Amersham Hall pupil wins Cambridge scholarship
Hume C. Pincent of Amersham Hall School earns a 60 per annum scholarship at St John’s College Cambridge for top mathematics performance in the University Local Examination. Seven seniors and eleven juniors from the school passed, with nine in honours and ten special certificates of honour.
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Ameersham Haut School
St. John’s College
Cambridge
Hume C. Pincent
Amersham Hall School
Pincent
Veiled Anecdotes and Oddities From Chantry and Abroad
A collage from old newspapers features Freemason counts in Parliament, church sexton bribes, a cemetery epitaph error, street lamp street name trials in Clerkenwell, and quirky notices on marriages paid in produce. Odd vignettes include a pelican dying in Dublin after whisky punch meals, and Irish minister M Kay hosting a farming congregation.
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New York
John Phillips
Clerkenwell
The
Angel and
St. John Street Road
Vermont
Palestine
Moses
Jonathan
Israel
Pacific and
Chicago
Dublin Zoological Society
Society
Dublin
Caironants
M‘kay
Mountpleasant
Garvagh
Ireland
Daily News
Dickens
Bank of England Gazette 1874 Finance Figures
Summary of Bank of England accounts for week ending March 25 1874. Government debt and securities totaled 37 406 965 pounds. gold and silver bullion 22 406 065. notes issued 13 812 524. other deposits 16 894 555. seven day bills 12 771 135. Chief cashier F May noted totals.
Fashionably observant visitors at the Mall
The piece describes seamstress like observers loitering near doors and carriages for fashion glimpses. It notes pairs and trios of women sipping tea from metaphorically placed flowers as they note outfits while train and carriage windows reveal billows of fabrics and bold stares from inside.
Dirths Marriages and Beuths Court Ledger
Notices list births marriages and deaths from March, including Wyles daughter at Bloomfield Virginia and multiple weddings across England led by clergy at Stratford Leicester Croydon Huddersfield and London with dates between March 1 and March 31. Also recalls Harcourt death in Berkhamstead and Wyles obituary.
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Starke—Kittle
Congregational Church
Stratford
Knaggs
Alfred
Exekiel Starke
Shelton
Elisabeth English
George Kittle
Hill Farm
Caister
Yarmouth
Williams
Glasgow
Gallowtree Gate Chapel
Leicester
A. Mackennal
J. John Williams
Waterloo
Northampton
Annie Isabella
George Glasgow
Milner—Heffer
George-street
Croydon
W. K. Lea
Atkinson
T. Milner
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Miriam
Henry Heffer
Springfield
Upper New Barber—Galloway
Clapton Park Church
G Wilkins
George
John Barber Esq
Marlborough House
Addiscombe
Alice Elizabeth
J. C. Gallaway
A.M
Lower Clapton
London
Rigby—Hirst
Ramsden-street Chapel
Huddersfield
Richard Skinner
J. T. Stannard
William
John Rigby
Fern Lea
Altrincham
Catherine Jane
Charles Hirst
J.P
Brunswick-place
Reyner—Hibbert
Gee Cross Chapel
Hyde
H. E. Dowson
Joseph Buckley
Frederick Reyner
Thornfield Hall
Ashton under-Lyne
Harcourt
Berkhamstead
Hannah
James Harcourt
Wyles
Annie
Tracy R. Wyles
Bloomfield
Virginia
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Leeds Mercury
Gurariz
Dr. Guthrie
Grange
Edinburgh
Guthrie
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Duke of Northumberland
United Kingdom
France
University
Putney
Mortlake
Middlesex
Craven Cottage
Rose Bank
Oxford
Hammersmith
Chiswick Mall
Corney
Light Blues
Criterion
James B. Close
LamsBera Baths
Lambeth Baths
Samuel Morley
M.P
G. M. Murphy
Andrew Dunn
J. Edwards
Glewnings
Bank OF England
Victoria
F. May
Jupson
Shetland
Judson
Orm
London Necropolis Company
Prospectus Free
Lancaster-place
Strand
W.C
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