7.--A grand military tournament, the first of its kind in Norwich, was
given on the Lakenham Cricket Ground by the officers and men of the 5th
Royal Irish Lancers, in aid of a fund for the widow and orphans of Mr. A.
Frayling, late bandmaster of the regiment.
14.--The veteran actor, Mr. Charles Mathews, commenced a three nights'
engagement at Norwich Theatre, as Adonis Evergreen, in the comedy of "My
Awful Dad."
20.--The two days' show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association was
opened in the grounds of Walcot Hall, Diss. Sir Edward C. Kerrison,
Bart., presided at the luncheon.
24.--Died at 12, Queensbury Place, London, Sir John Henry Thomas Manners
Sutton, third Viscount Canterbury and Baron Bottesford. His lordship was
the younger and only surviving son of the first Viscount Canterbury,
better known as Sir Charles Manners Sutton, for seventeen years Speaker
of the House of Commons. Educated at Eton and at Trinity College,
Cambridge, he sat in Parliament in 1839-40 as member for Cambridge. He
was again elected in 1841, on his appointment as Under-Secretary of State
for the Home Department under Sir Robert Peel's second Administration.
From 1854 to 1861 he was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, and from
1864 to 1866 Governor of Trinidad. In the latter year he was appointed
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Victoria. On his lordship's return to
England in 1873, he resided chiefly on his estate in Norfolk. He
married, July 5th, 1838, Georgiana, youngest daughter of Mr. Charles
Tompson, of Witchingham Hall, by whom he had, with other issue, the Hon.
Henry Charles Manners Sutton, who married Amyee Rachael, only daughter of
the Hon. Frederick Walpole, M.P.