7.--The honorary freedom of Norwich was presented to Mr. J. J. Colman,
M.P., by the Town Council, in recognition of his distinguished services
to the city.
12.--The thermometer on the afternoon of this date registered 60 deg.
Fah. in the shade; on the 17th there was a downfall of snow.
23.--The Norwich Isolation Hospital, erected upon a site near the
Cemetery, was opened by the Mayor (Mr. A. R. Chamberlin). It was
designed by Mr. P. P. Marshall, City Engineer, and the tender for its
erection amounted to 4,290.
25.--Particulars were published of the measures to be adopted in Norwich
in the event of the threatened outbreak of cholera. During the week
ending this date official visits were made to Yarmouth, Cromer, and other
places on the Norfolk coast by Dr. S. Monckton Copeman, one of the
Medical Officers of the Local Government Board.
27.--Died, at Bracondale, Norwich, Mr. Thomas Gabriel Bayfield, aged 76.
In his school days he formed the acquaintance of Mr. B. B. Woodward,
afterwards Queen's Librarian, and of Mr. S. P. Woodward, the subsequent
author of the manual on Mollusca, both sons of Samuel Woodward, and from
them he imbibed a love for archaeology and natural history. Mr. Bayfield
was regarded as an authority on ancient seals, and rendered great
assistance to Dean Goulburn in the compilation of his work on Norwich
Cathedral. In geology he laboured at the chalk and Norwich crag, and
made a valuable collection of fossils; those from the chalk were
subsequently acquired by the British Museum. He was one of the most
active members of the Norwich Geological Society, and an enthusiastic
member of the Norwich Science Club and of the Norfolk and Norwich
Naturalists' Society. Upon relinquishing his business as an ironmonger
in Magdalen Street, Mr. Bayfield obtained the appointment of master of
the Blind School.
30.--Died Mr. Richard Charles Browne, of Elsing Hall, East Dereham, in
his 63rd year. "A son of the Rev. Richard Browne, he was head of one of
the oldest houses in England, the Hastings, of Elsing. He was lineally
descended from Hugh Hastings, of Elsing, and consequently from Malcolm,
King of Scotland. On the death of Hugh Hastings in the sixteenth
century, the Barony of Hastings (1264) fell into abeyance between the two
daughters, Anne, the elder, and Elizabeth. Mr. Browne descended from the
latter. The abeyance lasted till about 1840, when Lord John Russell
advised her Majesty to terminate it in favour of Sir Jacob Astley, who
descended from Hugh Hastings' brother. It was thought that Lord John's
decision was not unconnected with politics."