2.--Died at Adelaide Place, Windsor, in her 91st year, Miss Jane Rigby,
"second daughter and last surviving child of Dr. Edward Rigby, of
Norwich."
12.--A demonstration took place at Norwich in aid of the funds of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
27.--Died at St. Andrew's Parsonage, Norwich, the Rev. Arthur Charles
Copeman, M.B., vicar of St. Andrew's, Honorary Canon of Norwich
Cathedral, and rural dean of Norwich, aged 72. He was the youngest son
of Mr. Edward Breese Copeman, and was born at Coltishall. At the age of
15 he was placed under the care of his eldest brother, Dr. Edward
Copeman. On entering King's College, London, as a medical student, he
obtained his M.B. degree at the London University, won the gold medal in
anatomy and physiology, and became an associate of King's College. At
the end of his student days he was offered, on the nomination of the
Chancellor of the University, and accepted it, a commission on the Army
Medical Staff. He soon resigned it, however, and commenced private
practice at Epsom, when it became his ambition to enter the Church, and
forthwith he applied himself to reading for Holy Orders. Ordained by the
Bishop of Worcester, he was in 1851 admitted deacon and priest, and for
the next five years held curacies at Warwick, Bury St. Edmund's, and
Wisbech. In the last-named town he worked single-handed among the
cholera-stricken inhabitants, and received from them in recognition of
his services an address, a collection of theological works, and a cheque
for 100. Mr. Copeman's work in Norwich began in January, 1857, when he
was elected vicar of St. Andrew's. He was appointed rural dean in 1870,
and honorary canon in 1877. In 1881, on the death of Mr. Field, he
became chairman of the Norwich Board of Guardians. He had been a member
of the School Board, and was identified with the managing bodies of the
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and other charitable institutions.
29.--The Norwich Town Council, on a representation of the
Inspector-General of Cavalry that the city would cease to be the
headquarters of a cavalry regiment unless the drill-ground on Mousehold
Heath were enlarged, authorised the hiring of 62 acres of land adjoining
the drill-ground for a term not exceeding five years, at a rent to be
agreed upon.