... THE TOP-HAT IN 1797. The Hatter's Gazette reprints from an old journal, dated January 16th, 1797, the following amusing account of the wearing of the first silk hat in London : — John Hetherington, ...

... THE FIRST TOP HAT The first silk, or top, hat appeared in 1797. It was worn by the inventor, a London hatter named Hetherington, who, in his zeal, emerged from his shop into the street. The results were beyond ...

... THE FIRST TOP HAT Handel' urge to create was so tyrannierl _ that it ended by isolating him from the rest of the world. He never allowed himself to The first silk, or top, hat appeared in be interrupted by any futile visit, - .ays 1797. it ...

... CENTENARY OF THE TOP HAT. Though the centenary of the top hat to be celebrated this year, it was probably invented in Florence (says gossip), about 1760, waiting rather more than half-a-century for its vogue. its first appearance London, dated some a ...

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... THE FIRST WEARER OF A TOP HAT. CHARGED WITH A BREACH OF THE PEACE. An old journal, dated January 16, Im.s: facoording to the “ Hatter's Gazette ), the f: - ng muwt of the wearing of the first silk hat in on. “John Hetherington, haberdasher, of the Strand ...

... recalls the “Daily Chronicle.” On January 10, 1797, when John Hetherington emerged from his haberdashery shop in the Strand wearing a silk hat he was surrounded by mob of such proportions that was arrested and charged before Ix>rd Mayor with inciting riot ...

... THE FIRST SILK HAT. January 15th should be kept as a feast oatters, for on that date in 1797 John Hethennglon emerged from his haberdashery shop in the Strand wearing the first silk hat ever seen in public. Hetherington was promptly surrounded astonished ...

... THE 'TOWN OF HALIFAX IN 1797.. TAW PROD MOORE BAP OF THE TOWN AND TOWNSHIP OF HALIFAX. PUBLISHED IN 1797. =OLT LENT BY MR. J WHITAL.6II. JP. A CEI Mewl. et awl was • Halifax when George 111. L tombola the West Remy Mr Samuel ember et Jahn. represeated ...

... The First Silk Hat. On Jetuary 15. 1797, one Hetherington, a baberdaeher, Put his hat upon hie head And stepped into the Strand, his hat being the forerunner of the army of silk hate which were in the following century to come to be looked ...

... Pike’s hat-trick INTAKE won 4-1 at home against Sportsman thanks to a hat-trick from Kevin Pike and a goal from lan Thompson, Shefficld Rangers came back from two down in their away match at Hoyland Common Falcons ‘to run out winners by 4-2 with a hattrick ...

... A Tall Hat Anniversary. The other Sunday was the one hundredth and eighth anniversary of the introduction of the tall hat. The inventor was one Mr John Hetherington, a haberdasher in the Strand. Heth ernigton was actually brought before the Lord Mayor ...