MAY.

3.--At her Majesty's Levee, Mr. Samuel Bignold, Mayor of Norwich, was

presented and received the honour of knighthood. On the 17th the

portrait of Sir Samuel was placed in St. Andrew's Hall. It was painted

by J. P. Knight, R.A., in 1850, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851,

and afterwards engraved by Jackson.

21.--Died at Bethel Street, Norwich, aged 70, Robert Forster, formerly

bandmaster of the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's Own) Regiment. "At Waterloo

he received a ball in his knee, which had never been extracted. He was a

native of Norwich, and the only survivor of the band of the regiment, the

whole having fallen by his side at Waterloo."

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