2.--Died at Bedford Place, Camden Hill, Kensington, aged 27, Robert
Howlett, "well known by his successful applications of photography." He
was a son of the Rev. Robert Howlett, of Longham, where he spent his
early days. He determined to devote himself to the scientific
application of photography to the illustration and advancement of the
fine arts. He had just perfected a method of transferring microscopic
views of minute dissections to photographic agency without the necessity
of intermediate drawings. The Queen and the Prince Consort were among
his distinguished patrons.
21.--Mr. T. Townsend, M.P. for Greenwich, appeared at Norwich Theatre, in
the character of Shylock. He also performed the parts of Hamlet and
Richard the Third. He was announced "to address the public, giving he
reasons for a Parliamentary orator adopting the stage as a profession."
27.--The Christmas pantomime at Norwich Theatre was written by Mr. J. B.
Buckstone, and entitled, "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, or Harlequin
and the Spiteful Ogress and the Seven Fairy Godmothers from the Realm of
Golden Flowers." The other Christmas amusements were Brown's "Royal
Cirque Unique," on the Castle Meadow, and Wombwell's Menagerie.
27.--Mr. Fiddaman's ch. g. Tinker, under 14 hands high, "very cleverly
performed, with some time to spare," twenty miles in an hour on the
turnpike road between Lynn and Narborough.
29.--Died at Wolterton Park, Horatio, Earl of Orford, in his 76th year.
He was son of the second earl by his first wife, daughter of Mr. Charles
Churchill, and granddaughter maternally of Sir Robert Walpole, first Earl
of Orford. Born in Whitehall, in 1783, he married the eldest daughter of
Mr. William Augustus Fawkner, one of the clerks of the Privy Council, and
succeeded his father in 1822. From July, 1812, to April, 1825, he was
attached to the Embassy at St. Petersburg, and was subsequently a Lord of
the Admiralty and a Commissioner for the affairs of India. He was
elected member of Parliament for King's Lynn in March, 1809, represented
the constituency till June, 1822, and was in 1852 appointed a Deputy
Lieutenant of Norfolk. For many years he held a distinguished position
in the county as an influential leader on the Conservative side, and was
a warm patron of the Turf. He was Colonel of the West Norfolk Militia,
and Lord High Steward of the borough of King's Lynn. The deceased earl
was succeeded by his son, Horatio William, Lord Walpole, born in Belton
Row in 1813, who married, in 1841, the only daughter of the Hon. Sir
Fleetwood Pellew.
1859.