Local Records, Or Historical Register of Remarkable Events which Have Occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed: With Biographical Sketches of Deceased Persons of Talent, Eccentricity and Longevity, Volume 4T.Fordyce, 1876 - Durham (England : County) |
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Page 267 - Dear Mr Cowen, — Allow me to tender you, with her Majesty's approval, the honour of knighthood, in acknowledgment of the public service which you have rendered, for so long a time and with so much ability, as Chairman of the River Tyne Improvement Commission. " If it be agreeable to you to accept this proposal, it will be very gratifying to me to have tendered it. — I remain, with sincere respect, faithfully yours, "WE GLADSTONE. "Jos. COWEN, Esq., MP...
Page 158 - ... rowed the boat to Appleby's Wharf. Renforth (who was quite insensible when he was landed) was then carried from the boat on the arms of his mates, put into a conveyance, and driven a mile and a half to Claremont House, their training-quarters. Here he was laid on his own bed. Kelley took him in his arms, while Percy and I rubbed his feet. We anxiously inquired for a medical man, and mounted messengers were despatched in every direction in search of one. It was quite half an hour before one was...
Page 159 - ... to understand that our countryman was dying. Kelley took Renforth's head between his hands and cried bitterly. Percy, Chambers, and Bright, the remaining members of our crew, along with William Blakey, John Adams, Robert Liddell, and myself, stood around the bed, and witnessed with ill- suppressed emotion the vigorous life of our poor friend gradually ebb away. At a quarter to nine o'clock, within two hours of the time when he had left the same house full of health and spirits, our dear comrade...
Page 343 - Meeting of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the First Public Railway in the world. Thomas Meynell Esq. of Yarm presided.