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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 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 

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 

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 

THE BLUE RIBAND OF THE TURF

... and the narration would not be to his discredit. Known as the Mineral Colt until the day before the race, the horse was named after the place where he was born in Hungary, and belonged to the brothers THE PRINCE OF WALES'S DIAMOND JUBILEE, BY ST. SIMON ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3596 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP: THE COMEDY CHANGE OF BILL

... theatre, the Camden, at Camden Town, a new theatre at Hampstead, and a ditto at Chelsea. The last-named playhouse is to be named after Carlylc. One is rather apt to wonder what the late great Sage would have said to this. My Lady Dainty, a new comedy by ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2260 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: The Kaiser and Goodwood; The Welcome to the Khedive; The Khedive's Liveliness; The ..

... exfienses of the Princess Christian Hospital, and to Mr. Landman's similar liberality in sending out the field- hospital named after him. The Sheen House Club Fete. The Sheen House Club Fete, which opens on Friday (the 6th), promises to be one of the most ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3552 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... Royal Highness conveyed from Durban to Pinewood Bridge the party that graced the opening of the admirably arranged hospital named after this most benevolent Princess, third daughter of our beloved Queen, f have been favoured by an officer present with the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7569 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

... live within its income, and so might pass as rich. Its glory is not only in the record of its members, but in its Museum, named after the great Hunter, and its Library, which is very fine and is constant!}' growing. From Mr. Hawkins, the President of 1800 ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 763 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

A SON OF THE THAMES: MR. R. C. LEHMANN AT HOME

... grounds, however, come down to the water's edge, where is the boat-house of the recently inaugurated Boat Club which is named after Mr. Lehmann's residence, and which, on its own merits and under the influence of its sponsorship, promises to take a foremost ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1037 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP: COLONEL CROMWELL, AT THE GLOBE

... late. So, alas, bang goes another coincidence Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's new play for Mr. Wyndham to produce at the theatre named after him has just gone into rehearsal for production on or about the 29th inst. Mr. Jones tells me he has many names for the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1444 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

MORE NEW THEATRES

... 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