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THE QUINCENTENARY OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE

... Churchman of a much later period to put the school on what is essentially a modern basis. This was William of Wykeliam so named after the Hampshire town in which he was born in 1324 who was educated at the old school, and who filled the see of Winchester ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1352 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS EMPSIE BOWMAN

... anxious to be interviewed, and although he was introduced by Miss Nellie as a thoroughbred mongrel, and had been honourably named after the half-title of Lewis Carroll's latest story a work, by-the-way, dedicated by the author to Isa Bowman I felt compelled ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 932 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... grand old garden On does not naturally associate Worcestershire with poetry has it not cause tor rejoicing m tne sauce named after it and yet it, too, has its Eden, in the shape of prettily named Bournville, near Birmingham. It is here that Messrs. Cadbury ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3599 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. RHODES'S VISIT TO THE COTOPAXI GOLD MINE

... Yorkshire, and has lived for the past thirty-three years at Cape Town. His residence at Sea Point, a suburb of Cape Town, is named after his native place. In responding to the toast of his health, the hero of the hour was, as usual, delightfullv indiscreet ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 847 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS MARY MOORE

... maiden and professional name-- lives with her sister and her three bright children, Irving, Bronson, and Wyndham, each being named after a friend and professional associate of their late distinguished father, the author of Two Roses; and it was here that ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1805 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Bonn, where both his father and grandfather occupied positions in the Court Band of the Elector of Cologne. The great hall named after Beethoven was simply packed, not one seat was to be had, and the festival occupied three evenings. The glorious Third Symphony ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4879 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORLD OF SPORT: CRICKET

... Jackson's success did not end here, for he obtained 63 runs, the highest score in the match. If ever a game deserved to be named after a man, posterity should look upon this match as Jackson's match. It might also be stated that for the first time for fifteen ...

Published: Wednesday 18 July 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1418 | Page: 43 | Tags: Photographs 

LOCH LEVEN

... And in this last particular we have hit upon the glory of Loch Leven, historically considered, for to pass St. Serf's, named after the Cul'dee saint who, by dint of rhetorical reproof, cast the devil out of Dysart here is that other island where Mary ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1037 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

MUST THE PETTICOAT PERISH?

... recently appeared in t h e Gazette of the Rational Dress Society that deserve some notice, especially as one of them is named after th e victorious J ap, who is so much in evidence at the mo ment. The other cos tume is called the Syrian. Both the ladies ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 564 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

A NOTABLE SOUTH AFRICAN, MR. BARNIE BARNATO

... years. His wife was born in Africa, and is very handsome and charming. They have two children. The elder, Leah Primrose, named after Mr. Barnato's first mine, is two years and a half old, and rules her father with an iron hand the baby boy, ten months old ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 920 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... the Great, and it was by the order of the Saxon monarch that he was translated to Huntingdon. Let us hope that the spa named after the saint will prove to have as many virtues as that multum in parvo the saint himself, then latter-day pilgrims will have ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6025 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

A MONKEY OF DISTINCTION

... amount of elementary education in his native home, Central Africa, where he lived some time at a trading- station, being named after the British Consul. He was eventually shipped to this country, and placed in the Zoological Gardens, Man chester, in June ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 518 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs