Entries for the tag ‘Luccock, John Darnton (1808-84)’
Leeds cloth merchant and politician (mayor 1845 and 1864). 
- 2 March 1830: Leeds Corporation prosecutes its own waste contractors, Messrs Kelly, and a Woodhouse Moor landowner, who have been colluding in the illegal dumping of faeces
- 17 July 1844: Tory Radical Joshua Hobson tells Leeds council that Liberal mayor Hamer Stansfield was wrong to prohibit public meetings on the semi-privatised Kirkgate market
- 26 October 1864: Martin Tobin confronts his ex-banker, William Beckett-Denison, regarding the bank charges levied on his account
- 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
- 2 March 1867: Anthony Cogan, the (Irish?) keeper of a lodging house, nine pigs, and a donkey, appears before Leeds magistrates, despite the efforts of the Pig Protection Society
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