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May 31. — An accident occurred this evening, at Washington Colliery, about eight miles south of Newcastle, resulting in the death of eight men and two boys. It appeared that on being drawn to bank the brakesman in charge of the engine did not stop the machinery as the cage got to the mouth of the pit. The result was that the cage, with its occupants, was drawn right up against the "chocks," near the pullies, with so much violence that the wire rope broke, letting the cage and the men fall down the shaft. All the men must have been instantaneously killed, the pit being 250 yards in depth. [LRF]

July 4. — The marriage of Mr. Charles M. Palmer, of Grinkle Park, Yorkshire, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Miss Augusta Mary Lambert, only daughter of Chevalier Alfred Lambert, was solemnized at St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, London. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. L. Lambert, uncle of the bride, assisted by the Rev. C. Moody, Vicar of Newcastle. The bride wore a magnificent dress of white satin, trimmed with Brussels lace, and was attended by ten bridesmaids. [LRF]

August 21. — Died, at Alnwick Castle, aged 89, the Most High and Puissant and Most Noble Prince George Percy, Duke and Earl of Northumberland, Earl Percy, Earl of Beverley, in the county of York, Baron Warkworth, of Warkworth Castle, and Lord Lovaine, Baron of Alnwick, Baronet, and one of the Lords of Her Majesty’s most honourable council. The body lay in state at Alnwick Castle a few days previous to its removal to Westminster Abbey, where it was interred on the 30th, with all the honours befitting his exalted rank. The bells of Newcastle, Morpeth, Alnwick, Berwick, Tynemouth, Shields, &c., tolled muffled peals from twelve till two, and other marks of respect were observed in the north. A hatchment, containing the heraldic insignia of the late duke, was placed in front of the Barbican of Alnwick Castle, but its emblazonment appears shorn of the honours borne by previous dukes of Northumberland. It displays the arms of Brabant, Lucy, and Percy, quartered per pale with those of the Stewart, Wortley, Mackenzies, Earls of Wharncliffe, of which family the consort of the late duke was a member, but those of Poynings, Fitzpayne, Bryan, and Latimer are missing. There were six baronies inherited from Josceline, the eleventh earl of Northumberland, by Elizabeth, the first duchess, namely, those of Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitzpayne, Bryan, and Latimer, and these she transmitted to her eldest son and his heirs general. The third and fourth dukes having died without leaving direct heirs, these baronies would seem, by the usual law which regulates the descent of such tenures, to pertain now to the issue of their sister, the Lady Glenlyon, daughter of the second duke, whose grandson and direct representative is the present Duke of Athol, to whom, therefore, they would appear to belong. [LRF]

 

 

 

• LRF — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, published in 1867