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Master of the Cinque Ports elected by General Court
The Cinque Ports held a General Court of Loadmenage on the 25th to elect Captain Francis Hammerden of Dover as Master of the Trinity House, replacing the late George Barber, with the choice approved by the pilots. Other news include recoveries from injuries, a school prize, deaths and legacies, legal notices on liquor offenses, a robbery trial, and military dispatches from Perecop with colonial and Turkish war updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basil Dixwell
Dover-Castle
Cinque Ports
Francis Hammerden
Dover
Trinity House
Aberry- Hatch
John Lyon
Harrow School
James Lloyd
Hadley
Hertfordshire
Philip Chandler
Queen’s College
Oxford
Hadley Church
Thomas Chandler
Cheapside
Bartlet
Bethlem
Reoo
St. Bartholomew’s
John Andrews
Doctors-Commons
Canterbury
Chicheley
Deceas
St. James’s Street
James West
St. Giles’s
James Cormige
St. Andrew’s
Holbourn
James Topping
Kensington
Co. de Veil
Clerkenwell Bridewell
William Brizland
Robert Grane
King’s Highway
London
Hampstead Road
Dublin
Parker
Pardue
West-street
Soho
Longden