Entries for 1835
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October 1835:
- 26 January 1835: What a pyromaniac mob found in the new Eyre Street anatomy school, according to sensationalist Sheffield printer William Burgin
- 21 February 1835: The Spectator summarises the respective preoccupations of Leeds’ Tory and Whig establishments – partying, and preventing implementation of the child labour provisions of the Factory Act
- 20 April 1835: A teetotallers’ tea-party at the first, great, Wilsden Temperance Festival
- 30 May 1835: Alfred Austin, future poet laureate, “Banjo-Byron that twangs the strum-strum,” is born into rural splendour at Ashwood, 48 Headingley Lane, Leeds
- 30 May 1835: The (Tory-dominated) Leeds Corporation gives its assets to three cronies to prevent their being inherited by the new (Whiggish) town council created by the Municipal Corporations Act
- 27 June 1835: On the eve of municipal reform, the Leeds Mercury maps the self-electing clan that runs the Leeds corporation
- 9 September 1835: Princess Victoria attends Handel’s Messiah at York Minster
- 19 September 1835: The Leeds Mercury attacks property valuations under the recent Municipal Corporations Act, which facilitate the political careers of men from the centre of town
- 26 September 1835: The (Whig) Leeds Mercury reports the attempt of its proprietor and editor, Edward Baines Jnr, to qualify for the electoral register on the basis of shares in accommodation for the dead
- 27 September 1835: Gabriel Davis, an Ashkenazi optician of Woodhouse, asks a court to add him to the Leeds electoral roll
- 18 October 1835: A Keighley churchwarden and constable drag one Mr Aken, a local bookseller and printer, into Sunday service