Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth CenturyMackie, Charles
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Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century
Mackie, Charles
Norfolk (England) -- History
28.—Mr. David Fisher, “a flower of our own garden, a native of our own
county,” made his first appearance at Lynn Theatre in the character of
Richard III. He afterwards appeared as Macbeth.
MARCH.
2.—Died at Bolton Row, London, Lady Jerningham, widow of Sir William
Jerningham. Her ladyship was a daughter of the 11th Viscount Dillon.
Her remains were interred at Costessey on March 11th.
—Died at Holkham Hall, aged 45, the Rev. Richard Odell, B.A., Fellow of
Christ’s College, Oxford, curate of Burnham Overy and of Holkham, and
chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
3.—Died at his house in St. Giles’, Norwich, aged 75, Mr. John
Christopher Hampp, a native of Germany, many years an eminent merchant in
the city, and a liberal benefactor of the poor.
6.—Died at Tenby, aged 43, Col. Francis Manners Sutton, second son of the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
—Died at Hatton, Warwickshire, aged 80, the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.,
Prebendary of St. Paul’s, and rector of Graffham, Huntingdonshire, and
formerly head-master of Norwich Free Grammar School.
7.—Died, aged 69, Mr. John Banks, proprietor and manager of the Theatres
Royal at Liverpool and Manchester, and formerly of Norwich.
8.—Mr. Denny, of Egmere, was presented with a silver cup by the members
of the Walsingham Coursing Club, “as a mark of their esteem and gratitude
to him for the handsome, liberal, and friendly manner with which he has
at all times come forward in support of the meeting.”
25.—The contract was completed for the purchase of the works of the
Norwich Gas Company by the British Gas Light Company. “The latter
company have bought a piece of land in the World’s End Lane, near St.
Martin-at-Palace, on which they intend to erect a building and construct
works for supplying the city with coal gas.”—The Paving Commissioners on
September 13th consented to an application being made to Parliament for a
Bill to enlarge and amend the Act for lighting with gas the city of
Norwich, “and of the extension of the capital of the British Gas Company
and of the monies appropriated to their own use provided it meet all such
capital to the extent of 12½ per cent. per annum.”
26.*—“Died lately, at Shelfanger, James Catchpole, labourer, in his 105th
year. Within the last year of his life he was willing and able to do a
day’s work in husbandry.”
—*(Advt.) “Miss Phillis Glover, being obliged by the early opening of
the Haymarket Theatre, where she is engaged, to leave the Norwich Company
before the close of the season, begs permission to take this, her only
opportunity, of returning thanks to the inhabitants of Norwich for the
kind indulgence afforded to her professional exertions, and of bidding
them most respectfully farewell.” (Miss Glover, whose place in the
Norwich Company was filled by the engagement of Miss Goward, was married
on November 19th, 1827, at the church of St Clement Danes, London, to Mr.
J. C. Evans, solicitor, of Liverpool.)
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