6.--Died, at Belsize House, East Dereham, Mr. Charles Wright, solicitor,
aged 74. Mr. Wright was for many years clerk to the justices, and
Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster. He was a lover of the fine arts, and
a famous cricketer, and for a long period was annually invited to play at
Lord's in the match between Gentlemen and Players.
20.--Died, the Rev. John Jessopp, M.A., vicar of St. Gregory, Norwich,
aged 71. Educated at Cambridge University, he was ordained in 1840, and
became chaplain to the East India Company, but after serving two years in
India illness necessitated his retirement from the post. On returning to
Europe he was appointed chaplain to the King of the Belgians, and for
some years resided at Ostend in that capacity. Mr. Jessopp, on
terminating his services to King Leopold, became chaplain at the Surrey
County Gaol, and on coming to Norwich, in 1877, was presented to the
living of St. Gregory. He was brother to the Rev. Dr. Jessopp, rector of
Scarning, and formerly head-master of Norwich Grammar School.
28.--Died, at Heigham Hall, Norwich, Mr. John Ferra Watson. The son of a
Norwich manufacturer, he was born at Weybread in 1816, and was educated
for the medical profession. Mr. Watson founded Heigham Hall, which he
converted from a small square building into a handsome mansion, and made
it one of the finest private lunatic asylums in the country. A Liberal
of the old Whig type, he for many years sat in the Norwich Town Council
both as an alderman and as a councillor, and was a magistrate for the
city. He took great interest in parochial affairs, and as churchwarden
inaugurated the restoration of the mother church of St. Bartholomew, in
the hamlet of Heigham.
30.--The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectured at the Victoria Hall, Norwich,
on "Wastes and Burdens of Society."