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- 2 January 1863: William Allison (11) fails to shoot any rabbits at Coxwold
- 16 June 1863: William Allison (12) travels from Coxwold to the circus at Easingwold, hoping to see Tom King, ‘The fighting sailor’
- 10 March 1863: William Allison (11) rides two miles on a donkey from Cundall to Brafferton to help celebrate the marriage of the future Edward VII to Alexandra of Denmark
- 28 September 1827: The good life at Stapleton Park (Pontefract), country house of the still unmarried and vaguely solvent horse-racer and politician Edward Petre, 33 today
- 28 February 1863: William Allison (11) goes mouse-hunting with a fellow-pupil at Cundall (Ripon)
- 14 February 1863: William Allison (11) witnesses hare-coursing at Cundall
- 23 February 1863: The Rev Samuel Gray of Cundall tries to make school interesting for a nervous William Allison (12)
- 22 January 1863: Young William Allison sees Bob Gowland, Kilvington’s blacksmith, slaughter a pig while drunk
- 27 November 1833: Lewis Fenton, Huddersfield MP, falls mysteriously from the upper window of his house
- 19 December 1881: Sir William Payne-Gallwey (73), ex-MP for Thirsk, loses a fight with a turnip
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