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- 16 September 1821: The Rev Sydney Smith tells Lady Grey how the harvest was saved at Foston (Ryedale)
- 10 February 1821: Sydney Smith describes for Edward Davenport the view from his rectory at Foston (Ryedale)
- 3 January 1820: Following Peterloo, the Rev Sydney Smith (Foston, Ryedale) tell the Whig Edward Davenport that literacy and the populist press make parliamentary reform inevitable
- 30 January 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells her old schoolmistress, Margaret Wooler, that Emily’s railway investment strategy may be unsustainable
- 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
- 21 May 1785: Aged 15, William Butterworth of Leeds runs away to sea and joins a slaver
- 15 December 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells Ellen Nussey of cold, boredom and debts at Haworth
- 23 September 1846: Wilkie Collins’ Captain Wragge, an amiable rogue, walks out into York
- 6 November 1786: William Butterworth of Leeds witnesses the “grand pageant” celebrating the demise in July of Duke Ephraim, Efik king of Old Calabar
- 13 August 1788: Emigrating from Grenada to England, the parrots of William Butterworth of Leeds survive a Caribbean hurricane
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