Notable British Lords and Clerical Figures Remembered
The piece recalls Lord Cranworth and peers shaping the Court of Appeal, Great Seal tenure, and deaths of Lords Brougham Kingsdown and Wensleydale. It notes Dr Urwick’s long Dublin ministry, temperance work, and retirement after fifty years, with a late death in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Cranworth
Court of Appeal
Aberdeen
Baron Parke
House of Lords
Lyndhurst
Earl of Derby
Lord Wensleydale
Lord Westbury
Lord Palmerston
Lord Campbell
Russell
Brougham
Cranworth
Kingsdown
Wensleydale
Chelmsford
Colonsay
Westbury
Lord
Lord Romilly
Rolls Court
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Arnwick
Dublin
Irish Times
Urwick
Ireland
Sligo
Manorhamilton
Leitrim
Ballina
Mayo
Easkey
York-street Chapel
United Kingdom Alliance
B. W. Mathias
Bethesda
Hibernian Bible Society
Sunday School Society of Ireland
London Missionary Society
Evangelical Alliance
The
Religious Tract Society
Earl of Boden
England
None Could Tell The Precise Moment When Life Merged Into Eternity
A fragmentary line reflects on the elusive moment when life transitions to eternity, suggesting a meditation on mortality and the unknowable timing of death. The text hints at philosophical uncertainty rather than a concrete event or person.
Royal progress and political notes fill Paris Dublin press
An official programme outlines Queen Victoria’s August 5 Cherbourg to Paris visit and a private rail trip to Geneva. The Paris journals report a discreet stay and incognito travel. Other items note the Princess of Wales churching, Duke of Edinburgh plans, duchy papers surrender, cabinet and army posts, Tory fundraising, and Disraeli's Osborne visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Cherbourg
Majesty
Geneva
Kent
Princess of Wales
Chapel Royal
St. James
London
Duke of Edinburgh
England
Army and Navy Gazette
China
Japan
New Zealand
Athenaeum
Duchy of Lancaster
Trafalgar
Greenwich
Lord Stanley
Lord Malmesbury
Cardinal Cullen
W. Mansfield
Lord Napier
India
Marquis of Abercorn
Ireland
Gagetts
Lord Faversham
Viscount Helmsley
Earl of
Faversham
W. E. Duncombe
North Riding of
York
House of Commons
New York Herald
Prince of Wales
Bierstadt
United States
Canada
America
Benjamin Disraeli
Osborne
General Peel
Huntingdon
Marquis of Salisbury
Carnarvon
Massey
North British Daily Mail
John Bright
M.P
Scotland
T. B. Potter
Pinnacree
Bright
Temple
Q.C
Bolton
Cameron
Theodore
Abyssinia
Bank Rate of Discount Stays Contant Through Year
The bank rate of discount has remained constant throughout an entire year, indicating steady monetary policy. SAF BOR notes unchanged level and stable financial conditions for borrowers and lenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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Trials, fires, drownings rule busy Halifax era pages
Bail offered for Madame Rachel but release refused by Mr Justice Blackburn. A Dean Clough fire damages the Crossley storehouse with losses above 1000. Several Irish Fenian arrests fail. Preston murder suicide shocks the region. Portsmouth shell explosion kills Meade and White. Maidstone Gaol prisoner identified in a Norton Folgate murder. Ulswater accident fractures Mr Crossley’s thigh. Dee river drowning of Rev Burrows party and boat sinking at Glyn with nine dead. London area drownings and Ulverston powder blast kill multiple workers. Devonshire blazes destroy Colyton and Cullompton homes. Coniston steamer explosion and loss near Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame Rachel
Justice Blackburn
Newgate
Messrs. Crossley and Sons
Dean Clough
Halifax
Blake
Cooke
Williamson
Bow Street
Preston
Portsmouth
Herbert G. Meade, R.N
Earl of Clanwilliam
White
Portsea
Meade
Grossmith
Norton Folgate
Arthur Mackay
Maidstone
Joseph Crossley
J.P
Ulswater
Crossley
James Burrows
Boughton
Chester
Dee
Burrows
James Essex
Pontypool
E. B. Edwards
Luke Sanger
Eleanor Essex
Eleanor Essex (Grown Up), Eldest Daughter of Mr. Essex
Janet Sloper
Fanny Ion
William Ion
Abersychan
James
Panteg
Campbell Edwards
Kate Edwards
Jessie Edwards
Granville Edwards
Frederick Cornelius
Cornelius
Canonbury
Lea
Tottenham
Ulverston
Messrs
Dixon
Devonshire
Colyton
Cullompton
Coniston
Liverpool
Lancaster
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