Norfolk Annals, Vol. 2: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth CenturyMackie, Charles
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Norfolk Annals, Vol. 2: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century
Mackie, Charles
Norfolk (England) -- History
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.
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