +30.—A disastrous thunderstorm occurred at Norwich. Many of the low-lying +streets were flooded by the rain water, and in Grove Street, Unthank’s +Road, a man sheltering beneath a tree was struck dead by lightning. +Another man was killed by lightning on the farm of Mr. Keable, at +Earlham, and some of the farm buildings were destroyed by fire. In +several parts of the county stacks were fired and live stock killed. + + +JULY. + + +9.—Died at Southtown, Yarmouth, Commander Francis Harris, R.N. He +entered the Navy on July 12th, 1805, as first-class volunteer on board +the Temeraire, 98, Captain Harvey and Sir Charles Hamilton, in which ship +he was present at the battle of Trafalgar. From 1826 to 1860 he was +employed with the Coast Guard, and retired with the rank of commander. + +13.—Died at Tunstead, the Rev. G. H. Harris, aged 57, for twenty years +rector of the parish. Mr. Harris was well known for his exertions in +behalf of church bell-ringing, and was the means of reviving the art not +only in his own neighbourhood, but in other parts of the county. He was +the originator and honorary secretary of the Norwich Diocesan Association +of Ringers. + +14.—In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, before +Vice-Chancellor Bacon, an order was made for the compulsory winding-up of +the Norwich Equitable Fire Insurance Company, which was stated to be +insolvent. + +25.—Died at East Dereham, where he had spent the declining years of his +life, Mr. Antonio James Oury, the celebrated violinist. Mr. Oury was +born in London in 1800. His father, a native of Nice and of noble +descent, left home to follow the early campaigns of the then General +Bounaparte, and was taken prisoner by the British and landed near +Southampton, at which place he married, in 1799, the daughter of a Mr. +Hughes, a musician and dancing master. Young Oury at the age of three +years commenced violin playing under the tuition of his father and George +Macfarren. In 1812 he became the pupil of three eminent professors, +Mori, Spagnoletti, and Kiessewetter; and in 1820 he went to Paris to +study under Baillot, Kreutzer, and Lupont. Returning to England, he made +his début at the London Philharmonic Society, and afterwards became joint +leader with Francis Cramer at the Birmingham, York, Leicester, and Derby +Musical Festivals, and made several operatic tours in Ireland. In 1826 +he was engaged as leader of the ballet, sub-leader of the opera, and solo +violinist at the King’s Theatre, and as successor to Mori and Lacy he +held this tripartite post for five years. Oury married, in 1831, the +distinguished pianist, Mdlle. Belleville, whose father had been an +officer of Napoleon’s. In 1832 they left England for Hamburg, Berlin, +St. Petersburg, and Moscow, gave twenty-three concerts during a residence +of two years in Russia, and returned to Berlin. They next visited +Leipzig, Dresden, Prague, and Vienna. After a brilliant sojourn of two +years in the Austrian capital Oury visited Pesth and Buda, gave seven +concerts with great success and profit, played in the presence of the +Imperial Court at the Bourge Theatre, Vienna, and returned to Munich. +Accompanied by Madame Oury he gave concerts in all the principal towns on +the Rhine, and arrived in Holland, where his wife was attacked by a +serious illness, which interrupted several professional engagements. +They subsequently visited a number of other places on the Continent, and +returned to England after an absence of nine years. In 1846–47 Oury and +his accomplished partner visited Italy, gave concerts at Rome, Naples, +Venice, and Milan, and returned to England in 1848. Oury removed to +Norwich in 1868, and after being some years resident there, proceeded to +Dereham, where he lived with Mr. Arthur Mori. + + +AUGUST. + + +6.—Lady Walsingham unveiled a fountain and rest erected at Swaffham as a +memorial to Sir William Bagge, Bart., for thirty-six years a +representative in Parliament of the Western Division of the county. Its +cost, which amounted to £800, was defrayed by public subscription. + +7.—Died suddenly at a board meeting of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance +Society, of which he was a director, Mr. Elijah Crosier Bailey, Clerk of +the Peace for the city, aged 65. He was head of the firm of Bailey, +Cross, and Barnard, solicitors, and was appointed Clerk to the Norwich +Board of Guardians in 1844, in succession to Mr. Roger Kerrison, and +resigned in 1879. On the death of Mr. Arthur Dalrymple in 1868 he was +elected Clerk of the Peace. Mr. Bailey was for many years secretary of +the Norfolk Agricultural Association, and on his resignation of that +office was appointed honorary director. A warm supporter of the party, +he was for a long period Conservative agent for East Norfolk. Mr. Bailey +married, first, Miss Cann, daughter of Mr. W. R. Cann, of Wymondham, by +whom he left four sons; and, secondly, in January, 1879, Miss Haselwood, +of Swardon, Kent, granddaughter of Sir Edward Dering, Bart., M.P. + +—At Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Day, Joseph Betts, described as a +labourer, was charged with maliciously sending to the Right Rev. the Lord +Bishop of Norwich, on June 5th, a letter threatening to murder him. Mr. +Blofeld, for the prosecution, said that the Bishop was of opinion that +the prisoner had no real intention to take any step towards carrying out +his threat, and was desirous that the case should be withdrawn. The +judge said that his lordship had acted in a very handsome and generous +manner, and allowed the prosecution to be withdrawn on the prisoner +entering into recognisances to keep the peace towards the Bishop and all +other persons. At the Norwich Police Court on September 21st Betts was +charged with knowingly, wilfully, and feloniously sending to Mr. J. J. +Colman, M.P., a letter, signed “Another Invincible,” threatening to +murder him “unless he fairly and proportionately distributed his last +year’s balance among his workmen.” He was committed for trial, and at +the Assizes on October 27th was sentenced by Lord Justice Fry to twelve +calendar months’ imprisonment. (_See_ February 21st, 1889.) + +11.—The scheme prepared by the Charity Commissioners for the future +management of the endowed schools and children’s hospitals in connection +with King Edward VI.’s charity and Anguish’s and Norman’s charities, was +published. The scheme for the Grammar and Commercial Schools was +practically the same as those promulgated in 1878. In the matter of +Anguish’s charity, it was proposed to divide the endowment into two +parts, one to be called Thomas Anguish’s endowment for boys, and the +other Thomas Anguish’s endowment for girls. The existing boys’ school +was to be given up, the master pensioned, and the income devoted, so far +as £200 yearly was concerned, to providing lodging, clothing, and +maintenance for boys holding exhibitions preferentially awarded under the +scheme. With the rest of the income the governors were to maintain seven +special exhibitions for poor boys who for not less than three years had +been scholars in some public elementary school or schools, and as many +general exhibitions for poor boys as the income available would allow to +be tenable at either of King Edward VI. schools. As to Thomas Anguish’s +endowment for girls, the girls’ hospital was to be abolished and the +income applied in the same way as that for boys, except that £300 yearly +was to be devoted to providing lodging, clothing, and maintenance for +orphan or other necessitous girls. Norman’s charity was to cease to +exist in its then form, the master pensioned, and the endowment to be +appropriated to the maintenance of a girls’ middle school, the scheme for +which was practically the same as that for the King Edward VI. Middle +School for Boys, and to be known as Norman’s School, provision being made +for the acquisition by purchase of the Girls’ Hospital School at Lakenham +by the new governors of the Norman School. On August 28th the Norwich +Town Council passed resolutions in opposition to the scheme, on the +ground that it was contrary to the wishes of the founders and of the +people of Norwich; and similar resolutions were carried at a meeting of +the Norwich Charities Protection Society held at the Guildhall on +September 10th, under the presidency of the Sheriff. (_See_ February +3rd, 1888.) + +20.—Miss Maude Branscombe and her London company appeared at Norwich +Theatre in the comedy, “Masks and Dominoes,” and the burlesque, “Undine, +or ye Nymph, ye Knight, and ye Awful Fright.” + +—The Norfolk acid Norwich Hospital was opened by the Duke and Duchess of +Connaught upon its completion. The actual expenditure to this date had +been £51,179, of which about £39,118 had been obtained by subscription, +£10,192 was withdrawn from invested capital, and £2,569 was advanced to +the treasurer by Messrs. Gurney and Co. To wholly clear the new building +from debt about £5,000 was required. The Duke and Duchess were received +at Thorpe Station by the Mayor (Mr. C. R. Gilman), the Sheriff (Mr. S. +Newman), the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. W. Hunter), the Earl of Leicester, and +other representatives of the Hospital. His Royal Highness, after +replying to an address read by the Town Clerk, drove with the Duchess +through the gaily decorated streets of the city to the Hospital, where +Prince Albert Victor had arrived some time previously from Horstead Hall +in company with Mr. Edward Birkbeck, M.P. After the formal opening of +the building their Royal Highnesses visited the various departments, and +attended a grand bazaar held in the grounds; and later in the afternoon +proceeded to Cotton Hall as the guests of Mr. S. Gurney Buxton and Miss +Buxton. On the morning of the 21st their Royal Highnesses visited the +Cathedral, and left for London at 2.55 p.m. The Hospital bazaar, which +remained open until the 25th, produced net receipts amounting to £5,779 +5s. 3d. + +28.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Mr. J. Wilson Gilbert was +elected Clerk of the Peace by 27 votes, against 25 recorded for Mr. +George Alden Stevens. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +3.—Died, at Norwich, Mr. Alfred Master, F.R.C.S., aged 67. He was a son +of Colonel Harcourt Master, and was born at Catton. A pupil of Mr. P. N. +Scott, and afterwards of Mr. J. Godwin Johnson, with whom he became +associated in practice, Mr. Master was for many years surgeon of the +County Gaol. He was a magistrate of the city and a prominent member of +the committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival. + +7.—Knapton church was re-opened by the Bishop of Norwich. It had been +restored at the cost of about £2,000. + +10.—Mr. J. C. Buckmaster, of the Science and Art Department, South +Kensington, delivered a lecture at Cromer on “Science Teaching in +Agriculture.” Mr. Buckmaster also lectured at North Walsham, Coltishall, +Aylsham, Wymondham, and Norwich. + +—Mr. Sheil Barry made his first appearance on the Norwich stage in his +famous impersonation of Gaspard in “Les Cloches de Corneville.” + +14.—Died, in his 83rd year, the Rev. John Methold, vicar of Wighton. He +was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was appointed +to his living in 1839. “It is a singular fact that the last three vicars +of Wighton, Mr. Charles, Mr. Tickell, and Mr. Methold, held the vicarage +for no less than 143 years.” Mr. Methold played for Harrow in the first +cricket match which that school won against Eton. + +15.—Died, at his residence, Ber Street House, Norwich, Mr. John May +Robberds, of the firm of Fosters, Burroughes, and Robberds, solicitors, +aged 74. A son of John Warden Robberds, who in his day was a geologist +of some note, and contributed the historical and geological notes to +“Stark’s River Scenery,” Mr. Robberds had lived in comparative retirement +for upwards of half a century. He was unrivalled as an authority upon +conveyancing law. + + +OCTOBER. + + +1.—At Norwich Police Court, Mr. William Sidney, proprietor of the Theatre +Royal, made application for a licence for the performance of stage plays +in that building. He stated that it was fifty years since he first +performed at the Theatre, when, under the management of Mr. Davenport, it +was open all the year round, and was understood to be a patent theatre. +It was afterwards purchased by a company of which Sir William Foster and +Mr. Robberds were the chairmen. He (Mr. Sidney) became lessee and +afterwards proprietor, and purchased the shares and freehold land. The +understanding during all those years was that it was a patent theatre and +required no licence from the magistrates. The Town Clerk had requested +him to produce the patent, but neither he nor his solicitors (Messrs. +Rackham) were able to do so. Eventually a patent was found, but to their +great surprise it was granted to one Thomas Ivory for seven months in the +year only, commencing November 1st. The Town Clerk explained to the +magistrates that the attention of the Executive Committee of the +Corporation having been called to the necessity of certain structural +alterations at the Theatre, Mr. Sidney was requested to have them carried +out, and in consequence of his non-compliance the Lord Chamberlain was +communicated with, and then it appeared that no patent had been granted +to a theatre in Norwich since 1768. The magistrates, before granting the +licence, required Mr. Sidney to comply with the demands of the +Corporation, and on the 19th, it being reported that the work was +completed, his application was acceded to. + +15.—The coming of age of Mr. John Cator, eldest son of Mr. Albemarle +Cator, was celebrated at Woodbastwick by a village _fête_. + +18.—The Duke of Portland laid the last stone of a new dock at Lynn. + +30.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference was opened at the Victoria Hall, +Norwich, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop. The proceedings +concluded on the 31st. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Dr. Eade was elected Mayor and Mr. J. Farrar Ranson appointed Sheriff +of Norwich. + +12.—Col. Boileau, at the annual distribution of prizes to the 1st +Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment, announced his impending retirement +from the command of the corps. He was succeeded by Lieut.-Colonel +Mansel. + +23.—The headquarters of the 4th (Queen’s Own) Hussars arrived at the +Cavalry Barracks, Norwich. + +24.—A fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Ilott, Bridewell Alley, +Norwich, and caused damage to the amount of between £1,200 and £1,500. + + +DECEMBER. + + +3.—Mr. David James commenced a six nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre +in the character of Perkyn Middlewick (“Our Boys”). + +18.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council an important letter was read +from Mr. John Gurney, of Sprowston Hall, referring to the opportunity +then afforded to acquire Norwich Castle and the surrounding grounds for +the use and recreation of the citizens. (_See_ February 19th, 1884.) + +26.—The holiday attraction at Norwich Theatre was the production of the +Drury Lane drama, “Youth,” by Messrs. Holt and Wilmot’s company. + +28.—The Mayor and Mayoress of Norwich (Dr. and Mrs. Eade) entertained 820 +aged men and women at St. Andrew’s Hall. + + + +1884. + + +JANUARY. + + +5.—A great meeting of Norfolk farmers was held at the Agricultural Hall, +Norwich, at which was passed a series of resolutions affirming that they +viewed with alarm the serious loss imposed upon the nation by the +importation of live stock from countries where foot and mouth disease was +known to exist, and calling upon the Government to order the withdrawal +of existing restrictions on the removal of stock in England. On the 29th +a similar meeting, presided over by Lord Walsingham, was held at Lynn, +and a third meeting took place at Fakenham on the 31st. Deputations from +the Corporations of Norwich and Lynn waited upon the local authority at +Norwich on February 23rd to discuss what steps should be taken to effect +the re-opening of the cattle markets in the city and borough, and it was +decided to send a deputation to the Privy Council. This deputation, +consisting of representatives of the county authority, and of the +Corporations of Norwich and Lynn, waited upon Lord Carlingford on +February 28th, and asked for the immediate opening of the markets and the +removal or modification of other restrictions. At the quarterly meeting +of the county magistrates on April 10th, Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., reported +that the sum of £2,586 had been expended during the three months for +inspection and expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Act. The +Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act Amendment Bill was read a second time +on March 21st and a third time on May 3rd, and on May 19th it received +the Royal assent and became law. + +20.—Died, at King’s Lynn, Mr. James Fiddaman. He began life in very +humble circumstances and without the advantages afforded by education. +The son of a tailor in a small way of business, he first acted as an +assistant to his uncle, who was ostler at a tavern in Lynn. He was +afterwards ostler or “boots” at inns and hotels in neighbouring towns; +subsequently he tramped the country for a time, visiting London, +Brighton, and other places in quest of a good situation. Eventually he +returned to Lynn, took a public-house known as the Wheatsheaf, in Norfolk +Street, and made it the local centre of the sporting interest in West +Norfolk. After a time he bought the house, converted it into an hotel +and wine vaults, and rapidly made a fortune. Mr. Fiddaman was a +munificent donor to many benevolent institutions, and his private acts of +charity were numerous. An enormous concourse of persons attended his +funeral. + +30.—Died, at his residence, Thorpe St. Andrew, Mr. Richard Noverre Bacon, +aged 85, probably the oldest journalist in the kingdom. At an early age +he was engaged in newspaper work under his father, Richard Mackenzie +Bacon, whom in 1845 he succeeded as proprietor and editor of the “Norwich +Mercury.” A Whig of the old school, Mr. Bacon in his editorship of the +“Mercury” was tenacious in the maintenance of his opinions, and held them +with a firmness which did not always please the more advanced section of +the Liberal party—hence the establishment of the “Norfolk News” as the +representative organ of Liberal Nonconformity in county and city. Mr. +Bacon served his fellow-citizens in the Town Council, on the Hospital +board, and in other capacities, and assisted in founding the Jenny Lind +Infirmary for Sick Children. As a journalist he was decidedly inferior +to his distinguished father, and his only literary work was his “Essay on +Norfolk Agriculture,” written in 1844, which won for him the prize +offered by the Royal Agricultural Society, besides bringing him +prominently forward among the agriculturists of the county, a connection +he was assiduous in maintaining to the close of his career. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +19.—A deputation of Norfolk magistrates and members of the Norwich Town +Council waited upon the Home Secretary (Sir William Harcourt) on the +subject of the proposed provision of a new prison site at Norwich. Lord +Walsingham explained the objects of the deputation. The county prison at +Norwich, with the Castle and a portion of the ground on which it stands, +having been offered under Section 34 of the Prisons Act, 1877, for +re-purchase by the original prison authority, _i.e._, the county of +Norfolk, at the statutory price fixed by the Act (amounting in this case +to £10,569), a committee was appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions +for the county, and another committee by the Town Council of Norwich. +The county authority would not consent to take money out of the pockets +of the heavily-burdened ratepayers for the repurchase of property which +they had been compelled by law to part with for nothing; but they asked +that this ancient and interesting piece of county property should be +restored to its original owners “that it might be by them preserved to +the best advantage in all its imposing dignity and grandeur.” The Mayor +of Norwich (Dr. Eade) stated that Mr. John Gurney had gone so far as to +offer, free of cost, another site for a prison. The Home Secretary +replied that the Prison Commissioners would not abandon the site, but +would continue to occupy it, unless an offer were made which they could +accept. If it was desired that they should go elsewhere, it should be +made worth their while to do so. At a meeting of the Norwich Town +Council on April 10th it was reported that the Home Secretary was willing +to accept £5,000 for the Castle, and that a still further reduction was +probable. On June 17th the Mayor announced to the Corporation that the +Government had agreed to sell to the city the Castle and its environments +for £4,000; and it was resolved to purchase the property for that sum. +(_See_ October 19th, 1886.) + +20.—Mr. C. S. Read was returned unopposed to fill the vacancy in the +representation of the Western Division of the county, caused by the +resignation of Mr. Bentinck, M.P. Mr. Read took his seat in the House of +Commons on the 21st, and had a very cordial reception. “The Premier +shook his hand when he came to the table, and a score of members behind +the chair greeted him as heartily.” + + +MARCH. + + +15.—On this date were published the names of Norfolk men, and of those +connected with the county, who had distinguished themselves at the battle +of Teb, on March 13th. The list included Colonel Sir Redvers Buller, of +Castle Rising; Commander Rolfe, of Heacham; Major Haggard, son of Mr. +Haggard, of East Bradenham; Lieutenant Probyn (killed), nephew of Sir +Dighton Probyn; and Captain Wilson, R.N., of the Hecla, son of Mr. +Knyvett Wilson, of Swaffham. Captain Wilson afterwards received the +Victoria Cross. + +20.—Mr. Oscar Wilde lectured before a large audience in the Assembly +Room, Agricultural Hall, Norwich, on the subject of “The House +Beautiful.” + +22.—The Spring Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was held for +the first time at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich. Since this date the +show has been held annually in the same building in the month of March. + +26.—Mr. E. P. Weston, the celebrated pedestrian, who on the 15th +completed his walk of 5,000 miles in as many consecutive hours (Sundays +and Christmas Day excluded), delivered a lecture at the Agricultural +Hall, Norwich, on “How I Came to Walk into Walking.” The Mayor (Dr. +Eade) presided. Weston, whose address was in the cause of temperance, +stated that in fourteen years he had walked 56,000 miles. + +28.—Intelligence was received at Norwich of the death, at Cannes, of the +Duke of Albany. The great bell of St. Peter Mancroft was tolled, and +flags displayed at half-mast. References were made to the sad event by +preachers in various places of worship on Sunday, the 30th; on April 8th +the Town Council passed a resolution of condolence with her Majesty the +Queen and the Duchess of Albany; and on April 10th the county magistrates +adopted a similar resolution. + + +APRIL. + + +12.—Died, at Rackheath Park, Lady Stracey, wife of Sir Henry J. Stracey, +Bart. Her ladyship was a daughter of Mr. George Denne, of the Paddock, +Canterbury, and married Sir Henry on March 5th, 1835. Of the marriage +there were eight sons and six daughters. + +—Died, at Yarmouth, Mr. William Norton Burroughs, in his 86th year. He +was Mayor of the borough in 1846. + +14.—Madame Cave-Ashton’s Opera Company commenced an engagement at Norwich +Theatre, in “Il Trovatore.” + +25.—Died, at Morningthorpe Rectory, the Rev. Edmund Nelson Rolfe, eldest +son of the Rev. Robert Rolfe, rector of Hempnall aged 73. He was first +cousin to Lord Chancellor Cranworth. “Of an old Norfolk family, he bore +the Christian name of Nelson to mark his relationship to the great Lord +Nelson. His mother was a daughter of the Rev. Edmund Nelson, and aunt to +Horatio Viscount Nelson.” + +28.—The Royal assent was given to “The City of Norwich (Mousehold Heath) +Scheme Confirmation.” + + +MAY. + + +1.—At St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Rev. Sidney Linton, D.D., vicar of St. +Philip’s, Heigham, Norwich, was consecrated by the Archbishop of +Canterbury, Bishop of Riverina, New South Wales. A farewell meeting was +held in St. Philip’s parish on May 26th, when the Bishop received parting +gifts. + +13.—“Cuthbert Bede” (the Rev. Edward Bradley), author of “Verdant Green,” +lectured in the Assembly Room, Agricultural Hall, Norwich, on “Modern +Humourists.” + +19.—In the Court of Appeal, Lords Justices Baggallay, Cotton, and Lindley +commenced the hearing of the appeal case, Boswell and others _v._ Coaks +and others. This was an appeal from the judgment of Mr. Justice Fry in +the action brought by Mr. J. F. Boswell and Mr. James Baxter on behalf of +themselves and of other unsatisfied creditors of Sir Robert John Harvey, +deceased, against Isaac Bugg Coaks and others, to have the purchase of a +life interest on certain property set aside. Mr. Justice Fry had given +judgment for the defendants, and from that judgment the plaintiffs now +appealed. On Wednesday, 28th, the sixth day of the hearing, their +lordships adjourned until after the Whitsuntide recess. The hearing was +resumed on June 12th, and continued until June 16th, when Lord Baggallay +said their lordships would consider their judgment. On July 31st +judgment was given for the plaintiffs. “The arguments of counsel and +examination of witnesses in the appeal occupied the time of the Court for +nine days, and it is just over six weeks since the case closed and their +lordships announced that they would consider their judgment. It amounts +to a complete vindication of the action taken by the plaintiffs, for whom +practically the verdict throughout was given, with costs.” (_See_ +December 9th, 1885.) + +29.—Died, at Wimbledon, the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, G.C.B., G.C.S.I. +He belonged to an ancient family established in Norfolk and Suffolk from +the time of the Conquest, and was a younger brother of Mr. George Edward +Frere, of Roydon, near Diss. Born on March 29th, 1815, he was educated +at Bath Grammar School, and at the age of seventeen was nominated to +Haileybury; in the entrance examination he came out last but one, but +once admitted he set himself to work with such energy that at the end of +1833 be passed from the college as its foremost student into the ranks of +the Company’s Civil Service. His name will ever be associated with South +African diplomacy. + +31.—A great county and city meeting was held at the Agricultural Hall, +Norwich, under the presidency of the Earl of Leicester, for the purpose +of taking such measures as might be necessary to induce the Council of +the Royal Agricultural Society of England to hold their annual meeting at +Norwich in 1886. Resolutions were adopted in furtherance of the objects +of the meeting. (_See_ July 12th, 1886.) + + +JUNE. + + +10.—A fire occurred at Scole, and resulted in the destruction of the shop +of Mr. A. Pettit, and of other property. Mr. Pettit’s loss amounted to +upwards of £1,000. + +—Died, at Catton, Mrs. Mary Sewell, widow of Mr. Isaac Sewell. She was +the daughter of Mr. John Wright, of Buxton, and was born in 1797 at +either Felthorpe or Great Yarmouth. Most of her early life was spent at +the former place; and in 1818 she married Mr. Sewell, of Yarmouth. +Subsequently they removed to the neighbourhood of London, where they +resided until 1835. During the next twenty years they lived at Brighton +and at Chichester, and then removed to Bath, where they remained till +1867, when Mrs. Sewell went to reside with her son at Catton. Her +connection with literature began at a very early period of her life, and +her publications were both numerous and popular. The most successful +were “Mother’s Last Words” and “Our Father’s Care.” The former was +issued by Messrs. Jarrold on November 1st, 1860, and up to January 25th, +1884, upwards of one million copies had been printed and circulated. +Similar success attended the latter work, which proved equally popular. +Mrs. Sewell was originally a member of the Society of Friends, but in +consequence of misgivings she withdrew in 1834, and for a time attended a +Congregational chapel in London. On her removal to Brighton she +associated herself with the Church of England. “She was no sectarian, +but a Christian in the broadest and most genuine sense.” + +18.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association opened at +Lynn, and was continued on the 19th. Sir Lewis W. Jarvis was president. + +26.—Died, at Newmarket Road, Norwich, Mr. John Pymar, aged 76. For more +than fifty years he served the city in various capacities, but never +aspired to the higher offices. For nearly half a century Mr. Pymar was a +member of the Board of Guardians, and for more than forty years an +alderman of the city. Throughout his career he was a moderate and +consistent Liberal. + +—Died, at Prince’s Street, Norwich, Mr. John Quinton, for fifty-five +years librarian at the Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution, aged 72. + +28.—Died, at Yarmouth, aged 73, Mr. Charles Cory Aldred, Deputy-Mayor of +the borough. In early life he served as naval surgeon in H.M.S. +Dreadnought, and was afterwards surgeon-major in the Norfolk Artillery +Militia. + +29.—The Rev. Frederick Baggallay, who had been elected vicar of St. Peter +Mancroft, Norwich, in succession to the Ven. Archdeacon Nevill, +officiated for the first time. He was the fifth son of the Right Hon. +Sir Richard Baggallay, Lord Justice of Appeal, and formerly curate at St. +George’s, Hanover Square. + + +JULY. + + +1.—St. John’s church, Yarmouth, was re-opened after further enlargement, +at the cost of £1,500. Within a quarter of a century the building had +been five times enlarged. + +—Died, at Glaisdale Lodge, Hunstanton, Rhoda Bunn, formerly of Wolferton, +in her 104th year. She was born at Beeston-next-Mileham, on February +23rd, 1781, “and shortly after her last birthday was presented by the +Queen with her portrait upon receipt of a photograph of the old lady sent +by the vicar, the Rev. A. Waller.” + +7.—Colonel George Wilson Boileau was presented by the members of the 1st +Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment, at Norwich, with a massive silver +Monteith bowl “as a mark of respect and esteem on his retirement in 1883, +after commanding the battalion fifteen years.” + +14.—A large meeting of the Conservative party in West Norfolk was held at +Swaffham “with the object of supporting the Lords in their constitutional +action with regard to the Franchise Bill.” This was the first of many +meetings held throughout the county at which the principle of +redistribution was strongly enforced, and Mr. Bright’s famous dictum at +Bradford in 1859 quoted: “Repudiate without mercy any Bill of any +Government, whatever its franchise, whatever its seeming concessions may +be, if it does not redistribute the seats.” At Lynn, on July 22nd, Sir +Stafford Northcote, Lord Cranborne, and Mr. Bourke addressed a +largely-attended meeting in support of redistribution, and at Norwich, on +the 29th, the Earl of Donoughmore, Sir Hardinge Giffard, Q.C., M.P., and +Sir R. J. Buxon, M.P., spoke in favour of the action of the House of +Lords. + +—The newly-erected parish church at Edgefield was consecrated by the +Bishop of Norwich. The dilapidated church of SS. Peter and Paul standing +upon the confines of the parish had been demolished, and the materials +capable of being re-used were utilised for the erection of the new church +upon a more convenient site. The demolition was commenced on November +13th, 1882, and the building of the new church was carried out from plans +by Mr. J. D. Steading, of Charlotte Street, Bradford Square, W.C., by Mr. +Bartram, builder, of Aylsham, at the cost of £1,900. + +30.—Deopham church was re-opened, after restoration by Messrs. Cornish +and Gaymer, of North Walsham. + + +AUGUST. + + +9.—Died, at Merton Rectory, the Rev. George Crabbe, B.A. He was a son of +the eldest brother of the celebrated poet Crabbe, and was born at +Pucklechurch, Somerset, in 1819. Educated at Bury St. Edmund’s School, +and at Queen’s College, Cambridge, he was presented to the living of +Merton by Lord Walsingham, father of the present peer. Mr. Crabbe +married his cousin, the third daughter of the Rev. George Crabbe, younger +son of the poet. During the last two or three years of his life he was +engaged in examining and arranging the family documents at Merton Hall, +and the result of his researches was published in 1883 by direction of +the Committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, under the +title of “Robert de Grey, Recusant.” This was followed by Part I. of “A +Report on the Muniments of Merton Hall, Norfolk,” published in the +“Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany,” edited by Walter Rye. Part II. was +nearly completed at the time of his death. + +11.—Great heat was experienced on this date. “The heat registered in the +shade was 90 degrees at Eaton, and 95 in Park Lane, Norwich.” A violent +thunderstorm occurred on the 12th. + +13.—Died suddenly, at Brighton railway station, the Duke of Wellington. +Born February 3rd, 1807, he succeeded his illustrious father, the +greatest of British generals, on September 14th, 1852. As Lord Douro he +was elected Conservative member for Aldeburgh in 1830, and retained his +seat until 1831. In 1837 he was returned for Norwich, and continued to +sit until July, 1852, a few months previous to the death of his father. +During the life of Sir Samuel Bignold, with whom he was on terms of the +closest intimacy, the Duke of Wellington was a frequent visitor to +Norwich, the last occasion being in 1874, when he joined in the +celebration of the venerable knight’s 83rd birthday, on October 13th, and +on the following evening accompanied him to the annual dinner of the +Eldon Club. + +21.—Died suddenly, at Cranmer Hall, Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart., aged 63. +He was the second son of Major-General Sir John Thomas Jones, K.C.B., +_aide-de-camp_ to the Queen (who was created a baronet in 1831), by +Catherine Maria, daughter of Mr. Effingham Laurence, of New York. +Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a wrangler’s degree +in 1843, he entered for the Bar, but his future career was decided by the +death of his brother, Sir Laurence Jones, who, having held the baronetcy +for only two years, was murdered by brigands whilst on a tour in Turkey, +in November, 1845. Sir Willoughby, on succeeding to the baronetcy, +devoted himself to the pursuits and duties of a country gentleman. He +was for nearly thirty years Chairman of the Norfolk Court of Quarter +Sessions, chairman of the Norwich centre of the Cambridge Local +Examinations, and a member of the Archæological Society and of the +Naturalists’ Society. He also took great interest in the Volunteer +movement, and in its early days was captain of the 10th Company of +Norfolk Rifles. Sir Willoughby served the office of High Sheriff in +1851, and married in 1856 his cousin, Emily, daughter of Mr. Henry Taylor +Jones, of Chatham, by whom he left three sons and four daughters. In +early life he was a Conservative, and as such sat for Cheltenham in +1847–48; but he afterwards changed his principles, and in 1865, as a +Liberal, unsuccessfully contested West Norfolk. + +25.—Mr. Edward Terry commenced a three nights’ engagement at Norwich +Theatre, as Captain Ginger (“Weak Woman”). His other impersonations were +Chevalier Walkinshaw (“The Rocket”), Kerry (“Kerry, or Night and +Morning”), and Paul Pry. + +26.—A long and heated discussion took place at a meeting of the Norwich +Town Council on a motion for adopting a recommendation by the Libraries +Committee “that the reading room at the Free Library be opened on Sundays +from 3 o’clock until 9 p.m., from Michaelmas to Christmas next, by way of +experiment.” A strong protest was handed in on behalf of the clergy of +the city, and the motion was defeated by 21 votes against 12. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +20.—It was announced that the Mousehold site for the new brigade depot +for the Norfolk Regiment had been handed over to the military +authorities, and plans were in hand for the erection of the barracks. +(_See_ June 18th, 1888.) + +29.—A new lifeboat was launched at Cromer, and was named by Mrs. +Bond-Cabbell the “Benjamin Bond-Cabbell.” It was built by Messrs. +Beeching, of Yarmouth. + + +OCTOBER. + + +6.—The Eastern and Midland Railway extension to Holt was inspected and +approved by Major-General Hutchinson. + +14.—The Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival commenced with an evening +performance of “Elijah.” The other productions were: On the 15th “The +Redemption,” first time of performance in Norwich; the 16th the dramatic +oratorio, “The Rose of Sharon,” the music composed expressly for this +Festival by A. C. Mackenzie; the 17th “The Messiah.” Grand miscellaneous +concerts were given on the evenings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th. The +principal vocalists were Miss Emma Navada, Miss Anna Williams, Madame +Patey, Miss Damian, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Maas, Mr. H. E. Thorndike, and +Mr. Santley. Mr. Alberto Randegger conducted. The balance, after the +payment of expenses, amounted to £953 1s. 3d., of which amount £700 was +distributed among the local charities. + +15.—The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Norwich from Melton +Constable, where they were on a visit to Lord and Lady Hastings, and +attended the Musical Festival. Their Royal Highnesses arrived at the +City Station of the Eastern and Midlands Railway at 11.40 and were +received by the Mayor (Dr. Eade), the Sheriff (Mr. J. Farrar Ranson), and +the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. C. R. Gilman), and were escorted to St. Andrew’s +Hall by a detachment of the 4th (Queen’s Own) Hussars. During the +interval in the performance of “The Redemption” their Royal Highnesses +and a distinguished company were entertained to luncheon by the Mayor. +On leaving the hall the Prince and Princess visited the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital, and later returned to Melton Constable. Their Royal +Highnesses again visited the city on the evening of the 17th, and +attended the Festival concert, at the conclusion of which they proceeded +to Melton Constable, and ended their visit to Lord and Lady Hastings on +the 18th. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +6.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference commenced its sittings at Noverre’s +Rooms, Norwich. The proceedings ended on the 7th. + +7.—The new building erected on St. James’s Road by the Corporation of +Lynn, for the reception of the Stanley Library, was opened. The Bishop +of Carlisle (Dr. Harvey Goodwin, son of Mr. Charles Goodwin, of Lynn) +delivered an inaugural address, in the course of which he reviewed the +changes and improvements in his native town since he last visited it +twenty-five years previously. + +10.—Mr. John Hotblack was elected Mayor and Mr. William Howard Dakin +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +18.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council the Parliamentary and Bylaws +Committee reported that counsel was of opinion “that the Corporation +should for the present hold its hand and not make any further +distribution among the freemen of the funds arising from the Town Close +Estate.” The recommendation of the Committee “that the question of +payment remain in abeyance until the next meeting,” was adopted by 45 +votes against 11. At an adjourned meeting held on December 16th “to +consider the case submitted to the Solicitor-General and Mr. Asquith,” +Mr. Hackblock moved the adoption of the recommendation of the +Parliamentary and Bylaws Committee “that the City Treasurer be directed +to carry the amounts of the rents of the Town Close Estate in his hands +to a separate account, with the view of affording an opportunity for +obtaining a judicial decision as to the rights of the freemen to the +estate.” Mr. Joseph Stanley moved “That the freemen be paid as usual.” +The amendment was defeated by 26 votes against 21. On the adjournment of +the Council a writ issued by Mr. Stanley on behalf of four freemen, and +directed against the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors and her Majesty’s +Attorney General, was served upon the Town Clerk. It claimed for the +freemen a declaration that the Corporation was seized and entitled to the +receipt of the rents and profits of the Town Close Estate upon trust only +for the benefit of the plaintiffs and others the freemen of the city, and +an account of the rents and profits of the estate which had been received +by the Corporation. The appointment of a receiver was asked for, and in +addition the plaintiffs sought an injunction to restrain the Corporation +from admitting to the freedom of the city by servitude any persons who +had served only under articles of clerkship to a solicitor for not +exceeding five years, and had not served seven years’ apprenticeship to a +freeman trader. The Corporation was also desired to furnish an account +of all persons so admitted from September 9th, 1835, it being contended +by the freemen that the profession of law was not a trade or business as +required by the Act, and that no man could be admitted under less than a +seven years’ apprenticeship. (_See_ March 21st, 1887.) + +30.—Died, at Costessey Park, the Right Hon. Henry Valentine Baron +Stafford. He was a son of George William, eighth lord (in whose favour +an attainder was reversed in 1824), by his first wife, Frances Henrietta, +youngest daughter and co-heiress of Mr. Edward Sulyarde, of Wetherdon, +Suffolk, and was born January 2nd, 1802. His lordship was twice married, +first on February 13th, 1829, to Julia, second daughter of Mr. Edward C. +Howard, F.R.S., and niece of the 12th Duke of Norfolk, who died in +November, 1856; and, secondly, in September, 1859, to Emma Eliza, +daughter of Mr. Frederick S. Gerard, of Aspull House, Lincolnshire, and +niece of Robert Lord Gerard, by whom he was survived. He was one of the +first Roman Catholics who sat in the House of Commons after the passing +of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, when he was chosen member for +Pontefract. On the occasion of the visit of the Prince and Princess of +Wales, the Queen of Denmark, and the Duke of Edinburgh to Norwich, in +1866, Lord Stafford entertained them at Costessey Park. In recognition +of his munificent liberality on that occasion a subscription was +inaugurated by the Corporation of Norwich for a full-length portrait of +his lordship, which was placed in St. Andrew’s Hall. Lord Stafford was +the courtliest of gentlemen and the most liberal of landlords. + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—Died, at Bacton Grange, North Walsham, in his 67th year, Mr. William +Partridge Cubitt. He was born at Bacton, where the Cubitt family had +been for many generations tenants under the Wodehouses. As a coal +merchant he owned ships which traded between Bacton and the North. For +many years he was captain of the Bacton lifeboat crew, and had received +medals and certificates for courageously saving life on the Norfolk +coast. On one occasion he swam his horse out to a wreck and brought the +sailors to shore hanging to the stirrup-leathers of his saddle. “He was +not only a good sailor, a good farmer, and a sharp and wise merchant, but +he was also a splendid horseman across country.” In politics Mr. Cubitt +was strongly Liberal. + +2.—A meeting was held at King’s Lynn, at which was formed for West +Norfolk a branch of the National Fair Trade League. The principles of +the League were, for a time, advocated in this and other parts of +Norfolk, but the movement was short-lived. + +3.—Died, at the Close, Norwich, Mr. John Orfeur, in his 80th year. He +was a son of Lieutenant Abdiel Orfeur, R.N., of Great Yarmouth, a +descendant of the family of Orfeur in Cumberland. By business a timber +merchant, he devoted his leisure time to scientific pursuits, was one of +the promoters of the Norwich Geological Society, and of the Norfolk and +Norwich Naturalists’ Society, and a warm supporter of the Norfolk and +Norwich Museum. + +6.—The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture adopted a resolution affirming its +belief that the long-continued depression in agriculture injuriously +affected all other industries, and its desire that a Committee of the two +Houses of Parliament should enquire into the causes of the distress and +recommend such practical remedies as might be found advisable. Mr. C. S. +Read, M.P., moved a similar resolution at a meeting of the Central +Chamber of Agriculture, on December 10th. + +16.—Died, at Houghton Hall, his seat in Norfolk, the Marquis of +Cholmondeley. His lordship, who was born August 31st, 1800, was the +younger of the two sons of George James, fourth earl and first Marquis of +Cholmondeley, by his marriage with the Lady Georgina Charlotte Bertie, +second daughter and co-heiress of Peregrine, third Duke of Ancaster. He +was educated at Eton and Christ Church, and at the age of 22, as Lord +Henry Cholmondeley, he entered the House of Commons as one of the members +for the pocket borough of Castle Rising, in the place of his brother, +Lord Rocksavage, who was called to the Upper House in his father’s Barony +of Newburgh. In 1832 Castle Rising was disfranchised under Lord John +Russell’s Reform Act, and Lord Henry remained out of Parliament until +1852, when he was returned as one of the members for South Hampshire. In +May, 1870, on his elder brother’s death, he succeeded to the Marquisate +and the rest of the family honours, and to the estates of Cholmondeley +Castle in Cheshire, and of Houghton Hall, Norfolk. He was an excellent +and considerate landlord, and did his best to encourage agricultural +improvements on his estates. + +17.—An extensive fire occurred in the drapery establishment of Mr. Alfred +Jermyn, High Street, Lynn. A range of buildings was entirely destroyed. +The premises were valued at £6,500, and the stock in trade at £20,000. + +26.—Messrs. T. W. Robertson and H. Brace’s Comedy Company appeared at +Norwich Theatre in the farcical pieces, “Nita’s First” and “My Milliner’s +Bill.” At Messrs. John Sanger and Son’s Circus, at the Agricultural +Hall, was produced the Christmas spectacle, “Aladdin, or an Old Lamp with +a New Face.” + +29.—Died, at Bridewell Alley, Norwich, aged 53, Mr. Arthur Dale Ventnor, +a well-known portrait painter. + +30.—Died, at his residence, Surrey Street, Norwich, Mr. Richard +Makilwaine Phipson, F.S.A., aged 57. He commenced practice as an +architect in London, and in 1849 took an office at Ipswich. In 1859 he +was appointed to the post of County Surveyor of Norfolk, and afterwards +became one of the diocesan surveyors under the Ecclesiastical +Dilapidations Act, 1871. Much of the work of church restoration carried +out during the quarter of a century preceding his death had been +entrusted to him, and he was the architect of the Norwich City Asylum. +Mr. Phipson was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, and took +great interest in the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society. + + + +1885. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—The Hon. T. W. H. Pelham, one of the Commissioners appointed to +inquire as to the boundaries to be assigned to the divisions of the +several counties under the Redistribution of Seats Bill, attended at the +Shirehall, Norwich, for the purpose of receiving suggestions and of +hearing objections as to the constitution of the divisions of the county +of Norfolk. On February 28th it was announced that the Commissioners had +issued their report and had determined the areas of the six divisions +into which the county would be divided, with one member to each. These +were known as South, South-West, East, North, Mid, and North-West. +Yarmouth and King’s Lynn were allotted one member each. + +6.—Died, at Cathedral Street, Norwich, Mrs. Emily Stannard, widow of +Joseph Stannard, artist, and daughter of Daniel Coppin, aged 82. Mrs. +Stannard was a clever painter of fruit, flowers, and still life. In 1821 +she was presented with the large gold medal of the Society of Arts for an +original painting of fruit, and in 1828 received a gold medal for a +painting of game. + +8.—The coming of age of Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward of Wales, +eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, was marked by great +rejoicings not only at Sandringham, but throughout the county. Addresses +and gifts were presented by the tenantry, and by the Corporations of +Norwich and Lynn; Sanger’s circus company from Norwich gave performances +for the amusement of the villagers; and in the evening a grand ball took +place at Sandringham House. The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. John Hotblack) +invited 600 children to a fancy dress ball given at St. Andrew’s Hall in +honour of the event. + +15.—The Mayor and Corporation of Norwich attended at St. Andrew’s Hall to +inaugurate an art loan exhibition in aid of St. Peter Mancroft church +restoration fund, and of the churchyard improvement. The exhibition +remained open for three weeks, and realised a balance of £517. + +21.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Hamon le +Strange brought an action against the Corporation of Lynn for the purpose +of determining the boundary between his fishery and the fishery of the +Corporation, which were coterminous. It was alleged that the defendants +wrongfully cut away and removed two buoys belonging to the plaintiff. +The defendants denied the act, but subsequently justified it on the +ground that the buoys were an interference with the fishery of the +Corporation. The hearing concluded on the 24th, when the jury found for +the plaintiff and allowed 40s. damages in order to carry costs. The +defendants gave notice of motion for a new trial on the ground of +misdirection of the jury. On June 24th the application was made in the +Queen’s Beach Division, and was refused. + +21.—Died, at All Saints’ Green, Norwich, Thomas Frederick Armes, +bugle-major of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Formerly in +the 4th Light Dragoons, he took part in the famous light cavalry charge +at Balaclava, in which he was wounded and left for dead on the field. + +26.—The Prince of Wales attended the annual meeting of the Provincial +Grand Lodge of Norfolk Freemasons at Lynn, and was present at the banquet +presided over by Lord Suffield. + +29.—A widow, named Elizabeth Everitt, 50 years of age, of Wormegay, near +Downham Market, was murdered by her son, William Everitt. The murderer +was certified to be insane, and was removed to the Broadmoor Criminal +Lunatic Asylum. + +—Died, at Hill House, Surlingham, Mr. Frederick Anthony Mills, in his +85th year. Born at Pulham St. Mary, where for many years his father +practised as a surgeon, he received his early education under Valpy at +Norwich Grammar School, and was one of the last survivors of the Valpeian +Club. A taste for natural history and anatomical investigation rendered +his studies when a pupil at Guy’s both congenial and promising. For some +time he practised surgery in Norwich in partnership with Mr. Cadge, and +after the death of his wife, settled at Surlingham with his old friend +and fellow-sportsman, Mr. Robert Pratt, and indulged in his favourite +pursuits of fishing and shooting. Mr. Mills was a Liberal of the old +school, “but his contempt for mere party triumphs led him to speak with +more pride than regret of his never having been a member of the Norwich +Town Council.” + + +FEBRUARY. + + +2.—Died, at Surrey Street, Norwich, Mrs. Louisa Mary Barwell, widow of +Mr. John Barwell. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. Richard Mackenzie +Bacon, and was born March 4th, 1800. In early life she showed great +taste and talent in music, became one of the finest amateur singers of +her day, and assisted her father in editing the “Musical Review.” In +1824 she married Mr. John Barwell, and soon afterwards contributed +articles to the “Journal of Education” and other similar periodicals. +Mrs. Barwell in 1833 published her first book, “Little Lessons for Little +Learners.” Her works on educational subjects numbered fourteen. + +11.—The “Tichborne Claimant” (who was released from Pentonville Prison on +October 20th, 1884) appeared at Sanger’s Circus, Norwich, and addressed +the audience on his life and adventures. He made a second appearance on +the 12th. + +16.—Sir J. W. Lubbock, M.P., and Mr. H. L. Courtney, M.P., at the +Agricultural Hall, Norwich, propounded the principles advocated by the +Proportional Representation Society. + + +MARCH. + + +5.—A “service of humiliation” was held in the nave of Norwich Cathedral, +“with prayers for our nation in general and specially for our soldiers +and sailors in Egypt.” + +—A salmon trout, weighing 4¾ lbs., was captured at Pull’s Ferry, Norwich. + +7.—At the Norfolk Adjourned Quarter Sessions, held at the Shirehall, +Norwich, Mr. T. H. B. Heslop of Thames Ditton, Surrey, was appointed +County Surveyor, in place of Mr. R. M. Phipson, deceased. + + +APRIL. + + +6.—An English Opera Company, including Mr. Faulkner Leigh, Madame +Cave-Ashton, Madame Campobello, and Mr. William Parkinson, commenced a +season at Norwich Theatre in the operas of “La Sonnambula,” “The +Waterman,” “Il Trovatore,” “Pygmalion and Galatea,” “Maritana,” &c. Sir +Julius Benedict was announced as conductor, but in consequence of his +serious illness his name was withdrawn. + +—The annual conference of the National Union of Elementary Teachers +opened at the Lecture Hall, Prince’s Street, Norwich, and concluded on +the 9th. + +19.—Died, at his residence, Heigham, Norwich, aged 84, the Rev. Frederick +Field, LL.D. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he +obtained the Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship, and took his Bachelor’s degree +as tenth wrangler and Chancellor’s medallist. He was afterwards elected +to a Fellowship, and in 1843 was instituted to the rectory of Reepham, +which he held till 1863. In 1875 he was created an honorary LL.D. of +Cambridge University. Dr. Field was a member of the Old Testament +Revision Committee, and the editor of “Barrow’s Treatise on the Pope’s +Supremacy,” and of several learned works published by the Society for +Promoting Christian Knowledge, the Clarendon Press, Oxford, and the +Cambridge University Press. + +21.—Died, at Hill House, Dersingham, Captain William D’Urban Blyth, late +14th Hussars, aged 59. He was a member of an old Norfolk family, and +joined his regiment, then the 14th Light Dragoons, in India in 1847. He +served through the Punjaub Campaign of 1848 and 1849; and with the +Central India Field Force, under Sir Hugh Rose, during the Mutiny. +Captain Blyth for some time held the post of riding master in his +regiment, and in addition superintended the training of 1,200 remounts +for cavalry during the Crimean War. He took part in thirty-six separate +engagements, and was never once wounded. On retiring from the Army he +settled at Weasenham Hall, his birthplace, and subsequently at +Dersingham, where he became a warm supporter of the West Norfolk +Foxhounds, and a justice of the peace. + + +MAY. + + +1.—A “habitation” of the Primrose League was inaugurated at Holt at a +meeting held under the presidency of Sir Alfred Jodrell, Bart. This is +the first record of the formation of a branch of the organization in +Norfolk. The preliminary meeting was followed by a great gathering held +in the same town on May 12th. Other “habitations” were quickly formed in +various parts of the county. + +9.—The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture discussed the question of +inaugurating a series of agricultural experiments. The committee to whom +the matter had been referred reported in favour of the proposal, which +had the warm support of the Prince of Wales and the Earl of Leicester. +The report was adopted, and it was decided to commence experiments in the +autumn. An address on the subject was delivered by Sir Thomas Acland, +M.P. + +20.—The Prince of Wales arrived at Yarmouth, and on the 21st inspected +the Norfolk Artillery, in which Prince Albert Victor was serving at the +time. On the 22nd the Prince of Wales was to have visited Norwich for +the purpose of inspecting the 3rd Battalion Norfolk Regiment, but the +parade was abandoned in consequence of the heavy rain. A ball given at +Yarmouth Town Hall in the evening by the officers of the Eastern District +Brigade, was attended by their Royal Highnesses. The Prince of Wales +left for Sandringham on the 23rd. + +21.—Died, aged 78, Mr. Jeremiah Colman, of Carshalton Park, senior +partner in the firm of Messrs. J. and J. Colman. He was one of the +twelve sons of Mr. Robert Colman, and a member of the cricket team of +eleven brothers. + + +JUNE. + + +3.—The Derby Stakes were won at Epsom by Lord Hastings’ Norfolk-bred +horse, Melton, which beat Mr. Brodrick-Cloete’s Paradox and Mr. +Childwick’s Royal Hampton. On September 16th Melton won the St. Leger +Stakes at Doncaster by six lengths. + +4.—A festival of the Choir Benevolent Fund took place at Norwich +Cathedral. + +13.—The Queen, it was announced, had conferred the honour of knighthood +upon Dr. Eade, of Norwich. The Norwich Town Council on the 16th passed a +vote of congratulation to Sir Peter Eade, who on August 1st was presented +to her Majesty at Osborne. + +17.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Watton, and was continued on the 18th. Lord Walsingham was president. + + +JULY. + + +4.—Captain Smith, East Surrey Regiment, son of Mr. Henry Smith, of +Ellingham Hall, was enthusiastically welcomed on his return after active +service in Afghanistan and the Soudan. Captain Smith entered the Army in +1878, and went immediately to the front. He served in the Afghan War +under Sir Donald Stewart, and in the Soudan under General Graham, and +took part in the operations at Hasheen and Tamai. While at Suakim he +contracted fever and was invalided home. + +9.—The Merton flock of pure-bred Southdown sheep, the property of Lord +Walsingham, was sold by Mr. John Thornton. The 541 lots revised £3,254 +12s. 6d. + +—Died, at Catton, aged 82, Mr. William Jary Cubitt, who served the office +of Sheriff of Norwich in 1865–66. + +10.—Died, at Thorpland Hall, Fakenham, aged 83, the Rev. Henry James Lee +Warner. He was born at Stanton St. Quintin, Wiltshire, where his father +was then curate. Soon afterwards his grandfather succeeded to the +Walsingham Abbey estates, and in 1807 his father accepted the charge of +the adjoining parishes of Walsingham and Houghton-in-the-Dale. Having +attended Aylsham Grammar School he proceeded to Rugby, and thence to St. +John’s College, Cambridge, where, in 1825, he took double honours in +classics and mathematics, being fourth Senior Optime and in the second +class of the Classical Tripos. After residing at the Temple and reading +for the Bar, he travelled for some time on the Continent, and on +returning to England read for Holy Orders, and was ordained at Norwich by +Bishop Bathurst. Mr. Lee Warner first held a curacy at Canterbury, and +in 1834 succeeded his father in the parishes of Great and Little +Walsingham and Houghton-in-the-Dale. From conscientious motives he +resigned his plurality of livings and thenceforth devoted himself to the +more populous parish of Little Walsingham on a stipend of £100 per annum. +Mr. Lee Warner largely identified himself with Church work in the +diocese, and in 1863 was appointed an Honorary Canon of Norwich +Cathedral. He was a well-known archæologist. “A man of singular +modesty, of simple faith and self-denying habits, he was not only a +strong teetotaller by conviction, but also in many ways opposed to what +he considered excessive luxury.” + +10.—The North Elmham herd of red polled cattle, purchased and bred since +1875 by Mr. Thomas Fulcher, was sold by Mr. John Thornton. Forty-six +cows and heifers realised a total of 1,077 guineas, and nine bulls 165 +guineas. + +21.—A terrible disaster occurred at Caister. At about midnight a vessel +was observed in distress near the Barber Sand, and the yawl Zephyr, +manned by a crew of fifteen hands, was launched. The yawl had not +proceeded far when she struck a sunken wreck, and her side being ripped +away, she sank rapidly, and eight of her crew were drowned. + +22.—Died, at Yarmouth, Alfred George Stannard, artist, aged 57. He was +the eldest son of Alfred Stannard, of Norwich, a nephew of “Joe” Stannard +and brother of Miss Stannard, the painter of fruit and flowers. + +25.—The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Volunteer Battalions Norfolk Regiment went into +camp at Yarmouth. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—The Norfolk Agricultural Association decided to merge with the Royal +Agricultural Society in 1886 and to hold no county show that year. + +6.—In the House of Commons, Mr. J. A. Picton asked the Secretary of State +for the Home Department whether it was a fact that, as reported in the +London papers, the Rev. Coker Adams, rector of Saham Toney, had on +Sunday, July 26th, pronounced in his parish church sentence of +excommunication against Joseph Payne, a parishioner, aged 82, because of +his persistent neglect of the Church’s ordinances and refusal of her +ministrations, and enquired whether notice would be taken of his illegal +action? Sir Richard Cross replied that he saw this account with extreme +surprise and regret, and he thought it right the sentence should be sent +to the Bishop, who, he had no doubt, would make enquiry into the matter. + +7.—Died, at Rackheath Park, Sir Henry Josias Stracey, Bart. A prominent +member of a well-known county family, Sir Henry for many years occupied a +distinguished position. Born in 1802, he was educated at Eton, and +afterwards served for several years in the 1st Dragoons, and on +succeeding to the baronetcy, on the death of his father in 1855, he +entered with considerable ardour into politics. Just previously he had +been returned without opposition as one of the representatives of East +Norfolk on the retirement of Mr. Edmond Wodehouse. On the dissolution of +Parliament in 1857 Major-General Windham, in the flush of the fame he had +gained in the Crimea, was brought forward for East Norfolk with Sir E. N. +Buxton, and there being divided opinions in the Conservative camp, Mr. +Burroughes and Sir Henry Stracey declined to contest the seat. On the +death of Sir E. N. Buxton in June, 1858, Sir Henry was again nominated, +and was defeated by the Hon. Wenman Coke. In the following year he was +returned with Sir Edmund Lacon for Yarmouth, defeating Mr. (afterwards +Sir E. W.) Watkin and Mr. Young, and sat for that borough until 1865. In +1868 he stood for Norwich in opposition to Sir W. Russell and Mr. +Tillett, and was returned at the head of the poll, but was unseated on +petition. In 1874 he again came forward, in conjunction with Mr. +Huddleston, was unsuccessful, and thereafter took no share in polities. +Sir Henry married, in 1835, Charlotte, only daughter and heiress of Mr. +George Denne, of the Paddock, Canterbury. He served the office of High +Sheriff in 1871, and was a Deputy Lieutenant and magistrate for the +county of Norfolk. + +18.—Died, at Hingham, Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart., aged 61. He married, on +December 19th, 1850, Sophia Jane, daughter of the Rev. Clement +Chevallier, rector of Badington and Cransford, Suffolk, and widow of Mr. +Isaac Jermy Jermy, who, with his father, Mr. Isaac Jermy, fell a victim +to the murderer, James Blomfield Rush. “The Beevor family, which, with +their connections, are very numerous, are descended from the Rev. William +Beevor, rector of South Walsham and Rockland in 1659 (the eldest son of +Abraham Beevor, of Heckmondwike, Yorkshire), whose grandson, Sir Thomas, +eldest son of Thomas Beevor, of Norwich, and Hester, daughter of John +Sharpe, of Norwich, was created a baronet in 1784.” The subject of this +notice was educated for the Bar, but in his latter years devoted himself +to the supervision of the business of the Norwich Union Life Assurance +Society, of which he was chairman of the directors, and was at the same +time a director of the Norwich Union Fire Office. His eldest son, Thomas +Edward, died to 1879, and the second son, Hugh Reeve, succeeded to the +baronetcy. + +24.—Norwich Theatre was opened under the management of Mr. Fred Morgan. +The inaugural performance, “In Chancery,” was given by Mr. Edward Terry’s +company. On succeeding evenings “Weak Woman” and “The Rocket” were +produced, and Mr. Terry also appeared in the character of James Blodder +in an adaptation of Thackeray’s “Jeames’s Diary.” Several improvements +had been effected in the Theatre, which had undergone much-needed +redecoration. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +4.—The 4th Queen’s Own Hussars marched from Norwich Cavalry Barracks, _en +route_ to Edinburgh and Glasgow. + +14.—The first exhibition by members of the Norwich Art Circle (formed in +the month of February) was opened at the Old Bank of England Chambers, +Queen Street. + +25.—The annual congress of the homœopathic practitioners of Great Britain +was held at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, under the presidency of Dr. Herbert +Nankivell, of Bournemouth. + +—Mr. Arthur Coyte, of Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, died from gunshot wounds +accidentally inflicted whilst shooting on the Stratton Strawless estate +on the previous day. Mr. Coyte, who was the second son of the Rev. James +Coyte, rector of Polstead, Suffolk, was 53 years of age. + +30.—Died, at Norwich, aged 91 years, the Rev. Henry Banfather. He was +educated at Norwich Grammar School under Forster and Valpy, by the latter +of whom he was made an assistant master. On Valpy’s death he took +private pupils, and was most successful in obtaining candidates for Holy +Orders. He was then appointed by the Corporation headmaster of the +school, a position which he held for many years before his retirement to +the living of Sprowston. + + +OCTOBER. + + +7.—Died, at his chambers, Great Ormond Street, London, Mr. Robert Hindry +Mason, aged 61 years. Mr. Mason had led a busy life as a journalist. He +established, edited, and conducted, from 1852 to 1854, the “Greenwich, +and West Kent Observer,” owned the “Sunderland Times” and “Sheffield +Advertiser,” and subsequently became proprietor of the “London and Eton +Gazette.” Some years previously, when a resident in Norwich, he +published a work, entitled “Norfolk Photographically Illustrated,” and at +the time of his death was engaged upon his best known work, the “History +of Norfolk.” + +12.—A great Conservative demonstration was held at the Agricultural Hall, +Norwich, at which a requisition, signed by 5,000 electors, was presented +to Mr. Harry Bullard, inviting him to contest the representation of the +city in the Conservative interest. Lieutenant-Colonel Bignold presided, +and was supported by the Earl of Dunraven, Under Secretary for the +Colonies, and by many prominent leaders of the party in county and city. +In reply to the requisition Mr. Bullard said, “My answer is +unhesitatingly ‘Yes.’” This meeting was said to have been the largest +ever held in a public building in Norwich. + +19.—Lord Randolph Churchill addressed a large meeting of the Conservative +party at Lynn in support of the candidature of Lord Henry Bentinck for +North-West Norfolk. On the 20th Lord Randolph proceeded to Merton Hall +as the guest of Lord and Lady Walsingham. + +24.—The Channel Squadron, consisting of the Minotaur (flagship), +Agincourt, Monarch, Sultan, Iron Duke, and Leander, arrived in Yarmouth +Roads, and anchored between the Britannia and Wellington Piers. Admiral +Fellowes was in command, and the officers and men numbered 3,750. The +squadron sailed for Deal on November 4th. + +31.—Mr. Edward Birkbeck, M.P., was presented, at the Fishmongers’ Hall, +London, with a valuable service of silver plate, subscribed for by many +fishermen, boatowners, and others in recognition of his successful +efforts to serve the fishing industry of the United Kingdom. The +presentation was made by the Prince of Wales, who was accompanied by +Prince Albert Victor. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +4.—The 13th Hussars, who formed the principal cavalry contingent of Sir +Charles Warren’s Bechuanaland expeditionary force, arrived at Norwich by +two special trains. A portion of the regiment had proceeded to +Colchester. Lieutenant-Colonel Miller was in command of the headquarter +troops, which numbered 16 officers and 240 men. + +9.—Mr. John Gurney, of Sprowston Hall, was elected Mayor, and Mr. J. J. +Dawson Paul appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +12.—Madame Albani gave a concert at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in aid of +the Jenny Lind Infirmary. She received the voluntary assistance of Miss +Damian, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Santley, Lady Benedict (solo pianist), M. +Carl Walther (solo violinist), Dr. Bunnett (organist), and the Norwich +Gatehouse Choir. Signor Bisaccia conducted, and the proceeds amounted to +£529 14s. 8d. + +13.—Died, at Milgrove House, Fulham, Thomas Heron Jones, seventh Viscount +Ranelagh. He was born at Fulham in 1812, and succeeded his father in +1820. His lordship took a prominent part in originating and forming the +Volunteer force in 1859. For some time he served in the 1st Life Guards +and in the 7th Fusiliers. By his death the title, which was created in +1628, became extinct. He was succeeded in his estates (principally at +St. Faith’s, Norwich) by his cousin, Alexander Montgomery, son of +Vice-Admiral the Hon. Alexander Montgomery Jones, son of the fourth +Viscount. Lord Ranelagh served the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk in +1868. + +13.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Stephen, Robert Goodale, +45, gardener, was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Bathsheba +Goodale, at Walsoken, on September 15th. He was found guilty and +sentenced to death. The execution took place at Norwich Castle on +November 30th. Berry, of Bradford, was the executioner. “As the clock +of an adjacent church struck the hour of eight, Berry, who was stationed +behind the prisoner with the lever in his hand, asked him, ‘Do you wish +to say anything else before you go?’ to which Goodale replied in the +negative, and before the eighth stroke had sounded, the lever was pulled, +the trap-door fell, and the prisoner, who weighed 15 stone, and was 5 ft. +11 in. in height, and was allowed a drop just short of six feet, +disappeared from view. To the horror of the bystanders the rope +rebounded, and it was thought that by some means it had become +unfastened. On looking into the pit below the scaffold the spectators +observed the body lying on the ground, with the head still enveloped in +the white cap, completely severed from the trunk.” At the subsequent +inquest the jury found that death was caused by hanging, and “they +imputed no blame to anyone for what had occurred.” + +19.—A desperate encounter took place between a couple of tigers at +Bostock and Wombwell’s menagerie at Norwich. One animal seized the +other, named Tippo, by the throat, and although every effort was made to +separate them, Tippo was laid lifeless upon the floor. The victim’s +windpipe was crushed, and death resulted from suffocation. The animal, a +fine specimen of the Royal Bengal tiger, was valued at £400. + +23.—The General Election under the extended franchise commenced on this +date. The nomination of candidates for the representation of Norwich +took place at the Guildhall, before the Sheriff (Mr. J. J. Dawson Paul). +The following were proposed:—Mr. Harry Bullard, of Hellesdon House (C.); +Mr. Jeremiah James Colman, of Carrow House (L.); and Mr. Robert Samuel +Wright, of 1, Paper Buildings, Temple, London, barrister-at-law (L.). +The polling took place on the 25th, between the hours of eight a.m. and +eight p.m. “The Market Place was the scene of a regular carnival. The +principal form of practical joking was the discharge of small bags of +flour at any prominent person who chanced to run the gauntlet of the +crowd. No ill-temper was displayed, and probably no election ever took +place in Norwich where so little animosity was exhibited. We think the +keeping of the poll open until eight o’clock was generally admitted to be +a mistake, as unnecessarily prolonging the excitement incidental to an +election where party feeling runs high.” At the close of the poll the +ballot boxes were conveyed to the Guildhall, where the counting +immediately commenced, and the result was declared at 12.45 as +follows:—Bullard, 7,279; Colman, 6,666; Wright, 6,251. On December 21st +a petition was lodged against the return of Mr. Bullard. (_See_ March +17th, 1886.) + +—At Yarmouth, on the re-enfranchisement of the borough, Sir Henry +Wheatley Tyler (C.) and Captain Cecil W. Norton (L.) were nominated. The +polling, which took place on the 24th, resulted as follows:—Tyler, 2,661; +Norton, 2,476. + +—The Right Hon. Robert Bourke (C.) and Sir W. ffolkes, Bart. (L.) were +nominated for King’s Lynn. The polling on the 25th resulted—Bourke, +1,472; ffolkes, 1,302. + +24.—For South Norfolk Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Bart. (C), and Mr. Francis +Taylor, of Diss (L.), were nominated. The polling took place on the +27th, and the result was declared at the Shirehall, Norwich, on the 28th +as follows:—Taylor, 4,580; Buxton, 3,588. + +—The candidates nominated for East Norfolk were Mr. Edward Birkbeck (C.) +and Mr. Philip Falk, of Kensington Palace Gardens, London (L.). The +polling took place on the 30th, and the result was declared at the +Shirehall, Norwich, on December 1st as follows:—Birkbeck, 4,682; Falk, +4,459. + +25.—The nomination of candidates for North Norfolk took place at Aylsham. +The nominees were Mr. Samuel Hoare, of Cliff House, Cromer (C), and Mr. +Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, Q.C., of 50, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, +London (L.). The polling was on December 1st, and the declaration, at +Aylsham, on December 2nd. Result:—Cozens-Hardy, 5,028; Hoare, 3,342. + +27.—The nomination of candidates for South-West Norfolk took place at +Swaffham. The candidates were Mr. W. A. Tyssen Amherst (C.) and Sir W. +Brampton Gurdon (L.). The polling was on December 4th, and the +declaration on December 5th:—Amherst, 4,096; Gurdon, 3,776. + +30.—The candidates for North-West Norfolk—Lord Henry Bentinck (C.) and +Mr. Joseph Arch (L.), were nominated at Lynn. The latter, described as +the president of the National Agricultural Labourers’ Union, was +nominated by Sir Lawrence Jones, Bart. The polling, on December 8th, was +declared on December 9th as follows:—Arch, 4,461; Bentinck, 3,821. + + +DECEMBER. + + +3.—Mid Norfolk election, candidates, Mr. Ailwyn E. Fellowes (C.) and Mr. +R. T. Gurdon (L.), took place. The poll was declared on the 4th at East +Dereham—Gurdon, 5,275; Fellowes, 2,872. + +9.—The parish church of East Dereham, partially restored at the cost of +£2,134, by Messrs. Cornish and Gaymer, of North Walsham, under the +supervision of Mr. E. P. Willins, was re-opened. The eighteenth century +plaster, which concealed the Early English roof of the nave, was removed, +and the unsightly old galleries, which blocked up the north and south +aisles and the west end, were demolished. The Perpendicular font was +transferred from the north transept to its original position near the +west door. Colonel Bulwer was chairman of the Restoration Committee. + +—In the House of Lords, before Lords Selborne, Blackburn, Bramwell, +Watson, and Fitzgerald, was commenced the hearing of the appeal, Coaks +and others _v._ Boswell and others. This was an appeal from the judgment +of Lords Justices Baggallay, Cotton, and Lindley. On Monday, 14th, the +fourth day, the case for the respondents closed, and their lordships +reserved judgment. (_See_ February 22nd, 1886.) + +20.—The new reredos at the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, +designed by Mr. Seddon, and executed by Mr. Harry Hems, of Exeter, was +formally dedicated. It was described as “an adaptation of the Norfolk +screen, with its carved oak and painted panel work.” + +26.—Miss May Holt’s company appeared at Norwich Theatre in her “local +drama,” entitled, “Every Man for Himself.” “Little Red Riding Hood” was +produced at Sanger’s Circus at the Agricultural Hall. + + + +1886. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—The appointment of Dr. Bates, of Edinburgh, as organist and master of +the choristers at Norwich Cathedral, was announced. + +7.—The county magistrates decided to hire of Mr. James C. Snelling the +mansion known as Eaton Hall as lodgings for the judges of Assize, at the +yearly rental of £250. On January 20th, Mr. Justice Hawkins, after +delivering his charge to the Grand Jury at the Norfolk Assizes, said he +could not offer the magistrates his gratitude for their endeavours to +provide for the comfort of her Majesty’s judges, unless, indeed, they +thought he and his marshal had the habits and tastes of a Polar bear and +an Arctic fox. Eaton Hall was well fitted for one or both, as it was +simply a bleak house in a frozen waste; it was redolent of putty and +paint; workmen were tapping just beyond the dining-room door in precisely +the same way as he should expect to hear tapping in the back manufactory +of an undertaker’s shop; and the rooms were furnished with the view to +economy and discomfort with a show of luxury skilfully but not very +judiciously combined. On November 15th Mr. Justice Field, in concluding +his charge to the Grand Jury, said he found the accommodation at Eaton +Hall exceedingly nice and extremely comfortable, and he added, amid +laughter, he had not seen any Polar bears or Arctic foxes. + +10.—The jubilee of the Norwich District of the Manchester Unity of +Oddfellows was celebrated by a special service held at the Cathedral, and +attended by several hundred members, and by the Mayor and Corporation. +“The Order was introduced into Norfolk in the year 1835 by five +woolsorters from the North of England—John Raven, Walter Meldrum, Thomas +Dack, Benjamin Fearnside, and Thomas Lambert. They were the founders of +the mother lodge of the district, the Travellers’ Rest, the first place +of meeting being at the New Brewery, Pockthorpe.” The Mayor (Mr. John +Gurney) entertained to dinner at St. Andrew’s Hall, on May 18th, upwards +of 900 members of the Order. + +19.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, an application was received +from the Norwich School Board for the consent of the Corporation to an +assignment of the lease of the Dutch Church from the trustees to the +Board, with the view of converting the building into a higher grade +school. The Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society addressed to the +Council a strong protest against the application, which was refused by 35 +votes against 12. On April 21st a meeting was held, under the presidency +of the Mayor, at the Old Bank Buildings, at which it was moved by Mr. +Colman, M.P., seconded by Mr. Harry Bullard, and unanimously agreed, +“That the provisional contract entered into by Mr. Frederic Oddin Taylor +in February last for the purchase of the lease of the Dutch Church be +adopted, and that a scheme be formulated assuring the future inalienable +use of the building as an adjunct to and in connection with St. Andrew’s +Hall, subject to existing rights.” It was further decided to raise by +public subscription the sum required (£800) to present the building, +“hereafter to be called Blackfriars’ Hall,” to the city after proper +renovation. The Town Council on June 29th passed a resolution expressing +warm appreciation of the efforts made by Mr. F. Oddin Taylor, and +received a deputation composed of the gentlemen who had taken part in the +movement, from whom they accepted Blackfriars’ Hall as a gift to the +citizens. + +21.—Died, at Child’s Hill House, Hampstead, Mr. Joseph Hoare, in his 72nd +year. He was the fourth son of Mr. Samuel Hoare, banker, of London, by +his marriage with Louisa, daughter of Mr. John Gurney of Earlham. Mr. +Hoare, who was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, was a Deputy +Lieutenant for the county of Middlesex, and was president of the +Hampstead Conservative Association. In May, 1859, he was returned to the +House of Commons as member for Hull, but was unseated on petition. He +married, in 1847, Rachel Juliana, second daughter of Mr. Charles Barclay, +M.P. For many years it was his custom to spend the summer at Cromer, +where he was known as a generous supporter of charitable and religious +institutions. + +22.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Hawkins, John Thurston, +30, labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder of Henry Springall, an +old man, at Hingham, on December 5th, 1885. The prisoner was found +guilty, and received sentence of death. The execution took place at +Norwich Castle on February 10th. The culprit was a nephew of Henry +Webster, who was hanged at the same prison on May 1st, 1876, for the +murder of his wife at Cranworth. + +—St. Cuthbert’s church, Sprowston, erected at the cost of £2,000, was +opened by the Bishop of Norwich. The building was designed by Mr. A. R. +G. Flemming, of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, and the contractor was Mr. +G. E. Hawes, of Norwich. + +26.—A violent explosion, caused by an escape of gas, occurred at Victoria +Station, Norwich. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +2.—Died, at St. Clement’s Hill, Catton, the Rev. Richard Rigg, M.A., for +forty-two years rector of St. Clement’s, and some time rector of St. +Michael-at-Coslany and St. Edmund the King, Norwich, in his 81st year. A +clergyman of the old school, he was a warm adherent to the Evangelical +party, was for forty years secretary of the Norfolk and Norwich Auxiliary +of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and one of the founders of the +Norwich Church of England Young Men’s Society. + +—Mr. John Ellis, of Sprowston, received from the Treasury a grant of £150 +“in consideration of his services to the nation in having been the +founder of the first juvenile reformatory in England, that of Saltley, +near Birmingham.” + +6.—It was announced that her Majesty the Queen had conferred upon Mr. +Edward Birkbeck, M.P., the honour of a baronetcy. + +7.—Died, at Brockheath, Salisbury, General William Custance, C.B., +colonel of the 11th Hussars, in his 75th year. The second son of Mr. +Hamilton Thomas Custance, of Weston House, he entered the Army in 1831, +and served with distinction in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. + +13.—A deputation of unemployed workmen waited upon the Mayor of Norwich +at the Guildhall and urged upon him the necessity of steps being taken to +relieve the exceptional distress then prevailing in the city. On the +17th a public meeting was held, at which a fund was opened. Relief works +were shortly afterwards started on Mousehold Heath. + +14.—Died, at St. Helen’s House, Norwich, Mr. Edward Field, in his 75th +year. He succeeded Mr. Thomas Bignold as solicitor to the Norwich Fire +and Life Assurance Offices, and in 1857–8 served as Mayor of Norwich. On +the death of Sir Samuel Bignold Mr. Field became leader of the +Conservative party in the Town Council, and was for many years Chairman +of the Board of Guardians. He drafted the Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries +Act, 1877, and was chiefly instrumental in getting it passed; +subsequently he became honorary secretary to the Board of Conservators, +of which also he was a member. Mr. Field, who was a magistrate of the +city, for several years held the rank of captain in the Norwich Rifle +Volunteers. + +20.—Died, at 49, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London, Mr. George +William Pierrepont Bentinck, aged 82. He was the eldest son of +Vice-Admiral William Bentinck (a representative of the junior branch of +the family of the Duke of Portland), by marriage with Lady Frances Eliza +Augusta Pierrepont, only daughter of Charles, first Earl of Manvers. In +1853 he was returned as Conservative member for West Norfolk, and +retained the seat until March, 1868, when he retired on account of +ill-health. He was, however, re-elected by the same constituency in +1871, and sat till February, 1884, when he finally retired from +Parliamentary life. Mr. Bentinck, who was a Tory of the old school, and +maintained his principles to the last, was a magistrate and a Deputy +Lieutenant for the county. + +22.—In the House of Lords judgment was given in the case, Coaks and +others, appellants, and Boswell and others, respondents. Their lordships +held that there had been no fraud in the purchase of the Harvey life +interest, and therefore reversed the order of the Court of Appeal and +that of Mr. Justice Fry, dismissing the action with costs restored. The +respondents were condemned in the whole costs of the case. On September +17th, 1887, it was announced: “The plaintiffs have discharged the taxed +costs of the defendants. These amounted to £12,930 19s. 11d., of which +£2,194 13s. 5d. was allowed in respect of the appeal in the House of +Lords.” Mr. M. S. Emerson, solicitor to the plaintiffs, stated, in a +letter published on September 24th, 1887, that they had the opportunity +of compromising the case. “It is a fact,” he wrote, “that I refused +£30,000 before the case came into court. . . . The six counsel engaged +for the plaintiffs met, and were unanimous in their opinion that I was +right in refusing the £30,000.” (_See_ July 22nd, 1892.) + + +MARCH. + + +2.—At a special meeting of the shareholders of the Norwich Public +Library, held for the purpose of taking into consideration the +advisability of amalgamating the Library with the Literary Institution, +according to a scheme prepared and approved by the committees of both +institutions, it was agreed by 27 votes against 4 to adopt the proposal. + +17.—The trial of the election petition presented by Mr. Henry Birkbeck +and others against the return of Mr. Harry Bullard as one of the members +for Norwich, commenced at the Shirehall before Mr. Justice Denman and Mr. +Justice Cave. Counsel for the petitioners were Mr. Charles, Q.C., Mr. R. +T. Reid, Q.C., and the Hon. Mark Napier; and for the respondent Mr. +Gully, Q.C., the Hon. Mr. Denman, and Mr. Blofeld. Bribery, treating, +undue influence, and personation by agents, were alleged. The only case +of bribery that was proved was the gift of a two-shilling piece by an +alleged agent, to a voter, but it was sufficient to render the election +void, and Mr. Bullard was unseated. The judges, however, declined to +give the petitioners their costs, and Mr. Bullard’s costs were defrayed +by the subscriptions of men of all parties. (_See_ May 7th.) + +18.—Died, at Marham Hall, Mr. Henry Villebois, aged 79. An excellent +landlord, an ardent sportsman, and for some years Master of the West +Norfolk Foxhounds, Mr. Villebois was one of the earliest friends in +Norfolk of the Prince of Wales, whom he had the honour of several times +entertaining at Marham. He married, in 1831, Maria, elder daughter of +Mr. Thomas Philip Bagge, of Stradsett Hall, and was a magistrate and a +Deputy Lieutenant for the county. Mr. Villebois commenced active duties +as a M.F.H. about 1842, when he took the Vale of White Horse, purchasing +the pack from the triumvirate, the Earl of Suffolk, Earl Bathurst, and +Mr. Cripps, who had hunted the country conjointly. He likewise purchased +the Herefordshire Hounds from Sir Vevers Cornwall, and, with John +Dinnecombe as huntsman, showed excellent sport until 1854, when, in +consequence of a severe accident, he resigned the mastership to Lord +Gifford, and sold his hounds to the Earl of Portsmouth. For the next +three or four years he hunted with Lord Suffield, and in 1858 consented +to hunt the West Norfolk. His lordship continued with the East Norfolk, +but resigned in 1859; Mr. Villebois then hunted the entire country, but +after two or three years resigned the Eastern portion to Lord Hastings. +In the spring of 1865 Mr. Villebois sold his hounds and horses at Albert +Gate, when seven of the hunters, bought from Mr. Newcome Mason, of +Hendon, his great ally in all hunting matters, realised 1,015 guineas. +After giving up the mastership he stuck to West Norfolk, and from 1871 to +1875 hunted the country round Marham with a small pack purchased from the +Rev. “Jack” Russell. The shooting at Marham could not be excelled, for +Mr. Villebois would have partridges and pheasants as well as foxes. His +funeral at Marham on March 24th was attended by upwards of three thousand +persons. + +29.—The funeral took place, at the Rosary burial ground, Norwich, of +Thomas Harrison, who was born in the city in 1795, and had seen much +active service as a soldier. He joined the 69th Regiment at the age of +17, was taken prisoner at the bombardment of Antwerp, was present at +Waterloo, went out to India, where he was under arms for fourteen years, +took part in the first expedition to Burmah, and on returning to England +in 1832 was rewarded with a pension of fifteen pence per day. + +31.—A fire occurred at Browick Hall, near Wymondham, and did damage to +the amount of £2,000. + + +APRIL. + + +7.—At the Guildhall, Norwich, Mr. Samuel Hoare, of Cliff House, Cromer, +was nominated a candidate to fill the vacancy caused in the +representation of the city by the unseating on petition of Mr. Harry +Bullard. The Liberal party offered no opposition, and Mr. Hoare was +declared duly elected. + +9.—Died, at Great Yarmouth, Mr. Oswald Diver, aged 59. When a young man +he was renowned as an oarsman, won many sculling matches on the Thames, +and at Norwich, Lynn, and other places, and in 1847 beat Playford, who +then held the Thames Amateur Championship. + +22.—The Archbishop of Canterbury administered at Sandringham church the +rite of confirmation to the Princess Victoria of Wales. + +24.—The Prince of Wales visited Norwich for the purpose of inspecting the +show-ground of the Royal Agricultural Society, and was entertained at +Carrow House by Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P. + +29.—A special meeting of the Norwich Diocesan Conference, convened by the +Lord Bishop, in compliance with a numerously-signed requisition, was held +at Noverre’s Rooms to take into consideration the subject of Church +Reform. + + +MAY. + + +1.—The new station erected by the Great Eastern Railway Company at +Thorpe, Norwich, was opened for inspection, and on the 3rd was used by +the public for the first time. It was built by Messrs. Youngs and Son, +of Norwich, from designs by Mr. J. Wilson, the company’s engineer, at the +cost of £60,000, and replaced the old station, which had been in use +since the opening of the line. + +—A great meeting of “an entirely non-party character” was held at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of the Earl of Leicester, +Lord Lieutenant of the county, in support of the principles of the Irish +Loyal and Patriotic Union. A resolution was adopted affirming that any +proposals tending to invalidate the legislative union between Great +Britain and Ireland would prove disastrous to the interests of both +countries. On June 25th Lord Leicester wrote a letter which had an +important influence upon the electorate of the county. “I have never +been in the habit,” he wrote, “of taking part in political matters of a +purely party description, though if ever I should have been inclined to +break through the rule it would be at a time like the present, when we +are passing through a great crisis in our national history, when the old +party barriers have been broken down, and when Liberals, Radicals, and +Conservatives meet on a common platform in a common cause. The question +before the country is solely this: whether the loyalists and Protestants +of Ireland should be legislated for by an independent Parliament composed +of men whom Mr. Gladstone himself has termed as marching through rapine +to the dismemberment of the empire, or whether the United Kingdom is to +remain under one Queen and one Parliament. I cannot believe that +Englishmen will ever consent to the former proposal. I trust that the +electors of Norfolk, with those of the rest of England, will insist that +their members shall be patriots and decline to support Mr. Gladstone’s +dangerous policy.” Lord Suffield and other prominent Liberals also +renounced their adhesion to Mr. Gladstone. + +7.—At the combined Norfolk and Suffolk Assizes, held at Ipswich, before +Mr. Baron Pollock, Charles Edward Wigger, a shoemaker, was indicted for +receiving from one Walter Banham, a bribe for voting, or agreeing to +vote, for Mr. Harry Bullard at the Norwich election on November 25th, +1885, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. + +10.—George Edward Ray, 31, solicitor, of Norwich, was sentenced at the +Norfolk and Suffolk Assizes, at Ipswich, to seven years’ penal servitude +for forging the conveyance of a real estate with intent to defraud. + +11.—At the same Assizes Edward Burgess, of Norwich, the printer and +publisher of a newspaper called “Daylight,” was indicted for publishing +on February 20th a libel upon Mr. Joseph Stanley, solicitor, and Coroner +for Norfolk. The trial occupied three days, and on the jury finding the +defendant guilty he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment without +hard labour, and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. + +12.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. John Gurney), as chairman of the +Conservators of Mousehold Heath, opened the new road constructed thereon, +and dedicated the Heath to the free use of the people as a recreation +park for ever. + +19.—The sale of the Westacre shorthorns and shirehorses, the property of +Mr. Anthony Hamond, was conducted by Mr. John Thornton and Mr. Sexton, +respectively. Forty-five cows averaged £28 ls. 5d.; seven bulls averaged +£34 16s., and 16 mares and seven stallions £53 16s. 3d. The total amount +realised was £2,690 13s. 6d. + +25.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Mr. E. S. Steward tendered +his resignation of the office of City Treasurer. On June 8th it was +decided that the resignation be not accepted, but that Mr. Steward be +dismissed from office. Mr. Hugh Gurney Barclay was on June 16th +appointed to fill the vacancy. At the Norwich Assizes, on November 23rd, +the late City Treasurer was indicted for falsifying and making certain +false entries in the bankers’ pass book belonging to the Mayor and +Corporation, with intent to defraud them of £1,848 16s. 9d., and on the +24th was found guilty and sentenced by Mr. Justice Field to six months’ +imprisonment, (_See_ January 25th, 1887.) + +29.—The 19th (Princess of Wales’ Own) Hussars, who had been on active +service in Egypt since 1882, arrived at Norwich, and took over the +Cavalry Barracks, vacated during the week by the 13th Hussars. The +regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Combe, came by special train +from Harwich, where they had disembarked from the transport Geelong, and +at Thorpe station were received by the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. John Hotblack), +the Sheriff (Mr. J. J. Dawson Paul), and other prominent citizens. The +route from the station to the barracks was profusely decorated, and the +regiment received an enthusiastic welcome from the citizens. + + +JUNE. + + +10.—Died, at Fincham Rectory, the Rev. William Blyth, rector of the +parish and hon. canon of Norwich Cathedral. An ardent archæologist, he +was the author of a “History of Fincham,” published in 1863. During his +tenure of office as rural dean five new churches were built, fifteen +restored, and thirteen greatly improved, out of a total of twenty-fire +churches in his deanery. The total outlay upon this work was £45,000. + +20.—Died, Mr. Henry James Lee Warner, of Walsingham Abbey. The eldest +son of the Rev. Daniel Henry Lee Warner, he was born January 12th, 1809, +and succeeded to the estate in 1858. Mr. Lee Warner served as High +Sheriff in 1863, and some years previously successfully contested +Canterbury in the Conservative interest. + + +JULY. + + +2.—The General Election commenced. The contest was fought upon the issue +of Home Rule, and the candidates were distinguished severally +Conservatives, Liberal Unionists, and Gladstonians. Liberal Unionist +candidates received the support of the Conservative party. + +2.—Polling took place at Yarmouth: Sir H. W. Tyler (C.), 2,977; Captain +C. Norton (G.), 2,011. + +—Lynn election: The Right Hon. Robert Bourke (C.), 1,417; Mr. J. J. +Briscoe, Bourne Hall, Cambridgeshire (G.), 1,146. + +—Mr. W. A. Tyssen Amherst (C.) was returned unopposed for South-West +Norfolk. + +3.—Sir Edward Birkbeck (C.) and Mr. H. Lee Warner (G.) were nominated at +the Shirehall, Norwich, candidates for East Norfolk. The polling took +place on the 8th: Birkbeck, 4,578; Lee Warner, 4,000. + +—Mr. Francis Taylor, of Diss (L.U.), was returned unopposed member for +South Norfolk. + +5.—The nomination of candidates—Lord Henry Bentinck (C.) and Mr. Joseph +Arch (G.)—for the representation of North-West Norfolk, took place at the +Town Hall, King’s Lynn. The polling was held on the 9th: Bentinck, +4,084; Arch, 4,064. (_See_ April 5th, 1887.) + +6.—Mr. Ailwyn Edward Fellowes (C.) and Mr. Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, +Q.C. (G.) were nominated, at the Town Hall, Aylsham, candidates for North +Norfolk. The poll was opened on July 10th: Cozens-Hardy, 4,084; +Fellowes, 3,325. + +7.—The nomination took place at East Dereham of Mr. R. T. Gurdon (L.U.) +and Mr. James Toller, tenant-farmer, of Winfield Farm, Waterbeach (G.), +as candidates for Mid Norfolk. The polling took place on the 15th: +Gurdon, 3,032; Toller, 2,638. + +8.—The nomination of candidates for the representation of Norwich took +place at the Guildhall before the Sheriff (Mr. J. J. Dawson Paul). The +candidates were Mr. J. J. Colman (L.), Mr. Samuel Hoare (C.), Mr. Jacob +Henry Tillett (L.), and Mr. Clare Sewell Read (C.). The polling on the +9th resulted as follows:—Colman, 6,295; Hoare, 6,156; Tillett, 6,119; +Read, 5,564. + +12.—The show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England opened at +Whitlingham, Norwich. There were 1,840 entries of stock and 4,656 +entries of implements, as against 624 and 1,882 respectively at the +former show held at Norwich in 1849. On the 13th the show was visited by +the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Princesses Louise, Victoria, and +Maud, who travelled from Sandringham and arrived at the temporary railway +station adjoining the show-ground. Their Royal Highnesses made al tour +of the show-yard, and the Prince of Wales presided at the annual meeting +of the society; in the afternoon the Royal party returned to Sandringham. +Their Royal Highnesses again came to the city on the 14th. They arrived +at the City station of the Eastern and Midlands Railway, where they were +received by the Mayor (Mr. John Gurney), the Sheriff (Mr. J. J. Dawson +Paul), the Earl of Leicester, Mr. Colman, M.P., Mr. Hoare, M.P., Mr. +Harry Bullard, Mr. C. R. Gilman, and other gentlemen. Escorted by the +19th (Princess of Wales’ Own) Hussars, their Royal Highnesses were driven +through the gaily decorated streets of the city to St. Andrew’s Hall, +where, by invitation of the Mayor, a large and distinguished company had +assembled for luncheon. On the conclusion of the proceedings the Royal +visitors drove to the show-ground, and after further inspecting the +exhibits returned to the city and visited the Norfolk and Norwich Dog +Show at the Agricultural Hall. On this day 200 of the Commissioners from +the Colonial Exhibition in London were present at the Royal Show, by +invitation of the Council of the Society. The Mayor and Mayoress held a +reception at St. Andrew’s Hall on the evening of the 15th, and on the +16th the Prince of Wales paid a third visit to the show. In the evening +a display of fireworks, provided by the Sheriff, was given on the Castle +Meadow. The total number of visitors to the show during the week was +104,761, and the receipts, exclusive of the sum derived from the sale of +season tickets, amounted to £6,784 3s. The loss to the society was +£1,062 1s. 3d. + +15.—A great sale of shorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep, the property of +the Prince of Wales, was conducted at Sandringham by Mr. John Thornton. +The Prince and Princess of Wales were present at the luncheon, at which +there was a distinguished gathering. Fifty-two cows and heifers sold for +2,496 guineas, an average of £50 8s.; 17 bulls realised 840 gs., an +average of £51 5s. 10½d. Good prices were obtained for the Southdowns. + +—Died, at Golding Street, Heigham, Norwich, Mr. Obadiah Short, aged 83. +Born in the parish of St. Augustine, he was employed from 1816 to 1829 as +a journeyman weaver. Meanwhile he practised drawing and painting in his +garret in St. Edmund’s, and became acquainted with Mr. Sparshall, a wine +merchant and a local patron of art, who lent him some of Stark’s works +for copying purposes. Soon afterwards Short made sketches of birds for +the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, and was employed by Dalrymple and Crosse +to make drawings of pathological subjects; the original drawings for +Crosse’s work on the “Urinary Calculus,” published in 1841, were all from +his pencil. In 1834 Short accepted an engagement as designer at the +manufactory of Messrs. Willett, with whom he remained for more than fifty +years. During his long life he painted a large number of pictures, +principally in oil. “Although he did not attain to the production of +‘high art,’ his works were faithful delineations of landscape scenery +selected with a fine taste, and pleasing to a vastly larger proportion of +the lovers of pictures than many of the works of ‘high art’ which few +people understand.” + +22.—The Houghton Hall estate, the property of the Marquis of +Cholmondeley, was offered for sale at Tokenhouse Yard under an order of +the Court of Chancery. For Houghton Hall (built by Sir Horace Walpole at +the cost of £450,000) and 10,564 acres of land, £300,000 was offered, at +which sum the property was withdrawn. + +24.—The camp of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Volunteer Battalions Norfolk +Regiment commenced at Yarmouth. + + +AUGUST. + + +5.—The first of the Norwich Cricket Week amateur theatrical performances +was given at Norwich Theatre under the management of Sir Kenneth Kemp, +Bart. The programme, which was repeated on the 6th, included “A Fair +Encounter” and Tom Taylor’s “Plot and Passion.” + +9.—Died, Dr. Robert James Mann, F.R.C.S. Born in Norwich in 1817, he was +educated for the medical profession at the University College, London, +obtained his M.D. degree at St. Andrew’s, and was for some years in +practice in Norfolk. In 1857 he left England for Natal, where he resided +nine years, and returned to England with a special appointment from the +Legislative Council to promote emigration. Dr. Mann, in 1874, was +appointed secretary to the African section of the Society of Arts. He +was for some years on the staff of the “Edinburgh Review,” and was the +author of several popular scientific treatises. + +14.—Henry Last, a master carpenter, about 66 years of age, was murdered +in his cottage in Old Post Office Yard, Norwich, by George Harmer. The +murderer was apprehended in London on the 19th. He was tried at Norwich +Assizes on November 22nd, before Mr. Justice Field, found guilty, and +sentenced to death. The execution took place at Norwich Castle on +December 13th. Harmer was the last culprit executed within the walls of +the Castle. + +25.—The third Parliamentary election within the period of eight months +took place at King’s Lynn. A vacancy had occurred in the representation +of the borough by the appointment of Mr. Bourke, M.P., to the +Governorship of Madras. Two candidates were nominated—Mr. Alexander +Weston Jarvis, of Middleton Towers (C.), and Mr. James Harris Sanders, of +Shelly, Herts (G.). The polling resulted as follows:—Jarvis, 1,423; +Sanders, 1,168. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +6.—Died, at Belsize House, East Dereham, Mr. Charles Wright, solicitor, +aged 74. Mr. Wright was for many years clerk to the justices, and +Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster. He was a lover of the fine arts, and +a famous cricketer, and for a long period was annually invited to play at +Lord’s in the match between Gentlemen and Players. + +20.—Died, the Rev. John Jessopp, M.A., vicar of St. Gregory, Norwich, +aged 71. Educated at Cambridge University, he was ordained in 1840, and +became chaplain to the East India Company, but after serving two years in +India illness necessitated his retirement from the post. On returning to +Europe he was appointed chaplain to the King of the Belgians, and for +some years resided at Ostend in that capacity. Mr. Jessopp, on +terminating his services to King Leopold, became chaplain at the Surrey +County Gaol, and on coming to Norwich, in 1877, was presented to the +living of St. Gregory. He was brother to the Rev. Dr. Jessopp, rector of +Scarning, and formerly head-master of Norwich Grammar School. + +28.—Died, at Heigham Hall, Norwich, Mr. John Ferra Watson. The son of a +Norwich manufacturer, he was born at Weybread in 1816, and was educated +for the medical profession. Mr. Watson founded Heigham Hall, which he +converted from a small square building into a handsome mansion, and made +it one of the finest private lunatic asylums in the country. A Liberal +of the old Whig type, he for many years sat in the Norwich Town Council +both as an alderman and as a councillor, and was a magistrate for the +city. He took great interest in parochial affairs, and as churchwarden +inaugurated the restoration of the mother church of St. Bartholomew, in +the hamlet of Heigham. + +30.—The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectured at the Victoria Hall, Norwich, +on “Wastes and Burdens of Society.” + + +OCTOBER. + + +9.—Died, at Thelveton, Mr. Thomas Mann, of Thelveton Hall, aged 65. Mr. +Mann, who succumbed to injuries received through an accidental fall from +his horse, was head of the extensive firm of London brewers, Messrs. +Mann, Crossman, and Paulin. He was a successful exhibitor of cattle, and +took great interest in agricultural pursuits; and during his long +residence at Thelveton effected a series of improvements, which were +hardly completed at the time of his death. Among Mr. Mann’s most notable +works were the rebuilding of cottages on his estate, the restoration of +the parish church, and the erection of parish schools. He was a generous +supporter of many charities, and his death was greatly deplored both in +London and in Norfolk. + +12.—The Congress of the Congregational Union of England and Wales was +opened at Norwich, under the presidency of the Rev. Edward White. + +15.—Died, at his residence, Wroxham House, Mr. Robert Blake-Humfrey, +second son of Mr. Thomas Blake, of Norwich and Scottow. Born November +23rd, 1795, he was educated at Norwich Grammar School under Dr. Forster, +and afterwards under Valpy. At the early age of 16½ years he was +gazetted to an ensigncy by purchase in the 3rd Regiment (the Buffs), and +joined the 2nd Battalion at Walmer Barracks. In July, 1813, he went out +with a detachment of 100 men to join the 1st Battalion in Spain, and +arrived off St. Sebastian during the siege. His detachment, with some +companies of the 43rd and 52nd, were immediately ordered to march up +country. The force to which the Buffs were attached having taken Vieux +Moguere, they were in turn driven out of it next day, and the light +company in which Blake was serving covered the retreat. On the order to +face about the British drove back the enemy and retook the village, and +in the assault the young officer was wounded in both legs by a grape +shot. Amputation of the left leg was rendered necessary, and his +military career ended. With pay and pension and a very small fortune +from his father, Mr. Blake retired to a quiet life in Norfolk. In 1838 +he married Charlotte, youngest daughter of Colonel Harvey, of Thorpe, by +whom he left three sons and four daughters. On the death of the Rev. +John Humfrey, in 1847, he succeeded under his will to the Wroxham estate +and other property, and assumed the surname of Humfrey after and in +addition to the name of Blake. Mr. Blake-Humfrey spent much time in +drawing and etching and in the study of heraldry and archæology. He +compiled a complete history in MS. of the Sheriffs of Norfolk, with their +coats of arms most beautifully emblazoned. Mr. Blake-Humfrey was a +magistrate for the county of Norfolk. + +19.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council at letter was received from +the Mayor (Mr. John Gurney), suggesting that upon the Prison +Commissioners handing over the Castle to the Corporate authorities, steps +be taken to convert the keep and the prison buildings into a museum. The +cost of such work was estimated at £5,000, and in the event of its being +carried out Mr. Gurney intimated that he would be prepared to defray the +expense. (_See_ July 16th, 1887.) + +21.—The portrait of Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart., painted by H. T. Wells, +R.A., was presented to the county by Sir F. G. M. Boileau, Bart., on +behalf of the subscribers. + +25.—The Sheriff of Norwich and Mrs. J. J. Dawson Paul were presented at +the Guildhall with a valuable piece of plate and a diamond spray +bracelet, in token of personal esteem, and in commemoration of the birth +of their son, Joseph Dawson, during the year of Mr. Paul’s shrievalty. + +28.—The Bishop of Norwich laid the foundation-stone of the new church of +St. Thomas, Heigham. (_See_ June 28th, 1888.) + + +NOVEMBER. + + +3.—The south-east corner of the tower of St. Michael-at-Thorn church fell +during a gale, crashed through the roof of the nave, and did considerable +damage to the interior of the church. + +4.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference was held at Noverre’s Rooms, under the +presidency of the Bishop. The proceedings concluded on the 5th. + +5.—Died, at Great Yarmouth, Mr. Thomas Proctor Burroughs, F.S.A., aged +50. By profession a solicitor, he was greatly devoted to archæological +pursuits, and took a prominent part in the preservation of the Toll House +and other antiquities in Yarmouth. Mr. Burroughs was an ardent collector +of pictures, books, and curiosities of local interest, a Roman Catholic, +and a staunch Conservative. + +8.—Arthur Riches (36), fishhawker, murdered his wife by stabbing her on +the Walk, in the Haymarket, Norwich. He was tried at Norwich Assizes on +November 23rd, and found guilty, but strongly recommended to mercy on +account of the great provocation he had received. The prisoner was +sentenced to death, but the punishment was afterwards commuted to penal +servitude for life. (Riches died at Parkhurst Convict Prison, Isle of +Wight, in April, 1898.) + +9.—Mr. Harry Bullard was for the third time elected Mayor of Norwich. +Mr. Frederick Oddin Taylor was appointed Sheriff. + +10.—Died, at Scoulton Rectory, the Rev. John Munnings Johnson, in his +93rd year. A son of the Rev. Paul Johnson, of Runton, he entered the +Navy as a lad, and after serving a short time in the Royal Billy, joined +the Gibraltar, 80 guns, commanded by Captain Lukin, afterwards Admiral +Windham. After seeing much fighting he was transferred to the Mars, 74 +guns. In 1807 he was ordered out to the Baltic with the armament which +attacked Copenhagen, and captured the entire Danish fleet. The years +1808 and 1809 were employed in the blockade of the French fleet in Brest. +In 1810 he was called to the Tagus, and in 1811 accompanied Sir J. Moore, +who went with a large armament to protect British traders from the Danes +and Prussians. After passing for his lieutenancy in January, 1812, Mr. +Johnson went with Sir James Lucas Yeo to the Lakes of Canada, where they +contended at great disadvantage with the American squadron. In 1814, +after the storming of Oswego, Mr. Johnson was made lieutenant, and at the +close of the war in 1815 he returned to England with a large portion of +the Duke of Wellington’s army, which, after the peace with France, had +been sent to America. He then went on half-pay, and in 1824, determining +to take holy orders, entered as an undergraduate at Cambridge University. +In 1828 he took his degree, and the following year was ordained by Bishop +Bathurst. Mr. Johnson became curate in charge of Scoulton in 1831, and +was presented to the rectory in 1846. There he remained until 1878, when +he went to reside at Gurney’s Manor, Hingham. He resigned the living in +1883, and was succeeded by his son, the Rev. Henry Johnson, with whom he +resided until his death. Mr. Johnson married, in 1833, Miss Anne Wilson, +daughter of the Rev. Henry Wilson, of Kirby Cane, afterwards Lord +Berners. + +11.—Melton, the property of Lord Hastings, won the Liverpool Cup, beating +Oberon, Bird of Freedom, Sailor Prince, and fourteen others. Ridden by +Watts, Melton carried 9 st. 3 lb. and started at 100 to 8 against. + +15.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Field, Elizabeth Hamlinton +(34), dressmaker, was found guilty of the murder of her infant daughter, +at Fakenham, on October 16th. She was strongly recommended to mercy. +“The prisoner almost fainted when the judge put on the black cap; her +face indicated terror, and when the dread sentence was pronounced she +moaned, and at its conclusion cried out despairingly.” The Mayoress of +Norwich (Mrs. Bullard) interested herself on behalf of the unhappy woman, +and forwarded an influentially signed memorial to the Home Secretary. In +due course the prisoner was respited. + +16.—The Norwich Town Council assented to an application by Mr. Joseph +Kincaird, of 3, George Street, Westminster, to construct tramways in the +city upon certain routes, on condition that an amount equal to the cost +of removing the lines and reconstructing the streets in case the tramways +were not worked for a given period, be placed on permanent deposit. +Other conditions as to the control of traffic, &c., were imposed. The +Norwich Tramways Company, Limited, with a capital of £30,000, was +registered on December 23rd. (_See_ December 17th, 1889.) + +27.—Died, at 41, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London, Mr. Octavius +Edward Coope, M.P. He was first returned to the House of Commons in +July, 1847, as Conservative member for Yarmouth. Mr. Coope was born in +1814, and was a partner in the firm of Ind, Coope, and Co. + +30.—A military tournament by the 19th (Princess of Wales’ Own) Hussars +commenced at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, and concluded on December +4th. The proceeds were in aid of local charities. + + +DECEMBER. + + +4.—A remarkable phenomenon was recorded at Yarmouth. “The tide twice +flowed and ebbed within three hours. At 9.42 p.m., the calculated time +for dead low water, the gauge registered only six feet above zero. Thus +high and low water were practically reversed, a most uncommon +phenomenon.” On the night of the 8th “the barometer fell to 28.20, the +lowest local reading for the past twenty years.” + +6.—A new fire escape for “populous buildings,” invented by Captain Longe, +of Spixworth Park, was tested at Thorpe Asylum. It consisted of “a +movable staircase mounted on a frame on four wheels, which can be readily +and expeditiously moved by two men to any window of a burning building, +and raised by a double crank to a window 18 ft. from the ground, at an +angle of 45 degrees, by which the inmates, stepping on a small platform, +can easily descend.” The Lunacy Commissioners reported favourably upon +the invention. + +27.—“Falka,” produced by Van Biene and Horace Lingard’s Comic Opera +Company, was the Christmas attraction at Norwich Theatre. The dress +circle, which had remained in its original state since the erection of +the Theatre in 1826, was at this date remodelled and greatly improved by +the removal of the uncomfortable and objectionable boxes. + +28.—Considerable damage was done to the telephone wires in Norwich by a +heavy fall of snow. “The whole system came to grief through the wires +breaking and the derricks giving way.” + +—Died, at his residence, Shadingfield Lodge, Yarmouth, Mr. Samuel +Nightingale, in his 84th year. He served the office of Mayor of the +borough in 1868–69. + + + +1887. + + +JANUARY. + + +6.—Dr. David George Thomson, senior medical officer of the Surrey Asylum, +was appointed by the Norfolk county magistrates Medical Superintendent of +the County Asylum at Thorpe, in place of Dr. Hills, resigned. The Court +granted Dr. Hills a superannuation allowance of £600 per annum. At the +Easter Sessions resolutions were presented by thirteen unions, protesting +against the allowance as an excessive burden upon the county rates. + +14.—A serious riot occurred in Norwich Market Place. A crowd of +unemployed workmen, harangued by two Socialists, named Mowbray and +Henderson, who suggested that they could not starve, and that they must +procure food for themselves, became a disorderly mob, and under the +leadership of the agitators, made a raid upon several shops on the Walk. +The ringleaders, with two men, named Hurrell and Hall, were apprehended, +and committed for trial. The case came before Mr. Justice Grantham at +the Assizes on the 21st, when Mowbray was sentenced to nine months’, +Henderson to four months’, Hall to one month’s, and Hurrell to one week’s +imprisonment, with hard labour. A similar disturbance on a minor scale +took place at Yarmouth at about the same date. Owing to inflammatory +placards distributed during the month of September, the Chief Constable +of Norwich, on October 1st, applied to the magistrates for power to raise +a force of 200 special constables. On October 11th the required number +were sworn in, and informed that their active services would not be +required except on a special summons from the magistrates. + +25.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Grantham, was tried the +action, the Corporation of Norwich _v._ Coxe. In this case the +Corporation sued the Rev. Dr. Coxe, one of the sureties of Mr. E. S. +Steward, the late City Treasurer, to recover from him the sum of £1,000, +for which amount he was bond. On behalf of the defendant it was urged +that the auditors were remiss in passing accounts that were incorrect, +and the judge made strong comments upon the loose manner in which they +did their work. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +8.—Mr. Archibald Forbes delivered a lecture, at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, on “Ten Years of War Correspondence.” + +12.—A shocking murder was committed at Kenninghall Workhouse. Jonas +Rivett, an inmate, aged 71, stabbed Henry Baker, a ward attendant, in the +neck, severing his windpipe and jugular vein. At the combined Norfolk +and Norwich Assizes, held at Ipswich, on April 20th, before Mr. Justice +Field, the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was +subsequently respited, and removed to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. + +17.—Died, at Syleham, in her 100th year, Lucy Steggall, widow of Robert +Steggall. + +24.—Died, at Cannes, Mr. John Gurney, of Sprowston Hall, Deputy-Mayor of +Norwich. On retiring in November, 1886, from the office of Mayor of the +city he sought relaxation on the shores of the Mediterranean. A severe +shock of earthquake, which occurred at Cannes at the time of his visit, +is supposed to have told upon his highly sensitive and nervous +organization, and to have indirectly caused his death. Mr. Gurney was +the eldest son of Mr. John Gurney, of Earlham Hall, and grandson of Mr. +Samuel Gurney, of West Ham. He was born on December 11th, 1845, and +educated at Harrow, whence he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, +where he took his B.A. degree in 1866. The following year he became a +member of the firm of Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay, and Buxton. In 1871 +he married Isabel Charlotte, daughter of Mr. R. Blake-Humfrey, of +Wroxham. Mr. Gurney, who was afflicted with blindness, was one of the +most liberal benefactors of Norwich, and was greatly esteemed by the +citizens. + + +MARCH. + + +11.—Norfolk, in common with other parts of the country, was visited by a +severe spell of wintry weather. + +15.—A dispute between smackowners and smacksmen at Yarmouth ended on this +date. Differences had arisen over the substitution by the former of the +share system for the old plan of payment by wages and poundage. The +strike was beginning to have a disastrous effect upon trade, and was +ended by an amicable arrangement. + +18.—Died, at Stirling, Mr. J. F. Young, for many years a favourite actor +upon the Norwich stage. Mr. Young was widely known as a member of the +original “Caste” Company. He had been lessee of both Norwich and +Yarmouth Theatres, and was greatly respected in private and professional +circles. + +21.—The action, Stanley _v._ the Mayor and Corporation of Norwich and the +Attorney-General, was tried in the Chancery Division of the High Court of +Justice, before Mr. Justice Kekewich. This case raised the question of +the right of the freemen to receive in perpetuity the rents of the Town +Close Estate, a valuable plot of land of about 100 acres in extent, which +was conveyed to the city in 1524 by the Prior of Norwich. It was +contended on the part of the plaintiffs that this land became vested in +the Corporation for the exclusive benefit of the freemen, the terms in +the original grant “citizens” and “commonalty” being synonymous with +“freemen.” Mr. Justice Kekewich concurred in this contention, gave +judgment for the plaintiffs, and ordered the costs of the action to be +borne by the estate. (_See_ January 23rd, 1888.) + +23.—A remarkable sale by auction was held at Leziate under a warrant of +distress for the non-payment of tithe. “Mr. W. H. Boyce, of Holt House +Farm, having made up his mind to object on principle to the payment of +the tithe rent charged by the Rev. A. J. Groom, rector of +Ashwicken-cum-Leziate, and having also failed to induce the rector or his +legal agent to make any abatement of the amount due, namely, £42 8s., a +warrant of distress was issued, under which seizure was made of ten +homebred steers, two cows in calf, and part of a stack of hay. The sale +was conducted by Mr. W. B. Lane. It was carried out in quite an amicable +manner, and the humour of the thing was enhanced by Mr. Boyce providing +luncheon for those in attendance. The auctioneer had sold up to a +certain point, when he announced that his duty was done, but Mr. Boyce +gave him a commission to go on selling as long as he liked. This he +accordingly did with excellent results. At the conclusion of the action +Mr. Boyce thanked his friends for the way in which they had acted, +expressed his objections to tithes in general, and the present claim in +particular, and afterwards entertained several of his friends at dinner.” + + +APRIL. + + +5.—In the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, before Mr. +Baron Pollock and Mr. Justice Stephen, a petition was presented by Mr. +Joseph Arch against the return of Lord Henry Bentinck as member for +North-West Norfolk, on July 9th, 1886. The petitioner alleged that the +respondent was guilty of an illegal practice in paying the sum of £3 to +Charles Wacey, of South Creake, in respect of expenses in the conduct or +management of the election. The money was sent in a letter from Guist +Hall, where Lord Henry Bentinck was staying, on January 20th. The letter +was as follows:—“Dear Mr. Wacey—I enclose you a little present as some +small compensation for the trouble and worry you have had in connection +with the election and afterward. I am much obliged to you for all you +have done, and I hope you will continue to help us in the future in the +same able and energetic manner in which you have done in the past. Yours +truly, Henry Bentinck. P.S. You had better not tell anyone that I sent +you anything.” This letter miscarried, and was delivered not to Charles +Wacey, but to Thomas Wacey, who belonged to the party represented by Mr. +Arch. Thomas Wacey ultimately forwarded the postal orders contained in +the letter to Charles Wacey, who cashed them and kept the proceeds. It +was contended on the part of the respondent that the payment made in +January, 1887, had no relation whatever to the conduct or management of +the election in July, 1886. The money was paid on account of +registration services, and the injunction of secrecy was made because to +have paid all the district secretaries would have involved the respondent +in an expenditure of £100. The petition was dismissed with costs. + +10.—A new organ, built at the cost of £450, was opened at St. Gregory’s +church, Norwich. + +14.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference commenced at Noverre’s Rooms, +Norwich, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop. The proceedings were +concluded on the 15th. + +18.—An “Old World Exhibition” was opened at Blackfriars’ Hall, Norwich, +by the Mayor, in aid of a fund for rebuilding the tower of St. +Michael-at-Thorn. This remarkable collection, chronologically arranged +by the Rev. W. F. Creeny, was of great historical and educational +interest, and was contributed to by many of the leading residents in +county and city. The exhibition closed on April 30th. + + +MAY. + + +12. A fifty miles bicycle race from the second milestone on the Dereham +Road, Norwich, to Swaffham and back, was ridden by members of the Norwich +Amateur Bicycle Club. The roads were heavy, and the wind, during the +greater part of the journey, unfavourable. Result: 1st, H. J. Hayes, 3h. +45m. 30s.; 2nd, Overton, 3h. 46m.; 3rd, Howes. + +14.—The currency question was discussed by the Norfolk Chamber of +Agriculture, and a resolution adopted expressing alarm at the daily +increasing difficulty experienced by the agricultural classes in +obtaining money with which to meet their obligations, asserting the +belief that “an increase in the circulating medium would lessen that +difficulty,” and urging the Government “to respond to the invitation of +the great Powers who had asked this country to join with them in +restoring to the peoples the free coinage and use of silver money.” The +following resolution was also adopted:—“Although currency may in some way +affect the prosperity of trade and agriculture in this country, it is the +opinion of this Chamber that the main cause of the depression is the +influx of foreign produce to the ruin of the English producer and the +employment of foreign labour in the place of English labour.” + +14.—Died, at Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, Mr. George Alden Stevens, solicitor, +in low 57th year. An entirely self-made man, he rose by perseverance and +integrity to become a partner in the firm of Miller and Son. He was an +ardent politician, and for several years argent to the Liberal party, and +the constant adviser of Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett throughout his chequered +experiences on the hustings and in the election courts. Mr. Stevens was +a member of the Town Council, and an alderman, and it was largely due to +his generosity and zeal that Chapel Field was transformed from a barren +and useless waste into a beautiful garden. + +18.—Died, at Gladstone Street, Norwich, George Wilde, aged 62, the last +survivor in the city of the famous light cavalry charge at Balaclava. +Wilde was a private in the 13th Light Dragoons, and in the charge his +horse was killed and himself wounded. He was in receipt of a pension of +thirteen pence per day. + +—The Prince of Wales visited Yarmouth and laid the foundation-stone of +the new hospital. On the 19th his Royal Highness inspected the 2nd +Brigade Eastern Division Royal Artillery, and in the evening attended a +ball given by the officers. + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was celebrated in Norwich by a review on +Mousehold Heath of the 19th (Princess of Wales’ Own) Hussars, the 3rd +Battalion Norfolk Regiment, and the 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk +Regiment. The Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard) gave a banquet at Blackfriars’ +Hall in the evening. Earlier in the day his worship and the Sheriff (Mr. +F. Oddin Taylor) entertained the inmates of the Workhouse. + +25.—An “anti-coercion demonstration,” held under the auspices of the +National Liberal Federation, was addressed at the Agricultural Hall, +Norwich, by Mr. John Morley, M.P. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—Died, at Yarmouth, where he had resided four years, the Rev. Joseph +Philip Knight, the composer of many popular songs. The youngest son of +the Rev. Francis Knight, D.D., he was born at the Vicarage, +Bradford-on-Avon, on July 26th, 1812. His love for music displayed +itself at an early age, and at fifteen he began to devote himself to the +study of harmony and composition. When about twenty Mr. Knight composed +his first six songs under the name of Philip Mortimer. Among these were +“Old times,” sung by Henry Philips, and “Go, forget me,” extremely +popular both in this country and in Germany. After this he used his own +name, and, in company with Haynes Bayly, produced a number of highly +successful songs, amongst which the most famous were “Of what is the Old +Man thinking?” “The Veteran,” “Days Gone By,” “The Grecian Daughter,” and +“She wore a Wreath of Roses.” He subsequently composed the song and duet +to the words written for him by Thomas Moore, “The Parting” and “Let’s +take this World as some Wild Scene.” In 1839 Mr. Knight visited the +United States, where he remained two years. To this time are due, among +other popular songs, his celebrated “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deeps” +sung with immense success by Braham, and “Why Chime the Bells so +merrily?” On his return to England he produced “Beautiful Venice,” “Say, +what shall my Song be To-night?” “The Dream” (words by the Hon. Mrs. +Norton), “Amy Robsart,” and “Queen of the Silver Bow,” all more or less +the rage in their day. Some years afterwards Mr. Knight married, and +lived for a long time in France and Germany, doing very little in the way +of composition, but on his return to England he wrote many other songs, +“Peace, it is I,” “The Lost Rose,” “The Watchman,” “The Anchor,” “Where +is the Place of thy Rest?” and the duet, “Where the Roses Grow,” all of +which, enjoyed great popularity. His songs, duets, and trios number 225. + +4.—Queen Kapiolani, and the heiress presumptive to the Hawaiian Throne, +the Princess Lilivokalani, consort and sister respectively of Kalakana, +King of Hawaii, on a visit to England for the purpose of attending the +celebration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria, arrived at Rackheath Hall, +where they were entertained as the guests of Captain and Mrs. Steward. +During the stoppage of the train at Trowse station, the visitors were +waited upon by the Mayor and Mayoress of Norwich (Mr. and Mrs. Bullard), +who were attended by the Town Clerk and other civic officials. On the +5th (Sunday) the Queen and Princess attended service at the Cathedral, at +which the Mayor, Sheriff, and members of the Town Council were present; +and on the 6th they visited the Cathedral, St. Andrew’s Hall, St. Peter +Mancroft church, and the Castle, and were entertained to luncheon at the +Guildhall by the Mayor and Mayoress. In the afternoon they proceeded to +Pine Banks, Thorpe, and were entertained by Mr. I. O. Howard Taylor. On +the 6th the Queen and Princess departed for London. + +15.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association opened at +Blickling Park. The Marquis of Lothian presided at the public luncheon. +The show was continued on the 16th. + +19.—The celebration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria began in Norwich on +this day (Sunday) with a thanksgiving service at the Cathedral, and with +special services at the Roman Catholic and other Nonconformist places of +worship. The Mayor and Corporation attended the Cathedral in the +morning, and Prince’s Street Congregational chapel in the evening. On +the 20th a special meeting of the Town Council was held on the +requisition of forty-four members, at which it was unanimously resolved +to confer the honorary freedom of the city upon Mr. Harry Bullard as +Mayor of Norwich. The 21st was observed as Jubilee Day. Early in the +morning intelligence was telegraphed to the city that the Mayor was among +the eleven chief magistrates in the kingdom who had received the honour +of knighthood. The day’s proceedings commenced with a special service at +the Cathedral, attended by Churchmen and Nonconformists, by a detachment +of the 19th Hussars, under Colonel French, and the Norwich Artillery +Volunteers and Rifle Volunteers. At noon 11,000 school children +assembled in the Market Place and sang the National Anthem, after which +Sir Harry and Lady Bullard were “at home” at the Guildhall, and +entertained a large company to luncheon. In the afternoon there was a +military parade of the 19th Hussars and Volunteers on Dix’s Land, +Unthank’s Road; the school children had tea at their respective schools, +and in the evening the city was illuminated and a grand display of +fireworks was given on the Castle Meadow. The festivities were continued +on the 22nd, when the Mayor and Sheriff entertained 1,100 of the aged +poor at the Agricultural Hall, and in the evening Sir Harry and Lady +Bullard gave a _soirée_ at St. Andrew’s Hall. On the 23rd the inmates of +the Workhouse were entertained. The 21st was observed with great +rejoicing in every town and village in the county, and the weather being +beautifully fine, the proceedings were of a most successful character. +The amount subscribed in Norfolk to the Women’s Jubilee offering to the +Queen was £1,565 2s. 6d. + +29.—Ringland church, restored at the cost of £2,000, was re-opened. + + +JULY. + + +13.—“As You Like It” was for the first time performed locally as a +“pastoral play” in the grounds of Mousehold House, Thorpe Hamlet, the +residence of Mr. W. H. Hackblock. The comedy was represented by amateurs +on the occasion of a garden _fête_. + +16.—The new prison on Plumstead Road, Norwich, designed by the surveyor +to the Prison Department, and built by Messrs. W. and T. Denne, of +Walmer, Kent, was completed on this date. The prisoners were transferred +from the Castle to the new prison on August 2nd. On September 12th the +Prison Commissioners gave formal possession of the Castle to the Mayor +and Corporation. The late Governor (Mr. A. E Dent), in handing the keys +to the Town Clerk (Mr. H. B. Miller), remarked that the Castle had for +many generations—since 1345, when it was first used as a county prison, +been in the hands of governors, and he was glad, as the last of that long +line, to hand over the building to the Corporation to be employed for a +different purpose in the future. (_See_ July 27th, 1891.) + +20.—Mr. Henry Chaplin, M.P., was the principal speaker at a great +Primrose League _fête_ given in Melton Constable Park by Lord Hastings. + +25.—Died, at his resident, at Sevran, in the environs of Paris, Mr. +William Bateman, aged 75. He was second son of Mr. John Bateman, of +Norwich, and brother of Dr. Bateman. At the age of 29 he settled in +Paris as a merchant and acquired an ample fortune. During his mercantile +career Mr. Bateman established extensive commercial operations in Spain, +and in 1870 King; Amadeus conferred upon him the dignity of Knight of the +Order of Charles III. of Spain. Mr. Bateman married the eldest daughter +of Mr. William Harrison, of Yarmouth. + +27.—The Premier (Lord Salisbury) visited Norwich. His lordship was +received at Thorpe station by the High Sheriff (Sir Alfred Jodrell, +Bart.), the Mayor (Sir Harry Bullard), and Lieutenant-Colonel Bignold, +the leader of the Conservative party in the city. Escorted by a +cavalcade of fifty horsemen, among whom were several leading residents in +the county and city, Lord Salisbury drove to Harford Lodge, the residence +of Colonel Bignold. In the evening the Premier addressed a great +meeting, held at the Agricultural Hall, under the presidency of Colonel +Bignold, and at the conclusion of the proceedings travelled by special +train to Coltishall, whence he drove to Horstead Hall as the guest of Sir +Edward Birkbeck, M.P., and the Hon. Lady Birkbeck. Lord Salisbury +returned to Norwich on the 28th, and after attending a luncheon given at +the Guildhall by the Mayor, proceeded to the Agricultural Hall, where he +received addresses presented by deputations from many Conservative +associations in East Anglia. Having delivered a further address his +lordship departed from Thorpe station by the 3.25 train for London. + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—The Cricket Week theatrical performances commenced at Norwich Theatre, +and were continued on the 4th and 5th. The pieces produced by Sir +Kenneth Kemp’s company of amateurs were “The Parvenue” and “Woodcock’s +Little Game.” + +9.—Died, at 3, Belgravia Square, Edward Fellowes, first Baron de Ramsey. +His lordship, who was raised to the Peerage on July 5th, was the second +son of Mr. William Fellowes, of Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire, by his +wife, Emma, fourth daughter of Mr. Richard Benyon, of Englefield House, +Berks. He was born in 1809, and entering Parliament for Huntingdonshire +in 1837, sat in the House of Commons without interruption until the +General Election in 1880, when his eldest son, Captain Fellowes, +succeeded to the seat which had been successfully defended against +Liberal assaults during forty-three years. For more than half a century +Mr. Fellowes was chairman of the Commissions which had the management of +the Middle Level and Ouse Outfall Works. + +19.—Died, at Alfred Place, South Kensington, Mr. John Palgrave Simpson. +He was the second son of Mr. William Simpson, Town Clerk of Norwich and +Treasurer for the county of Norfolk, and of his wife Katherine, daughter +of Mr. William Palgrave, of Coltishall. Intended for the Church, he was +educated under a private tutor at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, +where he took the degree of B.A., and proceeded M.A. in due course. +Abandoning the idea of adopting the clerical profession, Mr. Simpson +travelled on the Continent and in the East. He was in Paris when a +sudden and severe reverse of fortune, consequent upon the failure of a +bank, compelled him to seek means of repairing his losses. Literary +occupation seemed the only course open to him, and, as he confessed, he +succeeded in his efforts beyond expectation. For some years he +contributed to the leading magazines—“Blackwood’s,” “Bentley’s,” +“Frazer’s,” and others, and published three novels, “Second Love and +other Tales,” “Gisella,” and “The Lily of Paris, or the King’s Nurse.” +Mr. Simpson’s career as a writer for the stage was mainly due to +accident. He seldom visited theatres, but it chanced one night that he +went to the Strand Theatre, and was so pleased with the performance of +William Farren, Leigh Murray, and Mrs. Stilling that he conceived the +idea of writing a play for them, and the result was the comedy drama in +one act, entitled “Poor Cousin Dick,” which was played with considerable +success at the house on April 8th, 1850. Subsequently Mr. Simpson wrote +several successful plays, the principal of which was the famous three-act +comedy, “A Scrap of Paper,” produced at St. James’s Theatre on April +23rd, 1861. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +2.—A gale, which prevailed throughout England, was severely felt on the +Norfolk coast. A large number of vessels ran into Yarmouth Roads for +shelter, among them H.M.S. Narcissus and her escorts Valorous and Echo. +A fine vessel, the Falls of Bruar, 1,742 tons register, the property of +the Glasgow Shipping Company, was wrecked, and only five hands out of the +crew of twenty-nine were saved. + +21.—The Sheriff of Norwich (Mr. F. Oddin Taylor) gave a _soirée musicale_ +at Blackfriars’ Hall, at which the principal performers were M. Leopold +Godowsky, Miss Alexes Leighton, Senor A. Gimenez Manjon, Signor +Bottesini, and Mr. Odell. + +26.—The first of many protracted discussions took place at a meeting of +the Norwich Town Council, upon a report furnished by the City Engineer +(Mr. P. P. Marshall) upon the state of the sewerage system of the city. +The old sewers were said to be in a defective state, and it was proposed +to abandon the low-level system, and to adopt the separate system with a +new rising main, at an estimated cost of £78,000. + +29.—The church of St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich, which for many years had +been in a dilapidated state, was opened after restoration at the cost of +£3,000. + +—At the annual dinner of the North Walsham and Aylsham Agricultural +Association, held at North Walsham, cigarettes, made from tobacco grown +in Norfolk by Sir Edward Birkbeck, M.P., were handed to the guests. The +President (Lord Suffield) described the tobacco as “very good,” and said +that Sir Edward, who had taken considerable interest in the experiment, +“believed that its growth was really going to do something for the +benefit of Norfolk farmers.” + + +OCTOBER. + + +4.—Died, at 6, St. Augustine’s Road, Camden Square, N.W., Mr. David +Fisher, who for thirty years had held a prominent position upon the +London stage as a leading comedian. Mr. Fisher was born at East Dereham, +which was one of the towns on the circuit of the Norfolk and Suffolk +Company of Comedians, under the control of the Fisher family. Like his +father, uncle, and grandfather, Mr. Fisher was highly respected in +Norfolk and the sister county, and his periodical visits to the scenes of +the former theatrical successes of his predecessors were always regarded +with pleasure by a large circle of friends and admirers. On those +occasions Mr. Fisher gave dramatic and musical recitals, in which he was +assisted by his talented daughter, Miss Mary Fisher. His career in +London commenced with Charles Kean at the Princess’s Theatre, where, on +November 2nd, 1853, he appeared as Victor in “The Lancers.” In 1859 Mr. +Benjamin Webster, then at the Adelphi, secured his services, and until +1863 Mr. Fisher performed at that Theatre with considerable success in +many important parts. For a short time he severed his connection with +the stage, and gave his single-handed performance, “Facts and Fancies,” +at Hanover Square Rooms and St. James’s Hall. Subsequently he joined Mr. +Vining’s company at the Princess’s, and afterwards appeared at Drury Lane +and other leading Metropolitan theatres. + +9.—Died, the Rev. Kirby Trimmer. Born in London on December 22nd, 1804, +he was the son of Joshua Kirby Trimmer, of Chiswick, eldest son of Mrs. +Sarah Trimmer, the authoress. After a short residence at Vendôme, he +graduated at St. Alban’s Hall, Oxford, and was ordained in February, +1829. He served the curacies of Burnham Overy, Burnham Sutton, Great +Bircham, and Stanhoe, and in 1840 became curate of St. George’s Tombland, +Norwich, to which living he succeeded in 1842. In the pursuit of botany, +Mr. Trimmer attained to great distinction, and published the well-known, +standard work, the “Flora of Norfolk.” His other literary efforts +embraced a series of “Conversations” on the Thirty-nine Articles, and he +interested himself greatly in the “Philological Dictionary” in course of +publication at the time of his death. + +11.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. The vocalists included Madame Albani, Miss Liza +Lehmann, Miss Annie Marriott, Miss Hilda Wilson, Miss Lena Little, Mr. +Edward Lloyd, Mr. Charles Wade, Mr. Barton McGucken, Mr. Santley, Mr. +Alex. Marsh, Mr. Brockbank, and Mr. Barrington Foote. Mr. Alberto +Randegger was conductor. The opening performance included the “Jubilee +Ode,” “The Heavens Declare,” and the “Hymn of Praise.” On the morning of +the 12th were produced the “Garden of Olivet” (Bottesini), a devotional +oratorio composed expressly for the Festival, and conducted by the +composer; and the “Stabat Mater.” On the 13th the morning performance +comprised the oratorio, “Isaiah” (Mancinelli), composed expressly for the +Festival, and conducted by the composer; and the “Fourth Mass” +(Cherubini). The “Messiah” was given on the 14th. A miscellaneous +programme was performed on the evening of the 12th; the evening +performance on the 13th included “The Irish” (C. V. Stanford), conducted +by the composer, and the cantata, “The Golden Legend,” composed and +conducted by Sir Arthur Sullivan. The concluding performance on the +evening of the 14th was the dramatic legend, “Faust.” The Festival +yielded a surplus of £719 3s. 1d. + +20.—The new Town Hall at Downham Market, erected at the cost of £1,230, +was opened by Mr. W. A. Tyssen Amherst, M.P. + +21.—An extensive range of premises in St. George’s Bridge Street, +Norwich, formerly the drapery establishment of Mr. Henry Snowdon, was +destroyed by fire. The damage was estimated at between £12,000 and +£15,000. + +25.—Died, at Queen Anne’s Mansions, S.W., Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, +G.C.S.I., K.C.B., aged 76. He was the eldest son of Mr. Edmond +Wodehouse, of Sennowe Lodge, and was for many years in the Civil Service +and in the Foreign and Colonial Offices. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +7.—The honorary freedom of the city of Norwich was conferred upon the +Mayor (Sir Harry Bullard), and to Lady Bullard was presented a diamond +crescent brooch and a hair spray of coralline pearls. In the evening a +complimentary dinner was given, at the Bell Hotel, to the Mayor and to +the Sheriff (Mr. F. Oddin Taylor) by the members of the Board of +Guardians. + +9.—Mr. Frederick William Harmer was elected Mayor and Mr. Robert George +Bagshaw appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +11.—Died, at Belsfield, Windermere, Mr. Henry William Schneider, aged 70, +formerly Member of Parliament for Norwich. + +12.—The old colours of the 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment, presented to +the Prince of Wales by Colonel Massy and the officers, were “laid up” in +Sandringham church in the presence of his Royal Highness. + +14.—Wintry weather was experienced in Norfolk. “As many as 13 degrees of +frost were registered in some places.” + +21.—The foolhardy feat of entering a cage containing five Barbary lions +and two wolves, at Wombwell’s Menagerie, was performed at Norwich by a +druggist named Woodcock. He went into the van under the protection of a +coloured girl, who acted as “trainer” to the establishment. + +24.—The High Sheriff of Norfolk (Sir Alfred Jodrell, Bart.) gave a grand +county ball at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. + +29.—Died, at Brighton, Mr. George Henry Christie, of Framingham, aged 76. +Mr. Christie was formerly head of the eminent firm of art auctioneers +established by James Christie in Old Pall Mall about the year 1762. His +grandfather was the friend of Sheridan and Garrick, and Gainsborough +painted a fine portrait of him. Like his father and grandfather, Mr. +Christie was educated at Eton. He continued head of the firm until 1860, +when he was succeeded by his son, Mr. James Henry Brooke Christie. + + +DECEMBER. + + +5.—At a large meeting held at Blackfriars’ Hall, Norwich, under the +presidency of Lieutenant-Colonel Bignold, Mr. Edward Wild was presented +by the Conservative party of the city with an illuminated address +expressing to him their sympathy “in the unjustifiable attack made on him +in the Town Council,” and congratulating him “on his complete and +triumphant refutation of the charges.” The address further stated: “They +desire also to express not only as a party but as citizens their +appreciation of Alderman Wild’s honourable character, and of the debt the +city owes him for his long, faithful, and able services.” + +13.—A military tournament, given by the 19th (Princess of Wales’ Own) +Hussars, in aid of the city charities, commenced at the Agricultural +Hall, Norwich, and concluded on the 17th. + +—Died, at Morton Hall, Mr. George Duckett Berney, in his 75th year. He +was a son of Mr. Thomas Trench Berney, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Mr. +Thomas Penrice, of Great Yarmouth and of Witton House, and married +Catherine Mary, daughter of the Rev. Henry Lombe, of Bylaugh Hall. Mr. +Berney was a justice of the peace and a Deputy-Lieutenant for the county +of Norfolk, and in 1881 served the office of High Sheriff. He took a +practical interest in pisciculture. + + + +1888. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—Mr. Edward Compton’s company appeared at Norwich Theatre in Mr. W. G. +Wills’ play, “Jane Shore,” with Miss Isabel Bateman in the title _rôle_. + +17.—Mr. Andrew Johnston, Assistant Commissioner under the Boundary +Commission appointed to make inquiries as to the delimitation of counties +and Poor Law Unions, in view of impending legislation in the form of a +new Local Government Bill, attended a meeting of the County Rate Basis +Committee, held at Lynn under the presidency of Mr. R. T. Gurdon, and +heard various statements made by the county magistrates. A Committee +appointed to confer with the Commissioners reported at the County +Sessions on April 5th that they considered it undesirable to alter the +boundaries of the county. On April 10th a deputation appointed by the +Norwich Town Council waited upon Mr. Ritchie to ask for the inclusion of +Norwich in Schedule 4 of the Local Government Bill, in order that the +city might be constituted a county in itself, and not be included in the +county of Norfolk as was proposed. The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, +on May 5th, passed resolutions in favour “of an alteration in the +proposed electoral divisions so as to give a fair representation to the +agricultural interest; of an extension of the term of office of the +elective councillors; of one electoral register for all purposes; and of +the postponement of the question of District Councils until next year.” +The Chamber further agreed to petition Parliament in favour of the wheel +tax. + +—A report was submitted to the Norwich Town Council on the completion of +the new Foundry Bridge. The original estimate for the work was £13,000; +the actual cost, including all charges, was £12,032 11s. 4d. The width +of the bridge is 50 feet—five feet more than was originally intended. +The Great Eastern Railway Company contributed £1,200 towards the cost of +the undertaking. + +20.—Died, at Shadwell Court, Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Bart. The son of +Sir John Jacob Buxton, Bart., by the eldest daughter of Sir Montagu +Cholmeley, he succeeded to the title in 1842 as the third, and, in +default of male issue, the last baronet. Sir Robert was educated at Eton +and Christ Church, Oxford, and married, in 1865, Mary Augusta Harriet, +daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone, by whom he left two daughters, +Maud Isabel and Sybil Mary. He was a Deputy-Lieutenant for Norfolk, and +sat in Parliament for the Southern Division of the county from 1871 to +1885. In 1870 he served the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk, and was a +justice of the peace for both Norfolk and Suffolk. Sir Robert was at one +time an officer in the Suffolk Yeomanry Cavalry, and afterwards +identified himself with the Volunteer movement by accepting, in 1860, a +captaincy in the 20th Norfolk Rifle Volunteers. + +21.—At the annual meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural +Society the Mayor of Norwich (Mr. F. W. Harmer) presented to Mr. Arthur +Waters Preston a handsome black marble clock of classical design, +subscribed for by members and friends of the society in recognition of +his services as hon. secretary from 1881 to 1888. Accompanying the +testimonial was a cheque for £50 and an illuminated address. + +23.—The action, Stanley _v._ the Mayor and Corporation of Norwich, +arising out of the claim of the freemen to the Town Close Estate, came +before Mr. Justice Kekewich in the Royal Court of Judicature. Mr. Walter +Rye, Mr. Stanley’s agent, asked that it might be referred to Mr. Blofeld, +Recorder of Ipswich and Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, to enquire +and report who were the persons entitled as freemen to participate in the +rents and profits of the estate, and what persons were entitled to be +admitted as freemen under the inquiry directed by the judgment given in +March, 1887. His lordship made the order asked for, and directed that +the inquiry be held at the Guildhall, Norwich, or at such other place as +the referee might from time to time direct. Mr. Blofeld opened the +inquiry on March 19th, and continued the proceedings on the 20th, when a +large number of freemen attended for the purpose of proving their right +to have their names placed upon the roll. On the same day (the 20th) it +was reported to the Town Council that the cost of the Town Close Estate +litigation amounted to £4,500, and a resolution was adopted for leave to +borrow the amount on mortgage of the estate. In the Chancery Division of +the High Court of Justice, on July 7th, a point was raised as to the +jurisdiction of the court to affirm a declaration of the Attorney-General +creating the Town Close Estate a charity. Mr. Justice Kekewich, on July +14th, sustained the objection taken by the respondents to the +Attorney-General’s application, and held that before issuing a summons +the Attorney-General must establish by independent proceedings an +information that there was a charity in existence to be regulated. The +summons had been so drawn as to assume the existence of a charity, and +this was just what his lordship thought could not be assumed. On +December 14th, in the Supreme Court, before Lords Justices Cotton, +Lindley, and Bowen, the Attorney-General appealed from Mr. Justice +Kekewich’s decision. Their lordships, after hearing arguments, held that +Mr. Justice Kekewich had determined by his judgment that the Town Close +Estate was a charitable trust. On December 20th, however, their +lordships reconsidered their decision, directed the order of Mr. Justice +Kekewich to be discharged, and ordered the summons to be set down for +further argument, and to decide whether there was or was not a charity. +(_See_ January 21st, 1889.) + +31.—Died, at Southwell Lodge, Norwich, Mr. John Willis, aged 54. Mr. +Willis was a member of the firm of Willis and Southall, an alderman, and +a justice of the peace for the city. A native of Gloucestershire, he had +resided in Norwich for a quarter of a century. It was through his +advocacy that the Artisans’ Dwellings Act was put into force in Norwich, +and the rookeries in St. Paul’s were demolished. He also interested +himself in the matter of the gas supply, and vigorously protested against +what he conceived to be the unjust treatment of the citizens by the Gas +Company. He married, in 1870, the only daughter of Mr. Colmam, of Stoke +Holy Cross, and sister of Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +3.—In pursuance of requisition a special meeting of the Norwich Town +Council was held for the purpose of considering a notice for rescinding a +resolution passed on January 17th in relation to Anguish’s Charity, +namely, “That this Council gives its cordial support to a proposal of the +Charity Commissioners to utilise the funds of the Norwich Charities for +the purposes of technical education.” Colonel Bignold moved, “That no +application of the funds of Anguish’s and the allied charities can be +satisfactory to this Council which is not strictly in accordance with the +will of Thomas Anguish confirmed and settled by Royal Charter in 1629, +namely, for the sustentation, relief, and maintenance, as well as the +teaching, of all very poor children born and brought up in the city of +Norwich.” This resolution was adopted at an adjourned meeting on the +7th, and a committee appointed “to consider the present position of the +trust, and, if necessary, to confer with the Charity Trustees, and still +further, if necessary, to communicate with the Commissioners.” On the +28th the Special Committee submitted the following suggestions to the +Council for approval:—“(1) That in any scheme which may be submitted by +the Charity Trustees to the Commissioners a sum not exceeding £200 per +annum be set aside for the purposes of technical education out of the +Boys’ Hospital. (2) That the residue of the fund be devoted to the +sustentation, relief, maintenance, and elementary education of as many +boys as the money will provide for. (3.) That if considered within the +meaning of the trust this committee would be willing to accept a scheme +of maintenance other than that provided for by the Home.” Meanwhile the +Trustees submitted amended proposals, but on March 20th the Council +adopted those drawn up by the Special Committee. (_See_ January 21st, +1896). + +7.—The members of the Norwich and Norfolk Conservative Club having +vacated their former premises on the Walk for larger and more convenient +quarters in St. Giles’ Street, held a meeting, at which an inaugural +address was delivered by Mr. S. Hoare, M.P. The newly-acquired premises +formed originally a portion of the Norfolk’ Hotel, and adjoining was a +large and handsome banqueting room, which for several years afterwards +was used for Conservative gatherings and other purposes. + +9.—The first of a series of “Science Lectures for the People,” delivered +under the auspices of the Norwich Corporation through the instrumentality +of the Gilchrist Educational Trust, was given at St. Andrew’s Hall by Sir +Robert Stawell Ball, Astronomer Royal of Ireland, on “The Wonders of the +Midnight Sky.” The second lecture, entitled “A Bank Holiday in the +Country,” was delivered on February 21st by the Rev. W. Tuckwell, M.A., +rector of Stockton, and late Fellow of New College, Oxford. (_See_ +January 14th, 1889.) + +11.—A notorious poacher, named Robert Large, undergoing three months’ +hard labour for an assault on a police-constable, effected his escape +from the New Prison at Norwich, in company with another prisoner named +Annison. The latter was arrested at Martham on the 16th, and on the +following day Large was re-taken. + +24.—A heavy fall of snow occurred, and on the 25th the ground was covered +to the depth of several inches. + + +MARCH. + + +1.—Jim Mace, “retired champion of the world,” appeared at Norwich Theatre +in a series of exhibition sparring contests with Wolf Bendoff, Pooley +Mace, and Mike Jennett. The entertainment was repeated on the 2nd and +3rd. + +3.—Lord Harris, Under-Secretary for War and chairman of the Grand +Council, addressed a Primrose League meeting held at the Agricultural +Hall, Norwich. + +6.—Hengler’s Grand Cirque opened at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich. + +8.—Died, at his residence, St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, Mr. Charles +Suckling Gilman, in his 81st year. Mr. Gilman for many years spent an +active and busy life in the city. He initiated the Norwich Law Students’ +Amicable Society, founded the Norfolk and Norwich Aquatic Club, whose +members at one time engaged in rowing contests with the crews of the +Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and aided the inauguration of the +Norwich Athenæum. In 1834 Mr. Gilman founded the Militia Substitute +Insurance Association, and after the memorable hailstorm in August, 1843, +he established the General Hailstorm Insurance Society. In 1846 he +became the leading promoter and secretary of the Norwich Mutual Marine +Insurance Society, in 1849 he founded the Norfolk Farmers’ Cattle +Insurance Society, and in 1856 assisted his son, Mr. C. R. Gilman, in the +formation of the Norwich and London Accident Insurance Association. Mr. +Gilman was the last surviving member of the Norwich Corporation of +pre-Reform days, having been elected for the Wymer Ward in March, 1830. +For some time he was a member of the new Corporation, a revising assessor +and member of the old Court of Guardians, and a member of the old Paving +Commission. Mr. Gilman was engaged with Mr. Joseph John Gurney and +others in founding and organizing the Norwich District Visiting Society, +and was one of the oldest life governors of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital, and a member of the Festival Committee and of the Committees of +the Blind Institution, the Norfolk and Norwich Eye Infirmary, the Norfolk +and Norwich Dispensary, and the Jenny Lind Infirmary. With Mr. John +Henry Gurney and Sir Samuel Bignold, he took an active part in the +formation of the original Norwich Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Gilman was +descended from an old Norfolk family which goes back into the sixteenth +century, and one of his maternal ancestors was the great Norfolk hero, +Nelson. + +—The first of a series of “Health Lectures for the People,” arranged by +the Corporation of Norwich, was delivered at Prince’s Street Lecture Hall +by Mr. S. H. Burton. The subject was “Healthy Homes and how to keep them +so.” On the 15th Mr. Donald Day lectured on “Foods and Drinks,” and on +the 22nd Dr. S. J. Barton on “Personal Health.” + +10.—The silver wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales was celebrated +in Norwich and the county. Congratulatory addresses were adopted by the +Corporations of Norwich, Yarmouth, and Lynn; and on April 2nd the +citizens of Norwich presented their Royal Highnesses with replicas of +portions of the Corporation plate. Presents were also given by the +tenants on the Sandringham estate and by the West Norfolk Hunt. In +commemoration of the event the Mayor and Sheriff of Norwich (Mr. Harmer +and Mr. Bagshaw) entertained 950 of the aged poor of the city to dinner +at St. Andrew’s Hall; and on August 24th Mr. Samuel Hoare, M.P., gave a +treat to the inmates of the Workhouse. + +22.—Died, at his residence, Willow Lane, Norwich, Mr. Charles Goodwin, +formerly house surgeon of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Mr. Goodwin +held important posts in connection with other city charities, and was on +the commission of the peace for Norwich. + +23.—At the Norwich Police Court, Mr. Edward Burgess, accompanied by +several members of the committee of the Unemployed Relief Fund, applied +for the issue of a summons for libel against the Norwich District +Visiting Society and the editor of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE. The newspaper +had published an article in which the committee were referred to “as +certain persons who are not entitled to constitute themselves almoners of +the general public as an excuse for pursuing their favourite policy of +sending round the hat and beating a drum in the manner of other +mountebanks.” This article had been reprinted and circulated by the +officers of the Visiting Society. The magistrates were of opinion that +the article was not libellous, and dismissed the application. + + +APRIL. + + +1.—Died suddenly, at his residence, Bank Plain, Norwich, Mr. Arthur +Preston, solicitor. He was the youngest son of Mr. John Preston, of +Great Yarmouth (who was twice Mayor of that borough), and was born on +July 3rd, 1819. After serving his articles with Mr. Roger Kerrison he +was admitted a solicitor in 1842, and from 1844 to 1864, when Mr. +Kerrison died, he was in partnership with him. Mr. Preston was appointed +Clerk to the Burials Board in 1861, and held the office until his death; +he had been a director of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society since +1867, and president since 1885; and he was the Norwich solicitor to the +British Gas Light Company, Limited, to which office he was appointed in +1864. Mr. Preston was twice married—in 1854 to Maria, daughter of Mr. +Robert Waters, and in 1869 to Louisa Jane, daughter of the Rev. J. +Culling Evans, of Stoke Pogis, Buckinghamshire. He left a family of five +sons and three daughters. + +—An outbreak of fire at West Beckham Workhouse caused damage to the +amount of £1,500. + +5.—The proceedings of the Norwich Diocesan Conference commenced at +Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, and concluded on the 6th. + +16.—The E and D Troops of the 19th (Princess of Wales’ Own) Hussars +marched from Norwich Cavalry Barracks for Hampton Court and Kensington. +The remaining troops left on the 26th, on which day three troops of the +20th Hussars marched in under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Blake. + +21.*—“A party of emigrants, numbering sixty, from parishes in the +neighbourhood of Diss, have left this week for Canada.” + +28.—Died, at 19, Hanover Terrace, Ladbroke Square, London, Lieut.-Colonel +George Black, formerly Chief Constable of Norfolk, in his 79th year. It +was on October 20th, 1852, that Colonel (then Captain) Black, a half-pay +officer of the Royal Staff Corps, who had seen service as adjutant in +Canada, was appointed to the command of the Norfolk Constabulary, and he +held the post until the autumn of 1880, when he retired on a pension. +For sixteen or seventeen years Colonel Black held the command of the +Norwich Rifle Battalion in succession to Colonel Brett. At the funeral, +which took place at Willesden Cemetery on May 2nd, the coffin was borne +to the grave by six superintendents of the Norfolk Constabulary. + + +MAY. + + +2.—Nine cottages were destroyed by fire at Hockering. Most of the +furniture and belongings of the occupants were consumed, and a public +subscription was opened for the relief of the sufferers. + +19.—The Norfolk Artillery Volunteer Brigade went into camp at Yarmouth +under the command of Lieut.-Colonel H. M. Leathes. + +22.—Died, at Norwich, Mr. John Betts, in his 89th year. The head of a +large wholesale and retail drapery establishment, he was appointed +Sheriff in 1844, elected Mayor in 1845, and placed on the commission of +the peace in 1848. + +24.—Died, at Bracondale, Norwich, Major-General James Cockburn, formerly +of the 79th Cameron Highlanders, aged 77. He was second son of +Major-General James Patteson Cockburn, of the Royal Artillery, and was +born in Norwich when his father was stationed there in 1810. After +serving in Canada he received the appointment of staff officer of +pensioners in the Norwich District, from which post he retired in 1877. +General Cockburn was a justice of the peace for the city, and +vice-president of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society. + +—The members of the British Dairy Farmers’ Association arrived at Trowse +railway station, and visited Carrow Abbey, where they were entertained to +luncheon by Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P. After inspecting the Whitlingham +herd, they proceeded to Norwich, and held a conference at the +Agricultural Hall. In the evening the members dined at the Royal Hotel +under the presidency of Mr. Clare Sewell Read; and on the 25th proceeded +by train to King’s Lynn and Sandringham. + +30.—The Earl of Leicester presided at a public meeting at Norwich, and +made an eloquent appeal on behalf of a fund for the enlargement and +reconstruction of the Blind Institution. The cost of the proposed work +was estimated at £4,000. (_See_ October 16th, 1891.) + + +JUNE. + + +12.—An inter-county match between teams of twenty men each took place on +the occasion of the annual meeting at Yarmouth of the Norfolk Volunteer +Service Association. Total scores: Suffolk, 1,711; Lincolnshire, 1,697; +Norfolk, 1,652; Essex, 1,557. + +18.—The staff of the 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment left Yarmouth and +took up their quarters at the Infantry Depot known as the Britannia +Barracks, Norwich. + +19.—The Norwich Town Council adopted an address of condolence with the +Queen and with the Empress of Germany on the death of the German Emperor. +Similar addresses were passed by the Corporations of Yarmouth and Lynn. + +21.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association opened at +East Dereham. Mr. R. T. Gurdon, M.P., presided at the luncheon. The +show was continued on the 22nd. + +28.—The church of St. Thomas, Heigham, was consecrated by the Bishop of +Norwich. The building was designed by Mr. Ewan Christian, of London, and +erected by Mr. G. E. Hawes, at the total cost of £6,600. + +30.—Dr. S. J. Barton was elected an honorary physician of the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital in place of Sir Peter Eade, who retired from the post of +senior physician. Dr. Beverley was elected honorary surgeon to fill the +vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. T. W. Crosse. + + +JULY. + + +5.—A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, occurred in +Norfolk. + +7.—Died, at East Dereham, Mr. Samuel Bates, who was born in that town in +1789. He started in business in the Market Place in 1814, and was a +subscriber to the dinner held in 1815 on the occasion of the celebration +of peace. In 1809 he witnessed and took part in the festivities +connected with the Jubilee of George III., and seventy-seven years later +participated in the celebration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. + +9.—The Mayor (Mr. F. W. Harmer) opened, at the rooms of the Norwich Art +Circle, Queen Street, a loan collection of works by John Sell Cotman. + +14.*—“Lieut.-Colonel William Earle Gascoyne Lytton Bulwer is gazetted to +the command of the Eastern Counties Volunteer Brigade.” + +21.—At a meeting held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of +the Deputy-Mayor (Sir Harry Bullard), a local branch was established of +the National Association for the Employment of Reserve and Discharged +Soldiers. + +—The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Volunteer Battalions of the Norfolk Regiment went +into camp at Great Yarmouth. The marching in state was 2,000. + +24.—The Fellows of the Huguenot Society of London held their summer +conference at Norwich. The proceedings were continued on the 25th. + + +AUGUST. + + +6.—The Norwich Cricket Week commenced on this date, and concluded on the +11th. The principal match of the week was Norfolk _v._ Parsees. Scores: +Norfolk, 138–73; Parsees, 78–129. Sir Kenneth Kemp’s amateur theatrical +company appeared at the Theatre on the 8th in “The Porter’s Knot” and “To +Oblige Benson”; on the 10th the comedy was repeated, and a “Cups and +Saucers” was produced as an after-piece. + +10.—Upwards of 10,000 people were present at a Primrose League _fête_ +given at Houghton Park by Mr. E. Kenyon-Stow. Addresses were delivered +by Lord Henry Bentinck, M.P., Mr. Weston Jarvis, M.P., and Mr. Whitmore, +M.P. + +18.—Died, at Norwich, Mr. Henry Stevenson, F.L.S. He was the youngest +son of Mr. Seth William Stevenson, and was born at Surrey Street, +Norwich, March 30th, 1833. Educated at King’s College School, London, he +became, on attaining his majority, a co-partner in the proprietorship of +the NORFOLK CHRONICLE, and at the age of 22 was elected honorary +secretary of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, a position which he filled +with marked ability to the close of his life. Volume I. of his standard +work, “The Birds of Norfolk,” was published in December, 1866, and Volume +II. in September, 1870; and Volume III. was in course of publication at +the time of his death. His other literary work included a memoir of his +friend, the Rev. Richard Lubbock, M.A., rector of Eccles, published with +a revised edition of Lubbock’s “Fauna of Norfolk,” edited by Mr. T. +Southwell (1879), and numerous contributions to the Transactions of the +Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, of which he was one of the +founders, and filled the office of president in 1871–72. Mr. Stevenson +was appointed Sheriff of Norwich in 1875. He married, in 1856, Eliza +Dangerfield, stepdaughter of Mr. Edward Slater, who died from injuries +received in a carriage accident on July 17th, 1862; his second wife was +Ann Emilia, eldest daughter of Mr. Wm. Self, surgeon, of Hackney. + +30.—Lord Walsingham killed to his own gun, on his small moor at +Blubberhouses, Yorkshire, 1,058 grouse. Of these, 1,036 were taken home +the same night, and 22 were picked up the following day. “The record of +his having killed 842 grouse to his own gun on August 28th, 1872, had +been so freely disputed by many persons, who professed to regard it as a +physical impossibility, that it was his lordship’s intention to prove +more could be accomplished.” + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +6.—Died, at Ormesby Lodge, Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon, Bart. He was +the eldest son of Sir Edmund Knowles Lacon, and his wife, Eliza Dixon, +eldest daughter and co-heiress of Mr. Thomas Beecroft, of Sculthorpe +Hall. Born August 14th, 1807, he was educated at Eton and Emmanuel +College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. in 1828 and his M.A. degree in +1831. In 1839 he married Eliza Georgiana, daughter of Mr. James Esdale +Hammet, of Battersea. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1839. Sir Edmund +was first returned to Parliament for the borough of Yarmouth in 1852. At +the next General Election, in March, 1857, Mr. McCallagh and Mr. E. A. +Watkin gained the representation of the constituency by a narrow majority +over Sir Edmund and his colleague, the Hon. Charles Smyth Vereker, son of +Viscount Gort. A petition was presented, and a Committee of the House of +Commons declared the election void. Thereupon Sir Edmund issued an +address, but subsequently followed the example of Mr. Vereker, and +retired, so that Serjeant (afterwards Mr. Justice) Mellor and Mr. +Adolphus W. Young had a walk-over. On the dissolution taking place in +1859 he and Sir Henry Stracey defeated Messrs. Watkin and Young; a +petition and enquiry followed, but they were declared duly elected. In +1865 Sir Henry Stracey retired, leaving Sir Edmund with Mr. James Goodson +as his colleague, and both were returned in opposition to Mr. Alexander +Brogden and Mr. Philip Vanderbyl, who presented a petition, which, though +the sitting members were undisturbed, resulted in the Committee reporting +that they had reason to believe corrupt practices had prevailed. A Royal +Commission and the disfranchisement of the borough followed. Then came +the Reform and Redistribution Acts of 1868, under which the county of +Norfolk was divided into three parts, and Yarmouth was merged in the +Northern Division. At the first election under the new arrangement Sir +Edmund Lacon and his colleague, the Hon. Frederick Walpole, were +returned, notwithstanding the powerful opposition of the Liberal party, +who had brought forward Mr. Edmond R. Wodehouse and Mr. R. T. Gurdon. A +petition was presented, and failed. In 1869 Sir Edmund was presented by +his constituents with a piece of silver plate weighing 900 ozs., and +valued at upwards of £600, in recognition of his services to the +Conservative cause. In 1874 he and Mr. Walpole were returned unopposed, +and in 1880 there was again no contest, when Sir Edmund and Mr. +(afterwards Sir Edward) Birkbeck were elected on the death of Colonel +Duff, who had succeeded Mr. Walpole. Under the redistribution scheme of +1885 Yarmouth was allowed one member, but at the next General Election +Sir Edmund retired, and Sir H. W. Tyler was elected in his stead. Sir +Edmund Lacon was senior partner in the banking firm of Lacons, Youells, +and Co., and in the extensive brewery of Lacons and Co. On the death of +Lord Sondes in 1875 he was appointed High Steward of Yarmouth; he was a +Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk and a magistrate for Norfolk and Suffolk. +Sir Edmund was formerly Colonel Commandant, and at the time of his death +Honorary Colonel, of the East Norfolk Militia. + +9.—A serious fire occurred at the Orchard Street Saw Mills, Norwich, +occupied by Messrs. Cunnington Bros, timber merchants. Considerable +damage was done to the machinery and stock-in-trade, and a large building +was destroyed. + +11.—The detachment of Royal Engineers, who had for ten years been engaged +on the Ordnance Survey, left Norwich for York. The work in Norfolk was +completed in 1883, and it was found that very little alteration was +needed in the map drawn thirty or forty years previously. The survey of +the northern half of Cambridgeshire was then commenced and was completed +in 1885; this was followed by the survey of a portion of Huntingdonshire +and Northamptonshire, including the city of Peterborough; and finally the +southern half of Lincolnshire, which was finished in April, 1887. The +detachment, including women and children, numbered 120, and the official +papers, books, &c., weighed between 30 and 40 tons. The first commanding +officer was Captain Macpherson, who was succeeded by Captain Day and by +Major Washington. + +20.—The new Hospital, erected at Dene Side, Yarmouth, was publicly opened +by Sir James Paget, the distinguished physician, a native of the town. +The total cost of the institution was estimated at £10,750. + + +OCTOBER. + + +19.—A great Conservative demonstration took place at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, in connection with a conference of the Eastern Division of the +National Union of Conservative Associations. Lord Walsingham presided, +and Sir John Gorst, Q.C., M.P., Under Secretary for India, was the +principal speaker. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +2.—Died, Sir Lewis Whincop Jarvis, in his 72nd year. He was a son of Mr. +Lewis Weston Jarvis, and a grandson of Mr. Robert T. Whincop, a former +Town Clerk of Lynn. For more than fifty years he carried on business as +a banker and solicitor in his native town of Lynn, and on January 15th, +1878, received the honour of knighthood in recognition of the many +eminent services he had rendered to the borough. He married, in 1850, +Emma, daughter of Mr. Alexander Bowker, by whom he left issue five sons +and a daughter. Sir Lewis was an alderman of Lynn, and was Mayor for +three successive years, 1860–63. + +9.—At the meeting of the Norwich Town Council Mr. Alexander Robert +Chamberlin was elected Mayor of the city, but upon his declining to +qualify Mr. Joshua Farrar Ranson was chosen. Mr. George White was +appointed Sheriff. + +—The Marquis of Salisbury was appointed High Steward of the borough of +Great Yarmouth. + +10.—The Gorleston lifeboat, the Refuge, was capsized whilst upon salvage +service, and of her crew four were drowned. + +13.—Mr. Harry Furniss delivered at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, a +lecture on “Art and Artists.” + +15.—Upton church, which had been restored at the cost of £1,122, was +re-opened by the Bishop of Norwich. + +26.—At Blofield Petty Sessions, Jeremiah Cozens Wiley, farmer, of Little +Plumstead; Samuel Rose, farm steward; William Feek and Thomas Powley, +labourers, of the same place, were summoned on the information of John +Ford, an inspector of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to +Animals, for “unlawfully ill-treating and torturing 16 bullocks by +dishorning them on October 8th and 15th.” Mr. Colam, barrister-at-law, +prosecuted on behalf of the society, and Mr. H. J. Gidney, of Aylsham, +defended. The case excited great interest, and the court was crowded by +a large number of scientific witnesses and leading agriculturists. The +act of dishorning the animals was admitted by the defendants, and in +support of the contention of the prosecution that the operation was +unnecessary and cruel were called Professor Walley, principal of the +Edinburgh Veterinary College; Professor McCall, principal of the Glasgow +Veterinary College; Professor F. Collins, F.R.C.V.S., Mr. G. A. Lepper, +F.R.C.V.S, Professor Pritchard, President of the Royal College of +Veterinary Surgeons, London; Mr. Cox, F.R.C.V.S., Professor J. McQueen, +and several local veterinary surgeons. It was urged in defence that the +operation, although painful, was necessary and humane, because it +prevented cattle injuring each other with their horns. Several prominent +agriculturists and graziers, including Mr. Clare Sewell Read, Mr. B. B. +Sapwell, and Mr. William Case, gave evidence in support of this view. +The magistrates dismissed the informations, and the chairman (Mr. Edward +Gilbert) said “they considered the operation a most painful one, but they +did not suppose that Mr. Wiley did it with any cruel intention towards +the animals on which the operation was performed. If it went forth to +the public that it was advisable to have polled cattle it would be seen +also that it was advisable that the animals should be operated upon at an +earlier stage.” (_See_ April 16th, 1889.) + +29.—Mr. J. L. Toole commenced a three nights’ engagement at Norwich +Theatre as Mr. Milliken, M.A., in the comedy of “The Don.” The pieces +produced on the 30th and on December 1st were “The Butler,” “The +Spitalfields Weaver,” “Paul Pry,” and “Ici On Parle Français.” + + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—The weather was very mild at this date. “That 1888 will be noted as +an extraordinary year in the meteorological annals of this country is a +fact requiring no demonstration—snow in harvest and blossoming primroses +in the open air on the eve of December, February rains throughout the +summer months, and March gales in November.” A correspondent, writing to +“The Times,” on December 3rd, stated: “I am still supplied with green +peas grown in my garden at Brundall, the roses are all in flower; the +fields abound in primroses and wild flowers.” The cuckoo was said to +have been heard at North Elmham on December 6th. In Norwich primroses +and other vernal flowers were in full bloom on Christmas eve, and +strawberries were gathered at Swainsthorpe on Christmas morning. + +5.—The Prince of Wales and Prince George of Wales arrived at Didlington +Hall on a visit to Mr. W. A. Tyssen Amherst, M.P., and left on the 8th. + +10.—Lieut.-Colonel Foster was presented with a gold watch, subscribed for +by past and present members of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk +Regiment, on his retirement from the corps, after twenty-five years’ +service. + +22.—A public inquiry was held at the Guildhall Norwich, by Mr. Charles +Chapman, Assistant Commissioner under the Royal Commission on market +rates and tolls, into the circumstances of markets and fairs in the city. +Statements were made by many of the leading citizens. A similar inquiry +was held at Yarmouth. + +29.—The Norfolk County Club, whose quarters were originally at the Royal +Hotel, and subsequently in St. Giles’ Street, having purchased the old +Bank House, Upper King Street, Norwich, the reconstruction of the +premises for the purposes of the club was completed on this date under +the superintendence of Mr. Edward Boardman. The house was formerly the +residence of Mr. Anthony Hudson, and was afterwards known as Greyfriars’ +College. + +31.—Mr. Henry Birkbeck, on the completion of the fiftieth year of his +connection with the banking-house of Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay, and +Buxtons, “the Norwich and Norfolk Bank,” was presented by the managers +and clerks with a silver salver in commemoration of the event. + + + +1889. + + +JANUARY. + + +3.—The Norfolk magistrates met at the Shirehall, Norwich, for the last +time for the discharge of the general business of the county. Mr. J. R. +Bulwer, Q.C., presided. On the motion of Sir Francis Boileau, Bart., +seconded by Mr. C. S. Read, a vote of thanks was accorded to the senior +Chairman, Mr. R. T. Gurdon, “for the impartial, courteous, and punctual +manner in which he has discharged the various duties appertaining to the +office of Chairman during the eighteen years in which he has with marked +ability presided over this Court.” One of the last acts of the Court was +to grant to the Under-Sheriff (Mr. Hales) the sum of £700 towards the +expenses of the County Council elections, which took place on January +24th. The first meeting of the Norfolk Provisional County Council was +held at the Shirehall, Norwich, on February 7th. Mr. Gurdon was elected +provisional chairman by 37 votes against 18 recorded for Lord Kimberley. +After the election of aldermen the meeting was adjourned until February +16th, when Mr. Gurdon was elected permanent Chairman by 53 votes against +20 polled by Lord Kimberley. Lord Walsingham was elected Vice-Chairman. +It was reported that the cost of the elections was £3,308 4s. 6d. The +first meeting of the fully-constituted Council took place at the +Shirehall on April 13th; and on December 14th it adopted a comprehensive +scheme for the management of the main roads of the county. + +—A regimental ball, given by the officers of the 20th Hussars, took place +at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. + +9.—A meeting of the citizens was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, for +the consideration of the Norwich Corporation Bill, which, during the +preceding year the Town Council had decided to present to Parliament. +The Mayor (Mr. J. Farrar Ranson) presided, and the proceedings were of a +most disorderly character. At the adjourned meeting on the 23rd similar +scenes were witnessed. The Bill, which was very comprehensive, and +contained provisions relating to infectious diseases, police regulations, +private street works, hackney carriages, the employment of children, +consolidation of parishes, &c., passed through Select Committee of the +House of Commons on June 18th. + +14.—The first of another series of “Science Lectures for the People” was +given, under the Gilchrist Educational Trust, at St. Andrew’s Hall by Sir +Robert Stawell Ball, Astronomer Royal for Ireland, on “The Sun, the +Fountain of life and Light.” Dr. Lant Carpenter, on January 28th, +lectured upon “Electric Lighting”; Dr. Andrew Wilson, February 9th, on +“Some Animal Architects: Chalk Builders and Coral Makers”; Professor +Miall, February 25th, on “The Life-history of the Earth”; Professor +Seeley, March 11th, on “Water and its Action in Land-shaping”; and the +Rev. Dr. Dallinger, F.R.S., F.L.S., president of the Royal Microscopical +Society, March 25th, on “Contrasts of Nature—the Infinitely Great and the +Infinitely Small.” The Corporation in December arranged a series of +lectures independently of the Gilchrist Trust. On the 4th of that month +Sir Robert Ball lectured on “Shooting Stars,” and on the 18th Dr. Andrew +Wilson discoursed on “The Heart and its Action.” (_See_ March 5th, +1890.) + +21.—The freemen of Norwich unanimously agreed that it was undesirable to +take any steps in opposition to the Attorney-General’s motion for +declaring the Town Close Estate a charity. In the Court of Appeal, on +June 22nd, before Lords Justices Cotton, Bowen, and Fry, Mr. Ingle Joyce +informed their lordships that a scheme was to be devised for the +management of the estate; the Corporation were to retain a sufficient sum +to cover their costs, and the plaintiffs in the action were to have their +costs as between party and party. Their lordships sanctioned the +agreement. “All that now remains to be done in the original action is to +settle the roll by striking off the names of freemen wrongfully +admitted.” At a meeting of the Town Council on August 27th it was +reported that the estimated costs in the litigation amounted to £5,000. +(_See_ February 6th, 1892.) + +23.—Died, at Yarmouth, Mrs. Rose Ellen Thackeray, widow of the Rev. +Joseph Thackeray, many years rector of Horstead and Coltishall. Mrs. +Thackeray, who was in her 79th year, was the authoress of “Social +Skeletons,” and “Pictures of the Past,” and a contributor of poetical +sketches to various magazines. She was the youngest daughter of Captain +John Robinson, of the Scots Guards. + +24.—Mr. and Mrs. Kendall commenced a three nights’ engagement at Norwich +Theatre in “The Queen’s Shilling.” “A Scrap of Paper” was performed on +the 25th, and “Two Friends” on the 26th. + +26.—Died, at St. Andrew’s Hall Plain, Norwich, Mr. Alfred Stannard, +artist, in his 83rd year. He was the last survivor of the Norwich School +of Artists, which commenced with Old Crome. He was the younger brother +of the famous Joseph Stannard, and father of Miss Stannard, the +well-known painter of fruit and flowers. During the last few years of +his life Mr. Stannard was in receipt of an annual pension of £50 from the +Turner Fund of the Royal Academy. + +26.—Died, at the Cathedral Close, Norwich, Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, widow +of Mr. John Oddin Taylor, aged 81. She was the eldest of the twelve +children of Mr. John Brewer, of Mile End House, Eaton. Among her +brothers were Professor Brewer, Preacher at the Rolls-Chapel, and editor +of the State Papers of the time of Henry VIII.; Dr. William Brewer, +Chairman of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and sometime Member of +Parliament for Colchester; and Dr. Cobham Brewer, the well-known author +of the “Guide to Science” and other educational works. Born on November +9th, 1807, she was educated with her brothers at Mile End School, and +there acquired that proficiency in the classics and love of literature +generally which she maintained and cherished throughout her life. Among +the pupils attending her father’s school was John Oddin Taylor, who was +destined to become her husband. Early in life she manifested an ardent +enthusiasm for music, and studied under Dr. Crotch, and for her great +proficiency in the art was on two occasions awarded a medal. With her +high intellectual gifts were combined broad and liberal sympathies, and +she won the confidence and affection of all. + +29.—Mr. T. P. O’Connor, M.P., addressed a Gladstonian Liberal meeting +held at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. J. J. +Colman. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +5.—A series of military tournaments, given by the 20th Hussars in aid of +the city charities, commenced at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, and +concluded on the 9th. + +9.—A severe gale did great damage to the fishing fleet in the North Sea. +Several Yarmouth fishermen were drowned. Heavy snowstorms occurred on +the 10th. + +20.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Field, George Edward Brock +(46), solicitor, was sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment for obtaining +money by false pretences. + +21.—A murderous attack was made upon Police-constable Southgate, of the +Norwich police, by a man named Joseph Betts, who in 1883 was charged with +sending threatening letters to the Bishop of Norwich and Mr. J. J. +Colman, M.P., signed “Another Invincible.” Southgate was returning from +night duty at 6.35 a.m., when he was accosted by Betts, who fired a +revolver at him, the bullet passing between his left arm and the side of +his body. Betts then withdrew to his house in Northumberland Street, +where he barricaded himself. Several police-officers went to the house +to effect his apprehension; a ladder was procured, and while Inspector +Guiett was preparing to ascend to the bedroom window Betts appeared above +and deliberately fired at the officer. The bullet struck the leather +peak of the inspector’s cap, and, glancing off, inflicted a superficial +wound upon his head. Ultimately the prisoner was captured by a ruse, and +removed to the police-station. On March 1st he was committed for trial. +Betts was tried at the Norwich Assizes on July 20th on the charge of +firing a pistol at Police-constable Southgate with intent to murder him. +He was found guilty of intent to do grievous bodily harm, and was +sentenced by Lord Chief Justice Coleridge to fifteen years’ penal +servitude. The prisoner was afterwards removed to Broadmoor Criminal +Lunatic Asylum. + +—Died, at Ashill Rectory, the Rev. Bartholomew Edwards, “within ten days +of his 100th year.” Born on March 2nd, 1789, he graduated at St. John’s +College, Cambridge, taking his B.A. degree (7th Sen. Opt.) in 1811. He +was ordained deacon by Bishop Bathurst at Norwich in 1812, and priest in +1813. In the last-named year he received his only preferment, which he +held for 76 years. Mr. Edwards, who was the oldest clergyman in the +Church of England, was a rural dean, a justice of the peace, and a Deputy +Lieutenant for Norfolk. He recorded his vote at the County Council +election on January 24th, and caught a chill; congestion of the lungs +supervened, and this attack was the immediate cause of his death. + +27.—The Marquis of Hartington visited Norwich and addressed a large +meeting of the Unionist party held at St. Andrew’s Hall. The Earl of +Leicester presided, and was supported by several representatives of the +nobility and county gentry. + + +MARCH. + + +5.—Hengler’s Circus company commenced a season’s engagement at the +Agricultural Hall, Norwich. Mr. George Gilbert, a native of the city, +and Miss Jennie O’ Brien (Mrs. Gilbert), members of the company, were +enthusiastically received at the opening performance. + +19.—The Norwich Town Council unanimously adopted a farewell address to +the Very Rev. E. M. Goulburn on his resignation of the Deanery of +Norwich. The address was presented to Dean Goulburn at the Deanery on +April 23rd by the Mayor (Mr. J. Farrar Ranson), who was accompanied by +the Sheriff (Mr. G. White) and other members of the Corporation. (_See_ +July 5th.) + + +APRIL. + + +2.—The new lifeboat, Mark Lane, presented to the National Lifeboat +Institution by traders at Mark Lane, was launched at Yarmouth. + +—Captain Wiggins, F.R.G.S., lectured at Norwich, upon his experiences in +the Arctic Seas and Siberia. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., F.Z.S., F.L.S., who +presided, introduced the lecturer as a native of the city. Captain +Wiggins referred to the fact that forty-three years previously he lived +as a boy at Norwich, and expressed the pleasure it gave him to return to +his native town to tell them of things which he never dreamed of years +ago. On the previous day Captain Wiggins was received at Marlborough +House by the Prince and Princess of Wales. + +9.—The Sheriff of Norwich and Mrs. White gave a _soirée_ at St. Andrew’s +Hall, at which many residents in the city and county were present. + +12.—The Earl of Rosebery addressed a great Gladstonian meeting held at +the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of the Earl of +Kimberley. His lordship, after making an eloquent speech in favour of +Home Rule, entered Mr. J. J. Colman’s carriage, and, preceded by two +brass bands, and escorted by torchbearers, was driven to Carrow House. + +13.—Died, at Mill Hill Road, Norwich, aged 60, Mr. James Darkin, a +well-known music seller, who had been the means of introducing to the +city many talented singers and musicians. + +16.—In the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, before +Lord Coleridge and Mr. Justice Hawkins, was mentioned the case, Ford _v._ +Wiley. This case arose out of the question whether the operation of +dishorning cattle, _i.e._, sawing off their horns at the roots, was +cruelty within the meaning of the Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to +Animals. The Blofield Bench of magistrates had ruled in the negative. +Lord Coleridge said: “All that we have to say for the present is that we +have made up our minds distinctly and clearly to give judgment reversing +the decision of the magistrates, holding as we do that the practice of +dishorning is unlawful. But as we differ from several judgments we think +it only respectful to the learned judges who decided those cases to say +that we have duly considered everything they have said on the subject, +and therefore we have thought right to take time to put our judgment into +writing (though we entirely agree in it), and we will deliver judgment +early in the next sitting.” On May 18th the Lord Chief Justice, in +delivering judgment, said the operation of dishorning was detestably +brutal, and it was also unnecessary except to enable its owner to obtain +a pound or two more for the animal on its sale. Mr. Justice Hawkins +concurred, and the case was remitted to the magistrates for further +hearing. + +23.—The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, arrived at Sandringham on +a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales. His Royal Highness, with +whom was Prince Albert Victor, welcomed her Majesty at Lynn railway +station, where she was presented with an address by the Mayor (Mr. G. G. +Sadler) on behalf of the Corporation of the borough. On driving from +Wolferton station to Sandringham House her Majesty was escorted by a +large number of the members of the Norfolk Hunt, headed by Sir Dighton +Probyn; and in the grounds one hundred men of the Norfolk Artillery +formed a guard of honour. The officers in attendance were Colonel Lord +Suffield, Major Dawson, Lieutenant the Hon. H. Tyrwhitt Wilson, and +Lieutenant Lombe. On the 22nd her Majesty visited the Artillery camp in +the park, and drove to Castle Rising and inspected the ruins; on the 23rd +several of the neighbouring villages were visited, and in the afternoon +the Queen received a deputation of the tenantry on the estate, who +presented to her a loyal address; and on the evening of the 26th her +Majesty witnessed a performance of “The Bells” and “The Merchant of +Venice,” given by Mr. Henry Irving, Miss Ellen Terry, and the Lyceum +Company. Her Majesty returned to Windsor on the 27th. + +25.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference was opened at Noverre’s Rooms, +Norwich, under the presidency of the Bishop of the Diocese, and was +continued on the 26th. + +26.—The phonograph, described as “Edison’s wonderful talking machine,” +was exhibited for the first time in Norwich, “with a unique library of +voices,” by Mr. William Lynd, M.I.C.E. + + +MAY. + + +7.—Died, at Norwich, aged 36, Mr. Edward Preston Willins, A.R.I.B.A. He +was the youngest son of Mr. William Willins, and published a handsome +volume, entitled, “Quaint Old Norwich,” a work much sought after by local +collectors. + +9.—Lieutenant Campbell, Quartermaster of the 20th Hussars, was +accidentally drowned in the Yare by the capsizing of his sailing boat, +near Buckenham Ferry. His wife, who was with him at the time of the +accident, was saved by his servant, Private Moore. Mr. Campbell was 33 +years of age, and had been in the regiment since 1872. He had served +through the Egyptian campaigns, and had received the Egyptian and +Khedive’s stars and the clasp for Suakim. His remains were interred at +Norwich Cemetery with full military honours on the 13th. Private Moore +on June 11th was presented at the Cavalry Barracks, on the occasion of a +full-dress parade of the regiment, with the silver medal and certificate +of the Royal Humane Society, handed to him by Colonel Blake, the officer +commanding; and with a purse, containing £45, presented by the Mayor (Mr. +J. Farrar Ranson) on behalf of the citizens. + +24.—The western portion of the Castle Gardens at Norwich was thrown open +to the public at noon. + +27.—Lydia Baker, widow, of Alburgh, completed her 100th year, and was +entertained with her nearest relatives at the rectory by the Rev. C. W. +and Mrs. Lohr. Among the many presents received by the old lady was a +stocking containing 100 shillings. + +27.—Died, at Longford, Derby, the Hon. Edward Wentworth Coke, aged 64. A +son of the first Earl of Leicester, he for five years represented the old +Division of West Norfolk, for which he was elected on August 16th, 1847, +as a Liberal, in conjunction with Mr. William Bagge, the Tory and +Protectionist. Mr. Coke was formerly a captain, in the Scots Fusiliers, +and was widely known as a breeder of shire horses. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—Heavy and destructive thunderstorms occurred throughout Norfolk, and +especially in the western portion of the county. Immense damage was done +to the growing crops. + +6.—The Church of England portion of Attleborough Cemetery was consecrated +by the Bishop of Norwich. The ceremony had been delayed by a prolonged +and unpleasant controversy. + +8.—The 1st Volunteer Brigade Norfolk Artillery went into camp at +Yarmouth. During the night of the 9th tents and marquees were overturned +by a heavy gale from the north, accompanied by torrents of rain. The +camp was struck on the 12th. + +18.—The Norwich Town Council decided to purchase the Carrow Bridge +undertaking, under powers conferred by the new Corporation Act, at a cost +not exceeding £3,000, towards which sum Messrs. J. and J. Colman offered +to contribute £1,500. + +19.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association opened at +Swaffham. Mr. Anthony Hamond was president. + +21.—The Sheriff of Norwich and Mrs. White entertained 700 of the aged +poor of the city to dinner at St. Andrew’s Hall in celebration of the +marriage of their daughter, Miss Ellen Constance White. + +—Died, at Antingham Rectory, the Rev. John Dolphin, in his 85th year. +“He was among the few survivors of the University elevens that first +competed for cricketing honours in the year 1827, when he played as an +old Etonian captain for Cambridge.” + +22.—An aeronaut named Grais made a balloon ascent from the Newmarket Road +Cricket Ground, Norwich, and upon attaining an altitude of about 3,000 +feet descended by means of a parachute. Grais made a similar descent at +East Dereham on August 10th. + +25.—Died, at West Lodge, Easton, Mr. Edward Fountaine, aged 68. He was a +son of Mr. Andrew Fountaine, of Narford Hall, and was much devoted to the +pursuit of ornithology. Mr. Fountaine achieved some fame as a breeder of +eagle owls and was a regular contributor to “The Ibis.” + + +JULY. + + +1.—The sale of Mr. T. Fulcher’s herd of red polled cattle was conducted +at Elmham Park by Mr. John Thornton. Thirty-nine heifers realised £1,026 +18s., an average of £26 6s. 7d.; and eight bulls £159 12s., an average of +£19 19s. + +2.—The first biennial sale of shorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep, the +property of the Prince of Wales, took place at Wolferton. His Royal +Highness, accompanied by Prince George of Wales, was present at the +luncheon, and during the subsequent proceedings. The total amount +realised for the cattle was 3,000 guineas, an average of £50 each. The +sheep made high prices. Mr. John Thornton was the auctioneer. + +5.—The Ven. William Lefroy, Archdeacon of Warrington, was installed Dean +of Norwich in succession to the Very Rev. E. M. Goulburn, D.D., resigned. +Dean Lefroy preached his first sermon at the Cathedral on October 15th, +on the occasion of the festival of the Church of England Temperance +Society. + +10.—Died, at Walpole House, Thorpe, Mr. William Houghton Clabburn, aged +69. He was for many years a partner in the firm of Clabburn, Sons, and +Crisp, shawl manufacturers, whose products achieved for Norwich a +world-wide celebrity. Mr. Clabburn was chairman of the directors of the +Norwich Crape Company, and served the office of Sheriff in 1866–67. + +16.—The Norwich Town Council voted a loyal and dutiful address to the +Prince and Princess of Wales on the approaching marriage of Princess +Louise with the Earl of Fife. The wedding on the 27th was celebrated in +Norwich by the ringing of St. Peter Mancroft bells, and the display of +flags on public buildings. The ladies of Norfolk presented to her Royal +Highness a diamond bracelet and a grand pianoforte, and the farmers on +the Sandringham estate gave a handsome diamond cross. + +21.—Thunderstorms were general throughout the county. At Beechamwell +seventeen sheep were killed by lightning, and everywhere the ripening +corn crops were greatly damaged by rain and hail. + +27.—The four Volunteer Battalions of the Norfolk Regiment went into +brigade camp on Rushford Heath, under the command of Brigadier-General +Bulwer. The marching in state was 1,563. General Buchanan, C.B., +inspected the brigade on the 30th, and the camp was struck on August 1st. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—The chancel of Cromer church, which had been restored at the cost of +£6,800, under the superintendence of Sir A. W. Blomfield, A.R.A., was +re-opened. + +6.—The Royal Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland visited +Norwich, and held its inaugural meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall. The +proceedings were attended by the Mayor and Corporation and by the members +of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society. The Duke of Norfolk, +as president for the week, delivered an opening address; and from this +day until the closing meeting on the 15th many places of interest in the +city and county were visited. On the 8th the Mayor and Mrs. Hanson gave +a _conversazione_ at St. Andrew’s Hall in honour of the visit of the +Institute. + +7.—The Norwich Cricket Week theatrical performance, organized by Sir +Kenneth Kemp, Bart., was given at the Theatre Royal. It consisted of the +production of the comedy, “Upper Crust.” The piece was performed again +on the 9th. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +2.—A violent thunderstorm occurred, accompanied by torrents of rain, +which did excessive damage to unharvested crops. + +19.—An amateur performance of “Lady Deadlock’s Secret” was given at +Norwich Theatre in aid of the funds of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. +Lady Monckton sustained the character of Lady Deadlock, and was supported +by Mr. Charles Colnaghi, Mr. George Nugent, Mr. E. F. Nugent, Mr. C. H. +Clark, Mr. Eustace Ponsonby, Mr. C. W. A Trollope, and other +distinguished amateurs. The performance was repeated on the 20th. + +27.—Lieut.-Colonel Bignold, leader of the Conservative party in Norwich, +was presented with his portrait, painted by W. B. Richmond, A.R.A., and +with an album containing an illuminated address and list of +subscribers—members of the Conservative party in city and county. The +presentation was made by Sir Harry Bullard at a garden party given by +Colonel Bignold at Harford Lodge. + +29.—Died, at St. Benedict’s Plain, Norwich, Mr. George Branwhite Jay, +aged 43. He was a native of Great Yarmouth, where his father practised +as surgeon. Mr. Jay devoted much time to the study of parish and other +registers, and for some time before his death had been engaged in +preparing for the press a work, entitled, “Transcript of St. George of +Tombland Register.” + + +OCTOBER. + + +15.—A conference of members of the Church of England Temperance Society, +held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, was addressed by the Bishop of +London. + +23.—The lifeboat Elizabeth Simpson, presented to the National Lifeboat +Institution by Miss Elizabeth Simpson Stone, of Norwich, was launched at +Gorleston. On the 24th the boat was towed up the river to Norwich in +order that the donor, who was unable to be present at the launch, might +inspect the craft. + +25.—The Higher Grade School, erected in Duke Street by the Norwich School +Board, was opened. Mr. A. J. Mundella, M.P., gave an address, and the +Mayor, Sheriff, and members for the city also took part in the +proceedings. In the evening the Sheriff (as Chairman of the School +Board) and Mrs. White gave a _conversazione_ at St. Andrew’s Hall. The +school, which occupies the site of the old Duke’s Head Inn, was designed +by Mr. J. H. Brown, architect to the Board, and built by Messrs. J. +Youngs and Son. + +—Wroxham House, the residence of Mrs. Blake-Humfrey, was destroyed by +fire. Soon after the fire was discovered a great quantity of wine was +stolen from the cellars, and at the Petty Sessions held at the Shirehall, +Norwich, on November 2nd, seven persons were convicted of the theft. It +was alleged that one of the accused was taking away the wine in a bucket. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +2.—The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture passed a resolution affirming that +the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia should be placed in the hands of the +Government, and that compensation for compulsory slaughter be paid out of +the National Exchequer, and not from the local rates. + +7.—The Baroness Burdett-Coutts delivered an address at the Guildhall, +Norwich, in support of the objects of the Norwich Band of Mercy. + +9.—Mr. William Howard Dakin was elected Mayor and Mr. Edward Orams +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +13.—Died, at Tunbridge Wells, in his 81st year, Sir S. Morton Peto. He +received his baronetcy for having contracted, in December, 1854, to +construct a railway from Balaclava to Sebastopol, and other works, +without profit or remuneration for superintendence. He was Liberal +member for Norwich from 1847 to 1855, and successively represented +Finsbury and Bristol. Sir Morton Peto was a civil engineer, and formerly +a member of the firms of Grissell and Peto and of Peto and Betts. + +16.—Died, Mr. Charles Edward Tuck, of St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, and the +Grove, Blofield, in his 81st year. He was the fourth son of Mr. Thomas +Tuck, of Strumpshaw Hall, and for many years practised as solicitor, and +took an active part in public affairs. A Conservative in polities, he +was elected in 1864 Mayor of Norwich. Mr. Tuck was a justice of the +peace for the city, and vice-president of the Norwich Union Fire Office. + + +DECEMBER. + + +4.—Died, at Mount Pleasant, Norwich, Mrs. E. Ling, aged 101 years. + +9.—The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh arrived at Didlington Hall on a +visit to Mr. and Mrs. Tyssen Amherst. + +10.—Sir Harry and Lady Bullard entertained the members of the Norwich and +Norfolk Conservative Club, and their friends, to a _soirée_ given at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. + +17.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council it was reported that notice +had been received from the solicitor to the Norwich Tramways Company of +their intention to abandon the tramway scheme authorised by the Norwich +Tramway Order, 1887. (_See_ January 19th, 1897.) + +—A resolution in favour of petitioning the Queen for an Order in Council +authorising the alteration in the number or boundaries of the wards of +the city, was adopted by a nominal majority of the Norwich Town Council. +A majority of two-thirds of the members of the Corporation was necessary +in order to make the motion effective. (_See_ July 21st, 1891.) + +—Died, at Taplow, aged 62, Colonel J. E. Harvey, of Thorpe, Norwich, and +Springfield, Taplow. He was the eldest son of Mr. Kerrison Harvey, and +entered the Army as ensign in the 36th Regiment. He took part in the +suppression of the insurrection in Cephalonia, when that island was +placed under martial law in 1849, and served with the 41st Regiment in +the Crimean campaign. In 1869 he was appointed staff officer of +pensioners, and served in that capacity in Jersey and at Great Yarmouth +until 1881, when he retired into civilian life. Colonel Harvey married, +in 1858, Octavia, daughter of the Rev. Richard Stevens, vicar of +Belgrave, Leicestershire. + +21.—Mr. George Ginnett’s Circus opened for the season at the Agricultural +Hall, Norwich. + +26.—Lord Hartington arrived at Westacre as the guest of Sir Henry James. +After three days’ shooting his lordship proceeded to Sandringham on a +visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales, and remained there until +January 6th, 1890, when he left for Merton Hall on a shooting visit to +Baron de Hirsch, the then tenant of the Hall. Lord Hartington was taken +ill immediately on his arrival, and was confined to bed for nearly three +weeks by severe congestion of the lungs. His lordship was enabled to +return to town on January 30th. + + + +1890. + + +JANUARY. + + +7.—Died, at St. John’s House, Norwich, Mr. Samuel Grimmer, in his 76th +year. Mr. Grimmer for many years sat in the Town Council as a +representative of the Second Ward, and was chairman of the Sewerage and +Irrigation Committee. He was Mayor in 1880–81, and entertained the +Prince and Princess of Wales and other distinguished visitors on the +occasion of the opening of the Fisheries Exhibition. + +8.—Maria Brown, aged 62, wife of a labourer, was murdered at Pulham St. +Mary Magdalene, by Elijah Snelling, her son-in-law. Snelling was tried +at the Norfolk Assizes on March 5th before Mr. Justice Denman, found +guilty, and sentenced to death. The sentence was afterwards commuted to +penal servitude for life. + +10.—A white-tailed eagle of nine pounds weight was shot near Wretham +decoy. + +—Died, at Brundall, Mr. George Lovick Coleman, in his 78th year. He was +for more than half a century proprietor of a well-known drapery +establishment in St. Giles’ Street, Norwich. In 1843 Mr. Coleman was +appointed Sheriff, and four years subsequently was elected Mayor, and at +the close of his term of office was presented by the citizens with a +handsome epergne in recognition of his services to the city. He took +great interest in the Volunteer movement, served originally in the Rifle +Corps, afterwards in the Norwich Light Horse, and finally in the +Artillery, of which he ultimately became captain commandant. In his +early days Mr. Coleman professed Liberal principles, but became +Conservative. + +11.—Mr. C. S. Read gave an address at the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, +in which he adversely criticised the working of the Agricultural Holdings +Act, and moved and carried a resolution affirming that the failure of the +Act demanded the attention of the President of the Board of Agriculture. +Mr. Read addressed the Farmers’ Club, in London, on the same subject, on +March 31st, when a similar resolution was adopted. + +14.—Mrs. Punt, of East Wretham, the oldest pauper upon the relief books +of the Thetford Union, attained her 102nd year. + +18.—Many persons in Norwich were reported to be suffering from influenza. +Several men at the Cavalry and the Britannia Barracks were attacked by +the complaint, which, however, was not of an aggravated character. + +21.—The Town Council of Norwich voted the honorary freedom of the city to +Mr. William Cadge “in recognition of the services he has rendered to the +Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and especially in the noble gift recently +made to its funds.” The certificate of freedom was formally presented in +a silver casket to Mr. Cadge at the Guildhall on March 21st. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +7.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. W. H. Dakin) presided at a common hall at +which a resolution was passed calling upon the Charity Commissioners to +remove from their scheme certain obnoxious clauses affecting the +administration of the local charities. On March 28th the Mayor received +from the Charity Commissioners a letter explaining that the restrictions +in the scheme against the benefits of the charities being extended to +persons who were, or who had recently been in receipt of Poor-law relief, +were in the view of the Commissioners calculated to encourage habits of +thrift and to give effect to the well-known law against persons in +receipt of Poor-law relief participating in such charities. In the +circumstances the Commissioners did not consider that they would be +justified in entertaining the application to amend the scheme with the +view of allowing those in receipt of Poor-law relief to benefit by the +funds. + +15.—The Rev. O. W. Tancock, it was announced, had resigned the +headmastership of King Edward VI. School, Norwich, on accepting the +living of Little Waltham, near Chelmsford. He was succeeded by the Rev. +E. F. Gilbard. + +18.—Mr. Melton Prior, special artist on the staff of the “Illustrated +London News,” lectured at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, on “What I saw in +Burmah.” + +21.—Two large granaries at North Walsham, belonging to Messrs. Cubitt and +Walker, were destroyed by fire. The damage amounted to £4,000. + +22.—Died, at the residence of her sister, at Weybridge, Surrey, Lady +Sophia Jane Beevor, in her 66th year. She was the daughter of the Rev. +Clement Chevallier, of Bedingham, Suffolk, and was twice married. Her +first husband was Mr. Isaac Jermy Jermy, one of the victims of the +terrible murders committed by James Blomfield Rush at Stanfield Hall on +November 28th, 1848. In that outrage Mrs. Jermy Jermy narrowly escaped +with her life; she was hit in the arm by a bullet, and the limb was +afterwards amputated. In 1850 she married Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart., and +became greatly esteemed at Hingham, where she resided for many years. + +24.—A military tournament given by the 20th Hussars in aid of the city +charities, commenced at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, and was continued +until March 1st. + +25.—The Norwich Town Council addressed a memorial to the +Postmaster-General praying for the cessation of the Sunday delivery of +letters. The Post Office authorities declined to accede to the request. + +—The City Committee recommended the Norwich Town Council to sanction the +opening of St. Andrew’s Hall on Sunday evenings for two months for the +purpose of giving recitals of sacred music therein by and under the +direction of the committee. A memorial, signed by the clergy and +Nonconformist ministers, was presented, protesting against the proposal, +and requesting the Corporation to receive a deputation upon the subject. +The meeting declined to accede to the latter request, and the +recommendation of the committee was deferred. Meanwhile sermons were +preached in churches and chapels for and against the proposal, and public +meetings were held at which remarkable opinions were expressed. At the +adjourned meeting of the Council, held on March 4th, the committee’s +recommendation was negatived by 30 votes against 14. + + +MARCH. + + +1.—Severe wintry weather was experienced in Norfolk; snow fell heavily on +the 2nd, accompanied by a keen north-east wind and frost of great +intensity. + +—The Rev. Ambrose Johnson, rector of Toftrees, arrived at Norwich for the +purpose of consulting a firm of solicitors about bankruptcy proceedings. +After transacting his business he was seen walking in Prince of Wales +Road in the direction of Thorpe railway station; then all trace was lost +of him. On the 12th the unfortunate gentleman was discovered in a +shrubbery at Bramerton Hall, in a weak and emaciated condition. He was +at once removed to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and upon recovering +somewhat, stated that he took shelter in the shrubbery during a heavy +snowstorm on the 1st or 2nd, and had remained there up to the time of his +discovery. His feet were severely frostbitten and he was in a most +feeble state of mind and body, the result of starvation and exposure. +One foot dropped off upon his admission to the Hospital, and it was found +necessary to amputate the other. Mr. Johnson lingered until May 2nd, +when death put an end to his sufferings. + +5.—The course of “Science Lectures for the People,” arranged by the +Corporation of Norwich, was continued at St. Andrew’s Hall. The lecturer +was Mr. Louis Fagan, of the Prints and Drawings Department, British +Museum, and the subject, “Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian +Antiquities.” The concluding lecture was given on the 26th by Mr. Henry +Seebohm on “Adventures in Siberia.” It was descriptive of the lecturer’s +travels with Captain Wiggins, whom he described as “a Norwich man whose +father drove one of the coaches which ran between Norwich and London in +those dark days before railways were introduced. Captain Wiggins as a +young man did not think that driving a coach was sufficiently ambitious +for him, and he therefore made up his mind to drive a ship.” Another +course was commenced on November 13th, when Sir Robert Ball lectured on +“An Astronomer’s Thoughts about Krakatoa.” (_See_ January 6th, 1891.) + +7.—The Norwich School Board agreed by a majority to petition Parliament +to enact that public elementary schools be thrown open free of all +charge, and that they be placed under “popular control.” + +12.—Died, at Old Post Office Street, Norwich, Mr. John Goldsmith +Atkinson. A son of Mr. Funnell Goldsmith Atkinson, he was born July +14th, 1814, and was admitted a solicitor in the Easter Term of 1836. He +represented the Second Ward as a Conservative from 1872 to 1881, and had +served for twenty-nine years in the Norwich Artillery Volunteers, of +which he was honorary quartermaster. + +12.—Died, at Oby Rectory, the Rev. Wm. Cufaude Davie, M.A. He was born +at Yarmouth on November 13th, 1822, and educated at the Grammar School in +that town and at St. John’s College, Cambridge. After fulfilling for two +years the duties of assistant mathematical master at Eton, he was in 1846 +appointed headmaster of Yarmouth Grammar School. In 1852 he became +curate-in-charge of Intwood and Keswick, and from 1858 to 1875 was +principal of the Norwich Diocesan Training College. Mr. Davie was +closely identified with educational work in the diocese, and was a +candidate for the headmastership of Norwich Grammar School in opposition +to the Rev. Dr. Jessopp. + +23.—Father Ignatius held a mission service at the Agricultural Hall, +Norwich, and on the 24th preached to a crowded congregation at the church +of St. John de Sepulchre. + +26.—Died, at Rokeles, Watton, Mr. Henry Woods, agent for the Merton +estate. He was a well-known authority upon the breeding and management +of sheep. + + +APRIL. + + +2.—A meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, for the purpose of +furthering the efforts made by Mr. T. W. Richardson and Mr. W. S. +Warlters for the formation in the city of a bearer company of the +Volunteer Medical Staff Corps. A few weeks afterwards Mr. Richardson was +gazetted surgeon, Mr. Warlters acting surgeon, and Mr. Frederic Mills +quartermaster. + +10.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference met at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, +under the presidency of the Lord Bishop. The session was concluded on +the 11th. + +20.—Died, at Northrepps Hall, Mr. John Henry Gurney, in his 71st year. +The only son of Joseph John Gurney, of Earlham Hall, so prominently +associated with Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton in his efforts to abolish +slavery in the West Indies, Mr. Gurney married Mary Jary, daughter of +Richard Hanbury Gurney, of Thickthorn. Of the marriage there were two +sons, Mr. J. H. Gurney and Mr. Richard J. H. Gurney. In 1854 he entered +Parliament as member for King’s Lynn, and sat for that borough until his +resignation in 1865. As a naturalist Mr. Gurney was a recognised +authority both in Europe and America, more especially on raptorial birds, +and the magnificent collection in the Norfolk and Norwich (now the +Castle) Museum owes its existence almost entirely to his energy and +liberality. He was for many years a member of the East Anglian banking +firm of Gurneys and Birkbecks, a justice of the peace for Norfolk, senior +member of the Norwich Bench, and a magistrate for Lynn. + +23.—Bellringers from all parts of the diocese assembled at Aylsham to +ring opening peals on the church bells, which had been re-hung at the +cost of £301. + +26.—Died, at Cromer, where he was staying for the benefit of his health, +Mr. Henry Blake Miller, Town Clerk of Norwich, aged 65. He was a son of +Mr. Henry Miller, solicitor, of the Town Close, and had been officially +connected with the Corporation since 1853. For upwards of twenty years +Mr. Miller was clerk to the Board of Health, and on the death of Mr. W. +L. Mendham, in July, 1876, when the two offices were amalgamated, he was +appointed Town Clerk and clerk to the Sanitary Authority. Legal work of +great importance had devolved upon Mr. Miller. He was entrusted with the +drafting of the Norwich Act, 1867, relating to the sewerage and drainage +of the city, and after his appointment as Town Clerk he prepared the way +for the passing of the Norwich Improvement Act. He acted for the +Corporation in the Mousehold Heath litigation, and in the dispute with +the freemen as to the Town Close Estate; he had also much to do with the +London and Castle Street improvements, the Chapel Field improvement, and +the framing of the Norwich Corporation Act, 1889. A Liberal and +Nonconformist, Mr. Miller was senior deacon of Princes Street +Congregational church, and for twenty years treasurer to the Norfolk +Auxiliary of the London Missionary Society. He was also some time +president of the Norwich Solicitors’ Amicable Society. + +30.—The stables and coach-houses at Merton Hall, a range of buildings +sixty yards in length, were destroyed by fire. The horses, including two +valuable stallions and twelve carriage horses, were rescued uninjured. + + +MAY. + + +3.—A disorderly scene occurred at a fire at the furnishing shop of Mr. H. +Cole, St. Giles’s Gates, Norwich. The Chief Constable (Mr. Hitchman) was +hooted by the mob, who also impeded the work of the fire brigade. The +contents of the shop were destroyed. + +5.—A remarkable charge was investigated at Grimston Petty Sessions. Mr. +Algernon Charles Fountaine, of Narford Hall, was summoned for obstructing +a railway engine “by placing himself in the four-foot-way of the Lynn and +Dereham branch of the Great Eastern Railway, and making signals thereon, +on March 18th, at East Winch.” The defendant wished to travel to +Narborough by a fast train which was not advertised to stop at East +Winch, and notwithstanding the warning of the station master, he placed +himself in the four-foot-way, and as the train approached made the +customary signal for it to stop. The engine-driver obeyed the signal and +brought the train to a standstill, whereupon Mr. Fountaine entered one of +the carriages and travelled to Narborough. Proceedings were taken +against him under Section 36 of 24 and 25 Vic., chapter 95, and the +magistrates committed defendant for trial. On July 9th, at the adjourned +Norfolk Quarter Sessions, at Swaffham, the defendant pleaded guilty, and +was sentenced by Lord Walsingham to pay a fine of £25 and to enter into +his recognisances of £100 to be of good behaviour and to keep the peace +for six months. + +10.—A fire occurred at Messrs. Boulton and Paul’s timber yard at Norwich, +and resulted in damage to the amount of between £4,000 and £5,000. + +13.—Mr. George Buttler Kennett, clerk to the justices, was appointed Town +Clerk of Norwich, in place of Mr. H. B. Miller, at the salary of £1,200 +per annum. + +15.—Died, at his residence, Pine Banks, Thorpe, Mr. John Oddin Howard +Taylor. The son of Mr. John Oddin Taylor, he was born March 2nd, 1837, +and received his education under the tuition of his uncle, the celebrated +Dr. Brewer, at Mile End School, Norwich, and was afterwards placed with +the Rev. Francis Valpy, rector of Garvestone. Having adopted the legal +profession, he became a partner with his father in the firm of Taylor and +Son. In addition to carrying on a large and responsible private +practice, they acted as local solicitors to the Great Eastern Railway +Company. As secretary to the undertaking for the improvement of the +Cattle Market and the construction of Prince of Wales Road, Mr. Taylor +discharged the duties relating to the legal and Parliamentary business +with great efficiency. In October, 1862, he was appointed secretary to +the Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival. In collaboration with Bishop +Fraser he was instrumental in bringing about a change of the law with +reference to the system of employing women, and children of tender years, +in hard agricultural labour. In later years Mr. Taylor devoted himself +to the task of developing the fisheries of East Anglia, and was the +principal author, in conjunction with Mr. Field, of the Act for the +preservation of the inland waters of Norfolk and Suffolk. His literary +ability was of a very high order. He was a great chess player, and as a +writer on that game acquired world-wide fame by his “Chess Brilliants” +and “Chess Skirmishes.” + +16.—Mr. Gladstone visited Norwich. The right hon. gentleman, accompanied +by Mrs. Gladstone, arrived by special train at Thorpe station, where he +was received by Mr. Colman, M.P., and Mrs. Colman, and by the +representatives of Liberal associations in the city. On his way to +Carrow Abbey, the residence of the senior member for Norwich, Mr. +Gladstone was warmly welcomed by the citizens. In the evening a great +meeting was held at the Agricultural Hall, under the presidency of Mr. +Henry Birkbeck, at which Mr. Gladstone was presented with an illuminated +address by the Liberal and Radical associations and trades unions in +Norwich and Norfolk. After addressing the vast assemblage Mr. Gladstone +proceeded to Stoke Holy Cross as the guest of Mr. Birkbeck. Returning to +the city on the 17th, the ex-Premier visited the Castle and the +Cathedral, and in the afternoon left for Lowestoft, _en route_ to Corton, +where he remained as the guest of Mr. Colman until the 20th. + +21.—Mr. Sims Reeves made his farewell appearance at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich. + +28.—Died, at Norwich, Mr. John Gunn, M.A., F.G.S., many years rector of +Irstead with Barton Turf, aged 89. “It was with painful surprise that +the public received a few years ago the announcement of Mr. Gunn’s +retirement from the Church on the ground of conscientious scruples +concerning certain Biblical statements which he conceived to be +irreconcilable with the teachings of Natural Science, and of his desire +no longer to be addressed by his clerical title. He did not dissociate +himself from the observances of religion, for he was a constant attendant +at the Cathedral services.” Mr. Gunn, in 1864, was one of the founders +of the Norwich Geological Society, and its first president. “He has left +behind him in his great collection of fossils a monument, _ære +perennius_. His association with the investigation of the Mammalian +remains of the Cromer beds is recorded in the classics of English +geology, and will be handed down to posterity long after the fossils in +our Museum have crumbled into dust.” + + +JUNE. + + +2.—Major F. A. Cubitt was presented by past and present officers, +non-commissioned officers, and men of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk +Regiment with a silver candelabrum upon retiring from the adjutancy of +the battalion, after nearly fifteen years’ service. + +6.—Mr. W. R. Cooper, solicitor, was elected Clerk to the Norwich +magistrates in succession to Mr. G. B. Kennett, resigned. + +11.—Died, at Unthank’s Road, Norwich, Mr. James Calthrop Barnham, aged +82. He was descended from an old Norwich family, and one of his +ancestors, James Barnham, was a Sheriff of the city in 1738. Mr. Barnham +was a governor of Norwich Grammar School, and one of the original members +of the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society. + +12.—Died, at Newmarket Terrace, Norwich, Mr. Samuel Daynes. Born in +December, 1815, he was a member of the Town Council, and a persistent +advocate of the adoption of the wood pavement scheme. A Guardian of the +Poor, he was thoroughly versed in the details of Poor-law administration, +and as a member of the School Board he displayed great earnestness as a +public economist. Mr. Daynes was prominently associated with the +Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, and in 1851–52 served the office of +“Grand Master” of that body. + +—The Rev. William Pelham Burn, curate of St. Mary Abbot, Kensington, was +elected vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, in succession to the Rev. +F. Baggallay, who had accepted the living of Holy Trinity, Weymouth. + +13.—At a meeting of the Yare Preservation Society, it was resolved, “That +the society be called the Yare and Bure Preservation Society, whose +objects shall be the preservation of the rivers Yare and Bure, and their +tributaries, from illegal fishing.” + +14.—Died, at Park Lane, Norwich, Mrs. Phillips, widow of Mr. Frederick +Lawrence Phillips, aged 77. Mrs. Phillips was well known to playgoers of +a past generation as the beautiful and accomplished Miss Ellen Daly, a +favourite actress in London and provincial theatres. + +—An outbreak of rabies occurred in Norfolk. A mad dog ran through the +southern portion of the county, and bit several persons; it was +ultimately shot at New Buckenham. On June 30th the Norwich Town Council +adopted the muzzling order, and similar regulations were introduced by +the Norfolk County Council. A fund was raised for the purpose of sending +to Paris for treatment by Pasteur the eight persons who had been bitten +by the dog. The muzzling regulations in Norwich were withdrawn in the +last week in October. + +19.—The annual meeting of the East Anglian, Cambridge, and +Huntingdonshire branches of the British Medical Association was held in +Norwich under the presidency of Dr. Beverley, who, with Mrs. Beverley, +received on the 20th a large number of distinguished visitors at a garden +party given by them at Brundall. + +23.—Two squadrons of the 20th Hussars marched from Norwich for Aldershot. +The headquarters of the regiment left on the 24th under the command of +Colonel Graves. + +27.—Died, at his residence, Grove House, Chapel Field, Norwich, Mr. +Robert Leeds, aged 79. Mr. Leeds devoted much time to several important +undertakings connected with the agricultural interest. He became a +member of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1852, and in 1869 was elected +to the Council; in 1862 he assisted in the formation of the company which +built the Agricultural Hall, Islington; and it was greatly owing to his +influence that the Smithfield Club removed their annual show from Baker +Street to the new hall. Mr. Leeds gave his practical aid to the +establishment of the Salisbury Hotel Company, and to founding the +Farmers’ Club; he was a member of the Norfolk Agricultural Association, +and an energetic supporter of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent +Institution. + +28.—The portrait of Mr. Cadge, painted by Professor Herkomer, was +unveiled at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Mr. Cadge announced that +Mr. B. E. Fletcher, of Marlingford, had munificently offered to build at +Cromer a Convalescent Home for the reception of Hospital patients, and +the Earl of Leicester, with like generosity, had promised to endow it +with £15,000, or, if necessary, with £20,000. Mr. Cadge retired from the +office of senior surgeon on October 4th. (_See_ April 25th, 1893.) + +30.—H.M.S. Howe entered Yarmouth Roads, and on July 1st was joined by the +Anson, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Richard E. Tracey, and the Rodney. +The officers and men of the squadron were invited to various +entertainments provided ashore by the townspeople, and the vessels sailed +on July 4th. + + +JULY. + + +9.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Yarmouth, and concluded on the 10th. Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart., was +president. + +26.—The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Volunteer Battalions of the Norfolk Regiment +went into camp at Yarmouth. + + +AUGUST. + + +2.—The coming of age of Mr. Herbert H. Bullard, eldest son of Sir Harry +Bullard, was celebrated at Norwich. + +5.—The attainment of his majority on March 5th by Mr. Roland le Strange +was celebrated on this date at Hunstanton Park. On the 6th a ball was +given, at which many distinguished guests were present. + +6.—The Cricket Week theatricals at Norwich Theatre commenced with the +production of “Caste,” which was repeated on the 7th. “County Courted, +or the Beadle’s Bride,” an operetta adapted from “Oliver Twist,” by Mr. +Arthur Waugh, with music by Mr. Claud Nugent, was performed on the 8th, +followed by “My Uncle’s Will,” and the farce, “B.B.” + +7.—Died, at Heigham Road, Norwich, Mr. Ambrose Winter, aged 100 years and +41 weeks. Mr. Winter was a native of Norwich, where he had resided +throughout his life. + +15.—Died, at Yarmouth, Mr. Charles Gibbon, aged 47. A Scotsman by birth, +he commenced his career upon the staff of a Glasgow journal, and removed +to London in 1859, where he became a novelist. Among his best known +works were “Beyond Compare,” “Queen of the Meadow,” “A Family Secret,” +“By Mead and Stream,” “The Dead Heart,” “Auld Robin Grey,” &c. “He wrote +interactively, always purely, and at times even vividly.” Mr. Gibbon +took up his residence in Yarmouth in 1886. + +20.—Died, at Coltishall, Sarah Weeds, in her 100th year. + +23.—Messrs. Grout and Co., of Norwich, gave notice to several hundreds of +their workpeople that their engagements with the firm would terminate on +the 30th. “Their factory, a modern building of large dimensions, is +fitted with machinery of the most improved construction, and contains +every appliance for carrying on the manufacture of fabrics which have +gained for Norwich world-wide reputation. The firm has a branch factory +at Yarmouth, where about 1,000 persons are engaged, and other +establishments at Ditchingham and Ponder’s End.” + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +10.—Died, at Costessey, Frederick Viner, formerly in the 13th Light +Dragoons. He took part in the light cavalry charge at Balaclava, and his +name was officially recorded in the list of survivors. + +24.—A new reservoir constructed near Mousehold by the Norwich Waterworks +Company was opened. “It contains over 600,000 gallons of water, and by a +curious coincidence 600,000 bricks were used in its construction.” + +29.—Died, at Heggatt Hall, Captain Arthur Rodney Blane, R.N., second son +of Sir Hugh Seymour Blane, Bart. Captain Blane, who had seen much active +service in Chinese waters, was placed upon the retired list in 1881. + + +OCTOBER. + + +1.—The headquarters of the 8th Hussars arrived at Norwich, under the +command of Colonel St. Quintin. + +14.—The Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival commenced at St. Andrew’s +Hall, Norwich, with an evening performance of “Judas Maccabæus.” On the +morning of the 15th “L’Allegro ed il Pensieroso,” composed expressly for +the Festival, and conducted by the composer, Dr. C. H. Parry, and the +“Stabat Mater,” were produced. The evening programme included the +prelude and entr’actes to “Ravenswood” (Mackenzie) and “The Dream of +Jubal” (Joseph Bennett), conducted by the composer. “The Martyr of +Antioch,” conducted by its composer, Sir Arthur Sullivan, and “Hear My +Prayer” (Mendelssohn), were performed on the morning of the 16th; in the +evening a miscellaneous concert took place. “Elijah” was produced on the +morning of the 17th; and in the evening a miscellaneous concert was +preceded by the second act of the opera of “The Flying Dutchman.” The +Festival produced a profit of £501 10s. 7d., of which sum £250 was +distributed among the local charities. The principal vocalists were +Madame Nordica, Miss Liza Lehmann, Miss Mackintyre, Miss Grace Damian, +and Miss Marian McKenzie; reciter, Miss Julia Neilson; Mr. Edward Lloyd, +Mr. Maldwyn Humphreys, Mr. Ben Davies, Mr. Henschel, Mr. Franco Novara, +Mr. Brockbank, and Mr. Alex Marsh. + +23.—A peal of nine bells, cast by Messrs. Taylor and Sons, of +Loughborough, at the cost of £500, for the parish church of +Wells-next-the-sea, was dedicated. + +27.—Died, the Rev. John Edmund Cox, D.D., F.S.A., formerly vicar of St. +Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, aged 78. A native of the city, and +educated at the Cathedral school, he became Bible Clerk at All Souls +College, Oxford, and in 1837 was ordained by Bishop Stanley, and +presented to the incumbency of Aldeby. He afterwards became minister of +St. Mary, Southtown, Yarmouth, and whilst there edited the well-known, +“Memoir of Sarah Martin.” Subsequently he went to Stepney, and in 1849 +was presented by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s to his city living. +Dr. Cox was the author of “A Life of Cranmer,” “Principles of the +Reformation,” “A life of Luther,” and of “Protestantism compared with +Romanism.” He also edited several historical treatises for the Parker +Society. + +29.—The Norwich Town Council confirmed a contract entered into with Mr. +R. A. Cooper for the purchase of certain land at Thorpe Hamlet required +for the construction of the proposed Riverside Road. The amount to be +paid to the owner was £3,022, and the estimated cost of the road between +£2,000 and £3,000. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +10.—The Norwich Town Council elected Mr. Walter Overbury to the office of +Mayor, and appointed Mr. Geoffrey Fowell Buxton as Sheriff. Mr. Oyerbury +having declined to qualify, Mr. Edward Wild was on the 24th elected to +fill the vacancy. + +—Died, aged 79, the Rev. Charles Turner, formerly rector of Bixley and +Framingham Earl. He was the son of Mr. Charles Turner, the last Mayor of +Norwich previous to the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, and held the +living of St. Peter Mancroft from 1848 to 1878. + +24.—The Prince of Wales opened, at the Athenæum, King’s Lynn, a sporting +and art exhibition in aid of the covert funds of the West Norfolk Hunt. +His Royal Highness was accompanied by the Princess of Wales. + +—The Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princesses Victoria and Maud, +arrived at Melton Constable on a visit to Lord and Lady Hastings. Their +Royal Highnesses were afterwards joined by the Prince of Wales and the +Duke of Clarence and Avondale. The visit terminated on the 29th. + +25.—The weather became exceedingly severe, and frost and snow prevailed +to the end of the year. + + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—Died, at his residence, Thickthorn, near Norwich, Mr. Francis Hay +Gurney, in his 65th year. Mr. Gurney was a son of Mr. Daniel Gurney, of +North Runcton, by Lady Harriet Hay, daughter of William, sixteenth Earl +of Errol. In 1847 he married Margaret Charlotte, daughter of Sir W. H. +Browne ffolkes, Bart. A partner in the banking firm of Messrs. Gurneys +and Co., he discharged with conspicuous courtesy and ability all the +duties that devolve upon a country gentleman. For many years he presided +as chairman of the Committee of Management of the Norfolk and Norwich +Musical festival, and in politics was a staunch Conservative. In 1859 he +took an active part in the Volunteer movement; subsequently he raised and +commanded a troop of Light Horse, and ultimately joined the Suffolk +Yeomanry Cavalry, from which he retired with the brevet rank of +Lieutenant-Colonel. + +2.—The first lecture of a series inaugurated by the Norwich Free Library +Committee was given at Blackfriars’ Hall, Norwich, by the Rev. H. H. +Snell on “Books and Readers.” (_See_ January 12th, 1891.) + +5.—Died, at his residence, 43, Ennismore Gardens, South Kensington, Mr. +Baron Huddleston, formerly member of Parliament for Norwich. The son of +a merchant captain, Thomas Huddleston, he was born in 1817, and +matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin. He came to England to seek his +fortune as usher in a school, but afterwards made a more promising start +in life as a barrister at the Central Criminal Court. Admitted a student +at Gray’s Inn on April 18th, 1836, and called to the Bar by that society +in the summer of 1839, he accepted silk in 1857 from Lord Cranworth, then +Lord Chancellor. He had unsuccessfully contested, as a Conservative, +Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Kidderminster, but was returned for Canterbury +in 1865. In 1870 he made an unsuccessful assault on Norwich, but four +years later defeated Mr. Tillett by forty-seven votes. In 1875 he was +appointed judge in the Court of Common Pleas, was duly knighted, and +ultimately transferred to the Court of Exchequer on the death of Mr. +Baron Pigott. He married Lady Diana Beauclerk, sister of the Duke of St. +Albans. + +14.—Died, at Clermont Terrace, Queen’s Road, Norwich, Sarah, widow of +John Barnard, formerly of Beccles, in her 101st year. + +18.—Mr. S. Hoare, M.P., delivered a farewell address to his constituents, +at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, previous to his departure for India. + +19.—A heavy fall of snow, accompanied by sharp frost, occurred on this +date. Skating became general throughout the county. + +26.—Ginnett’s Circus opened for the winter season at the Agricultural +Hall, Norwich. + +27.—Died, at Lynn, Mr. John Osborne Smetham, aged 78. He was six times +Mayor of the borough, and had been an alderman thirty-four years, and +held various public offices in the town. + +30.—An influential meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held at the +Guildhall, Norwich, to inaugurate a fund for the relief of the unemployed +and necessitous poor of the city. About £900 was subscribed in the room, +and active measures were taken for the relief of public distress. + + + +1891. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—A sudden break-up occurred of the severe frost, which had lasted +twenty-one consecutive days, but at sunset it froze again with increased +severity. This was stated to have been the longest frost recorded in +Norfolk since 1813. On the 20th another thaw took place, followed by +heavy rain; but during the night the frost reasserted itself, and became +very severe on the 21st and 22nd. Then the temperature gradually +increased, bright sunshine followed, and the wind having veered to the +south rain fell. On the 24th the river steamer Alpha cut her way through +the ice on the Yare, and opened up between Norwich and Yarmouth the +traffic which for five weeks had been suspended. + +2.—Died, at Weasenham, Mr. Henry Overman, aged 65. He established a wide +reputation as a breeder of shorthorns, Southdown, and Oxford Down sheep, +hackneys and cart horses. Mr. Overman was an extreme Radical, “but his +political extravagancies were amply condoned by his warmth and kindliness +of heart.” + +6.—The last of the “Science Lectures for the People” was delivered at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by Dr. Andrew Wilson on “Sea Serpents and other +curious Animals, real and fictitious.” (_See_ January 19th, 1892.) + +9.—The Cambridge crew, owing to the river Cam being icebound, had rowing +practice upon the Estuary Cut, at Lynn. + +10.—An “ice carnival” took place on Diss Mere. The performers and +spectators numbered five thousand. + +12.—The second lecture of the course arranged by the Norwich Free Library +Committee was given at Blackfriars’ Hall by Mr. G. C. Davies on “Life and +Scenery Abroad.” The Rev. W. F. Creeny, F.S.A., lectured on February 3rd +on “Sweden and Gothland”; Mr. Bosworth Harcourt on March 3rd on “An Hour +with Douglas Jerrold”; and Mr. H. F. Euren on April 14th on “Our Fens and +Marshes.” (_See_ February 24th, 1892.) + +17.—Mr. R. E. Crosse was appointed house surgeon at the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital on the resignation of Mr. H. C. Nance. + +19.—Died, at Unthank’s Road, Norwich, Mr. Benjamin Viny Winch, aged 60. +Mr. Winch had been upwards of twenty years postmaster of Norwich. He +entered the service at the General Post Office, St. Martin’s le Grand, in +February, 1852, and continued there until August 31st, 1870, when he was +appointed to Norwich on the retirement of Mr. Samuel Base, the former +postmaster. The postal arrangements in the city were greatly developed +during Mr. Winch’s tenure of office. The business was removed from Post +Office Street (now Exchange Street) to the Crown Bank premises, where the +work in the various departments commenced on August 16th, 1875. Mr. +Winch was an enthusiastic yachtsman, had filled the office of Commodore +of the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, and was one of the principal +founders of the Yare Sailing Club. + +20.—Immense quantities of sprats were captured at Lynn. Such enormous +shoals had never before, it was stated, been found in the Wash. + +—The Norwich Town Council considered a report upon the proposed purchase +of the Waterworks, and appointed a special committee to determine the +value of the undertaking, with the view of making an offer to the +company. On May 26th the Council proposed to offer a sum not exceeding +£10 per cent., the actual market value of the shares and capital of the +company. The offer was declined, and on December 15th it was decided +that no further steps be taken in the matter. (_See_ February 22nd, +1898.) + +21.—“General” Booth visited Norwich in furtherance of a new “social +scheme” advocated in his recently-published book, “In Darkest England.” +He attended a conference at Noverre’s Rooms in the afternoon, and +addressed a large meeting which took place at St. Andrew’s Hall in the +evening. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +7.—Mr. B. N. Thoms, assistant surveyor at the General Post Office, was +appointed to fill the postmastership of Norwich, vacant by the death of +Mr. Winch. Mr. Thoms was a son of Mr. William J. Thoms, the originator +and editor of “Notes and Queries,” and a librarian of the House of Lords. +In the month of April Mr. Thoms removed to Nottingham, and was succeeded +by Mr. Sturgeon, of Birkenhead, who, in the Egyptian campaign of 1882–85, +commanded the Army Post Office Corps. For his valuable services he was +decorated by the Queen in person, and granted the rank of +Lieutenant-Colonel, with permission to wear the uniform of his corps, the +24th Middlesex (Post Office) Rifle Volunteers. + +21.—Died, at his town residence, 8, Portman Square, the Right Hon. George +Thomas Keppel, sixth Earl of Albemarle. He was born June 13th, 1799, and +was second son of William Charles, fourth earl, by his marriage with +Elizabeth Southwell, fourth daughter of Edward Lord De Clifford. In 1815 +he received an ensign’s commission in the 14th Regiment of Foot, and +within a month joined the Army in Flanders. He was present at the battle +of Waterloo, and at the engagement which immediately preceded it. “The +very youngest officer on the field of Waterloo, he was, with one +exception, the very last of the survivors of all the Waterloo officers.” + +22.—Died, at 7, Hertford Street, Mayfair, Mr. Charles Wild, eldest son of +Mr. Edward Wild, Mayor of Norwich, aged 29. Educated at King Edward VI. +Grammar School, he pursued his medical studies at the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital; afterwards proceeded to Cambridge University, and finally +entered the London School of Medicine. Mr. Wild gained the Brodie +scholarship at St. George’s Hospital, and was awarded the Thompson gold +medal. + + +MARCH. + + +7.—Died, aged 60, Mr. Edmund Beck, agent for the Sandringham estate. Mr. +Beck was a member of an old family of Norfolk farmers, and was born at +Mileham. For a considerable time he was in partnership with his father +as an auctioneer and estate agent, and was one of the best known +agricultural authorities in the kingdom. + +31.—Mr. Samuel Hoare, M.P., arrived at Cromer on his return from his tour +in India. He sailed for the East on January 4th, accompanied by his +daughters, the Misses Annie and Muriel Hoare, and formally opened the +Bengal and Nagpur Railway, of which he was chairman. + + +APRIL. + + +2.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference commenced at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, +under the presidency of the Bishop of the Diocese, and was concluded on +the 3rd. + +2.—The Countess of Leicester performed the opening ceremony at a grand +Venetian _Fête_ and Bazaar held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in aid of +the Norfolk County Cricket Club. The proceedings were continued on the +3rd. + +5.—Died, at Gaywood Hall, King’s Lynn, Mr. Richard Bagge, aged 80. He +was twin brother of Sir William Bagge, M.P., and was educated at +Charterhouse, and by private tutor. In 1831 Mr. Bagge was elected a +member of the old Corporation of Lynn, and served the office of Mayor of +that borough in 1836 and 1857. He was a justice of the peace, and a +Deputy Lieutenant for the county, and was High Sheriff in 1880. As a +sportsman Mr. Bagge was well known in the coursing and cricket fields, +and in politics was a staunch Conservative. + +7.—Died, at Melbourne, during a tour in Australia for the benefit of his +health, the Rev. R. Hobson, pastor of the Old Meeting Congregational +chapel, Norwich. Mr. Hobson, who was in his 52nd year, was appointed to +the chapel in 1878; he took part in many social and philanthropic +movements in the city, and was most highly esteemed by Churchmen and +Nonconformists. He was the founder of the St. George’s Home for Working +Girls. + +—Mr. Samuel Hoare, M.P., and Mrs. Hoare celebrated their silver wedding +at Cliff House, Cromer, and received many congratulations and presents +from their friends in the town and district. On April 20th Mr. and Mrs. +Hoare were presented, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, with a valuable +silver tea and coffee service and an illuminated address by the members +of the Conservative associations and clubs in the city. + +11.—At the annual meeting of the Governors of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital the Board of Management reported that Miss Adams, the Lady +Superintendent, had been received into the Roman Catholic Church. In +view of the matter forming the subject for discussion there was a large +attendance, but the Lord Bishop, who presided, ruled the question to be +“special,” and that it was necessary for formal notice to be given before +a resolution could be moved. + +—The fastest run made by a special train on the Great Eastern Railway was +accomplished on this date, when the Prince of Wales travelled from St. +Pancras to Lynn, a distance of 98 miles, in one hour fifty-five minutes. + +18.—The memorial stone of a new church for East and West Beckham was laid +by Mrs. Hoare, wife of Mr. Samuel Hoare, M.P. The church was consecrated +by the Bishop of Norwich on October 13th. + +20.—Viscount Cross, Secretary of State for India, visited Norwich and +formally opened the Patteson Conservative Club. In the evening his +lordship addressed a large meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall under the +auspices of the National Union of Conservative Associations. + +25.—Dr. F. C. Burton, of Adenbrook’s Hospital, Cambridge, was appointed +to the vacancy in the medical staff of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital +occasioned by the retirement of Dr. Shepherd Taylor. + +27.—The South-West Norfolk Conservative Association met at Swaffham under +the presidency of Lord Walsingham, and adopted Mr. Thomas Leigh Hare +Conservative candidate for the constituency in place of Mr. Tyssen +Amherst, M.P., who had expressed his intention to retire at the next +General Election. + + +MAY. + + +14.—The Very Rev. E. M. Goulburn, formerly Dean of Norwich, preached from +a new pulpit erected by public subscription in the choir of the Cathedral +as a memorial of his twenty-three years’ devoted ministry. The pulpit +was designed by Mr. John Pollard Seddon, F.R.I.B.A., and executed by Mr. +Harry Hems, of Exeter. + +18.—On this day (Whit-Monday) occurred the memorable fall of snow which +covered the ground to the depth of five inches, and occasioned the +abandonment of all out-door sports and holiday amusements. On the +previous Wednesday (the 13th) the shade temperature registered in the +neighbourhood of Norwich was 72.7; at 9 a.m. on the 16th it stood at +37.2; and on the same day the thermometer in the screen fell to 29.8, and +on the grass to 21.5. On Sunday, the 17th, there were frequent storms of +hail and snow, and at 2 p.m. the temperature registered 37.4. + +—A military tournament given by the 8th Hussars in aid of the local +charities, commenced at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, and concluded on +the 23rd. + +21.—The Duke of Clarence and Avondale (in the absence of the Prince of +Wales, who was unable to attend in consequence of indisposition) opened a +bazaar at Yarmouth in aid of a fund for the restoration of the parish +church; and in the evening was present at a ball given by the officers of +the Norfolk Artillery. + +23.—The Norfolk County Council resolved to offer scholarships of the +value of £10 each per annum, and not exceeding fifty in number, to boys +and girls who, having passed the 6th and 7th Standards in elementary +schools, were prepared, after examination, to attend for three years some +secondary school possessing to the satisfaction of the committee the +necessary qualifications for technical instruction. On the 26th the +Norwich Town Council decided to provide a school for technical education +and manual instruction. + +30.—The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture adopted, by 66 votes against 32, a +resolution in favour of making legal in England the practice of the +dishorning of cattle. + + +JUNE. + + +8.—Mr. Wilson Barrett commenced a week’s engagement at Norwich Theatre, +in the character of Belphegor. His other impersonations included Claud +Melnotte, Chatterton, The Stranger, and Hamlet. + +12.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. Edward Wild) unveiled at Norwich Cathedral +a window inserted in the south aisle to the memory of officers of the +Norfolk Regiment. The window was the gift of the officers and men of the +regiment. + +—The British Training Squadron, consisting of the Active, the Calypso, +the Volage, and the Ruby, entered Yarmouth Roads, and sailed on the 14th +for the north. Each ship’s company numbered about 500 men and boys. + +15.—A Select Committee of the House of Commons inquired into the merits +of the St. Faith’s Allotment Bill, by which it was sought to obtain +Parliamentary sanction to the compulsory purchase of 18½ acres of land +owned by the Countess de Rechberg, in the parish of Horsham St. Faith’s, +for the purpose of providing allotments for forty applicants under the +Allotments Acts, 1887 and 1890. On the 17th the chairman (Sir Stafford +Northcote) announced that the Committee were of opinion that the preamble +of the Bill was proved, and that the order should be confirmed, but they +thought the justice of the case would be met if 10a. 2r. 6p. were given +up for allotments, and the Countess de Rechberg be ordered to pay her own +costs and one-third of the costs of the promoters. The Local Government +Board subsequently held an inquiry to decide the amount to be paid to the +Countess for the compulsory purchase of the land. The Countess demanded +£1,291 6s. (originally £1,451); the County Council offered £1,025 8s. +6d.; and the Local Government Board inspector awarded £1,131 15s. 6d. + +16.—Lord Walsingham was elected High Steward of Cambridge University, and +received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. His lordship was +introduced as a distinguished member of the Eton and Cambridge elevens, +as an excellent shot, and as a great authority on shooting game. +Further, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and had given special +attention to the study of microlepidoptera. + +24.—The Goulburn pulpit, erected in the nave of Norwich Cathedral, was +dedicated on this date. It was the gift of the Very Rev. E. M. Goulburn, +formerly Dean of Norwich, and was executed in Caen stone by Mr. James +Forsyth, of Hampstead, from designs by Mr. R. Herbert Carpenter, F.S.A., +and Mr. Benjamin Ingelow. + +27.—The Norwich Census returns were published on this date, as +follow:—Tenements of less than five rooms, 7,654; inhabited houses, +23,268; uninhabited, 1,739; building, 205. Persons: Males, 46,615; +females, 54,348; total, 100,964. + + +JULY. + + +8.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association commenced at +Wymondham, and was continued on the 9th. The Earl of Kimberley was +president for the year. + +10.—A prolonged strike in the building trade, at Norwich, was settled on +this date. The bricklayers’ strike commenced on May 4th, and that of the +carpenters and joiners on June 1st. In both cases the men demanded an +extra payment of one penny per hour, and the acceptance by the masters of +a code of rules framed by them. The employers declined to accede to +these demands, but submitted a code of their own, and offered a halfpenny +advance. The Mayor (Mr. Wild) intervened, and although at the time his +action had no effect, the men ultimately accepted the masters’ code of +rules. + +14.—Dedication services were held at the parish church of Great Yarmouth +on the completion of the extensive and protracted work of restoration. +The undertaking was commenced in 1847 by the Rev. Henry Mackenzie, +afterwards Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham, and continued from time to +time by the three successive vicars, Bishop Hills, of British Columbia, +Archdeacon Nevill, and Canon Venables. The latest portion of the work +was begun in the spring of 1890, and cost about £1,500. About £40,000 +was expended upon the entire restoration. + +17.—Died, at Eastbourne, Mr. Willoughby Smith, the distinguished +electrician, who was born at Yarmouth on April 16th, 1828. He +superintended the manufacture and laying of the first submarine cable. +In 1866 he was electrician on board the Great Eastern steamship during +the laying of the first successful Atlantic cable and on the recovery and +completion of the cable that had been lost the year before. For these +services Mr. Smith received a gold medal and an address from the +Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. In 1883 he was President of the +Institution of Electrical Engineers, and in 1888 published a work, +entitled “Yarmouth Past and Present.” + +21.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council a letter from the Privy +Council was read, in which it was stated, with reference to a scheme for +altering the boundaries of the wards of the city, that such alteration +could not be permitted unless an alteration was also made in the number +of the wards. (_See_ March 15th, 1892.) + +25.—An exhibition of the works of Edward Thomas Daniell, comprising +etchings, water-colours, and oil paintings, was held at the rooms of the +Norwich Art Circle. + +—The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Volunteer Battalions Norfolk Regiment, encamped at +Great Yarmouth under the command of Brigadier-General Bulwer. + +27.—Lord Walsingham presided at a meeting of the subscribers to the +Norwich Castle Museum scheme, at which it was decided to extend, at an +additional cost of between £4,000 and £5,000, the original scheme for +converting the Castle and the surrounding buildings to the purposes of a +Museum. It was announced that the Prince of Wales had contributed to the +fund a further donation of fifty guineas. (_See_ August 4th, 1894.) + +30.—A thunderstorm of extraordinary severity burst over Ellingham Park, +the seat of Mr. Henry Smith. “The lightning seemed literally to sweep +the park with a sheet of fire, and immediately after the storm six +bullocks and heifers were found lying dead under an elm tree. Other +cattle were injured, and the tree itself was split in half, and some of +the branches hurled a considerable distance.” Further thunderstorms +occurred in other parts of the county on August 2nd. + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—Norwich Cricket Week commenced. Matches were played against the Eton +Ramblers, and the Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire Clubs, and in each +instance the Norfolk County Cricket Club was victorious. “The +achievement of three victories in the week had not previously been +accomplished since the institution of the festival in 1881.” On the 6th +and 7th Sir Kenneth Kemp’s company of amateurs gave performances of “The +Bookmaker” at the Theatre Royal. + +7.—The Norwich School Board decided to abolish the fees in all their +schools, the Higher Grade School excepted, from September 1st, the date +on which the Free Education Act came into operation. + +8.—Lord Ashbourne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, addressed a great Primrose +League gathering at Didlington Park, held in celebration of the +inauguration of the Margaret Tyssen Amherst Habitation. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +5.—The Norfolk County Council decided to found an agricultural side for +technical education in connection with the County School at Elmham. + +7.—The Countess of Leicester laid the foundation-stone of a public hall +to be erected at Burnham Thorpe as a memorial of Lord Nelson, who was +born in the parish, where his father was rector, in 1758. The hall, +which formed part of a scheme initiated by the Prince of Wales, the main +feature of which was the restoration of the parish church at the cost of +£10,000, was opened on June 9th, 1892. + +30.—Mr. Harry Furniss gave his lecture, “The Humours of Parliament,” at +the Agricultural Hall, Norwich. + +—The first annual show of the Mitford and Launditch Agricultural +Association was held at East Dereham. General Bulwer presided at the +dinner, at which the principal speakers were Mr. R. T. Gurdon and Mr. C. +S. Read. + + +OCTOBER. + + +13.—A severe gale did great damage inland, and resulted in many shipping +casualties on the Norfolk coast. + +15.—Died, at King’s Lynn, Mr. John Dyker Thew, in his 68th year. He was +proprietor of the “Lynn Advertiser,” and for many years represented the +South Ward in the Town Council. In 1871, 1876, and 1885 Mr. Thew was +elected to the office of Mayor of the borough, and in the last-named year +was appointed alderman. He was leader of the Conservative party at Lynn. + +16.—The Lord Mayor of London (Sir Joseph Savory) and the Lady Mayoress +visited Norwich for the purpose of opening the new buildings of the +Asylum and School for the Indigent Blind. + +17.—The prospectus of the Norwich Electricity Company was published. A +capital of £50,000 was raised in 5,000 ordinary shares of £10 each, and +the company was formed “for the purpose of supplying electricity for +lighting and motive purposes.” + +19.—Died, at Beeston Park, Sir Jacob Henry Preston, Bart., aged 79. He +was a Deputy Lieutenant and magistrate for the county, and in 1847 served +the office of High Sheriff. + +25.—A severe storm commenced on this date, and continued until the 27th. +Several vessels were wrecked and lives lost on the coast. + +31.—A meeting in furtherance of a scheme for providing playing fields and +open spaces for the city was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the +presidency of the Mayor (Mr. Wild). A committee known as the Norwich +Playing-fields and Open Spaces Committee was appointed. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +1.—A serious fire at Sandringham House did damage to a considerable +amount. + +9.—Mr. G. M. Chamberlin was elected Mayor, and Mr. Harry Reeve appointed +Sheriff of Norwich. + +11.—A gale which swept over many parts of England did much injury in +Norfolk, and was severely felt at Yarmouth and at other places on the +coast. + +14.—The Duke of Clarence and Avondale, accompanied by the Duke and +Duchess of Fife and the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, opened a trades +and industrial exhibition at St. James’s Hall, Lynn. + + +DECEMBER. + + +7.—At the annual distribution of prizes to the 1st Volunteer Battalion +Norfolk Regiment, at Norwich, Major Dawson was introduced to the corps as +the future commanding officer, on the retirement of Lieutenant-Colonel +Mansel. At about this date the Dean of Norwich was appointed chaplain to +the corps in place of the Rev. Canon Patteson. + +9.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. G. M. Chamberlin) sent, on behalf of the +citizens, letters of congratulation to the Prince and Princess of Wales, +the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, and the Princess Victoria Mary of +Teck, upon the announcement of the intended marriage of the Duke and +Princess. + +11.—A storm of great severity raged throughout the county, and much +damage, was reported, especially in Mid Norfolk. In several places the +Yare and Bure overflowed their banks. + +14.—The church of St. Mary, Great Plumstead, was severely damaged by +fire. The building, in the Perpendicular style, consisted of nave, +chancel, and tower, which were restored in 1876 and 1878. The fire +completely destroyed the interior fittings and roof. On December 14th, +1892, the church was re-opened after thorough restoration. + +18.—A severe frost set in, and on the 22nd skating became general. + +—The Duke of Clarence and Avondale terminated a visit to Mr. Tyssen +Amherst, M.P., at Didlington Hall. + +20.—Died, at Honingham vicarage, the Rev. Canon John Robert Feilden, +vicar of Honingham and East Tuddenham, in his 65th year. He was the +fourth son of Mr. Joseph Feilden, M.P., of Whitton Park, Blackburn, and +was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. After ordination he +served a curacy at Malpas, Cheshire, and was chaplain to George Horatio, +second Marquis Cholmondeley. In 1861 he was presented to the rectory of +Baconsthorpe, and in 1881 to the living which he held at the time of his +death. Mr. Feilden was a Commissioner under the Pluralities Act, for the +Archdeaconry of Norfolk, and for nine years was a member of the Board of +Management of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was appointed +honorary canon of Norwich Cathedral in 1888. Canon Feilden married, in +1861, Frances Blanche Ann, second daughter of Frederick, fourth Baron +Calthorpe. + +26.—Ginnett’s Circus opened at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, for the +winter season. + +—Upwards of one thousand of the aged poor of Norwich were entertained by +the Mayor (Mr. G. M. Chamberlin) and the Sheriff (Mr. Harry Reeve), at +St. Andrew’s Hall. + +27.—Died, at Saham, the Rev. Coker Adams, for fifteen years rector of the +parish. Mr. Adams was the author of several pamphlets on Church doctrine +and defence. + + + +1892. + + +JANUARY. + + +2.—A meeting, convened by the Lord Lieutenant of the county (the Earl of +Leicester) and the High Sheriff (Mr. S. Gurney Buxton), was held at the +Shirehall, Norwich, to consider what steps should be taken to provide a +present from Norfolk to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Princess +Mary Victoria on the occasion of their marriage. It was resolved to open +a public subscription. A similar movement was inaugurated by the +citizens of Norwich. + +—The Norfolk County Council appointed Mr. H. C. Bolingbroke “accountant +officer” to fill the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of Mr. H. W. +Day from the office of County Treasurer. + +14.—Died, at Sandringham, his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and +Avondale. The intelligence of the death of the young Prince was received +in Norwich with many manifestations of public sorrow and sympathy. The +church bells were tolled, flags were hoisted at half-mast upon all public +buildings, and the windows of business establishments and private +residences were shaded. The High Sheriff at once sent to the Comptroller +of the Household of the Prince and Princess of Wales a telegram of +sympathy on behalf of himself and the whole county of Norfolk, and on the +15th a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council was held, and +addresses of condolence were ordered to be sent to the Queen, the Prince +and Princess of Wales, and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck. On Sunday, +the 17th, many touching references to the sad event were made in Church +and Nonconformist places of worship; and on the 20th, on which day the +remains of the deceased Prince were removed from Sandringham to Windsor +for interment, a memorial service, attended by the Mayor and Corporation, +was held at Norwich Cathedral, and the Dean preached an eloquent sermon. +At Prince’s Street Congregational church, at Trinity Presbyterian church, +and at St. Mary’s Baptist chapel similar services were held, business was +suspended in the city, and the licensed victuallers and hotel proprietors +closed their establishments from two o’clock until five o’clock. In +every town and village the day was observed with profound solemnity. + +18.—An important meeting was held at the Deanery, Norwich, to discuss +what measures should be taken to complete the sum of £2,500 then being +raised by the Church Schools’ Aid Association for the special purpose of +increasing and improving the accommodation of the Church day schools in +the city. It was resolved that it was the imperative duty of Churchmen +to preserve the Church schools in a state of efficiency, and with this +object it was decided that the clergy and laity form local branches to +augment the fund. + +19.—Another series of “Science Lectures for the People” commenced at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, when Sir Robert Stawell Ball spoke on “Invisible +Stars.” On February 16th the Rev. J. Miller Hamilton lectured on “The +Forth Bridge”; and on March 14th Dr. Andrew Wilson on “The Curiosities of +Brain Action, Dreams, Mesmerism, and Ghost Seeing.” A second course +began on November 16th with a lecture by Sir Robert Ball on “How came the +Great Ice Age?” (_See_ January 12th, 1893.) + +23.—Influenza raged with great severity in city and county, and many +prominent people were attacked by the complaint. “It is producing many +deaths among the aged; the mortality in Norwich last week was 40.1 per +thousand.” In the week ending January 30th the mortality in the city had +increased to 44 per thousand. + +30.—Died, at the Shrubbery, St. Stephen’s Road, Norwich, Mr. Jacob Henry +Tillett. He was born November 1st, 1818, at Quay Side, St. +Martin-at-Palace, Norwich, and was son of Mr. Jacob Tillett, a dyer. His +grandfather was a schoolmaster, whose attainments in mathematics, +navigation, and gunnery brought him into some prominence in his day. +Young Tillett was educated at King Edward VI. Grammar School, and on +leaving school served his articles with Mr. John Rising Staff, then a +leading solicitor in Norwich. In 1839 he opened an office for himself in +Post Office Street, and obtained a large and lucrative connection. +Literary rather than legal work best accorded with Mr. Tillett’s natural +tastes. In 1845 he founded the “Norfolk News,” and with the conduct of +that journal he was thenceforward associated throughout his life, as +chairman of the company and as editor, in which position he not only +controlled the policy of the paper, but weekly contributed its leading +articles. For many years Mr. Tillett was a member of the Town Council, +and twice served the office of Mayor, first in 1859–60 and again in +1875–76. He was twice returned to a seat on the Norwich School Board, +and on the second occasion was elected Chairman. In 1874 he was +appointed a justice of the peace, but he never qualified. Although he +was not attached to any particular sect, he identified himself with +various religious movements in the city. Mr. Tillett was the most potent +political personal force that the century produced in Norwich. He +contested the city in 1868 unsuccessfully, Sir Henry Stracey and Sir Wm. +Russell being returned. That election was invalidated on petition. In +May, 1870, when a new writ was issued for the vacant seat, Mr. Tillett +was returned by 4,236 votes against 3,874 polled by Mr. J. W. Huddleston. +A petition followed, and Mr. Tillett was unseated. At the dissolution in +1874 the Conservatives brought forward Sir Henry Stracey and Mr. +Huddleston, and the Liberal cause was again championed by Mr. Tillett, +with Mr. Colman as his colleague. Mr. Colman was returned at the head of +the poll with 6,138 votes, and Mr. Huddleston was the other successful +candidate, with 5,823 votes. Mr. Tillett polled 5,776 and Sir Henry +Stracey 5,290 votes. Early in 1875 Mr. Huddleston was raised to the +judicial bench, and at the bye-election Mr. Tillett entered the lists +against Colonel Wilkinson. The contest took place on March 5th, and +resulted in Mr. Tillett’s return by a majority of 799. Then came the +third petition, on which Mr. Tillett was again unseated, and a Royal +Commission followed. The writ was suspended until the dissolution in +1880, when the Conservatives were represented by Mr. H. Harben and the +Hon. Massey Mainwaring. The seats were carried by Mr. Colman and Mr. +Tillett on a poll of 6,549 for the former and 6,512 for the latter, the +votes for the Conservative candidates being 5,242 for Mr. Harben and +5,032 for Mr. Mainwaring. The successful candidates were allowed to +retain their seats undisturbed; but Mr. Tillett reached the goal of his +ambition too late to derive any satisfaction from it, and the five years +he spent in Parliament were among the most irksome and worrying of any in +his life. At the dissolution in 1885 he announced his intention not to +again offer himself for the representation of the city; but in 1886 he +was once more induced to stand, and, with Mr. Colman, opposed the return +of Mr. Samuel Hoare and Mr. C. S. Read. The result of the poll was as +follows:—Colman, 6,295; Hoare, 6,156; Tillett, 6,119; Read, 5,564. With +this campaign Mr. Tillett practically closed his electioneering career. +Whatever the Conservative party may have thought of his political faults +and shortcomings, Mr. Tillett was no Socialist or Revolutionist. He was +staunch in his loyalty to the Throne, and would have strongly opposed any +attack upon the free monarchial constitution. Although he stood at the +1886 election as a Gladstonian, his convictions were in favour of the +maintenance of the Union. For the private character of this eminent +citizen it was impossible to entertain but one sentiment, that of the +highest esteem and regard, for he was naturally of a kind, considerate, +and affectionate disposition. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +6.—Official notice was received at Norwich of the final settlement of the +scheme proposed by the Attorney-General for the administration of the +Norwich Town Close Estate Charity. The scheme provided that the charity +and its property and endowments should be vested in an official trustee +of charity lands for the city of Norwich, and the management, +preservation, and letting of the estate and the collecting of the income +by a receiver would be exercised by trustees consisting of the trustees +for the time being of the municipal charities of the city, known as the +General Charities, as _ex-officio_ trustees of the Town Close Estate, and +by six representative trustees appointed by the freemen for a term of +five years. + +15.—The Compton Comedy Company commenced, at the Theatre Royal, Norwich, +an engagement, during which were produced several favourite comedies of +the old English stage. + +18.—Archdeacon Perowne unveiled, at the church of St. Laurence, Norwich, +a bronze memorial in commemoration of the work done by Miss Sarah Ann +Glover in the cause of sol-fa music. Miss Glover was the author of the +sol-fa notation, from which sprang the tonic sol-fa system. + +20.—Died, at his residence, Unthank’s Road, Norwich, Mr. Henry Norton, +F.G.S., in his 81st year. He was the eldest son of Mr. William Norton, +of Old Buckenham, and in his early days was articled to Messrs. Mitchell +and Clarke, a well-known firm of solicitors at Wymondham. Much of his +time was subsequently spent in roaming over the greater part of Europe, +and in about 1860 he settled in Norwich. As a scholar and a man of +science Mr. Norton was possessed of a store of information such as few +had acquired. Sanskrit and geology were his favourite studies. He was +an omnivorous reader and lover of books, and bequeathed his valuable +library and collection of manuscripts to the Norfolk and Norwich Library. + +24.—The course of lectures arranged by the committee of the Norwich Free +Library was continued at Blackfriars’ Hall, when Mr. M. P. Squirrell +spoke on “The Orkney and Shetland Islands.” Mr. C. Stacy Watson, on +March 23rd, lectured on “The Herring.” + + +MARCH. + + +1.—Died, at Gimingham Rectory, the Ven. Ralph Blakelock, aged 88. He was +born at Red Hall, Leeds, and was educated at St. Catherine’s College, +Cambridge, of which he became Fellow and tutor. In his Cambridge days he +published some mathematical treatises, which added considerably to his +reputation as a college tutor. On withdrawing from the University he +became rector of Gimingham in 1833, and an active worker on behalf of +many diocesan organizations. He paid special regard to the social +improvement of the labourers, and was known as “the father of the +allotment system.” For many years Mr. Blakelock was Archdeacon of +Norfolk. + +9.—Died, at Rippon Hall, Hevingham, the Rev. Henry Philip Marsham, aged +75. He was a son of Mr. Robert Marsham, of Stratton Hall, and his taste +for country life and love of nature had descended to him from his great +grandfather, Robert Marsham, the ardent naturalist and frequent +correspondent with White, of Selborne. The annual records of the +earliest dates, when many common plants were observed to flower, together +with similar natural history data, as commenced by the elder naturalist, +were continued by the younger. + +14.—The memorial stones of a permanent building, to be used as the +headquarters of the Salvation Army in Norwich, were laid by Mr. George +White and other prominent Nonconformists, on a site at the rear of +Mortimer’s Hotel, St. Giles’ Street. The building, which, inclusive of +the site, cost about £4,000, was opened on October 30th. + +15.—A scheme for altering the number and bounderies of the wards in +Norwich was unanimously adopted by the Town Council. The Privy Council +on June 16th were petitioned to approve the scheme, and on July 8th the +formal order was received for dividing the city into sixteen wards. Mr. +Charles Neve Creswell, the Commissioner appointed to prepare the scheme +for determining the boundaries of the wards and for apportioning +councillors among them, held a public inquiry at the Guildhall on July +28th, at which evidence was given by representatives of the Town Council +and others. The first municipal elections under the provisions of the +redistribution scheme took place on November 1st, when members were +returned for sixteen wards instead of for eight. + +16.—The first sale of shire horses, the property of the Prince of Wales, +was held at Wolferton by Messrs. Sexton and Grimwade. Forty-nine animals +were sold for the total sum of £5,200. + +21.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Mathew and a special jury, +was tried the action, Bullard and others _v._ Saul. The case was brought +by the plaintiffs as trustees of the charities of St. Swithin, Norwich, +for an alleged slander uttered by the defendant at an inquiry held before +an assistant Charity Commissioner at Norwich on January 15th. By the +words that the defendant used on that occasion the plaintiffs said they +understood him to mean that they had been guilty of maladministration of +the charity funds, and had administered them for base and political +purposes, and as vehicles of all sorts of corruption. The defendant +denied that the words set out in the statement of claim were a correct +report of the words used by him at the inquiry, and he further denied +that they had any slanderous meaning. A verdict was given for the +plaintiffs—damages £5. + +25.—In the Court of Arches Lord Penzance decided in favour of the Bishop +of Norwich, who had convicted the appellant, the Rev. Mr. O’Malley, of +drunkenness, and sentenced him to two years’ suspension. Lord Penzance +declined to hear Mr. O’Malley’s appeal until he had given security for +the Bishop’s costs, and limited the time during which the appellant +should find such security to four months. (_See_ June 1st, 1899.) + +26.—Died, at Unthank’s Road, Norwich, Mrs. Sarah Fletcher, aged 87. Mrs. +Fletcher had given active support to many philanthropic movements, and +was one of the founders of the Orphan Home for Girls, originally started +in Pottergate Street, and afterwards transferred to Chapel Field. + +27.—Died, at Unthank’s Road, Norwich, the Rev. Charles Heath Hosken, +Baptist minister, in his 81st year. In his early days he was sent to +Ireland for missionary work by the Baptist Irish Missionary Society, and +subsequently laboured at Belize in the Bay of Honduras; at West Troy in +the State of New York, and at Crayford in Kent. “The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon +sent his first two students to Mr. Hosken to be trained; thus the +deceased was really associated with the foundation of the Pastors’ +College.” + +28.—Sir Harry and Lady Bullard celebrated their silver wedding at +Hellesdon House, Norwich, and were the recipients of many presents from +friends in county and city, and from the staff of the Anchor Brewery. + +30.—Died, at Sheringham Hall, Mr. Henry Ramey Upcher, aged 82. He was a +son of the Rev. Abbot Upcher, and coming to the estate when only nine +years old, he had probably been in possession of his property longer than +any landowner in England. When at Harrow he played in the cricket +eleven, and on leaving Cambridge University took a leading part in +athletic games, and was well-known throughout the country as a clever +cricketer, a good horseman, and an excellent shot. Mr. Upcher married, +on July 3rd, 1838, Miss Caroline Morris. In politics he was a Liberal of +the old school, and a valued supporter of his party. + + +APRIL. + + +21.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference was opened at Noverre’s Rooms, +Norwich, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop, and continued on the +22nd. + +25.—The Norina Grand Opera Company appeared at Norwich Theatre in “La +Fille de Madame Angot” and “The Daughter of the Regiment.” + +26.—Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., was presented with a piece of plate by the +Gladstonian party in Norwich in recognition of his twenty-one years’ +Parliamentary services. + + +MAY. + + +12.—The Gildencroft Recreation Ground, the site of which, with the +buildings thereon, was purchased by the Corporation of Norwich for the +sum of £2,700, was formally opened to the public by the Mayor. (_See_ +June 6th, 1894.) + +14.—A new lifeboat, the gift of Mrs. Burch, in memory of her late +husband, Mr. John Burch, was launched at Yarmouth. The craft was named +by Miss Jane Burden the Abraham Thomas. + +24.—The name of Dr. Frederic Bateman, senior physician of the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital, was included in the list of gentlemen who were to +receive the honour of knighthood. Dr. Bateman, on July 5th, was +presented to the Queen at Windsor Castle. + +25.—Died, at Cromer Hall, Mr. Benjamin Bond Bond-Cabbell. He had devoted +himself largely to the public life of the county, and was a major in the +3rd Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Mr. Bond-Cabbell, who had been +nominated for the office of High Sheriff in the ensuing year, was one of +the most popular men in Norfolk, and his death was widely lamented. + + +JUNE. + + +15.—Died, at Norwich, Dr. William Guy, aged 57. In 1871, when the city +was visited by a serious outbreak of smallpox, Dr. Guy was brought +prominently into public notice. With characteristic courage and zeal he +undertook the medical charge of the isolation hospital; and was +afterwards appointed to the post of public vaccinator. It was said that +for years Norwich was the best vaccinated town in the kingdom. + +16.—The Didlington herd of red polled cattle, the property of Mr. Tyssen +Amherst, M.P., was sold by auction by Mr. John Thornton. Forty-one cows +and nine bulls were disposed of, and the total amount realised was 892 +guineas—an average for the cows of £47 10s. 7d., and for the bulls of £24 +4s. 2d. + +21.—The Mayor and Mayoress of Norwich (Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Chamberlin) +were presented with a “silver cradle” to commemorate the birth on March +11th of their soil, Geoffrey Lefroy. + +28.—A thunderstorm of extraordinary severity burst over the county, and +was said to have been the most alarming that had been experienced for +many years. It was remarkable more for its long duration than for any +serious results. + +29.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +King’s Lynn under the presidency of Mr. Thomas Leigh Hare. The +exhibition was continued on the 30th. + + +JULY. + + +1.—The nomination took place at East Dereham of candidates for the +representation of Mid Norfolk. The Unionist candidate was Mr. Robert +Thornhagh Gurdon, and the Gladstonian candidate Mr. Clement Higgins, +Q.C., Trebovir Road, South Kensington, S.W. The polling was on the 13th, +and the declaration on the 14th: Higgins, 4,069; Gordon 3,599. + +2.—The following candidates were nominated for the representation of +Norwich:—Mr. James Bedford, 388, Bethnal Green Road, E., tailor +(Gladstonian); Mr. Jeremiah James Colman (Gladstonian), and Mr. Samuel +Hoare (Conservative). The polling on the 6th resulted as follows:—Hoare, +7,718; Colman, 7,407; Bedford, 6,811. + +—The nomination of candidates for South Norfolk was held at the Town +Hall, Aylsham. Mr. John Cator, of Woodbastwick Hall, was the Unionist, +and Mr. Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, the Gladstonian candidate. The +polling was on the 16th, and the declaration on the 18th:—Cozens-Hardy, +4,561; Cator, 3,278. + +—For the representation of Lynn were nominated Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowles, +of Newton Tony, Salisbury, hon. lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve +(Unionist), and Mr. Thomas Richardson Kemp, Q.C., 5, Queen’s Gate +Terrace, London (Gladstonian). The polling on the 4th resulted as +follows:—Bowles, 1,319; Kemp, 1,308. + +5.—The nominations for East Norfolk were made at the Shirehall, Norwich. +Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart., was nominated by the Unionists, and Mr. +Robert John Price, barrister-at-law, 104, Sloane Street, S.W., by the +Gladstonians. The polling took place on the 12th, and the poll was +declared on the 13th as follows:—Price, 4,743; Birkbeck, 4,303. + +—The nomination of candidates for South Norfolk was held at the +Shirehall, Norwich. Mr. Francis Taylor, of Diss, was the +Liberal-Unionist, and Mr. Albert George Kitching, Chase Court, Enfield, +the Gladstonian nominee. The polling took place on the 11th, and the +declaration on the 12th: Taylor 4,288; Kitching, 3,535. + +—Polling took place at Yarmouth. The candidates were Mr. J. M. Moorsom, +Q.C., London (Gladstonian), and Sir Henry Tyler (Conservative). The +contest resulted as follows:—Moorsom, 2,972; Tyler, 2,704. + +7.—Mr. Justice Romer delivered judgment in the action, Micklethwaite _v._ +Vincent, which raised an important question as to the rights of the +public over the Norfolk broads. The plaintiff asked for an injunction to +restrain the defendant from shooting or fishing on that part of the +Hickling Broad which was in the parish of Hickling, and from boating over +it except in a certain channel. The defendant contended that the Broad +was open to the public for all purposes, and that he as one of the public +was entitled to shoot and fish over it. The judge held that the +plaintiff had established his right to the part of the Broad in question. +Admittedly there was a public way over the Broad, but this was restricted +to the channel. The plaintiff asked for an injunction to restrain the +defendant from going on the Broad at all except in this channel. He was +satisfied on the evidence that this right of way was not so restricted, +and that part of plaintiff’s claim failed and must be dismissed. It was +not necessary for his lordship to decide how far the plaintiff’s right +extended beyond the channel. The plaintiff must get from the defendant +the bare costs of the action, except so far as those costs had been +increased by the claim to restrict the right of way to the channel, which +had failed. So far as the defendant’s costs had been increased by the +last mentioned claim he would get them from the plaintiff with the +set-off. + +8.—Mr. P. P. Marshall, City Engineer, of Norwich, resigned his office, in +which he was succeeded by Mr. Buchan. + +14.—Polling took place in North-West Norfolk. The candidates were Mr. +Joseph Arch, President of the National Agricultural Labourers’ Union, of +Barford, Warwickshire (Gladstonian), and Lord Henry Bentinck, of Congham +Hall, and 58, Sloane Street, S.W. (Unionist). Result: Arch, 4,911; +Bentinck, 3,822. + +15.—The South-West Norfolk election took place. The candidates were Mr. +Thos. Leigh Hare, Stow Bardolph (Unionist), and Mr. Henry Lee Warner, the +Paddocks, Swaffham, (Gladstonian). The poll was declared at Swaffham on +the 16th as follows:—Hare, 4,077; Lee Warner, 3,739. + +16.*—“The ‘London Gazette’ announces that the Victoria Cross is conferred +upon Lieutenant J. Manners Smith for his conspicuous bravery when leading +the storming party at the attack and capture of a strong position +occupied by the enemy near Nilt in the Hunza-Nagur country on December +20th, 1891. Lieutenant Smith, who was serving in the Indian Staff Corps, +is a Norfolk man, and was educated at the Norwich Grammar School.” + +19.—The Norwich Town Council decided to create and issue £3 per cent. +redeemable stock, and on October 11th a series of formal resolutions in +completion of the scheme was adopted. + +21.—The St. George’s Vase was won at the Bisley meeting by Private Gray, +1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment, with the highest possible score +of 35 points. + +22.—In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, before Mr. Justice +North, the action, Boswell _v._ Coaks, came on for hearing. It was +brought for the purpose of re-opening the question which, after +protracted litigation, had been settled in the House of Lords. The +present action was founded on allegations of fraud on the part of one of +the successful litigants in the conduct of the litigation. The judge did +not call for a reply. He said he had come to the conclusion that each +allegation of fraud afforded no probable cause for thinking that the +plaintiff could possibly succeed at the trial. After this matter had +been thrashed out at such an enormous expenditure of time and money he +thought there would be a grievous miscarriage of justice if he did not, +so far as he could, put a closure to steps to open up a matter upon +suggestions so unfounded and baseless as he considered the plaintiff’s +pleadings to make. He did not mean to suggest that plaintiff’s advisers +had instituted the action for the purpose of vexation, but in his opinion +nothing could be more vexatious than that an action should be proceeded +with in which any chance of success was absolutely hopeless. Notice of +appeal was given by the plaintiff on August 17th. In the Court of Appeal +on November 2nd the case was re-opened, and after a hearing which lasted +several hours their lordships reserved judgment. Mr. Justice A. L. Smith +read the judgment of the Court on November 5th, which was in favour of +the respondent, with costs. Judgment was confirmed in the Court of +Appeal on February 9th, 1893, by Lords Justices Lopes and Kay. (_See_ +December 14th, 1893.) + +23.—The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Volunteer Battalions Norfolk Regiment went into +camp at Yarmouth. + +31.—The greater portion of the tower of Hindolveston church collapsed, +carrying with it a large part of the nave, and forcing one of the chancel +windows some distance into the churchyard. The tower had already been +reported to be unsafe, and a fund had been opened for its restoration. + + +AUGUST. + + +2.—The Cricket Week theatricals at Norwich Theatre included performances +of “Old Cronies,” “In Honour Bound,” and “Done on Both Sides.” This was +the last occasion upon which performances were given by Sir Kenneth +Kemp’s company. The Cricket Week was continued in subsequent years in +the first week of August. + +3.—Mr. Arthur Wilson Fox, one of the assistant Commissioners appointed by +the Royal Commission on Labour, held an inquiry at the Assembly Rooms, +Swaffham, with the view of ascertaining the position and earnings of +agricultural labourers. Similar inquiries were held in other parts of +the county. + +7.—Died, at Eastbourne, the Rev. George Charles Hoste, in his 79th year. +He was born in Norwich, and was the eldest son of Colonel Sir George +Hoste, of the Royal Engineers. He graduated at Caius College, Cambridge, +in 1835, and in 1856 was presented by Bishop Hinds to the important +parish of Heigham. In 1847 he married Anne, daughter of Mr. John +Brenchley, of Wombwell Hall, near Gravesend. Mr. Hoste made great +efforts to provide increased church accommodation in Heigham, and in 1861 +secured sufficient money to build the church dedicated to the Holy +Trinity. On retiring from Heigham he was given the living of Boyton, +Suffolk. + +20.—The Queen, it was announced, had conferred the dignity of a peerage +upon Mr. William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, of Didlington Hall. The “London +Gazette” of September 23rd announced that the new peer had adopted the +title of Baron Amherst of Hackney. + +30.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council it was decided to rescind a +former resolution of the Council passed with the view of preventing the +erection of the Roman Catholic church presbytery beyond the building line +at Unthank’s Road, and permission was granted for carrying out the +original plans. (_See_ August 29th, 1894.) + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +1.—The students entered into occupation of the Norwich and Ely Training +College for female teachers in elementary schools. The cost of the +college was about £10,000, and of the practising schools £2,122. The +buildings were designed by Messrs. Oliver and Leeson, of +Newcastle-on-Tyne, and erected by Messrs. J. Youngs and Son. The college +was formally opened on October 12th by the Bishops of Norwich and Ely. + +—Died the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, Canon of Norwich Cathedral, and +rector of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London. He was 67 years of age, and +was appointed to his canonry in 1867. In 1885 Canon Nisbet was elected +proctor in Convocation for the Norwich Chapter. + +5.—Thorpe Market church was re-opened after extensive restoration. The +building was erected in 1796 by the second Lord Suffield on the site +formerly occupied by the original church, which had fallen into decay, +and was in consequence demolished. + +—A fire of a most disastrous character occurred at Norwich in the +north-east angle of the large block of buildings lying between Bank +Street and Queen Street. The outbreak was confined to a three-storey +building occupied by Mr. R. A. Cooper, wholesale confectioner, of Queen +Street. Police-constable Hook was struck by falling masonry, and +sustained a fractured spine, from which he died in Hospital on the 10th. + +12.—Mr. C. E. Cooke, of Litcham, sold his famous eight-years-old hackney +stallion. Cadet 1,251, for £3,000 to Mr. Alexander J. Cassatt, president +of the American Hackney Horse Society. + +14.—Mr. Ben Greet’s company of pastoral players performed the garden +scenes in “Twelfth Night” in the grounds of Mr. A. R. Chamberlin, the +Grove, Ipswich Road, Norwich, in aid of the funds of the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital. + +17.—Died, at Weston House, Colonel Sir Hambleton Custance, K.C.B., aged +82. He was a son of Mr. Hambleton Thomas Custance, of Weston, by Mary, +only child of Miles Bower, and was born at Norwich. He married, in 1840, +Frances, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, premier baronet of England, and +widow of the Rev. Henry Walpole Nevill. For more than fifty years he +held a commission in the old First or West Norfolk Militia, from the +command of which he retired in 1881 with the rank of honorary colonel, +when he received the dignity of K.C.B. From 1863 to 1878 he was +vice-chairman of the General Committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Musical +Festival, a justice of the peace, and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, and +in 1859 served the office of High Sheriff. Lady Custance died on October +4th. + +22.—Died, Mr. Thomas R. Tallack, formerly secretary of the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital. He had done useful archæological work, and among the +most important of his undertakings was the putting of the city archives +into good order and making them easy of access for reference. Mr. +Tallack had also made a valuable transcript for the Norfolk and Norwich +Archæological Society of the Tanner MS. + + +OCTOBER. + + +3.—The annual provincial meeting of the Incorporated Law Society +commenced at Norwich. The Mayor and Mrs. G. M. Chamberlin held a +reception at St. Andrew’s Hall; a banquet was given on the 4th; and the +Sheriff and Mrs. Reeve invited the members to a ball on the 5th. Mr. +Richard Pennington presided at the meetings of the society. + +4.—Died, at Lynn, aged 61, Mr. William Thompson, who was elected Mayor of +the borough in 1877, and again served the office from April to November, +1880, on the sudden death of Mr. Seppings. + +12.—Madame Adelina Patti, supported by Mdlle. Donilly, Mdlle. Alice +Gomez, Mr. Charles Chilley, Signor Novara, Miss Fanny Davies, Mdlle. +Levallois, and M. Sieveking, appeared at a grand concert given at the +Agricultural Hall, Norwich. + +—Died, at Bramerton Lodge, Major John Penrice, aged 73. He was a justice +of the peace for Norfolk, and took an active part in the administration +of county business. Major Penrice was chairman of the Yarmouth Port and +Haven Commission. + +16.—Died, at Saxlingham Rectory, the Rev. George King, M.A., honorary +canon of Norwich Cathedral, in his 90th year. Canon King was one of the +oldest clergymen in the Church of England. + +17.—A complimentary dinner, attended by 300 guests, was given at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. G. M. +Chamberlin), to Mr. Henry Flowers in commemoration of his election to the +Grand Mastership of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. + +20.—Mr. D. L. Moody, the “American Evangelist,” opened a three days’ +mission at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich. + +21.—A heavy fall of snow occurred in Norfolk, and was followed by severe +frost. The weather for some time previously had been unprecedently wet, +and the heavy rainfall had swollen the rivers and flooded the marshes and +low-lying lands. During the first half of the month more than 4.5 inches +of rain were registered at Sprowston. It was the wettest October that +had been experienced for years past. + +22.—Died, at 45, St. Giles’ Street, Norwich, Mr. Thomas William Crosse, +F.R.C.S., in his 67th year. He was a son of the distinguished John Green +Crosse, and was educated at Mr. Perowne’s school, Norwich, and at King’s +College School, London. After a course of study at St. Bartholomew’s +Hospital, and at the Dublin, Leeds, and Norwich Hospitals, Mr. Crosse +became, in 1847, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A., and in 1860, after examination, was +admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. In Norwich he gained +the reputation of being a bold, skilful, and successful surgeon. He was +appointed assistant-surgeon to the Hospital in 1857, became full surgeon +on October 26th, 1872, and retired from the staff in 1888. In April, +1892, having previously filled the office of vice-chairman, he was made +chairman of the Board of Management. For many years Mr. Crosse +discharged with conspicuous ability the honorary duties of curator of the +pathological museum at the Hospital. He was a member of the Council of +the British Medical Association, and among his contributions to surgical +literature were articles on “Urinary Calculus” in Heath’s “System of +Surgery.” Mr. Crosse was a governor of the Grammar School and of the +Middle School, and an _ex-officio_ member of the Norfolk and Norwich +Museum. For some years he represented the Sixth Ward in the Conservative +interest, and was appointed on January 21st, 1873, Medical Officer of +Health for the city, and continued to discharge his duties until within a +short time of his death. Mr. Crosse married, in 1857, a daughter of Mr. +Adam Taylor. + +—Died, at his residence, Beechamwell Hall, Mr. Joshua Fielden, aged 44. +He was a son of Mr. John Fielden, of Green Bank, Caton, near Lancaster, +and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Mr. Fielden was a justice of the +peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, and served the office of High +Sheriff in 1884. + +26.—A “World’s Fair,” promoted in aid of the funds for paying off the +debt on the vicarage house and the completion of the restoration of the +tower of St. Peter Mancroft church, was opened at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, by the Mayor. The bazaar, which closed on the 28th, produced +receipts to the amount of £575. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +2.—The inmates of Norwich Workhouse were entertained by Mr. Hoare, M.P., +and Mrs. Hoare in celebration of the marriage of their daughter. Miss +Elma Hoare, with the Rev. H. L. Paget, on October 27th. + +9.—Mr. Alexander Robert Chamberlin was elected Mayor, and Mr. Russell J. +Colman appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +16.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council the Liberal members elected +a committee to select the names of persons to be submitted to the Lord +Chancellor for appointment as magistrates. The Conservative members +declined to take part in the proceedings on the ground that the movement +was purely political. On December 20th the special committee reported +that their proceedings had been abortive. + +26.—Mr. C. S. Read made an important speech at the Norfolk Chamber of +Agriculture in opening a discussion upon the question of agricultural +depression. It was decided to support the proposed National Agricultural +Conference to be held in London. At an adjourned meeting of the Chamber +on the 10th the proceedings of the Conference were discussed, and a +resolution adopted in favour of the formation of an Agricultural Union by +widening and popularising the Central Chamber of Agriculture and kindred +societies. + +29.—The Earl of Leicester, in a letter to the “Daily Telegraph,” gave a +remarkable account of the annual rents on the Holkham Estate when he +entered into possession in 1842, in 1878, when they were at their +highest, and in 1891, when the last payment was made. Summarised the +statement was as follows:— + + _Year ending at Michaelmas_, _1842_. + + £ s. d. +Annual rents 40,419 1 5¼ +Expenditure 7,608 4 5½ + Net income 32,810 16 11¾ + + _Year ending at Michaelmas_, _1878_. + (Highest rental.) + + £ s. d. +Annual rents 60,218 1 6½ +Expenditure 20,653 12 3 + Net income 39,564 9 3½ + + _Year ending at Michaelmas_, _1891_. + + £ s. d. +Annual rents 43,790 15 7¾ +Expenditure 20,323 2 11½ + Net income 23,467 12 8¼ + +REMARKS.—Decrease 27¼ per cent. The tithe was paid by the landlord in +1878 and 1891, and three-fourths by the tenants in 1842. + + £ s. d. £ s. d. +The amount expended by the late 536,992 0 0 +Earl of Leicester in buildings +and repairs from 1776 to +Michaelmas, 1841, was +The amount expended by the 367,981 0 0 +present Earl of Leicester in +buildings and repairs, gates +and fences, and under-draining, +from Michaelmas, 1841, to +Michaelmas, 1891, was +For purchase of estates 190,175 0 0 + 558,156 0 0 + 1,095,148 0 0 + +DECEMBER. + + +1.—The first lecture of a series on Ecclesiastical History was delivered +in the nave of Norwich Cathedral by Archdeacon Farrar on “Ignatius and +Polycarp.” (_See_ January 5th, 1893.) + +8.—Died suddenly, at Bristol, Mr. William James Metcalfe, Q.C., Recorder +of Norwich, and judge of the Bristol County Court. He was a son of the +Rev. W. Metcalfe, of Foulmire, Cambridgeshire, and was born in 1818. +Educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took his M.A. degree, +he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1845, and became Queen’s +Counsel in 1873. Mr. Metcalfe was Recorder of Ipswich from 1866 to 1874, +and succeeded Mr. P. O’Malley, Q.C., in the Recordership of Norwich. In +1879 he was appointed to his County Court judgeship. He was succeeded as +Recorder of Norwich by Mr. Thomas Richardson Kemp, Q.C. + +12.—Captain Lugard addressed two influential meetings at St. Andrew’s +Hall, Norwich, upon the situation in Uganda. A resolution expressive of +satisfaction with the action of the Government was adopted. + +18.—Died, at Portland Place, Bath, Mr. James Hunt Holley, aged 88. He +was a son of Mr. James Hunt Holley, of Blickling, and was educated under +Valpy at Norwich School. Possessed of considerable landed property, he +took great interest in agriculture, and in 1858 purchased the estate of +Oaklands, Okehampton, in Devonshire, on the borders of Dartmoor, where, +remote from railways, agriculture had been neglected. The improvements +which he carried out in the district gave great impetus to trade. He was +an active magistrate, and during the earlier part of his life a staunch +Free-trader and a Whig of the old school; but being unable to follow the +extreme views of his party he ultimately withdrew from politics. Mr. +Holley married a daughter of Admiral Windham, of Felbrigg Hall. + +19.—The Prince of Wales presided at a dinner given at the Hotel +Metropole, London, to Lord Suffield, on his retirement from the command +of the Prince of Wales’s Own Norfolk Artillery. + +26.—The Compton Comedy Company commenced a twelve nights’ engagement at +Norwich Theatre, and Ginnett’s Circus began its winter season at the +Agricultural Hall. + + + +1893. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—The issue of second-class tickets was abolished throughout the system +of the Great Eastern Railway Company, except in the case of trains +running in the metropolitan suburban districts. + +2.—“Sidney Carton,” a dramatised version of Dickens’ “Tale of Two +Cities,” was performed for the first time on any stage at Norwich Theatre +by the Compton Comedy Company. + +5.—The frost continued to be very severe. Large numbers of skaters +visited Wroxham and Surlingham Broads. + +—The course of lectures on Ecclesiastical History was continued at +Norwich Cathedral by the Rev. J. A. Robinson, Fellow of Christ’s College, +Cambridge, who dealt with “The Apology of Aristides.” On February 1st +the Rev. Prebendary Meyrick lectured on “The Life and Times of Justin +Martyr”; and on March 8th the Rev. Stanley Leathes, D.D., Prebendary of +St. Paul’s, on “The Life and Times of Irenæus.” The second course was +commenced by the Rev. G. A. Schneider, who lectured on “Tertullian: His +Life and Times,” on December 1st, and on “The Works on Tertullian,” on +December 19th. (_See_ April 2nd, 1895.) + +7.—Died, at Woodbastwick, William Fryer, for seventy-four years parish +clerk, in his 92nd year. He entered into office in June, 1819, and +continued to discharge his duties to within a short period of his death. +If not the oldest parish clerk in point of age, there was reason to +believe that Fryer had held office longer than any other parish clerk in +the kingdom. He was for many years postmaster, general shopkeeper, and +village carpenter and blacksmith. + +11.—The first meeting in Norfolk of the National Agricultural Union +promoted by Lord Winchilsea was held at the Corn Hall, Harleston, under +the presidency of Mr. J. Sancroft Holmes. Other meetings of the Union +were held during the year in various parts of the county. + +12.—The series of Science Lectures for the People was resumed at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by Dr. Andrew Wilson, on the subject of “The +Distribution of Animals, and what it Teaches.” On February 8th Dr. +Drinkwater lectured on “Light and Colour from the Sun.” + +21.—At the instance of the Rate Basis Committee of the County Council a +conference of delegates from all the Unions of Norfolk was held at +Norwich, to consider the advisability of adopting a uniform system of +assessment through the county. A resolution was carried recommending +Assessment Committees to make the annual value of property as determined +for the purpose of Schedule A the basis of rating. It was also decided +that the Rate Basis Committee send out to the different Unions a general +or consolidated scale of deductions. + +25.—The Norwich Board of Guardians resolved to request the Local +Government Board to repeal parts of the Norwich Poor Act of 1863 in order +to make the general law as to franchise and election of Guardians +applicable to Norwich. + +28.—It was authoritatively announced that the Bishop of Norwich had +placed his resignation in the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury. An +Order in Council, passed in the presence of her Majesty, on May 16th, +declared the See of Norwich vacant. (_See_ May 31st.) + +31.—Archdeacon Crosse was installed a Canon Residentiary of Norwich +Cathedral. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +2.—At a full-dress parade of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment +Brigadier-General Bulwer decorated several officers of the battalion with +the new Volunteer Decoration. + +20.—Miss Grace Hawthorne appeared at Norwich Theatre in Sardou’s play, +“Theodora.” A feature of the performance was the introduction of a cage +of live lions in act I., scene 3. + + +MARCH. + + +7.—The honorary freedom of Norwich was presented to Mr. J. J. Colman, +M.P., by the Town Council, in recognition of his distinguished services +to the city. + +12.—The thermometer on the afternoon of this date registered 60 deg. Fah. +in the shade; on the 17th there was a downfall of snow. + +23.—The Norwich Isolation Hospital, erected upon a site near the +Cemetery, was opened by the Mayor (Mr. A. R. Chamberlin). It was +designed by Mr. P. P. Marshall, City Engineer, and the tender for its +erection amounted to £4,290. + +25.—Particulars were published of the measures to be adopted in Norwich +in the event of the threatened outbreak of cholera. During the week +ending this date official visits were made to Yarmouth, Cromer, and other +places on the Norfolk coast by Dr. S. Monckton Copeman, one of the +Medical Officers of the Local Government Board. + +27.—Died, at Bracondale, Norwich, Mr. Thomas Gabriel Bayfield, aged 76. +In his school days he formed the acquaintance of Mr. B. B. Woodward, +afterwards Queen’s Librarian, and of Mr. S. P. Woodward, the subsequent +author of the manual on Mollusca, both sons of Samuel Woodward, and from +them he imbibed a love for archæology and natural history. Mr. Bayfield +was regarded as an authority on ancient seals, and rendered great +assistance to Dean Goulburn in the compilation of his work on Norwich +Cathedral. In geology he laboured at the chalk and Norwich crag, and +made a valuable collection of fossils; those from the chalk were +subsequently acquired by the British Museum. He was one of the most +active members of the Norwich Geological Society, and an enthusiastic +member of the Norwich Science Club and of the Norfolk and Norwich +Naturalists’ Society. Upon relinquishing his business as an ironmonger +in Magdalen Street, Mr. Bayfield obtained the appointment of master of +the Blind School. + +30.—Died Mr. Richard Charles Browne, of Elsing Hall, East Dereham, in his +63rd year. “A son of the Rev. Richard Browne, he was head of one of the +oldest houses in England, the Hastings, of Elsing. He was lineally +descended from Hugh Hastings, of Elsing, and consequently from Malcolm, +King of Scotland. On the death of Hugh Hastings in the sixteenth +century, the Barony of Hastings (1264) fell into abeyance between the two +daughters, Anne, the elder, and Elizabeth. Mr. Browne descended from the +latter. The abeyance lasted till about 1840, when Lord John Russell +advised her Majesty to terminate it in favour of Sir Jacob Astley, who +descended from Hugh Hastings’ brother. It was thought that Lord John’s +decision was not unconnected with politics.” + + +APRIL. + + +6.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference commenced its two days’ sittings at +Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich. Bishop Pelham presided for the last time, and +in his presidential address alluded to his approaching retirement. + +8.*—“The Hon. Robert Marsham having received Royal Licence to take the +additional name of Townshend, the surname of himself and his family will +henceforth be Marsham-Townshend instead of Marsham.” + +21.—A great Unionist demonstration took place at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, as a protest against the Home Rule Bill. Colonel Bignold, +leader of the Conservative party, presided, and Lord Ashbourne was the +principal speaker. + +—Died, at Bradenham Hall, Mr. William Meybohm Rider Haggard, aged 76. +Mr. Haggard came of a Scandinavian family, and for several generations +his ancestors had been Norfolk squires. He was lord of the manor of West +Bradenham, a Deputy Lieutenant, and one of the most active magistrates in +the county. For many years he acted as a Chairman of Norfolk Quarter +Sessions held by adjournment at Swaffham, and afterwards at Lynn, and for +a long period was a member of the Committee of Visitors to Norwich +Castle. After the passing of the Local Government Act, by which the +business previously transacted at Quarter Sessions was transferred to the +County Council, Mr. Haggard, like so many representatives of the old +county gentry, retired from active participation in public affairs. He +was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, called to the Bar in 1842, and +married, in 1844, Ella, elder daughter of Mr. Doveton, of the Bombay +Civil Service. Mrs. Haggard was an exceedingly gifted woman, and +possessed of brilliant literary powers. + +23.—Died, at Cambridge, Mr. Robert Lubbock Bensly, M.A., Senior Fellow of +Gonville and Caius College, and Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic, aged +61. Professor Bensly, who was widely known as an Oriental scholar, was +the eldest surviving son of Mr. Robert Bensly, of Eaton. He was educated +at King’s College, London, and afterwards at Gonville and Caius College, +where he graduated in the Classical Tripos in 1855, and was elected +Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar in 1857. After spending two years at the +Universities of Bonn and Halle, he returned to Cambridge, where he was +appointed Hebrew lecturer at his college, and subsequently became the +Senior Fellow. He was an active and valued member of the Old Testament +Revision Committee, and was for many years an examiner in the theological +and Semitic languages triposes, and succeeded the Hon. Ion Keith Falconer +as Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic. Afterwards he was appointed +University lecturer in Oriental Languages. The closing work of his life +was connected with a discovery of extreme importance and value, which he +made in company with his former pupil, Mr. F. C. Burkett, of a manuscript +found by Mrs. Lewis, of Cambridge, in 1892, in the Convent of St. +Catharine on Mount Sinai. A careful examination of photographs taken by +her from this MS., which was a palimpsest, revealed the important fact +that the nearly obliterated Syriac characters bore a close resemblance to +the fragmentary text found by Cureton in 1842, and that the newly-found +text comprised nearly all the four Gospels. This discovery led to an +expedition in the present year (1893) to Mount Sinai, where the intricate +task of deciphering and transcribing the MS. was undertaken by Professor +Bensly, Mr. Burkett, and Mr. Rendel Harris. The Professor was well known +as the discoverer and editor of “The Missing Fragment of the Fourth Book +of Ezra.” He also edited the Harklean version of the Epistle to the +Hebrews, and at the time of his death was engaged in preparing other +important works for the press. + +24.—In a letter to the Press on this date Mr. James Emery, of Stibbard, +wrote:—“This is the earliest spring for more than one hundred years in +Norfolk. I have this day gathered some hawthorn in full blossom. I have +seen more than sixty summers; my father lived to be seventy-four, and he +has told me many times he never saw hawthorn in flower by the first of +May. Nor have I ever seen it till this season before the first of May.” + +25.—The Fletcher Convalescent Home, at Cromer, built by the munificence +of Mr. B. E. Fletcher, and endowed by the Earl of Leicester, as an +adjunct to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, was opened by the Countess +of Leicester. Mr. Edward Boardman, of Norwich, was the architect. The +cost of the building was not disclosed by the donor; the endowment fund +amounted to £15,000, which Lord Leicester augmented to £20,000 in +February, 1894. + + +MAY. + + +5.—The Mayor of Norwich (Mr. A. R. Chamberlin) sent to the Prince and +Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, and the Duke of York and +Princess Victoria Mary, the congratulations of himself and the citizens +on the announcement of the betrothal of the Duke and Princess. On June +30th the Mayor, the Sheriff (Mr. Russell J. Colman), and the Deputy-Mayor +(Mr. G. M. Chamberlin) proceeded to Marlborough House, and presented to +the Duke of York a valuable dessert service, the gift of the citizens, +with a richly-illuminated vellum containing a congratulatory address and +the names of the subscribers. + +17.—Died, at Heigham Grove, Norwich, Mr. William John Utten Browne, +barrister-at-law, aged 88. Mr. Browne had been for many years an active +and painstaking magistrate, and in the early decades of the century +occupied a very prominent position in the public life of the city. In +1833 he served as one of the Sheriffs of Norwich, and was elected Mayor +in 1860. In July, 1837, he contested in the Conservative interest the +borough of Ashburton, Devonshire, and was defeated by Mr. Lushington. On +attaining his 80th birthday he was entertained to a banquet by his +colleagues on the Bench. Mr. Browne was a staunch Tory and High +Churchman. + +20.*—“A meeting of owners and occupiers of property at Thorpe St. Andrew +was recently held to protest against a proposal of the Norwich Town +Council to annex Thorpe to their municipal district. It was resolved +that a fund be guaranteed for the purpose of opposing by every possible +means any attempt at annexation on the part of Norwich. The sum of +£5,000 was guaranteed in the room.” + +21.—Mrs. Brown, a woman in humble circumstances, living at Winterton, +celebrated her one hundredth birthday. She had been a widow from her +81st year, and was entirely dependent upon her daughter, aged 77, with +whom she lived. Mrs. Brown had never travelled further than the +neighbouring town of Gorleston. + +27.—A special meeting of the Norfolk County School Association was held +at the Shirehall, Norwich, at which the chairman of the directors and +trustees, the Rev. H. Smith, proposed, and it was agreed, “That it has +been proved to the satisfaction of the association that it cannot by +reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is desirable +that the same should be wound up voluntarily, and that the company be +wound up accordingly.” The original scheme, it was stated, was too large +and ambitious, and the association was weighted at the outset with a +capital expenditure and an annual working outlay beyond its strength and +capacity. On September 9th it was announced: “After struggling for some +years under heavy mortgage and liabilities the Norfolk County School +Association has been compelled to wind up. The property has passed into +the hands of Lord Leicester, who has made arrangements which will enable +the late head-master, Mr. W. E. Humphreys, to re-open next term.” + +—The Conservative and Unionist voters of East Norfolk adopted Colonel +McCalmont, C.B., Unionist candidate for the constituency. Colonel +McCalmont retired in March, 1895. Mr. H. Rider Haggard was then +announced as the Conservative candidate. + +31.—The _conge d’élire_ for the election of a new Bishop of Norwich +having been received, a meeting of the Dean and Chapter was held at the +residence of Canon Heaviside, when the Rev. John Sheepshanks, M.A., of +St. Margaret’s, Anfield, Liverpool, was elected. The election was +confirmed at Bow Church, Cheapside, London, on June 28th; the ceremony of +consecration was performed at St. Paul’s Cathedral on the 29th; and +Bishop Sheepshanks did homage to her Majesty at Windsor Castle on June +30th. His lordship was enthroned and installed at Norwich Cathedral on +July 13th with the usual ceremonial. The Dean afterwards entertained a +large company to luncheon at the Deanery, and in the afternoon the clergy +waited upon his lordship at the Palace and presented him with an address. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—A meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, to protest against +the Suspensory Bill for the Church in Wales. Lord Egerton of Tatton +presided, and Mr. Stanley Leighton, M.P., and Mr. W. S. de Winton, M.P., +were among the speakers. + +22.—Mr. Albert Chevalier gave his first recital in Norwich at the +Agricultural Hall, and repeated the entertainment on the 23rd. + +27.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +the Grove, Ipswich Road, Norwich, the residence of the Mayor (Mr. A. R. +Chamberlin), who was this year president of the society. The exhibition +closed on the 29th. This was the only occasion upon which a three days’ +show had been held by the association. + + +JULY. + + +6.—The marriage of the Duke of York and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck +was celebrated throughout the county. At Norwich the Artillery +Volunteers and the 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment paraded in +the Market Place and fired a _feu-de-joie_, and a Royal salute was fired +upon Mousehold Heath by the mounted battery of the first-named corps. +One thousand persons above sixty-five years of age were presented with +gifts by the Mayor and Sheriff at the Agricultural Hall; and in the +afternoon the 8th Hussars and the Volunteers were reviewed on Mousehold. +An illuminated _fête_ was given in the evening in Chapel Field Gardens, +and the day’s festivities concluded with a ball given by the Mayor at St. +Andrew’s Hall. + +8.—A severe thunderstorm occurred after very close and sultry weather. +Another storm took place on the 9th and 10th, and on the 11th it raged +with increased violence, and did much damage in various parts of the +county. A man was killed by lightning at Long Stratton. + +13.—The third biennial sale of shorthorns and Southdowns, the property of +the Prince of Wales, was conducted at Wolferton by Mr. John Thornton, and +resulted in a total of £2,151. + +18.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Mathew, Sarah Bligh (22), +domestic servant, was indicted for the wilful murder of her child, Isaac +Bligh, at Holme Hale, on June 7th. She was found guilty and strongly +recommended to mercy. The judge, without assuming the black cap, passed +sentence of death. The capital sentence was subsequently commuted. + +19.—The first squadron of the 8th Hussars marched from the Cavalry +Barracks, Norwich, and the remaining squadrons left on the 20th. Prior +to their departure the non-commissioned officers were presented with +gifts for their mess, subscribed for by the citizens. The 1st (King’s) +Dragoon Guards, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel H. P. Douglas Willan, +marched in on the same dates. + +22.—Mr. Clement Higgins, Q.C., M.P., intimated his intention to the +electors of Mid Norfolk not to seek re-election for the division at the +next election. Mr. F. W. Wilson was subsequently adopted the Gladstonian +candidate. + +28.—Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dawson Paul celebrated their silver wedding at +Norwich. + +29.—The 3rd and 4th Volunteer Battalions Norfolk Regiment went into camp +at Colchester. + + +AUGUST. + + +30.—A meeting was held at Norwich at which it was decided to take steps +for the formation of golf links. On November 8th an adjourned meeting +took place, at which it was announced that land had been acquired for the +purpose at Hellesdon. The Royal Norwich Golf Club, with the Duke of York +as president, was then formed, and the links were opened on February 1st, +1894. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +7.—In consequence of a telegram received from the War Office the 1st +(King’s) Dragoon Guards left Norwich for the scene of the colliery riots +in the Midland counties. The regiment entrained at Trowse, the horses +being conveyed in bullock trucks. A Squadron proceeded to Mansfield, B +to Rotherham, C to Wakefield, and D to Dewsbury. On the 8th 50 men of +the Norfolk Constabulary, under the Chief Constable (Mr. Paynton Pigott), +were drafted to Nottingham, and on the 9th 20 men of the Norwich city +police proceeded to the scene of the disturbances. + + +OCTOBER. + + +2.—Died, in London, Lady Eastlake, widow of Sir C. L. Eastlake, a former +President of the Royal Academy. Her ladyship, who was in her 84th year, +was a daughter of Dr. Edward Rigby, of Norwich, and was distinguished for +her literary work. + +3.—The Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival commenced at St. +Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. The principal vocalists were Madame Albani, Mrs. +Helen Trust, Miss Anna Williams, Madame Belle Cole, Madame Marion +McKenzie, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Ben Davies, Mr. George Henschel, Mr. +Bantock Pierpoint, Mr. J. H. Brockbank, and Mr. Norman Salmond. The solo +instrumentalists were M. Paderewski (pianoforte) and Senor Sarasate +(violin). The principal productions were: On the evening of the 3rd, +“St. Paul”; on the 4th, morning, “The Golden Legend” and New Symphony in +A minor, No. 2 (Edward German); evening, new Polish Fantaisie +(Paderewski), first time of performance, pianoforte solo by Paderewski; +new cantata, “Una” (A. R. Gaul), first time of performance, and a +miscellaneous selection; 5th, morning, “Judith,” first time of +performance in Norwich; evening, new cantata, “The Wishing Bell” (J. F. +Barnett), first time of performance, and a miscellaneous selection; +Pibroch (Mackenzie), Rondo Capriccioso (Saint Saëns), for violin and +orchestra, Senor Sarasate; 6th, morning, “The Messiah”; evening, “The +Water Lily” (Cowen), first time of performance. The gross receipts +amounted to £5,082 13s. 3d., the gross payments to £4,456 7s. 6d. Of the +balance of £626 5s. 9d., the sum of £325 was distributed among the +charities. + +14.—An influential meeting was convened at the Guildhall by the Mayor of +Norwich (Mr. A. R. Chamberlin) for the purpose of affording the Dean an +opportunity of calling attention to the necessity of undertaking the +reparation of Norwich Cathedral, the estimated cost of which was £12,000. +(_See_ May 2nd, 1894.) + +16.—Died, the Rev. William Cowper Johnson, Honorary Canon of Norwich +Cathedral. He was a son of the Rev. John Johnson, LL.D., a near relative +of the Poet Cowper, and addressed by him as “Johnnie of Norfolk” and “My +dearest of all Johnnies.” + +25.—Lord Randolph Churchill addressed a great Conservative meeting held +at Yarmouth Aquarium under the presidency of Sir Edward Birkbeck. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Sir Peter Eade was elected Mayor and Mr. John Barwell appointed +Sheriff of Norwich. + +19.—A gale of great severity swept over the county after a day of +exceptional brilliancy. Several wrecks occurred on the coast, lives were +lost, and much damage done inland. + +20.—The Duke and Duchess of York arrived at Didlington Hall on a visit to +Lord and Lady Amherst of Hackney. + +25.—An important meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, presided +over by Mr. R. Harvey Mason, for the purpose of urging that effectual +measures be taken for the preservation of order, the suppression of +nuisances, and the protection of property upon the public navigable +waters of Norfolk and Suffolk. + + +DECEMBER. + + +4.—Miss Fortescue, supported by her London company, commenced a three +nights’ engagement at Norwich Theatre in “Moths” and “The School for +Scandal.” + +—A special vestry meeting was held at the church of St. Peter Mancroft, +Norwich, under the presidency of the vicar (the Rev. W. Pelham Burn), “to +read correspondence that had taken place between himself and the Hospital +Board relative to the skull of Sir Thomas Browne, alleged to have been +stolen from the church and now in possession of the Hospital.” The +Hospital authorities asked the vestry not to press for the return of the +skull. The vicar dwelt upon the crime of sacrilege and maintained that +it was the duty of the Hospital to make restitution of the skull. In +support of his contention he adduced the doctrine of the Church as to the +resurrection of the body. After much discussion it was resolved to refer +the matter to Bishop Pelham. At an adjourned meeting of the vestry on +the 15th the Board of Management intimated that the reference of the +question to an arbitrator would not release them from their obligation to +protect the property of the Hospital. Ultimately it was agreed that no +further steps be taken in the matter. + +14.—The Judicial Council of the House of Lords heard a petition from Mr. +Coaks asking for the dismissal of the plaintiff’s petition in the action, +Boswell _v._ Coaks, on the ground of its being frivolous and vexatious. +Mr. Coaks’ petition was dismissed and the appeal ordered to proceed. +(_See_ April 30th, 1894.) + +18.—The extensive maltings of F. and J. Smith, Limited, at East Dereham, +were seriously damaged by fire, which destroyed several hundred coombs of +grain. + +26.—Mr. Edward Compton’s Comedy Company commenced their Christmas +engagement at Norwich Theatre; and Mr. George Gilbert, a native of +Norwich, began the first of his successful series of circus seasons at +the Agricultural Hall. + +31.—Mrs. Pelham, wife of the Bishop of Norwich, died at Sunny Hill, +Thorpe. She was second daughter of Thomas William Tatton, of Withenshaw, +Cheshire, was born in 1811, and married in 1845, during her husband’s +incumbency of Bergh Apton. + + + +1894. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—Severe frost set in, and continued until the 9th. The snowfall was +very heavy, serious inconvenience was caused to railway and other +traffic, and many casualties were reported upon the coast as the result +of a north-east gale. + +2.—The Duke of York made his first public visit to Lynn, and opened the +new Technical School erected by the Corporation at the cost of £3,000. + +10.—A furious gale which sprung up from the south-west did not subside +until the 12th. Much damage was done in town and country, and many +casualties were reported among the Yarmouth fishing fleet. + +11.—Died at his residence, Burlingham House, the Hon. Harbord Harbord, in +his 58th year. Mr. Harbord was the sixth and posthumous son of the third +Lord Suffield, and was twice married; first to Constance Adelaide, third +daughter of Sir H. J. Stracey, and afterwards to Barbara Sophia Harriot, +daughter of Mr. Edgar Disney, of Ingatestone, and widow of Major Philip +Bennet, of Rougham Hall. Having acquired a practical knowledge of +agriculture under Mr. Robert Leeds he undertook the management of the +estates of his friends and relatives. “In Norfolk his relationship to +the landowners whom he represented gave him a status and influence with +the tenantry altogether above and beyond that of the ordinary estate +agent.” Mr. Harbord, who was a Deputy-Lieutenant and magistrate for +Norfolk, and upon the commission of the peace for Wiltshire, for many +years acted as foreman of the grand jury at the Norfolk Assizes. + +18.—The whole county of Norfolk, including the city of Norwich and the +boroughs, was declared an infected area in consequence of the prevalence +of swine fever. Major Tennant, chief inspector of the Board of +Agriculture, attended a meeting of the Executive Committee at the +Shirehall, Norwich, and discussed the subject of the swine fever +regulations; and on October 17th an Order of the Board was published +revoking restrictions upon the sale and movement of swine within the +county as from October 23rd. + +19.—After the lapse of many years, Blondin, “the most famous and intrepid +of all rope walkers,” appeared at Norwich in fulfilment of an engagement +at Gilbert’s Circus. On the 28th of the month he attained his 70th year. + + +MARCH. + + +6.—Father Ignatius visited Norwich and addressed a crowded audience at +the Agricultural Hall. + +—A special meeting of the Norwich Town Council adopted a scheme for +repaving the streets of the city with wood, at the estimated cost of +£38,500. + +22.—A yachting and fishing exhibition was opened at St. Giles’ Hall, +Norwich, and was continued until the 29th. + +29.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference opened its two days’ proceedings at +Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich. The principal subjects discussed were the +Local Government Act, 1894, and religious education in Board schools. +Bishop Sheepshanks presided for the first time. + +30.—The Rev. G. S. Barrett, B.A., minister of Prince’s Street +Congregational Church, Norwich, was invested with the honorary degree of +Doctor of Divinity at the University of St. Andrew’s. Mr. Barrett was +introduced as “the minister of one of the most influential Congregational +churches in England; he had made several important contributions to +theological literature, and had this year been chosen chairman of the +Congregational Union of England and Wales.” + + +APRIL. + + +9.—Died, the Rev. George Willoughby Barrett, Minor Canon and Precentor of +Norwich Cathedral, aged 45. He was a native of Bristol, where his father +was well known as a musician. At an early age he was a chorister at +Bristol Cathedral, and after completing his school life, entered at +Worcester College, Oxford, where in 1872 he graduated B.A. and in 1877 +proceeded M.A. He was ordained deacon in 1873 and appointed to the +curacy of Easton Royal, Wiltshire. On his admission to priest’s orders +he was engaged from 1875 to 1887 in ministerial work at Hampton Lucy, +near Stratford-on-Avon. After his appointment as Minor Canon and +Precentor at Norwich Cathedral in the latter year, Mr. Barrett did much +useful work in promoting the interests of the Norfolk and Norwich Church +Choral Association, and in cultivating a taste for the higher class of +Church music. He was for several years in succession nominated by the +Bishop and Dean chaplain of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. + +10.—Died in London, Mr. William Waring, formerly a tenant of Taverham +Hall. A partner in the firm of Waring Brothers, contractors for public +works, he had constructed railways in Belgium and India. In association +with the firm of Brassy and Peto, his firm had the contract for the +construction of the greater portion of what is now known as the Inner +Circle of the Underground Railway in London. Mr. Waring was a magistrate +for Norfolk, and a munificent supporter of the Norfolk and Norwich +Hospital and other local charities. + +14.—Died, the Rev. John Nassau Simpkinson, rural dean of Burnham and +rector of North Creake, aged 77. He was a son of Sir Francis Simpkinson, +was educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold, and afterwards won a scholarship +at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1838 with a +first class in the Classical Tripos and a Junior Optime in the +Mathematical Tripos. After some years’ service as curate at +Hurstmonceux, he was appointed assistant master at Harrow, under Dr. +Vaughan, his brother-in-law, and there remained from 1845 to 1855. Mr. +Simpkinson was then presented to the rectory of Brington, Northants, and +in 1868 to that of North Creake. He was the author of a “Life of Wagner” +(1858), of “The Washingtons: a Tale of the Seventeenth century” (1860), +and of many articles in the “Edinburgh Review.” + +30.—In the House of Lords, before Lords Selborne, Watson, McNaughton, +Shand, and Morris, was heard the action, Boswell _v._ Coaks. This was an +appeal from the judgment of the Lords Justices in the matter of the +Harvey life interest. The case for the appellant set forth that this was +an appeal from an order of the Court of Appeal, made on November 5th, +1892, in an action in the Chancery Division in which the appellant, on +behalf of himself and of other unsatisfied creditors of the late Sir +Robert Harvey, was plaintiff and the respondent and others defendants. +The order of the Court of Appeal affirmed an order of Mr. Justice North, +dated July 27th, 1892, made upon the several motions of the respondent, +dismissing the action as against all the defendants, except one, on the +ground that it was vexatious and oppressive. The appellant only appealed +against the order of the Court of Appeal so far as it affirmed the +dismissal of the action as against the respondent. The action commenced +on March 11th, 1892, and the object of it was to establish that the +judgment of Mr. Justice Fry in a former action, Boswell _v._ Coaks, 1881, +which judgment was reversed by the Court of Appeal, but was subsequently +restored by the House of Lords, was not binding on the appellant or the +other unsatisfied creditors of Sir Robert Harvey, or of the firm of +Harvey’s and Hudson’s, on the ground that it was obtained by the fraud of +the respondents, and to secure for the appellant and the creditors +certain consequential relief. Mr. Crackanthorpe, Q.C., and Mr. Brabant +were for the appellant; and the Attorney-General (Sir John Rigby, Q.C.), +Mr. H. H. Cozens-Hardy, Q.C., M.P., and Mr. Lawrence for the respondent. +Lord Selborne delivered judgment, and said it was not necessary to hear +counsel for the respondent. The question was whether anything material +to disturb the judgment of the House had been newly discovered by the +appellant. That involved a double proposition—that something new had +been discovered, and that that something new was material. There was a +total defect both of allegation and of evidence as to that which alone +could make it material. He had no hesitation in saying that in his +opinion it had been dealt with most properly by the Court of Appeal, and +that their lordships ought now to dismiss this action with costs, which +he accordingly now moved. Their lordships concurred, and the appeal was +dismissed with costs. (_See_ November 13th, 1895.) + + +MAY. + + +1.—Died at Sunny Hill, Thorpe, the Hon. and Right Rev. Bishop Pelham, +aged 82. He was the second son of the second Earl of Chichester, +Secretary of State for the Home Department in Addington’s short Ministry +of 1801, by Lady Mary Henrietta Juliana, daughter of the fifth Duke of +Leeds. Born on June 21st, 1811, he was educated at Westminster and +Christ Church, Oxford, and took his degree in 1832. His ordination was +followed by his appointment, on the presentation of the Earl of +Abergavenny, to the rectory of Bergh Apton, where he remained for fifteen +years, during which time he was Hon. Canon of Norwich Cathedral, and in +1847 chaplain to the Queen. Two years prior to the latter appointment +Mr. Pelham married Henrietta, daughter of Mr. Thomas Tatton, of +Withenshaw, Cheshire. In 1852 the living of Christ Church, Hampstead, +was offered to Mr. Pelham by Mr. Gurney Hoare. On the death of Dr. Spry, +in 1854, he was nominated by Lord Palmerston to the important Crown +living of St. Marylebone. In 1857, on the resignation of Bishop Hinds, +he accepted the bishopric of Norwich. “His administration of the diocese +covered a period of 36 years, and in the matter of time, was surpassed +only by three of the sixty-three bishops who had presided over the see +during 800 years; and it was as wise in its broad and tolerant spirit as +it was faithful in its discharge of duty.” The remains of the deceased +prelate were interred at Bergh Apton on May 5th. + +2.—The choir of Norwich Cathedral was re-opened on the completion of the +great work of reparation which had been in progress for two years. The +“reporting architects” were Sir Gilbert Scott and Mr. John L. Pearson, +R.A., and the work was superintended by Mr. C. J. Browne, surveyor to the +Dean and Chapter. The total sum raised in aid of the undertaking +amounted in the month of December, 1893, to £3,357, and the Dean and +Chapter contributed upwards of £2,000 out of their personal income. At +the opening service the sermon was preached by the Archbishop of +Canterbury, who was afterwards presented with an address by the Mayor and +Corporation. The Dean and Mrs. Lefroy entertained a distinguished +company to luncheon, and the Bishop and Mrs. Sheepshanks gave a garden +party at the Palace. (_See_ April 7th, 1898.) + +15.—Died, the Right Rev. Sidney Linton, D.D., Bishop of Riverina. He was +a son of the Rev. H. Linton, rector of St. Peter le Bailey, Oxford, and +Hon. Canon of Christ Church, and was educated at Rugby and at Wadham +College, Oxford, where he graduated and took second class in law and +history in 1864. From 1877 to 1884 he was vicar of St. Philip, Heigham, +and in the latter year, on the foundation of the see of Riverina, was +appointed the first bishop. In the same year he received the honorary +degree of D.D. + +16.—Died at West Dereham, Mr. Hugh Aylmer, aged 77. Mr. Aylmer had a +world-wide reputation as a breeder and exhibitor of stock. He commenced +his career as a sheep breeder by introducing into Norfolk some of the +best specimens of Cotswold sheep that he could procure, and with these, +by the process of selection, he was enabled to produce annually a number +of rams which, when distributed among the flocks of the county, had the +effect of increasing both the quality and the quantity of wool and +mutton. Mr. Aylmer was a noted shorthorn breeder, and his herd was one +of the most famous in the country. + +28.—Died at Mill Hill Road, Norwich, Mr. Samuel Linay, solicitor, aged +57. He was a well known practitioner in petty sessional courts +throughout East Anglia, and from 1881 to 1887 represented the old Fourth +Ward in the Norwich Town Council. + +29.—The Mayor of Norwich (Sir Peter Eade) entertained upwards of 1,500 of +the aged poor of the city to dinner at St. Andrew’s Hall. + + +JUNE. + + +2.—The Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham addressed a large meeting +convened at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, by the Norfolk Chamber of +Agriculture, on the subject of the National Agricultural Union. A +resolution affirming the desire of the Chamber to co-operate with the +Union was adopted. + +6.—The Mayor of Norwich formally opened an additional portion of the +Gildencroft Recreation Ground, and afterwards declared open for public +use the adjoining churchyard of St. Augustine, which had been converted +into a public garden and resting-place through the action of the Playing +Fields and Open Spaces Society. + +15.—Mr. Ben Greet’s company of “Woodland Players” gave pastoral +representations at Bracondale Woods, Norwich, of “As You Like It” and of +scenes from “The Tempest,” in aid of the funds of the Jenny Lind +Infirmary. + +23.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the birth of the first child +to the Duke and Duchess of York. Congratulatory telegrams were sent to +their Royal Highnesses, to the Queen, and to the Prince and Princess of +Wales, by the Mayor, on behalf of the citizens. + + +JULY. + + +4.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Yarmouth under the presidency of Lord Suffield, and was continued on the +5th. + +12.—A three days’ military tournament, in which the 1st King’s Dragoon +Guards, the depôt of the Norfolk Regiment, and the Norwich Artillery +Volunteers took part, commenced at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, in aid +of the clothing fund of the Cadet Corps. Exhibition boxing was given by +Frank Slavin and Jim Young. + +—Mr. A. Morley, M.P., Postmaster-General, addressed a Liberal meeting at +St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. + +17.—The Norwich School of Music was established at a meeting held at the +Guildhall. + +—Mr. A. E. Collins, M.I.C.E., of Reading, was appointed by the Norwich +Town Council, city engineer and architect in place of Mr. Buchan, +resigned. + +25.—Mr. Joseph Arch, M.P., at a meeting held at New Buckenham, delivered +to the agricultural labourers his famous address which was quoted +throughout the country for some time afterwards. “You poor, craven +milk-and-water fools,” said the hon. member for North-west Norfolk, “why, +you button up your pockets at the thought of paying 2¼d. a week when you +are told by a lot of lying scampery and scandalism that I have run away +with your money. . . . Professor Rogers once said when speaking of the +tenant farmers, that their heads were as soft as the mangolds they grew. +I think some of the labourers’ heads are as soft as the mangolds they +hoe.” + +28.—The Norfolk Volunteer Brigade camp commenced at Yarmouth. The four +battalions numbered 1,923 of all ranks. Brigadier-General Bulwer was in +command. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—Gunton church, erected in the park on the site of the ancient parish +church by Sir William Harbord, Bart., in 1769, was re-opened after +restoration. + +4.—The old buildings of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum were closed prior +to the removal of the specimens, &c., to the new museum at Norwich +Castle. (_See_ October 23rd.) + +17.—The West Dereham Cotswolds, bred by Mr. Hugh Aylmer, deceased, were +sold by Mr. John Thornton and Messrs. Salter and Simpson. Averages: 156 +shearlings, 52s. 3d.; 64 two-shear, 51s. 2d.; 128 full-mouthed, 46s.; 100 +ram lambs, 31s.; 20 old sheep, £7; 79 shearling rams, £7 5s.; 100 ewe +lambs, £7 1s. Total proceeds of the sale, £2,601 18s. 6d. + +22.—The sixth annual conference of the Institute of Journalists was +opened at Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P. Mr. P. +W. Clayden, general editor of the “Daily News,” delivered the inaugural +address on the 23rd, and the business proceedings concluded on the 24th. +A garden party was given at Carrow Abbey by Mr. Colman, the Mayor and +Mayoress held a reception at St. Andrew’s Hall, and the conference dinner +took place at Yarmouth Aquarium. Cambridge was visited on the 27th. + +28.—Died, William Coutts, seventh Earl of Albemarle. He was born in +1832, and succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1891. +Lord Beaconsfield, recognising the services he had rendered to the +Conservative party, elevated him to the House of Peers in 1876 as Baron +Ashford. In 1857, as Lord Bury, he, with Mr. Schneider, contested +Norwich in the Liberal interest and achieved a victory over Sir Samuel +Bignold. At the election which took place two years afterwards the same +two candidates were returned. Lord Bury then had the honour to be +appointed Treasurer of her Majesty’s Household, and this rendered it +necessary for him to again contest the constituency. Sir Samuel Bignold +again unsuccessfully opposed him; but a petition was presented against +Lord Bury’s return, and the election was declared void. In 1860 Sir +William Russell and Mr. E. Warner became members for the city. From 1860 +to 1865 Lord Bury represented Wick, and from 1868 to 1874 Berwick. On +the Liberal disruption he changed sides and contested Stroud in the +Conservative cause in 1875, but he was unsuccessful. In early life his +lordship did military service in the Scots Guards, and served in India as +_aide-de-camp_ to General Lord FitzClarence. For a time he acted as +secretary to Earl Russell, and was created a Privy Councillor in 1860 and +K.C.M.G. in 1870. In 1855 he married Sophia, daughter of Sir Allan +McNab, Prime Minister of Canada. + +29.—The Roman Catholic church, erected on the site of the old City Gaol +at Norwich, at the sole cost of the Duke of Norfolk, was opened. The +building, which was only partially completed, was designed by Sir Gilbert +Scott, and is dedicated to St. John Baptist. The sermon at the opening +ceremony was preached by the Rev. Dr. Headley, Bishop of Newport and +Menevia. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +3.—The Trades Union Congress was opened at Norwich under the presidency +of Mr. John Burns, M.P. The delegates, 400 in number, were entertained +at Cromer by Mr. Samuel Hoare, M.P., and at Carrow Abbey by Mr. Colman, +M.P. The proceedings closed on the 8th with a “trades procession” +through the streets of the city. + +4.—A new lifeboat, the gift of Mrs. Upcher, was launched at Sheringham. +The vessel, which was “christened” by the donor the Henry Ramey Upcher, +replaced a lifeboat named the Augusta given by the squire fifty years +previously. + +10.—Died at Moseley, Birmingham, Mr. John Hawkes, aged 100 years. For +many years he was a clerk in Messrs. Gurney’s Bank at Norwich, and was +pensioned by the firm in 1865. + +—Died at Lees Court, Faversham, Earl Sondes. His lordship was born in +1824, and was formerly a captain in the Royal Horse Guards and +lieutenant-colonel of the East Kent Mounted Rifles. From 1868 to 1874 he +was Conservative member for East Kent. In 1859 he married a daughter of +Sir H. J. Stracey, of Rackheath. + +24.—The Mayoress of Norwich (Lady Eade) unveiled at the Jenny Lind +Infirmary a medallion terra-cotta bust of Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, +presented to the institution by her husband, Mr. Otto Goldschmidt. +Madame Albani, who was on a professional visit to the city, attended the +proceedings. + +25.—A concert was given at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, at which the +principal performers were Madame Albani, Mdlle. Antoinette Trebelli, +Madame A. Gomez, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Charles Santley, Mr. Braxton +Smith, Mr. Norman Salmond, the Meister Glee Singers. M. Emile Sauret +(violin), Mr. B. Patterson Parker (violoncello), Mr. John Thomas (harpist +to the Queen), and the Swiss Ladies’ Orchestra. Performances were also +given on the 26th, 27th, and 28th. + +29.—Died at West Rudham Hall, Mr. John Morton, aged 55. He was a great +authority on all agricultural matters, an eminent breeder of horses and +cattle, and a frequent judge at shows in England and on the Continent. + + +OCTOBER. + + +3.—Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, the well-known author of “Three Men in a Boat” +and “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow,” gave a lecture at the Assembly +Room, Agricultural Hall, Norwich, on “Humour, Old and New.” + +12.—At the Norwich Consistorial Court application was made to Mr. +Chancellor Blofeld by the vicar and churchwardens of St. John Timberhill +for a faculty to confirm the erection of a rood or crucifix, and its +accompanying figures, on a rood loft in the church. The application was +supported by Sir Walter Phillimore. The Chancellor delivered judgment on +November 10th. A faculty to confirm the erection of the rood loft and of +the figures then on the rood beam and to authorise the placing of other +figures there was refused. A faculty to confirm the erection of a screen +without a rood loft, and to authorise the placing of gates in an existing +screen, the erection of proposed side screens with gates in them, and the +erection of choir stalls with a screen behind them, was granted. + +15.—A great meeting was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, presided over +by the Hon. Ailwyn Fellowes, M.P., to protest against the proposed +disestablishment of the Church in Wales. The principal speaker was the +Rev. Thomas Moore, author of “The Englishman’s Brief on behalf of his +National Church.” + +17.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, before Mr. J. B. R. Bulwer, Q.C., +George Chapman, William Chapman, Robert Howard, John Howard, and William +Furness were indicted for “unlawfully and riotously assembling with other +persons to the number of 200 and more to disturb the public peace,” at +Horsham St. Faith’s, on August 10th. The disturbance arose in +consequence of a local farmer, Mr. W. W. Cook, employing imported labour +because he was unable to arrange terms with the St. Faith’s men. The +prisoners, with the exception of Furness, pleaded guilty. The jury were +unable to find a verdict in the case of Furness. Another jury were +empanelled, and a verdict of guilty returned. Furness was sentenced to +two months’ imprisonment with hard labour, and the other prisoners were +bound over to keep the peace for twelve months, George Chapman to pay in +addition a fine of £5. + +18.—The Rev. Arthur Thomas Lloyd, D.D., vicar and Hon. Canon of +Newcastle-on-Tyne, was at Westminster Abbey consecrated Suffragan Bishop +of Norwich, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The right reverend Bishop +had previously been collated and instituted—on October 16th—to the +rectory and parish church of North Creake, and on the same day collated +to the Archdeaconry of Lynn formed out of the Archdeaconries of Norfolk +and Norwich under an order of her Majesty, dated August 23rd, 1894. “By +26th Henry VIII., c. 14, provision was made for the appointment of two +Suffragans within the diocese, to bear the titular names of Thetford and +Ipswich. In 1536 John Salisbury and Thomas Manning were consecrated by +Archbishop Cranmer as Suffragan Bishops of Thetford and Ipswich, and now +again after the lapse of three centuries and a half the Bishopric of +Thetford is revived.” + +20.—Died, in his 84th year, Mr. William Henry Cooke, Q.C., County Court +judge for Oxfordshire, and Recorder of the city of Oxford. He was some +time judge of the Norfolk County Court, and a justice of the peace for +the county. Mr. Cooke was the eldest son of the Rev. W. Cooke, vicar of +Bromyard, Herefordshire. + +—Died at Wilby Hall, aged 79, Mr. Samuel Colman. He was one of the +eleven sons of Mr. Robert Colman, of Rockland, who constituted the famous +team of cricketers. + +23.—The Duke and Duchess of York visited Norwich and opened the Castle +Museum and Fine Art Gallery. Their Royal Highnesses arrived from +Sandringham, and were received at Thorpe Station by the Mayor (Sir Peter +Eade), the Sheriff (Mr. Barwell), the High Sheriff of Norfolk (Mr. J. H. +Gurney), and other prominent officials. Escorted by the 1st King’s +Dragoon Guards the Royal visitors drove to the Castle, where they were +received by a distinguished gathering, and presented with an address by +the Corporation. The Duke having declared the building open, their Royal +Highnesses made a tour of the Museum, and were afterwards entertained to +luncheon in the Fine Art Gallery. Leaving the Castle under escort of the +Loyal Suffolk Hussars, the Duke and Duchess proceeded to the Girls’ +Technical School, St. George’s Plain, where they were received by the +Countess of Leicester and Mr. and Mrs. Gurney Buxton. Their Royal +Highnesses having inspected the School of Cookery, visited the Cathedral, +and thence drove to Thorpe Station, en route to Wolferton. The streets +of Norwich were decorated in honour of the visit, and in the evening the +city was illuminated. The Mayor and Mayoress held a reception at the +Cattle, and a military tattoo in which the pipers of the Scots Guards, +the depôt companies of the Norfolk Regiment, and the Volunteers took +part, was given on the Recreation-ground, Earlham Road. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Lieut.-Col. Bignold was elected Mayor of Norwich, and Mr. Samuel +Garerd Hill appointed Sheriff. + +13.—Died at Eckling Grange, East Dereham, Mr. Charles Norton Elvin, M.A. +He was well known as an authority on heraldry, and was the author of +several standard works on the subject. + +17.—The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture considered the report of a special +committee appointed to enquire into the condition of agriculture in +Norfolk. The committee reported that the fall in the value of the +Norfolk corn crops, comparing 1894 with 1874, was nearly, if not quite, +£3,000,000. In 1874 Norfolk had 762,000 sheep and 128,000 cattle; in +1894 519,000 sheep and 126,000 cattle. Recommendations were made that +the whole question of the appreciation of gold, and of the fluctuation of +current values, and the incidence of rates and taxes to meet the altered +position of agriculture, be reconsidered; that the law of assessments be +amended; that the Tithe Commutation Act be revised, so that lands which +could no longer be cultivated with corn at a profit should not be tithed +on a corn basis; and that a Pure Beer Act be passed charging an extra +duty upon all beer made from substances other than barley, malt and hops. +The report and recommendations were adopted. At about this date Mr. R. +Henry Rew, assistant commissioner, conducted enquiries in various parts +of the county into the condition of agriculture. (_See_ November 2nd, +1895.) + +23.—Died at Cathedral Street North, Norwich, Miss Emily Stannard, aged +67. She was the only child of Joseph and Emily Stannard, both painters +of the Norwich School. + +28.—The autumnal conference of the Church Association opened at Norwich, +and concluded on the 29th. + +29.—Lord and Lady Amherst of Hackney and their daughters, Lady William +Cecil, and the Hon. Sybil, Florence, Margaret, and Alicia Amherst, were +presented with valuable testimonials subscribed for by persons of all +shades of political opinion in South-west Norfolk. The gift to his +lordship, in recognition of the public services he had rendered in +Parliament, was a portrait of himself painted by the Hon. John Collier, +to Lady Amherst was given a silver writing set, and to her daughters +pearl and gold duster bracelets, as tokens of the esteem in which they +were held throughout the constituency. Mr. T. L. Hare, M.P., made the +presentations in the presence of a large company who had been invited to +luncheon in the museum at Didlington Hall. + + +DECEMBER. + + +4.—The first meetings of Parish and District Councils elected under the +new Local Government Act, 1894, were held. The percentage of unopposed +returns at the elections in Norfolk was 72.4. The first election of +Guardians for Norwich under the Act took place on the 17th. + +6.—Died at his residence, 6, Cavendish Square, in his 82nd year, Horatio +Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford. He was educated at Eton and Trinity +College, Cambridge, and afterwards when reading for the Bar occupied the +same chambers as Disraeli, who took great interest in him. His lordship +married, in 1841, Harriet Bettina Frances, daughter of the Hon. Sir +Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. He was succeeded by his nephew, +Robert Horace Walpole, elder son of the Hon. Frederick Walpole. + +13.—The officers of the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards gave an amateur +dramatic performance of “The Area Belle” and Burnand’s burlesque, +“Black-eyed Susan,” at Norwich Theatre, in aid of the Soldiers’ Widows +Fund. The performance was repeated on the 14th and 15th. + +21.—A gale of great violence occurred and lasted throughout the 22nd. +Much damage was done in the county to farm buildings and other premises. +At Brundall the river Yare overflowed its banks and flooded the railway; +at Mundesley the tide was higher than was ever before known, and at +Yarmouth the low-lying parts of the town were submerged, and the water +entered many granaries and stores. Another high tide and gale were +recorded at Yarmouth on the 29th. “The barometric fall accompanying the +gale was most remarkable, the mercury having descended 1.26 inches in +twenty-four hours.” + +26.—“The Midsummer Night’s Dream” was produced upon a magnificent scale +as the Christmas attraction at Norwich Theatre, by Mr. Ben Greet’s +company. + +29.—Died at Torquay, Colonel Dickson, who was Conservative candidate for +Norwich with the Marquis of Douro in 1852. Colonel Dickson was in his +89th year. + + + +1895. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—Severe weather was experienced throughout the county. The snowfall +was heavy, and deep drifts everywhere impeded traffic, especially in West +Norfolk. On the 23rd the Yare overflowed its banks, and during a fearful +storm at Yarmouth the water rose to an alarming height. Elaborate +precautions were taken to prevent a recurrence of the catastrophe of the +previous mouth, and although the Hall Quay was flooded the water was kept +out of the dwellings sad store-houses. The Beach Gardens narrowly +escaped destruction. On the same day Eccles tower, which had been a +landmark for generations, fell through the force of wind and waves. In +the last week of the month the frost was more intense than it had been at +any time during the winter, and in Norwich pedestrian and vehicular +traffic was rendered difficult by the snow. Observations taken at +Blofield on February 6th showed that the thermometer in screen, four feet +above ground, fell to four degrees Fahrenheit, and the exposed +thermometer on the grass to three and a half degrees below zero. This +was said to have been three degrees colder than on any night during the +severe frost of 1890–91, and it was the coldest night since January 26th, +1881. On the 9th the frost was more severe in certain districts than had +hitherto been recorded in the century, and remarkably low readings were +received from various parts of the county. Skating was everywhere +general. At Diss an ice carnival held on the Mere was attended by +between 2,000 and 3,000 people attired in fancy costumes, and similar +displays of a minor character took place in other localities. On the +17th the frost showed unmistakable signs of breaking up. For +twenty-eight successive nights, from January 20th to February 17th, the +mercury had fallen below freezing point, a longer period of continuous +frost in the opening months of the year than had probably been recorded +for half a century. + +8.—Avenue Road Board School, Norwich, built at the cost of nearly +£12,000, was opened by an inaugural meeting held under the presidency of +the Mayor (Col. Bignold), at which addresses were delivered by the Lord +Bishop and Sir G. W. Kekewich, K.C.B., Secretary to the Education +Department. + +19.—A meeting of the owners of marshes lying near the Yare and Bure was +held at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, to consider the advisability of +adopting a plan for the protection of the level from high tides by a +commission who would have the power of maintaining the river walls. The +question was adjourned for further consideration, and on March 30th the +proposed scheme was rejected. + +31.—M. Paderewski gave a pianoforte recital at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +1.—The Sandringham shire horses, the property of the Prince of Wales, +were sold by auction at Wolferton by Mr. A. Beck. The total amount +realised was 5,231 gs., and the average per animal £119 3s. 8d. + +—Died at Stoke Holy Cross, Mr. Henry Birkbeck. He was the only son of +Mr. Henry Birkbeck, of Keswick, and was born on February 10th, 1821. His +mother was the eldest daughter of Mr. Joseph Gurney, who left to his +grandson his share in the great Norwich bank of Messrs. Gurneys and Co. +Mr. Birkbeck began his training in the bank on January 1st, 1839, and +became a partner in the concern on his coming of age. He married in +October, 1849, the eldest daughter of Mr. Anthony Hamond, of Westacre. +She died in 1862, and 1871 he married Miss ffolkes, only sister of Sir W. +H. B. ffolkes, of Hillington. In 1853 Mr. Birkbeck served the office of +Sheriff of Norwich, and in 1860 was High Sheriff of Norfolk. For several +years he represented the old Fourth Ward as a member of the Norwich Town +Council. He was a most generous supporter of local charities and +benevolent institutions, was honorary treasurer of the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital, and chairman of the executive bodies of the Great +Hospital and the Bethel. + +18.—By invitation of Mr. Thomas Crammer, Lindahl, the renowned +Scandinavian skater, visited East Dereham for the purpose of meeting +“Fish” Smart in a skating contest. Upwards of 2,000 persons assembled on +the ice. The first race of one and a half miles was won by Smart in 5 +minutes 48 4.5ths seconds; Lindahl won the second race over the same +course. Owing to the bad condition of the ice the competitors were +unable to establish a record. + + +MARCH. + + +4.—Died at St. Faith’s House, Norwich, Mr. John Hotblack, aged 74. He +was a justice of the peace for the city and for the county, and for +several years represented the old First Ward in the Town Council. In +November, 1884, Mr. Hotblack was elected Mayor of Norwich. + +7.—Died at Soham Vicarage, the residence of his son, the Rev. Cyprian T. +Rust, LL.B. For twenty-two years he was a clergyman in Norwich, and held +successively the livings of St. Michael-at-Thorn and Heigham; in 1875 he +was presented to the living of Westerfield, near Ipswich. Mr. Rust was +born of Baptist parents, and after serving as a clerk in a London +counting-house became a Baptist minister at Colchester, where he worked +from 1838 to 1841. Thence he went to Queen’s College, Cambridge, and +took his LL.B. degree in 1852, in which year he was ordained deacon by +Bishop Hinds, and in 1853 priest by the Bishop of Ely. Mr. Rust did much +literary work in the form of magazine articles, and was in many ways very +successful as an essayist. He was the author of “Higher Criticism: Some +Account of its Labours upon Primitive History,” published in 1889; +“Essays and Reviews”; “The Break of Day in the 18th Century: a History +and a Specimen of the first book of English Song” &c. + +11.—A meeting of Norwich traders was held at the Guildhall, at which it +was resolved to re-establish a Chamber of Commerce in the city. + +15.—Died at Bracondale, Mr. Henry Colman, last surviving son of Mr. +Robert Colman, of Rockland St. Andrew’s, in his 82nd year. He was one of +the eleven brothers Colman who constituted the famous cricket team. Mr. +Colman for several years represented the old Sixth Ward as a member of +the Norwich Town Council. + +19.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council the City Engineer (Mr. A. E. +Collins) presented a report which stated that a further sum of £200,000 +ought to be expended upon the Norwich sewerage works. The Council +adopted a scheme involving the expenditure of £72,000 beyond the sum of +£80,000 authorised by the Norwich Corporation Act. (_See_ January 22nd, +1896.) + +21.—Brigadier-General Bulwer presented the long-service medal to past and +present members of Volunteer battalions in Norfolk. The presentations +were made at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. + +24.—A hurricane such as had never been known in living memory occurred on +this day (Sunday). It swept over city and county, and its effects were +experienced in the greater portion of the south-eastern district. Houses +were unroofed and partially demolished, great chimney stacks destroyed, +strong walls levelled, and solid masonry overthrown. There was not a +park in the county which was not despoiled, and many thousands of trees +were torn from the soil. Fortunately the storm happened upon a day when +people were able to keep to their houses, otherwise the loss of life must +have been serious. Only one casualty was admitted to the Norfolk and +Norwich Hospital. The storm was of short duration. At dawn a blustering +March wind prevailed, as the day advanced the weather became squally, +then the wind blew from W.S.W. and attained cyclonic intensity, at 4.30 +p.m. the hurricane subsided. On the 25th Norfolk presented a vast scene +of devastation. + +30.—Died at his residence, the Abbey, Westacre, Mr. Anthony Hamond, in +his 61st year. The eldest son of Mr. Anthony Hamond, he was educated at +Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered upon the duties and +pursuits of a country gentleman. He became very popular as master of the +West Norfolk Foxhounds, and on his retirement from the mastership was +presented with his portrait. In the dark days of agricultural depression +the tenantry on the estate experienced the practical sympathy of Mr. +Hamond, who was a most kind and generous landlord. In the breeding of +cattle and horses he took great interest. His shorthorns obtained wide +celebrity, and his shires were equally well known. Mr. Hamond first +conceived the idea of a stud-book for the Norfolk hackney; he was one of +the founders of the Hackney Horse Society, was elected first president in +June, 1883, and held office until June, 1885. He consistently supported +the policy of the moderate Liberals, but when the great disruption came +he unhesitatingly threw in his lot with the Unionists. On the death of +Sir William Bagge in 1880 Mr. Hamond was approached by the Liberal +electors of West Norfolk with the view of obtaining his consent to his +nomination in opposition to Mr. Tyssen Amherst, but he declined, and the +Conservative candidate was returned without a contest. A General +Election took place a month afterwards, when Mr. Hamond was induced to +stand against Mr. Amherst and Mr. Bentinck, and was defeated. He was +much interested in the administrative work of the county, was a member of +the County Council, and chairman of the Small Holdings and Allotments +Committee. Mr. Hamond, who was a magistrate and a Deputy-Lieutenant for +the county, married the only daughter of Sir Thomas Hare, of Stow. + + +APRIL. + + +2.—The lectures on ecclesiastical history were resumed at Norwich +Cathedral by Archdeacon Sinclair, of London, who gave an address on “The +Life and Times of Cyprian.” On the 17th the Rev. J. T. Kingsmill, D.D., +vicar of Hockering, lectured on “The Life and Times of St. Chrysostom.” +Another series commenced on November 21st with a lecture by the Rev. +Professor Gwatkin, of Cambridge, on “The Life and Times of Eusebius”; +followed on November 28th by the Rev. Professor Ince, D.D., of Oxford, on +“The Life and Times of Athanasius”; and on December 5th, by the Rev. A. +E. Brooke, M.A., of King’s College, Cambridge, on “The Life and Times of +Origen.” (_See_ February 5th, 1896.) + +2.—Mr. Clement Higgins, Q.C., M.P., for Mid Norfolk, applied for the +stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, and on the 4th the Unionist party +in the constituency opened the election campaign, and at a large meeting +at Wymondham Mr. R. T. Gurdon was unanimously adopted a candidate in +opposition to Mr. F. W. Wilson. The writ was issued by the House of +Commons on the 8th, and the nomination took place at East Dereham on the +16th. Great activity was displayed by both parties up to the day of +polling on the 23rd. The result was declared at Dereham on the 24th as +follows:—Gurdon, 4,112; Wilson, 3,904. + +4.—Died at his residence, the Woodlands, Norwich, Mr. Robert Fitch, in +his 93rd year. Mr. Fitch, who was a native of Ipswich, was a partner in +the firm of Fitch and Chambers, chemists and druggists, Norwich. In 1858 +he was appointed upon the commission of the peace, and in 1867 became +Sheriff of Norwich. He was connected with the directorate of several +public companies, and for more than thirty years was an honorary +secretary of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society. Among his +literary contributions to the society’s proceedings was an admirable +description of “The Gates of Norwich.” Mr. Fitch was widely known as a +collector, and possessed one of the finest private collections in the +kingdom, which some years before his death he handed over to the trustees +of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. + +29.—Died at Letheringsett Hall, Mr. William Hardy Cozens-Hardy, aged 88. +A son of Jeremiah and Mary Ann Cozens, of Sprowston, he assumed the name +of Cozens-Hardy in 1842. In 1830 he married Sarah, daughter of Thomas +Theobald; on July 21st, 1880, he celebrated his “golden” wedding, and in +1890 his “diamond” wedding. Mrs. Cozens-Hardy died in 1891. In his +early life he was articled to Messrs. Foster and Unthank, solicitors. +Mr. Cozens-Hardy was a regular attendant at Quarter Sessions, and was for +many years chairman of the Holt bench of magistrates. A Liberal in +politics he conferred many benefits upon his immediate neighbourhood. In +1851 he built the British school at Holt; he was the promoter of the Holt +Literary Society, and the founder of the Reepham Provident Society, one +of the most important organizations of the kind in the Eastern Counties. +For fifty years he was connected with the Erpingham Union, and it was +mainly due to him that the workhouse was erected at West Beckham in 1851. + + +MAY. + + +18.—A severe gale wrought much havoc on the Norfolk coast. The Short +Blue fishing fleet suffered severely, the Yarmouth smack Royal Standard +was lost, many other casualties occurred, and remarkable escapes were +recorded. + +19.—Died at his residence, Harford Lodge, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles +Edward Bignold, Mayor of Norwich. Col. Bignold, whose age was 64, was +fourth son of Sir Samuel Bignold, some time Member of Parliament for the +city. In his boyhood he became associated with his father in the +official direction of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society; from 1858 +until the death of Sir Samuel in 1875, he was his assistant; and after +that date he filled the office of secretary of the society. In 1852 he +joined the West Norfolk Militia as lieutenant, and ultimately attained +the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He married in 1856, Cecilia, third +daughter of Mr. J. F. Graver Browne, of Morley Hall, Wymondham. On five +occasions Col. Bignold was elected to the Norwich Town Council as +representative of the old Fifth Ward; in 1889 he sustained his only +electoral defeat, and was thereupon elected to an aldermanic seat. A +staunch and earnest Churchman and Conservative he was for many years +president of the old Eldon Club, and shortly before the death of his +father was elected leader of the Conservative party in Norwich, and +enjoyed until the close of his life the loyal and enthusiastic adherence +of the rank and file of the party. Col. Bignold was a Deputy-Lieutenant +and magistrate for the county of Norfolk, and a justice of the peace for +the city, and one of the original members of the Norfolk County Club. +[“It is nearly a century and a quarter since any Mayor of Norwich died in +his official year. The last event of the kind occurred in 1774—Mr. John +Langley Watts.”] Upon the death of Col. Bignold votes of sympathy and +condolence were passed by various public bodies, and on the 26th the +Bishop of Exeter preached the funeral sermon at the church of St. Mark, +Lakenham. + +21.—The Prince of Wales arrived at Yarmouth, and on the 22nd attended a +ball given at the Royal Assembly Rooms by the officers of the Norfolk +Artillery Militia. On the 23rd his Royal Highness, as hon. colonel, +inspected the regiment, and on the 24th left by special train for +Norwich. + +24.—The Prince of Wales visited Norwich for the purpose of unveiling the +Pelham memorial throne at the Cathedral. His Royal Highness was received +at Thorpe railway-station by the Dean, the Deputy-Mayor (Sir Peter Eade), +and the Sheriff (Mr. S. G. Hill), and escorted by a detachment of the 1st +King’s Dragoon Guards was driven to the Cathedral. The Bishop and the +Cathedral body met his Royal Highness at the great west door, whence a +procession was formed to the choir, where a vast congregation had +assembled to witness the ceremony. The Prince having unveiled the +throne, was thanked for his gracious presence by Mr. Samuel Hoare, M.P., +on behalf of the diocese. His Royal Highness afterwards inspected +various points of interest in the Cathedral, and was entertained to +luncheon at the Deanery by the Dean and Mrs. Lefroy. At 3.10 p.m. he +proceeded to town by ordinary train. The memorial throne was designed by +Mr. John L. Pearson, R.A., and with the exception of the sculptured +figures, which were carved by Mr. N. Hitch, of London, the work was +executed by Messrs. Cornish and Gaymer, of North Walsham. + +28.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Sir Peter Eade was +elected to fill the casual vacancy of Mayor, occasioned by the death of +Col. Bignold. The Mayor-elect nominated Mr. C. R. Gilman as his deputy. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—The 1st Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment formed a marching column +of 200 of all ranks, and under the command of Col. Dawson proceeded to +Stratton Strawless, where a camp was formed in the park. On the 2nd the +march was resumed to Blickling Park, where the column encamped, and in +the afternoon attended service at the parish church. On the morning of +the 3rd outpost duty was practised, and in the afternoon the column +marched to Norwich, and was dismissed at the Drill Hall. + +2.—A serious fire occurred on board the Jenny Lind steamboat at Foundry +Bridge, Norwich. + +11.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Lord Chief Justice Russell of +Killowen, Frederic Butcher, 15, carpenter’s apprentice, was indicted for +feloniously shooting at the Rev. Arthur Hamilton Upcher, with intent to +do him grievous bodily harm, at Baconsthorpe, on January 3rd. The +prisoner was found guilty, and recommended to mercy on account of his +youth. He was sentenced to nine calendar months’ imprisonment. + +—At the Norwich Assizes, before the Lord Chief Justice, Frederick Miles, +27, labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder of Mildred Miles, his +wife, at St. John Timberhill, Norwich, on June 1st. The jury returned a +verdict of guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy on the ground +that he had received great provocation. His lordship passed sentence of +death, which was afterwards commuted to penal servitude for life. + +15.—Died at 24, Fairfax Road, South Hampstead, London, Mr. Philip Soman, +senior proprietor of the “Norfolk Daily Standard,” aged 60. + +18.—The old Toll House premises at Yarmouth were opened as a museum. + +19.—Mr. Henry Staniforth Patteson was elected leader of the Conservative +party in Norwich, in place of Lieut.-Col. Bignold, deceased. + +21.—A terrible tragedy occurred near Yarmouth. George Stanford, a bank +clerk, aged 25, in the employment of Messrs. Gurneys and Co., drowned his +_fiancée_, Edith Mary Argyle, in the Steam Mill dyke, at Caister, and +then committed suicide by drowning himself. + +29.—The foundation-stone of the new church of St. Peter, Sheringham, was +laid by Mrs. Upcher, the principal contributor of the total sum of +£7,000, the estimated cost of the building. The church was designed by +Messrs. St. Aubyn and Wadling, of Lamb Buildings, Temple, London, and the +contractors were Messrs. Bardell Bros., of King’s Lynn. + + +JULY. + + +1.—The election campaign was opened in Norwich by a meeting of the +Liberal Two Hundred held at the Agricultural Hall under the presidency of +Mr. George White, when Mr. Thomas Terrell, Q.C., 13, St. Petersburg +Place, Paddington, W., was adopted as the colleague of Mr. F. W. Verney. +The Conservative electors met at St. Andrew’s Hall on the 3rd, under the +presidency of Mr. Patteson, and the name of Sir Harry Bullard was +announced as the colleague of Mr. Samuel Hoare. On the 6th Earl Spencer +addressed a Liberal meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall, and on the 8th at the +same place Mr. Goschen was the principal speaker at a Conservative +meeting. Sir Harry Bullard, who had been absent in Norway, returned to +Norwich on the 10th, and was received with an extraordinary demonstration +of popular enthusiasm. The nomination took place on the 12th, and the +polling on the 16th, and the result was declared as follows:—Hoare, +8,166; Bullard, 8,034; Terrell, 7,330; Verney, 7,210. + +4.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Wymondham. In the absence of the president, Mr. J. J. Colman, the public +luncheon was presided over by Mr. R. Harvey Mason. The show closed on +the 5th. + +5.—Died at the Clyffe, Corton, Caroline, wife of Mr. J. J. Colman. Mrs. +Colman was the eldest daughter of Mr. W. H. Cozens-Hardy, of +Letheringsett Hall, and was in her 64th year. Her death was lamented by +all classes of citizens, and the representatives of all political parties +attended the funeral, which took place at the Rosary on the 10th. + +12.—Mr. T. Gibson Bowles (C.) and Mr. Hubert George Beaumont, Piccadilly +Chambers, London (L.), were nominated candidates for the representation +of King’s Lynn. Polling took place on the 15th: Bowles, 1,395; Beaumont, +1,326. + +—Sir John Colomb (C.) and Mr. J. M. Moorsom (L.) were nominated for Great +Yarmouth. Polling took place on the 16th: Colomb, 3,528; Moorsom, 2,893. + +13.—The nomination of candidates for South Norfolk took place at the +Shirehall, Norwich. Mr. Thomas Hamer Dolbey, Stratford House, Sutton, +Surrey, barrister-at-law, was proposed by the Liberals, and Mr. Francis +Taylor, of Diss, brewer, by the Unionists. Polling on the 17th: Taylor, +4,281; Dolbey, 3,445. + +—At the Shirehall, Norwich, Mr. Henry Rider Haggard, of Ditchingham +House, land owner and occupier, was nominated Unionist candidate, and Mr. +Robert John Price, of 104, Sloane Street, Chelsea, barrister-at-law, +Liberal candidate, for East Norfolk. On the polling day, the 19th, the +Unionist candidate and his supporters were attacked at Ludham by a gang +of Liberal roughs, and Mrs. William Hartcup, who occupied one of the +carriages, received a severe wound on the head from a stone thrown by a +person in the crowd. The incident gave rise to many expressions of +public indignation. The result of the election was declared at the +Shirehall, Norwich, on the 20th: Price, 4,606; Haggard, 4,408. (_See_ +July 30th.) + +—The nomination of candidates for North Norfolk took place at Aylsham. +Mr. Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, Q.C., of Letheringsett Hall, was +nominated by the Liberals, and Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp, Bart., of Mergate +Hall, Braconash, banker, by the Unionists. The polling on the 22nd +resulted as follows: Cozens-Hardy, 4,246; Kemp, 3,738. + +17.—Mr. Robert Thornhagh Gurdon, of Letton Hall, Unionist, and Mr. F. W. +Wilson, newspaper proprietor and farmer, of the Dale, Scarning, Liberal, +were nominated at East Dereham as candidates for Mid Norfolk. Polling +took place on the 24th: Wilson, 4,220; Gurdon, 4,086. + +—At Swaffham candidates were nominated for the representation of +South-west Norfolk. Mr. Thomas Leigh Hare, of Stow Bardolph, was +proposed by the Unionists, and Mr. Richard Winfrey, Long Sutton, +Lincolnshire, farmer and newspaper proprietor, by the Liberals. The +polling took place on the 25th: Hare, 3,968; Winfrey, 3,762. + +18.—Mr. Joseph Arch, of Barford, Warwickshire, officially described as a +labourer, was at King’s Lynn nominated Liberal candidate for North-west +Norfolk. The Unionist nominee was Mr. Edward Kendrick Bunbury Tighe, +Woodstock, Kilkenny, Ireland, and Albany Chambers, Piccadilly, London, +lieutenant in the Army Reserve, and justice of the peace for Kilkenny. +The polling took place on the 26th: Arch, 4,817; Tighe, 3,520. + +—A shocking catastrophe occurred on Ormesby Broad. A sailing boat +occupied by nine young fishermen capsized in a sudden squall, and six of +the party were drowned. + +21.—Died, the veteran actor and theatrical manager, Mr. William Sidney +(Mr. Sidney Young), who for many years in the old days of stock companies +controlled the destinies of the Norwich Theatre. Mr. Sidney was a +capable exponent of character parts. Of late years he had devoted +himself almost entirely to stage management, and was responsible for the +staging of several of the most successful productions at the Adelphi and +other London theatres. + +30.—At Smallburgh Petty Sessions, Lord John Wodehouse was summoned for +assaulting Mr. John Gaymer, builder and contractor, at North Walsham, on +July 17th; and William Saul, a dealer, was charged with aiding and +abetting. The complainant was presiding at a Conservative meeting held +in North Walsham, marketplace, when Lord Wodehouse seized him by the +coat, dragged him from the chair, and using most foul language offered to +fight him for £50. In this he was abetted by Saul. The chairman of the +Bench (Sir H. J. Preston, Bart.) said the redeeming part of the case was +that there was no actual violence that had resulted in injury. Lord +Wodehouse was fined £3 7s. 6d., and costs £1 12s. 6d., and Saul £1, and +costs to the like amount. The Lord Chancellor afterwards removed the +name of Lord Wodehouse from the commission of the peace. At the same +court nine persons were summoned for taking part in the riot at Ludham on +the day of the East Norfolk election, and the majority were convicted and +fined in various amounts. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—The parish church of Burnham Thorpe, restored at the cost of about +£7,000 as a memorial to Nelson, who was a native of the village, was +opened for public worship on this the anniversary of the battle of the +Nile. The work was carried out from designs by Sir A. Bloomfield. + +8.—Mr. John Edmund Wentworth Addison, Q.C., who had been appointed to +fill the vacancy in the judgeship of the Norfolk County Court on the +retirement of Mr. E. P. Price, Q.C., took his seat for the first time at +the Aylsham Court. Mr. Addison was formerly Member of Parliament for +Ashton-under-Lyne, and Recorder of Preston. + +12.—Dramatic performances were given at Norwich Theatre by the 1st King’s +Dragoon Guards on this and the five succeeding nights in aid of the funds +of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. The pieces produced were “Easy +Shaving,” and a burlesque of “Faust.” + +14.—The Elmham shorthorns and red polls, the property of Mr. Fulcher, +were sold by Mr. John Thornton, and realised the total sum of £1,961 3s. +6d. + +25.—The Hunstanton yawl, Princess of Wales, with sixteen persons on +board, capsized whilst on a trip to Skegness, and five were drowned. + +29.—The 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, after being quartered in Norwich for +over two years, marched for Colchester. The headquarters of the 7th +Dragoon Guards marched in on September 18th. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +12.—The premises of Messrs. Sullivan and Co., wholesale confectioners, +West End Street, Norwich, were destroyed by fire. + +19.—The Channel Squadron arrived in Yarmouth Roads. The vessels included +the Royal Sovereign (flagship of Vice-Admiral Lord Walter Kerr), Empress +of India, Resolution, and Repulse, battleships; the Blenheim, Endymion, +and Bellona, cruisers; the Halcyon, gunboat; and the Speedy, torpedo +gunboat. The officers and men numbered 4,500. Civic and public +entertainments were given in honour of the visit. The squadron steamed +south on the 24th. + +23.—Climatic variations of a remarkable character were recorded. The +thermometer on the grass in the morning fell to freezing point (32 +degrees), at two p.m. it stood at 77.2 degrees in the shade, one degree +higher than the point known as summer heat, and about seven degrees +higher than the average _maximum_ day readings for the month of July. In +the screen the thermometer fell to 38.4 degrees, the range of temperature +for the day being nearly 40 degrees. The _minimum_ was about 12 degrees +below, and the _maximum_ about 12 degrees above the usual standard for +September. On the 24th the _maximum_ shade temperature was 75.8 degrees. + +25.—At the Guildhall, Norwich, the honorary freedom of the city was +conferred upon the Mayor (Sir Peter Eade). At the conclusion of the +proceedings the members of the Corporation proceeded to the Castle +Museum, where a portrait of the Mayor, painted by Mr. Stanhope A. Forbes, +was unveiled by Lord Walsingham. + +27.—Died at Welborne Rectory, the Rev. George Robert Winter, Hon. Canon +of Norwich Cathedral, in his 69th year. He was a son of Mr. Roger +Winter, barrister-at-law, Calcutta, and grandson of Mr. John Winter, of +Acton, many years solicitor to the Bank of England. Educated at Eaton +and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Canon Winter was for many years vicar +of Swaffham. In his University days he was a famous athlete, president +of the Boat Club, stroke of the Brasenose boat, and a bold and fearless +horseman. In addition to his other accomplishments Canon Winter was a +very clever artist. + +28.—Died at Ipswich, Dr. John Ellor Taylor, F.G.S., F.L.S., aged 60. Dr. +Taylor was the son of a foreman in a Lancashire cotton factory, and early +in life was sent to the engineer’s shop of the London and North-Western +Railway, at Crewe. He subsequently removed to Manchester, and +contributed to the newspapers, and on adopting journalism as an +occupation secured an appointment on the “Norwich Mercury.” During the +smallpox epidemic in 1872 he contributed a remarkable series of articles +to the “Eastern Daily Press” on “Haunts and Homes of Smallpox in +Norwich,” the materials for which he obtained by personal visits to the +dwellings of the stricken people. Resolutely declining to be vaccinated, +he contracted the disease, which considerably marred his hitherto +handsome features. He left Norwich to become the curator of Ipswich +Museum and editor of “Hardwick’s Science Gossip,” and in 1885 visited +Australia on a lecturing tour. Dr. Taylor was the author of several +works, notably “Geological Stories,” “The Playtime Naturalist,” +“Half-hours in the Green Lanes,” “Half-hours at the Seaside,” “The +Sagacity and Morality of Plants,” &c. + + +OCTOBER. + + +8.—The Church Congress commenced its proceedings at Norwich. The members +were welcomed at the Guildhall by the Mayor (Sir Peter Eade), after which +the Congress sermons were preached at the Cathedral by the Archbishop of +York, and at St. Peter Mancroft by the Bishop of Salisbury. The +sessional proceedings were opened at the Agricultural Hall at two p.m. by +the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, who delivered the inaugural address, and +afterwards an address of welcome was presented by the Nonconformist +bodies. Sectional meetings took place day by day at St. Andrew’s Hall, +the Conservative Club Assembly Room, St. Giles’ Street, and in the +Assembly Room at the Agricultural Hall. An ecclesiastical art exhibition +was held at St. Giles’ Hall (the old Skating Rink), and during the week +meetings of various Church societies took place. The Mayor and Mayoress +held a reception at the Castle Museum on the 11th, and the farewell +sermon was preached at the Cathedral on the 13th by the Bishop of +Peterborough. + +21.—Died at Christchurch, Mr. Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. The son of a +physician, he was born at Norwich in 1813, and educated at the Grammar +School under Valpy. He afterwards proceeded to Geneva, where he +completed his education. Mr. Reeve began his literary career by a +translation of De Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” published in +1835. It was followed, in 1840, by a translation of M. Guizot’s +“Washington.” In 1837 Mr. Reeve was appointed Registrar of the Privy +Council, and occupied the post for exactly fifty years. He was a +frequent contributor to the “Edinburgh Review,” of which he ultimately +held the editorship for forty years. + +22.—The first of several meetings held in furtherance of a projected line +of railway between Forncett and Haddiscoe took place at Hempnall. The +distance proposed to be covered was fourteen miles, and the estimated +cost of a single line, £1,500 per mile, or a total of £21,000. The +directors of the Great Eastern Railway in October, 1896, intimated that +they did not see their way to provide the railway communication +suggested. (_See_ April 23rd, 1898.) + +27.—The sixth specimen recorded in Norfolk of Ray’s bream (_Brama Raii_) +was taken in the nets of a Yarmouth drifter. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +2.—The Norwich Volunteer Medical Staff Corps was disbanded. + +—A public meeting representative of the agricultural and trading +interests, convened by the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, was held at +the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, to consider what action should be taken +in consequence of the publication of the report of the Royal Commission +on Agriculture by the Assistant-Commissioner (Mr. R. Henry Rew) to bring +the disastrous condition of agriculture in Norfolk under the attention of +the Government. Resolutions were adopted requesting the Prime Minister +to receive a deputation of Norfolk agriculturists. On the 6th Lord +Salisbury replied that he was so well aware of the existing state of +things that he would be reluctant to put a deputation to the trouble of +attending to lay their views before him especially as the whole question +was occupying the attention of the Government. He promised to give +special attention to certain points afterwards submitted to him by the +secretary to the Chamber. (_See_ February 7th, 1896.) + +9.—Mr. John Moore was elected Mayor and Mr. George Arthur Coller +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +13.—In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, before Mr. Justice +Romer, was heard the action Gould _v._ Coaks. This was a new phase of +the prolonged litigation arising from the Crown Bank failure. This +action was brought by the plaintiff, the trustee in the bankruptcy of +Harvey and Hudson’s Bank, against Mr. Coaks, and the representatives of +Mr. E. C. Bailey, deceased, and of Mr. Hill, deceased. The plaintiff +asked for an account of all monies received, for an enquiry of all +purchases, leases, and profits which had been made or received by Mr. +Coaks in connection with the estate, and also that interest upon the sums +found due should be calculated as from the date of the receipt until time +of payment. The argument in support of the plaintiff’s case lasted until +the 15th, when Mr. Warmington, Q.C., by whom he was represented, said +that an arrangement had been arrived at by counsel on both sides. The +plaintiff proposed to take an order of a general character as between +himself and Mr. Coaks of all sums he had received in respect of the +estate of Sir Robert Harvey. Mr. Coaks also gave up all the purchases +that he had made either of the bankrupt’s estate or the separate estate, +and there would be the usual enquiry with regard to them in order to +bring out those which were profitable and those which were not, giving to +the plaintiff the opportunity of taking those which were profitable and +to leave the others according to the usual plan, and there would be an +account of profits. There would also be an enquiry as to balances in Mr. +Coaks’ hands in respect to which he would be charged with interest. The +costs were to be moderated, and so moderated as that no costs were to be +allowed which had been charged elsewhere. (_See_ August 5th, 1896.) + + +DECEMBER. + + +8.—Died at Parham, Suffolk, in his 80th year, the Right Rev. George +Hills, D.D. He became in 1848 vicar of Yarmouth, and was appointed in +1853 Honorary Canon of Norwich Cathedral. In 1859 he was consecrated +first Bishop of British Columbia. In 1892 Bishop Hills exchanged +colonial work for the country benefice where he died. + +14.—Died at 32, Albert Hall Mansions, London, Mrs. Jones, widow of the +Rev. Canon Herbert Jones, and daughter of Mr. Daniel Gurney, of North +Runcton. She was the authoress of several works, including “Memoirs of +Princess Charlotte,” and “Sandringham, Past and Present.” Mrs. Jones had +also contributed many interesting articles to the “Edinburgh Review.” + +15.—Died at Diss, Mr. Thomas Edward Amyot, F.R.C.S., eldest son of Mr. +Thomas Amyot, F.R.S., F.S.A., aged 78. Of geology Mr. Amyot had much +practical knowledge, was one of the first to write about the famed Hoxne +pits, and he also assisted Canon Greenwell in his examination of the +Grimes’ graves. With his pencil he was very clever, rather after the +style of Caldicott, and quite as original. His facility in writing verse +was well known. His “Legend of Cologne” was criticised as being not +inferior to “Ingoldsby”; and his “Oleum Jecoris Aselli,” after the rhythm +of “Hiawatha,” was pronounced by Bishop Goodwin as being one of the +cleverest things of the kind he had ever read. Astronomy was also one of +Mr. Amyot’s favourite studies. + +19.—Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, visited +Norwich for the purpose of inaugurating the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home +in Queen Street. His lordship was escorted from Thorpe railway-station +to the Home by a detachment of the 7th Dragoon Guards. After inspecting +the premises he proceeded to the Guildhall, where he was entertained to +luncheon by the Mayor (Mr. John Moore). His lordship afterwards attended +the inaugural meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall, and delivered an +address. + + + +1896. + + +JANUARY. + + +21.—The Norwich Town Council approved a scheme formulated by the Charity +Commissioners for the administration of Anguish’s endowment for boys. It +involved the expenditure of about £1,000 per year for the education, +under certain conditions, of poor boys in the city. + +—The announcement was made that Mr. Clare Sewell Read had decided to +relinquish farming in Norfolk and to settle in or near London. Mr. Read +gave a farewell address at East Dereham Market Tea on January 31st; and +on September 19th the Norfolk Executive Committee adopted, on the motion +of Mr. R. T. Gurdon, a resolution recording the valuable services +rendered to the county by Mr. Read, as chairman of the committee, in all +matters relating to the diseases of animals. At Honingham on September +21st Mr. and Mrs. Read were presented with farewell gifts by the +inhabitants of that and adjoining parishes on the occasion of their +departure after thirty years’ residence in the district. (_See_ +September 25th, 1897.) + +22.—Mr. F. H. Tulloch, an inspector of the Local Government Board, held +an inquiry at the Guildhall, Norwich, as to an application by the Town +Council for sanction to borrow £72,000 for sewerage purposes, and to +appropriate the New Mills estate for the purposes of a power-station for +the City works. On September 29th the Council accepted tenders for the +construction of sewerage and surface water sewers in district No. 5 for +£17,480, and for the construction of river works and power-station +buildings on the New Mills estate for £5,039. (_See_ October 17th, +1899.) + +28.—A burglary was committed at the shop of Mr. Edward Morley, jeweller +and silversmith, the Walk, Norwich, and property to the value of nearly +£2,000 stolen. The thieves were never discovered. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +3.—Died at Billingford Hall, East Dereham, Lady Parry, widow of +Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, the distinguished Arctic +navigator. Her ladyship, who was in her 88th year, was a daughter of the +Rev. Robert Hankinson, of Walpole, and first married, in 1831, Mr. Samuel +Hoare, of Hampstead. Her second marriage took place on June 29th, 1841. + +5.—The Ecclesiastical Lectures were resumed at Norwich Cathedral by +Bishop Barry, who dealt with “The Life and Times of St. Ambrose.” The +concluding lecture was given on March 4th by the Rev. H. C. G. Moule, +D.D., Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, on “The Life and Times of St. +Augustine.” + +7.—A deputation representing the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture waited +upon the First Lord of the Treasury (Mr. Balfour) and the Minister of +Agriculture (Mr. Walter Long) for the purpose of urging various points +for the alleviation of the distressed condition of agriculture. + +10.—Mr. Henry Bowyer Sparke, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Bowyer Sparke, of +Gunthorpe Hall, was presented with a massive silver punch bowl by the +tenantry on the estate on the occasion of his coming of age. + +15.—A conference of delegates representing the Boards of Guardians in the +county was held at the Shirehall, Norwich, to consider a proposal adopted +at a meeting held the previous year in favour of the amalgamation of +workhouses. + +17.—The infant Prince of the Duke and Duchess of York was christened at +Sandringham church by the Bishop of Norwich in the names of Albert +Frederick Arthur George. + +28.—Mr. H. S. Patteson was entertained at a banquet given at the Maid’s +Head Hotel, Norwich, in recognition of his life-long services to +Conservatism and in celebration of the attainment of his 80th year. Mr. +Patteson was presented with a replica in silver gilt of three pieces of +ancient plate in the possession of the Corporation. + + +MARCH. + + +3.—Dr. Thomson, medical superintendent of the Norfolk County Asylum, +delivered a lecture before the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical +Society on “The New Photography,” and gave a practical demonstration of +the Röntgen rays. + +10.—Died at Cincinnati, while travelling in the United States as a member +of Sir Henry Irving’s company, Mr. Henry Howe. Born in Norwich on March +31st, 1812, he was the son of a Quaker gentleman named Hutchinson, and +was educated at the Ackworth School of the Society of Friends in +Lancashire, where, for a time, he had John Bright as a fellow scholar. +At the age of 19 he absconded from home and joined a strolling company. +Mr. Howe made his first appearance in London at the Victoria Theatre in +October, 1834, and afterwards became a member of the Covent Garden +company under Macready. In 1881 he joined the Lyceum company and +remained with them uninterruptedly until the time of his death. + + +APRIL. + + +8.—Captain Wiggins, the Arctic explorer and navigator, who had recently +returned from Siberia, lectured in Norwich upon the Nansen expedition. + +9.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference commenced at the Town Hall, Ipswich, +under the presidency of the Bishop of the Diocese, and was continued on +the 10th. + +12.—Died at Lady Lane, Norwich, Mr. Edward Samuel Bignold. Born on +October 13th, 1821, he was son of Mr. Thomas Bignold, and nephew of Sir +Samuel Bignold. Mr. Bignold held several public appointments, including +the office of City Coroner, to which he succeeded on the death of Mr. +William Wilde in 1866. + +—Thanksgiving services were held at the church of St. Peter Mancroft, +Norwich, on the occasion of the re-opening of the tower after restoration +at the cost of £1,200. + +13.—A military tournament by the 7th Dragoon Guards commenced at the +Agricultural Hall, Norwich, and concluded on the 18th. + +18.—Dr. Bunnett was presented at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, with an +illuminated address and a cheque for £280, on the attainment of his +“musical jubilee.” + +23.—A deputation of Norfolk farmers and graziers waited upon Mr. Walter +Long, President of the Board of Agriculture, and requested that a clause +might be inserted in the Government Cattle Diseases Bill permitting the +importation of live Canadian cattle. Mr. Long was unable to comply with +the demands of the deputation. + + +MAY. + + +1.—At a special meeting of the Board of Governors of the Jenny Lind +Infirmary, held at the Guildhall, Norwich, Mr. Colman offered to present +to the charity, as a memorial to his late wife, the necessary site upon +which to erect a new infirmary. The offer was gratefully accepted, and +the Committee of Management were empowered to take steps for collecting +funds and for preparing plans. (_See_ January 23rd, 1897.) + +5.—Mr. R. W. Ladell, solicitor, was elected by the Norwich Town Council +to the office of City Coroner, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. E. S. +Bignold. + +7.—Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their London company appeared at Norwich +Theatre in “A Scrap of Paper.” “A White Lie” was produced on the 8th, +and “The Ironmaster” on the 9th. + +12.—Mr. J. L. Toole with his London company appeared at the Assembly +Room, Agricultural Hall, Norwich, in the comic sporting play +“Thoroughbred.” + +15.—Lord Tweedmouth, as president of the Norwich Gladstone Club, +delivered his inaugural address to the members at the Assembly Room, +Agricultural Hall, Norwich. + +21.—The annual training of the Loyal Suffolk Hussars (Yeomanry Cavalry), +commanded by Lieut.-Col. A. G. Lucas, commenced at Yarmouth. + +25.—Louis Tussaud’s exhibition “All the World in Wax” was opened at the +Agricultural Hall, Norwich. One of the attractions was the display for +the first time in Norwich of the cinematograph or “living pictures.” + + +JUNE. + + +1.—Dr. Jameson, of Transvaal raid fame, travelling as Dr. Johnson, +accompanied by Dr. Rutherford Harris, visited Norwich, and stayed at the +Maid’s Head Hotel. + +2.—The coming of age of Mr. John Calthorpe Blofeld, eldest son of Mr. +Blofeld, of Hoveton House, was celebrated by the tenantry on the Hoveton +estate. + +11.—Died at Wreningham Rectory, the Rev. Arthur Wilson Upcher, who for 48 +years was rector of Ashwellthorpe and Wreningham. Born at Sheringham in +1815, he was an excellent oar, and rowed number seven in the Cambridge +boat when the first University boat race was contested from Westminster +to Putney in 1836. Mr. Upcher was also a remarkably good shot. + +13.—The announcement was made that Messrs. Gurneys and Co. had issued a +circular stating the completion of arrangements for an important +amalgamation of the businesses of certain private banks as a company +under the name of Barclay and Co., Limited. The registered capital was +£6,000,000. On October 31st the members of the old firm of Messrs. +Gurneys and Co. were presented with a massive silver shield mounted on +solid oak, and an illuminated address in which the subscribers, the +citizens of Norwich, expressed their high appreciation of the long and +honourable career of the firm and the influence for good exercised +individually by the members. The presentation was made by the Mayor (Mr. +John Moore). + +19.—In the Queen’s Bench Division, before the Lord Chief Justice and a +special jury, the action Austin _v._ the Central News, Limited, and +several provincial newspapers, the “Norfolk News” included, came on for +trial. Mr. Austin, M.P. for West Limerick, complained that the +defendants had published a libel concerning him, in a paragraph stating +that in a speech he had sympathised with dynamiters. The jury found a +verdict for the plaintiff, damages £1,000, of which the “Norfolk News” +Company were adjudged to pay £100. + +30.—A recumbent effigy placed in the north transept of Norwich Cathedral +to the memory of the late Bishop Pelham was unveiled by the Rev. Canon +Patteson. It was the work of Mr. James Forsyth, sculptor, of Finchley +Road, Hampstead. + + +JULY. + + +1.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association opened at East +Dereham. The Hon. Ailwyn E. Fellowes, M.P., presided at the luncheon. +The exhibition closed on the 2nd. + +—The octo-centenary thanksgiving services commenced at Norwich Cathedral. +The opening service was attended by the high official dignitaries of +county and city, who entered the Cathedral in procession, marshalled by +officers of the 7th Dragoon Guards. The Archbishop of Armagh preached to +a vast congregation, and at the conclusion of the service the Dean and +Mrs. Lefroy entertained a large and distinguished company to luncheon in +a marquee erected in the Deanery grounds. The services were continued +throughout the week. + +1.—A party of American Congregationalists on a tour through Europe +arrived at Norwich from Ely, attended the commemoration service at +Norwich Cathedral, and were included among the guests at the Dean’s +luncheon. In the evening they were present at a gathering held in their +honour at the Old Meeting House, “the oldest home of Congregationalism in +the city.” The Mayor (Mr. John Moore) presided, and the visitors were +accorded an enthusiastic reception. + +9.—Three sisters, Clara, Eleanor, and Ida Elizabeth Louisa Vipan, were +drowned whilst wandering upon the treacherous sands at Holkham. + +10.—The old colours of the 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment, brought from +Aldershot by Colonel Shepherd and other officers, were laid up in the +choir of Norwich Cathedral. The colours were borne under escort from the +west door to the choir, the band of the 4th Battalion playing “The March +of the Israelites.” With the usual ceremony the colours were then handed +over to the care and custody of the Dean and Chapter. + +21.—Mr. Ben Greet’s Company of Woodland Players gave at Bracondale Woods, +Norwich, open air representations of “Twelfth Night” and of scenes from +“Much Ado about Nothing,” in aid of the building fund of the Jenny Lind +Infirmary. + +22.—The marriage took place at Buckingham Palace of Princess Maud and +Prince Charles of Denmark. Their Royal Highnesses were enthusiastically +received at Lynn and Sandringham on their way to Appleton Hall. At +Norwich the marriage was celebrated by the ringing of bells and by the +display of flags on the public buildings. The county of Norfolk +presented to their Royal Highnesses as a wedding gift an oak chest +containing a service of plate, and the citizens of Norwich gave a +handsomely appointed victoria. Gifts were also sent by the boroughs of +Yarmouth and Lynn, and by the tenantry on the Sandringham estate. + + +AUGUST. + + +2.—The Norfolk Volunteer Infantry Brigade went into camp at Colchester +under the command of Brigadier-General W. E. G. L. Bulwer. + +5.—The Lord Chief Justice, with whom was Mr. Justice Lawrence, sitting as +a divisional court, delivered judgment in an application “in _re_ a +solicitor, _ex parte_ the Incorporated Law Society.” In this case the +Statutory Committee of the society on July 10th, 1896, made a long and +elaborate report, in which they stated that a certain number of +allegations of professional misconduct had been proved to their +satisfaction. The Lord Chief Justice dealt at considerable length with +various points in the case, and concluded by saying: “The court would be +failing in its duty if it did not in the most emphatic way mark its sense +of the scandalous story disclosed in this report.” The order of the +court was “that Isaac Bugg Coaks, of Bank Plain, Norwich, be struck off +the rolls, and that he do pay the costs of the inquiry before the +Statutory Committee and the costs of this application.” + +26.—Mr. Fred Morgan, lessee of Norwich Theatre, was presented with a +massive silver Monteith punch bowl and a purse of gold by members of the +theatrical profession and personal friends. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +2.—Died at Adelaide Place, Windsor, in her 91st year, Miss Jane Rigby, +“second daughter and last surviving child of Dr. Edward Rigby, of +Norwich.” + +12.—A demonstration took place at Norwich in aid of the funds of the +Royal National Lifeboat Institution. + +27.—Died at St. Andrew’s Parsonage, Norwich, the Rev. Arthur Charles +Copeman, M.B., vicar of St. Andrew’s, Honorary Canon of Norwich +Cathedral, and rural dean of Norwich, aged 72. He was the youngest son +of Mr. Edward Breese Copeman, and was born at Coltishall. At the age of +15 he was placed under the care of his eldest brother, Dr. Edward +Copeman. On entering King’s College, London, as a medical student, he +obtained his M.B. degree at the London University, won the gold medal in +anatomy and physiology, and became an associate of King’s College. At +the end of his student days he was offered, on the nomination of the +Chancellor of the University, and accepted it, a commission on the Army +Medical Staff. He soon resigned it, however, and commenced private +practice at Epsom, when it became his ambition to enter the Church, and +forthwith he applied himself to reading for Holy Orders. Ordained by the +Bishop of Worcester, he was in 1851 admitted deacon and priest, and for +the next five years held curacies at Warwick, Bury St. Edmund’s, and +Wisbech. In the last-named town he worked single-handed among the +cholera-stricken inhabitants, and received from them in recognition of +his services an address, a collection of theological works, and a cheque +for £100. Mr. Copeman’s work in Norwich began in January, 1857, when he +was elected vicar of St. Andrew’s. He was appointed rural dean in 1870, +and honorary canon in 1877. In 1881, on the death of Mr. Field, he +became chairman of the Norwich Board of Guardians. He had been a member +of the School Board, and was identified with the managing bodies of the +Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and other charitable institutions. + +29.—The Norwich Town Council, on a representation of the +Inspector-General of Cavalry that the city would cease to be the +headquarters of a cavalry regiment unless the drill-ground on Mousehold +Heath were enlarged, authorised the hiring of 62 acres of land adjoining +the drill-ground for a term not exceeding five years, at a rent to be +agreed upon. + + +OCTOBER. + + +6.—The Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival commenced at St. Andrew’s +Hall, Norwich, with a performance of “Jeptha.” On the morning of the 7th +was produced the dramatic oratorio “The Rose of Sharon,” and in the +evening Suite No. 1 “Peer Gynt” (Grieg), “Blest Pair of Sirens” (C. +Hubert H. Parry), conducted by the composer; a new violin concerto in D +Minor (Frederic Cliffe), composed expressly for the Festival, and +conducted by the composer, and the dramatic cantata “Fridolin” (A. +Randegger), conducted by the composer. “Elijah” was performed on the +morning of the 8th; and in the evening was produced the poetic cantata, +“Hero and Leander” (Liugi Mancinelli), composed expressly for the +Festival, and conducted by the composer. On the morning of the 9th was +performed the sacred trilogy, “Redemption” (Gounod); and in the evening, +overture, “Leonora,” No. 9 (Beethoven); Irish ballad for chorus and +orchestra, “Phaudrig Crohoore” (C. V. Stanford), first time of +performance, and conducted by the composer; suite in D Minor (Edward +German), conducted by the composer; and Act 3, “Lohengrin” (Wagner). The +principal _artistes_ were Madame Albani, Miss Gertrude Izard, Madame Ella +Russell, Miss Katherine Fisk, Miss Sarah Berry, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. +Reginald Brophy, Mr. Ben Davies, Mr. Watkin Mills, Mr. J. H. Brockbank, +Mr. Andrew Black, and M. Tivadar Nachez (violin). Mr. Alberto Randegger +was conductor. The receipts amounted to £5,191 17s. 2d., and the +payments to £4,738 4s. 7d. Of the balance £200 was allocated to the +local charities. + +7.—The Prince of Wales visited Norwich on the occasion of the Musical +Festival. Princess Louise, who with the Marquis of Lorne, was staying at +Sheringham as the guest of Lord and Lady Battersea, arrived at Thorpe +Station at 11.45, and awaited the arrival of the Royal train from +Wolferton. The Prince of Wales, who was accompanied by the Duke and +Duchess of York, arrived at twelve o’clock, and was received by Lord +Suffield, who presented to their Royal Highnesses the Mayor and Mayoress +and the Sheriff. Joined by Princess Louise the Royal party drove to St. +Andrew’s Hall, where they were received by Mr. F. Oddin Taylor, honorary +secretary to the Festival Committee, Mr. H. C. Bolingbroke, chairman of +the Orchestral Committee, and Mr. C. R. Gilman, Deputy-Mayor and chairman +of the Committee of Management. During an interval their Royal +Highnesses were entertained to luncheon by the Mayor in the old Crypt of +the Friars of the Sack; and at the conclusion of the performance they +proceeded to the County Club. The Duke and Duchess of York and Princess +Louise afterwards drove to the Cathedral, where they were received by the +Dean, and had afternoon tea at the Deanery; and the Prince of Wales +attended a Masonic gathering at the Agricultural Hall, where his Royal +Highness unveiled a bust of Lord Suffield, presented to his lordship to +mark the conclusion of his twenty years of office as Provincial Grand +Master. His Royal Highness subsequently visited the Soldiers’ and +Sailors’ Home, and proceeded to the Deanery. The Royal visitors +afterwards dined at the County Club, and attended the evening performance +at St. Andrew’s Hall. They left early, the Prince of Wales and the Duke +and Duchess of York for Sandringham, and Princess Louise for Overstrand. + +9.—Princess Louise, accompanied by the Marquis of Lorne, M.P., arrived at +Norwich from Cromer, and proceeding to the High School for Girls +distributed the prizes. + +11.—A memorial service was held at Norwich Cathedral on the death of the +Archbishop of Canterbury. “The late Archbishop’s sister, Miss Benson, +was for some years head-mistress of the Norwich High School for Girls +when that institution had its home in St. Giles’ Street at the house now +occupied by Sir Peter Eade.” + +16.—Died at Norwich, Mr. William Alexander Delaselle Eden, better known +as William Herbert, the actor. Before adopting the stage as a profession +he held a commission in the 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regiment. His +remains were interred at West Runton. + +17.—A recommendation by the Norfolk Highways Committee that the +management of main roads in the county should in future be imposed upon +the District Councils constituted therein, was rejected by the Norfolk +County Council by 44 votes against 20. + +21.—The first celebration of the anniversary of Trafalgar was observed in +Norwich, on the initiation of the Navy League, by the decoration of the +Nelson statue in the Cathedral Close. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +9.—Mr. Charles Rackham Gilman was elected Mayor and Mr. Henley Curl +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +18.—It was reported at a meeting of the Norwich Town Council that plans +had been deposited at the Town Clerk’s office for a proposed tramway +scheme. At a meeting of the Council on December 15th it was stated that +another scheme had been introduced, and was known as the Norwich and +District Light Railways. Its object was to bring into closer connection +with the city the outlying hamlets of Costessey, Thorpe St. Andrew, +Trowse Newton, and Eaton, and plans had been deposited by the New General +Traction Company, Limited. Both schemes were referred to committee. +(_See_ January 19th, 1897.) + +21.—The Duke of York, as president of the Norfolk and Norwich Christmas +Show Association, arrived at Norwich and visited the exhibition of the +association at the Agricultural Hall. His Royal Highness, on leaving the +show, had luncheon with Mr. Colman, at Carrow Abbey, and in the afternoon +left Trowse station for Sandringham. + +25.—At a meeting of the Norwich Board of Guardians a deputation was +appointed to visit towns where the rate-books were made out in street +older, and to obtain information upon the subject of an improved method +of collecting the rates. This important matter, originally introduced by +Mr. William Coke Gee, resulted in the adoption of a system by which the +rate-books were made out in street order, the daily collection of rates +introduced, the rate collectors’ districts redistributed, and the +half-yearly collection ended in March and September. + +27.—Died at Hill House, Mill Hill Road, Norwich, Mr. Thomas Ballan Stead, +permanent secretary of the Ancient Order of Foresters. Mr. Stead came +from Dundee on the removal of the headquarters of the society to Norwich. +Prior to his election as secretary to the Foresters, Mr. Stead was +engaged in journalism, and devoted himself mainly to studying questions +affecting the social well-being of the artizan classes. + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—Mr. Bancroft, the actor, gave a reading of Charles Dickens’ “Christmas +Carol” at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, in aid of the Blind School and the +Norwich Lying-in Charity. + +9.—A regimental ball given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, by Colonel +Rough and officers of the 7th Dragoon Guards. + +12.—Mr. Caleb Barker was elected secretary to the Norfolk Agricultural +Association in place of Mr. James Bacon, resigned. + +14.—A poll was opened for the election of a vicar for the parish of St. +Andrew, Norwich. The candidates were the Rev. A. G. Copeman, son of the +late vicar, the Rev. S. A. D. Suffling, and the Rev. R. Middleton. Mr. +Copeman received 170 votes, Mr. Suffling 129, and Mr. Middleton 46. + +28.—Died at Park Lane, Norwich, Mr. Manning Prentice Squirrell, aged 61. +He was a son of Mr. Robert Squirrell, of Stowmarket, and head of the firm +of Squirrell and Utting, merchants. In 1887 Mr. Squirrell was returned +as a Liberal member of the Norwich Town Council, but dissented from his +party, and at a subsequent election was defeated at the poll. A well +informed man, he took great interest in economic and fiscal questions, +and was an active member of the Norwich Science Gossip Club. + + + +1897. + + +JANUARY. + + +19.—The Norwich Town Council ordered a petition to be presented to +Parliament against a scheme for the construction of electric tramways in +the city. This course was adopted not in a hostile spirit, but with the +object of making the best terms possible for the citizens. On February +9th the Corporation gave its consent to the Tramways Bill then before +Parliament, and on February 23rd a petition signed by nearly 23,500 +inhabitants of the city was presented to the Town Council, asking them to +support the projected electric tramways as distinct from the proposed +scheme of light railways. The Parliamentary and By-laws Committee on +April 13th reported that they had considered side by side the merits and +proposals of the New General Traction Company, Limited, to construct +electric tramways in the city and Thorpe, and of the British Electric +Traction Company, Limited, to construct light railways in the city and +district, and were of opinion that the interests of the city would be +best served by making an arrangement with the former company. It was +understood that the company had given an undertaking to withdraw their +Bill from Parliament at any time upon the request of the Corporation. On +April 23rd the Council adopted the following motion:—“(a) To enable the +New General Traction Company, Limited, to carry their Bill through +Parliament if terms can be arranged with the company satisfactory to the +committee, for the construction of electric tramways in the city; (b) to +oppose the application of the British Electric Traction Company, Limited, +for an order by the Light Railway Commissioners authorising the company +to construct light railways in the city and adjoining districts; (c) that +the committee be authorised to take such action and incur such costs as +may in their opinion be necessary to carry out the above resolutions.” +On May 31st the Norwich Electric Tramways Bill was considered by a Select +Committee of the House of Commons, and it was announced that all +opposition had been withdrawn; and on July 20th it was stated that the +Bill had passed through the House of Commons and been read a second time +in the House of Lords. (_See_ February 5th, 1898.) + +19.—The resignation of Mr. Robert Hitchman, of the office of Chief +Constable, which he had held for 38 years, was received by the Norwich +Town Council, who granted him a retiring pension of £273 6s. 8d. + +—The Norwich Town Council accepted the offer of Messrs. Gurneys and Co. +to present to the Corporation a set of civic robes. + +22.—The roads in many parts of the county were rendered impassable by +snowdrifts; the river traffic between Norwich and Yarmouth was impeded by +ice, and in the stormy weather which prevailed much damage was occasioned +to the Yarmouth fishing fleet and coast-bound vessels. + +23.—A public meeting convened by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county (the +Earl of Leicester) and the Mayor (Mr. C. R. Gilman) was held at the +Guildhall, Norwich, to decide upon the method of celebrating locally the +Diamond Jubilee of her Majesty the Queen. The Dean of Norwich moved +“That subscriptions be invited in order to raise a sum of money, to be +called the Diamond Jubilee Fund, for the purpose of building a new Jenny +Lind Infirmary for Sick Children, it being the strong feeling of the +meeting that no memorial could be found more typical of the tender +sympathy and interest ever shown by her Majesty in the sufferings and +needs of her people.” Viscount Coke seconded the resolution, and a +committee was appointed to raise the fund. (_See_ March 15th, 1898.) + +25.—At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Cave, Henry Greaves +Corsbie (37), clerk, pleaded guilty to feloniously endorsing and uttering +a banker’s cheque for the payment of £31 12s. 1d. with intent to defraud +the Norfolk and Norwich Savings Bank on July 15th, 1893, and was +sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. The prisoner had been guilty +of frauds extending over a period of ten years. + +—John George Foster (35) was indicted at the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. +Justice Cave, for the wilful murder of Alice Maria Newby, at 60, +Pottergate Street, Norwich, on December 8th, 1896. He was found guilty +of manslaughter, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +2.—The Girls’ Home in Botolph Street, Norwich, established by the Board +of Guardians with the object of removing young children from workhouse +surroundings, was opened by the Mayor (Mr. C. R. Gilman). + +6.—A sudden thaw accompanied by heavy rain caused extensive floods in +low-lying districts of the county. Great alarm was occasioned in Norwich +by the rising of the Wensum and the flooding of premises in Heigham +Street. The waters subsided on the 7th. + +7.—Died at Luxor, Egypt, Mr. Alan Cozens-Hardy Colman, aged 30, son of +Mr. J. J. Colman, of Carrow House, Norwich. Mr. Colman, who was a member +of the Norfolk County Council, was of a studious disposition, and applied +himself to mechanics. Although in affluent circumstances he voluntarily +became a pupil at the Stratford works of the Great Eastern Railway +Company, was for a number of years an active confrere of the workmen +employed there, adapted himself to their conditions of labour, and made +himself generally popular. + +11.—Died at Hackford Hall, Reepham, Georgina Frances Amy, widow of Mr. +John Collyer, and eldest daughter of Sir William Johnston, of that ilk, +of Hilton House, Woodside, Aberdeen. Mrs. Collyer, who was in her 92nd +year, was at the time of Wellington’s great campaign being educated at +Brussels, where her parents resided, and were among the guests who +attended the Duchess of Richmond’s ball on the night before Waterloo. +She had a vivid recollection of June 15th, 1815. With her younger +sisters, she in the early dawn watched from the windows of her parents’ +house the troops passing to the field. Later in the day the girls +attended school as usual, and soon became aware that the battle had +begun. The servant sent to fetch her from school lost herself in the +crowd, and the children made their way home alone, groping by the walls +and passing through the throng of troops marching to the field and the +thickening stream of prisoners and wounded returning. On the 17th and +18th she was all day helping her parents to hand water and wine to the +wounded as they passed the door. Mrs. Collyer had personal recollections +of Mendelssohn, whose wife was long her intimate acquaintance, and of +Spohr, whose playing she had often heard and admired. + +18.—The members at Norwich of the National Union of Boot and Shoe +Operatives resolved to go out on strike. On April 17th it was stated +“the desertions from the ranks of the shoe strikers and their return to +work have been steady and persistent during the week, although many +hundreds are still out.” Several charges of intimidation from time to +time occupied the attention of the magistrates. On July 20th the Mayor +made an appeal to masters and men to endeavour to formulate a plan for +the settlement of their differences, but without effect. The strike +having lasted six months, a meeting of the men was held at the Victoria +Hall, at which it was stated that £10,000 had been expended in strike +pay, and it was resolved that the struggle be continued. After lasting +thirty-four weeks the strike came to an end on October 22nd, when terms +were signed by the representatives of the masters and of the men. The +last distribution of strike pay was made on the 23rd, and the men +returned to work on the 25th (St. Crispin’s Day). + + +MARCH. + + +5.—Died at his residence in the Close, Norwich, the Rev. Canon James +William Lucas Heaviside. In 1838 he was professor of mathematics at +Haileybury College, in 1843 examiner in mathematics and natural +philosophy at the University of London, and in 1858 examiner for the +Council of Military Education. He was appointed Canon residentiary of +Norwich Cathedral in 1860, and afterwards became examiner in mathematics +to Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, who, when stationed at Norwich with +his regiment, the 7th Hussars, was a frequent visitor at Canon +Heaviside’s residence. Her Majesty the Queen, to mark her appreciation +of his services, presented him with a massive silver inkstand and a +portrait of the Duke. For many years Canon Heaviside was chairman of the +governors of the Grammar and Commercial Schools, a trustee of Norman’s +Endowed School, and one of the trustees for the management of the local +charities. When the first Norwich School Board was formed in 1872 Canon +Heaviside was elected chairman. + +6.—The removal of Judge Addison from the Norfolk County Court Circuit to +Southwark, and the appointment of Mr. William Willis, Q.C., as judge in +his place, was announced. + +—Died, the Rev. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, LL.D., compiler of the +“Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,” and of other well-known works. Dr. +Brewer, who was nearly 87 years of age, spent his younger days in Norwich +as a teacher in his father’s school. In 1832 he went to Trinity Hall, +Cambridge, took his degree in Civil Law in 1835, and obtained his degree +as LL.D. in 1844. He was ordained in 1834 in the diocese of Ely. At the +time of his death he was residing with his son-in-law, the Rev. H. T. +Hayman, vicar of Edwinstowe, Newark. + +16.—Died at his London residence, 37, Hyde Park Gardens, W., the Right +Hon. Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay, of Thorpe Abbots, Scole. He was a son of +Mr. Robert Kay, of Bury, Lancashire, and brother Sir J. Kay Shuttleworth. +Born January 2nd, 1822, he studied for the law, began his career as law +reporter, and became Queen’s Counsel in 1866. At the General Election in +1874 he contested Clitheroe in the Liberal interest, and was defeated. +In 1878 he gave up exclusive practice in Vice-chancellor Bacon’s Court +and became a special. On the retirement of Vice-Chancellor Malins in +1881 Kay was made a “journeyman judge” of the Chancery Division, and in +that position he remained until the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Bacon +in 1886. In 1890, on the retirement of Sir Henry Cotton, Mr. Justice Kay +was promoted to the Court of Appeal. He was on the commission of the +peace for the county, and was formerly a chairman of Norfolk Quarter +Sessions. + +17.—Sir William Harcourt, leader of the Opposition in the House of +Commons, addressed a meeting of the National Liberal Federation at the +Agricultural Hall, Norwich. The Earl of Kimberley presided and delivered +an address, which elicited severe strictures from Lord Salisbury in the +House of Lords on March 19th. + +21.—Died at the Cheshire Cheese Hotel, Surrey Street, Strand, when +fulfilling a professional engagement in London, Mr. Mark Knights, chief +reporter on the staff of the “Eastern Daily Press.” Mr. Knights was +suffocated by an escape of gas in his bed-room, and at the inquest the +jury returned a verdict of accidental death. He was the author of +several works on archæological and other subjects. His “Highways and +Byways of Norwich” and “Peeps at the Past” are regarded as standard +works. Relinquishing the study of antiquarian matters, which by his +skilful treatment interested a wide circle of readers, Mr. Knights had +taken up the work of interpreting Shakespeare in the light of Scripture, +a subject that appealed to a very limited section. He published in 1893 +a book entitled “Hamlet Interpreted,” which failed to bring him a +reputation such as he achieved by his archæological works. Mr. Knights +was 53 years of age, and had been thirty-five years engaged on the Press. + + +APRIL. + + +13.—Mr. Edwin F. Winch, Chief Constable of Truro, was appointed Chief +Constable of Norwich at the salary of £350 per annum. + +14.—Mr. Sydney Cozens-Hardy, clerk to the Norwich School Board, was +presented with an illuminated address by the officials of the Board on +the attainment of his twenty-one years’ service. + +18.—Died at Orford Hill, Norwich, the Rev. William Frederic Creeny, M.A., +F.S.A., aged 72. Mr. Creeny graduated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, +in 1853, and was soon afterwards ordained. After serving as curate at +St. Mark, Lakenham, he removed to Wellingborough, and subsequently became +chaplain to the Bishop of St. Helena, and chaplain of St. Leonard and +Isle of Ryde, Sydney, where he remained until 1872. In 1873–4 he was +curate of St. John, Upper Norwood, and in 1876 curate of Soham, +Cambridgeshire. In the latter year he was presented by Lady Lothian to +the living of St. Michael-at-Thorn, Norwich. Mr. Creeny enriched the +transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society by many +valuable contributions relating to the history of Norwich, and in 1884 he +published his magnificent work on “Monumental Brasses on the Continent of +Europe,” a field of labour “hitherto almost untilled.” Another scarcely +less laborious task was achieved by the publication by Mr. Creeny, in +November, 1891, of “Illustrations of Incised Slabs.” Mr. Creeny had +visited India, China, and Palestine, and his experiences in the Holy Land +were afterwards published in a small book entitled “Notes of a Journey to +Jerusalem.” + +22.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference was opened at Noverre’s Rooms, +Norwich, and concluded on the 23rd. A special meeting was held on June +10th to discuss the subject of local taxation as affecting tithe +rent-charge. + +30.—The Countess of Leicester opened at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, a +“Foreign Fair,” in aid of the building fund of the St. George’s Home for +Working Girls. + + +MAY. + + +2.—Died at Tunbridge Wells, the Very Rev. Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., +formerly Dean of Norwich, aged 79. Born in London on February 11th, +1818, he was a son of Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, Q.C., and was educated at +Eton, whence he proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained +his B.A. degree in 1839. In 1842 he was admitted into deacon’s orders by +Dr. Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, and in the same year was ordained priest. A +Fellow of Merton College, Dr. Goulburn was, on the elevation of Dr. Tait +to the deanery of Carlisle in 1849, appointed to the head-mastership of +Rugby School. He resigned the post in 1858, and became minister of +Quebec Chapel, St. Marylebone. In 1859 he was nominated by the Bishop of +London to St. John’s, Paddington, and was appointed prebendary of St. +Paul’s Cathedral. Upon the deanery of Norwich becoming vacant in 1866 by +the death of the Hon. and Very Rev. Dean Pellew, who had held it since +1828, Dr. Goulburn was appointed thereto. He was the author of several +theological works. A learned antiquary, he succeeded Sir John Boileau, +F.S.A. (who died in 1869), as president of the Norfolk and Norwich +Archæological Society. He did much for the restoration of Norwich +Cathedral, and expended upon the work from his own private means the sum +of £10,000, and raised the further amount of £4,000. In conjunction with +Precentor Symonds, Dean Goulburn wrote the greater portion of the +valuable work “The Ancient Sculptures in the Roof of Norwich Cathedral”; +and in 1876 published a life of Herbert de Losinga. One of his last +works was the “Life of Dean Burgon.” Dean Goulburn was also the author +of the “Book of Rugby School.” + +24.—The Queen’s birthday was observed at Norwich by a military review on +Mousehold Heath. The 7th Dragoon Guards, the depôt company of the +Norfolk Regiment, the 3rd Battalion Norfolk Regiment (Militia), and the +Artillery and Rifle Volunteers took part. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—The centenary of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society was +celebrated at Norwich. A banquet was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, under +the presidency of Mr. H. S. Patteson, and was attended by the society’s +representatives from all parts of the world. + +10.—At the Norwich Assizes, which commenced on this date, before Mr. +Justice Mathew, John Furness, aged 64, solicitor, was indicted for +fraudulently appropriating to his own use a deed of mortgage on December +30th, 1887. He was found guilty, and recommended to mercy on account of +his age, and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment without hard labour. + +16.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Fakenham. Viscount Coke presided at the public luncheon. The show +closed on the 17th. + +20.—The celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria began at +Norwich this day (Sunday) with special thanksgiving services at the +Cathedral, St. Peter Mancroft, and other churches. On the 21st 125 +carcases of sheep and 20 quarters of beef allotted to Norwich out of the +gift sent from Australia for distribution among the poor in the large +towns of Great Britain, were divided among 1,500 recipients at +Blackfriars’ Hall. The Jubilee day was celebrated on the 22nd. Early in +the morning the bells of St. Peter Mancroft were rung, and a Royal salute +of twenty-one guns fired on Mousehold Heath by the mounted batteries of +the Artillery Volunteers. Later 9,000 children from the public +elementary schools assembled in the Market Place and sang the National +Anthem, and Mr. George White, Chairman of the School Board, announced, +amid great enthusiasm, that the Queen had conferred the honour of +knighthood upon the Mayor (Mr. C. R. Gilman). A service of praise and +thanksgiving was held at the Cathedral at 11 o’clock, and was attended in +state by the Mayor and Corporation. At noon the Artillery and Rifle +Volunteers, with the depôt company of the Norfolk Regiment, fired a _feu +de joie_ in the Market Place, and at one o’clock Sir Charles and Lady +Gilman held a reception at the Guildhall, where the company were invited +to drink the Queen’s health. In the afternoon there was a floral +procession through the streets of the city, sports took place on the +Earlham Road Recreation Ground, a “costume” cricket match was played on +the Lakenham ground, and a captive balloon made frequent ascents from the +Cattle Market. In the evening the city was illuminated, a firework +display was given, on Castle Meadow, and a bonfire lighted on St. James’s +Hill. On the 24th the Mayor and Sheriff gave a dinner at St. Andrew’s +Hall to upwards of 1,000 of the aged poor, and in the evening Sir Charles +and Lady Gilman held a brilliant reception at the Castle Museum. The +Jubilee was observed at Yarmouth, Lynn, Thetford, and at all towns and +villages in the county. + + +JULY. + + +16.—The Wild-Collins voting apparatus, for expediting and facilitating +voting at Parliamentary and Municipal elections, invented by Mr. Edward +Wild and Mr. A. E. Collins, City Engineer, was exhibited at the Municipal +offices, Norwich. + +17.—Died at Old Buckenham, Mr. William Thomas Simpson, in his 67th year. +A native of Bury St. Edmund’s, where his father was master of the Grammar +School, he was the senior partner of the old established firm of Salter +and Simpson, auctioneers and valuers. Mr. Simpson had great practical +knowledge of agriculture, and was an excellent breeder and judge of +cattle. + + +AUGUST. + + +2.—The proceedings of the High Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters +opened at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich. The delegates had been +received on July 31st by Sir Charles and Lady Gilman at St. Andrew’s +Hall. A _fête_ took place at Catton Park on the 2nd, and a garden party +was given at Hellesdon House by Sir Harry and Lady Bullard on the 3rd. + +3.—A fire occurred on Ringland Hills. It extended over an area of +between seven and eight acres, and destroyed many trees in the adjoining +plantation. + +6.—Great damage was done by a fire which occurred at Cullingford’s paper +mills, St. Martin’s Plain, Norwich. + +12.—Relays of cyclists belonging to the four battalions of the Norfolk +Volunteer Infantry Brigade, conveyed a message from Lynn to Yarmouth, +_viâ_ Norwich and Brandon, and back, a distance of 162 miles in 12 hours +55 minutes. The cyclists carried their usual equipment, which included +rifle and bayonet, water bottle, and haversack. + +—A fire occurred on premises in Denmark Street, Diss, and caused damage +estimated at £6,000. + +18.—The Mayor of Norwich (Sir Charles R. Gilman) received honour of +knighthood at the hands of the Queen at Osborne House. + +20.—The Wayside Chapel at Houghton St. Giles’ was opened. The building, +which had been used at a barn, is an interesting example of the +transition from the Decorated to the Perpendicular style. It was built +about 1380, and had become by purchase the property of Miss Boyd, of +Kilburn, a wealthy Roman Catholic lady, who undertook its restoration. A +party of “pilgrims” from London formed a procession at Walsingham, and +headed by a crucifix and lighted tapers, and attended by a priest, walked +to the chapel, where a private service was held. + +31.—The China Cup, won at the Bisley meeting by a team of Norfolk +Volunteers, was ceremoniously handed over to the custody of the Mayor +(Sir Charles R. Gilman) at the Castle Museum, Norwich. The Cup was first +won by Norfolk in 1877. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +2.—Died at Gressenhall Workhouse, Peter Pentney, in his 101st year. He +was a native of Mattishall, and “unlike most reputed centenarians he was +able to produce a duly certified copy of his baptismal register.” + +4.—A waterspout occurred off Cromer in wet and stormy weather. It struck +the trawler Strive about six miles south-west of Smith’s Knoll. The +vessel was turned on her beam ends, and considerably damaged. The +waterspout, which towered above the mast of the trawler, travelled at a +rapid rate, and in three minutes was out of sight. + +8.—Died at Park Lane, Norwich, Mr. James Spilling, editor of the “Eastern +Daily Press.” Mr. Spilling was a native of Ipswich, where he was born in +1825, and came to Norwich in 1863 to fulfil an engagement on the “Norfolk +News.” He was the author of a series of sketches in the East Anglian +vernacular illustrative of rural life and humour; his more solid work was +devoted to the exposition of the philosophy and theology of Swedenborg, +in whose teachings Mr. Spilling had a sincere belief. These books +included “The Evening and Morning,” “Amid the Corn,” “Among the Flowers,” +“The Wreath and the Ring,” and “Our Society.” + +13.—Died at 35, King Street, Norwich, Mr. William Philip Barnes Freeman, +aged 84. He was the eldest son of Mr. William Freeman, Mayor of Norwich +in 1843, and received his early education under Capt. Bailey, at +Hellesdon. Afterwards he went to the Yarmouth Academy under the Rev. Mr. +Bowles, where he obtained lessons in drawing from John Sell Cotman, and +his education was completed at Norwich Grammar School under Valpy. His +art studies were continued under Cotman for water colour and under T. B. +Ladbrooke for oil painting, and he was intimate with David Cox, Stark, +Henry Bright, Vincent, and other artists of his day. Mr. Freeman was a +contributor to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy and of the Royal +Society of Artists. His grandfather, Jeremiah Freeman, his father, and +his uncle, Philip Barnes, were all members of the old Norwich Society of +Artists founded by Old Crome. + +20.—A Military and Naval Exhibition was opened at the Agricultural Hall, +Norwich, by Colonel Burton, commanding the 9th Regimental District. + +23.—Mr. Paynton Pigott, Chief Constable of Norfolk, was presented by the +officers and men of the County Constabulary with a gift of silver plate +on the occasion of the seventeenth anniversary of his election to the +office. + +25.—At the Shirehall, Norwich, was unveiled by Mr. R. T. Gurdon a +portrait of Mr. Clare Sewell Read, subscribed for by the county in +acknowledgment of his valuable services in the interests of agriculture. +The portrait, which was painted by J. J. Shannon, R.A., was afterwards +hung at the Castle Museum. + + +OCTOBER. + + +15.—A special Church mission commenced at Norwich and was concluded on +the 29th. + +18.—St. Clement’s churchyard, Norwich, laid out as a public garden by the +Norwich Playing Fields and Open Spaces Society, was opened by the Mayor +(Sir Charles R. Gilman). + +24.—Died, at Oberlin House, St. Leonard’s Road, Ealing, in his 90th year, +the Rev. John Stoughton, D.D. The son of a Norwich solicitor he was born +in the parish of St. Michael-at-Plea, and was for sixty-five years in the +Congregational ministry. Among his literary works was his book entitled +“Recollections of a Long Life.” + +—Died at Cranley Place, London, Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave, formerly +Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The eldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave, +he was born at Great Yarmouth in 1824, and was educated at the +Charterhouse and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a scholar. In +1847 he took his degree with a first in Classics, and was elected to a +Fellowship at Exeter College. From 1850 to 1855 he was Vice-Principal of +the training college at Kneller Hall, and after acting as secretary to +Earl Granville, became assistant secretary to the Committee of the Privy +Council on Education. + +26.—A serious outbreak of typhoid fever was reported at Lynn; and by +December 18th 440 cases and 43 deaths had occurred. The disease was +occasioned by the impurity of the water supply, and it was stated that at +least 75 per cent. of the cases could be traced to the drinking of +unboiled water. + +—Mr. T. Richmond Pinder resigned the head-mastership of King Edward VI. +Middle School, Norwich, to which he was appointed in 1862. Mr. William +Robert Gurley, M.A., of the Perse Grammar School, Cambridge, was on +February 8th, 1898, elected to fill the vacancy. + +—Died at Old Lakenham, Norwich, Mr. Carlos Cooper, barrister-at-law. He +was the second son of Mr. Charles Cooper, and was born February 12th, +1815. Educated at Norwich Grammar School he was called to the Bar by the +Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 1839, and was appointed Recorder of Thetford +in 1865. He afterwards became Recorder of King’s Lynn, was placed on the +commission of the peace for the city of Norwich in 1873, and shortly +afterwards appointed judge of the Guildhall Court of Record on the death +of Mr. Nathaniel Palmer. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +1.—At Terrington Petty Sessions, the Norfolk and Norwich Society for the +Prevention of Cruelty to Animals instituted proceedings against two +persons for cruelty to 130 geese by plucking them alive on October 4th +and 5th. Remarkable statements were made in the course of the hearing. +The practice, it was said, was not uncommon a quarter of a century +previously, but it had since ceased except in remote localities. +Evidence was given to the effect that the process was unquestionally +barbarous and cruel. A witness for the defence, who described himself as +a “goose puller,” stated that for twenty years he had plucked 1,500 live +geese annually, and 5,000 or 6,000 were so plucked every year in his +village. It was the custom to pluck the same birds four times a +year—first on June 18th, and afterwards at intervals of three weeks; and +every goose so plucked weighed two pounds more at Christmas than those +which had not been plucked, and the flesh was of better quality. The +magistrates dismissed the cases. + +4.—Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, addressed a large +meeting of the Conservative party at the Agricultural Hall, Norwich, at +which Lord Amherst of Hackney presided. Mr. Balfour stayed at Catton +Park, as the guest of Mr. S. Gurney Buxton. + +9.—Mr. Clement Charles Rix Spelman was elected Mayor and Mr. Alfred +Haldinstein appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +16.—The new Royal Hotel, erected on the site of Messrs. Foster and +Burroughes’ offices and of a stonemason’s yard and other premises on Bank +Plain, Norwich, was opened by a public luncheon at which Mr. Blofeld, +chairman of the Directors, presided. The building was designed by Mr. E. +T. Boardman, of the firm of Messrs. Boardman and Son, and the contractor +was Mr. John Youngs. + +28.—A severe gale visited the eastern coast, and continued on the 29th. +At Yarmouth a high sea flooded the Beach Gardens, and the river +overflowed its banks, and entered private houses, offices, and warehouses +on the Quay. At Cromer a portion of the jetty was washed away, and at +Horsey serious breaches were made in the sea wall and thousands of acres +of salt marshes submerged. The fishermen and others on the coast +sustained great damage, and a fund was opened by the Mayor of Norwich for +their relief. On December 30th Capt. Vereker, the professional adviser +to the Harbour Department of the Board of Trade, held an inquiry at the +King’s Arms Inn, Martham, for the purpose of receiving suggestions as to +the best methods of preventing future encroachments. + + +DECEMBER. + + +7.—The Norwich Town Council elected Mr. Ernest Edward Wild, +barrister-at-law, judge of the Guildhall Court of Record, in place of Mr. +Carlos Cooper, deceased. + +22.—Died at 14, Trinity Street, Norwich, Mr. William Hunter, aged 77. He +was a native of Bury St. Edmund’s, was elected Mayor of Norwich in 1881, +and appointed a justice of the peace in 1893. + +26.—Died at Belper, the Rev. Edwin Augustus Hillyard, vicar of Christ +Church, in that town. He was formerly rector of St. Lawrence, Norwich, +and the pioneer of ritualistic observances in the churches of the city. +“Mr. Hillyard was the first to have celebrations for the departed, and +they have been held in one church or another in Norwich ever since.” + +27.—A disastrous fire occurred at Lynn, and caused destruction of +tradesmen’s stock and property of the value of £150,000. It originated +on the premises of Messrs. Jermyn and Perry and Jermyn and Son, wholesale +and retail drapers and furniture and general warehousemen. + + + +1898. + + +JANUARY. + + +14.—At Aylsham County Court, before Judge Willis, Q.C., was tried the +action Astley and Wyrley-Birch _v._ MacLean. The plaintiffs sought to +recover £50 damages from the defendant, who was master of the +Baconsthorpe Harriers, for trespassing upon their lands and for +disturbing game thereon. The defence was that a fair but unsuccessful +attempt had been made to prevent the hounds from getting into the cover, +and as soon as possible they were drawn out. The jury found a verdict +for the plaintiffs, damages £1, and stated that in their opinion the +trespass was unintentional. Under the circumstances his Honour refused +to grant an injunction to restrain the defendant from committing similar +trespasses. + +23.—Honingham church, restored by the Hon. Ailwyn Fellowes, M.P., as a +memorial of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, was opened. + +27.—Died at Catton, Mr. Donald Steward, eldest son of Mr. Timothy +Steward, and a member of the firm of Messrs. Steward, Patteson, Finch, +and Co. He was appointed to the office of Sheriff of Norwich, in 1878, +and was formerly a captain, in the Norwich Battalion of Rifle Volunteers. + +29.—A great fire took place at Press’s mills, Great Yarmouth, and +resulted in the destruction of property to the amount of £20,000. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +1.—Died at the Mount, Thorpe Hamlet, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Jarrold, widow +of Mr. Thomas Jarrold. She was the author of the popular “Household +Tracts,” and was for many years an active worker amongst the poor. + +5.—At the Guildhall Police-court, Norwich, Mr. Edmund Reeve, on behalf of +the Norwich Electric Tramways Company, applied to the justices, under the +Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, for a magistrates’ certificate that the +capital of the company had been subscribed. The capital was stated to be +£240,000, and 50 per cent. thereof had been paid up. The application was +granted. The work of laying the tramways was commenced on the Earlham +and Thorpe routes on June 22nd. (_See_ April 19th, 1900.) + +8.—Mr. Edward Wild was elected leader of the Conservative party in +Norwich in place of Mr. H. S. Patteson, resigned. + +11.—A great sale of shire horses, the property of the Prince of Wales, +was conducted at Wolferton by Messrs. Sexton, Grimwade, and Beck. +Fifty-four lots averaged £224 7s. 9d., and the sale realised £12,117. +The three-year-old filly, Sea Breeze, was bought by Sir Blundell Maple +for 1,150 guineas. + +22.—A shocking boat disaster occurred at Wells-next-the-Sea. Five +members of the coastguard were drowned through the capsizing of their +boat, and five men of the crew of the gig of H.M.S. torpedo boat Alarm, +Sub-Lieutenant William Lowther, lost their lives through a like mishap. +The second disaster, which was discovered when search was being made for +the missing coastguard, was the indirect outcome of the first; for when +the coastguard boat did not arrive in response to the Alarm’s signals to +take off stores intended for use at the Wells coastguard station, it was +decided on board the Alarm to launch the gig and execute the commission. + +22.—Mr. Arthur F. Gentry, borough accountant of Colchester, was appointed +City Accountant of Norwich, at the salary of £400 per annum. + +—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, it was decided that the +Norwich City Waterworks Bill, 1898, be referred to the Law and +Parliamentary Committee with the object of obtaining powers in the Bill +for the Corporation to purchase the Waterworks. The Bill, which was +promoted by the City of Norwich Waterworks Company for raising additional +capital and for obtaining powers to make additional works, came before a +Select Committee of the House of Commons on March 15th. The committee +stipulated that the proposed new capital should be reduced from £100,000 +to £60,000, and the borrowing powers to £15,000, which with the unused +capital and stock would give the company £90,000. On October 18th the +Law and Parliamentary Committee reported that having regard to the +importance and magnitude of the acquisition of the undertaking by the +Corporation, and the limited time within which steps must be taken to +promote a Bill in the next session of Parliament, they recommended that +further action be delayed until next year. The recommendation was +adopted. + +24.—A party of members of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society +visited Tasburgh for the purpose of viewing a site known as the Chapel +Piece, where a quantity of ancient human remains had been unearthed. +“There is little doubt that the site was used as a burial-ground by the +inhabitants of the Roman station over the river upon the adjacent hill, +in the enclosure of which the present church of Tasburgh stands.” + +25.—Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, delivered at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich, his lecture entitled “Across the Polar Region.” + + +MARCH. + + +5.—Died at his residence, South Kensington, Mr. Edmund Tattersall, head +of the well-known firm of horse auctioneers. Mr. Tattersall was born at +Sculthorpe, neap Fakenham, in 1816, and at an early age went to London to +assist his uncle, whom he succeeded as sole partner in 1858. + +12.—The freehold of the old Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, it was announced, had +been purchased for £9,500, by a syndicate who proposed to erect upon the +site a modern theatre to be called “The Norwich Opera House and Theatre +of Varieties,” at an estimated cost of between £25,000 and £30,000. On +the 19th particulars were published of another new theatre to be erected +upon a site south of Prince of Wales Road. Plans of both the proposed +theatres were prepared and were approved by the Corporation. In due +course the foundations of the first-named theatre were laid, after which +the work came to an abrupt termination. + +15.—At a special meeting of the governors of the Jenny Lind Infirmary, at +Norwich, plans for the new building were adopted, and an offer made by +Mr. J. J. Colman to purchase such portion of the old infirmary premises +as would not be required for the out-patient department, for presentation +to the city as a playground for children, was accepted. (_See_ December +13th.) + +18.—Died at Upper Norwood, aged 78, Mr. Frederic Grimmer, formerly of +Haddiscoe, who was appointed Sheriff of Norwich in 1871. + +—Died at St. Moritz, the Engadine, the Rev. Thomas Parry Garnier, rector +of Banham, and honorary canon of Norwich. Born February 22nd, 1841, he +was the second son of the Very Rev. Thomas Garnier, Dean of Lincoln, and +one of the most distinguished clergymen in the diocese of Norwich. He +was the author of “The Parish Church,” “The Title Deeds of the Church of +England,” “Church and Dissent,” “A Story in Outline of the Church of +England,” “The First Book of Worship,” “The First and Second Book of +Church Principles,” “The First Book on the Church,” &c. Both at +Winchester College and Oxford University he greatly distinguished himself +in scholastic work and in sport. In 1858 and 1859 he played with the +Winchester team against Eton, and for four years, from 1860 to 1863, did +admirable service for his University in the matches with Cambridge. He +also played in 1861 with the Gentlemen of England in their match with the +Players. Canon Garnier married in 1873 the Hon. Louisa Warren Vernon, +daughter of the fifth Lord Vernon. + +25.—St. Paul’s church, Great Yarmouth, was consecrated by the Bishop of +Norwich. + +29.—Died at the Great Hospital, Norwich, Susan Rope, aged 101 years five +months. She was a native of Earl Soham, and had been upon the foundation +of the Hospital since October 31st, 1865. + + +APRIL. + + +7.—Died at Cringleford, Mr. Henry Staniforth Patteson. He was a son of +Mr. John S. Patteson, and was born in November, 1816. For more than +thirty years he was an alderman of Norwich, was appointed Sheriff in +1858, and in 1862 was elected Mayor. He was actively identified with the +Norwich Rifle Volunteers for more than a quarter of a century, and +retired with the rank of major, and he succeeded Col. Bignold as leader +of the Conservative party in the city. + +—Mr. Samuel Hoare, M.P., and Mrs. Hoare, in a letter to the Dean of +Norwich on this date, the thirty-second anniversary of their wedding day, +offered to defray the whole cost of removing from the walls, columns, and +other portions of the nave of the Cathedral the thick coating of +whitewash which for centuries had defaced and obscured the masonry. +Shortly afterwards was initiated the fund for the provision of a new +organ for the Cathedral. (_See_ May 25th, 1899.) + +13.—Sir Charles R. Gilman was presented by the district managers and +inspectors of the Norwich and London Accident Insurance Association with +a piece of silver plate weighing 150 ozs., “as a mark of their esteem and +to commemorate the honour conferred upon him by the Queen during the +second term of his mayoralty of the city.” + +14.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference opened at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, +and was concluded on the 15th. + +18.—A Missionary Loan Exhibition was opened at the Agricultural Hall, +Norwich, by the Countess of Leicester, in celebration of the jubilee of +the Church Missionary Society. It was closed on the 23rd. + +23.—Notice was published of an intended application to the Light Railway +Commissioners for powers to construct a light railway from Trowse, _viâ_ +Arminghall, Brooke, and Loddon, to Beccles. On July 12th Lord Jersey, +chairman of the Light Railway Commission, and Col. Boughey, R.E., C.S.I., +sat at the Shirehall, Norwich, for the purpose of receiving information +on the subject. It was stated that the length of the proposed line would +be 17½ miles; the capital to be authorised by the Bill was £100,000, with +borrowing powers for £33,000, and Sir Douglas Fox, consulting engineer, +stated that the contractor would be able to construct the line for +£93,000. + +27.—Mr. John Cross tendered his resignation of the office of Clerk to the +Norwich Board of Guardians, and on May 25th Mr. E. R. Woodward was +elected to fill the vacancy. + + +MAY. + + +7.—Died at Kirkley, Lowestoft, Mr. Robert Hitchman, formerly Chief +Constable of Norwich, aged 72. He was appointed Chief Constable on March +24th, 1859, and retired on April 30th, 1897. + +12.—Polling took place in the Southern Division of the county in +consequence of the resignation of Mr. Francis Taylor (Liberal Unionist). +The candidates were Mr. J. Sancroft Holmes, of Gawdy Hall, Harleston +(Conservative), and Mr. A. W. Soames, architect, of London (Liberal). +The poll was declared at the Shirehall, Norwich, on the 13th: Soames, +4,626; Holmes, 3,296. + +19.—Intelligence was received in Norwich of the death of Mr. Gladstone. +Both political parties paid becoming respect to the memory of the +deceased statesman. Resolutions of sympathy were passed by the members +of the Norwich and Norfolk Conservative Club and of the Gladstone Club, +and on the day of interment, the 28th, a memorial service, attended by +the Mayor and Corporation, was held at the Cathedral. + +24.—The Norwich Town Council considered a report of the Executive +Committee containing recommendations for the alteration of the names of +various streets and roads in the city. The report, with certain +modifications and amendments, was adopted at a subsequent meeting. + +26.—A new Voluntary school for the accommodation of 400 boys, erected on +Hall Road, Lakenham, by the supporters of Church education in Norwich at +the cost of £2,600, was opened by the Lord Bishop. + +27.—Died at Mulbarton, Mr. George Frederick Cooke, formerly District +Registrar of the High Court of Justice, and Registrar of the County +Court, Norwich, in his 80th year. He was the youngest son of the Rev. +William Cooke, vicar of Bromyard, Herefordshire, and brother of Mr. +Cooke, a former judge of the Norfolk County Court. + +28.—The members of the Automobile Club of Great Britain arrived at +Norwich in the course of a Whitsuntide tour through East Anglia. + + +JUNE. + + +9.—A verdict of accidental death was returned by a coroner’s jury at +Norwich in the case of Henry Skepworth, a sergeant in the 7th Dragoon +Guards, who died from injuries received when returning from Wymondham, +where a party of non-commissioned officers and men of the regiment had +given a military display at the athletic sports. It was subsequently +announced that “certain irregularities having lately occurred at sports +and other displays in which soldiers have taken part, and notably in the +Colchester district, where a sergeant met with his death, the +Commander-in-Chief has refused applications for their services on such +occasions.” + +16.—Mr. Ben Greet’s company gave pastoral representations of “As You Like +It” and “The Comedy of Errors” at Bracondale Woods in aid of the +endowment fund of the Jenny Lind Infirmary at Norwich. + +20.—The railway from North Walsham to Mundesley was opened for goods +traffic. The first passenger trains were run on July 1st. + +21.—The Norwich Corporation Baths at the old Museum premises, St. +Andrew’s Broad Street, were opened by the Mayor (Mr. C. C. R. Spelman). + +—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Hawkins, Samuel Frederick +Steele (27), railway carman, was indicted for the wilful murder of Thurza +Ann Bensley, at Yarmouth, on February 23rd. The jury found him guilty, +but considered him insane when he committed the act, and expressed the +hope that he would be kept in strict custody for the rest of his life. +His lordship said he would add that as a rider to the verdict. + +—It was reported at a meeting of the Norwich Town Council that Messrs. +Hughes and Lancaster had completed their contract, amounting to £21,522 +for supplying Shone’s ejectors, &c., in connection with the sewerage +works. + +22.—George Watt (44), labourer, was indicted at the Norwich Assizes, +before Mr. Justice Hawkins, for the wilful murder of his wife, Sophia +Watt, at Sprowston, on April 14th, and was found guilty, and sentenced to +death. The execution (by Billington) took place at Norwich Prison on +July 12th. + +25.—The championship meeting of the National Cyclists’ Union was held on +the Earlham Road Recreation Ground, Norwich. The five miles’ +professional championship was won by H. E. Meyers, Dutch Cyclists’ Club, +in 15 minutes 36 1-5th seconds; the five miles’ amateur championship by +A. S. Ingram, Polytechnic Club, in 14 minutes 11 2-5ths seconds; and the +25 miles’ amateur championship by H. W. Payne, West Roads Cyclists’ Club, +in 1 hour 4 minutes 52 4-5ths seconds. + +29.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +King’s Lynn. Sir William ffolkes, Bart., was deputed by the president, +the Duke of York, to perform his duties at the show in consequence of his +Royal Highness’ absence on naval service. The Duchess of York arrived +from London by special train, and was received at Lynn railway station by +Sir William ffolkes, and at the entrance to the show ground by the High +Sheriff (Mr. Simms Reeve) and the show officials. Her Royal Highness +before returning to London was entertained to tea by Lady ffolkes in a +marquee erected on the grounds. The show closed on the 30th. + + +JULY. + + +9.—Died at Surrey Street, Norwich, Mr. Henry George Barwell. Born on +February 4th, 1829, he was the fourth son of Mr. John Barwell, and was +educated at Hofwyl, near Berne, and at Norwich Grammar School. He was +engaged as private secretary to Mr. Birkett, brother-in-law of Sir Morton +Peto, and was afterwards employed in the construction of a portion of the +Great Northern Railway between Lincoln and Newark, and on its completion +was sent out to Flensburg as one of the staff in the making of the Royal +Danish Railway. In 1856 he joined the firm of Barwell and Sons. Taking +up the practical study of art in 1870, he became a frequent exhibitor at +the Royal Institution of Painters in Water Colours; he was one of the +founders of the Norwich Art Circle, and for twenty-five years was hon. +secretary of the Norwich School of Art. + +15.—The Norfolk Infantry Volunteer Brigade went into camp at Colchester +under the command of Col. G. S. Burton, commanding the 9th Regimental +District. The four battalions numbered about 2,000 men. + +—The 7th Dragoon Guards left Norwich by train for Bulford Camp, Salisbury +Plain, to take part in the cavalry manœuvres. + +25.—In the Court of Appeal, before Lords Justices A. L. Smith, Rigby, and +Vaughan Williams, judgment was given in the long pending appeal the +Corporation of Thetford _v._ the County Council of Norfolk. This was an +appeal from a judgment of Mr. Justice Wills. The question was whether in +the case of a borough of not less than 10,000 inhabitants and having +separate courts of Quarter Sessions and Petty Sessions, the salaries of +the recorder and the clerk of the peace, and of the clerk to the borough +justices in Petty Sessions in such borough, and certain other expenses +connected with the Quarter Sessions and Petty Sessions were transferred +from the borough fund to the county fund. Thetford was a borough +containing a population of less than 10,000, and was situated for +administrative purposes within the county of Norfolk. It had a separate +court of Quarter Sessions presided over by a recorder, who was paid a +salary of £40 per annum, and there was a clerk of the peace who was paid +by fees. Before and since the Local Government Act of 1888 the salary of +the recorder and the fees (with certain exceptions) of the clerk of the +peace were paid out of the borough fund, and the clerk to the borough +justices was paid a salary out of the same fund. The plaintiffs +contended that by the Act of 1888 the liability for the expenses was +transferred to the defendants, and they claimed a declaration to that +effect, and they further claimed to be reimbursed the expenses paid by +them. There was also a question raised by cross-appeal as to the payment +of the salary of the clerk of the Petty Sessions. The court dismissed +the appeal, and allowed the cross-appeal. + +26.—Dr. J. E. Talmage lectured at Victoria Hall, Norwich, on “Utah and +its People.” + +—The Norwich Town Council adopted the report of a special committee +appointed to enquire into the sanitary condition of the courts and yards +of the city. The effect of the recommendations was to enforce upon the +owners of property the fulfilment of the provisions of the Public Health +Act and the Norwich Corporation Act of 1889. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—On this date occurred the most serious and destructive fire that had +taken place in Norwich during the century. At an early hour in the +morning the premises of Mr. Daniel Hurn, rope maker, Dove Street, were +discovered to be on fire. The flames spread southwards to Messrs. +Chamberlin and Sons’ wholesale warehouse, northwards towards Pottergate +Street, and westward to the Public Library. The premises in which the +fire originated, the warehouse, and a portion of the property on the +north were speedily destroyed, and ultimately the Library building was +consumed with its 60,000 volumes and the valuable Norton library. On +August 5th the Edinburgh public-house, at the corner of Dove Street and +Pottergate Street fell with a crash, and two or three persons were +severely injured. + +2.—Died at Scone Palace, near Perth, William David Murray, fourth Earl of +Mansfield, K.T., aged 93. The deceased nobleman was better known to +Norwich politicians of a by-gone generation as Lord Stormont, who with +Sir James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, was returned as Conservative +member for the city at the first Parliamentary election after the passing +of the Reform Act. It was not until 1895 that the Conservative party +once more obtained the undivided Parliamentary representation of Norwich +by the return of Mr. Samuel Hoare and Sir Harry Bullard. + +12.—Died at Swaffham, Mr. Herbert William Day, aged 76, who for upwards +of twenty-five years held the office of County Treasurer, and retired +shortly after the passing of the Local Government Act, 1889. + +23.—At the Norwich Police-court, Samuel Matthews, of Raglan Street, +Dereham Road, was charged on eight summonses with unlawfully using the +name and title of doctor and of surgeon, thereby implying that he was a +registered medical practitioner. The Bench decided that Mr. Matthews, in +using the word “doctor,” did not wilfully and falsely pretend to be +registered as such, and, therefore, dismissed the case; but they +considered there had been an infringement of the law in the use of the +word “surgeon,” for which the defendant was fined £1, and 12s. costs. At +the Norwich County Court on the 24th Mr. Matthews was sued by the Master, +Wardens, and Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City +of London to recover the sum of £20 for unlawfully acting as an +apothecary by attending, advising, and supplying medicines to certain +persons. A special jury was empanelled to try the case, which was +admitted. Judgment was entered for the plaintiff society for £20 and +costs. Mr. Matthews was afterwards presented with a gift of plate +weighing 300 ounces, subscribed for by the citizens as a mark of their +esteem and sympathy. + +26.—The promises of Messrs. Pinchen and Co., brewers and mineral water +manufacturers at South Creake, were destroyed by fire. The damage was +estimated at £3,000. + +28.—The church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, was re-opened upon the +completion of the work of restoring the chancel to its original level. +This portion of the great work of restoration was carried out at the +expense of an anonymous donor. + +30.—At the Episcopal Consistorial Court, held at Norwich Cathedral, +before Mr. Chancellor Blofeld, was heard an application for a faculty in +which citation had been granted against the Rev. Robert Middleton, rector +of St. Michael-at-Coslany, Norwich, for illegally, without any faculty +and in spite of remonstrance of William Joseph Simmons, one of the +churchwardens, removing a re-table from its position above the communion +table, and moving from the church certain ornaments which stood there, +namely, a cross of brass, two candlesticks, and two flower vases, and for +refusing to replace them. Mr. Middleton was cited to appear and show +cause why a faculty should not be granted to the churchwardens directing +them to replace the articles. The faculty was granted as prayed, with +costs against Mr. Middleton. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +1.—A ball was given at Drayton House in celebration of the silver wedding +of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Walter, who were the recipients of many presents +and congratulations. On the 3rd the workmen employed at the Taverham and +Bawburgh mills and the labourers on the estate were entertained to +dinner. + +6.—Barnum and Bailey’s great show visited Norwich, and was located upon a +piece of land on Unthank Road. The performances were repeated on the +7th. Upwards of 42,000 persons visited the show. (_See_ July 29th, +1899.) + +13.—Died at Earlham Road, Norwich, Mr. John William Sparrow, solicitor, +for many years Registrar of the Guildhall Court of Record. + +—The coming of age of Mr. Robert Hamilton Kemp, eldest son of Sir Kenneth +Kemp, Bart., was celebrated at Gissing Old Hall. + +18.—Died at the Clyffe, Corton, Mr. Jeremiah James Colman, of Carrow +House, Norwich, aged 68. Mr. Colman came of an old family of Norfolk +yeomen. One of his ancestors, Jeremiah Colman, who was born in 1777, +established a flour mill at Bawburgh, and afterwards carried on business +at Norwich, whence he removed to Stoke Holy Cross, where was formed the +nucleus of the great commercial undertaking now existing at Carrow. The +subject of this notice was the son of James Colman, and was born in 1830. +In 1856 he married Caroline, daughter of Mr. W. H. Cozens-Hardy, of +Letheringsett. Mr. Colman was interested in agricultural pursuits and +the breeding of stock, and his famous herd of red-polls, and equally +well-known flock of Southdowns were for years represented at all the +great shows. Art and literature obtained his attention, and he collected +an unrivalled library of local works at Carrow Abbey. Mr. Colman +embarked largely in commercial enterprises connected with the Press. +With Mr. Jacob Henry Tillett he was instrumental in founding the “Norfolk +News” and other newspapers published by that company, and was largely +interested in the “Star,” the “Morning Leader” and the “East Anglian +Daily Times.” In 1862 Mr. Colman was appointed Sheriff of Norwich, and +in 1867 was elected Mayor. He was first nominated for Parliamentary +honours upon the unseating on petition of Mr. Tillett in 1871. His +Conservative opponent was Sir Charles Legard, whom he defeated by 1,200 +votes. This was the last election contested by open voting, in Norwich. +At the General Election of 1874 Mr. Tillett, freed of his disabilities, +was nominated as colleague of Mr. Colman; the Conservative candidates +were Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Sir Henry Stracey, Bart. Mr. Colman and +Mr. Huddleston were returned. The next election took place in 1880, when +the Liberal party once more made a strenuous effort to secure the return +of Mr. Tillett by the aid of Mr. Colman’s popularity. The Conservative +nominees were Mr. Henry Harben and the Hon. W. F. B. Mainwaring. The +Liberals were returned by an overwhelming majority. At the election of +1885 occurred the first indication of the disasters which were to befall +Liberalism in Norwich. Mr. Harry Bullard was nominated to oppose Mr. +Colman, with whom as second Liberal candidate was Mr. R. S. Wright. For +the first time in his political career Mr. Colman had to be content with +second place, for Mr. Bullard was returned at the head of the poll with +7,297 votes, against 6,666 polled by Mr. Colman, and 6,251 by Mr. Wright. +Mr. Bullard was unseated on petition, and it was stated at the time that +Mr. Colman was opposed to the course taken by his party. Mr. Samuel +Hoare was then elected unopposed in the place of Mr. Bullard. At the +General Election in 1886 Mr. Colman regained his former position at the +head of the poll with 6,295 votes as against 6,156 polled by Mr. Hoare, +who had Mr. C. S. Read as his colleague. This election was noteworthy as +the last occasion upon which Mr. Tillett was nominated. In 1892 Mr. +Colman made his last appearance as a Parliamentary candidate, and with +him was nominated Mr. James Bedford. Mr. Hoare, Conservative candidate, +was returned by a majority of 311 above Mr. Colman; and the +representation of the city remained thus until the General Election of +1895, when Mr. Colman retired, and for the first time in sixty years the +Conservative party returned two members, Mr. Hoare and Sir Harry Bullard. +Mr. Colman, who was one of the greatest benefactors in Norwich, was held +in deserved esteem alike by political friends and opponents, and many +expressions of public regret were recorded. He was predeceased (on the +15th) by his mother, Mrs. Mary Colman, who died at Town Close Lodge, in +her 93rd year. It was announced at a meeting of the Norwich Town Council +on October 18th that Mr. Colman had bequeathed to the Castle Museum, free +of duty, his collection of oil paintings and water colours by Norfolk and +Norwich artists. The collection was valued at £5,000. + + +OCTOBER. + + +16.—Died at Fairstead House, Newmarket, aged 82, Mr. John F. Clark, the +famous racing judge. Mr. Clark was a native of Norwich, and on leaving +school joined his father as a builder. He afterwards became an +architect, and during his professional career designed many +ecclesiastical buildings, and restored others. He also planned most of +the modern grand stands upon the principal race courses in England. Mr. +Clark was appointed judge by the Jockey Club in 1852, and was the third +member of his family who had held the office, from which he retired at +the close of 1888. + +18.—The Norwich Town Council decided to widen Fye Bridge from 22 feet to +36 feet at the estimated cost of £1,000, two-fifths of which were payable +by the Norwich Electric Tramways Company. + +24.—The National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland +opened its annual conference at Prince’s Street Rooms, Norwich; and on +the 27th the Mayor and Mayoress held a reception at St. Andrew’s Hall. + +30.—Died at Lowestoft, Mr. Frederick Elwin Watson, aged 88. He twice +served the office of Mayor of Norwich, in 1866–67 and in 1870–71. He was +for many years a warm supporter of the Norwich Church of England Young +Men’s Society. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +8.—Died at Wymondham Vicarage, in his 96th year, the Rev. Robert Eden, +M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and honorary canon of +Norwich Cathedral. He was the author of several works, including “The +Churchman’s Theological Dictionary,” “Some Thoughts on the Inspiration of +the Holy Scriptures,” “A History of Preaching,” “The Title Page of the +Revised Version of the Holy Bible,” &c. In his young days Canon Eden was +acquainted with Whately, the famous divine, and was for a time assistant +librarian at the Bodleian Library. + +9.—Mr. George Henry Morse was elected Mayor and Mr. Henry Skelton +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +18.—The Norwich and Norfolk Conservative Club was opened in its new +premises, the Royal Arcade, Norwich. Sir Alfred Jodrell, Bart., presided +on the occasion. + +26.—The remarkable recovery of a lost register belonging to the parish of +Gressenhall was reported. “The books, which dated from 1538 to 1710, +were discovered lying on a shelf in an upper room with a number of other +old documents, at Docking Hall. A certain Hon. Hugh Charles Hare, who +was rector of Docking from 1708 to 1711, was also rector of Gressenhall, +and probably to him may be traced the removal of the books to Docking, +where they had remained for nearly two hundred years.” + +28.—The 7th (Queen’s Own) Hussars, arrived by train at Norwich, from +Southampton, where they had disembarked the same day from the Simla. + + +DECEMBER. + + +13.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, Mr. Edward Wild moved the +adoption of a report of the City Committee affirming “that the inadequate +and unsuitable existing accommodation for the transaction of the public +work of the city is a hindrance to the proper dispatch of the business, +detrimental to the health of the officials and members of the +Corporation, and disproportionate to and unworthy of the position and +dignity of this important city.” The subject was referred to a committee +to report thereon to the Council. (_See_ September 5th, 1899.) + +13.—The foundation stone of the new Jenny Lind Infirmary, Unthank Road, +Norwich, was laid by Geoffrey R. R. Colman, son of Mr. Russell J. Colman. +In a cavity of the stone was a brass plate with the following +inscription:—“The Jenny Lind Infirmary was founded 1853; rebuilt 1898, +foundation-stone laid by G. R. R. Colman. Norwich population, 113,000; +fastest train to London 2 hours 37 minutes; electric tramways commenced. +Price of a large sheep 63s.; bricklayers’ wages 7½d. per hour.” (_See_ +June 30th, 1899.) + +14.—Died, Mr. Robert Wortley, of Suffield. He was one of the best known +agriculturists in Norfolk, an excellent judge of stock, and a noted +hackney breeder. + +24.—Shernbourne church, restored from designs by Mr. Herbert J. Green, +and Sir Arthur Blomfield (consulting architect), was re-opened. The +Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of +York, Princess Victoria of Wales, and Prince Alexander of Teck, attended +the service. The Prince of Wales had taken great interest in the work, +and had subscribed to the restoration fund, which was raised mainly +through the efforts of the rector, the Rev. F. J. W. Girling. + +—A young man named Horace Alfred Cox entered a café in St. Benedict’s +Street, Norwich, and fired three shots with a revolver at Ellen Parker, +one of the assistants. The bullets missed Parker, and Cox then turned +the weapon upon himself. He sustained injuries to the head, from which +he died shortly after removal to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. + + + +1899. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—In the list of New Year’s Honours appeared the name of Mr. Robert +Thornhagh Gurdon, of Letton, upon whom her Majesty had conferred the +dignity of peerage. Mr. Gurdon assumed the title of Baron Cranworth. + +5.—Cringleford church, after restoration at the cost of about £1,400, was +re-opened by the Bishop of Norwich. + +7.—Died, aged 78, Mr. Samuel Culley, of Grove Avenue, Norwich, who held +the office of City Accountant from 1887 to 1898. He was a son of Mr. +Richard Culley, and at an early age learned farming in order to fit him +for Colonial life. In 1841 he went to New Zealand, but left on the +outbreak of the Maori War, and shipping on board an American whaler +obtained the post of second mate. On the voyage the crew mutinied, and +the captain lost his reason. Mr. Culley put the ringleaders in irons, +took command of the vessel, and brought her to Rhode Island. On +returning to Norwich he set up business as a corn merchant, and +afterwards as a public accountant. He was identified with the formation +of the Norwich Steam Laundry and Baths Company and the Norwich Omnibus +Company. + +13.—The Bishop of Norwich acknowledged the receipt of a memorial signed +by 365 clergymen, 123 lay members of Conference, and 100 magistrates, +resident in the diocese, who had expressed their resolve to strengthen as +far as possible the hands of the bishops in their efforts to check +unsound teaching and to restrain illegal practices in the Church. The +memorial gave rise to much dissatisfaction and to a considerable amount +of acrimonious correspondence in the public Press. + +14.—At a meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital it was announced +that Mr. Cadge had subscribed the munificent gift of £10,000 to the +Leicester Perpetual Endowment Fund. Mr. Cadge had previously presented +to the institution an anonymous gift of £10,000. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +3.—Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D., delivered a lecture at Noverre’s Rooms, +Norwich, on “The History and Effect of Vaccination.” The Dean of Norwich +presided, and a committee was formed in order to circulate information on +the subject. + +7.—Died at Diss rectory, the Rev. Charles Robertson Manning, M.A., +F.S.A., honorary canon of Norwich Cathedral, rural dean of Redenhall, and +for 42 years rector of Diss, aged 73. Canon Manning was a magistrate for +the county, and a member of the Diss School Board, but he was best known +for his labours in archæology. He published “A List of Monumental +Brasses remaining in England,” and shortly before his death compiled “A +List of Monumental Brasses omitted by Blomefield.” Canon Manning was a +well-known authority on church plate, and among other subjects upon which +he wrote were church architecture, lecterns, fonts, heraldry, seals, +coins, mediæval patens, and antiquarians objects of almost every kind. + +13.—Mr. Leo Trevor’s play, “Brother Officers,” which was produced at the +Garrick Theatre in October, 1898, and became one of the successes of the +London season, was performed at Norwich Theatre by Miss Muriel Wylford’s +company. + +17.—A “silver cradle”—a massive silver bowl—was presented to the Mayor of +Norwich (Mr. G. H. Morse) in commemoration of the birth during his +Mayoralty of his son Christopher Charles on November 19th, 1898. + +21.—Died at Denver rectory, in his 67th year, the Rev. James Mourant Du +Port, rector of Denver, honorary canon of Norwich Cathedral, and rural +dean. Canon Du Port formerly held the living of Mattishall, took great +interest in educational work in the diocese, and was one of the +secretaries of the Norwich Diocesan Conference. + +23.—It was announced that her Majesty the Queen had been pleased to +approve the appointment of Mr. H. H. Cozens-Hardy, Q.C., M.P., as one of +the justices of the High Court of Justice. + +25.—Died at Marham Hall, aged 73, Mr. Thomas Brown, a well-known breeder +of pedigree sheep and cattle. He was the originator of the successful +gatherings held for so many years at Marham in celebration of the annual +ram letting. + + +MARCH. + + +3.—Died at Christiania, Mr. Joseph Stanley, who formerly practised as a +solicitor at Norwich. He for several years represented the First Ward in +the Town Council, and on the death of Mr. Robert Culley was elected +County Coroner after an exciting contest. He it was who served a writ +upon the Mayor of Norwich in the matter of the Town Close Estate, with +the result that the estate, which had long been regarded as the exclusive +property of the freemen, was declared to be a charity. Mr. Stanley had +resided in Norway ten years preceding his death. + +4.—Died, Mr. James R. Bulwer, Q.C., one of the Masters in Lunacy. Mr. +Bulwer was the eldest son of the Rev. J. Bulwer, rector of +Hunworth-with-Stody, and was born in 1820. He was called to the Bar by +the Inner Temple in 1847, and became treasurer in 1880. He took silk in +1865. From 1861 to 1866 he was Recorder of Ipswich, and from 1866 to +1898 he held the like office at Cambridge. He was also a justice of the +peace for Norfolk, and was one of the chairmen of Norfolk Quarter +Sessions, a post which he resigned on December 31st, 1898. Mr. Bulwer +was Conservative member for Ipswich from 1874 to 1880, and represented +Cambridgeshire from 1881 to 1885. From 1873 to 1884 he was +lieutenant-colonel of the Inns of Court Volunteers. + +12.—Mrs. Keeley, for many years one of the leading actresses on the +English stage, died at her residence in London, in her 93rd year. She +was a native of Ipswich, and in her young days, as Miss Annie Goward, was +a popular member of the Norwich Company. + +16.—Paderewski, the famous pianist, appeared at St. Andrew’s Hall, +Norwich. + +—The election of a member to fill the vacancy in the representation of +North Norfolk by the elevation of Mr. H. H. Cozens-Hardy to the judicial +bench, took place on this date. The candidates were Sir Kenneth Kemp, +Bart. (U.), and Sir William Brampton Gurdon, Bart. (L). The poll was +declared at Aylsham Town Hall on the 17th as follows: Gurdon, 4,775; +Kemp, 3,610. + +19.—After a winter of exceptional mildness very severe weather set in. +In some localities the readings of the thermometer were the lowest since +1895. On the 20th a remarkable whirlwind, which did considerable damage +to three cottages, occurred at Worstead. February 10th was recorded as +“the hottest day for half a century for the time of year.” + +25.—An effort was made at Norwich to inaugurate a public subscription for +the erection of a memorial to Sir Thomas Browne, the famous author of +“The Religio Medici” and other works. + +—Died at Thorpe Road, Norwich, Mr. Joshua Womersley, an alderman of the +city, aged 77. A native of Yorkshire, he came to Norfolk in 1811 and +took employment with the firm of Messrs. Colman at Stoke. He devised a +method of making starch from rice, and received the congratulations of +the Patent Office on having overcome difficulties in starch making which +had hitherto been considered insurmountable. In politics Mr. Womersley +was strongly Liberal, and admitted at the Royal Commission in 1868 +“having kept certain voters in tow with the object of preventing them +being tampered with by the other side.” + +28.—The sale took place at Easton Lodge Farm by Mr. John Thornton of the +red-poll herd of Mr. J. J. Colman. The total sum realised was 4,262½ +guineas, of which 1,114 guineas were paid for the bulls. The average per +head was a little over £77. The sale of Mr. Colman’s flock of Southdowns +took place at Crown Point on August 9th, and was attended by leading +sheep breeders and flock masters from all parts of the kingdom. Mr. +Thornton disposed of 999 lots, which realised a grand total of £5,347 6s. +6d. + + +APRIL. + + +1.—Strangers’ Hall, Norwich, it was announced, had been purchased by Mr. +L. G. Bolingbroke. + +6.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference met at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, and +continued its deliberations on the 7th. + +17.—The memorial stone of the Norwich Technical Institute was laid by the +Mayor (Mr. G. H. Morse). The building was designed by the City Engineer +(Mr. A. E. Collins), and erected by Mr. T. H. Blyth, of Foulsham. + +—The centenary celebration of the Church of England Missionary Society +commenced at Norwich with services at the Cathedral and the city churches +and a meeting at St. Andrew’s Hall. + + +MAY. + + +1.—The Great Eastern Railway Company introduced a restaurant car service +on their system between London, Cromer, and Lowestoft. + +—The 7th Hussars marched from Norwich _en route_ to Colchester, where +they were temporarily stationed during the renovation of Norwich Cavalry +Barracks. Among the officers was Prince Alexander of Teck. The regiment +encamped on Stuston Common on the first night, at Broom Hill on the +second night, and completed the march on the 3rd. + +6.—Died at Northrepps Hall, Mr. Richard Hanbury Gurney, aged 44 years. +He was a son of Mr. John Henry Gurney, and served the office of High +Sheriff in 1896. + +—Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, arrived at Norwich, +accompanied by Major-General Kelly-Kenny, Inspector-General of the +Auxiliary Forces, Col. Gough, military secretary, and Col. Allen, +_aide-de-camp_. On the 7th his lordship, with Major-General Sir W. F. +Gatacre, commanding the Eastern District, attended service at the +Cathedral, and afterwards inspected a number of old soldiers in the +cloisters, and visited the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home. Lord Wolseley on +the 8th inspected the depôt and the 3rd Battalion Norfolk Regiment at the +Britannia Barracks, and in the afternoon proceeded to Yarmouth, where he +inspected the troops. + +17.—The Duke of York’s Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars assembled at Norwich for +the annual training, which concluded on the 25th. Lieut.-Col. Lucas was +in command of the regiment. + +23.—The Sandringham hackneys, the property of the Prince of Wales, were +sold by auction at the Wolferton Stud Farm. His Royal Highness, who was +accompanied by the Duke of York, attended the public luncheon, at which a +distinguished company was present. The total amount of the sale was +11,611 guineas, an average price per head of £178. + +24.—The list of Birthday Honours, commemorative of the 80th birthday of +the Queen, included the name of Mr. Samuel Hoare, M.P., upon whom her +Majesty conferred a baronetcy. + +25.—The nave of Norwich Cathedral was re-opened after restoration, the +cost of which was generously undertaken by Sir Samuel Hoare, Bart., M.P., +and Lady Hoare. The Mayor and Corporation attended the service, at which +the sermon was preached by the Dean of Norwich. + +—The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Alexander of Teck, Admiral +Sir Henry Keppel and others, arrived at Yarmouth, and on the 26th +inspected the Prince of Wales’ Own Norfolk Artillery Militia, the 3rd +Norfolk Militia, and other troops. In the evening his Royal Highness +attended a ball given by Viscount Coke and the Artillery officers, and on +the 27th terminated his visit. + +—The Royal Arcade, Norwich, erected on the site of the old Royal Hotel, +was opened. The Arcade was built by Messrs. J. Youngs and Son from plans +by Messrs. G. J. and F. W. Skipper. + +27.—The Duke and Duchess of York visited King’s Lynn, and in the grounds +of the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital received purses on behalf of a fund +to defray the cost of a children’s wing added to the Hospital as a +memorial of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. + + +JUNE. + + +1.—At the Norwich Consistory Court, before Mr. Chancellor Blofeld, the +Bishop of the Diocese pronounced sentence of deprivation on the Rev. +Bryan O’Malley, vicar of Flitch am, and made an order upon the defendant +for the payment of the costs of the proceedings. + +2.—At a meeting of the Scots Society of St. Andrew, Norwich, held at the +Maid’s Head Hotel, the president, Dr. Thomson, unveiled portraits of Dr. +John Murray and of his wife, Mary Boyles Murray, presented to the society +by Mr. Bronson Murray, of New York, in recognition of the work done by +the society in restoring the tomb of Dr. Murray in the churchyard of +Wells-next-the-Sea. The portraits were copied by Mrs. Leslie Bush-Brown, +great great grandniece of Dr. Murray, from the original works belonging +to the Guion family, of Senica Falls, New York. + +27.—Died at St. Stephen’s House, Norwich, Mr. John Copeman, aged 87. +Senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Copeman and Sons, wholesale +grocers, Castle Street, he was for several years a member of the Town +Council and some time alderman. It was he who suggested the purchase of +the sewerage farm by the Corporation. He was a member of the Norwich +Board of Guardians, and took part with Mr. J. H. Tillett and the Rev. +George Gould and others in securing the passing of the Norwich Poor Act +of 1863. Mr. Copeman was one of the founders of the “Norfolk News,” and +for some time edited it. + +28.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Diss. Mr. Edward Mann presided at the luncheon. The exhibition closed +on the 29th. + + +JULY. + + +10.—At a special meeting of the Norwich Town Council a report was +received from a joint committee of the Corporation and the Board of +Guardians upon the subject of the rating of city property, and a +resolution was adopted recommending important alterations in the +assessments. The Guardians on December 20th accepted a recommendation +for the appointment of valuers to undertake the work of reassessment. + +17.—Died at Ivy Lodge, Eaton, Mr. C. C. Rix Spelman, Deputy-Mayor of +Norwich, aged 55. He was a son of Mr. Benjamin Rix, of Ipswich, and was +born at Yarmouth. In 1858 he became associated with the firm of Messrs. +Spelman, and on joining as a partner in 1874 took the name of Spelman—his +mother’s surname—in addition to his own. In 1897 he was elected Mayor of +Norwich, and was in politics a Liberal. He was twice married—first to +Miss Franklin, of Norwich, who died in 1877, and secondly, in 1880, to +Mrs. R. E. Gibson, sister of Mr. F. Oddin Taylor. + +22.*—“The Earl of Leicester has forwarded to the governors of the Norfolk +and Norwich Hospital a cheque for £5,000 for building new quarters for +nurses at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.” + +23.—The Norfolk Volunteer Brigade went into camp at Colchester. + +29.—Barnum and Bailey’s great show visited Norwich. It came by special +trains from Yarmouth, and on leaving Norwich proceeded to Bury St. +Edmund’s. + +31.—Died, the Rev. Canon Hinds Howell, aged 91. He was seventh son of +Mr. C. A. Howell, Treasurer of the Island of Barbados, where he was born. +Canon Howell was many years rector of Drayton, and one of the most +energetic clergymen in the diocese. + + +AUGUST. + + +1.—Died at Stanley Avenue, Thorpe, Norwich, Mr. Edwin Plumer Price, Q.C., +formerly Recorder of York, and judge of the Norfolk County Court, aged +81. In his younger days he unsuccessfully contested Sheffield in the +Conservative interest. + +2.—The Norfolk and Norwich Library was opened after reconstruction at the +cost of £1,719. + +7.—A fire occurred at Messrs. Leake and Sons’ oil mill at Lynn. The +damage was estimated at from £10,000 to £12,000. + +—Mr. Robert Borrett sold by auction at Wacton the wheat and barley on +about 170 acres of land in the parishes of Moulton St. Michael, Pulham +Market, Tivetshall St. Margaret, and Wacton, in the occupation of Mr. +Fisher. The auctioneer’s advertisement stated that the growing crops +were offered in consequence of there being a scarcity of labour—a +circumstance unprecedented in Norfolk. + +11.—Died while on a yachting cruise off the coast of Iceland, Sir Edmund +Broughton Knowles Lacon, Bart., head of the banking firm of Lacons, +Youell, and Kemp. He was born May 9th, 1842, and in 1892 served the +office of High Sheriff of Norfolk. + +17.—The 50 miles’ championship of the National Cyclists’ Union, Eastern +Counties Centre, was won on the Earlham Road Recreation Ground, Norwich, +by C. F. Morley (champion 1897–98) in 2 hours 20 minutes 49 4-5ths +seconds. + +19.—Died at Hilgay rectory, Downham, the Rev. St. Vincent Beechey, rector +of the parish, and honorary canon of Manchester, in his 94th year. Canon +Beechey was born August 7th, 1806, at Harley Street, Cavendish Square, +and was the son of Sir William Beechey, the eminent painter and friend of +Lord Nelson, whose portrait, limned by him, is one of the most valuable +of the pictures in St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. Young Beechey was +educated at Boulogne, where he not only acquired a thorough knowledge of +the French language, but became an expert swordsman. Thence he proceeded +to a school at Sidcup, kept by the father of Sheridan Knowles, and at the +age of 16 he matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and +obtained two scholarships. While preparing for Holy Orders he studied +medicine at the Western Hospital. In 1829 he was ordained by the Bishop +of Rochester, and received the curacy of Aylesford, near Maidstone. He +next became curate of Hilgay, and in 1841 was appointed to the living of +Thornton le Fylde, with Fleetwood, Lancashire. Acting on the suggestion +of a Corsican named Vantine, he established Rossall School, one of the +most successful educational institutions in the north, and of which he +was secretary for 28 years. In 1852 he was appointed to the vicarage of +Worsley, near Manchester, and in 1872, at the age of sixty, he accepted +the living of Hilgay, where for 27 years he faithfully ministered to the +parishioners. Canon Beechey took great interest in astronomical studies, +and was a popular lecturer. His favourite topics were the expansion of +the empire, the origin of writing, and, in the last years of his life, +the Röntgen rays. + +20.—A serious fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Thomas Wright, boot +manufacturer and clothier, High Street, East Dereham. The damage was +estimated at upwards of £1,000. + +26.—Kimberley Hall, the seat of the Earl of Kimberley, narrowly escaped +total destruction by fire. The outbreak was confined to one portion of +the house, and the damage was estimated at £2,000. + +27.—North Walsham Town Hall was destroyed by fire. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +5.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council a report was received from +the City Committee recommending that they be empowered to submit a scheme +for the erection of municipal buildings. The debate was adjourned, and +Mr. L. J. Tillett gave notice of his intention to move “That the +financial position of the city at the present time is such that it is +undesirable to now embark upon any scheme of whatsoever nature for the +erection of a new town-hall, which would involve the expenditure of a +large amount, and thereby greatly increase the rates and the debt of the +city, and that the preparation of such scheme do stand over until the +re-valuation of the city has been completed.” At an adjourned meeting on +the 26th a resolution was adopted empowering the City Committee to submit +a scheme to the Town Council. Meanwhile the proposal was adversely +criticised by the citizens, and at a meeting of ratepayers held at +Noverre’s Rooms on October 11th, a strong protest was made in opposition +to the scheme. At a special meeting of the Town Council on December 8th +a petition was presented against the scheme, and ultimately a resolution +was adopted for rescinding the former motion. + +9.*—“Messrs. J. H. Walter and Co., proprietors of Taverham Mills, the +last remaining of the old paper mills in Norfolk, have issued a circular +stating: ‘Early in the year we had to submit to a very heavy reduction in +the price of our paper. We felt that we could only carry on the mills at +a serious loss, and the balance-sheet, which we have just got out, fully +confirms our impression. We have, therefore, decided to shut down as +soon as possible.’ Messrs. Delane, Magnay, and Co. took over the mills +in 1846, and the present proprietors in 1884.” + +29.—A violent gale occurred on the east coast. “At Yarmouth the velocity +of the wind reached 55 miles per hour, and the rainfall was 1¼ inches.” + + +OCTOBER. + + +3.—The twenty-sixth Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Musical Festival +commenced at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. The principal vocalists were +Madame Albani, Miss Clara Butt, Miss Marie Brema, Miss Ethel Wood, Miss +Kelyn Williams, Miss Edith Nutter, and Mrs. Julia Franks; Mr. Edward +Lloyd, Mr. Ben Davies, Mr. Andrew Black, Mr. David Bispham, Mr. Whitworth +Mitton, Mr. Robert Radford, and Mr. F. Ranalow. Mr. Alberto Randegger +conducted. At the opening performance “Faust” (Berlioz) was produced; +4th: morning, symphony in B minor (Schubert), “Biblical Songs” (Dvorák), +“Hymn of Praise” (Mendelssohn), evening, opera, “Sampson and Delilah” (C. +Saint-Saëns), first time in Norwich; 5th: morning, Meditation (Edward +Elgar), first time in Norwich, conducted by the composer, sacred trilogy, +“Passion of Christ” (Don Lorenzo Perosi), first performance in England, +ode, “A Song of Darkness and Light” (C. Hubert H. Parry), first time in +Norwich, conducted by the composer, evening, overture, “Mignon” (Ambroise +Thomas), cycle of songs, “Sea Pictures” (Edward Elgar), composed +expressly for the Festival and conducted by the composer, trio des +flutes, “Dall’ Aurora” (Weyerbeer), new suite, “The Seasons” (Edward +German), composed expressly for the Festival and conducted by the +composer, “Ode to the Passions” (written by William Collins, 1721–1759, +set to music for chorus and orchestra by Frederic H. Cowen), first time +in Norwich, and conducted by the composer, “Tristan and Isolde” (Wagner), +scena, “The Dream of Endymion” (F. F. Cowen), conducted by the composer, +overture, “Di Ballo” (Sullivan); 6th: morning, “The Messiah,” evening, +cantata, “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast” (S. Coleridge Taylor), first time in +Norwich, conducted by the composer. The receipts amounted to £5,398, and +the payments to £4,998. + +16.—Mr. Peter E. Hansell was presented by the magistrates and officials +of the North Erpingham division with a massive silver Irish bowl on the +occasion of this retirement after twenty years’ honourable and efficient +service as clerk to the justices. + +—A meeting of the party was held at the Norwich and Norfolk Conservative +Club, to express approval of the policy of her Majesty’s Government in +relation to the conduct of affairs in South Africa. Mr. W. T. Stead, +author of a notorious pamphlet, “Shall I slay my brother Boer?” essayed +to address a meeting in the Agricultural Hall Assembly Room on November +6th, on the subject “Is England Doomed?” Mr. Henry Broadhurst, M.P., +presided, and a strongly antagonistic audience offered resistance to the +proceedings. The National Anthem and patriotic songs were song, and Mr. +Stead and his supporters were compelled to leave the platform. A +collection was then made for the widows and orphans of soldiers in South +Africa, and a resolution adopted affirming that Great Britain must be the +paramount power in South Africa, and expressing the hope that the +Government would prosecute the war to its final issue with the utmost +vigour. On November 9th meetings were held in various parts of Norfolk +under the auspices of the National Union of Conservative and +Constitutional Associations, at which resolutions were adopted expressive +of confidence in the Government. Funds were opened in county and city +for the relief of the widows and orphans of soldiers who had fallen in +the war, and for the assistance of soldiers’ wives and families. On +December 27th the reservists of the Norfolk Regiment, assembled at the +Britannia Barracks to the number of 320, and on the 28th, amid a great +demonstration, left the city _en route_ to South Africa. Early on the +morning of the 31st a second contingent of reservists, numbering 320, +left Norwich for Aldershot. Their departure from Thorpe Station was +witnessed by the Mayor (Mr. James Clabburn), Sir Harry Bullard, M.P., and +other prominent citizens. (_See_ January 2nd, 1900.) + +17.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council, the Sewerage Committee +reported that the main drainage of the city, referred to in the report of +the City Engineer on February 2nd, 1895, had been completed in accordance +with the recommendations laid down therein. It was believed that the +City Engineer’s estimate of £152,000 would nearly cover the whole cost of +the works, the excess of expenditure not being more than two per cent. of +the total. + +25.—Died at Hingham, Mr. Charles Crawshay. He was a son of Mr. Richard +Crawshay, of Rowfant, Surrey, and was born February 26th, 1815. His +father settled at Hingham as a brewer, and afterwards opened a brewery in +St. Stephen’s Street, Norwich. Young Crawshay was sent to Messrs. +Charington, Head, and Co.’s brewery in London, where he received an +excellent training, and returning to Norwich took charge of the St. +Stephen’s brewery. Ultimately he became partner with Mr. John Youngs in +the King Street brewery, and retained his connection with the firm of +Youngs, Crawshay, and Youngs until his death. Mr. Crawshay was one of +the foremost sportsmen in the county, a skilled whip, an excellent judge +of a horse, a clever shot, and as a yachtsman he held his own in Norfolk +waters with his well-known yacht, the Kestrel. In 1856 Mr. Crawshay +married the daughter of Sir William Cubitt, the constructor of Lowestoft +harbour. In 1857 he was appointed Sheriff of Norwich. Mr. Crawshay was +a famous breeder of Southdown and cross-bred sheep, a great benefactor of +Hingham, and in dress, manners, and tastes he retained all the best +characteristics of a country gentleman of the old school, and paid little +heed to modern innovations. + +27.—The portrait of Mr. J. J. Colman, painted by Professor Hubert +Herkomer, R.A., at the cost of 600 guineas, was unveiled by Sir Harry +Bullard, M.P., at St. Andrew’s Hall. The portrait is identical with the +one at Carrow Abbey, painted by the same artist three years previously, +but with the addition of certain details. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +7.—The High Sheriff of Norfolk (Mr. H. M. Upcher) gave, at St. Andrew’s +Hall, Norwich, a county ball, which was attended by 500 guests. + +9.—Mr. James Clabburn was elected Mayor, and Mr. Samuel Wainwright +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +10.—The Norwich and Norfolk Conservative Club was formally opened by Mr. +Walter Long on the occasion of the conference of the Eastern Division of +the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations. Sir +Harry Bullard, M.P., president, and Lady Bullard gave a _conversazione_ +at St. Andrew’s Hall in the evening. + +15.—The Norwich Omnibus Company wound up its affairs in consequence of +the approaching completion of the tramways scheme. The company was +formed in 1878 with a capital of £5,920. + +25.—The German Emperor and Empress arrived at Sandringham on a visit to +the Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Majesties, who were accompanied +by the Prince of Wales, were met at Wolferton station by the Princess of +Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York, Princess Victoria of Wales, and Sir +William and Lady ffolkes. The Emperor and Empress accompanied the Prince +and Princess of Wales to church on the 26th, the Sandringham preserves +were shot over on the 27th, and their Majesties departed on the 28th. + +28.—Killed in action at the battle of Modder River, Lieut.-Col. Horace +Robert Stopford, commanding 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards. Col. +Stopford was a resident of Sheringham, captain of the Sheringham Golf +Club in 1895, and a member of the Improvement Committee. He was in his +44th year. + + +DECEMBER. + + +12.—The new organ erected at Norwich Cathedral at the cost of £6,000, +with the celestial organ given by Mr. Hugh G. Barclay, was opened at a +special service attended by the Mayor and members of the Corporation. +The sermon was preached by the Dean, and a recital was given by Dr. A. L. +Peace, organist of St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. + +30.—The extensive premises known as “Free Trade House,” Swaffham Road, +East Dereham, occupied by Mr. F. Vincent, grocer, factor, and general +warehouseman, were destroyed by fire. The loss was estimated at £2,500. + +—Died at 5, Park Square, Regent’s Park, London, Sir James Paget, Bart. +The son of Mr. Samuel Paget, merchant, of Yarmouth, he was born in that +town on January 11th, 1814. After a most distinguished medical career he +was appointed Serjeant-Surgeon to the Queen, and surgeon to the Prince of +Wales. He was created a baronet in 1871. His third son, the Rev. H. +Luke Paget, vicar of St. Pancras, married a daughter of Sir Samuel Hoare, +Bart., M.P. + + + +1900. + + +JANUARY. + + +1.—Died at Booton rectory, the Rev. Whitwell Elwin. He was born in +Norfolk on February 25th, 1816, and entering Caius College, Cambridge, +graduated B.A. in 1839. After his marriage with his cousin, Miss Frances +Elvin, in that year, he was ordained, and became curate of Hemington with +Hardington, in Somersetshire. In 1849 he was presented to the family +living of Booton, where he resided until his death. During his +incumbency he undertook the great work of re-building his parish church +in the Early Decorated style upon the old ground plan. Elwin was best +known as editor of the “Quarterly Review,” the personal friend of +Thackeray and Bulwer Lytton, of Dickens and Forster, and of many other +famous people in the literary world. It was in 1843 that he wrote for +the “Quarterly Review” his first article—on the “Histoire du Chien” of +Elzéar Blaze. When Lockhart’s illness made it necessary for him to go +abroad in 1853 he asked Elwin to do the work of editing the “Quarterly +Review.” Lockhart died in 1854, and Elwin then succeeded him in the post +of editor. He lived at home in Norfolk and went up to London for the +publication of each number. Thackeray gave to him the gold pen with +which he had written most of “Vanity Fair,” and has left a pleasant +sketch of him in his “Roundabout Paper” on “Screens in Dining Rooms.” +Elwin wrote the review of “The Newcomes” in the “Quarterly” for +September, 1855. + +2.—The formal presentation of gifts subscribed by the residents of +Norfolk and the citizens of Norwich for the men of the Norfolk Regiment +took place at Aldershot by a deputation consisting of the High Sheriff +(Mr. Upcher), the Deputy-Mayor of Norwich (Mr. G. H. Morse), Col. +Shepherd, D.S.O., Mr. P. E. Hansell (Under-Sheriff of Norfolk), and Mr. +E. J. Caley, honorary secretary to the fund. The battalion left +Aldershot on the 4th for Southampton, and embarked on the P. and O. liner +Assaye for South Africa. The strength of the battalion was just under +1,000. On this day (January 2nd) the non-commissioned officers and men +of the Loyal Suffolk Hussars and many civilians, who had volunteered for +active service in South Africa with the Imperial Yeomanry, attended at +the Maid’s Head Hotel, Norwich, for the purpose of being medically +examined and attested. About 46 members of the Loyal Suffolk Hussars and +112 civilians were accepted. On the 12th the commanding officers of the +four Volunteer battalions of the Norfolk Regiment met at Norwich and +arranged details for the clothing and equipment of men who had +volunteered for the front. Three officers were appointed to the service +company—Capt. Archdale, 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Lieut. B. H. L. Prior, +1st Volunteer Battalion, and Lieut. H. L. Willett, 4th Volunteer +Battalion. The company consisted of four sergeants, five corporals, two +buglers, and 99 rank and file—total 115. On the 25th the 3rd Battalion +Norfolk Regiment (Militia), commanded by Col. Custance, was embodied at +the Britannia Barracks, Norwich, and on the same day left for Fermoy for +garrison duty. The Yeomanry and Volunteers attended a farewell service +at Norwich Cathedral on the 26th; and in the evening the Volunteers were +entertained to dinner at the Drill Hall by public subscription. The +Yeomanry (43rd Company) were similarly entertained on the 27th by Mr. +Alfred Haldinstein, whose eldest son had volunteered for service with the +company. On the 30th the 43rd Company paraded on Tombland, and, headed +by the band of the 7th Hussars, marched to Trowse, where they entrained +with their horses for Southampton, and on the 31st embarked on the Goth. +The officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the 44th Company left +Norwich by special train at 4.50 on the morning of February 3rd for +London, where they were inspected at Albany Street Barracks by the Prince +of Wales. They returned to Norwich in the evening. On the 5th they were +entertained to dinner at the Assembly Room, Agricultural Hall, under the +presidency of the Deputy-Mayor. The Norfolk Volunteer Service Company +left Norwich on February 11th, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Diver, +2nd Volunteer Battalion, who had been appointed in place of Capt. +Archdale, incapacitated by illness; the same day they arrived at +Southampton and embarked on the Donne Castle. Meanwhile the 3rd +Battalion Norfolk Regiment (Militia) had volunteered for service at the +front, and the battalion on February 25th left Fermoy for Queenstown, +where they embarked on board the Orotava. Col. Custance was in command, +and there were 22 officers and 550 non-commissioned officers and men. On +March 1st news was received in Norwich of the relief of Ladysmith. A +boom was fired from the Castle, the city flags hoisted upon public +buildings, and the bells of St. Peter Mancroft rung. Bands of music +paraded the streets, and in the evening the city was illuminated. +Similar rejoicings took place throughout the county. On the 3rd, at two +a.m., the 44th Company, Imperial Yeomanry, paraded on Tombland, and +headed by torch bearers and the band of the Artillery Volunteers marched +to Thorpe Station, whence they proceeded to London, and on the same day +embarked on the Cornwall at the Albert Docks. News of the relief of +Mafeking reached Norwich on May 18th at 10 p.m., and was received with +great enthusiasm. On the 19th the city was decorated, and Sir Harry +Bullard, M.P., on visiting the corn market, was loudly cheered by the +farmers and merchants and compelled to make a speech. In the evening the +Volunteers paraded the streets, which were illuminated, and a great +gathering was held at the Conservative Club, under the presidency of Sir +Harry Bullard. Thanksgiving services were held on the 20th in all places +of worship in the city and county. The occupation of Pretoria, the +crowning point in the success of British arms, was made known in Norwich +on June 5th, and on the 6th a great demonstration took place in +celebration of the event. A procession, in which the naval and military +forces were represented, marched round the city, and afterwards a dense +crowd witnessed a cinematographic exhibition in the Market Place. On +December 15th a meeting was held under the presidency of Viscount Coke, +at the Shirehall, Norwich, at which was inaugurated a movement for the +erection of a memorial to Norfolk men who had died whilst on active +service in South Africa. + +8.—A meeting was held at Costessey, under the presidency of Mr. Stafford +H. Jerningham, for the purpose of discussing the projected construction +of a light railway between Norwich and Dereham. The line, which was to +be constructed under the Light Railways Act, was to be fifteen miles in +length, and a capital of £85,000 was required. The suggested route was +from East Dereham, between North Tuddenham and Mattishall, on to +Hockering and East Tuddenham, thence to Honingham, and by Easton and +Costessey to Hellesdon, where the Eastern and Midlands line to Norwich +would be joined. Meetings were held at other places along the suggested +route. On July 26th an inquiry was held at the Royal Hotel, Norwich, by +Mr. Gerald A. Fitzgerald and Col. Boughey, C.S.I., Light Railway +Commissioners, into an application made for a provisional order for +authorising the construction of the railway. After hearing evidence the +commissioners stated that they could not see any prospect of a return of +capital such as would lead the public to become investors, and, +therefore, they did not feel justified in recommending the Board of Trade +to grant the order. + +11.—Died at his residence, Gordon Square, W.C., Dr. James Martineau, aged +95 years. A son of Thomas Martineau, a manufacturer of bombazines and +camlets, he was born at Norwich on April 21st, 1805. His sister was the +famous Harriet Martineau. From his tenth to his fourteenth year he was +educated at Norwich Grammar School, and on leaving school studied +medicine, but as the work was not congenial to him he gave it up, with +the view of becoming a minister of the denomination to which his family +belonged. They were Unitarians, and thenceforward he was prominently +identified with that body. He was the author of several theological +works, and had conferred upon him by Harvard College, Mass., the honorary +degree of LL.D. + +31.—Information was received at Norwich that an outbreak of foot and +mouth disease had occurred at Fritton. All sales necessitating the +movement of cattle were prohibited, and public markets in the district +closed. On February 7th a deputation of farmers, cattle salesmen, +butchers, and others from the county waited upon Mr. Walter Long, +President of the Board of Agriculture, for the purpose of asking him to +relax in some degree the stringent restrictions placed upon the movement +of cattle. Shortly afterwards an amended order was issued, and on March +31st Norwich Cattle Market was re-opened. At Loddon Petty Sessions on +May 19th three farmers were summoned for contravention of an order of the +Board of Agriculture by the wrongful removal of cattle and sheep. It was +urged by the defendants that “it was a case either of removal or +starvation,” and the magistrates inflicted nominal penalties. Mr. George +Holmes, one of the justices, protested against the false position in +which they were placed by the orders of the Board of Agriculture, which +could not possibly be obeyed by many owners of stock in the district. +During the sitting of the court a memorial was signed by the magistrates +and others and sent to Mr. Long, praying for a modification of the +restrictions in the Loddon and Clavering Union. + +—Died at the Close, Norwich, the Rev. Edward Bulmer, M.A., minor canon of +Norwich Cathedral, aged 67. His father was vicar-choral and custos of +Hereford Cathedral, and rector of Morton-on-Lugg, and his grandfather on +his mother’s side the famous organist, Dr. Clarke Whitfield, composer of +the well-known anthem, “In Jewry is God known.” In addition to writing +the libretto to Dr. Bunnett’s “Rhine Maiden,” Canon Bulmer for some years +contributed to “The Argosy,” and other magazines, articles end poems, +which were characterised by versatility and graceful diction. + + +FEBRUARY. + + +12.—Mr. Lewis Barton, of Elvin Road, East Dereham, attained his 100th +year. He was born at Old Buckenham on February 12th, 1800. + +15.—Severe weather was experienced in Norfolk. In south Norfolk many of +the roads were blocked by snowdrifts. During a storm on the coast the +brigantine Lizzie and Edith was wrecked off Eccles and four of the crew +drowned. + +16.—Died at Teignmouth, Mr. Peter Paul Marshall, aged 69. For fourteen +years he was City Engineer at Norwich, and resigned his appointment in +1891. Mr. Marshall, who was a native of Edinburgh, was an artist of +considerable merit, and had exhibited works at the Royal Academy and the +British Institution. + +22.—Among the officers reported wounded at the battle of Colenso on this +date was Major H. L. Smith, of the 2nd Surrey Regiment, eldest son of Mr. +Henry Smith, of Ellingham Hall. Major Smith took part in the Afghan War +in 1879, and in the Egyptian War in 1885. + +23.—Died at the Britannia Barracks, Norwich, Mr. George Francis Archdale, +aged 34. He was the eldest son of Major Archdale, of Coltishall, and was +appointed to the command of the Norfolk Volunteer Service Company for +active duty in South Africa. Shortly after taking up his quarters at the +barracks he was seized with influenza, and fatal complications ensued. +Mr. Archdale, who was educated at Wellington College, was a partner in +the firm of Messrs. Hogge and Seppings. He held a commission in the 3rd +Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment, was a crack shot, and for several +years captained the China Cup team for Norfolk. + + +MARCH. + + +15.—Died suddenly at Norwich, Mr. Horace Hill, Mus. Doc., aged 67. He +was a son of Mr. John Hill, the compiler of the once popular “Norwich +Tune Book,” and was largely identified with musical matters in Norwich +and Norfolk. + +29.—Cromer Gas Works, constructed at the cost of upwards of £13,000, were +opened. + + +APRIL. + + +19.—The Norwich Diocesan Conference opened at Noverre’s Rooms, Norwich, +and was concluded on the 20th. + +—A trial trip over the completed portion of the Norwich electric tramways +was run. A memorial signed by clergy and others was presented to the +Town Council, protesting against the proposed introduction of Sunday +traffic over the system. The overhead wires erected by the Tramway +Company were inspected on June 12th by Mr. A. P. Trotter, electric +adviser to the Board of Trade; and on July 26th Col. Yorke, R.E., of the +Railway Department of the Board of Trade, made an inspection of 22 miles +of route on about 16 miles of roads. On the 30th the cars commenced +running over the Magdalen Road, Earlham Road, Dereham Road, and Thorpe +Road routes. Twenty-five thousand persons were carried on this day. The +Newmarket Road route was opened on August 9th, and the Unthank Road route +on December 22nd. + +20.—Two men, Pratt, of Tunstead, and Thomas Stafford, from Surrey, were +at work in a seven foot cylinder, 90 foot below the surface of the +ground, at North Waltham Waterworks, when the earth fell in and they were +entombed. The accident occurred at fire p.m. Strenuous efforts were +made to rescue the men, and mainly through the exertions of one Tom +Holford they were brought to the surface much exhausted, but otherwise +uninjured, at 9.15 p.m. on the 21st. + +25.—The centenary of the death of the poet Cowper at East Dereham on +April 25th, 1800, was observed. Cowper spent the closing years of his +life in a house in the Market Place, on the site of which the Cowper +Congregational church is now erected. His body was interred in St. +Edmund’s Chapel, in the north transept of the parish church. At the +commemoration service the sermon was preached by the Rev. John Callis, +rector of Holy Trinity, Norwich. + +26.—The Duke of York visited Yarmouth and attended the opening and +dedication of the Missions to Seamen Church and Institute. + + +MAY. + + +1.—The 7th Hussars, after eighteen months’ service in Norwich, left for +Aldershot, under the command of Col. the Hon. R. T. Lawley. The regiment +proceeded by three special trains from Trowse. There were 642 men, 362 +horses, 28 officers’ chargers; 30 women and 60 children. + +10.—The reservists and recruits of the 13th Hussars, who relieved the 7th +Hussars at Norwich Cavalry Barracks, arrived at Trowse Station by special +train. There were between 300 and 400 men. + +13.—The death occurred at Parsonage Square, Norwich, in his 65th year, of +Thomas Mitham, who was regarded as the last representative in the city of +the old watchmen who shouted the hour to the public. He was for many +years watchman at Gurney’s Bank, and announced the hour once during the +night, namely, at 11 o’clock. Prior to his entering the service of the +bank he was keeper of the old toll-gate at Thorpe. In his early days he +was a schoolmaster in Cambridgeshire, his native county; with his +watchman’s duties he combined the work of collecting for various +societies, was door-keeper at the Corn Hall, and was a man of great +integrity. + +26.—A reredos of richly carved alabaster, designed by Messrs. Hicks and +Charlwood, architects, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was dedicated at +Letheringsett church by the Bishop of Norwich. It was the gift of +members of the Jodrell family, who had done much to restore and beautify +the church. + + +JUNE. + + +11.—At the Norfolk Assizes, before Mr. Justice Bigham, William Jimby, 38, +was indicated for feloniously setting fire to a straw stack at +Surlingham. The chief warder informed the judge that the prisoner was, +or pretended to be, deaf; he understood nothing and was unable to read or +write. The judge thereupon had a jury sworn to decide whether the +accused was “mute of malice or by the visitation of God.” They found him +to be mute of malice, and the judge ordered a plea of not guilty to be +taken, and the case proceeded, with the result that the jury returned a +verdict of guilty. His lordship remarking that he had not the slightest +doubt prisoner was pretending he could not hear the proceedings, +sentenced him to twelve months’ imprisonment. + +17.—The celebration of the bi-centenary of the Society for the +Propagation of the Gospel commenced at Norwich. + +25.—Died at Cleveland House, Newmarket Road, Norwich, Mr. George Clayton +Eaton, in his 66th year. A son of Mr. Thomas Damant Eaton, on whose +death he succeeded to a liberal competency, Mr. Eaton followed no +business occupation, but devoted his time to literary pursuits, gave most +valuable aid to various charitable organizations, and took part in +furthering the usefulness of several scientific institutions. During the +transition of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum from its old quarters in St. +Andrew’s to the Castle, Mr. Eaton laboured incessantly, wrote one of the +descriptive guides to the Museum, and compiled the catalogue of the +pictures. He was vice-president of the Norfolk and Norwich Library. +When the library was destroyed by fire in 1898, Mr. Eaton was appointed a +member of the special committee who advised upon the purchase of new +books, and it was in this respect that his literary knowledge proved +valuable. One of his latest acts of public generosity was to give, in +conjunction with his brother, the Rev. William Ray Eaton, the site on +which the mission-hall for the parish of St. Peter Mancroft is erected. + +29.—A sale of the Sandringham shorthorns and Southdowns, the property of +the Prince of Wales, was conducted at the Home Farm, Wolferton, by Mr. +John Thornton. His Royal Highness and a large party from Sandringham +were present. Forty-one heifers made a total of £2,954 14s., an average +of £72 1s. 3d.; 13 bulls realised £780 3s. The 54 lots of heifers and +bulls made £3,724 17s., an average of £69. The sheep made less +satisfactory prices than on previous occasions. + +30.—The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Norwich for the purpose of +opening the new Jenny Lind Infirmary. His Royal Highness arrived at +Trowse by saloon train from Wolferton at 1.10 p.m., and was received by +Mr. Russell J. Colman, chairman of the Committee of Management of the +Infirmary. Four minutes later the train by which the Princess travelled +from London entered the station. Their Royal Highnesses, escorted by the +13th Hussars, were driven to Carrow Abbey, where a large and +distinguished party had been invited to meet them at luncheon; and +afterwards they proceeded to the new Infirmary, where they were presented +with an address read by Mr. Colman, to which the Prince of Wales replied, +and declared the building open. The Princess of Wales then accepted +purses in aid of the endowment fund, a short address was delivered by the +Dean, and the Bishop offered prayer. On leaving the Infirmary their +Royal Highnesses proceeded to the Cathedral, and after hearing a short +organ recital, took tea at the Palace. In the evening they left Thorpe +station for Sandringham. + + +JULY. + + +4.—The Summer Show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was opened at +Downham Market, under the presidency of Mr. T. L. Hare, M.P., and +concluded on the 5th. + +16.—Mr. J. Roots, of East Dereham, who had undertaken for a wager of £50 +to drive his horse from Dereham to Yarmouth and back once every day for +six consecutive days, was stopped at Thorpe on the fourth day’s journey, +by an officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, +who prohibited the continuance of the task. The animal was then +perfectly sound and in good condition. + +16.—The opening of the first portion of the new pier at Cromer took +place. + +19.—Mrs. Mary Ann Towler, of Keppel Street, Lynn, entered upon her 100th +year. + +20.—A severe thunderstorm passed over Norfolk. Many cattle and sheep +were killed by lightning in various parts of the county. Very hot +weather was recorded in the following week. + +21.—The Norfolk Volunteer Brigade, under Col. Shepherd, D.S.O., acting +Brigadier-General, went into camp at Colchester. + +27.—A fire took place in the timber-yard of Messrs. J. Porter and Sons, +Norwich, and caused damage to the amount of several thousands of pounds. + + +AUGUST. + + +3.—A severe gale swept over the county and did serious damage to +orchards, in which thousands of tons of unripe fruit were destroyed. +Many shipping disasters occurred upon the coast. + +4.—A new lifeboat named the Licensed Victualler, provided by liberal +contributions from the Licensed Victuallers’ Fund, was received by +Commander Holmes, R.N., at Hunstanton. A ceremonial launch was dispensed +with in consequence of the roughness of the sea. + +—Died at Heigham House, Norwich, aged 69, Mr. John Boyce, who had for +many years been identified with the firm of Messrs. Bullard and Sons, of +the Anchor Brewery. Mr. Boyce, who was a son of Mr. Samuel Boyce, of +East Dereham, was elected a representative of the old Second Ward in +November, 1867, and served continuously until 1892, when, on the +redistribution of seats, he was transferred to the Earlham Ward. He +retired in 1894, and on June 18th, 1895, was elected an alderman on the +death of Col. Bignold. Mr. Boyce, who was a magistrate for the city, was +in politics a Conservative. + +5.—Died at Eaton, Norwich, Mr. Philip Back, aged 76. He entered the +Corporation in 1873 as member for the old Fourth Ward, and on his +re-election in 1876, with Mr. Ladyman, the memorable election petition +was presented by his Liberal opponents, Mr. J. D. Smith and Mr. S. +Newman, against the return of himself and his colleague. The +commissioner gave judgment in favour of the respondents, with costs, and +Mr. Back retained his seat. In 1879 he was appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +10.—The time ball, erected on the north-west angle of the battlements of +Norwich Castle, was used for the first time. It announces Greenwich time +every day at 10 a.m. + +14.—Lord Walsingham addressed a letter to the Press announcing that an +attempt was being made to re-introduce the great bustard in what was +formerly one of the favourite haunts of this fine bird on the borders of +the Norfolk fens. The experiment, his lordship stated, was due to the +public spirit of an English gentleman living abroad, and he appealed to +the public for the protection of the birds. + +21.—Prince Pura Chatra of Siam and his brother, Prince Yugula, arrived at +Norwich from Cromer, and visited several places of interest in the city. + +24.—Dr. A. H. Mann, of Cambridge, was elected chorus master of the +Norwich Festival, in succession to Dr. Horace Hill, deceased. + + +SEPTEMBER. + + +17.—The Prince of Wales’ Own Norfolk Artillery Militia commenced a route +march through Norfolk, under the command of Col. Viscount Coke. The +regiment left Yarmouth in two river steamers, and landing at Buckenham +Ferry marched to Langley Park, the seat of Sir Reginald Proctor +Beauchamp, where they encamped for the night. The march was resumed on +the 18th to Dunston Park; on the 19th to Wymondham; on the 20th to +Dereham; on the 21st to Westacre; and on the 22nd to Hempton Green, where +Sunday, the 23rd, was spent, and the regiment attended service at +Fakenham church. On the 24th the column marched to Holkham, and encamped +in the park; on the 25th the march was continued to Melton Constable +Park; on the 26th to Aylsham; on the 27th to North Walsham; and on the +28th to Woodbastwick Park, where the last camp was formed. On the 29th +the column marched from Woodbastwick to headquarters at Yarmouth. The +actual distance marched in the twelve days was 150 miles. + +22.—The body of a woman was found on the south beach at Yarmouth. The +medical evidence proved that death was due to strangulation caused by a +bootlace bound tightly round the neck. The deceased had been lodging at +Yarmouth since the 15th, and had stated that her name was Hood. On +November 9th the London police arrested at Woolwich a man named Herbert +John Bennett, who was brought to Yarmouth and charged with the murder of +the woman—his wife. On November 24th he was committed for trial at the +Norfolk Assizes, but owing to the prejudice excited against the prisoner +by a certain section of the Press, the venue of trial was removed to the +Old Bailey, where he was found guilty and sentenced to death. (Bennett +was executed at Norwich Prison in March, 1901.) + +25.—At a meeting of the Norwich Town Council it was resolved that the +question of applying to Parliament for powers to purchase compulsorily +the Norwich Waterworks undertaking, be referred to a committee, and if in +their judgment it was considered to be in the interests of the city to +obtain such powers, they be empowered to take steps for the promotion of +a Bill for that purpose, and further that they negotiate with the +Waterworks Company for the purchase, if possible, by agreement. + +29.—Sir Samuel Hoare, Bart., and Sir Harry Bullard were nominated at the +Guildhall, Norwich, representatives of the city in Parliament. The +Liberal party offered no opposition, and the Sheriff (Mr. S. Wainwright) +declared the Conservative candidates duly elected. + +—Sir John Colomb, K.C.M.G., Conservative, was returned unopposed member +of Parliament for Great Yarmouth. + +29.—Mr. T. Gibson Bowles (C.) and Mr. F. Handel Booth (L.) were nominated +for the representation of King’s Lynn. The polling on October 1st +resulted as follows: Bowles, 1,499; Booth, 1,332. + + +OCTOBER. + + +1.—The nomination of candidates for East Norfolk took place at the +Shirehall, Norwich. Mr. William Louis St. Julian Prioleau, of Plumstead +Hall, was proposed by the Unionists, and Mr. Robert James Price by the +Liberals. The polling on the 5th was as follows: Price, 4,563; Prioleau, +3,733. + +—At the Town Hall, Aylsham, Major Henry Speaker Follett, 7th Dragoon +Guards, of Coney Weston, Suffolk, was nominated Unionist candidate for +North Norfolk; Sir William Brampton Gurdon, K.C., of Assington Hall, +Suffolk, was nominated by the Liberals. The polling took place on the +8th: Gurdon, 4,490; Follett, 3,493. + +4.—Polling took place for South Norfolk. The candidates were Mr. Edward +Mann, of Thelveton Hall (Unionist), and Mr. A. W. Soames (Liberal). The +result was declared at the Shirehall, Norwich, on the 5th: Soames, 3,986; +Mann, 3,566. + +—The nomination took place at the Town Hall, Lynn, of Sir William +ffolkes, Bart., of Hillington (Unionist), and Mr. George White, of Eaton +Grange, Norwich, manufacturer (Liberal), as candidates for North-West +Norfolk. The polling was on the 11th, and the result was declared on the +12th: White, 4,287; ffolkes, 3,811. + +—Mr. William Lewis Boyle, of Elsing Hall (Unionist), and Mr. F. W. +Wilson, of the Dale, Scarning (Liberal), were nominated at East Dereham +for the representation of Mid Norfolk. The election took place on the +8th, and the poll was declared on the 9th: Wilson, 3,996; Boyle, 3,422. + +5.—At Swaffham, Mr. Thomas Leigh Hare, of Stow Hall (Unionist), and Mr. +Richard Winfrey, of Sutton House, Peterborough, and Stanley House, +Swaffham (Liberal), were nominated candidates for South-West Norfolk. +The polling on the 12th resulted as follows: Hare, 3,702; Winfrey, 3,636. + +6.—Died at Pinetown Bridge, South Africa, Mr. Walter Waring, surgeon +Norwich. He had gone out to the seat of war as captain in the Militia +Medical Staff Corps, and the cause of his death was dysentery. Formerly +medical-officer to the Norwich Dispensary, he was known as Mr. Walter +Scott Walters; he afterwards assumed the name of Waring. + +17.—Died at the Close, Norwich, the Ven. Henry Ralph Nevill, Archdeacon +of Norfolk and a canon of Norwich Cathedral. He was fourth son of Mr. +Richard J. Nevill, of Llangennech Park, Carmarthenshire, and was born +June 17th, 1821. For four years he was travelling tutor to the Earl of +Ducie. His first curacy was at Yarmouth, in 1848, and he ultimately +became vicar of that parish in 1859. In 1873 he received a residentiary +canonry in Norwich Cathedral, and in 1874 Bishop Pelham appointed him +Archdeacon of Norfolk, in succession to Archdeacon Blakelock. In 1881 +Archdeacon Nevill was elected vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, and held the +living until 1884. He was a member of the governing body of the Grammar +School, and was well known throughout the diocese as an able organiser +and administrator. + +19.—The Earl of Albemarle was welcomed with great enthusiasm at Quidenham +Park on his return from active service in South Africa in command of the +City of London Imperial Volunteers. + + +NOVEMBER. + + +6.—Madame Albani appeared at a concert at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich. +The other _artistes_ included Miss Ada Crossley, Mr. William Green, Mr. +Douglas Powell, Mr. Tivadar Nachez (solo violin), and Mr. Frederick +Dawson (solo pianoforte). + +9.—Mr. J. J. Dawson Paul was elected Mayor, and Mr. Sydney Cozens-Hardy +appointed Sheriff of Norwich. + +23.—Died at Southrepps rectory, the Hon. and Rev. John Harbord, aged 68. +He was an accurate investigator of the genealogy of county families, and +a student of college antiquities. + + +DECEMBER. + + +2.—Died at Ketteringham Park, Sir Francis George Manningham Boileau, +Bart. He was born March 26th, 1830, and was the son of Sir John Boileau, +F.R.S., who was created first baronet in 1838, and died in 1869. Sir +Francis was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to +the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1855. He took a prominent position in public +life, and in the administration of county business; and was president of +the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society and of the Norfolk and +Norwich Naturalists’ Society. On the formation of the Norwich Light +Horse he held a commission in the corps, and subsequently transferred his +services to the 3rd Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment, of which he was +for several years lieutenant-colonel. In politics Sir Francis Boileau +was formerly a Liberal, but he became strongly Unionist, and one of his +last acts was to write, on behalf of the Unionists of South Norfolk, an +address presented to Mr. Edward Mann for his services to the party at the +General Election. + +10.—Died at Ludham, Mr. William Heath, in his 90th year. He was formerly +a well-known breeder of cattle, and a successful exhibitor at the +Smithfield Club and other shows. In the days of his prosperity he +dispensed unbounded hospitality at the Hall Farm; in after years he +experienced severe reverses and lived in retirement in the locality where +he had once held so prominent a position. + +13.—The Rev. W. M. Hay Aitken was installed a canon of Norwich Cathedral, +in place of the Ven. Archdeacon Nevill, deceased. + +24.—A woman named Kelly, aged 27, the widow of a reservist who had died +in South Africa, was found in her cottage at Stokesby suffering from +severe abdominal wounds, from which she died in the course of the day. A +half-witted lad named Cossey, aged 20, was apprehended on the charge of +murdering the woman. + + END OF VOL. II. + + + + +INDEX. + + +A + + +Abduction of a boy, alleged, 96. + +,, remarkable charge of, 122. + +Abstinence from food, remarkable instance of, 88. + +Accidents: Rev. W. Beauchamp killed, 20; remarkable subsidence at +Norwich, 24; boating, on the Yare, 33; killed by the fall of a building, +33; on the railway, near Thetford, 38; ditto, near Harling, 56; at +Norwich circuses, 68, 112; fatal driving, 91; Norwich fish market, 91; +explosion on ss. Tonning, 100; gunpowder explosion at Norwich, 101; +fatal, carriage, at Norwich, 116; fatal fall from Nelson Monument, +Yarmouth, 124; Burgh water frolic, 125; on Lynn and Hunstanton railway, +126; at Arnold’s brewery, Norwich, 156; boiler explosion at Stark’s dye +works, Norwich, 162; ditto at Watlington, 166; firework explosion, 205; +Wells railway station, 299; shooting, 360; Mr. Mann, of Thelveton, 372; +boating, at Buckenham Ferry, 401; at a Norwich fire, 434; on Ormesby +broad, 463; Hunstanton yawl disaster, 464; drowning, at Holkham, 471; +Wells boating disaster, 485; dragoon fatally injured, 489. + +Actor and Member of Parliament, 80. + +Administrative reform, 41. + +Advertisement duty, repeal of, 23. + +Agricultural Association, Norfolk: proposal to hold show at Dereham, 103; +annual shows at Attleborough, 191; Aylsham, 380; Dereham, 116, 213, 299, +392, 470; Diss, 278, 499; Downham Market, 178, 310, 510; Fakenham, 168, +256, 339, 480; Harleston, 202; Lynn, 136, 222, 348, 430, 489; North +Walsham, 286; Norwich, 144 (first two day’s show), 241, 329, 443; +Swaffham, 266, 402; Thetford, 233; Watton, 357; Wymondham, 321, 421, 462; +Yarmouth, 125, 413, 450. Show abandoned owing to cattle plague, 153; +efforts to obtain visit of the R.A.S.E., 231; secretaries, 229, 475; +spring show of horses, 283, 318, 327, 330, 346. + +,, depression, 319, 353, 436, 454, 465, 468. + +Agricultural excursion to Holland, 327. + +,, experiments, 357. + +,, Hall, Norwich, 321, 327, 331. + +,, Holding’s Act, 406. + +,, labour, scarcity of, 500. + +,, labourers’ agitation, 219; earnings, 433; Union, 231, 239, 263. + +,, Relief Association, 9. + +,, rents on Holkham estate, 436. + +,, Society, Mitford and Launditch, 423. + +,, Society, Royal, 231, 347, 358, 370. + +,, Union, National, 438, 449. + +Agriculture, employment of women and children in, 170. + +Aitkin, Rev. W. M. Hay, 514. + +Albani, Madame, 226, 258, 271, 289, 324, 361, 384, 444, 452, 473, 502, +514. + +Albemarle, Earl of, on benefit clubs, 55. + +Alexander, Rev. J., presentation to, 50; resignation, 157; death, 180. + +Alexandra steamboat launched, 176. + +Aliwal, charge of 16th Lancers at, 325. + +Alleyn, Miss, 336. + +Allotment Bill, St. Faith’s, 420. + +Amalgamation of railways, 112. + +Amateur theatricals, 404, 455, 463. + +American Congregationalists at Norwich, 471. + +Anchor Brewery excursions, 289, 313. + +Angelo, Madame, pedestrian, 243. + +Angler’s Society, Norfolk and Norwich (afterwards Yare Preservation +Society), 62, 73. + +Angling match, 88. + +Anguish’s Charity, 341, 388, 467. + +Apparatus for raising sunken vessels, 28. + +Aquarium, Yarmouth, 258. + +Arcade, Royal, Norwich, 499. + +Arch, Joseph, returned for North-West Norfolk, 363, 432, 463; defeated by +Lord Henry Bentinck, 370; petition against the return of his lordship, +378; defeats Lord Henry Bentinck, 432; remarkable speech at New +Buckenham, 450. + +Archæological Institute, 403. + +Archbishop of Canterbury at Norwich Cathedral, 449; memorial service for, +473. + +,, York, 465. + +Archery fete at Crown Point, 127. + +,, National meeting, 160. + +Architects, National Association of, 313. + +Art Circle, Norwich, 360. + +,, Loan exhibitions, 291, 354. + +Artillery Company, Hon., 233. + +,, Militia, 23, 28, 157, 158, 222, 258, 321, 357, 379, 401, 420, 437, +460, 499, 512. + +,, Volunteers, 391, 402; new uniform of, 299. + +Artists, Norfolk and Suffolk, 244. + +Artizans’ Dwellings Act, 276. + +Ashbourne, Lord, at Didlington, 422; at Norwich, 440. + +Assessment, county, 208, 438. + +,, Norwich, 500. + +Assize, maiden, at Norwich, 231. + +Assizes, 4, 6, 11, 28, 30, 40, 43, 60, 94, 95, 98, 101, 104, 105, 107, +114, 122, 131, 142, 143, 147, 156, 161, 169, 179, 185, 190, 200, 223, +239, 242, 243, 252, 254, 257, 265, 276, 278, 288, 294, 312, 320, 324, +328, 331, 340, 341, 354, 361, 365, 368, 369, 372, 374, 375, 376, 377, +399, 408, 428, 461, 476, 480, 489, 509. + +,, actions at: Abbott _v._ Bacon, 4; Baldry _v._ Ellis, 6; Waldron _v._ +Bates, 40; Fisher _v._ Nisbett, 43; Tillett _v._ Lord Hastings, 60; Corry +_v._ Bond, publisher of the “Norfolk News,” 94; Wright _v._ Wilkin, 95; +Gillings _v._ Manders, 98; Marrison _v._ London Union Fire Office, 101; +Cufaude _v._ Corry, 105; Lane _v._ the Yarmouth “Free Press” and Printing +Company, 107; Middle Level litigation, 114, 120; Pell _v._ Wigg, 142; le +Strange _v._ Rowe, 143; Creake _v._ Smith, 156; Athill _v._ Soman, 161; +Colman _v._ Larkman, 175; Johnson _v._ Cooke, Q.C., 223; Spurgeon _v._ +Vincent, 239; Morse _v._ G.E. Railway Company, 252; Gilman _v._ ditto, +253; Phillips _v._ Stewardson, 257; Farrow _v._ Childs (alleged breach of +promise), 276; Loftus _v._ Berney, 288; Taylor _v._ Gwyn and Lubbock, +288; le Strange _v._ Anker, 294; Samuel _v._ Burgess and Burgis, 334; le +Strange _v._ Corporation of Lynn, 354; Corporation of Norwich _v._ Coxe, +376; Bullard and others _v._ Saul, 428. + +Astley and Wyrley-Birch _v._ MacLean, 485. + +Asylum, Heigham Hall, alleged irregularities at, 35. + +,, Norfolk County Lunatic: suicide of medical officer, 107; enlargement +of premises, 282; Dr. Thomson appointed medical superintendent, 376; +epidemics attributed to sewage farm, 300. + +,, Norwich City, 230, 242, 252, 308; medical officer charged with fraud, +243. + +Athletic sports, 105, 159, 232. + +Attack on Norwich police, 399. + +Attempted murder at Norwich, 495. + +Attleborough cemetery dispute, 402. + +,, lighted with gas, 89. + +Austin _v._ Central News, 470. + +Automobile Club at Norwich, 488. + +Aylsham Corn Hall, 55. + + + +B + + +Bagge memorial at Swaffham, 340. + +Baines, Thomas, explorer, 71; death, 256. + +Balaclava charge, survivors of, 355, 379, 414. + +Balfour, Mr. A. J., at Norwich, 484. + +Balloon ascents, 15, 116, 117, 179, 194, 402, 480; perilous descent of a, +180. + +Ballot Act, first elections under the, 225, 228, 238. + +Bancroft, Mr., 474. + +Bank clerk, robbery by, 210. + +,, Holiday, first, 214. + +Banks—East of England, 136; suspends payment, 137; arbitration case, 220; +Harvey and Hudson’s, Norwich, 141, 315, 316; Consolidated (now National +Provincial), 154; Crown bank failure (q.v.); closing of Diss Bank, 215; +centenary of Messrs. Gurneys and Co., 255; jubilee of Mr. Henry Birkbeck, +396; amalgamation of Gurney’s and Co., 470; presentation to, 470. + +Barnum at Norwich, 82. + +,, and Bailey’s great show, 492, 500. + +Barracks, Norwich Cavalry, 159, 327, 336. + +,, Britannia, 350, 392. + +Barrett, Rev. G. S., receives hon. degree, 447. + +Barrett, Wilson, 202, 420. + +Barry, Sheil, 342. + +Barton, Dr. S. J., 392. + +Bassingham gateway, Norwich, 64. + +Bateman, Dr., knighted, 430. + +Bateman, Miss Isabel, 386. + +Bates, Captain, the Kentucky giant, 221. + +Bath House at East Dereham, 61. + +Baths, Norwich Corporation, 489. + +Beaconsfield, Lord, death of, 320. + +Beating the bounds, 168. + +Beatrice, Mdlle., 215, 266. + +Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 372. + +Beeston church tower destroyed by lightning, 221. + +Bell Ringers’ Association, 280, 339. + +,, tolling of muffled, at East Dereham, 227. + +Bells and bell ringers, 144, 188, 256, 280, 290, 316, 409, 414. + +,, centenary of St. Peter Mancroft, 256; re-hung, 337. + +Bellew, Rev. J. M., 153. + +Bennett George (actor), 3, 5, 12. + +Benefit Clubs, 55. + +Bensly, Dr., appointed Chapter Clerk, 195. + +Benson, Miss, mistress of Norwich High School for Girls, 473. + +Bentinck, Mr. G. W. P., returned for West Norfolk, 209. + +Berney Arms station litigation, 102. + +Bexfield, Dr., conducts new oratorio at Norwich, 8; death, 25. + +Bibliomancy, 156. + +Bicycle, introduction of the, 186; journey on a, 224; Norwich Velocipede +Club established, 187; formation of Norfolk and Norwich Bicycle Club, +273; races, 187, 273, 489; inter-county race, 300; 50 miles races, 379, +501; volunteer cyclist relays, 481; meeting at Norwich of the National +Cyclists’ Union, 489; 50 miles championship, 501. + +Bignold, Lieut.-Col., presentation to, 404; elected Mayor of Norwich, +454; death, 459. + +Bignold, Samuel, elected Mayor of Norwich, 26; knighted, 31; returned for +Norwich, 38; defeated 60, 83, 86; petition against the return of Lord +Bury and Mr. Schneider, 86; Chester Waters scandal, 145, 146; eightieth +birthday celebrated, 215; elected Mayor of Norwich, 228; eighty-second +birthday celebrated, 236; presented with portrait, 238; death, 250. + +Bimetalism, 379. + +Birkbeck, M.P., Mr. Edward, presentation to, 361; created baronet, 365. + +Births, Royal, 21, 61, 132, 450. + +Bishops of Norwich: resignation of Dr. Hinds, 59; death of, 218; +installation of the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, 61; presentation to, 329; +threatening letter to, 340; resignation 439; death, 448; Rev. J. +Sheepshanks installed, 442; memorial presented by clergy and laity on +illegal practices, 496. + +,, suffragan, 453. + +Bisley meeting, 482. + +Black gown discarded by the clergy, 211. + +Blackley, Canon, and national insurance, 332. + +Blake-Bignold incident, 225. + +Blackfriars’ Hall, Norwich, 364. + +Blind Institution, 391, 423. + +Blondin, 107, 194, 446. + +Bloomer costume, 8. + +Blue ribbon movement, 330. + +Board School, first built, at Norwich, 227. + +Bodies, unclaimed, 225. + +Bohemian wax wing, 164. + +Boileau drinking fountain, Norwich, 270. + +Boiler explosions, 100, 186, 162, 166. + +Book Club, Yarmouth, 310. + +Booth “General,” 418. + +Borrow, George, Intrepidity of, 24; death, 322. + +Boswell _v._ Coaks (see “Harvey Life Interest.”) + +Boundary of the City of Norwich, 301, 386. + +,, County of Norfolk, 386. + +,, of wards, 405, 422, 428. + +Bounds, beating the, 168. + +Boxing-day, first observed as a general holiday, 56. + +Box-keeper at Norwich Theatre, 23. + +Boys’ Home, Norwich, 309. + +,, Hospital, 331, 341. + +Brandram, Samuel, 277. + +Branscombe, Miss Maude, 341. + +Breach of promise action, 276. + +Brewery, St. George’s, Norwich, sale of, 137. + +Bribery, 36, 59, 60, 74, 84, 90, 94, 156, 183, 186, 189, 190, 193, 208, +366, 368. + +,, prosecutions, 90, 186, 200, 368. + +Brighten (“Norwich Milk Boy,”) 110, 118. + +British Archæological Association, 67, 302. + +,, Association, 180. + +,, Dairy Farmers’ Association, 391. + +,, Medical Association, 244, 249, 412. + +,, Training Squadron, 420. + +Broads, public rights on, 431. + +Brooke, G. V., 31; drowned in the wreck of the London, 154. + +Brooke, Rajah, at Norwich, 7, 76; death, 178. + +“Brother Officers,” 496. + +Brough, Lionel, 235. + +Browne, Sir Thomas, skull of, 445; proposed monument, 497. + +Buck, Zachariah, receives degree, 24; death, 302. + +Building Society frauds, 241, 242, 253. + +Bulgarian atrocities, 269. + +Bullard, Harry, appointed Sheriff of Norwich, 281; presented with +portraits, 282, 294; excursions for work-people, 289, 313; elected Mayor, +291, 304, 374; munificence during the great flood, 291; presented with +silver cradle, 300; plants trees in Chapel Field, 303; performs opening +ceremony at Chapel Field, 315; receives Duke of Norfolk, 311; +subscription portrait hung in St. Andrew’s Hall, 328; adopted +Conservative candidate for Norwich, 360; returned, 362; unseated on +petition, 366; banquet to celebrate the Queen’s birthday, 379; entertains +Queen Kapiolani, 380; the Jubilee, 381; receives honour of knighthood, +381; freedom of the city, 385; Conservative Club _soirée_, 405; Bullard +and others _v._ Saul, 428; silver wedding, 429; adopted Conservative +candidate for Norwich, 461; returned, 462; unveils portrait of Mr. J. J. +Colman, 503; returned unopposed, 512. + +Bulwer, W. E. G. L., wounded at the Alma, 36; receives Crimean medal, 41; +marriage, 42; presentation to, 128; Mrs. Bulwer opens rifle range, 158; +Col. Bulwer gazetted brigadier, 392; presents volunteer decoration, 439; +long service medal, 457. + +Bunn, Robert, pedestrian, 66. + +Bunnett, Edward, takes degree as Mus. Bac., 56; Mus. Doc., 189; +complimentary concert to, 281; appointed city organist, 313; “musical +jubilee,” 469. + +Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 405. + +Burgh, water frolic, shocking accident at, 125. + +Burglary at Norwich jeweller’s, 468. + +Burials Bill, protest against, 310. + +Burlesque of “The Yellow Gnome,” 48. + +,, Gaiety Company, 221. + +Burnham Thorpe, memorial to Nelson, 423, 463. + +Burritt, Elihu, 128. + +Burton, F. C. Dr., 419. + +Bustard re-introduced, 511. + +Buttifant case, 241, 242, 253. + +Buxton, Sir R. J., returned for South Norfolk, 211; death, 386. + +Bylaugh Hall, 15; litigation, 65. + + + +C + + +Cadge, Mr., elected surgeon of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 68; +appointed Sheriff of Norwich, 271; presented with portrait, 413; freedom +of the city, 407; munificent gift to Hospital, 496. + +Cadet Corps, Norwich, 450. + +,, hackney stallion, 434. + +Cafe Company, Norwich, 290. + +Caister yawl disaster, 358. + +Cambridge crew at Lynn, 417. + +,, Middle Class examinations, 79, 159. + +Canadian cattle, importation of, 469. + +Capital punishment, suggested abolition of, 31. + +Cardinal Manning, 328. + +Card playing scandal at Norwich, 115. + +Carrow Bridge undertaking, 402. + +,, Works, alleged nuisance arising from, 20; electric light at, 336. + +Carter, Samuel, artist, 335. + +Cartridges, improved by Sir Henry Stracey, 71. + +“Caste” Company, 193, 233, 253, 264, 296, 314. + +Castle Museum, 373, 422, 451, 453. + +Cathedral, Norwich, opening of west window, 33; Lord High Steward of, +161; suicide in, 315; organ, 487, 504; organists, 281, 317, 363; pulpits, +420, 421; memorial window, 420; restoration, 444, 449, 487, 499; Pelham +memorial throne, 460; effigy, 470; octo-centenary services, 470, 471. + +Cattle market, Norwich, enlargement of, 106, 241. + +,, plague, 148, 153, 155, 171, 246. + +Cavalry drill-ground, 336, 472. + +Celeste, Madame, 123. + +Cemeteries, 48, 188, 195, 323, 402. + +Census returns, 5, 105, 212, 320, 421. + +Centenarian, remarkable, 151. + +Centenarian’s challenge, 124. + +Centenarians, 206, 213, 401, 406, 442, 508, 511. (See also “Died.”) + +Centenary of Church Missionary Society, 498; of “Norfolk Chronicle,” 106; +of Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, 480. + +Chamber of Agriculture, Norfolk, 162. + +,, Commerce, 457. + +Chancellors of the Diocese: Chancellor Evans, 181; Mr. Edward Howes, 210; +Mr. John Worlledge, 322; appointment of Mr. T. C. Blofeld, 323. + +Chang, Chinese giant, 180. + +Changes of name: Scott-Chad, 46; Evans-Lombe, 101, 118; +Stracey-Clitheroe, 151; Marsham-Townshend, 440. + +Channel Fleet at Yarmouth, 97, 114, 126, 245, 361, 413, 464. + +Chapel Field, Norwich, improvement scheme, 11, 22, 169, 303, 315. + +,, agricultural show in, 144. + +Chapels, Nonconformist: Prince’s street, Norwich, 189; Cowper +Congregationalism Dereham, 235. Baptist: Unthank’s Road, Norwich, 242. +Trinity Wesleyan, Dereham, 316. + +Chaplin, Mr. G. H., manager of Norwich Theatre, 226, 280. + +Charge, extraordinary, at Walsingham, 164. + +Charity Commissioners’ schemes, 299, 331, 341, 388, 407, 467. + +Chevalier, Albert, 442. + +Cheese fair, Lynn, 283. + +Chief Constables of Norfolk, 14, 57, 119, 135, 311, 391, 482. + +,, of Norwich, 57, 83, 476, 479. + +,, Bill, 58. + +China Cup, won by Norfolk Volunteers, 278, 482. + +Choir Benevolent Fund, 54, 316, 357. + +Cholera, threatened outbreak of, 439. + +Choral Society, Norwich, dissolved, 251. + +Christening, Royal, 468. + +Christmas Show Association, Norfolk and Norwich, 274, 292, 304, 315, 332. + +Church Association, 454. + +,, Choral Association, 98. + +,, Congress, 150, 465. + +,, consecrations, 7, 74, 88, 107, 117, 140, 159, 170, 203, 323, 349, 419, +487. + +,, in Wales Suspensory Bill, 442, 452. + +,, Missions, 483. + +,, of England Young Men’s Society, 266. + +,, ornaments illegally removed, 492. + +,, rates, 154. + +,, reform, 368. + +Church restoration, 13, 61, 107, 134, 138, 160, 171, 173, 177, 196, 201, +254, 269, 273, 280, 287, 292, 323, 324, 337, 342, 348, 349, 363, 381, +383, 395, 403, 420, 421, 423, 424, 433, 450, 463, 485, 492, 495, 509. + +,, School Aid Association, 425. + +,, tower at Drayton, 1; at St. Michael-at-Thorn, 374; at Hindolvestone, +432. + +“Church’s Call” at Norwich, 200. + +Churches destroyed by fire, 172, 424. + +,, illegal practices in, 496. + +,, new, 7, 26, 45, 55, 66, 74, 107, 117, 159, 170, 191, 203, 206, 211, +220, 279, 349, 365, 374, 392, 419, 461. + +,, outrages in, 156, 163. + +,, struck by lightning, 221, 302, 337. + +Churchill, Lord Randolph, 360, 444. + +Churchmen’s Club, Norwich, 173. + +Cinematograph, 470. + +Circus accidents, 68, 112. + +,, singular incident at a, 275. + +,, stage play at a, 81. + +Circuses, 9, 20, 56, 68, 81, 103, 112, 113, 140, 173, 196, 217, 237, 250, +272, 275, 282, 299, 317, 325, 335, 353, 354, 355, 363, 389, 399, 405, +416, 424, 437, 445, 446. + +,, managed by pugilists, 112, 113, 115. + +City Engineers: resignation of Mr. A. W. Morant, 230; appointment of Mr. +C. Thwaites, 230; resignation, 277; appointment of Mr. P. P. Marshall, +277; resignation, 431; death, 508; appointment of Mr. Buchan, 431; +resignation, 450; appointment of Mr. A. E. Collins, 450. + +Clergyman charged with begging, 33. + +,, shot, 461. + +Clergyman’s shocking death, 408. + +,, suspension, 429; deprivation, 499. + +Clerks of the Peace (city): Death of Mr. Arthur Dalrymple, 176; election +of Mr. E. C. Bailey, 176; death of, 340; election of Mr. J. Wilson +Gilbert, 342. + +,, (county): Death of Mr. R. W. Parmeter, 313; appointment of Mr. Charles +Foster, 313. + +Clocks, irregularities of public, 26. + +C.M.S. Centenary, 498. + +City Accountant, 486. + +,, Gaol, 3; fire at, 252; discontinuance of, 284; sale of, 307. + +,, Surveyors, 93, 431. + +,, Treasurers: Death of Mr. T. Hancock, 247; appointment of Mr. E. S. +Steward, 247; resignation, 369. + +Civic robes presented to Norwich Corporation, 476. + +Climatic variations, remarkable, 464, 497. + +Close, The, Norwich, proposed railway through, 309, 327. + +Coach, 309. + +Coins discovered, 9, 65, 266. + +Coleman, John, charged with assault, 44; appears at Norwich Theatre, 47. + +Colenzo, Bishop, 38. + +Colliery riots, military and police drafted from Norwich, 444. + +Collision in Yarmouth Roads, 165; off Happisburgh, 175. + +Colman cricketing team, 357, 453, 457. + +Colman, J. J., Mr., returned for Norwich, 209, 238, 307, 362, 370, 431; +entertains Royalty, 315, 367, 474; coming of age of Mr. R. J. Colman, +330; threatening letter, 341; presentation to, 429; receives freedom of +Norwich, 439; entertains Institute of Journalists, 451; Trades Union +Congress, 451; Jenny Lind Infirmary site, 469; death, 492; portrait +unveiled, 503. + +Colona, Don Edgardo, Mexican tragedian, 258. + +Colours, regimental, at Norwich Cathedral, 174, 471. + +,, at Sandringham church, 385. + +Combat between a stallion and a bull, 115. + +Comedians, Norfolk and Suffolk Company of, 77, 132. + +Comet, 79. + +Coming of Age celebrations, 42, 49, 137, 194, 286, 330, 343, 354, 413, +468, 470, 492. + +Commercial School, Norwich, establishment of, 64, 73; Mr. T. R. Pinder +appointed master, 111; resignation, 483; memorial from parents, 171; +amended scheme of management, 191; Charity Commissioners’ inquiry and +schemes, 331, 341; Mr. W. R. Gurley appointed master, 483. + +Common rights at Mulbarton, 143. + +Compton Comedy Company, 386, 427, 437, 438, 445. + +Congregational chapel at Norwich, 79. + +,, Union, 373. + +Conservative Association, 146. + +,, Clubs, Norwich and Norfolk, 388; Patteson, 419. + +,, compromises, 59. + +Consistory Court: Bouverie _v._ Barnes, 98; Archdeacon of Norwich _v._ W. +Delph and W. T. Gilbert, 260; _re_ St. John Timberhill rood loft, 452; +_re_ unlawful removal of church ornaments from St. Michael-at-Coslany, +492; deprivation of living, 499. + +Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, prosecutions under, 298, 507. + +Convalescent Home, Cromer, 413, 441. + +Convict’s property, claim by Norwich Corporation, 89. + +Cooper’s restaurant, 288. + +Cooping of electors, 497. + +Copeman, Rev. A. G., elected minister of St. Andrew’s, 57. + +Corn Exchange, Norwich, 80, 82, 109. + +,, Hall, Yarmouth, 216. + +Coroners—City: Death of Mr. E. S. Bignold, 469; appointment of Mr. R. W. +Ladell, 469. + +Coroners, County: Death of Mr. Edward Press, 286; election of Mr. R. T. +Culley, 286; death, 337; election of Mr. J. Stanley, 337. + +,, elections, 62, 161, 337, 469. + +Corporation stock, 432. + +Corrupt practices, proposed inquiry into, 84. + +Costa’s “Eli” at Norwich, 51. + +Costerton _v._ Lacon, 104. + +Cotman, John Sell, exhibition of works by, 392. + +County balls, 385, 504. + +,, Club, 396. + +,, Council, preliminary proceedings, 386; elections, 397; scholarships, +420; litigation with Thetford Corporation, 490. + +,, finances, control of, 1. + +,, Court judge, action against a, 223. + +,, judges: Death of Mr. T. J. Birch, 177; appointment of Mr. W. H. Cooke, +Q.C., 178; resignation, 247; death, 453; appointment of Mr. E. P. Price, +Q.C., 247; resignation, 463; death, 500; appointment of Mr. E. W. +Addison, Q.C., 463; resignation, 478; appointment of Mr. W. Willis, Q.C., +478. + +,, School, 213, 217, 232, 442. + +,, Surveyors: Mr. R. M. Phipson elected, 89; death of, 354; appointment +of Mr. T. H. B. Heslop, 356. + +,, Treasurers: Resignation of Mr. Day, 173; Mr. Herbert William Day +elected, 173; resignation, 425; Mr. H. C. Bolingbroke elected, 425. + +Coursing, 36. + +Court of Record: Mr. Carlos Cooper appointed judge, 219; death, 483; Mr. +E. E. Wild elected judge, 485. + +Courts and yards of Norwich, 490. + +Cowper centenary, 509. + +,, Congregational chapel, Dereham, 235. + +Cozens-Hardy, Mr., Q.C., M.P., appointed judge of the High Court of +Justice, 496. + +Cranes, 191. + +Creak will case, 18, 243, 244, 268. + +Cresswell, Lieut., and the North-West Passage, 25. + +Cricket, 14, 22, 76, 117, 179. + +,, Club, Norfolk County, dissolved, 188; new club formed, 270; bazaar in +aid of, 419. + +,, matches: Norfolk and Norwich _v._ Oxford and Cambridge Universities, +76; ditto _v._ United All England, 117; Aboriginal Australians _v._ +Carrow, 179; South of England _v._ Norfolk and Norwich, 193; Norfolk _v._ +Parsees, 392. + +,, theatricals, 371, 382, 392, 403, 413, 422, 433. + +,, Week, 323, 392, 422. + +Cricketers, Colman, team of, 357, 453, 457. + +Crimean War: Raising of relief funds, 30; Norwich address to the Queen, +31; days of humiliation, 31, 39; victory of the Alma, 35; fictitious +message, 35; railway constructed by Mr. Peto, 37; Norfolk officers +receive the Crimean medal, 41; fall of Sevastopol, 45; General Windham, +46, 52; peace rejoicings, 48. + +Criminal lunatic, death of a, 100. + +Crinolines, 93. + +Cromer gas works, 508. + +,, lighthouse, fall of, 164. + +,, pier, 511. + +Crops sold by auction, 500. + +Crosse, Archdeacon, 439. + +Crosse, Mr. R. E., 417. + +Crown Bank failure, 204, 236, 281. + +Crown Point, Norwich, 194, 222, 230. + +Crowther, Bishop, 329. + +Cruelty, remarkable charge of, 249. + +Cruikshank, George, 8. + +Cushman, Miss, 49. + +“Cuthbert Bede,” 347. + +Czarewitch of Russia at Sandringham, 248. + + + +D + + +Dalrymple, Mr. A., elected Clerk of the Peace, 47. + +Dalton, Canon, charge against, 96. + +Daniell, E. T., exhibition of works by, 422. + +Dawson, George, 48, 63, 100. + +“Daylight” prosecutions and actions, 334, 368. + +Dead, prayers for the, 484. + +Deans of Norwich: Death of the Hon. and Very Rev. George Pellew, 162; +installation of the Rev. Dr. Goulburn, 164; resignation, 400; death, 479; +installation of Dean Lefroy, 403. + +De Camin, Baron, 133. + +Deerfoot, pedestrian, 110, 118. + +Derby, The, won by Melton, 357. + +Dereham church restoration, 61, 363. + +,, Corn hall opened, 58; litigation, 66, 75, 155; Coke’s statue at, 78. + +,, Local Improvement Board, 275. + +,, race meeting, 65. + +Diamond Jubilee, 476, 480. + +Dickens, Charles, 89, 109, 167. + +Died (_c_ indicates reputed centenarian): Adams, Rev. Coker, 425; +Albemarle, Earl of, 418; Albemarle, Earl of, 451; Alderson, Baron, 57; +Aldred, C. C., 348; Alexander, Lieut.-Col., 150; Alexander, Rev. John, +180; Allcock, Trivet, 184; Amyot, Thomas Edward, 467; Anson, +Major-General, 65; Archdale, George Francis, 508; Armes, Thomas +Frederick, 355; Ashburton, Baron, 181; Astley, Lieut.-Col., 157; +Atkinson, Commander, 270; Atkinson, J. G., 408; Austin, Mrs. (Sarah +Taylor), 169; Aylmer, Hugh, 449. + +,, Back, Philip, 511; Bacon, George P., 284; Bacon, Mary Ann, 251; Bacon, +Richard Noverre, 344; Bacon, Sir Edmund, 135; Bagge, Richard, 419; Bagge, +Sir William, M.P., 305; Bagge, Sir William, 324; Bailey, Elijah Crosier, +340; Baines, Thos., 256; Baring, Thomas, 236; Barlow, Professor, 112; +Barnard Sarah (_c_), 416; Barham, J. C., 412; Barton, Edward Walter, 305; +Barwell, Henry George, 490; Barwell John, 263; Barwell, Louisa Mary, 355; +Barrett, Rev. G. W., 447; Bateman, William, 382; Bates, Rev. Jonathan, +294; Bates, Samuel, 392; Bayfield, T. G., 439; Bayning, Rev. Lord, 160; +Beal, Rev. Dr., 201; Beare, Samuel Shalders, 126; Beauchamp, Sir T. W. H. +Proctor, 246; Beauchamp, Rev. William, 20; Becher, Captain, 138; Beechey, +Rev. St. Vincent, 501; Beevor, Lady, 407; Beevor, Sir Thomas, 296; +Beevor, Sir Thomas, Bart., 359; Bell, Admiral, 25; Bellairs, Sir William, +128; Bennett George, 12; Bennett, John, 132; Bensly, Professor, 440; +Bentinck, G. W. P., 366; Berners, Lord, 3; Berney, G. D., 386; Berry, +Lady, 50; Betts, John, 391; Bexfield, Dr., 25; Bickersteth, Mrs. Sarah, +88; Bidwell, Leonard Shelford, 178; Bignold, Edward Samuel, 469; Bignold, +Lady, 95; Bignold, Lieut.-Col., 459; Bignold, Sir Samuel, 250; Birch, +Judge, 177; Birkbeck, Henry, 456; Black, Lieut.-Col., 391; Black, +Rear-Admiral, 16; Blake, Francis John, 260; Blake-Humfrey, Robert, 373; +Blackelock, Archdeacon, 428; Blane, Captain Rodney, R.N., 414; Blofeld, +Rev. Thomas John, 320; Blyth, Captain William D’Urban, 356; Blyth, Rev. +William, 369; Boileau, Lt. Charles A. P., 44; Boileau, Sir Francis G. M., +514; Bolieau, Sir John P., 189; Bolingbroke, Horatio, 294; Bond-Cabbell, +Benjamin, 249; Bond-Cabbell, Benjamin Bond, 430; Bond, Thomas William, +302; Borrow, Ann, 77; Borrow George Thomas, 322; Bourchier, +Lieut.-General, 82; Bouverie, Archdeacon, 279; Boyce John, 511; Brett, +Lieut.-Col., 157; Brewer, Rev. Dr., 478; Brewer, Rev. Professor, 295; +Briggs, John, 240; Bright Henry, 235; Brightwell, Miss Cecilia Lucy, 254; +Brightwell, Thomas, 183; Brightwell, Thomas, 305; Brock, Rev. Dr., 259; +Brock, Samuel, 237; Brooke, Sir James, 178; Brown, Frederic, 258; Brown, +Rev. James, 55; Browne, Thos., 496; Browne Henry, 199; Browne, Richard +Charles, 439; Browne, W. J. Utten, 441; Buck, Dr. Zachariah, 302; Bulmer, +Rev. Edward, 507; Bulwer, J. R., Q.C., 497; Bulwer, William Earle Lytton, +279; Bunn, Rhoda (_c_), 348; Bunting, Christopher, 208; Burroughes, H. +N., 219; Burroughes, Thomas Proctor, 374; Burroughes, William, 158; +Burroughes, William Norton, 346; Butcher, William, 266; Buxton, Lady, +219; Buxton, Sir Edward, North, 75; Buxton, Sir R. J., 386. + +,, Campbell, Quarter-master, 401; Canterbury, Viscount, 278; Carr, Isaac, +176; Carthew, G. A., 331; Carson, Edward, 107; Cator, Admiral, 137; +Cator, Albemarle, 178; Cattermole, George, 180; Chamberlin, A. J. N., +338; Chamberlin, Robert, 267; Cholmondeley, Marquis of, 201; +Cholmondeley, Marquis of, 363; Christie, G. H., 385; Chute, W. L. W., +300; Clabburn, W. H., 403; Clark, John F., 493; Clayburn, Phœbe (_c_), +113; Clayton, General Sir W. R., 161; Cockburn, Major-Gen., 391; Cockle +(the pill maker), 28; Codman, Stephen, 16; Coke, Hon. Edward Wentworth, +402; Coke, Thomas William, 167; Coleman, George Lovick, 406; Colkett, S. +D., 120; Collison, Rev. Henry, 323; Collyer, Archdeacon, 60; Collyer, +Georgina Frances Amy, 477; Colman, Alan C., 476; Colman, Henry, 457; +Colman Jeremiah, 357; Colman, J. J., 492; Colman, Mrs. J. J., 462; +Colman, Samuel, 453; Constance, Edward, 30; Cooke, George Frederick, 488; +Cooke, W. H., Q.C., 453; Coope, Octavius Edward, 375; Copeman, Rev. A. +C., 472; Cooper, Carlos, 483; Cooper, J. N. V., 178; Cooper, William, +280; Coots, Philip, 31; Copeman, Dr. Edward, 306; Copeman, John, 499; +Cory, Charles, 191; Costello, Rev. Edmund, 222; Cotman, John Joseph, 284; +Cox, Rev. John Edmund, 415; Coyte, Arthur, 360; Cozens-Hardy, W. H., 459; +Crabbe, Rev. George, 349; Crane, Commander, R.N., 287; Cranworth, Baron, +179; Craven, Countess of, 98; Crawshay, Charles, 503; Creeny, Rev. W. F., +479; Croker, J. M., 298; Crome, Mary Ann, 283; Crompton, Rev. Joseph, +285; Crosse, Thomas William, 435; Cruttenden, Col., 11; Cubitt, Edward, +153; Cubitt, Sir William, 108; Cubitt, T., 47; Cubitt, William Jary, 358; +Cubitt, William Partridge, 352; Culley, John, 64; Culley, R. T., 337; +Culley, Samuel, 495; Cumming, Rev. James, 109; Curtis, John, F.L.S., 117; +Custance Col., Sir H., 434; Custance, General, 365. + +,, Dalling and Bulwer, Baron, 221; Dalrymple, Archibald, 125; Dalrymple, +Arthur, 176; Dalrymple, Dr., M.P., 235; Dalrymple, John, 12; Dalton, Rev. +John, 239; Daly, William Henry, 333; Daniels, Benjamin (“Last of the +Giants”), 275; Darkin, James, 400; Daveney, Major-General, 229; Davenport +(actor), 6; Davie, Rev. W. Cufaude, 409; Davy, Captain John, R.N., 288; +Dawson, John, 22; Day, Herbert William, 491; Day, William, 169; Daynes, +Samuel, 412; De Bardelin, General, 12; de Ramsey, Baron, 382; Dickson, +Colonel, 455; Dillon, Charles, 322; Direr, Oswald, 367; Dolphin, Rev. +John, 402; Doughty, Mary (_c_), 142; Dover; Henry, 45; Dowson, J. W., +300; Drake, William, 165; Drane, Henry (coachman), 138; Druery, John +Henry, 310; Duff, M.P., Colonel James, 293; Du Port, Rev. J. M., 496. + +,, Eastlake, Lady, 444; Eaton, George Clayton, 510; Eden, W. A. D., 474; +Eden, Rev. Robert, 494; Edwards, Rev. Bartholomew, 399; Edwards, Sarah +(_c_), 239; Elvin, Charles, Horton, 454; Elwes, Lieut. R. H., 318; Elwin, +Rev. Robert Fountaine, 19; Elwin, Rev. Whitwell, 505; Evans, Charles, +182. + +,, Feilden, Canon J. R., 424; Fellowes, Rev. Thomas Lyon, 321; ffolkes, +Sir W. J. H. B., 94; Fiddaman, James, 344; Field, Edward, 365; Field, +Rev. Dr., 356; Fielden, Joshua, 435; Firth, G. W. W., 288; Fish, John +(_c_), 140; Fisher, David, 77; Fisher, David, 383; Fisher George, 132; +Fisher, Rear-Admiral, William, 16; Fitch, Robert, 459; FitzRoy, +Lieut.-Col., 295; Fletcher, Josiah, 268; Fletcher, Mrs. Sarah, 429; +Forster, Robert (bandmaster of 33rd Regiment), 31; Forster, William, 28; +Foster, P. Le Neve, 295; Foster, Sir William, 249; Fountaine, Edward, +402; Fox, William Johnson (“Norwich Weaver Boy”), 136; Francis, Bransby, +246; Francis, John, 45; Freeman, Rev. John, 273; Freeman, W. P. B., 482; +Freeman, William, 282; Freestone, Edward, 246; Frere, Captain, R.N., 132; +Frere, Rev. Temple, 87; Frere, Sir Bartle, 347; Fryer, William, 438. + +,, Garnier, Rev. T. P., 487; Garrod, Edward, 109; Garthon, James S., 236; +Gattey, Bartholomew, 151; Gedge, George, 272; Gibbon, Charles, 413; +Gibson, C. M., 238; Gibson, Robert E. 277; Gill, Charles, 190; Gilman, C. +S., 389; Glover, Christiana, 296; Gooch, Vice-Admiral, 266; Goodwin, C., +390; Goodwin, Charles Wyncliffe, 283; Gordon, Harriet Gurney (actress), +41; Gordon, Lord, of Drumearn, 303; Goulburn, Dean, 479; Gould, Rev. +George, 326; Goward, Mary (_c_) 35; Grafton, Duke of, 122; Grafton, Duke +of, 144; Grafton, Duke of, 328; Grahame, Miss C. S., 279; Graver-Browne, +J. B., 314; Green, Margaret (_c_), 200; Griggs, Money (_c_), 218; +Grigson, Rev. Wm., 303; Grimmer, Frederic, 487; Grimmer, Samuel, 406; +Gunn, Mrs., 283; Gunn, Rev. John, 411; Gordon, Brampton, 320; Gurney, +Daniel, 310; Gurney, Francis Hay, 415; Gurney, Hudson, 139; Gurney, John, +377; Gurney, John Henry, 409; Gurney, Richard Hanbury, 27; Gurney, +Richard Hanbury, 498; Gurney, William, 201; Guy, Dr. William, 430. + +,, Haggard, W. M. R., 440; Hallett, Rev. John, 314; Hales (the Norfolk +giant), 130; Hamond, Admiral Sir Graham, 119; Hamond, Anthony, 196; +Hamond, Anthony, 458; Hancock, Thomas, 247; Hankinson, Archdeacon, 177; +Hanly, John Laffan, 330; Hansell, Henry, 284; Harbord, Harbord, Hon., +446; Harbord, Hon. and Rev. John, 514; Harcourt, James, 338; Hare, Sir +Thomas Leigh, 315; Harris, Commander F., 339; Harris, Rev. G. H., 339; +Harrison, Eleanor (_c_), 111; Harrison, Thomas, 367; Harrod, Henry, +F.S.A., 208; Harvey, Col. J. E. 405; Harvey, Elizabeth (_c_), 228; +Harvey, General Sir Robert, 97; Hastings, Lord, 92; Hastings, Lord, 210; +Hastings, Lord, 226; Hastings, Lord, 261; Hawkes, John (_c_), 452; +Haywood, Kezia (_c_), 284; Heath, William, 514; Heaviside, Canon, 477; +Hill, Dr. Horace, 508; Hill, James Frederick, 275; Hills, Bishop, 466; +Hillyard, Rev. E. A., 484; Hinds, Bishop, 218; Hitchman, Robert, 488; +Hoare, Joseph, 364; Hobson, Rev. R., 419; Hodgson, Charles, 55; Hodgson, +David, 135; Holley, James Hunt, 437; Holmes, John (_c_), 73; Hooker, Sir +W. J., 149; Hopper, Archdeacon, 283; Hoseason, Thomas, 285; Hosken, Rev. +Charles Heath, 429; Hoste, Rear Admiral, Sir William, 181; Hoste, Rev. +George Charles, 433; Hotblack, John, 457; Houchen, Rebecca (_c_), 109; +Howard, the Hon. T. 312; Howe, Henry, 468; Howell, Rev. Hinds, 500; +Howes, Edward, M.P., 210; Howlett, Robert, 80; Howlett, William, 321; +Huddleston, Baron, 416; Hudson, Anthony, 67; Hull, Dr. Robert, 49; +Hunter, William, 484; Hurry, Thomas, 188; Husenbeth, Rev. Dr., 227. + +,, Jarrold, Hannah Elizabeth, 485; Jarrold, Samuel, 250; Jarrold, Thomas, +281; Jarvis, Sir L. W., 395; Jay, G. B., 404; Jean, Ann, 56; Jenner, +Commander George, 232; Jerningham, Hon. Francis Stafford, 246; +Jerningham, the Hon. G. S. Stafford, 248; Jerrard, George Birch, 130; +Jessopp, Rev. John, 372; Jex, Johnson, 9; Jocelyn, M.P., Viscount, 32; +Johnson, J. Godwin, 237; Johnson, Rev. Ambrose, 408; Johnson, Rev. John +Munnings, 374; Johnson, Winifred (_c_), 249; Johnson, Rev. W. Cowper, +444; Jones, Mrs. Herbert, 466; Jones, Sir Willoughby, 350. + +,, Kay, Mr. Justice, 478; Kett, George, 223; Kett, George Samuel, 211; +Kett, Thompson, H. K., 228; Ketton, John, 224; Keeley, Mrs., 497; Kelly, +Sir Fitzroy Edward, 313; Kerrison, General, Sir Edward, 20; Kerrison, +Roger, 136; King, Rev. G. A., 434; Kinnebrook, 104; Kitson, John, 195; +Knight, Rev. Joseph Philip, 380; Knights, Mark, 478. + +,, Lacon, Sir E. H. K., 393; Lacon, Sir E. B. K., 500; Ladbrooke, +Frederick, 151; Ladbrooke, J. B., 300; Ladbrooke, Henry, 195; Land, +Benjamin, 224; Laws, William (coach proprietor), 39; Leaman, Robert, 288; +Leeds, Robert, 412; Lee Warner, Rev. H. J., 358; Lee Warner, Henry James, +369; Leicester, Countess of, 201; L’Estrange, John, 278; le Strange, H. +L. Styleman, 116; Linay, Samuel, 449; Lindley, John, F.R.S., 152; Ling, +Mrs. E. (_c_), 405; Linton, Bishop Sydney, 449; Lock Mary (_c_), 115; +Loftus, Captain Frederick, 101; Loftus, Lord George William, 273; Loftus, +Major Charles, 338; Lombe, Charles, 99; Lombe, Edward, 11; Lombe, Rev. +Henry, 289; Longe, John, 226; Lothian, Marquis of, 203; Lound, Thomas, +104. + +,, Mackenzie, Edward, 313; Maidstone, Robert (_c_), 212; Maltby, Bishop, +86; Manby, Captain, 37; Mann, Dr. R. J., 371; Mann, Thomas, 372; Manning, +Rev. C. R., 496; Mansfield, Earl of, 491; Marsh, Samuel Charles, 127; +Marshall, John, 201; Marshall, Peter Paul, 508; Marsham, Rev. Henry +Philip, 428; Martineau, Dr. James, 507; Martineau, Harriet, 267; +Martineau, Miss Fanny Anne, 273; Martineau, Robert, 202; Mason, Colonel, +152; Mason, Robert Hindry, 360; Master, Alfred, 342; Master, R. P., 287; +Matchett, William, 128; Mathias, Archdeacon, 136; Mathias, Colonel +Vincent, 165; Mendham, W. L., 267; Metcalfe, William James, Q.C., 437; +Methold, Rev. John, 342; Micklethwait, Rev. J. N., 278; Middleton, G., +211; Miller, H. B., 409; Mills, Frederick Anthony, 355; Minns, Henry +Jonathan, 315; Mitham, Thomas, 509; Money, Lieut.-General, 78; Money, +Philip John, 107; Montgomery, Walter, 214; Morgan, A. M. F., 305; +Mortimer, Mrs., 288; Morton, John, 452. + +,, Naylor, John (_c_), 151; Neave, James, 39; Nelson, William (_c_), 308; +Nelthorpe, Lieut.-Col., 31; Nevill, Archdeacon, 513; Nichols, William +Peter, 292; Nightingale, Samuel, 376; Ninham, Henry, 247; Nisbet, Canon +J. M., 433; Nolbrow, Sarah (_c_), 215; Norgate, John, 212; Norton, Henry, +427; Noverre, Frank, 286; Nursey, Claude L., 230. + +,, Oakes, Lieut.-Col., 119; Ollett, William, 5; O’Malley, P. F., 249; +Ommanney, Major-General, 275; Onslow, Captain, 54; Opie, Amelia, 26; +Orde, James Henry, 306; Orfeur, John, 353; Orford, Earl of, 81; Orford, +Earl of, 455; Osborne, John (coach driver), 43; Oury, Antonio James, 339; +Oury, Madame, 311; Overman, Henry, 417. + +,, Paget, Sir James, 504; Palgrave, Francis Turner, 483; Palmer, Charles +John, 330; Palmer, George Danby, 142; Palmer, Nathaniel, 219; Parmeter, +Robert William, 313; Parry, Lady, 468; Parry, Sir William Edward, 42; +Patteson, H. S., 487; Patteson, Sir John, 106; Pelham, Bishop, 448; +Pelham, Mrs., 445; Pelham, Rev. Herbert, 320; Pellew, Dean, 162; Penrice, +Major John, 434; Pentney, Peter (_c_), 482; Peto, Sir Morton, 405; +Phillips, Fredk. Lawrence, 304; Phillips, Mrs., 412; Phipson, R. M., 354; +Pilch, William, 161; Pinson, G., 304; Prendergast, M., 82; Press, Edward, +286; Preston, Arthur, 390; Preston, E. H. L., 225; Preston, Isaac, 155; +Preston, Sir Jacob Henry, 423; Price, E. P., Q.C., 500; Pymar, John, 348. + +,, Quinton, John, 348. + +,, Ranelagh, Viscount, 361; Ranking, Dr. W. H., 168; Rattee, James, 40; +Reddie, J. F., 93; Reeder, Benjamin, 23; Reeve, Henry, 465; Reynolds, F., +(sportsman), 248; Richardson, Samuel, 306; Rigby, Anne, 225; Rigby +Edward, 103; Rigby, Jane, 472; Rigg, Rev. Richard, 365; Robberds, John +May, 342; Robinson, Sir Henry, 304; Robison, John, 240; Rolfe, Rev. E. +N., 346; Rope, Susan (_c_), 487; Rowland, John, 5; Rudd, Henry, 218; +Rumbold, C. E., 63; Rumsby, Widow (_c_), 116; Rust, Rev. Cyprian T., 457. + +,, Schneider, H. W., 385; Seager, Major-General, 337; Seaman, Robert, +240; Sedgwick, Rev. Adam, 230; Seppings, Thomas Johnson, 308; Sewell, +Mary, 347; Shalders, W., 47; Sharman, James, 171; Sharpe, Rear-Admiral +Robert, 176; Short, Obadiah, 371; Sidney, William, 463; Simpkinson, Rev. +J. N., 447; Simpson, Frederick, 220; Simpson, John Palgrave, 382; +Simpson, Lieut. William, 167; Simpson, W. T., 481; Skipper, John, 120; +Slann, Richard, 5; Smetham, J. O., 416; Smith, Dame Pleasance (_c_), 274; +Smith, George, 282; Smith, Henry Powell, 268; Smith, Lieut.-Col. James, +10; Smith, James, 3; Smith, William, 287; Smith, Willoughby, 422; Smyth, +Edward, 134; Softly, John (_c_), 17; Soman, Philip, 461; Sondes, Baron, +250; Sondes, Earl, 452; Sowerby, J. De Carle, 214; Sparke, Lieut. Henry +Astley, 36; Sparrow, J. W., 492; Spelman, C. C. Rix, 500; Spilling, +James, 482; Springfield, Osborn, 277; Springfield, Thomas Osborn, 74; +Squirrell, M.P., 475; Stafford, Baron, 7; Stafford, Baron, 352; Stafford, +Dowager Lady, 118; Stafford, Lady, 56; Stafford, William Cooke, 272; +Stanley, Joseph, 497; Stannard, Alfred, 398; Stannard, Alfred George, +358; Stannard, Emily, 354; Stannard, Emily, 454; Stark, William, F.G.S., +129; Stead, Thomas Ballan, 474; Steavenson, Susannah (_c_), 237; +Steggall, Lucy (_c_), 377; Stevens, G. A., 379; Stevenson, Henry, 393; +Stevenson, Seth William, 27; Steward, Donald, 485; Steward, Edward, 237; +Steward, Robert, 209; Steward, Timothy, 79; Stopford, Lieut.-Col., 504; +Stoughton, Rev. Dr., 483; Stracey, John, 79; Stracey, Lady, 346; Stracey, +Rev. Sir George, 38; Stracey, Sir E. H. J., 6; Stracey, Sir H. J., Bart., +359; Stratton, Minnie (daughter of “Tom Thumb”), 162; Sultzer, John, 212; +Swann, Joshua, 272. + +,, Tallack, Thomas R., 434; Tallowin, Mary (_c_), 88; Tash, Mary (_c_) 1; +Taylor, Dr. J. E., 464; Tattersall, Edmund, 486; Taylor, Emily, 218; +Taylor, John, F.R.S., 123; Taylor, John Oddin, 241; Taylor, John Oddin +Howard, 410; Taylor, Mrs., 398; Taylor, Professor Edward, 122; Taylor, +Richard Cowling, 8; Thackeray, Mrs., 398; Thew, John Dyker, 423; +Thompson, William, 434; Thurtell, William, 281; Thurston, John (_c_), 15; +Thurtell, Captain Charles, 55; Tillett, Jacob Henry, 426; Titlow, Rev. +Samuel, 211; Todd, Mary Ann (_c_), 257; Tooley, Benjamin (_c_), 175; +Towler, Abel, 263; Townshend, Lord Charles, 25; Townshend, Rear-Admiral +127; Travers, Sir Eaton Stanley, 72; Trimmer, Rev. Kirby, 384; Truman, +James, 290; Tubby, Miss, 23; Tuck, C. E., 405; Turnbull, W. Wilson, 290; +Turner, Charles, 110; Turner, Rev. Charles, 415; Turner, Dawson, 76; +Turner, Sir George James, 169. + +,, Unthank, John, 304; Upcher, Henry Ramey, 429; Upcher, Rev. Arthur +Wilson, 470. + +,, Venning, John, 74; Ventnor, Arthur Dale, 353; Villebois, Henry, 366; +Viner, Frederick, 414. + +,, Walker, Admiral Sir J. B. W., 263; Walpole, Colonel, the Hon., 92; +Walpole, Hon. Frederick, 264; Walsingham, Lord, 207; Waring, Walter, 513; +Waring, William, 447; Warner, Edward, 253; Warrant, Eleanor (_c_), 31; +Watts, J. (coach driver), 41; Watson, F. E., 494; Watson, John Ferra, +372; Weeds, Sarah (_c_), 414; Weller, Edmund Stephen, 325; Wellington, +Duke of, 349; Whall, Benjamin, 39; Whur, Cornelius (“Suffolk Poet”), 20; +Wigham, J. B., 9; Wild, Charles, 418; Wilde, George, 379; Wilde, Stephen, +283; Wilde, William, 160; Wilkins, Archdeacon, 149; Wilkinson, Charles +Crawshay, 318; Willett, E. H., 315; Willins, Edward Preston, 401; Willis, +John, 387; Wilshere, W., 172; Wilson, Lieut.-General Sir Archdale, 240; +Wilson, Rev. Edward, 247; Winch, B. V., 417; Windham, F. W., 154; +Windham, William Howe, 37; Winter, Ambrose (_c_), 413; Winter, Rev. G. +R., 464; Windham, General, Sir C. A., 197; Wiseman, Isaac, 123; Winter, +James, 263; Wiseman, Rev. Luke Hoult, 252; Wodderspoon, John, 118; +Wodehouse, Col. Edwin, 206; Wodehouse, Edmond, 44; Wodehouse, Sir P. E., +385; Wollaston, Rev. W. C., 227; Womersley, Joshua, 497; Wood, Charles, +10; Woods, Henry, 409; Woolley, Rev. Dr. John, 153; Woodward, B. B., 194; +Woodward, S. P., 147; Worlledge, Chancellor, 322; Wortley, Robert, 495; +Wright, Charles, 372; Wright, Jonas Silvanus, 193; Wymer, Colonel, Sir +George, 181. + +,, Yates, Elizabeth, 98; Youell, Edward, 205; Young, J. F., 377; Young, +Richard, 215. + +Dillon, Charles, 63, 100, 307. + +Diocesan Conference, 206, 227, 290, 304, 310, 315, 324, 331, 343, 351, +367, 374, 378, 390, 401, 409, 418, 429, 440, 447, (at Ipswich), 469, 479, +487, 498, 508. + +Discharged Soldiers’ Association, 392. + +Disfranchisement Bill, Norwich voters, 193. + +,, of Yarmouth, 156. + +Dishorning of cattle, 395, 400, 420. + +Diss Corn Hall, 37, 79. + +District Councils, 455. + +,, Visiting Society, 39. + +Divorce suits: Gurney _v._ Gurney and Taylor, 101; Burroughes _v._ +Burroughes and Silcock, 115. + +Docking Union Association dissolved, 232. + +Docks at Lynn, 176, 192, 343. + +“Doctor,” unlawful use of the designation, 491. + +Dodder, 170. + +Dogs as animals of draft, 30. + +Donati’s Comet, 79. + +Donegal Militia at Yarmouth, 87, 98. + +Douglas’s Theatrical Company, 2. + +Dow, General Neal, 167. + +Downham Market Public Hall, 259; Town Hall, 384. + +Drayton church steeple, fall of, 1. + +Drill Hall, Norwich, 159, 163. + +Drives, long, 248, 510. + +Drought, 12. + +Duchess of Kent, death of, 105. + +Duels, inciting to fight, 6, 60. + +Duke of Albany, 346. + +,, Cambridge, 321. + +,, Clarence at Yarmouth, 420; at Lynn, 424; betrothal, 424; visit to +Didlington, 424; proposed marriage, gift to, 425; death, 425. + +,, Connaught at Norwich, 244, 245, 250; marriage of, 296; opens Norfolk +and Norwich Hospital, 341; at Lynn, 424. + +,, Edinburgh at Norwich, 163, 165; visit to Thornham Hall, 164; Gunton +Hall, 165; Holkham Hall, 165; Marham House, 165; Yarmouth, 309; +Didlington Hall, 316; attempted assassination of, 178. + +,, Norfolk visits Norwich, 311. + +,, Wellington, 15; monument to, 16, 36. + +,, York, betrothal of, 441; marriage, 443; at Didlington, 445; opens +Technical School at Lynn, 446; birth of first child, 450; opens Castle +Museum at Norwich, 453; visit to Norwich Fat Cattle Show, 474; to Lynn +Hospital, 499; to Yarmouth, 509. + +Duke’s Palace Bridge, Norwich, freeing of, 41. + +Duleep Singh, Maharajah, 126. + +Durrant card scandal, 115. + + + +E + + +Eade, Peter: knighted, 357; resigns post of senior physician of the +Hospital, 392; elected Mayor of Norwich, 445; elected to fill casual +vacancy, 460; receives freedom of city, 464; presented with portrait, +464. + +Eagles shot, 57, 406. + +Early closing of public houses, 34, 138, 224, 234. + +,, of shops, 266, 296. + +Earthquake shock, 143. + +“Eastern Daily Press” first published, 206. + +Eccentric personages, 31, 151. + +Ecclesiastical History Lectures at Norwich Cathedral, 437, 438, 458, 468. + +Eccles-next-the-Sea, ruined church of, 24; fall of tower, 456. + +Eel, immense, 171. + +Edgefield church, 349. + +Education Code, 324. + +Elastic cloth, 101. + +Eldon Club, Norwich, 324. + +Election disturbances in East Norfolk, 462, 463. + +,, expenses, action to recover, 59. + +,, of a vicar at Norwich, 475. + +,, petitions against Messrs. Peto and Warner, 16; withdrawal of, 19; +against Messrs. M’Cullagh and Watkin, 66; against Lord Bury and Mr. +Schneider, 86, 94; against Sir Edmund Lacon and Sir H. Stracey, 93; +against Sir H. Stracey 186, 196; against the Hon. R. Bourke, 189; against +the Hon. F. Walpole and Sir E. H. K. Lacon, 190; against Mr. J. H. +Tillett, 205, 208; ditto, 253, 255; against Messrs. P. Back and J. H. +Ladyman (municipal election), 273; against Mr. Harry Bullard, 366; +against Lord Henry Bentinck, 378. + +Elections, Parliamentary, 13, 14, 34, 37, 38, 42, 60, 69, 72, 77, 83, 84, +86, 94, 123, 146, 147, 172, 182, 183, 184, 196, 203, 209, 211, 238, 239, +253, 265, 294, 307, 308, 345, 362, 363, 367, 369, 370, 372, 430, 431, +432, 461, 462, 463, 488, 497, 512, 513. + +Electric lighting, 295, 312, 323, 336, 337, 423. + +Elephant, death of an, 171. + +Electricity Company, Norwich, 423. + +Elementary Education Bill, 197; Norwich Town Council recommends formation +of School Board, 209. + +Embezzlement, 216. + +Emigrant ship ashore at Winterton, 265. + +Emigrants leave Norfolk, 391. + +English _v._ Black, remarkable action tor defamation, 57. + +Estate sales, 14, 42, 51, 77, 78, 87, 105, 125, 143, 161, 172, 256, 322, +371. + +Ex-communication, 359. + +Execution of Henry Groom, 6; William Thompson, 30; Hubbard Lingley, 169; +William Sheward, 186; Henry Webster, 265; Henry March, 280; William +George Abigail, 328; Robert Goodale, 361; John Thurston, 365; George +Harmer, 372; George Watt, 489. + +,, last public 169. + +,, first private, 186. + +,, last at Norwich Castle, 372. + +,, disgraceful scenes at an, 30. + +,, horrible accident at, 361. + +Exhibitions, industrial, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, 169, 213. + +Explosion on Alexandra steamer, 269; at Clerkenwell, 173; at Walsingham +church, 163; gunpowder, 101; in St. Peter Mancroft church alley, 271. + +Explosions of boilers, 100, 156, 162, 166, 176; of fireworks, 205, 269; +gas, 49, 269, 365. + + + +F + + +Fair Trade League, 353. + +Fakenham Corn Hall, 44. + +“Falka,” 375. + +Falls of Bruar, wreck of the, 383. + +Falls of church steeples, 1, 6, 22, 456. + +False imprisonment, action for, 142. + +Fancy dress balls, 99, 228, 354. + +Farmers’ Alliance, 306. + +,, Defence Associations, 231, 239. + +Farren, Miss E., 222, 235. + +Felo de se, 106. + +Female franchise, 291. + +Fenian movement, precautions at Yarmouth, 173. + +Fifty-first Regiment, 233. + +Fine Arts’ Association, 41. + +Fire engine, steam, 338. + +,, escape, invented by Capt. Longe, 375. + +Fires: at “Norwich Mercury” office, 4; Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, 13; +Hunstanton Hall, 21; steam flour mills, Norwich, 46; St. Andrew’s +Norwich, 50; at Yarmouth, 69; St. Martin-at-Palace, Norwich, 70; in +Pottergate Street, Norwich, 87; in Dove Street, Norwich, 93; at Swaffham +Prison, 111; at; St. George’s shoe factory, Norwich, 118; at Dereham, +126; at Frazer’s Saw mills, Norwich, 142; at Little Ellingham church, +172; at Yarmouth, 174; Yarmouth Assembly rooms, 199; at Darkin’s music +warehouse, Norwich, 232; at Messrs. Holmes and Sons’ works, Norwich, 234; +at Dixon’s, Norwich, 241; at Norwich city gaol, 252; at Riches and Watts’ +works, Norwich, 263; at Boulton and Paul’s works, Norwich, 268; at +Yarmouth, 286; at Bagshaw’s paper mills, Norwich, 288; at Willis and +Southall’s factory, Norwich, 298; at New Buckenham, 307; at Lynn docks, +316; at Carrow works, 322; Gunton Hall, 332; Woodbastwick Hall, 332; +Bridewell Alley, Norwich, 343; at Scole, 347; at Lynn, 353; at Browick +Hall, Wymondham, 367; at Bridge Street, Norwich, 384; at West Beckham +workhouse, 390; at Hockering, 391; at Cunningham’s saw mills, Norwich, +394; at Wroxham House, 404; at Messrs. Cubitt and Walker’s, North +Walsham, 407; at Merton Hall, 410; at Boulton and Paul’s, Norwich, 410; +at St. Giles’ Gates, Norwich, 410; at Sandringham House, 423; at Queen +Street, Norwich, 433; at Smith’s maltings, Dereham, 445; on Jenny Lind +steamboat, 461; Sullivan and Co., Norwich, 464; on Ringland Hills, 481; +Cullingford’s paper mills, Norwich, 481; at Diss, 481; Messrs. Jermyn and +Co., Lynn, 484; Press’s mills, Yarmouth, 485; Dove Street, Norwich, 491; +Pinchen and Co’s brewery, South Creake, 491; Leake and Sons’ oil mill at +Lynn, 500; at High Street, Dereham, 501; at Kimberley Hall, 501; North +Walsham Town Hall, 501; “Free Trade” House, Dereham, 504; Porter and +Son’s timber yard, Norwich, 511. + +Firework explosions, 205, 269. + +Fish killed by salt tides, 335. + +Fisheries, National exhibition at Norwich, 319. + +,, protection of, 13, 62, 256, 262, 274, 332. + +,, Sea, 129, 256, 286, 304, 333. + +Fisher, David, at Norwich, 131; death, 383. + +Fisher family, 2, 26, 61, 77, 131, 132, 234, 383, 384. + +Fishing dispute at Yarmouth, 377. + +,, fleet disaster, 274. + +Fish market, Norwich, 69; fatal accident at, 91. + +Fish Wharves and Tramways Bill, Yarmouth, 158, 171. + +FitzRoy, Lord Frederick, and the Thetford electors, 172. + +Flood at Norwich, 291, 293. + +Floods, 17, 19, 38, 54, 119, 172, 223, 259, 301, 424, 435, 455, 476. + +,, prevention of, 293, 456. + +Foot and mouth disease, 223, 316, 318, 325, 336, 344, 507. + +Football Club, Norwich, 184. + +Forgery, 131, 331, 368. + +Foresters’ High Court at Norwich, 481. + +Fortescue, Miss, 445. + +Fortesque, Earl, at Norwich, 159. + +Fortune for a soldier, 112. + +Foundry Bridge, Norwich, 303, 386. + +Foxhounds, 51, 100, 152, 167, 177, 211, 258, 335, 367. + +Fox, Joel, case, 90. + +Framingham Pigot church, 88. + +Franchise Bill, 349, 354. + +Franco-Austrian war, 84. + +Frauds on insurance companies, 280. + +Free Bridge, opening of the, 234. + +,, education, 408, 422. + +Free Library, Norwich, 17; foundation stone laid, 34; opened, 59; +proposed opening on Sunday, 350. + +,, lectures, 416, 417, 423. + +Freemasonry, 259, 271, 355. + +Free Trade _v._ Protection, 13, 14. + +French prisoner shot at Dereham, 72. + +,, refugee at Norwich, 13. + +Fresco at St. Gregory’s church, Norwich, 107. + +Frosts, 9, 56, 92, 102, 103, 131, 207, 250, 317, 385, 408, 415, 416, 417, +424, 435, 438, 446, 455, 456. + +Funerals in Norwich churchyards discontinued, 30. + +Fye Bridge widened, 494. + + + +G + + +Gales, 7, 18, 25, 41, 46, 54, 57, 68, 90, 93, 96, 101, 118, 119, 129, +130, 138, 140, 164, 165, 172, 175, 182, 188, 194, 199, 209, 217, 226, +228, 229, 253, 259, 260, 274, 281, 317, 331, 335, 374, 383, 399, 423, +424, 445, 446, 455, 459, 484, 502, 511. + +Garfield, President, death of, 323. + +Gas Bills, Norwich, 252; Yarmouth, 122. + +,, Company, Norwich, 71, 252, 311. + +,, explosions, 49, 269, 365. + +,, holder blown down, 164. + +,, lighting at Dereham church, 82; Attleborough, 89; St. Giles’ church, +Norwich, 93. + +Gavazzi, Father, 39, 119, 133. + +Geese plucked alive, 483. + +Genereux, ensign of the, 208. + +Geological Society, Norwich, 135. + +German Emperor at Sandringham, 504. + +German Emperor, death of, 392. + +Giants, 130, 180, 221, 275. + +Gilbert, George, Norwich equestrian, 399, 445. + +Gildencroft recreation ground, 430, 450. + +Gilman, C. R., elected Mayor; knighted, 480, 481; presented with silver +plate, 487. + +Girls’ Home, Norwich, 476. + +,, Hospital, Norwich, 331, 341. + +,, Public Day-school Company, 243. + +Gladstone Club, Norwich, 469. + +Gladstone, Mr., arrives in Yarmouth Roads, 313; at Sandringham, 336; +visit to Norwich, 411; death, 488. + +Glove fight at Norwich, 298. + +Glover memorial, 427. + +Golf, 333, 443. + +Goddard, Miss, 85. + +Goschen, Mr., at Norwich, 461. + +Gorst, Sir John, at Norwich, 395. + +Gough, J. B., at Norwich, 26, 82, 290. + +Grammar School, Norwich: resignation of Dr. Woolley, 9; drowned in the +wreck of the London, 153; litigation in the Rolls Court, 29, 64, 73; +remarkable form of school punishment, 73; resignation of Dr. Vincent, 73; +the Rev. Augustus Jessopp elected head-master, 83; athletic sports, 105; +alterations in the school, 171; amended scheme of management, 191; Duke +of Connaught presents prizes, 250; retirement of the Rev. Dr. Jessopp, +305; the Rev. O. W. Tancock appointed head-master, 305; resignation, 407; +Charity Commissioners’ inquiry, 331; Charity Commissioners’ schemes, 341; +Rev. E. F. Gilbard appointed head-master, 407. + +,, Yarmouth, opened, 222. + +Grand jurymen detained by snowfall, 28. + +Gresham Grammar School, Holt, re-opened, 80. + +Gressenhall parish register, 494. + +“Grimes’ graves,” 201. + +Grossmith, George, 228. + +Grout and Co.’s factory closed, 414. + +Guardians, Board of, clerks to: resignation of Mr. E. C. Bailey, 292; +death, 340; appointment of Mr. John Cross, 292; resignation, 488; +elections, 438; Mr. E. R. Woodward appointed clerk, 488. + +Guilmant, M., 333. + +Gunn, Rev. John, portrait of, at Norwich Museum, 201. + +Gunton Hall, fire at, 332. + +Gunpowder explosion at Norwich, 101. + +Gurdon, R. T.: presented with, portrait, 269; defeats Mr. C. S. Read by +one vote, 308; returned for Mid-Norfolk, 363, 370, 459; defeated, 430, +462; elected chairman of County Council, 397; receives peerage, 495. + +Gurney portrait at Norwich Museum, 110. + +Gymnastic Society, Norfolk and Norwich, 159. + + + +H + + +Haggard, Mr. Rider H., adopted candidate for East Norfolk, 442. + +Hales, the Norfolk Giant, 130. + +“Hamlet,” acted by a woman, 85. + +“Happy Land” burlesque, 234. + +Harcourt, Sir William, at Norwich, 478. + +Harriers, North Norfolk, 277. + +Harris, Lord, at Norwich, 389. + +Harte, Bret, 308. + +Hartington, Marquis of, at Norwich, 399; illness at Merton, 406. + +Harvest thanksgiving services, 33. + +Harvey, Sir R. J. H., declines to contest Norwich, 199; commits suicide, +203. + +Harvey Life interest, 316, 332, 335, 347, 363, 366, 432, 445, 447, 466, +471. + +Haslam, Rev. W., and the Revivalist movement, 133. + +Hastings litigation, 52, 60. + +,, barony of, 439. + +Hautbois Magna church, 117. + +Haven and Port Bill, Yarmouth, 141, 158. + +Hawking, 126; exhibition of, 3. + +Hawkins, Mr. Justice, on the judges’ lodgings, 364. + +Hawthorne, Miss, Grace, 439. + +Health Lectures for the People, 389. + +Heat, extreme, 79, 349. + +Heath, Miss, 202. + +Heaviside, Rev. J. W. L., installed Canon of Norwich, 94. + +Heigham Hall Lunatic Asylum, alleged irregularities at 35. + +Hempton Green chapel, 45, 55. + +Herds and flocks, sales of, 212, 257, 280, 337, 358, 369, 371, 402, 430, +443, 451, 463, 498, 510. + +Hesse, Grand Duchess of, death of, 292. + +Hethersett steeplechases, disturbance at, 265. + +High School for Girls, 473. + +Higher Grade School, Norwich, 404. + +High Sheriff fined for non-attendance, 223. + +High tides, 259, 301, 335, 336, 455, 456, 484. + +Highway maintenance, 328, 474. + +Hill, Dr. Horace, appointed Festival Chorus Master, 313. + +Hills, Bishop, at Yarmouth, 85. + +Hills, Dr., superannuation of, 376. + +Hillyard, Rev. E. A., and the Ritualistic movement, 133, 134; death, 484. + +Hoare, Samuel, elected member for Norwich, 367, 370, 462, (unopposed) +512; opens Norwich and Norfolk Conservative Club, 388; visit to India, +416; his return, 418; silver wedding, 419; restoration of Beckham church, +419; entertainment to Workhouse inmates, 435; to Trades’ Union Congress, +451; renovation of Norwich Cathedral, 487, 499; baronetcy conferred, 499. + +“Hoffman’s Humbug,” 76. + +Holkham estate rents, 436. + +,, Park, Volunteer Review, 108. + +Holt, Miss May, 217, 363. + +Home Rule question, 368, 369, 440. + +Horse-leap, remarkable, 67; over hurdles, 73. + +Horse _v._ man, 189, 221. + +Horsey, sea breaches at, 484. + +Horticultural Society, Norfolk and Norwich, 387. + +Hoskins case, 210. + +Hospital, Norfolk and Norwich: movements in aid of, 182, 205; scheme for +enlarging, 214, 271; new building, 274; foundation stone laid by the +Prince of Wales, 299; opening of central block, 322; completion of work +and opening by Duke of Connaught, 341; lady superintendent as a Roman +Catholic, 419; centenary of, 217; tragedy at, 261; nurses’ quarters, 500. + +,, Sunday Fund established, 182. + +,, Sunday first observed, 228; first annual meeting of Hospital Sunday +Fund, 237. + +,, West Norfolk and Lynn, 499. + +Houghton, St. Giles’, Wayside chapel, 481. + +Huddleston, Mr. J. W., contests Norwich, 203; elevation to the judicial +bench, 253; death, 416. + +Huguenot Society, 392. + +Human remains discovered at Norwich, 6; at Tasburgh, 486. + +Humiliation, services of, 315, 320, 356. + +Hunstanton Convalescent Home, 279. + +,, yawl disaster, 464. + +Hunting, 51, 100, 167, 175, 211, 275. + +,, fracas, 175. + +,, litigation, 485. + +Hurricanes in Norfolk, 324, 457. + + + +I + + +Ignatius at Norwich, 130, 132, 133, 187, 267, 409, 446. + +,, alleged assault on, 267. + +Illicit stills, 56. + +Incorporated Law Society, 434. + +Indian Mutiny: Departure of General Windham, 66; relief fund, 67; day of +humiliation, 68; relief of Lucknow and capture of Delhi, 68; defeat of +General Windham, 70. + +Influenza, 406, 426. + +Institute of Journalists, 451. + +Insurance Company, Norwich Equitable Fire, 339. + +Irish church, 177, 183, 191. + +Irving, Mr. Henry, at Sandringham, 401. + +Isolation Hospital, Norwich, 439. + + + +J + + +Jail closed at Lynn, 154. + +James, David, 343. + +Jameson, Dr. at Norwich, 470. + +Javelin men at Assizes, 89, 92. + +Jenny Lind Infirmary, establishment of, 11; performances for, 47, 328, +361, 471; new building, 469, 476, 486, 496, 510; playground, 437. + +Jessopp, Rev. Augustus, elected Master of Norwich Grammar School, 83. + +Johnson, Jex, the watchmaker, 9. + +Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 381. + +,, Diamond, 476, 480. + +Judges’ lodgings, 363. + +Jury of headboroughs, 140. + + + +K + + +Kangaroos at Melton Constable, 61. + +Kapiolani, Queen, at Norwich, 380. + +Kay, Mr. Edward, Q.C., accepts judgeship, 319; death, 478. + +Kean, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, 99. + +Kekewich, Sir G. W., at Norwich, 456. + +Kelley-Cooper sculling match, 150. + +Kemble, Fanny, 8, 15, 37, 41. + +Kendal, Mr. and Mrs., 398, 469. + +Kensington Gardens, Lakenham, 13. + +Kent, Duchess of, death of, 105. + +King, Tom, at Norwich, 112. + +Kolisch, Herr (chess player), at Norwich, 106. + + + +L + + +Labour, Royal Commission on, 433. + +,, scarcity of agricultural, 500. + +Labourer’s long walk, 41. + +Lakenham schools, 488. + +Landslip at Attleborough, 301. + +La Reine des Agnes wrecked, 330. + +Launch, remarkable, from Caister beach, 192. + +Law of Settlement, 63, 112. + +Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, 284. + +Leap, extraordinary, by a horse, 67; over hurdles, 73. + +Lectures: Dr. White on the Reformation, 4; Mrs. Knights on the Bloomer +costume, 8; J. B. Gough on temperance, 26; by George Dawson, 48, 63, 100; +by Thackeray on the George’s, 62; by Dr. Russell on the Crimean war, 68; +by Barnum on “Money-making and the art of Humbug,” 82; by Mr. J. T. Mott +(High Sheriff), on “The Paston Letters,” 105; by Mr. W. J. Utten Browne +(Mayor of Norwich), on “The Times of King Charles the First,” 109; by +Professor Pepper on “Optical Illusions,” 122; by Elihu Burritt on “The +Higher Law and Mission of Commerce,” 128; by Ignatius on “Monks and +Monasteries for the English Church,” 130; by the Rev. Dr. Littledale on +“Church Principles,” 132; by Baron De Camin, 133; by Father Gavazzi 133; +by Sir S. W. Baker, 166; by Dr. Bateman on “Darwinism,” 236; Bret Harte +on “The Augonauts of ’49,” 308; Melton Prior on the Egyptian war, 336; on +war in Burmah, 407; J. C Buckmaster on “Science Teaching in Agriculture,” +342; Oscar Wilde on “The House Beautiful,” 346; E. P. Weston on +pedestrianism, 346; “Cuthbert Bede” on Modern Humourists, 347; Rev. Henry +Ward Beecher on “Wastes and Burdens of Society,” 372; Archibald Forbes on +“Ten years of War Correspondence,” 376; by Sir Robert Ball, 388, 397, +408, 426; the Rev. W. Tuckwell, 388; Mr. S. H. Burton, 389; Mr. Donald +Day, 339; Dr. S. J. Barton, 389; Henry Furniss on “Art and Artists,” 395; +on “The Humours of Parliament,” 423; Lant Carpenter, 397; Dr. Andrew +Wilson, 397, 398, 417, 426, 438; Professor Miall, 397; Professor Seeley, +397; Rev. Dr. Dallinger, 397; Captain Wiggins on “Arctic seas and +Siberia,” 400; on the “Nansen Expedition,” 469; Mr. Louis Fagan on +“Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian Antiquities,” 408; Mr. Henry Seebohm +on “Adventures in Siberia,” 408; Rev. H. H. Snell, 416; Mr. G. C. Davies, +417; Rev. W. F. Creeney, 417; Mr. Bosworth Harcourt, 417; Mr. H. F. +Euren, 417; Rev. J. Miller Hamilton, 426; Mr. M. P. Squirrell, 428; Mr. +C. Stacy Watson, 428; Archdeacon Farrar, 437; Rev. J. A. Robinson, 438; +Rev. Prebendary Meyrick, 438; Rev. Stanley Leathes, 438; Rev. G. A. +Schneider, 438; Dr. Drinkwater, 438; Jerome K. Jerome on “Humour, old and +new,” 452; Archdeacon Sinclair, 458; Rev. Dr. Kingsmill, 458; Rev. +Professor Gwatkin, 458; Bishop Barry. 463; Rev. Dr. Moule, 468; Dr. +Nansen on “Across the Polar Region,” 486; Dr. J. E. Talmage on “Utah and +its People,” 490; Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D., on “The History and Effect +of Vaccination,” 496. + +Legard, Sir Charles, contests Norwich, 209. + +Leicester, Earl of: denounces political coercion, 149; munificence to the +Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 182, 271, 500; restoration of Holkham +church, 196; invested K.G., 233; married to the Hon. Georgiana Cavendish, +257; summoned under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 298; lays +foundation stone of Norwich Agricultural Hall, 327; Royal College of +Music, 328; letter on the Irish question, 368; Norwich Blind Institution, +391; rents of the Holkham estate, 436. + +“Les Cloches de Corneville,” 318, 342. + +Levadia wrecked, 326. + +Libel actions, 4, 40, 94, 104, 105, 107, 161, 239, 257, 470. + +,, prosecution, 368. + +Liberal demonstration at Whitlingham, 244. + +,, dissension at Norwich, 202. + +,, Unionists, 368, 369. + +Libraries amalgamation at Norwich, 366. + +Library, Norfolk and Norwich, destroyed by fire, 491; re-opened, 500. + +Licensed Victuallers’ Association, 170. + +Licensing Act, New, 224. + +,, Bill, protest against, 212. + +Lifeboat crews, allegations against, 96, 119, 138. + +,, disasters, 154, 172, 314, 317, 395. + +,, demonstration at Norwich, 472. + +Lifeboats, inefficiency of, 68. + +,, launched, 151, 160, 161, 169, 170, 181, 195, 243, 350, 400, 404, 430, +452, 511. + +Light Horse Volunteers, 104, 163, 172. + +Lighthouse, fall of Cromer, 164. + +,, of Norwich manufacture, 100. + +“Lily of Killarney,” 329. + +Lindahl, Scandinavian skater, 457. + +Lind, Jenny, at Norwich, 47, 113; memorial unveiled, 452. + +Linton, Rev. S., consecrated Bishop of Riverina, 347; death, 449. + +“Little ease,” at Norwich Grammar school, 73. + +Liverpool Cup, won by Melton, 375. + +Livings, long tenure of, 342. + +Local Government Act (see County Council). + +London-street improvement, Norwich, 46, 265, 276. + +Lombe family, 11, 15, 65, 99, 101, 118, 330. + +Long service, remarkable instance of, 201. + +Long, Walter, Mr., at Norwich, 504. + +Loraine, Mr. H., 269. + +Lord High Steward of Norwich Cathedral, 161. + +,, Mayor of London at Norwich, 423. + +Loveday’s London Folly Company, 325, 326. + +Lubbock, Sir J. W., at Norwich, 356. + +Lugard, Captain, at Norwich, 437. + +Lunatic Asylum, Norwich City, 220. + +Lynn: high tides at, 19; empty gaol, 22; Lieut. Cresswell, R.N., feted, +25; Athenæum opened, 32; fall of workhouse, 33; J. H. Gurney elected for, +34; Corn Exchange opened, 38; smallpox at, 52; coroner’s election at 62; +Mr. Spurgeon at, 65; Corporation address to Thomas Baines, 71; Lord +Stanley re-elected, 72, 159; Corporation claim sturgeon, 77; Norfolk +Agricultural show at, 136, 430, 489; Lady Mayoresses’ Pin Money, 139; +jury of headboroughs, 140; Kelley-Cooper sculling match, 150; jail +closed, 154; new docks, 176, 192, 343; election petition against the Hon. +R. Bourke, 189; Royal visits, 192, 355, 415, 424, 446, 489, 499; Lord +Claud Hamilton elected, 196; new railway station, 210; opening of the +Free Bridge, 234; restoration of St. Margaret’s church, 254; high tides +at, 259, 336; Cheese Fair abolished, 283; sudden death of Mayor, 308; +Oddfellows A.M.C., 309; Conservative presentation to Lady Hamilton, 316; +fire at the docks, 316; Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone at, 336; Stanley Library, +351; fires, 353, 484; Lord Randolph Churchill at, 360; Sporting and Art +Exhibition, 415; enormous captures of sprats, 417; industrial exhibition, +424; Cambridge crew at, 417; Technical School, 446; typhoid fever at, +483; West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital, 499. + + + +M + + +Maccomo, the “Lion King,” 98, 173; narrow escape at Norwich, 111. + +Mace, Jim, 16, 112, 113, 389. + +,, Pooley, 138, 150. + +Magistrate fined for assault, 225. + +Magistrates’ clerks: death, of Mr. Wm. Day, 169; appointment of Mr. G. B. +Kennett, 170; resignation, 412; Mr. W. R. Cooper appointed, 412. + +Magistrates, Norwich, complaints about, 70. + +,, appointment of, 436. + +,, Yarmouth, appointment of at, 72. + +Male attire assumed by a female servant, 58. + +Malt Tax, 134, 141, 146, 311. + +Man _v._ horse, 189, 221. + +Mann, Arthur H., admitted Doctor of Music, 327. + +Manufactures, Norwich, 48, 50, 69, 101, 131, 414. + +Marching column of 1st V.B.N.R., 460. + +,, Norfolk Artillery, 512. + +Market Cross at North Walsham, 57. + +,, tolls inquiries, 396. + +Marriage Law Defence Union, 334. + +Marriages: Viscount Powerscourt and Lady Julia Coke, 135; Earl of Dunmore +and Lady Gertrude Coke, 157; Mr. Robert Clements and Lady Winifrid Coke, +235; Colonel Buller and Lady Anne Coke, 238; the Hon. H. Strutt and Lady +Margaret Coke, 240; Earl of Leicester and the Hon. Georgiana Cavendish, +257; Earl of Lichfield and Lady Mildred Coke, 290; Viscount Lewisham and +Lady Mary Coke, 305. + +,, (Royal): Princess Royal, 70; Princess Alice and the Grand Duke of +Hesse, 115; Prince of Wales, 121; Princess Louise, 210; Duke of +Edinburgh, 238; Duke of Connaught, 296; Princess Louise and the Earl of +Fife, 403; Duke of York and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, 443; Princess +Maud and Prince Charles of Denmark, 471. + +Mathematician in humble life, 23. + +Mayoral entertainments, 403, 449, 451, 454, 481. + +Mayor, alleged wrongful election of, 17. + +,, elected by his casting vote, 9. + +,, of Norwich insulted, 10; death of, 460. + +Mayors, election of 8, 16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 68, 80, 90, 101, 109, 118, +129, 138, 152, 164, 171, 182, 195, 206, 216, 228, 236, 248, 259, 271, +281, 291, 304, 315, 324, 331, 343, 351, 361, 374, 385, 395, 405, 415, +424, 436, 445, 454, 466, 474, 484, 494, 504, 514. + +Mathews, Charles, 44, 119, 277. + +Mattishall church rate case, 154. + +McCalmont, Col., adopted candidate for East Norfolk, 442. + +Medical officer charged with fraud, 243. + +Medical Officer of Health: Mr. T. W. Crosse appointed, 229. + +Melton, winner of the Derby, 357; Liverpool Cup, 375. + +Member of Parliament as actor, 80. + +Memorial brass stolen, 79. + +,, to Bishop of Norwich, 496. + +Menagerie, fight between tigers at, 362; foolhardy feat at, 385. + +Menageries, 37, 56, 81, 92, 98, 103, 111, 120, 171, 173, 184, 230, 272, +293, 362, 385. + +,, accidents at, 98, 111. + +Mendham, W. L., appointed Town Clerk, 47; death, 267. + +“Messiah,” first Good Friday performance of, 327. + +Meteor, 270. + +Meteorological Society, Norwich, 202. + +Middle Level inundations, 113; litigation, 114, 120, 132, 144, 165. + +,, sluice opened, 282. + +“Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 455. + +Mild weather in winter, 82, 83, 131, 207, 396. + +Military and Naval exhibition, 482. + +,, balls, 230, 397, 420, 475, 499. + +Military riot at Yarmouth, 105. + +,, tournaments, 254, 277, 285, 375, 386, 399, 407, 420, 450, 469. + +Militia: raising of regiments, 15; trainings, 21, 31, 38; barracks, 28; +colours presented to West Norfolk Regiment, 42; West Norfolk Regiment at +Aldershot and Dublin, 42; arrival at Norwich, 51; West Norfolk Regiment +at Chester, Liverpool, and Stockport, 69; 4th Battalion staff transferred +to Norwich 392. + +,, Artillery, 23, 28, 31, 39. + +Miraculous escape at Swaffham, 18. + +Mirage at Yarmouth, 221. + +Missionary Loan exhibition, 488. + +Monasticism at Norwich, 130, 132, 133, 187, 267. + +Monkton, Lady, 404. + +Montgomery, Walter (actor), 45, 48; death, 214. + +Moody, D. L., 435. + +Morley, Mr. A., at Norwich, 450. + +Morley, Mr. John, at Norwich, 380. + +Mounted Rifles, Norwich, 104, 163, 172. + +Mountjoy, pedestrian, 75. + +Mousehold Heath: common rights, 124; Dean and Chapter offer to give up +their rights, 140; agreement confirmed, 310; management scheme adopted, +321; action in the High Court, 338; Royal assent given to the scheme, +346; relief works, 365; opening of new road, 369. + +,, rifle range, 98. + +Mower, Charles, pedestrian, 121. + +Mulbarton common rights, 143. + +Mundella, M.P., Mr., at Norwich, 404. + +Municipal buildings, proposed, 494, 501. + +,, election petition, 273. + +Murder, remarkable confession of, 7. + +Murders, 4, 6, 30, 128, 169, 185, 261, 265, 280, 320, 324, 328, 355, 361, +365, 372, 374, 375, 377, 406, 443, 461, 489, 512, 514. + +Murder trials, 40, 190, 243, 265, 280, 320, 324, 374, 375, 377, 406, 443, +476, 489. + +Murray, Dr. John, portrait of, 499. + +Museum, Norfolk and Norwich: theft from, 89; Gurney portrait at, 110; +Lombe collection, 234; closing of the old buildings, 451. + +Musical Festival, Norfolk and Norwich Triennial, 15, 34, 67, 99, 127, +162, 194, 226, 257, 289, 324, 351, 384, 414, 444, 472, 502. + +Musical ride, 254. + +Music Hall, 34. + +,, Norwich School of, 450. + +,, Royal College of, 328. + +“Mute of malice,” 509. + + + +N + + +Nansen, Dr., at Norwich, 486. + +National Fisheries exhibition opened by Prince of Wales, 319. + +,, Insurance, 332. + +National poor rate, 63, 71, 81. + +,, Union of Women Workers, 494. + +Nelson memorial at Burnham Thorpe, 423, 463. + +,, monument, Yarmouth; fatal fall from, 124; Scotch fisherman’s feat on, +259. + +,, statue, Norwich, 10, 48. + +Newspaper Act, 42. + +Nilsson, Mdlle. Christine, 195, 245. + +Ninth East Norfolk Regiment, 218; memorial window at Norwich Cathedral, +420. + +Nisbet, Rev. E. M., installed Canon, 172. + +“Nita’s First,” 353. + +“Norfolk Chronicle,” centenary of, 106; libel summons applied for, 390. + +Norfolk Hotel sold, 135. + +“Norfolk News,” libel action against the, 94. + +Norfolk Volunteer Service Association, 114. + +Norman’s charity, 331, 341. + +“Norwich,” G.E.R. steamship launched, 335. + +Norwich, Aylsham, and Cromer Railway, 88. + +,, building sites, value of, 51. + +,, Castle: letter from Mr. John Gurney, _re_ acquisition of, 343; +deputation to the Home Secretary and purchase of the buildings, 345; +suggested conversion into a museum, 373; keys transferred to the Mayor +and Corporation, 381; opening of gardens, 401; of museum, 422. + +,, Central Conservative Club, 267, 276, 284. + +,, Corporation Bill, 397. + +,, Dispensary, 286. + +,, Free Library lectures, 416. + +,, Improvement Act, 303. + +,, Public Library, centenary of, 333. + +,, Union Fire Insurance Society, centenary of, 480. + + + +O + + +Obstructing a railway train, 410. + +O’Connor, Mr. T. P., at Norwich, 398. + +Octagon chapel, Norwich, 50. + +Octo-centenary of Norwich Cathedral, 470, 471. + +Oddfellows’ A.M.C. at Norwich, 63; Lynn, 309; jubilee, 364; dinner to +Grand Master Flowers, 435. + +“Old World exhibition” at Norwich, 378. + +Omnibus Company, Norwich, 298. + +Ontario, wreck of the, 138. + +Opera at Norwich Theatre, 53, 76, 106, 114, 135, 143, 157, 167, 177, 180, +190, 201, 204, 235, 265, 269, 289, 313, 329, 346, 356, 429. + +,, bouffe, 219, 221, 232. + +,, comic, by children, 318. + +Operatic Union, Norwich, 91, 102. + +Organ at St. Andrew’s Hall, 314, 333. + +Organs, church, 158, 160, 199, 254, 267, 276, 280, 378. + +Organists, Cathedral, 281, 317, 363. + +Overend, Gurney and Co., 158, 184. + +Overstrand church, 170. + +Oratorio of “Nehemiah,” 297. + +Ordnance Survey, 394. + +Orford, Lord, and the Bible Society, 63. + +Organophonic Band, Hoffman’s, 48, 76. + +Ormesby Broad catastrophe, 463. + +“Our Boys,” 277, 343. + +Outrage at Diss, 106. + +Owen, George, manager of Norwich Theatre, 109. + +Oxford, Bishop of, at Norwich, 76. + +Oxford Hotel, purchase at Norwich, 268. + + + +P + + +Paderewski in Norwich, 444, 456, 497. + +Paget, Sir James, presented with an address, 214. + +Pallas’ sand grouse, 125. + +Panoramas, 18, 51. + +Pantomime companies, touring, 333. + +Pantomimes, 27, 38, 47, 56, 69, 80, 92, 103, 111, 120, 131, 140, 153, +165, 173, 184, 196, 207, 217, 229, 237, 250, 262, 272, 282, 293, 305, +317. + +Parachute descents, 402. + +Parish clerk of Woodbastwick, 438. + +Parish Councils, 455. + +Parliamentary costs paid from rates, 8. + +Parliamentary Divisions of Norfolk, 167, 178. + +Passengers’ communication, 140. + +Pasteur treatment, 412. + +Paston Grammar School, 242. + +,, Letters, 105. + +Pastoral plays, 381, 434, 450, 471, 489. + +Patriotic Fund, 36. + +Patteson, Mr. H. S., elected leader of Conservative party, 461; +complimentary banquet and presentation, 468; resignation of leadership, +485; death, 487. + +Patteson, Mr. Justice, retires from the Bench, 10. + +Patti, Madame, at Norwich, 129, 434. + +Paul, Dawson, presentation to Mr. and Mrs., 373; silver wedding, 443. + +Pedestrian follower of hounds, 30. + +Pedestrianism, 24, 31, 40, 41, 42, 66, 75, 110, 118, 121, 124, 221, 243, +295, 311. + +Pelham memorial throne, 460; effigy, 470. + +Pennington, Mr. W. H., 275. + +Pepper’s Ghost, 122. + +Peto, Mr., created a baronet, 39. + +Phillips, Frederick Lawrence: accident at Norwich Theatre, 4; benefit +performances, 5; proprietor of “The Shades,” 34; new plays by, 55; action +against William Harper Stewardson, 257; death, 304. + +Phillips’, Mrs., farewell performance, 48. + +Phonograph, 401. + +Photographic Society, 32. + +Photography, 80. + +Piccolomini, Mdlle., at Norwich, 54. + +Pigott, Mr. Paynton, appointed Deputy Chief Constable of Norfolk, 247; +Chief Constable, 311; presentation to, 482. + +Pigtail, 132. + +Pike, large, 306. + +“Pink Dominoes,” 286. + +Pin Money, 139. + +Pitt and Hamilton’s Comedy Company, 270, 284. + +Playing Fields and Open Spaces Committee, 423, 450, 483. + +Pleuro-pneumonia, 404. + +Ploughing by steam, 62. + +Ploughing matches: All England and Norfolk, 215. + +Ploughs, trials of, 142. + +Plucking of live geese, 483. + +Plumstead church destroyed by fire, 424. + +Poisoning, charges of, 11. + +Police force, Norwich City, 3, 22, 39. + +,, new uniform, 39. + +Political ascendency in Norwich Town Council, 100. + +Political coercion on the Holkham estate denounced by the Earl of +Leicester, 149. + +Poor, entertainments to the, 344, 424. + +Poor-law Amendment Bill (Norwich), 121. + +Poor-law Conference, 259. + +Poor-rate, proposed national, 63, 71, 81. + +Poor Removal Act, 112. + +Porpoise killed in the Yare, 337. + +Postmasters of Norwich: Mr. B. V. Winch appointed, 205; death, 417; Mr. +B. N. Thoms appointed, 418; Mr. Sturgeon appointed, 418. + +Presbyterian church, Norwich, 245. + +Presentations, 3, 14, 21, 50, 55, 64, 66, 71, 76, 79, 82, 85, 93, 124, +134, 152, 168, 192, 194, 215, 222, 226, 227, 232, 238, 258, 262, 269, +273, 275, 284, 287, 311, 329, 335, 348, 361, 373, 385, 387, 396, 404, +411, 419, 429, 443, 464, 464, 482, 468, 469, 470, 472, 482, 487, 491, +502. + +Primrose League, 357, 381, 389, 393, 422. + +Prince Albert Victor, 339, 342, 354, 357. + +Prince Bonaparte Jerome at Gressenhall Workhouse, 99. + +“Prince Bonta Workey,” 184. + +Prince Consort, death of the, 111. + +Prince of Wales: coming of age of, 118; marriage of, 121; visits to +Holkham Park, 141, 153, 165, 173, 196, 230, 251, 272, 325; visits to +Merton Hall, 141, 206, 236, 271, 332; visits to Gunton Park, 152, 194, +196, 207; visits to Norwich, 163, 194, 207, 271, 299, 315, 319, 331, 351, +367, 370, 371, 460, 473, 510; Oakley park, 164; Lynn, 192, 222, 355, 415; +Yarmouth, 221, 299, 321, 357, 379, 460, 499; opens West Norfolk Junction +Railway, 153; opens New Dock at Lynn, 192; illness of, 216; recovery and +thanksgiving, 217; president of the Norfolk Agricultural Association, +222; lays foundation stone of County School, 232; receives the Czarewitch +of Russia at Sandringham, 248; presentation on return from India, 273; +opens Yarmouth Town Hall, 328; visits to Melton Park, 315, 351, 415; +Didlington Park, 396; Elveden, 228, 236; lays foundation stone of Norfolk +and Norwich Hospital, 299; opens Agricultural Hall, Norwich, 331; +receives Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, 336; silver wedding, 390; at the +Sandringham sales, 402; in record railway run, 419; presides at Norfolk +Artillery dinner, 437; at Shernbourne church, 495; receives German +Emperor at Sandringham, 504; inspects Loyal Suffolk Hussars, South +African detachment, 506; at opening of Jenny Lind Infirmary, Norwich, +510. + +Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, 82, 97, 241. + +Prince’s Street Lecture Hall, Norwich, 317. + +“Princess of Trebizonde,” 219. + +Princess Louise at Norwich, 473; marriage of, 210. + +Princess Victoria of Wales confirmed, 367. + +Prior Melton at Norwich, 336, 407. + +Prison Governors, 259, 304. + +,, new, at Norwich, 381. + +,, escape from, 389. + +Prisons, amalgamation of county, 259. + +Prize fights, 16, 138, 150. + +Proportional Representation Society, 356. + +Public Health Act (1848), 7; (1872), 229. + +Public-house Closing Act, 138. + +Public-houses, early closing of, 34, 224. + +Pulpits at Norwich Cathedral, 420, 421. + +Pump Street Norwich, 106. + +Pusey memorial, 332. + + + +Q + + +Quarter Sessions, Norfolk, 1, 28, 58, 89, 453; chairmen of, 308, 329. + +,, Norwich, 20, 89, 115, 280. + +Queen’s birthday celebrated, 85, 95, 124, 135, 143, 159, 168, 178, 191, +202, 212, 221, 233, 241, 266, 309, 379, 480. + +Queen of Denmark at Norwich, 163. + +Queen’s visit to Sandringham, 401. + + + +R + + +Rabies, 412. + +Race meeting, 65. + +Rachael, Madame, and Lord Ranelagh, 178. + +Railways: ruinous competition, 24; proposed line from Tivetshall to +Harleston, 27; Eastern Counties (Amalgamation of Railways) Bill, 31; +accident near Thetford, 38; flooded, 38; unsatisfactory state of, 46; +litigation under the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Act, 53, 70; +accident near Harling, 56; transit rates, 59; Wells and Fakenham, 69; +Berney Arms station litigation, 102; amalgamation of, 112; accident on +the Lynn and Hunstanton, 126; proposed Norwich, Aylsham, and Cromer line, +88 (afterwards known as the East Norfolk Railway), 129, 135, 151, 205, +247, 276; passengers’ communication, 140; narrow escape of a train, 145; +West Norfolk Junction Railway opened by Prince of Wales, 153; Victoria +Station, Norwich, 159; trains impeded by snow, 166, 317; Watton and +Swaffham, 190; Wensum Valley (proposed), 205; new station at Lynn, 210; +Norwich and Aylsham (proposed), 220; Thorpe accident, 244, 245, 252, 253; +Yarmouth and Stalham (or North Norfolk), 258, 279, 287, 321; proposed +Central Norfolk, 258; Lynn and Fakenham, 281, 309, 327, 332; killed at +Wells station, 299; East Norfolk, 313, 327; express service, 330; Acle +and Yarmouth, 335; Eastern and Midland extension to Holt, 350; Thorpe +Station, Norwich, opened, 368; train obstruction at East Winch, 410; fast +railway run, 419; second class tickets abolished, 438; projected in South +Norfolk, 465, 488; North Walsham to Mundesley, 489; restaurant cars on +G.E.R., 498; proposed light railway from Norwich to Dereham, 506. + +Rains, heavy, 301, 302, 402, 403, 404, 435, 476. + +Ranelagh, Lord, and Madame Rachel, 178. + +Rare birds, 51, 54, 57, 125, 164, 191, 199. + +Rarey at Norwich, 96. + +Rate collectors, 176, 474. + +Rating, 1, 8, 500. + +Rats eaten alive, 131. + +Ray’s bream, 465. + +Read, Clare Sewell, wins prizes for agricultural essays, 41; advocates +peripatetic agricultural shows, 103; McCormick’s reaper at the Plumstead +farm, 117; Malt Tax Association, 141; returned to Parliament as a Malt +Tax repealer, 146; the cattle plague, 148, 246; first chairman of the +Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, 162; returned for South Norfolk, 184, +239; on compulsory education, 198; on county rates, 208; president of +Norfolk Agricultural Society, 213; appointed Permanent Secretary of Local +Government Board, 239; at Poor-law conference, 259; resigns Local +Government Board appointment, 261; national testimonial presented, 262; +establishment of Norwich Fat Cattle Show, 274; evidence _re_ importation +of foreign cattle, 278; motion for forming a Diocesan Conference, 290; on +road management, 297; speaks in the House of Commons on agricultural +depression, 300; visit to America, 302; Farmers’ Alliance, 306; defeated +by Mr. R. T. Gurdon, 308; motion on the malt tax, 311; foot and mouth +disease, 316, 318, 344; opening of the North Norfolk Railway, 321; road +maintenance, 323; unopposed return for West Norfolk, 345; agricultural +depression, 353, 436; contests Norwich, 370; with British Dairy Farmers’ +Association, 391; criticism of the Agricultural Holdings’ Act, 406; +relinquishes farming in Norfolk, 467; farewell to Honingham _ibid_; +presented with portrait, 482. + +Reaping machines introduced, 77; trial of McCormick’s reaper, 117. + +Re-assessment of Norwich properties, 500. + +Recorders of Norwich: death of Mr. Prendergast, Q.C., 82; appointment of +Mr. O’Malley, Q.C., 83; death, 249; appointment of Mr. J. W. Metcalfe, +Q.C., 250; death, 437; Mr. Kemp, Q.C., appointed, 437. + +Redenhall bell foundry, 316. + +Re-distribution of seats, 167, 178, 349, 354. + +Reed, German, at Norwich, 68, 70, 90, 269, 288. + +Reeves, Sims, at Norwich, 297, 410. + +Reffley wood celebration, 5. + +Reform Act, first election under new, 182. + +Reformatories, 65, 365. + +Regiment, 54th, West Norfolk, 174. + +Regiments (Cavalry): 1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards, 163, 443, 444, 450, +453, 455, 460, 463, 464; 2nd Dragoon Guards, 5, 12; 3rd Dragoon Guards, +192, 234, 233, 242; 5th Dragoon Guards, 108, 112; 6th Dragoon Guards +(Carabineers), 23, 29, 257, 265, 267; 7th Dragoon Guards, 215, 221, 230, +232, 325, 329, 464, 467, 469, 471, 475, 480, 489, 490; 1st Dragoons +(Royals), 268, 277; 3rd Hussars, 318, 319, 325; 4th Light Dragoons +(afterwards 4th Hussars), 12, 343, 351, 360; 5th Lancers, 117, 121, 125, +277, 283, 285, 286, 287; 6th Dragoons (Inniskillings), 309, 312, 315; 7th +Hussars, 244, 252, 254, 257, 494, 498, 506, 509; 8th Hussars, 414, 420, +443; 10th Hussars, 99; 11th Hussars, 3, 5; 13th Hussars, 150, 156, 361, +369, 509, 510; 15th Light Dragoons (afterwards 15th Hussars), 67, 68, 76, +108, 170, 177; 16th Lancers, 137, 143, 144; 18th Hussars, 127, 135, 136; +19th Hussars, 369, 370, 375, 379, 381, 386, 390; 20th Hussars, 390, 397, +399, 407, 412; 21st Hussars, 287, 289, 290; Royal Horse Artillery, 76, +96, 180, 191, 193, 202, 212, 214; Royal Artillery, 36, 40, 57, 67. + +Relief subscriptions, 39, 67, 103, 166, 365, 416. + +,, works on Mousehold Heath, 365. + +Religious services at Norwich Theatre, 102. + +Remarkable career, 5. + +Reredos at Letheringsett, 509. + +Reserve Squadron at Yarmouth, 225. + +Restaurant cars on the G.E.R., 498. + +Restitution of stolen money, 58. + +Revivalism, 133. + +Revolting performance at Norwich, 131. + +Rifle shooting, 111, 114, 158, 391. + +Riots, 3, 49, 105, 376, 453. + +Ritualistic practices, 133, 484. + +River pollution, 166. + +Riverside Road, Norwich, 415. + +Rivers, preservation of order on, 445. + +Robinson, Miss, “lady preacher,” 187. + +Roebuck, Captain Disney, 233. + +Röntgen rays, 468. + +Rood beam at St. John Timberhill, 452. + +Roman Catholic church, Norwich, 433, 451. + +Rosebery, Earl of, visits Postwick, 202; at Norwich, 400. + +Roundabouts, worked by steam, 140. + +Rousby, Mr. and Mrs., at Norwich, 233. + +Route march of Norfolk Artillery Militia, 512. + +Rowing, 8, 56, 63, 64, 69, 150, 289. + +Rowing Club, Norfolk and Norwich, 170. + +Royal Commissions, 190, 193, 196, 257, 264. + +Royal Hotel (new), Norwich, 484. + +Running constables, 22. + +Rush, James Blomfield, 104. + +Russell, Henry, at Norwich, 30, 48. + +Russell, Dr., war correspondent, at Norwich, 68. + + + +S + + +St. Andrew, Norwich, election of a vicar, 475. + +St. Andrew’s Hall: Mayor’s prerogative to give use of, 52; restoration +of, 127. + +St. Andrew Society, Norwich, 260, 499. + +St. Augustine’s churchyard scandal, 260; improvement, 450. + +St. Clement’s churchyard opened, 483. + +St. Faith’s riot, 453. + +St. George’s Home for Working Girls, 479. + +St. George’s Vase won by Norwich volunteer, 432. + +St. Lawrence church, Norwich, attempted destruction of, 156. + +St. Michael-at-Thorn tower, 374, 378. + +St. Paul’s, Norwich, improvement scheme, 276. + +St. Peter Mancroft: vicars of, 290, 324, 348, 412, 415; restoration +schemes, 291, 324, 326, 337, 354, 435, 469, 492; new reredos at, 363. + +St. Philip’s schools, Norwich, 228. + +St. Thomas, Heigham, 392. + +Salisbury, Lord, at Norwich, 382. + +,, appointed High Steward of Yarmouth, 395. + +Salvation Army, 329, 418, 428. + +Sanctus bell, 220. + +Sandford, Emily, 66. + +Sandringham sales, 402, 428, 443, 456, 485, 498, 510. + +Saturday popular concerts, 296. + +Savings’ Bank, fraud on, 476. + +Savi’s warbler, 51. + +Sayers, Tom, at Norwich, 113; charged with assault at Swaffham, 115. + +Scarlet uniforms for volunteers, 279. + +School Board: formation of recommended by Norwich Town Council, 209, +election of first, 211; remarkable scene, 297; presentation to clerk of, +479. + +Science Lectures for the People, 388, 397, 408, 417, 426, 438. + +Scotch fisherman’s freak, 259. + +Scotch fishing fleet disasters, 259. + +Scottish celebration at Norwich, 210. + +Sea breaches at Horsey, 484. + +Sea-shore rights, 143, 294. + +Second-class tickets abolished, 438. + +Sedan chair at election, 38. + +Sentence of death, painful scene during, 375. + +Sentences, disparity in, 216. + +Servant girl’s remarkable conduct, 58. + +Severe weather, 377, 385, 389, 408, 415, 416, 420, 446, 456, 457, 476, +497, 503. + +Sewerage works at Norwich, 54, 71, 144, 157, 166, 174, 188, 209, 227, +230, 238, 383, 457, 467, 489, 503. + +Sewage Farm, 277, 300. + +Shalders’ fountain pump, 47. + +Sheriffs, appointment of, 8, 16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 68, 80, 90, 101, 109, +118, 129, 138, 152, 164, 171, 182, 195, 206, 216, 228, 236, 248, 259, +271, 281, 291, 304, 315, 324, 331, 343, 351, 361, 374, 385, 395, 405, +415, 424, 436, 445, 454, 466, 474, 484, 494, 504, 514. + +Sheriffs’ entertainments, 383, 400, 402, 404. + +Shernbourne church restored, 495. + +Sheward case, 6, 185. + +Shipbuilding in Norfolk, 22, 51, 83, 105, 125, 136, 149, 213, 257. + +Shipping disasters, 25, 28, 41, 46, 57, 68, 90, 96, 101, 118, 119, 129, +130, 138, 140, 164, 165, 172, 175, 182, 188, 192, 194, 199, 209, 217, +226, 228, 229, 253, 267, 258, 259, 260, 274, 281, 283, 317, 326, 330, +331, 383, 399, 423, 459, 508, 511. + +Shooting, extraordinary feats of, 161, 225, 293. + +Siamese princes at Norwich, 512. + +Sidestrand church, 323. + +“Sidney Carton” produced at Norwich Theatre, 438. + +Sidney, W., manager of Norwich Theatre; presentation to, 50; action as to +silver ticket holders, 68; information against a circus proprietor, 81; +licence of Norwich Theatre, 343; death 463. + +Silver cradles, 300, 301, 430, 496. + +,, tickets at Norwich Theatre, 44, 68. + +,, weddings, 390, 419, 429, 443, 492. + +Skating, 103, 317, 416, 417, 424, 438, 456, 457. + +,, National Association meeting on Wroxham Broad, 317. + +,, carnival on Diss mere, 417, 456. + +,, Rink, Norwich, 269, 270, 282, 296, 299, 329. + +,, roller championship, 296. + +Skull of Sir Thomas Browne, 445. + +Slavin at Norwich, 450. + +Small-pox, 27, 53, 219, 263. + +Smith, Albert, 3. + +Smith, Captain (afterwards Major), of Ellingham, 357, 508. + +Snowfalls, 19, 28, 56, 92, 153, 165, 166, 207, 376, 389, 408, 416, 435, +446, 455, 476, 508. + +Snow in May, 212, 420. + +Socialist riot at Norwich, 376. + +Social Science Congress at Norwich, 236. + +Soldier succeeds to a fortune, 112. + +Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, Norwich, 467, 473. + +Soldiers charged with attempted murder, 312. + +Soldiers’ monument at Norwich cemetery, 290. + +Soldier’s romance, 337. + +Sol-fa system of Psalmody, 297, 427. + +Solicitors charged with fraud, 4, 399, 480. + +Somnambulism, remarkable case of, 331. + +Sondes, Lord, elected High Steward of Yarmouth, 32. + +Sothern, Mr., 167, 205. + +Soudan campaign: departure of the 7th Dragoon Guards from Norwich, 329; +thanksgiving services, 330; Lieut. M. W. M. Edwards receives Victoria +Cross, 335; Norfolk men at the battle of Teb, 346; service of +Humiliation, 356. + +Special constables, 376. + +Spelling bees, 262. + +Spiritualism, 23. + +S.P.G. bicentenary, 510. + +Sprats, enormous captures of, 417. + +Spring, early, 441. + +Springfield, Mr. T. O., requested to become candidate for Norwich, 10. + +Ship, mysterious disappearance of a, 10. + +Sprowston boundary, 301. + +Spurgeon, Mr., at King’s Lynn, 66; at Norwich, 87. + +Stage play at a circus, 81. + +Staghounds, 265, 275. + +,, extraordinary run of, 275. + +Stalham Corn Hall, 44. + +Stamp frauds at Norwich, 278. + +Stamps, perforated sheets, inventor of, 318. + +Stanfield Hall: superstitious difficulties, 26; litigation, 288; death of +Lady Beevor, 407. + +Stanley Library, Lynn, 351. + +Starr-Bowkett Building Society, 285. + +Steamboat Alexandra launched, 176. + +Steeplechases, 105, 265. + +Stolen money, restitution of, 58. + +Stork shot at Pickenham, 54. + +Stracey, Sir Henry, returned for Norwich, 183; presentations to, 222. + +Strangers’ Hall, Norwich, 498. + +Street names altered at Norwich, 488. + +Street improvements at Norwich, 46, 82, 97, 265, 276. + +Strikes: building trade, 421; shoe trade, 477. + +Sturgeon claimed by Lynn Corporation, 77. + +Submarine cable, 80. + +Subsidence of a floor at Norwich, 24. + +Suicides, 107, 203, 258, 315, 495. + +Sunday closing of public-houses, 29. + +Sunday deliveries, 407. + +,, opening of Free library, protest against, 350. + +,, of St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, 407. + +Sunday School centenary, 311. + +Superstition, 61, 156. + +Swaffham coursing meeting, 36. + +Swan Laundry and Public Baths, Norwich, 301. + +Swimming race at Thorpe, 225. + +Swine fever, 446. + + + +T + + +Tasburgh, human remains discovered at, 486. + +Taverham paper mills, 502. + +Teachers, National Union of elementary, 356. + +Technical education, 420, 423, 446. + +,, Institute, 488. + +Telegraph line, 80. + +Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 330. + +Telephones, 283, 325, 376. + +Temperance movement, 8, 26, 28, 167, 284, 290, 328, 330. + +,, Society, Church of England, 286, 404. + +Terry, Edward, 350, 360. + +Terry, Miss, Ellen, at Sandringham, 401. + +Thackeray at Norwich, 62. + +Theatre, Norwich, 3, 4, 5, 23, 27, 32, 37, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, +56, 61, 63, 68, 69, 72, 76, 80, 92, 99, 100, 102, 103, 106, 109, 111, +114, 120, 123, 131, 135, 140, 143, 153, 162, 165, 167, 169, 177, 180, +184, 190, 193, 194, 196, 201, 202, 204, 205, 207, 215, 219, 221, 222, +226, 229, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 250, 253, 258, 262, 264, 265, 269, +270, 271, 272, 277, 280, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 289, 293, 305, 313, +314, 317, 318, 325, 326, 329, 332, 333, 341, 342, 343, 344, 346, 350, +353, 356, 359, 363, 375, 386, 396, 398, 403, 404, 420, 427, 429, 433, +437, 438, 439, 445, 455, 463, 469, 496; improvements at, 360, 375; +managers of, 3, 6, 32, 44, 50, 109, 162, 226, 280, 282, 343, 359, 463, +472; play (new), at, 438; subscription nights at, 68. + +Theatre Licence, Norwich, remarkable disclosure, 343. + +Theatre, proposed new, 486. + +Theatricals, amateur, 59, 283. + +“The Guv’nor,” 332. + +“The Science of Love” operetta, 247. + +Thetford Corporation _v._ Norfolk County Council, 490. + +Thomas à Becket’s chapel, Norwich, 240. + +Thorpe Green obstruction, 297. + +Thorpe railway accident, 244, 245, 252, 253. + +Thorpe St. Andrew, proposed annexation by Norwich, 442. + +Thorpe station, Norwich, 368. + +Threatening letters, 340, 341, 399. + +Thunderstorm and hurricane, 302. + +Thunderstorms, 23, 77, 302, 339, 349, 392, 402, 403, 404, 422, 430, 443, +511. + +Thurton, ventriloquist, 48. + +Tichborne claimant at Norwich, 355. + +Tides, remarkable, at Yarmouth, 375. + +Tigers, combat between, 362. + +Tillett, Jacob Henry: resigns seat in Norwich Town Council, 36; action +against Lord Hastings, 60; on the appointment of city magistrates, 70; +advocates Parliamentary inquiry into corrupt practices, 84; elected Mayor +of Norwich, 90; Joel Fox case, 90; initiates the abolition of political +ascendancy in Norwich Town Council, 100; the Chester Waters scandal, 145; +adopted Liberal candidate, 179; defeated, 183; petitions against the +return of Sir H. Stracey, 186; pays costs, 197; again adopted, 202; +elected, 203; petitioned against, 205; unseated, 208; portrait placed in +St. Andrew’s Hall, 216; arbitration case, Coaks _v._ Tillett, 220; +returned for Norwich, 253; unseated on petition, 255; elected Mayor of +Norwich, 259; returned for Norwich, 307; contests Norwich for the last +time, 370; death, 426. + +Time ball suggested, 26; erected on Norwich Castle, 511. + +Tithe, non-payment of, 378. + +Tobacco culture in Norfolk, 383. + +Toll-house Museum, Yarmouth, 461. + +Tom Thumb at Norwich, 83, 162. + +Toole, J. L., 168, 222, 233, 326, 396, 469. + +Towers, falls of, 374, 432, 456. + +Town Clerks, Norwich: Mr. W. L. Mendham appointed, 47; death, 267; Mr. H. +B. Miller appointed, 267; death, 409; Mr. G. B. Kennett appointed, 410. + +Town Close Estate: Christmas dole withheld, 351; litigation commenced, +352; Stanley _v._ Mayor and Corporation, 377, 387; litigation abandoned, +398; final settlement of Attorney-General’s scheme, 427. + +Town Councillor wrongfully elected, 12, 17. + +Tractarian movement, 2. + +Traction engine with “endless railway,” 62; with indiarubber tyres, 209. + +Trades Union Congress, 451. + +Trafalgar, anniversary of, 474. + +Training College, Norwich and Ely, 433. + +Training Institution, Norwich Diocesan, 22. + +Tramway schemes, 205, 217, 227, 292, 333, 375, 405, 474, 475, 485, 508. + +,, East Suffolk, 227. + +,, Yarmouth and Gorleston, 254. + +Transportation, return from, 147. + +Transvaal War: approval of Government policy in South Africa, 502, 503; +Mr. Stead at Norwich, 503; reservists called out, 503; Lieut.-Col. +Stopford killed at Modder River, 504; gifts to Norfolk Regiment, 505; 2nd +Battalion sails for South Africa, 505; Loyal Suffolk Hussars volunteer +for the front, 505; drafts from Volunteer battalions, 505; 3rd Battalion, +Norfolk Regiment (Militia), embodied and leave for Fermoy, 505; volunteer +and sail for South Africa, 506; Yeomanry and Volunteers leave Norwich, +506; relief of Ladysmith, 506; relief of Mafeking, 506; thanksgiving +services, 506; occupation of Pretoria, 506; Norfolk war memorial, 506; +death of Mr. Walter Waring at Pinetown Bridge, 513; return of the Earl of +Albemarle, 514. + +Trinity church, Norwich, 88, 107. + +Trotting, 81, 189. + +Trout, 186. + +,, salmon, 356. + +Turnpike, Wells and Fakenham, 314. + +Turnpikes, 190. + +“Turpin’s Ride to York,” 275. + +Tussaud’s, Louis, exhibition at Norwich, 470. + +Tweedmouth, Lord, at Norwich, 469. + +“Twenty-four Club,” Norwich, 210. + +“Two-headed Nightingale,” 221. + +Typhoid fever at Lynn, 483. + +Tyssen-Amherst, coming of age, 49; returned for West Norfolk, 307, 308; +entertains Royalty, 316, 396, 405, 424, 445; opens Downham Town Hall, +384; retires from Parliament, 419; sale of red-polls, 430; dignity of +peerage, 433; presentations to, 454. + + + +U + + +Uniforms of Volunteers, 85, 104, 279. + + + +V + + +Vaccination, 27, 330, 430; inquiry at Norwich, 330; lecture on by Mrs. +Garrett Anderson, M.D., 496. + +Valpeian Club, 76. + +Vance at Norwich, 147. + +Vandenhoff, Miss, 72. + +Vaudeville, Theatre of Varieties, Norwich, 270, 282, 299, 329. + +Velocipede (see Bicycle). + +Victoria Cross, 335, 346, 432. + +Victoria station, Norwich, 159; explosion at, 365. + +Villebois, Mr., presentation to, 100. + +Vining, Miss Fanny, 23. + +Visiting Society, 390. + +Vokes family, 285. + +Volunteer movement, 85, 98, 104, 124; Artillery Volunteers, 299; camps, +125, 168, 179, 192, 203, 213, 222, 233, 242, 267, 279, 287, 301, 311, +323, 329, 358, 371, 391, 392, 402, 403, 413, 422, 432, 443, 450, 471, +490, 500, 511; China Cup won by Norfolk, 278, 482; Col. Black accepts +command of Norwich volunteers, 135; retires, 192; succeeded by Col. +Boileau, 193; retires, 343; succeeded by Col. Mansel, 343; Col. Dawson, +424; colours presented to volunteers, 124; cyclists, 481; Dean of Norwich +appointed chaplain to 1st V.B.N.R., 424; decoration, 439; Drill Hall, +Norwich, 159, 163; fêtes at Crown Point, 117; at Quebec House, Dereham, +180; guards of honour, 152, 153, 163, 221, 232, 319; Light Horse, 104, +163, 172; long service medal, 457; marches, 213, 222, 460; Medical Staff +Corps, 409, 465; presentations to Captain Bulwer, 128, Captain H. S. +Patteson, 124, Col. Black, 192, Col. Boileau, 348, Lieut.-Col. Foster, +396, Major Cubitt, 411; ranges opened at Mousehold, 98; at Billingford, +158; reviews at Norwich, 99, 117, 127; at Holkham, 108; at Yarmouth, 115; +at Windsor, 179, 322; rifle shooting, 111, 114, 158, 213, 278; Rifle +corps, known as Volunteer Battalion of Norfolk Regiment, 338; St. +George’s Vase won by Norwich Volunteer, 432; uniforms, 85, 104, 279, 299; +Volunteer Brigade, 392; Volunteer Service Association, 114; Volunteers in +South Africa, 505, 506. + +Voting apparatus, 481. + + + +W + + +Wainwright, Jacob (Livingstone’s attendant), 242. + +Walsingham floods, 223. + +Walsingham, Lord, and his tenantry, 226; shooting feats by, 225, 393; +elected High Steward of Cambridge University, 421; re-introduction of the +great bustard, 511. + +Walsingham Quarter Sessions discontinued, 103. + +Ward boundaries and re-distribution, 405, 422, 428. + +Watch-making extraordinary, 9. + +Watchmen, last of the, 509. + +Waters, Edmond Chester, accusations against, 145; presentation to, 146. + +Waterspout off Cromer, 482. + +Waterworks, Norwich: opening of, 7; new Bill, 22; new reservoirs, 208, +218, 414; proposed purchase by Corporation, 417, 485, 512. + +Waterworks, Yarmouth, opening of, 41. + +Wayland Agricultural Society, 67. + +Wayland Hall, Watton, 22. + +Wayside chapel, Houghton St. Giles’, 481. + +Weather, remarkable changes of, 439. + +Weavers’ disputes, 131. + +Weavers’ strike at Norwich, 25. + +Wedding, remarkable incident at a, 142. + +Weights and Measures Act, 140. + +Well accidents, 5, 18, 509. + +Wellesley, Marchioness of, buried at Costessey Hall, 27. + +Wellington statue, Norwich, 16, 36. + +Wells boating disaster, 485; church destroyed by lightning, 302; +restoration fund bazaar at Holkham, 312; re-opening, 337; Wells and +Fakenham Railway opened, 69; harbour works, 87; inundation at, 119; +lifeboat disaster, 314; boating accident, 485; singular railway accident +at, 299. + +Wesleyan schism, 1, 2. + +Weston, Edward Payson (pedestrian), at Norwich, 295, 346. + +Whale captured, 32. + +Wheat, remarkable seizure of, 174. + +Wherrymen’s chapel, Yarmouth, 91. + +Whipping at Norwich Castle, 254. + +Whirlwind at Worstead, 497. + +Wigan, Horace Mr., at Norwich, 215. + +Wiggins, Captain, 400, 408, 469. + +Wild-Collins voting apparatus, 481. + +Wild fowl, 209. + +Wild, Mr. E., address to, 385; elected leader of Norwich Conservatives, +485. + +Wild, Mr. E. E., elected judge of Court of Record, 484. + +Wilde Oscar, at Norwich, 346. + +Will cases, 6, 18, 43, 95. + +Wilson, F. W., adopted Gladstonian candidate for Mid Norfolk, 443; +defeated by Mr. R. T. Gurdon, 459; elected, 462. + +Wilson, General Sir Archdale, at Norwich, 76; death, 240. + +Winchilsea, Earl of, at Norwich, 449. + +Windham case, 109, 154; death of Mr. F. W. Windham, 154. + +Windham, General, address to, 46; received at Norwich, 46, 52; returned +for East Norfolk, 61; departure for India, 66; defeated by Gwalier +mutineers, 70; death, 197. + +Window-tax, 3. + +Winter of 1881, 317. + +Witchcraft, 156. + +Witch doctor, 62. + +Wodehouse, Lord, fined for assault, 463; removed from the Commission of +the Peace, 463. + +Wodehouse, Lieut.-Col., welcomed at Hingham, 53; death, 206. + +Wolseley, Lord, at Norwich, 467, 498. + +Woodbastwick Hall, destroyed by fire, 332. + +Wood carver, 5. + +Wood paving at Norwich, 303, 313, 333, 446. + +Workhouse at Norwich, 65. + +Workhouse, fall of a, at Lynn, 33. + +Workhouses, proposed amalgamation of, 468. + +Wymondham Bridewell discontinued, 284. + + + +Y + + +Yacht ashore at Happisburgh, 63. + +Yachting and Fishing exhibition, 446. + +Yare and Bure Preservation Society, 412. + +Yarmouth: seamen’s riot, 3; mayor elected by his casting vote, 9; Priory +Schools, 16; Corporation records, 19; vessel attacked by mutineers, 21; +Wellington Pier, 23; George Borrow saves a boat’s crew, 24; as a Militia +centre, 28; Lord Sondes elected High Steward, 32; new bridge opened, 35; +waterworks opened, 41; cemetery, 51; charities, 51; storms at, 54, 57, +68, 90, 96, 101, 118, 119, 129, 130, 138, 140, 164, 165, 172, 182, 188, +194, 199, 209, 253, 259, 274, 281, 283, 317, 335, 455, 459, 484, 502; +Britannia Pier, 54, 90; Nelson Column, 55; bribery, 59; election +petitions, 66, 93, 156; school of Navigation and Art, 62; Marine Parade, +64; discovery of coins, 65; St. John’s church, 66, 74, 348; fire at St. +James’s Place, 69; magisterial appointments condemned, 72; presentations +to Bishop Hills, 85; Donegal Militia, 87, 98; Wherrymen’s chapel, 91; +Channel Fleet, 97, 114, 126, 245; explosion on the s.s. Tonning, 100; +action against Sir Edmund Lacon, M.P., 104; Cufaude _v._ Corry, 105; +shipbuilding, 105, 125, 136, 149, 213, 257; military riot, 105; “Yarmouth +Independent” libel action, 107; lifeboat scandals, 119, 138; Gas Bill, +122; Nelson monument, fatal fall from, 124; Scotch fisherman’s feat on, +259; accident at Burgh Water Frolic, 125; presentation to a Mayor, 134; +Public-house Closing Act, 138; St. Nicholas church restoration, 138, 201, +420, 421; Haven and Port Bill, 141, 158; Fish Wharves and Tramways Bill, +153, 171; lifeboats launched, 151, 400, 430; lifeboat disasters, 154; +Drill Hall, 171; Fenian scare, 173; fires, 174, 286; St. James’s church, +191, 279; extraordinary catches of herring, 54, 195; Assembly Rooms +destroyed by fire, 199; church organ, 199; Corporation address to Sir +James Paget, 214; Corn Hall opened, 216; depot of the 9th Regiment, 218; +Recordership, 219; mirage, 221; visits of Prince of Wales, 221, 299, 321, +328, 357, 379, 460, 499; Grammar School opened, 222; Reserve Squadron, +225, 413; Ballot Act, 225; East Suffolk Tramway, 227, 254; Aquarium, 258; +fishing fleet disaster, 274; presentation to Mr. C. J. Palmer, 274; Town +Hall, 285, 328; silver cradle, 301; British Archæological Association, +302; Duke of Edinburgh, 309; Book Club centenary, 310; visit of the Duke +of Cambridge, 321; Golf Club, 333; high tides, 335, 455; remarkable +tides, 375; fishing dispute, 377; Hospital, 379, 394; Lord Salisbury as +High Steward, 395; Duke of Clarence, 420; British Training Squadron, 420; +Lord Randolph Churchill, 444; Agricultural shows, 125, 413, 450; floods, +455, 484; Tollhouse Museum opened, 461; Yeomanry Cavalry training, 470; +fire at Press’s mills, 485; St. Paul’s church consecrated, 437; murder, +489; Missions to Seamen Church and Institute, 509; Duke of York, 509; +beach murder, 512. + +Yarn Company, Norwich, 50. + +Yeomanry Cavalry, 470, 498; volunteer for South Africa, 505, 506. + +Young, J. F., 37; manager of Norwich Theatre, 162; member of “Caste” +Company, 233; death, 377. + +“Youth,” 344. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NORFOLK ANNALS*** + + +******* This file should be named 36206-0.txt or 36206-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/6/2/0/36206 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. 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