15.--A special Church mission commenced at Norwich and was concluded on
the 29th.
18.--St. Clement's churchyard, Norwich, laid out as a public garden by
the Norwich Playing Fields and Open Spaces Society, was opened by the
Mayor (Sir Charles R. Gilman).
24.--Died, at Oberlin House, St. Leonard's Road, Ealing, in his 90th
year, the Rev. John Stoughton, D.D. The son of a Norwich solicitor he
was born in the parish of St. Michael-at-Plea, and was for sixty-five
years in the Congregational ministry. Among his literary works was his
book entitled "Recollections of a Long Life."
--Died at Cranley Place, London, Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave, formerly
Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The eldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave,
he was born at Great Yarmouth in 1824, and was educated at the
Charterhouse and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a scholar. In
1847 he took his degree with a first in Classics, and was elected to a
Fellowship at Exeter College. From 1850 to 1855 he was Vice-Principal of
the training college at Kneller Hall, and after acting as secretary to
Earl Granville, became assistant secretary to the Committee of the Privy
Council on Education.
26.--A serious outbreak of typhoid fever was reported at Lynn; and by
December 18th 440 cases and 43 deaths had occurred. The disease was
occasioned by the impurity of the water supply, and it was stated that at
least 75 per cent. of the cases could be traced to the drinking of
unboiled water.
--Mr. T. Richmond Pinder resigned the head-mastership of King Edward VI.
Middle School, Norwich, to which he was appointed in 1862. Mr. William
Robert Gurley, M.A., of the Perse Grammar School, Cambridge, was on
February 8th, 1898, elected to fill the vacancy.
--Died at Old Lakenham, Norwich, Mr. Carlos Cooper, barrister-at-law. He
was the second son of Mr. Charles Cooper, and was born February 12th,
1815. Educated at Norwich Grammar School he was called to the Bar by the
Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1839, and was appointed Recorder of Thetford
in 1865. He afterwards became Recorder of King's Lynn, was placed on the
commission of the peace for the city of Norwich in 1873, and shortly
afterwards appointed judge of the Guildhall Court of Record on the death
of Mr. Nathaniel Palmer.