Lease:

Station master + wife & son

Lease: 70¼ years from Lady-day 1867 (Minutes 1867 p82) Ground rent £12 6s 0d

General practitioner MD Edinburgh + wife, 3 daughters, 3 sons & 5 servants

Is he living at Fernside or Hurstborne, 5 Sydenham Hill in 1881?

Widow + daughter, 2 granddaughters & 4 servants

He joined Sir Colin Campbell’s Army before Lucknow on 14th November, 1857 and was at the relief of the Garrison, also at the defeat of the Gwalior Contingent at Cawnpore on 6th December and at the fall of Lucknow in March 1858, when he commanded the Left Column of attack on and occupation of the Iron Bridge from 11th to 15th March and was mentioned in dispatches. He commanded a Column in the chain of operations by Lord Clyde against the rebels in December 1858 and January 1859, when they were driven from Oude into the Nepal territory (Medal with two Clasps and CB).

Financial agent + wife & 4 servants

1901 they were in Canfield Gardens in Hampstead

Widow + 2 daughters, granddaughter & servant

Widow + visiting niece, visitor & 3 servants

Lease: 70¼ years from Lady-day 1867 (Minutes 1867 p83) Ground rent £12 6s 0d

Widow & no profession noted + daughter, 2 visitors & 6 servants

Widow living on independent means + 2 daughters & 2 servants

Retired timber merchant + daughter & 4 servants

Civil service accountant in the comptroller’s office + wife, 4 sons & 3 servants

He was knighted in 1917

He had four sons, three of whom went to Dulwich College – Eric Fitzgerald, Desmond Frederick Aubrey and Wilfred Francis Clarke – two were killed in WW1.

Clarke move to England where she went by Josephine Fitzgerald Moylan. She became Lady Josephine Fitzgerald Clarke when in 1893 she married Sir Frederick William Alfred Clarke (1857-1927). Their children were: Eric Fitzgerald Clarke (1894-1917); Desmond Frederick Aubrey Clarke (1896-1984); Gerald Wilfred Francis Clarke (1899-1918), and Philip Edward Joseph Clarke (1907-1973). After her husband died in 1927 Clarke began writing romantic novels under the nom de plume of “Errol Fitzgerald”. She published over 40 novels in the next twenty years

Lease: 70¼ years from Lady-day 1867 (Minutes 1867 p119) Ground rent £15 12s 6d

Annuitant + 2 daughters & 2 servants

Lease: 70¼ years from Lady-day 1867 (Minutes 1867 p119) Ground rent £15 12s 6d

Widow + 6 daughters, adopted daughter, son, 2 granddaughters, 2 grandsons, a visitor & 4 servants

Jobbing gardener + wife, daughter & servant

Fish factor 117 Lower Thames Street

He is on the electoral register but he appears to be living elsewhere.

Retired clergyman in the Church of Ireland + wife, daughter, visitor & 2 servants

Widow + visitor & 2 servants

Lease: 70¼ years from Lady-day 1867 (Minutes 1867 p88) Ground rent £15 12s 6d

Retired on dividends + 2 servants

Living on dividends + 2 servants

She was one of five daughters & 2 sons of John Edward Madocks, (1786-1837) who was a politician and landowner and served as Liberal Welsh MP for Municipalities of Denbigh between 1832-35. He served as High Sherriff of Denbighshire in 1821. His wife was called Sidney. He died at his house Glan y Wern – hence the name!

Living on own means + 2 servants

Private means & director of two companies + wife, 2 sons & 2 servants

Clement Victor Oldfield (1887-1947)

Claude Houghton Oldfield (1889-1961) was the son of George Sargent Oldfield (a public secretary) and his wife Elizabeth Harriett née Thomas. After being schooled at Dulwich College, he trained as an accountant. During the First World War, he was rejected for combat service because of poor eyesight and served instead in the Admiralty. He married an actress, Dulcie Benson, in 1920, and the couple moved to a cottage in the Chilterns. He died in 1961 in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

Houghton’s literary career began in the 1910s, with the publication of some of his poems in G. K. Chesterton‘s magazine The New Witness. He would later cite Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, and William Blake as influences on his writing. Several of his novels contain fantastic elements, including the afterlife fantasy Julian Grant Loses His Way and the borderline science-fictional This Was Ivor Trent, about an author who has a vision of a future human being. Houghton stated that all his fiction was based on the belief that modern civilization would collapse “because it no longer believes it has a destiny”. Though he never achieved great popularity with the general public, Houghton’s work was praised by such fellow writers as J. B. Priestley, Hugh Walpole, Clemence Dane, and Henry Miller.

In 1935, Walpole wrote: I believe Claude Houghton to be one of the most interesting and one of the most important novelists now writing in England. With none of his contemporaries can one compare him—his odd mixtures of reality and fantasy, his gifts of drama and philosophy, his unusual and significant and courageous themes, his natural aptitude for narrative, this last one of the rarest of gifts among novelists today. In the same year a slim volume of Walpole’s and Dane’s commendations of Houghton’s novels was published.

Henry Miller was particularly partial to Houghton’s Hudson Rejoins the Herd, of which he wrote: “What so startled me, in reading this book, was that it appeared to give a picture of my most intimate life during a certain crucial period. The outer circumstances were ‘disguised,’ but the inner ones were hallucinatingly real. I could not have done better myself.” In 1995, some of the correspondence between Miller, Houghton, and the Chicago bookseller Ben Abramson was published in Writers Three: A Literary Exchange. Houghton’s novels were translated into French, German, and Czech, and President Tomáš Masaryk of Czechoslovakia was another admirer of his work. Houghton’s best-known novel is I Am Jonathan Scrivener,

Lease: 70 years from Lady-day 1867 (Minutes 1867 p98) Ground rent £20 10s 0d

Retired Director of the London & County Bank + wife & 2 servants

Richard P Nichols (1803-87)

He was the Secretary of the London & County Bank in Lombard Street

His married his first wife, Mary Anne Nunn (1808-74) on 20/10/1829

He married his second wife, Sarah Wilstrop (1823-1912) on 6/08/1874 and they moved to Hove, W Sussex.

Field, late of the Daedalus training ship at Bristol, expects shortly to be confined

In 1885, Cornish was appointed assistant classical master at St Paul’s School, London, a position he held for the rest of his life. Soon after coming to London he began to write articles on natural history and country life, and in 1890 became a regular contributor to The Spectator, and later to Country Life.

Cornish lived at Orford House, Chiswick, on the border of the Thames, when he wrote The Naturalist on the Thames in 1902. Cornish died at Worthing on 30 January 1906, the cause originating in a shooting accident many years before. After cremation his ashes were interred at Salcombe Regis, near Sidmouth, and a mural tablet to his memory was placed in the parish church.

Masonic career It is a long as well as distinguished one, dating as far back as April, 1857, on the 13thday of which he was proposed by Bro Bruce and seconded by his friend and comrade of the Crimea, BroCapt N G Philips, and on the 27th of which he was initiated in the Zetland Lodge, No. 515, Malta.  On thefollowing 27th December Bro Captain Clerke, as he then was, was one of twenty brethren on whom was conferred the degree of Past Master, though it was not till nearly three years later that he was actuallyelected and installed as WM of a lodge.  In the meantime, on the 1st February, 1858, he was proposed asa joining member of the Lodge of St John and St Paul, No 349, Malta, (still operative in Valletta); at the following meeting he was not only elected, but appointed and invested as JW, and having been advancedto the chair of SW, was elected and on 27th December, 1859, was installed as WM. During his service inthe West Indies he was a joining member of the Albion Lodge, No.196, Bridgetown, Barbados.  While in Ireland he occasionally was present at lodge meetings, though from the exigencies of military duty and hisfrequent change of quarters in that country, he was unable to join one permanently. While in garrison atPlymouth he joined the Metham Lodge, No.1205, and was appointed firstly Prov Grand Std Bearer, in 1870 and afterwards Prov. Senior Grand Warden of Devonshire in 1871. In 1872, as we have alreadymentioned, he took up his residence in London, and thenceforward his career in Masonry had been oneof exceptional brilliance and activity.  Almost his first act as a Mason was to become a member of theFriends in Council Lodge, No.1383, which was consecrated by Bro the Earl of Limerick, P G M Bristol, onthe 3rd June, 1872, with the late Bro the Earl of Carnarvon, Deputy Grand Master, as its first W M.  Following shortly after his election into this lodge, Bro Major Clerke was elected as its Treasurer, and soremained till 1875, when he was appointed SW  The year following he was unanimously elected andinstalled WM.   In 1878 he was appointed one of the Senior Grand Deacons of the United Grand Lodge, hiscolleague being the late Bro Sir Erasmus Wilson, while the Junior Grand Deacons were Bros J M PMontague – whose office of Grand Chancellor of the Supreme Council, Ancient and Accepted Rite, devolved only a few months since on Col. Clerke – and Bro. Raphael Costa. On this occasion His Royal Highness, the M.W. Grand Master presided in person at the Festival, having with him both in Grand Lodgeand at the banquet his illustrious relative the Crown Prince of Denmark, Grand Master of the Danish Craft,so that Bro Colonel Clerke had the honour of being invested by His Royal Highness. Towards the close ofthe year 1879, the late Bro Hervey, finding his health and the natural infirmities of age prevented him from continuing the discharge of his duties as Grand Secretary, tendered his resignation to the Grand Master,who after carefully considering the matter was  pleased  to  select  Bro.  Colonel Shadwell H. Clerke,P.G.D, to be his successor.  On the 17th January, 1880, a special meeting of Grand Lodge was held by direction of the Grand Master in order that the new officer might be invested with the insignia of his rankwith all possible éclat. Of the admirable manner in which he carried out his duties it is unnecessary to speak at length. we know  how  well  he discharged the duties of his trust, with what exemplary fidelity he carried out or saw carried out the edicts of Grand Lodge and the wishes and instructions of the GrandMaster. We know how courteous and considerate he was in the reception of visitors, how kind andthoughtful to the members of his staff, how strict in the observance of our forms and ceremonies, andyet with what geniality he displayed when present at the banquet. These are matters which are too wellknown to be dwelt upon in detail. One of the last occasions on which he took a prominent part in theproceedings of a Craft lodge occurred quite recently, when he was installed in office as WM of the lodgewhich bears his name – the Shadwell Clerke, No.1910 – and will we trust, preserve it honourably for manya generation to come.

He was exalted to the R A Degree in the Leinster Chapter, No.387. Irish Constitution, on the 24th February,1858, being the second candidate who received the Degree after its consecration. He was subsequentlyelected a joining member of the now extinct Union Chapter, No.407, and became its MEZ.  During hisservice in the West Indies he was affiliated to the Scotia Chapter working under the ScottishConstitution, and on his return to England, and after he had taken up his residence permanently in London,he became founder, and in due course MEZ of the Friends in Council Chapter, No.1383.  In 1878 he wasappointed Grand Principal Sojourner of Supreme Grand Chapter, and in 1880 on his appointment as GrandSecretary he became at once ex-officio Grand Scribe E. He was advanced to the Mark Degree on the 15thJune, 1857, in the lodge working under the now extinct Zetland Chapter of Malta. In 1878 he was installedWM of the Studholme Lodge, No.197. In 1880 he was appointed Junior Grand Warden of the Mark GrandLodge, and in 1885 he filled the chair of A. in the Grand Master’s Lodge. In the Order of the Temple heattained to still higher rank, and at the time of his death and for many years previously he was Great Sub-Prior of the Great Priory of England and Wales and Provincial Prior of Suffolk.  During the year 1891 heinstalled Sir R. N. Howard as Provincial Prior of Dorsetshire.  In the Ancient and Accepted Rite he had, priorto his selection by the Prince of Wales for the post of Grand Secretary of United Grand Lodge, played a veryimportant part in the proceedings of this Rite, having served as MWS. in the Ivor Hael Chapter, No.34, Newport, Monmouthshire, and having had conferred on him the 33o on the 13^th July, 1874.  For severalyears he held the important post of Grand Secretary-General; but, as we have already stated, heresigned this office early in 1880, and was presented with a handsome gift of plate in recognition ofthe many valuable services he had rendered to this branch of Masonry. The meeting at which thepresentation was made took place at the hall of t he Supreme Council, 33o, in Golden Square. Bro. Capt. N.G. Philips, Lieut.-Grand Commander, in the unavoidable absence of the Earl of Lathom, Sov Grand Commander,  occupied  the  chair, and in presenting the plate, one part of which was the gift of the Supreme Council, and the other that of members of the various Degrees of the Rite, begged Col Clerke’sacceptance of it as a “recognition of the valuable services rendered by you to the Order as Grand Secretary General, and as a small token of the affection and esteem in which you are held by your colleagues of the Supreme Council and the members of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Freemasonry for England and Wales and the Dependences of the British Crown.”  Among the plate were a salver and an epergne, the former of which bore the inscription: “Presented to Lt-Col Shadwell H Clerke by his colleagues in theSupreme Council,33o, for England and Wales and the Dependencies of the British Crown, in recognition ofhis valuable     services     as     Grand Secretary-General.        July1880”.

General merchant + wife, 2 daughters, 2 sons & 2 servants

Widower & general merchant + 2 daughters & 2 servants

Carl Wilhelm Groos (1831-1914)

Lease: 70¼ years from Lady-day 1867 (Minutes 1867 p119) Ground rent £15 12s 6d

Silk manufacturer + sister, 2 visitors & 2 servants

Address: No.12, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

Trade card in the British Museum advertises ’William Robinson, Linen Draper & Silk Mercer, Manufacturer to the Royal Family’

Silk manufacturer + niece & 2 servants

Widow + companion & 2 servants

Rest Fenner 1838 Born in Newington, Surrey, grandson of Thomas Pewtress, paper maker

1867 Married Louisa Maria Green in Clerkenwell

1881 Manufacturing Stationer Employing 93 Men and Boys and 272 Females, lived in Lewisham

1884 Died in Bromley, Kent

Widow + servant

She died on 15/11/1912 leaving £10,468 6s 8d

Lease: 69½ years from Lady-day 1867 (Minutes 1867 p126) Ground rent £20 10s 0d

Clergyman’s widow + 2 daughters & a son

Madras civil servant + daughter, 2 sons & 2 servants

Living on own means + wife, daughter, son, visitor & 4 servants

See also 37 Farquhar Road – 10 the Terrace where he is living in 1881

1861 & 1871 he and the family are living in Hackney

Henry Pomfret Howard (1830-99) Messrs. Howard & Jones, Printers & Lithographers, 16 Cullum Street EC

Widow living on own means + daughter, visitor & 2 servants

Widow living on own means + daughter & 2 servants

Lewis Egerton Hopkins, OBE, DSO (1873-1945)

1891 – 18 Gentleman cadet Rm Academy

1911-38 – Captain Royal Engineers

1939 – Company Director

HOPKINS, Lewis Egerton, D.S.O., O.B.E. Bom 21/1/1873.

Commissioned sd. 22/7/92. Lt.-Col. 30/9/20. ret.
Extra Regtl. List late R.E. {iTid. Pens.) 15/10/27

Lt.-Col. Lewis Egerton Hopkins is the son of Thomas Hopkins.² He married Carrie d’Estoteville Skipwith, daughter of Sir Peyton d’Estoteville Skipwith, 10th Bt. and Alice Mary Herrick, on 2 August 1906.
Note on the Field Work of the Nushki Extension (Railway) Reconnaissance, June 1918 to January 1919″, by Major Lewis Egerton Hopkins, Engineer-in-Chief, N. E. Reconnaissance, dated 6 February 1919. Page 20 of the report, digital page 31.

This railway route is included as one of the one hundred great railway routes around the world, in the book Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail by Colin Garratt.

The Trans Baluchistan, Quetta-Zahidan Railway was constructed as part of a strategic military route between India and Persia (now Iran).

He also wrote ‘How top judge the prospects of new railways’ – Calcutta 1925

Lease: 84 years from Lady-day 1853 (Minutes 1867 p126) Ground rent £20 10s 0d

Merchant + wife, 2 sons, 2 visitors & 6 servants

Liquidation of J H Ruddall & Sons – in 1874, a manuscript was published entitled ‘American municipal bonds as investments‘, edited by ‘J.H. Rudall & sons’. Alas, It was not a bestseller. On Friday July 30th 1875, The Times reported that ‘debtors Henry Alexander Rudall and George Rudall, merchants, of King William Street’, operating as ‘J.H. Rudall & Sons’ had filed for a petition of liquidation, with liabilities estimated at £60,000 and estimated at about the same amount, subject to realization’. There are references to a George Rudall of 9 King’s Arm Yard and the ‘London and Paris Dress & Millinery Association’ in The Times for June 24th 1881. George seems to have moved to Tenerife at some time after this. Certainly, when his son Charles Rudall passed away on 6th October 1936, his death notice in The Times requested that the Tenerife papers ‘please copy’.

Retired army officer + 2 daughters & 2 servants

Son’s death:

Isle of Wight County Press Saturday 26/02/1916: DEATH OF COL. C. HUNTER The death occurred suddenly at Gwerneryn, Hove, on Monday, of Chas. HUNTER, Colonel retired, Royal (late Bengal), Artillery, eldest son of Lieut.- Colonel Chas. HUNTER, Bombay Army, J.P., of Montgomeryshire. The deceased, who was in his 83rd year, formerly resided at the Laurels, Ashey-road. He left the town soon after his wife died about 20 years ago. The funeral took place at the Ryde Cemetery yesterday (Friday) afternoon, the Rev. R. B. DURRANT officiating. Mr. C. H. HUNTER, deceased’s son was among the mourners

Insurance + wife, 2 daugters, 2 sons & 4 servants

Retired meat salesman + wife, son & 3 servants

Lease: 84 years from Lady-day 1853 (Minutes 1869 p148/246) Ground rent £20 10s 0d

Spanish merchant+ wife & 3 servants

Henry Alexander Rudall was born in 1839 and became a celebrated Musical Critic and Journalist in Victorian times. He also succeeded to the family business and it was under his watch that the firm was liquidated. He is referred to on page 53 of a book called ‘Modern Spiritualism: A Short Account of Its Rise and Progress‘ by John Nevil Maskelyne (1876, Scribner, Welford, & Armstrong). I have not seen the book but the page suggests ‘Mr. Alexander Henry Rudall, a merchant, of 8 and 9 Great Tower Street, City‘ was an ‘intimate friend’ of a ‘disinterested medium‘ about whom we know no more. He was also musical and published a book called ‘The Great Musicians: Beethoven’ in 1890. (9) The book was edited by Dr. Francis Hueffer whose funeral HA Rudall attended on January 25th 1889. (10) In 1893, Henry Rudall and Gilbert a Beckett combined forces on the English libretto of ‘Signa‘, an opera based on Ouida’s Signa which The Times described as ‘unusually good’. (11) On account of Mr. Beckett’s death midway through the project, most of the third and fourth acts were completed by HA Rudall alone. It was first performed in a reduced three-act version at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan on 12 November 1893. It was later given in a two-act version at Covent Garden, London on 30 June 1894.

By his wife Jane (born 1850, Dagnall, Bucks), Henry had two sons, John (b. 1871) and Alfred (b.1877), and a daughter, Ella, or Eleanor (b.1879). In the 1881 Census, the family were recorded as living at 25 Upper Phillimore Place, London. Other occupants of the house at that time included Henry’s 39-year-old sister Frances Le Brun (described as ‘holder of property abroad’), her 9-year-old daughter O.M. Le Brun, and two servants, Annie Roden (20-year-old Governess) and Mary Farmer (21- year-old general servant from Sutton, Wiltshire). Henry Alexander Rudall died aged 58 on the 21st April 1896. The cause of death was Carcinoma of Omentum (1 year) and Haematemesis (11 days). His youngest son Alfred was present at the death, which happened at 8 Hazlitt Road, Hammersmith. (1) In 1909, an Eleanor Rudall wrote an operatic prologue, The Book of Aesjuen, for solos, chorus and orchestra, which received a rather scathing review in The Times of Friday, Jul 02, 1909. She was almost certainly H.A. Rudall’s daughter, Ella.

Mechanical civil engineer + wife, cousin, visitor & 3 servants

At the age of sixteen, however, Farey resigned his post, and returned to England to complete his technical education. He was first employed by Mr. William Bridges Adams, at the Fairfield Works at Bow.

After remaining there for two years and a-half, he obtained the post of assistant at the engineering establishment of Messrs. Swayne and Bovill, where he worked under Mr. (now Sir Frederick) Bramwell.

In 1847 he went to Messrs. Bryan Donkin and Co.’s Engineering Works, at Bermondsey, and a few years later became a partner in the firm. He had now an opportunity to display his scientific gifts and attainments. The first gas-valve with internal rack and pinion was made by Messrs. Donkin and Co. in 1847, for the Gas-Light and Coke Company, and was designed by Mr. Farey. So great has been the demand for these valves, that from that date to 1887 more than fifty thousand have been constructed by the firm. Two years later, in 1849, he invented a double-cylinder rag-boiler for papermakers.

Mr. Farey was an indefatigable scientific worker. A few years after he became a partner in the above firm, he began a series of experiments at Bermondsey with Mr. Bryan Donkin, jun., extending over a period of ten years. These experiments were made on steam-engines with compound and single-cylinders, and with and without steam-jackets, and were designed to ascertain their respective economical values. Various improvements were introduced, and accounts of the experiments were sent to “Engineering,” and were published from time to time in that journal. Later, in 1875-76, he, in conjunction with the other members of the firm, made upwards of one hundred trials with a small experimental compound steam-engine, now in Professor Kennedy’s Engineering Laboratory at University College, London. Such constant activity bore fruit in various patents.

In 1852 Messrs. Bryan Donkin and Farey patented an improvement in paper-machines for measuring and marking off continuous webs of paper. As a cross-cutting machine for paper, this has since been found of great service.

In 1866 Mr. Farey took out a patent for a still more important invention, viz., a tandem horizontal compound-engine, with steam-jackets, the main advantage of which consists in the prevention of wear in the cylinders. This was effected by allowing the weight of the pistons to be taken on outside guides, by means of rods at each side. Many engines of this type are now at work. In 1869 he patented an apparatus for superheating the steam in a compound-engine during its passage from one cylinder to the other; and in 1873 he took out a patent for improving the slide-valve gear of steam-engines, by abolishing the stuffing-boxes between the high- and low-pressure valve-chests.

The following extract from a letter written by Mr. Bryan Donkin, late senior partner of the firm, after the death of Mr. Farey, shows the high opinion entertained of his ability and character by his colleagues:- “My long connection and personal intimacy with Mr. Farey led to frequent interesting conversations on a great variety of subjects, and consequently enabled me thoroughly to appreciate not only his eminent talents and great mechanical resources, but also the high sense of truth and uprightness which so much distinguished him. My esteem for him was very great in every way.”

Mr. Farey married in August, 1869, Elizabeth Westley, of Cheltenham, but had no children. Failing health led him to resign his partnership in 1881, after having been connected for thirty-four years with the firm of Bryan Donkin and Co.

Since his retirement he lived quietly at Upper Norwood, where his death took place on the 9th of May, 1888. Mr. Farey was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the 7th of March, 1865.

Widow + niece & 2 servants

Widow + visitor, niece & 3 servants

William Henry David Patrick d’Esterre physician & surgeon

Physician & surgeon + wife, daughter & 4 servants

Daniel d’Esterre MD BS MRCS LRCP, physicians & surgeon

Lease: 84 years from Lady-day 1853 (Minutes 1870 p15/299) Ground rent £20 10s 0d

Gentleman + wife, 2 daughters, son, son-in-law & 2 servants

The store dates back to 1838, when Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge went into partnership with William Alder Dunn and opened a drapers and fashion shop in Newcastle’s Market Street. Despite success the two partners fell out and went their separate ways. Their partnership was dissolved in 1841.

In 1849 there were 23 separate departments, with weekly takings recorded by department, the basis for its claim to be the world’s first true department store. This ledger survives and is now kept in the archives of the John Lewis Partnership. Emerson became the sole proprietor in 1855. By the 1870s there were more than forty retail departments.[6]

Emerson Bainbridge died in 1892 and his sons took over the business. In that same year, Bainbridge’s employed a staff of 600 in Newcastle, and the store had 11,705 square yards of floor space.[4] In 1897 the business became a private limited company. During the Depression, which hit the Newcastle area badly, the store introduced agents who operated in less prosperous areas, collecting payments in weekly instalments. This meant that people on low incomes could continue to buy from the shop and it kept the Bainbridge name and reputation known in areas where otherwise it might have faded away.

In 1952 an offer from the John Lewis Partnership was accepted and ownership transferred to John Lewis in the following year, although the store continued to operate under the Bainbridge brand alongside the words “A branch of the John Lewis Partnership”. The John Lewis takeover allowed much needed capital investment into the store, making it into one of the leading department stores in the UK by 1974.[4] In 1976 the store was relocated to the Eldon Square shopping centre in the city, and was at the time the largest John Lewis store outside London.[4]

The Newcastle Journal had begun publication in May 1832 initially as a weekly paper, but from 1861, a daily. They had offices at 69 Pilgrim Street. In 1867 the Journal found itself in financial difficulties, with the owners ending up in the Bankruptcy Court. By March 1867 the newspaper had been taken over by William Forster, of Alnwick and William Alder Dunn. They had an office on Grey Street. In August 1867 the Northern Counties Conservative Newspaper Co Ltd was formed, and it took over the newspaper under the chairmanship of Nathaniel George Clayton. It is believed that Clayton had a house and land in this area, and that the new newspaper offices were built on his garden.

Widow + 2 daughters, granddaughter & 2 servants

She died 27/02/1882

Living on own means + sister, brother & servant

In 1889 he was the chief organising agent for the Liberal Unionist Association in Birmingham

In 1891 he became the editor of the Admiralty & Horse guards Gazette.

Widow living on own means + 2 sisters, a brother & 2 servants

She died on 11/03/1906 leaving £47 8s 8d – executor was Captain Anthony Dunn (retired)

Lease: 84 years from Lady-day 1853 (Minutes 1870 p63/374) Ground rent £20 10s 0d

Widow + companion & 2 servants

Widow living on dividends + boarder & 3 servants plus a coachman & family in the stables

Living on own means + daughter, granddaughter & 2 servants

Solicitor + wife, 4 daughters, son & 4 servants

Insurance director, agent & broker + wife, 2 daughters, 2 sons, visitor & 5 servants

‘THE GLADE’ 24 Farquhar Road, Vacant Possession: A delightful detached residence having seven bed, bath, handsome suite of reception rooms, billiard room, garage, electric light, charming grounds of about half acre: 80 years lease, moderate ground rent. By order of the executors.

Senior partner of Viney, Price & Goodyear

In 1911 they are living at 73 Turney Road

His daughter Claudine Marie Berthe’ married cricket commentator Henry Longhurst

Lease: 84 years from Lady-day 1853 (Minutes 1867 p168) Ground rent £30 15s 0d

Retired merchant + wife, visitor & 3 servants

Widow living on own means

Widow living on own means + 3 servants

Lease: 84 years from Lady-day 1853 (Minutes 1870 p99/458) Ground rent £30 15s 0d

Late a master at Christ’s Hospital + wife, 2 daughters, 2 sons & 3 servants

He had mechanical aptitudes and gave up farming  c.1846 With his brother Henry Muirhead and Josiah Latimer Clark became an assistant to Edwin Clark on the Britannia Bridge and the Conway Tubular Bridge1851 Census: John Muirhead (43), lived at Salton Mill, with wife, Margaret  & sons

Moved his family to London, where he became a telegraph engineer, following Edwin Clark to the Electric Telegraph Company. By 1857 was working for the Electric Telegraph Co as superintendent. Electric telegraph superintendent, living in the district of Regents Park, London, John Muirhead 53, Margaret Muirhead 46, John Muirhead 15, Alexander Muirhead 12, Agnes L Muirhead 9, Henry J Muirhead 6, Francis L Muirhead 4, Ann Muirhead 16

1870 After the transfer of the Cable Co to the Post Office, Muirhead left the company

Later became a member of Latimer Clark, Muirhead and Co.

Introduced the Muirhead accumulator

1879 Retired from Latimer Clark, Muirhead and Co

1881 John Muirhead 73 , telegraph engineer, of Norwood, Margaret Muirhead 56, Alexdr. Muirhead 32, telegraph engineer and doctor of science, London University, Henry Muirhead 36, Francis L. Muirhead 24

1885 Died in Upper Norwood

Telegraph engineer + wife, 3 sons & 3 servants

Telephone engineer + brother & 3 servants

His early education was locally acquired, and, although of keen reasoning faculties, he does not appear to have taken kindly at first to the arithmetical and other studies in which he afterwards excelled. His father, who had mechanical aptitudes, gave up farming at the age of forty and removed with his family to London, where he became known as a telegraph engineer, being a member of the well-known firm of Messrs. Latimer Clark, Muirhead, and Co. Young Alexander was sent to University School, London, and the boy, till now considered a dunce, steadily carried off more and more prizes, these culminating in the ‘ Cook Prize’ for mathematics. Chemistry and Greek were also favourite branches of study. At his father’s works, he came into contact with such visitors as Clerk Maxwell and Sir William Thomson, afterwards Lord Kelvin.

University College, London, came next in his educational experience, and to the strong influence of Professor De Morgan, and his horror of inexactitude, it may be attributed that throughout his life he refrained from publishing his work – to the occasional annoyance, it may be said, of his friends. After being a private pupil in Dr Matthiessen’s laboratory at St. Bartholemew’s Hospital, he took his degree of D.Sc. in the London University, became, in 1870, Fellow of the Chemical Society, in 1874 an original member of the Physical Society of London, and soon after Membre de la Societe Francaise de Physique.

In 1875, he succeeded in the task of duplicating cables. For a few years he became a consulting expert, with rooms in ‘Elm Court,’ but returned to research work; and many friends, including Kelvin, Rayleigh, Hopkinson, Lodge, and Silvanus Thompson, often met and discussed problems in his laboratory.

At the urgent request of the cable companies, he took up the manufacture of instruments for cables, and many inventions of his came in succession to improve their working. In 1896, so important was the evidence he gave before the committee appointed to consider the practicability of laying a cable across the Pacific, that he was informed that he had saved the scheme from being dropped.

In 1894, on hearing Oliver Lodge lecture on Hertzian waves, at the Royal Institution, he went to him with suggestions, and the two collaborated, until Dr Muirhead’s practical mind was satisfied they had a reliable system of signalling across space without directing wires. The lecture, it should be noted, was given before Signor Marconi began his remarkable work.

In 1904, he was made F.R.S. But the lameness which had hampered him since an attack of influenza in 1891 now began to affect his health, and he was prevented, to his deep regret, from serving on the Board of the National Physical Laboratory. Then came the strain of war, and, though with the coming of peace his still alert mind returned to problems and new ideas, his bodily strength gradually failed, and he passed gently to rest at his residence, The Lodge, Shortlands, Kent, on 13th December, 1920, and was laid in the family grave at West Norwood.

Dr Muirhead was a man of warm affections, and of kindly and lovable disposition. He travelled widely, but retained to the end his strong attachment to the country and the district in which he was born. He married Miss Blomfield, of London, by whom he is survived, but has left no children.

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