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HOW DICK TURPIN WAS A TERROR IN THE OLD COACHING DAYS

... now, but in Turpin's day it was a living forest-giant, with a girth of seventeen yards, and branches spreading over a circumference of one hundred and five yards. h. c. s. THE LAST OP DICK TURPIN'S OAK, From Photographs by H. C. Shelley. TURPIN'S RING. DICK ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1019 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... assortment that meets your eye. Dick Turpin has ceased to be a terror to the subjects of these realms, but his French namesake could do more than sustain his reputation if all the stories of his new war-engine are true. M. Turpin has already distinguished himself ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3609 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS MARIE BRIERLY

... Lowen- feld, Mr. A. Gilbert, R.A., Mr. A. Randeggar, Mr. Ben Davies, Dr. Cooper Key, Mr. Oscar Beringer, Professor E. H. Turpin, Mr. Hamish MacCunn, Mr. Otto Goldsclimidt, Dr. Seames Spicer, Mr. J. C. Collard, Dr. Vincent, Mr. J. Boatwright, Mr. S. Lucas ...

TOM HOOD WAS BORN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

... satirical pieces as connecting links, on to those wonderful examples of punning which we have in Faithless Sally Brown, Tim Turpin, A Waterloo Ballad, and many more. There is wit and occasionally something suspiciously like punning in some of Hood's most ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1249 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS MILLIE HYLTON AT HOME

... her pleasures, and great her strife; Pure, true, unselfish, we read her life As in a looking-glass. Then there were 'Dick Turpin,' 'The Ladies' School,' Shipmates,' 'Woman,' 'The Rowdy Dowdy Boys' a special favourite with the chorus Then I say, boys, ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1205 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PIONEER OF THE MUSIC HALL: SOME REMINISCENCES OF MR. CHARLES MORTON

... halls Avere really halls of music then Decidedly. Augustus Braliani, son of the great John, Avas my principal tenor, and Miss Turpin, Avell known in concert and operatic circles, Avas my soprano. My contralto was Mrs. C'aulfield, Avife of John Caulfield, ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1285 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

OLD WHITECHAPEL AND ITS THEATRES

... what little bits of antiquity are left are chiefly repre sented by the eighteenth-century beetle-browed tavern where Dick Turpin shot his companion, Tom King, to prevent him turning King's evidence. Whitechapel as a theatrical market dates from about ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1410 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

The Duke of York has this week cemented his connection with the Highland Agricultural Society, of which he is ..

... Bichard Webster, who is himself a most admirable musician, received the company, together with the Warden, Professor E. II. Turpin, and various members of the council. The musical programme was, in my judgment, far too lengthy and solid for an occasion ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1612 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

RECOLLECTIONS OF CHARLES MORTON

... subsequently became a great celebrity. Among the most popular favourites were Augustus Braham, son of the great tenor Miss Turpin, afterwards Mrs. Henry Wallack Miss Russell, the first Marguerite to Gounod's Faust in this country, and the original prima-donna ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1554 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SPLENDOUR OF THE MODERN ACTOR: MR. NAT GOODWIN AND HIS WIFE, MISS MAXINE ELLIOTT, LIVE LIKE LORDS IN A ..

... dangerous to the cyclist to-day for its steepness as it was dangerous in the good days of old to mail-coach traveller, whom Dick Turpin here too frequently relieved of his purse. It may be remembered, too, that it was at the top of this hill that horseman from ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1803 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE IRISH JUDGES

... the celebrated Phoenix Park murder trials, in which he appeared as I Crown Prosecutor, received his early education at Mr. Turpin's school at Midleton, Cork, having among his class-mates the late Sir Edward Sullivan (Lord Chancellor of Ireland), Lord Justice ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2167 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs