27.--Died at Hampstead Marshall, Newbury, Berks., the Right Hon. Louisa,
Dowager Countess of Craven, aged 78. She was a daughter of Mr. John
Brunton, manager of Norwich Theatre, and half a century before her death
was a favourite actress upon the Norwich and the London stage. She
married the Earl of Craven in 1807, and of the marriage there were three
sons and a daughter.
28.--The first festival of the associated choirs belonging to the Norfolk
and Suffolk Church Choral Association, established in October, 1859, was
hold at Norwich Cathedral.
30.--Died at her residence in Kentish Town, aged 61, Elizabeth, widow of
Frederick Yates, formerly of the Adelphi Theatre. She was a daughter of
John Brunton, the younger, of Norwich and a niece of the Dowager Countess
of Craven. She made her _debut_ at King's Lynn, in the character of
Desdemona, and her first appearance in London at Covent Garden Theatre,
on Sept. 12th, 1817, as Letitia Hardy. At Covent Garden she continued to
play leading high comedy until 1824, when she married Mr. Frederick
Yates, who died in 1842, leaving an only son, born in 1831. After the
death of her husband, Mrs. Yates remained at the Adelphi with Mr.
Webster, played for one season at the Lyceum with Madame Vestris, and
finally retired from the stage in 1849.