A Queer World Amid Respectable Ranks in Regency Gossip
The piece surveys a fringe of society calling themselves the monde des artistes the amusements and writers who live by wit. It contrasts their precarious success with the respectables who misunderstand them, arguing the true queer world lies among actors writers musicians and lecturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Vernay
Glencore
Myr
Lockhare
Dry Bowring
Bentley
Dudley Costello
Monk
Samuel Phillips
Dunmrow
Illustrated
Thomas Miller
Cyprus
Star of Bethlehem
Sharpe
Alfred Cole
Lorimer Littlegood
Edmund Yates
Shakespeare
Garrick
Quin
Kemble
Virgil
Byron
Cornelius Nepos
Tom
Dalston
Camden Town
Exeter Hall
Tennyson
Martin Tupper
Punch
Pancras-cum-Bloomsburys
Gunter
Edgington
Monde Des Artistes
Thackeray
Martin
Cro’ Martin
Harry Coverdale
The Turkish Loan Guarantee Declaration of 1855
Official document dated London July 27 1855 states Britain and France guarantee a five million pound loan for Turkey. If Turkey fails to remit half-year interest the two powers will advance funds and be repaid from Turkish remittances, with proportional repayment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
France
Turkey
Bank of England
Great Britaan
Clarendon
Pe Punsieny
Freemasonry Lodge Initiations and Lectures Noted
The lodge held a Monday meeting with Marwood and Burn initiated. Dr. Goring of Robert Burns Lodge led the ceremony and lectured on Kreemasonry, earning praise and a demand for wider notice. The chapter of Emergency was chaired by Goring, Falconbridge exalted, and officers Berkowitz Dobson Brieuvar Spencer acknowledged. Dobson re-elected Treasurer and Brieuver Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yoriksielre
Tae Lion Longin
Messrs
Marwood and Burn
Goring
PLM
Robert Burns Lodge
WML
Br. Clarkson
Br. Falconbridge
Br. Dobson
Br. Briveau
Freemasons Lay Sussex Wing Foundation Stone in Royal Free Hospital
The Freemasons held a land assemblage to lay the foundation stone of the Sussex Wing at the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn Road. About 300 brethren, £1400 raised, attended from Welsh School to the site with cornucopia, ewers, and a brick-laying ceremony. The event honored the memory of Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex with formal toasts and a National Anthem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunspay
United ‘Mariners
Chequers
Providence-row
Finsbury
Lodge of Stability
Radley's Hotel
la ‘Polerance
Freemason
Weronesday
Royal Benevolent Institution
Union
Waterloo
Queen's Arms
Woolwich
Kent Lodge
Three Tans Tavern
Southwark
Lodge of Justice
Royal Albert
New Cross
Deptford
Anderson
Kensington
Lodge of Friendship
George
Vulture
Polish National Lodge
Freemason’s
Royal Free Hospital
Sussex
Freemasons
Royal Stree Hospital
Gray’s Inn-road
Duke of Sussex
Earl of Zetland
M.W
G.M
Lady Zetland
Alexander Dobie
Dobie
M.W.G.M
G.S
Prince ‘Augustus Frederick
Duke of
Queen Victoria
Fraternity of Freemasons of England
Sussex Memorial Committee
G. T
Christopher Wren
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Masons
Freemasonry
Marsden
Warren
Benjamin Banks
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kingsley
Eversley
Mr. Gosses
Charles Kingsley
Philosopher Nots
Gosse
Acheta
Johnston
Russia
Azoff
Black Seas
Germany
Austria
Vienna
Berdiansk
Lord Raglan
Dublin University Magazine
Canada
Ireland
Shen
Charles Dindin
Masonic
St. Luke’s Lounge
Builders’ Arms
Russellstreet
Chelsea
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