Entries for 1865
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November 1865:
- 17 January 1865: At Leeds, temperance advocate Wilfrid Lawson MP calls for the sale of alcohol to be banned
- 23 January 1865: Leeds gentleman-photographer, William Lyndon Smith, drowns while trying to save an ice-skating couple on Benyon’s Pond at Gledhow Hall, Leeds
- 22 February 1865: Rioters besiege the Park Square, Leeds, home of surgeon and magistrate Henry Chorley, on the release from Armley Gaol of his dripping-thief cook Eliza Stafford
- 12 May 1865: John Pick Allison, a Thirsk solicitor, writes to comfort his 14-year-old son William at Rugby School
- 12 September 1865: An unexpected gesture from Richard Scurr, watchmaker, at the Thirsk burial of John Pick Allison, solicitor
- 17 November 1865: Charles Harding, ex-landlord of the Labour in Vain at Hull, lists his debtors for a bankruptcy hearing