The Leiden Gunpowder disaster

This week the Leiden university was asked to see if there was a Jerome or Jeroen Vlieland or Hollander in their books as a student .

They searched all their books of students and graduates but he was not listed.

But there was always the possibility of a dispensation said the researcher which happened quite a lot in those days. And in that case he was not on the list.

Studying in Leiden or not ,he most certainly would have heard about this disaster .

And maybe some uncles or aunts of Jerome  living in Leiden were killed.

The Leiden Gunpowder disaster

The Leidengunpowder disaster took place on January 12th1807, at a quarter past four in the afternoon during the French occupation.

A ship that went from Haarlem to Delft had 37.000 pounds (17 760 kg) of gunpowder on board. It exploded right in the centre of Leiden in het Steenschuur in line with the Rapenburg.

The disaster took over 151 deaths and 2000 wounded. Approximately 220 houses were completely destroyed. Even in the remotest districts in Leiden windows were broken and roof tiles blown off. The Pieterskerk was also affected, the Van Hagerbeer organ was very badly damaged and the windows were blown out of the church.

The blast was heard in The Hague, and according to some unreliable sources even in Friesland (north of Holland). The cause of the disaster is unknown. It is claimed that this was due to carelessness of a crew member during cooking, a pedestrian saw shortly before the explosion that potato peels were thrown overboard.

Within 5 hours King Louis Napoleon was already at the scene of the disaster, he stayed a whole day. He wanted to help and put thousands of soldiers at work to rebuild Leiden. He wanted to help Leiden,and put thousands of soldiers at work to rebuild Leiden. These soldiers were actually meant to watch on the beach for an English invasion. The King set up a disaster fund and donated 30.000 guilders from his private fortune, a considerable sum of money for that time. And Leiden didn’t have to pay tax for the ten years that followed (until 1817). He ordered bakers from the neighboring city of Delft to bake breads for the affected inhabitants of Leiden and sent his courtsurgeon to Leiden. He also had Huis ten Bosch converted into an emergency hospital. After that all he was called 'Louis the Good'. A national collection raised nearly 2 million guilders.

It took weeks to clear the debris. Some people could still be removed from the rubble, but for many, help came too late. As a direct result of the accident, the King prohibited the transportation of gunpowder through densely populated areas. The reconstruction of the center of Leiden was slow because of the poor economic situation and (alleged) corruption by administrators. At the request of Louis Napoleon, an obelisk was erected, but it didn't rise above the brick foundation. In 1837 King William I decided that the monument would not be erected further.

Until this very day, the location of the disaster is marked in the center of Leiden. The location of the gunpowder ship is marked by a memorial stone in the dock of the Steenschuur. Around the accident site the magnitude of the devastation is still visible.

And if you want to read all of it you can click here 

Monsieur Vlieland

Napoleontic France 1801-1815

You are now well known to some names like William Taylor, John Moore and some others .
It is discribed in Dutch books , and also the name of Captain Vlieland pops up.
therefore I wanted to translate parts of it .
But to my great relieve ,I found the source of this information and it is in English.
So you can read it yourself .
This book shows us the period 1801-1815 in France .

Daniel Carr

Today we have the answer to our question on the message board .
This time it is Jerome Nicholas Vlieland son of Jerome Nicholas Vlieland .
Being a schoolmasters assistent at the age of 15 certainly has something to do with his father being a professor.

1841 census. Fakenham, Norwich Road, Norfolk. In the Parish of Fakenham Lancaster, Jerome Vlieland aged 15 years.

School masters assistant with 23 pupils aged between 11 and 14 years with 5 servants.

They seem to be connected to Daniel Carr, school master aged 40 years who lives next door or in the same building with his wife and large family.
So who was Daniel Carr.
In Pigot and Co’s directory for 1830 Daniel Carr is listed under Academies and schools
“Daniel Carr (boarding and day) Norwich Road Fakenham”.
Notice in Norwich Mercury newspaper dated December 8, 1821:

"D. CARR Begs leave respectfully to inform the inhabitants of Fakenham, and the Public in general, that after the Christmas Vacation, he intends opening a BOARDING and DAY SCHOOL, in that Place, for the reception of YOUNG GENTLEMEN... D. CARR has spent six years and a half as Sub-Master in the Holt Grammar School, under the Rev. B. Pullan; and a year and a half as one of the Masters in the Norwich grammar School, under the Rev. E. Valpy, by whom he was also formerly instructed. NB Letters addressed to D. Carr, Holt, will receive immediate attention."




I also discovered Daniel Carr published a book in 1837 called “The life of Linnaeus” and described himself on the title page as “Master of the Classical School, Fakenham and Lecturer on Botany, Physiology, etc.”. Which if you wish is on line to read free! I tried to read a bit of it but for my modern brain it was all too much, what I would call very flowery (excuse the pun as it is suppose to be about Botany!

Thanks Gilly!

Coincidence or not.

Professor Jerome Nicholas honours William Taylor .He was an great fan of Goethe.

in later life Daniel Carr he became a M.D.

George Anson

Jerome Nicholas insribed this volume to Colonel George Anson MP.

And  calls himself a most obliged and obedient servant.

to the honourable
Colonel George Anson,M.P.
this volume
is most respectfully inscribed
by his obliged
and most obedient servant,
the author

So who was this
George Anson (British Army major-general)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Anson
Born 13 October 1797
Died 27 May 1857 (aged 59)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Major-General
Commands held Indian Army
Battles/wars Indian Mutiny
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath
Major-General George Anson CB (13 October 1797 – 27 May 1857) was a British military officer and Whig politician.
Military career
Anson was the second son of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, and his wife Anne Margaret, daughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield was his elder brother. He was educated at Eton College.

He entered the Army in 1814 as an Ensign in the 3rd (Scots Fusiliers) Guards and served at an early age in the Napoleonic Wars and fought at the Battle of Waterloo.

Here the list of the 3rd Guards 

No sign of a Jerome Nicholas who could be working as a interpreter under the code Napoleon as he claimed many years later .

The battle of Waterloo  was in 1815 ( Jerome 18 years old )

There are some other clues to the army as well .

At this age he should be enlisted.

His uncles were sailing and negotiate in France , England and Waterloo was a part of Holland at the time.

So they knew their way around and spoke the languages .

His sister was in french knitting , french knitting was used for all the cords on the uniforms.

Catherina Fris worked at the time of her marriage on a shipyard,so what would a women do on a shipyard ?  Could she be working in a shop or bar or lodgins  in that case she could well travelling with the army.

It is not much , but could also be a clue .

He later sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth from 1818 to 1835, for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1836 to 1837, and forStaffordshire South from 1837 to 1853 and served as Storekeeper of the Ordnance under Lord Melbourne from 1835 to 1841 and asClerk of the Ordnance under Melbourne in 1841 and under Lord John Russell from 1846 to 1852.

Anson was a prominent owner of racehorses: he won the Epsom Derby with Attila in 1842 and the Epsom Oaks two years later with The Princess.[1]

Anson succeeded to the command of the Army of the Madras Presidency in India in 1854, and early in 1856 became Commander-in-Chief in India. He was Colonel of the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot from 12 December 1856.

He died of cholera, at the age of 59, during his march against the Indian rebels during the of Siege of Delhi in May 1857 and was buried in Kurnaul (now Karnal). The body was later exhumed and taken back to England to be buried in Kensal Green cemetery.

Anson married the Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Annabella, daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, in 1830. They had three daughters. Isabella survived her husband by only a year and died in December 1858.

Famous British Olympian Sir Matthew Pinsent is George's great great great grandson.[2]
[edit]References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs [self-published source][better source needed]
Maj.-Gen. Hon. George Anson (thePeerage.com)

^ Mortimer, Roger; Onslow, Richard; Willett, Peter (1999). Biographical Encyclopedia of British Flat Racing. Macdonald and Jane’s.ISBN 0-354-08536-0.
^ Who do you think you are - BBC Television
[edit]External links
 Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about George Anson.

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Anson
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Anson
Charles Edmund Rumbold Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth
1818–1835
With: Charles Edmund Rumbold Succeeded by
Thomas Baring
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Preceded by
Richard Edensor Heathcote
John Davenport Member of Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent
1836 – 1837
With: John Davenport Succeeded by
William Taylor Copeland
John Davenport
Preceded by
Sir John Wrottesley
Sir Francis Holyoake-Goodricke Member of Parliament for Staffordshire South
1837–1853
With: Viscount Ingestre 1837–1849
Viscount Lewisham 1849–1853 Succeeded by
Viscount Lewisham
Edward Littleton
Military offices
Preceded by
Francis Robert Bonham Storekeeper of the Ordnance
1835–1841 Succeeded by
James Hanway Plumridge
Preceded by
James Whitley Deans Dundas Clerk of the Ordnance
1841 Succeeded by
Henry George Boldero
Preceded by
Lord Arthur Lennox Clerk of the Ordnance
1846–1852 Succeeded by
Francis Plunkett Dunne
Preceded by
Sir William Gomm Commander-in-Chief, India
1856 Succeeded by
Sir Patrick Grant

A daughter of George Anson is Charlotte Isabella Anson.

We found as well a George Anson but this is earlier in time
The life of George, Lord Anson: admiral of the fleet, vice-admiral of Great ...
Door Sir John Barrow

interpreter under the code Napoléon

Teacher under the code Napoléon ,late Interpreter at the Alien Office ,French master of Norwich Grammar Schools .

Sale by auction

SALES BY AUCTION. B. TYZACK, Auctioneer, Valuer, & Accountant. Office—BRIDEWELL ALLEY  

REDWELL STREET. Sale by auction of household furniture, library of books, carpets, druggets, Featherbeds, &C, &C. - Mr. O. D. RAY instructed by the Executrix of the late Monsieur Vlieland to Sell by  Auction, on the Premises, Redwell Street, Norwich, Friday July 28th 1865  Portion of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, comprising mahogany dining and other tables, painted wardrobe, mahogany hair and cane-seated chairs, mahogany whatnot, Square PIANOFORTE, by Broadwood : ' mahogany four-post and tent bedsteads, with moreen furniture; painted French bedsteads; LIBRARY OF BOOKS, comprising a number of French and Italian works: chests with drawers, FEATHER-BEDS, stair carpet and rods, napkin press, eight-day clock, culinary articles, Ac, Sale to commence at Eleven o'clock precisely

Whispering Steel

Realising I  had never read  a  proper paper book by Jerome Nicholas .

I decided to try and buy them on the internet .

It worked out fine 

The first one to arrive was Whispering Steel .

This book is a first edition from 1949.

On the first page is an inscription 

 a reference to his wife .

                                                             First published in 1949  

Charles Archibald Vlieland to the memory of his first wife Dorothy Morgan.

the setting of the book is in Malaya.

The book Bibliographic Details

Title: Whispering Steel
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
Publication Date: 1949
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition

William Taylor

William Taylor  (man of letters)

Today we will give you the information from Wikipedia , tomorrow we will meet him in Rotterdam.

Born 7 November 1765 Norwich, East Anglia, England 
Died 5 March 1836 (aged 70)Norwich, East Anglia, England 
Nationality British
William Taylor (1765–1836), often called William Taylor of Norwich, was a British essayist, scholar and polyglot. He is most notable as a supporter and translator of German romantic literature.
He was born in Norwich, East Anglia, England on 7 November 1765, the only child of William Taylor (died 1819), a wealthy Norwich merchant with European trade connections, by his wife Sarah (died 1811), second daughter of John Wright of Diss, Norfolk. William Taylor was taught Latin, French and Dutch by John Bruckner, pastor of the French and Dutch Protestant churches in Norwich, in preparation to continue his father's continental trading in textiles. In 1774 he was transferred to Palgrave Academy, Suffolk, by Rochemont Barbauld, whose wife Anna Letitia Barbauld Taylor regarded as a strong influence. For three years his school companion was Frank Sayers, to be a lifelong friend.

In August 1779 his father took him from school. During the next three years he spent much of his time abroad. Firstly he visited the Netherlands, France, and Italy, learning languages and business methods. In 1781, he left home again, and spent a year in Detmold, staying with an Alsatian Protestant pastor called Roederer, and absorbing German literature under the influence of Lorenz Benzler.Roederer gave him introductions to August Ludwig von Schlözer the historian at Göttingen, and to Goethe at Weimar. After further German travels he returned to Norwich on 17 November 1782.

William Taylor was a nonconformist who attended the Unitarian Octagon Chapel, Norwich. He became the leading member of Norwich intelligentsia, and a political radical who applauded the French Revolution. He argued for universal suffrage and the end of all governmental intervention in the affairs of religion. He maintained radical views and the 18th century tradition of liberal and latitudinarian criticism of Biblical Scripture. In the period 1793 to 1799 he wrote over 200 reviews in periodicals, following his concept of 'philosophical criticism'.

He was nicknamed godless Billy for his radical views. A heavy drinker, his contemporary Harriet Martineau said of him:

his habits of intemperance kept him out of the sight of ladies, and he got round him a set of ignorant and conceited young men, who thought they could set the whole world right by their destructive propensities.[

Later life
In May and June 1784 Taylor was in Scotland with Sayers, who had begun medical studies at Edinburgh; there he met James Mackintosh. A second journey to Edinburgh in 1788 followed a breakdown in the health of Sayers. In 1790 he went over to France; on 13 May he reached Paris, and attended the debates in the National Assembly. He returned in June to Norwich, where a ‘revolution society’ was now dropped under fear of repressive measures; but before the end of 1790 two new clubs were formed in Norwich, of which Taylor became a member, the ‘Tusculan’ for political, and the ‘Speculative,’ founded by William Enfield for philosophical debate. Up to this point Taylor had been engaged (from 1783) in his father's business; now he persuaded his father to retire on his fortune. The firm was dissolved in 1791; his father employed part of his capital in underwriting, not very successfully. Taylor resisted his father's wish to put him into a London bank.
His friendship with Robert Southey began early in 1798, when Southey, having placed his brother Henry Herbert Southey with George Burnett at Great Yarmouth, visited Norwich as Taylor's guest; Southey revisited him at Norwich in February 1802. Much of their correspondence to 1821 is given by John Warden Robberds in his Memoir of Taylor; it is frank on both sides. In 1799 Taylor embarked on another tour of Europe, visiting France, Italy and German, partly on business; Henry Southey joined him at Paris. He stayed withLafayette at Lagrange, where he met Frances d'Arblay. In Paris he met Thomas Holcroft, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Manning.
From 1811 American and other business losses made money tight. Taylor applied in 1812, at Southey's suggestion, for the post of keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum, on the resignation of Francis Douce; but the vacancy was already filled.
A confirmed bachelor, Taylor lived with his parents. He had a daily routine of studying in the morning, walking in the afternoon followed by bathing in the River Wensum. In the evening he liked to socialise, drink (heavily) and discuss linguistics, literature and philosophy in society.
Works
Three early poetic translations from German brought him to notice. Georg Herzfeld wrongly assigned to him the political song, ‘The Trumpet of Liberty,’ first published in the Norfolk Chronicle on 16 July 1791, having been sung on 14 July at a dinner commemorating the fall of the Bastille; Edward Taylor claimed it for his father, John Taylor, of the unrelated Norwich family. William Taylor's name was made by his translation of Gottfried August Bürger's Lenore into English ballad metre. This was written in 1790, and bore the titleLenora; sent it to his friend Benzler from Detmold (then in Wernigerode); a previous version had been made in 1782 by Henry James Pye, but was not published till 1795, and was unknown to Taylor. The translation, circulated in manuscript, was made the foundation of a ballad (1791) by John Aikin, and was read by Anna Barbauld in 1794 at a literary gathering in the house of Dugald Stewart in Edinburgh. Stewart's brother-in-law, George Cranstoun (Lord Corehouse) gave his recollection of it to Walter Scott, who produced his own version (1796) of the poem, entitled William and Helen. The announcement of the almost simultaneous publication of Scott's version and three others had led Taylor to publish his in the Monthly Magazine in March 1796; he then published it separately asEllenore, revised with some input from the version by William Robert Spencer.
To 1790 belong also his translations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise and Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris. The former was first published in 1805. The Iphigenia was submitted to Benzler before September 1790, but was not printed till 1793 (for private distribution); and published 1794. In 1795 Taylor sent a copy to Goethe, through Benzler. A volume of Christoph Martin Wieland's ‘Dialogues of the Gods,’ 1795, contained four dialogues; five more dialogues were included in his ‘Historic Survey’ (1828–30).
Taylor's career as a prolific literary critic began in April 1793 with an article in the Monthly Review on his friend Frank Sayers'sDisquisitions. To this review (with a break, 1800–1809) he contributed till 1824; to the Monthly Magazine from its start till 1824; to theAnnual Review from 1802 to 1807; to the Critical Review, 1803–4 and 1809; to the Athenæum, 1807–8, making a total of 1754 articles. He wrote also for the Cambridge Intelligencer, conducted by Benjamin Flower, from 20 July 1793 to 18 June 1803, and was concerned in two short-lived Norwich magazines, the Cabinet (October 1794–5), issued in conjunction with Sayers, and the Iris(5 February 1803–29 January 1804), to which Robert Southey was a contributor. To the Foreign Quarterly (1827) he contributed one article. His friends teased him on the peculiarities of his diction, which James Mackintosh styled the Taylorian language: he coined words such as ‘transversion,’ ‘body-spirit,’ and ‘Sternholdianism. Some of his terms, ruled out by the editor of the Monthly Review as ‘not English,’ have since become accepted—for instance, ‘rehabilitated.’ He forecast steam navigation (1804); advised the formation of colonies in Africa (1805); and projected the Panama Canal (1824).
Taylor suggested to Southey the publication of an annual collection of verse, on the plan of the Almanach des Muses, and contributed to both volumes of this Annual Anthology (1799–1800), using the signatures ‘Ryalto’ (an anagram) and ‘R. O.’ To the second volume he contributed specimens of English hexameters, which he had first attempted in the Monthly Magazine, 1796. As editor of A Voyage to the Demerary (1807) by Henry Bolingbroke, he expressed himself in favour of a regulated slave trade.
His family financial affairs were not prospering, and he wrote more for money. His ‘Tales of Yore,’ 1810, 3 vols. (anon.), was a collection of prose translations from French and German, begun in 1807. On the basis of his magazine articles he issued his ‘English Synonyms Described,’ 1813, a work from which his old schoolfellow George Crabb borrowed much (1824) without specific acknowledgment; it was reissued in 1850 and subsequently; a German translation appeared in 1851. In 1823 he edited the works of his friend Sayers, prefixing an elaborate biography.
His major work, the ‘Historic Survey of German Poetry,’ 1828–30, 3 vols., was behind the times. It is a patchwork of previous articles and translations, with digressions. His last publication was a ‘Memoir,’ 1831, of Philip Meadows Martineau, a Norwich surgeon, written in conjunction with F. Elwes.
Influence
William Taylor was England's first advocate of and enthusiast for German Romantic literature, and leader in its assimilation until the return of Coleridge from Germany in 1799. English writers were indebted to his enthusiastic if free translations. In 1828 the authorThomas Carlyle reminded Goethe that:

A Mr.Taylor of Norwich who is at present publishing 'Specimens of German Poetry', is a man of learning and long ago gave a version of your Iphigenie auf Tauris (Iphigenia in Tauris)
Taylor is depicted as a mentor in George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel Lavengro. Borrow described his philological teacher as:

the Anglo-German... a real character, the founder of the Anglo-German school in England, and the cleverest Englishman who ever talked or wrote encomiastic nonsense about Germany and the Germans. (Romany Rye)
References 

WIKIPEDIA
 "Taylor, William (1765-1836)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Notes
"Taylor, William (1765-1836)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
 Chandler, David, "Taylor, William", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription or UK public library membership required)
 http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Life-of-George-Borrow1.html
s:The Romany Rye/Appendix III
External links
Works by William Taylor at Project Gutenberg Attribution
 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Taylor, William (1765-1836)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Inscriptions

Complete course of study,

for Englisman to obtain the

French Language

at home.

This is the book from Jerome Nicolas Vlieland. It  is a presentation copy from 1827.

As you can see 200 years old but still in a good condition .

when we open it we see the inschription 

To 

W.Taylor Esq

As a mark of Respect 

for his Zeal in the cause 

of literature

from the Author.

This William Taylor is William Taylor of Norwich.

And there is a lot to tell about him .

So we will in several new chapters in the blog tell about his life.

And he is  also named in the blog allready .

Together with John Moore and a lot of other people.

In a long story William Taylor and captain Vlieland meet.

And there is the clue to be found about Jerome Nicholas Vlieland.

As it in Dutch I will try to translate it in English for all to enjoy.

the other inscription is  

to the honourable 

Colonel George Anson,M.P.

this volume 

is most respectfully inscribed 

by his obliged 

and most obedient servant,

the author

The book is great with all kind of folded big charts .

Maybe in the end we will also speak French fluently.

Books

As the books of Jerome Nicholas , the pseudonym for  Archie Vlieland , are not available as an ebook,I decided last week to see if I could buy them  on  the internet.
So on Sunday Deidre was ordered in America for just 3 dollar .
The Asbestos Mask followed 15 minutes later.
Still in a buying mood on Monday Widows Peak was ordered and Whispering Steel followed .
Salute to tomorrow was for 56 pounds to expensive so we have to search for that someday.
And then on Wednesday googling for Jerome Nicholas  and a cheaper Salute to tomorrow, another book appeared .
This time from our own Jerome Nicholas Vlieland with inscription and subscription  and from 1827.
And of course we bought that as well.
Waiting for the arrival we had to look at the ebook again. What to expect ?
And looked at the list of subscribers in the book
Wondering which book from which subscriber it would be .
Today it arrived and still flabbergasted ...............I read who it was for.

Colonel George Anson M.P.
In 2009 I wrote `read all about it `and today that same book is my very own copy.
It has an inscription by the author . I will not tell who it is for .
No more internet today , I have to read .

Joseph Chesterman

Joseph Chesterman and Elizabeth Robinson.

They married in Wellingborough March 1845.They are the parents of Charles Frederick Chesterman.

There is a letter from Clara Bosworth to her brother Thomas Wright Bosworth and his wife Matilda in the National Archives in which is mentioned.
Cousin Elizabeth - Elizabeth Robinson, a sister of JH, Joseph Henry and Mary Ann, Mrs Kimbell. She married Joseph Chesterman in 1845.]
here more from this letter Selina Bosworth Owen, 'your affectionate neice', Thrussington vicarage, to Matilda Bosworth

She hopes Matilda Bosworth is better and is glad to find uncle well. Mrs Beasley's bailiff has been very ill of a fever 'which seems to have been very prevalent about you'.
She is sure 'darling Helen' is a 'sweet interesting little creature'.
She has been staying Barkby. 'Mr Hoare and Ellen brought Matilda home', she could not go back with them because of toothache.
She went with Papa to Leicester to have her tooth drawn, a 'dreadful operation'.
Mr Watts was at Barkby and also Mr Knight [Knight of Thurmaston/Thurcaston] a great friend of John Hoares. It is the week of Edward Hoare's examination and everyone is in a state, she fears he won't pass despite all his advantages and tutors.
'I am going to iron'.
they have had tea at the Simpkins and had a singing lesson. They also went to Tom Simpkins and saw the c

hairs worked on for Mr & Mrs S.

'Shalmerdine gave Mrs T. Simpkins a private lesson last night, she being poorley'. Mrs Fell thinks the current style of singing seems difficult

'I am sure some of the children will never understand it'. Many people came to hear the last session 'and to quizz'. Some of Shalmerdine's class of Melton will come too 'when we get on a little farther'. Mrs Fell sings nicely and sweetly, she plans to visit them soon. 'We are going to Rotherby with her some day, she is a capital clergyman's wife.'

Emma and Agnes Morgan have called and will be coming to tea.

It is Matty's birthday next Wednesday 'I shall be one and twenty.'

Papa has just had a note from Barkby saying that old Mr Hoare has died, he had seemed well. Mrs H 'will sink under her heavy trial' 'Mr Hoare of Barkley will now be paps vicar'.

She has had a letter from aunt Clara, she has borne the severe weather well.

The Tookeys have gone to Dumbleton but Clara thinks they will not go to Cheltenham, 'I thought we should have had them before they went there'.

Mr Barker drove his dear friend Mrs Bowman and others to see them. Mrs B is just the same as ever.

Cousin Elizabeth has been troubled with headaches.

'I suppose you have heard of Mrs Kimble being in the fashionable way of all married ladies, Lizzy says I will give you her words that Peter is very much pleased. She has heard a long account of a party they had been to at Mr Sharmans, 'an ironmonger at Wellingborough.'

Joseph Henry, 'has been quite an invalid for some time'. She wonders if Mrs Kimbell has ever thanked her for her present, she has had no word about hers.

Mrs Bowman gave a present that cost 3 guineas.

Has she heard from Mrs Bishop ?

Her love to Mr Jones etc.

[Edward Hoare - The Rev. Edward Hatch Hoare, vicar of Barkby, had 3 sons, Edward Henry, John Hatch and Charles Alexander. Edward Henry graduated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1844.]

[Mr Hoare - The Rev. Edward Henry Hoare, vicar of Thrussington and father of the Rev. Edward Hatch Hoare, vicar of Barkby, was buried 9 March 1843. He was succeeded at Thrussington by the Rev. John Babington.]

[William Shalmerdine, music master and seller, High Street, Melton Mowbray - Whites Directory 1846.]

[Cousin Elizabeth - Elizabeth Robinson, a sister of JH, Joseph Henry and Mary Ann, Mrs Kimbell. She married Joseph Chesterman in 1845.]

[John Wood Sharman, ironmonger and seedsman, Whellan Directory 1849.

Charles Frederick Chesterman

Charles Frederick Chesterman was the husband of Frances Elisabeth Vlieland 

Charles was the only son of Joseph Chesterman who married Elizabeth Robinson and was born March 1850  Marylebone.
he died Mar 1930 - Exeter, Devon, England - Age: 80[Feb 1930]At Harnstead  

 Charles built a wonderfull House for Frances called Stalisfield House.
They had two children Hugh and Linda .

He can be found in the National Archives .
2. Charles Frederick Chesterman of 41, North Street, Manchester Square [St. Marylebone], timber merchant

He build a house as a  retirement home which was later the house of his daughter Linda  in Trevalga Cornwall

For his wife Fanny he build a loveley house named Stalisfield house in Harnstead .

His father Joseph and mother Elizabeth married in March 1845 in Wellingborough.

Linda Chesterman

Linda Frances Chesterman born 16 Oct 1881.
Daughter of Charles Frederick Chesterman and Frances Elisabeth Vlieland.

Here with her brother Hugh Chesterman 

She attended the Royal Academy of music in London and studied piano and composition.She then became a lecturer at the Froebie
Institute at Roehampton.
She later moved to Trevalga Cornwall.
On the internet you can find the house for sale now.

Price: £495,000

Bedrooms: 4, Bathrooms: 2


Houses Cornwall, For Sale,13746785,Trevalga,Cornwall,England,UK. A charming character house enjoying open views and delightful gardens Far reaching south facing view For sale first time in 40 year 2 reception rooms plus sunroom 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Kitchen with Aga Situation The north coast of Cornwall is renowned for its beautiful countryside, spectacular coastline, rugged cliffs and wonderful sandy beaches, as well as quaint coastal fishing villages including Boscastle, Port Isaac and Crackington Haven. The area is also well known for its association with the legend of King Arthur, and Tintagel Castle was purported to have once been his stronghold. There are ample opportunities for walking and riding and the area is a Mecca for surfing and other watersports. There are excellent golf courses at Bowood, near Camelford and St.Enodoc and Trevose near the Camel Estuary. St Yse occupies a truly delightful and unique setting just to the south of the village of Boscastle, above the hamlet of Trethevy and on the side of St. Nectan's Glen, with access over a private right of way. The area is designated as an 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty' and is best known for the spectacular waterfall, believed by some to have spiritual qualities. St. Nectan's waterfall is in a designated Site of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI). The precise location of St. Yse is exceptional: it is extremely hidden away and approached only by an unmade track approximately 1/2 mile in length, yet the coastline and South-West coastal footpath are within approximately 1½ miles. The A30 trunk road, which links with the M5 motorway at Exeter, is accessible via the nearby A395 a few miles to the east. Newquay and Exeter International Airports offer daily flight to London. Bodmin Parkway is the nearest mainline railway station with services to London Paddington, Bristol, Birmingham, the North of England and Scotland. History St Yse was built circa 1904 by a Mr Chesterman, a London timber merchant, who built the house as his retirement home. Two years lat


Here the books she wrote
MUSIC FOR THE INFANT SCHOOL: PART 1: ACTIVITIES AND SONGS.
Chesterman, Linda.

Music for the Nursery School
Arranged by Linda Chesterman

Music for the Nursery School: A Collection of Old and New Marches, Rhymes, Games, Etc
Linda Chesterman

Hugh Chesterman

Hugh Chesterman is born 20th March 1884  and died 3 Nov 1941
He was the son of Frances Elisabeth Vlieland  and Charles Frederick Chesterman.
He had a sister Linda Chesterman.

We found in the books on internet.............
About Hugh Chesterman
Hugh Chesterman is a published author. A published credit of Hugh Chesterman is Playing with history (Teaching of English series). He wrote many children's books in the 1920s and 30s, and edited a children's magazine called The Merry Go Round, published in Oxford with his great friend Basil Blackwell. He was married to Sylvia Wyse West, and had 2 daughters, Jenifer and Elizabeth. Chesterman was killed during the 2nd WW. His grand and great grand children still live on, in the UK - I am one of them! 
Hope he will send us an email.

Hugh attended Cambridge reading History and English.
He then became an Ordinand at Ely,but decided not to go into the church.He fought in the first world war and then got a post as a master at St.Paul's Cathedral Choir School.
This was about 1925 and here he met and married Sylvia Wyse West .
Sylvia was the daughter of Ada Caroline  Wyse and Joseph Walter West.
They found a house in Islip "the confessors gate" and moved in,( The most expensive transaction that has been recorded in High Street is The Confessors Gate. It sold on 25/07/2002 for £850,000.)
In Islip in the warmemorial we find
Chesterman, Hugh R Berks 94264 Lt, died 3 Nov 1941,age 57, Son of Charles Frederick and Frances Elizabeth Chesterman; husband of Sylvia Wyse Chesterman, of Islip. B.A. Also served in 1914-1918 War, buried in Islip cemetery.

Gloucestershire Echo :Tuesday 04 November 1941
Lieut. Hugh Chesterman, of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, in private life a well-known artist, was killed while cycling last night at Hampton Gay ...

They had two daughters 1. Jenifer Chesterman
Birth: May 31, 1927, Uxbridge England
Death: Sep. 14, 2002, England
She married William J..Brown

and 2. Elizabeth.Chesterman born 1930 Uxbridge  who married Charles Guy Dover Swinnerton

They had a son Nicholas John Swinnerton.

first marriage of  Charles G.D.Swinnerton was  with Ann Fairley Clarke 1949 Oxford 

They had 2 sons Robert C and Andrew Swinnerton.
second marriage Elizabeth.Chesterman born 1930 Uxbridge  in 1966 Ploughley Oxon


Also we find Hugh in the London Gazette

Cadet Corps (Worksop College) attached to the 4th (Nottinghamshire) Volunteer Battalion,

The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and DerbyshireRegiment); Hugh Chesterman, Gent., to

be Lieutenant. Dated 7th February, 1906

Later on he joint the publishing firm and booksellers of Basil Blackwell of Oxford.

He also illustrated childrens books
Here an example

He also wrote a poem
Sir Nicketty Nox

Sir Nicketty Nox was an ancient knight,
so old was he that he'd lost his sight.
blind as a mole, and slim as a fox,
and dry as a stick was Sir Nicketty Nox.

his sword amd buckler were old and cracked,
so was his charger and that's a fact.
thin as a rake from head to hocks,
was this rickety nad of Sir Nicketty Nox.
a wife he had and daughters three,
and all were as old, as old could be.
they mended the shirts and darned the socks,
of that old antiquity, Nicketty Nox.
sir nicketty Nox would fly in rage
if anyone tried to guess his age.
he'd mouth and mutter and tear his locks,
this pernickety Nicketty Nox.

well enjoy that!!!
It is a poem by Hugh Chesterman

and so is this one
This poem beginning "John was a tyrant, / John was a tartar, / But John put his name to the Great Big Charter" is called 'King John', and is by Hugh Chesterman (b.1884). It is in Brian Moses' anthology Blood and Roses: British History in Poetry, which was published by Hodder Children's Books in 2004.

Other books are

The highway1 edition - first published in 1935

In England, once1 edition

A maid in armour1 edition - first published in 1936

Quiristers of Paule's1 edition - first published in 1922

Seven for a secret1 edition - first published in 1930

The muse amuses1 edition - first published in 1933

click here for more about his work 


Hugh CHESTERMAN

Lieutenant, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Army no. 94264

He died on 3 November 1941 on War Service. He was 57,

He was the son of Charles F and Frances E Chesterman and the husband of Sylvia Wyse Chesterman of Islip. B.A.

He is buried in the Churchyard St. Nicholas, Islip

Additional Information

He also served in 1914-1918 War

Hugh Chesterman was a published author. He wrote many children's books in the 1920s and 30s, and edited a children's magazine called The Merry Go Round, published in Oxford with his great friend Basil Blackwell.

I have not established the circumstances of his death but his age must have precluded an active involvement

His address for Probate was The Confessor’s Gate, Islip

Aberdeen Journal - Monday 12 July 1926

MERRY GO ROUND. " The Merry-go-Round" is a children's magazine, which commands the respect grown-ups and the interest of children. Animals of various kinds monopolise a large share of the July number. There is " Flurry and Chirrup," by Mabel Marlowe, a story of Squirrels, which has illustrations by Harry Rowntree. Baptista by the editor, Hugh Chesterman, tells of a monkey, and there is yet another animal contribution, " Pets I Have Kept—The White Rat." There is helpful article photography for beginners, and another on how to construct that most fascinating of amusements, toy theatre.

Western Times - Friday 10 May 1946DRAMA FESTIVAL Short Play Winners At Torquay Torquay Drama Festival ended on Monday, when four short plays were performed, the adjudicator being Mr. Richard Southern. "Waxen Man" (Mary Reynolds), given by Totnes Evening Institute Drama Group, and Matrimonial," by Torbay Operatic and Dramatic Society, earned the adjudicator's praise. Cradle Song," by the Kingskerswell Drama Group, and the Holne Players' performance of Hugh Chesterman's "The Pie and the Tart" also received favourable comment. Mr. Cyril Maude thanked the adjudicator, and Mr. Lan Kelway (county organizer for music and drama) thanked those who had contributed to the festival's success. The organizer was Miss Edna Bayliss.

CHILDREN'S RHYMES. From Hugh Chesterman, as is to expected, come children's rhymes, full of fun for the kiddies and yet bearing subtle wit that will appeal to older folks. Most amusing are the Knights, the Gentlemen, and the Simpletons who parade for public inspection in u Proud Sir and Other Verses" (3s 6d), Basil Blackwell publication. Highly differentiated are all these characters, seven in each section. Apart from the knight who gives the book its title, there are Sir Tush, tho Indiscreet Knight, Sir Mungo Myngs, the timid knight, lean of limb and lily-livered, and Sir Beville Blevde, the audacious knight, who had slain a hundred knights of Aquitania eingle-handed, and whose blows landed so fast they could not be counted. Along with the "Gentlemen" are other familiars pirate, a troubadour, and a bowman, while the simpletons are of the nursery rhyme and country yokel type. Mr Chesterman is also- responsible for the quaint drawings with which the book is illustrated.

Aberdeen Journal - Thursday 08 December 1927

Western Morning News - Monday 17 October 1927

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 06 December 1933

Aberdeen journal 19 September 1929 

A SOLDIER'S THOUGHTS. BOLTS FROM THE BLUE. B T - I> Cameron Wilson. ells Gardner, Darton and Co: os. This is a posthumous book. The author, who was staff captain thii 51st Infantry Brigade, was ki led on M.iich 1918, two days after he had ns-sed lus life bringing in a wounded man his own company. Tock Pip," he was called by his fellow-officers, Hugh Chesterman tells in introduction that prepares admirably for story which, he says, reveals the author's own outlook on life was written before the war, but human mituic has not changed, and the people whom Paul brought under his philosop ash in the terribly candid letters that he urote before going to the operating table are still with us. Paul did not intend the letters to be posted until was dead, hut they were posted accident, and operation was not required, he returned to find other points of view awaiting him. That is the climax of the story, but the leacing up to it is just as good. Paul hated conventional with a contemptuous hatred. ' 1 Watch for the divinity blackguard is typical of his attituds. The story how his solitude at the village was invaded is told with delightful humour. It a J that is more than good to read: it is one to go back to; and the publishers, who hitherto have been chiefly identified with long-established favourite publications young people, are to congratulated on giving this fine bit of work in so attractive a form. 

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Saturday 18 March 1939

Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 25 March 1949

Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 23 January 1924

Dundee Courier - Wednesday 13 November 1935

FOR THE CLASSROOM A number of books which arc of special interest to teachers have been published by Messrs Nelson & Sons. There are two additions to the “Teaching of English’* series. In “The Forest/’ Stewart Edward White gives us. in series of detached impressions, the spirit of the Canadian Forest, the scene of his stories of lumbering. Hugh Chesterman writes book of merry little poama on classroom subjects, profusely Illustrated by himself, which is aptly called The Muse A.ruses These two books are Is 3d and respectively. An attractive illustrated French reader for intermediate classes is provided by Philippe le Harivel called *’ Souvenirs et Tribulations de Chariot.” It costs la 3d. and furnished with well-chosen questionnaires, exercises, and vocabularies. In answer to the constant question of young children. '* May do play?” Mr P. Laflin has produced some playlets for Infants from familiar fairy tales. The title of the book, which coeta only 7d, ia Little Play Book." The purpose of Stephen S Moore’s M School Score Book ” (2s 6d). is to teach children about score-reading, conducting. and time and rhythm, accompanying music with percussion instruments. Two sets of 12 coloured animal pictures for infants* individual work are priced Is each. STUDY OP THE RENT ACTS “THE RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS ACTS. 1920 to 1033" by Allan Neil. M.A.. S.S.C.. and R. A. Simpson. Edinburgh Wm. Hodge & Co.. Ltd. 19a net. The first Rent Restriction Act became law some years ago. and since then many new have been passed. These are complicated in their terms, and the decisions arising out of them are often so seemingly contradictory* that even the proverbial Philadelphia lawyer might well be puzzled to understand them. The joint authors of this book arc authorities on the Rent Acts, and the second and much enlarged edition now published gives ample evidence of the close and careful study which they have brought to bear on this very difficult subject. The work is thoroughly up to date, and, of course, includes the important Act of 1933; while copious references to decisions bearing on the various points form feature of it. and prove beyond doubt the amount of careful and painstaking research expended on its preparation. The work, clear, practical, ana concise, should prove of the utmost value not only to lawyers, but to all those who are likely to be confronted with difficult questions under the Acts. 

Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 19 February 1934

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 06 June 1935

Wednesday 25 January 1939 , Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer

Hull Daily Mail - Monday 13 August 1928

Iris Lillian Pechell West is the sister of Sylvia Wyse West.

Joseph Walter West married Croydon, Surrey in 1891, Ada Caroline Wise and after living at Croydon, Harrow and Northwood, in 1911 a 50 year old 'artist painter in oil and watercolour, illustrator, engraver' living at The Vane, Uxbridge, Middlesex with his 50 year old wife Ada and their four daughters, Iris Lilian Pechell 18, Marjorie Grace Halbourn 17, Sylvia Wyse 15 and Victoria Cicely Grafton 13. 

He is a famous painter who used his daughters as model on bookcovers and on the Studio.

More on Hugh Chesterman and more on Sylvia Wyse  West.