MARCH.
2.—Died at Bolton Row, London, Lady Jerningham, widow of Sir William Jerningham. Her ladyship was a daughter of the 11th Viscount Dillon. Her remains were interred at Costessey on March 11th.
—Died at Holkham Hall, aged 45, the Rev. Richard Odell, B.A., Fellow of Christ’s College, Oxford, curate of Burnham Overy and of Holkham, and chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
3.—Died at his house in St. Giles’, Norwich, aged 75, Mr. John Christopher Hampp, a native of Germany, many years an eminent merchant in the city, and a liberal benefactor of the poor.
6.—Died at Tenby, aged 43, Col. Francis Manners Sutton, second son of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
—Died at Hatton, Warwickshire, aged 80, the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., Prebendary of St. Paul’s, and rector of Graffham, Huntingdonshire, and formerly head-master of Norwich Free Grammar School.
7.—Died, aged 69, Mr. John Banks, proprietor and manager of the Theatres Royal at Liverpool and Manchester, and formerly of Norwich.
8.—Mr. Denny, of Egmere, was presented with a silver cup by the members of the Walsingham Coursing Club, “as a mark of their esteem and gratitude to him for the handsome, liberal, and friendly manner with which he has at all times come forward in support of the meeting.”
25.—The contract was completed for the purchase of the works of the Norwich Gas Company by the British Gas Light Company. “The latter company have bought a piece of land in the World’s End Lane, near St. Martin-at-Palace, on which they intend to erect a building and construct works for supplying the city with coal gas.”—The Paving Commissioners on September 13th consented to an application being made to Parliament for a Bill to enlarge and amend the Act for lighting with gas the city of Norwich, “and of the extension of the capital of the British Gas Company and of the monies appropriated to their own use provided it meet all such capital to the extent of 12½ per cent. per annum.”
26.*—“Died lately, at Shelfanger, James Catchpole, labourer, in his 105th year. Within the last year of his life he was willing and able to do a day’s work in husbandry.”