8.--At the Norfolk Assizes, before the Lord Chief Baron, an action was
brought by Mr. Hamon le Strange, lord of the manor of Snettisham, and his
tenant, William Harding, against Richard Auker, for trespassing upon the
foreshore at Snettisham and removing shingle, mussels, and cockles. Mr.
le Strange in 1866 took legal proceedings to maintain his proprietary
rights on the foreshore, and obtained a verdict, against which an appeal
was entered; but a full bench of judges confirmed the verdict. Since
then he had issued licences to persons to remove mussels from the
foreshore, and had leased it to Harding, who had found the defendant
carrying mussels away. The special jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiffs, damages one shilling, and the learned Judge said he would
make the injunction issued against the defendant perpetual. (_See_
January 21st, 1885.)
13.--Died at Kirstead, the Rev. Jonathan Bates, rector of Kirstead with
Langhale. He was the son of a Wesleyan minister, and was born at New
Buckenham, on June 13th, 1829. When still a child he removed with his
family to Edinburgh, where he was placed in the High School. Thence he
went to Huddersfield College, and at eighteen became junior master. He
had not only passed the examinations of the London University, but had
saved sufficient money, with the help of the scholarships he had won, to
enable him, on leaving Huddersfield, to enter St. John's College,
Cambridge, where he graduated in 1854, taking his place as eleventh
Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos. On completing his University
career, he was appointed second classical and mathematical master of the
Colchester Grammar School. This post he held four years, and was then
chosen senior or classical tutor and chaplain to the Queen's Medical
College at Birmingham. Ordained deacon in 1854, and priest in 1855, by
the Bishop of Rochester, he returned to Colchester as mathematical master
at the Grammar School, and did duty as a curate in the vicinity. In 1860
he was appointed Vice-Principal of the Chester Diocesan College, and in
1862 was presented by Caius College to the living of Kirstead. Mr. Bates
married the youngest daughter of the celebrated Dr. Medhurst, for many
years a missionary in China.
16.--Died at the Rectory, Toppesfield, the Rev. Professor Brewer, M.A.,
Preacher at the Rolls Chapel, and rector of Toppesfield. He was a son of
Mr. John Sherren Brewer, of Mile End House, Norwich, and was born at
Calvert Street, in March, 1809. After receiving his early education at
the hands of his father, he proceeded to Queen's College, Oxford, where
he graduated B.A. in 1833, taking first class honours in Classics. In
1841 he was appointed to a Professorship, and in November, 1870, was
elected an honorary Fellow of his College. Professor Brewer was editor
of "Fuller's Church History," published by the University of Oxford, and
of the Calendars of State Papers relating to the Reign of Henry VIII.,
published by the Master of the Rolls. He was for some time honorary
librarian to the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, and, in addition
to his appointment as Preacher at the Rolls Chapel, he held the
Professorship of English Literature in King's College, London. In 1876
he was presented by Lord Beaconsfield to the Crown living of Toppesfield,
which had a gross income of 1,120 and a parsonage house.
21.--Edward Payson Weston, the American pedestrian, passed through
Norwich, on his walk of 2,000 miles in 1,000 consecutive hours (except on
Sundays). He arrived from Dereham, and at one o'clock lectured at the
Victoria Hall, St. Andrew's, where a large audience had assembled, under
the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. Harry Bullard). In the afternoon Weston
continued his walk, and arrived at Yarmouth in the evening.
--Died at Wandsworth, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, secretary of the Society of
Arts. He was born in 1809, and educated at Norwich Grammar School, prior
to studying at Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1830. A few years
afterwards he was called to the Bar, and, after working zealously with
the Prince Consort to promote the success of the Exhibition of 1851, was
appointed Secretary of the Society of Arts in 1853.
24.--Under the auspices of the Anglo-American Electric Lighting Company,
Limited, a descriptive lecture was given at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich,
upon the possibilities of the electric light, by Mr. H. Edmunds, a
representative of the company. The hall was brilliantly illuminated by a
special electric installation.
27.--Died at Bournemouth, Lieut.-Colonel Hugh FitzRoy, formerly of the
Grenadier Guards. He was born in 1808, and was second son of the Rev.
Lord Henry FitzRoy. He married, in 1831, Lucy Sarah, second daughter of
Sir Thomas Buller Lethbridge, who died in 1855. In December, 1856, he
married, secondly, Emily Louisa, widow of Mr. Charles William Marsham, of
Stratton Strawless. Colonel FitzRoy was an active county magistrate, and
chairman of the Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Commissioners.