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THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... reviving your memory of Dickens by seeing The Only Way, you will remember that Dr. Manette lived in Soho. Was the street named after him London has not received the mortal remains of Ruskin but she was very familiar to him, little as he was in touch with ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2498 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... this child is Robert Baden-Powell, lie said, and, turning to the congregation, the reverend gentleman continued, lie is named after a brave officer who has done noble service in South Africa, and let us sincerely hope that he will seek to emulate this ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8114 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREAT COURSING EVENT OF THE YEAR: The Waterloo Cub

... inspection set the pinnacle on his fame. All being said, it is held debatable whether Mr. Blanchard's Bab-at-the-Bowster (named after the old-fashioned Scots dance) was not equally deserving of fame, though she never won the Waterloo Cup. Between 1867 and ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1991 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PRINCESS CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL FOR THE WOUNDED IN SOUTH AFRICA

... Africa. Life and soul of this benevolent movement (just as the Princess of Wales was of the magnificent Hospital- Ship named after Her Royal Highness), Princess Christian could not but welcome with heartiest cordiality the philan thropic proposal of Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 892 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

MEN AND WOMEN

... Majesty's third cousin (through Mrs. Jordan), and Miss Mac kenzie being O next-door neigh- bour to the Laird of Bal moral, and named after her. If Glen muick Macken- zies have not blue blood they have blue money, for they made their for tunes in Indigo. Y oung ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1722 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LANGMAN HOSPITAL

... took place at the headquarters of the St. George's Rifles in Davies Street, Berkeley Square. The Langman Hospital, so named after its donor, is, as has been already stated in The Graphic designed to succour the sick and wounded at the front, and is not ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 434 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... storming kopjes on foot. The West Riding Regiment has the unique distinction of being the only regiment in the Service named after a personage not of royal birth. Raised in 1702, it saw long and varied war-service on, the Continent and in America, and ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7211 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... resident in the Square, who is a prominent member of the School Board, Finsbury Division. A brother of Robert Dibdin Charles named after his great-grandfather, who wrote Tom Bowling, lives in the ad joining Woburn Square, and sustains in London the traditional ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2878 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWS OF THE WORLD

... who know her, and worshipped by her children and grandchildren, especially by Princess Marie Louise of Cumberland, who is named after her two grandmothers, the Queen of Han over and the late Queen of Denmark. The Princess was, therefore, during the life ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 966 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Chronicle of the War: At Pretoria

... Boer game was up, as far as the holding of the line of this river was concerned. Fourteen Streams, opposite Warrenton so named after Sir Charles Warren could not continue to be held by the burghers with Hunter on theil right flank and Paget opposite. So ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1900
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1492 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

A SKETCH FROM CORSICA

... to the Casa Buonaparte. What with statues erected to his memory, and streets, squares, places, people, and even animals, named after the great warrior, the whole town reeks with Napoleonic souvenirs. I was not particularly struck with the comeliness of ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1657 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs