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- 25 July 1837: Sir Walter James, 2nd Baronet (21) is elected MP for Kingston upon Hull, to the joy of a young Tory author
- 3 March 1825: Children’s author Annie Keary is born at Bilton-in-Ainsty, to the alarm of sister Lucy (7), as she recalls 50 years later
- 23 December 1732: The Hornsea hurricane of today, and the miraculous escape of the Gales, as recalled for the Rev. William Whytehead by his parishioners 55 years later
- 21 February 1853: Henry Warrass (14) dies like his fellow-Sheffielder, the infanticide Alfred Warrington
- 12 October 1659: With political turmoil elsewhere, gunfire celebrating the ceremonial demarcation of Hull’s bounds is heard as “a strange and very wonderful thing”
- 10 June 1882: A satirical London magazine congratulates the Yorkshire Tannery and Boot Manufactory on its embracement of meritocracy in the appointment of directors
- 3 October 1815: In the Hull Packet, a London reader defends a preference for the exact sciences over the humanities in the exam for mastership of the Trinity House mariners’ school
- 14 December 1866: At quarter to five in the morning, the signal bell rings and a voice calls out from the depths of Oaks Colliery (Barnsley), tomb to 361 men and boys in the last day and a half
- 20 March 1847: Following 73 deaths at Oaks Colliery, the Rev William Thorp tells pit owners how to avoid explosions in the Barnsley Seam
- 31 October 1602: An ailing James Kendall of Grassgarth, Weston (Otley) makes his will
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