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... Camden Theatre at Camden Town a new Grand Theatre at Woolwich and the new Chelsea Theatre, which is some what audaciously named after the late great philosopher, Carlyle. With regard to the Hampstead 'Theatre, I hear at the moment of writing that some delay ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1302 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF OF THE CENTURY

... promotion to officers. The column in his memory overlooks St. James's Park, and the school for sons of soldiers at Chelsea is named after him. He had no children, otherwise our Queen might still have been a plain princess. Sir David Dundas was the son of an ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1158 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

AMUSEMENTS

... distinction. Mr. Nigel Playfair. is the son of Dr. W. S. Playfair and the nephew of the late Lord Playfair. I believe he was named after Scott's novel, which his father was reading at the time of his birth. The earlier Playfairs were almost all in the Indian ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1319 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE OUTLOOK ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

... his country at the sixtieth anniversary of our Queen's reign. He is married to the Duchess Milita of Mecklenburg. He is named after the Metropolitan Danilo who founded the dynasty in 1702, consolidating his rule as Prince and Bishop by slaying 30,000 Turks ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1316 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

London's Latest Playground: THE ACQUISITION OF THE ALEXANDRA PALACE

... might imagine one's self fifty miles away in the country. The Alexandra Palace on the heights of Hornsey was, of course, named after th6 Princess of Wales, who opened it with a flower show on July 23, 1863. This building was enlarged and finally completed ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 869 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA'S ZEBRA: And Her Favourite Donkey

... as Burchell's. The Grevy zebra was so named after the French President, to whom King Menelik presented a specimen in 1882. It Is found in the Shoa highlands of North-east Africa, whereas Burchell's zebra (named after the famous naturalist) is found 1b South ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 151 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

HIS MAJESTY'S NEW WARSHIPS: A RECORD FOR THE BRITISH NAVY

... displacement of 14,100 tons. Her engines, of 30,000 indicated horse-power, are estimated to give a speed of 23 knots. She is named after that gallant Devonshire sea-captain, Sir Fx-ancis Drake, who showed his sterling worth at the time of the Spanish Armada ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 704 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: The King at Cronberg

... always been a great favourite with the widowed Empress, and one of her children, Princess Ena, has Eugenic for her second name, after the mother of the unfortunate Prince Imperial. But it is wrong, as most people do. to call the Empress the godmother of ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9409 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

The old White Hart in the Corn Market, Oxford, has disappeared for ever, to be replaced by a new hotel named ..

... disappeared for ever, to be reolaced bv a new hotel named after its owner, Mr. Buol. The old White Hart in the Corn Market, Oxford, has disappeared for ever, to be replaced by a new hotel named after its owner, Mr. Buol. Although the old inn dated only ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1029 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE EXPANSION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE--The ... of some Beautiful Islands in the South Pacific

... British protection for ab will be illustrated from an unique set o >M THE COCOANUT PALM ON TEN ACIFIC, FIRST DISCOVERED BY NAMED AFTER HIM dura, with the Earl of Ranfurly on board, left New â– lise she steamed 6,000 miles and annexed ten islands, agaia, Aitutafci ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 645 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROYAL VISIT TO AUSTRALIA: STOPPING-PLACES EN VOYAGE

... airing their excellent F'rench. for this most picturesque of British possessions, though originally Dutch, and actually named after Prince Maurice of Nassau, was for a long time in the possession of France, and the island has remained quite curiously F'rench ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2331 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs