Entries for 1849
There is material for
May,
July,
August,
December 1849:
- 8 May 1849: Amid revelations of fraud at the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, Richard Nicholson, business partner and brother-in-law of the Railway King, George Hudson, drowns himself in the Ouse at York
- 27 May 1849: Scarborough on the last evening of Anne Brontë’s life, as told by Ellen Nussey
- 9 July 1849: Sarah Ann Haldren of Hoxton (London) meets her end at the home of her new husband, William Wilkinson Walley of Holbeck (Leeds)
- 17 July 1849: Jane Carlyle witnesses civic Bradford protest the suppression by the French Second Republic of Garibaldi and Mazzini’s anti-clerical Roman Republic
- 19 July 1849: As William Clarke’s All-England Eleven begins a match against a Hull 22, the local paper notes the failure of seaports to produce good cricketers
- 20 July 1849: Jane Carlyle tells husband Thomas how she rebelled against the brutal hydrotherapy meted out by Dr William Macleod at Ben Rhydding spa, Ilkley
- 19 August 1849: The last bull-baiting at Lydgate Wakes, Saddleworth
- 24 December 1849: Turner writes from Chelsea to the son of his patron Walter Fawkes – dead for 24 years – thanking him for the annual goose pie from Farnley Hall