19.*--"A club bearing the name of the Norwich Football Club has been
started, and has already begun to play upon the Norfolk and Norwich
Cricket Ground. Mr. Croker has been elected president, and Mr. Edward A.
Field treasurer and secretary." The members made their public _debut_ on
February 5th, 1869, in a match against King Edward VI. School. (This is
the first reference to football, as distinct from the old game of camp
ball, made in the columns of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE.)
26.--The pantomime produced at Norwich Theatre was entitled "The White
Fawn, or the Loves of Buttercup and Daisy and the Fairies of the Coral
Lake." At Wombwell's Menagerie (then owned by Mr. Fairgrieve, of
Edinburgh) was exhibited, "Prince Bonta Workey, son of the late King
Theodore, who held levees in his grand state saloon at stated intervals
during the day."
--Died at his residence, Chapel Field Road, Norwich, Mr. Trivet Allcock,
in his 80th year. "He was an active politician and staunch Liberal, and
had associated in his earlier life with men like William Taylor and
others, whose superior learning formerly made Norwich celebrated."
1869.