S

• Sackville college, East Grinstead 1089.
• Saddler 1229.
• St. Andrew’s, rector of university Mill 875,
• provost Playfair 1557,
• St. Andrew’s golf club 1557.
• St. George and the dragon on the English coins 1546.
• St. Helena, observatory erected 108.
• St. Paul’s cathedral, tablet in memory of murdered war correspondents 1612.
• St. Paul, Horace, his son 133.
• Salford, Lancashire, library and museum 1554,
• Salford hundred court of record 162,
• ancient market 1437.
• Salt, process for refining 1354.
• Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, founded 1426.
• Saltley, Warwickshire, diocesan training college 551.
• Sams, William, publisher and peerage proprietor 16.
• Sandwich islands held by Great Britain 1397.
• Sanitary engineer, Jennings 82.
• Saxon antiquities, Faussett’s collection of 813.
• Scene painters, James 47,
• Leitch 381,
• Lancaster 288,
• Marshall 755,
• Morgan 967,
• O’ Connor 1208,
• Oliver 1237.
• See also under Theatres.
• Schools, first inspector of 962,
• the Misses Lees’ school 351.
• Scotland, black polled cattle 574,
• cricket introduced 240,
• Dick bequest for parochial schoolmasters 844,
• Forbes Mackenzies’ act 634,
• forty new churches erected 905,
• Gaelic episcopal society 508,
• grand master mason 731,
• hangman, the public 1034,
• herring fisheries 279,
• keeper of judicial records 1349,
• kelp trade 279,
• island of Lewis, owner of 790,
• famine in Lewis 790,
• Lord Lyon, king of arms 241,
• meteorological soc. founded 112,
• MS. collections relating to 269,
• royal company of archers, president 840,
• Secession and Relief churches united 622,
• Strathpeffer spa 727,
• Sutherlandshire clearings 465,
• tenant farmer a member of parliament 575,
• tweed trade originated 591.
• Scott, Sir Walter, d. 1832, author, his friend 696,
• he sees Rob Roy acted 618.
• Screw pile and ship mooring invented 901.
• Sculptors, Chantrey 126,
• Chenu 595,
• Johnson 104,
• Jones 135,
• Keene 174,
• King 225,
• Ladeuil 275,
• Ledward 349,
• Legrew 372,
• Leifchild 373,
• Leyland 422,
• Lough 500,
• Lucas 525,
• Lynn 545,
• Macbridge 566,
• Maccarthy 569,
• Macdonald 584,
• Macdowell 595,
• Manning 723,
• Marochetti 743,
• Moffitt 912,
• Montalba 930,
• Monti 939,
• Mossman 1000,
• Munro 1028,
• Nixon 1154,
• Noble 1157,
• O’ Doherty 1212,
• Papworth 1330,
• Park 1339,
• Philip 1493.
• Sea, deep sea dredging 71,
• mean level determined 61,
• Normandy’s apparatus for distilling sea water 1168.
• Sea hath its pearls, The, a song 1544.
• Seaweed imported from Sweden 225.
• Seaham harbour, Durham opened 482.
• Selby, Bishop of, an assumed title 1000.
• Selkirkshire, lord lieutenant 468.
• Serjeants at law, Jervis 91,
• Jones, C. C. 123,
• Jones, H. G. 128,
• Keating 169,
• Kelly 182,
• Kinglake 232,
• Law 324,
• Ludlow 527,
• Lush 533,
• Lyndhurst 543,
• Manning 723,
• Mellor 837,
• Merewether 848,
• Miller 882,
• Murphy 1038,
• O’ Brien 1199,
• Parry 1364,
• Payne 1406,
• Petersdorff 1478,
• Pigott 1532,
• Pollock 1575,
• Pulling 1667,
• Quain 1685.
• Sewell, Elizabeth, d. 1879, linguist 790.
• Shaftesbury, Anthony A., d. 1885, seventh earl, his successor 240.
• Shakespeare, William, d. 1616, all his plays except six produced at Sadler’s Wells 1491,
• Centurie of prayse 11,
• Collier controversy 1362,
• Perkin’s folio 1362,
• Shakespeare fabrications 11,
• Shakesperian jesting in the circus ring originated 751,
• three hundredth anniversary celebration 766,
• trustees of his birthplace 10.
• Shakespeare, William, editions of his works, first folio edition 431,
• Henry Irving edition of works 756,
• Clark and Wright’s edition of works 519.
• Sheehy, Eugene, Roman catholic priest, arrested in Limerick 456.
• Sheep, Alpaca sent to Australia 349,
• black faced 675,
• breeders of 691, 1434, 1678,
• farmer 752.
• Sheffield, Yorkshire, botanic gardens 742,
• birthday club 95,
• Jessop hospital 95,
• Mappin’s collection of pictures 731,
• mayor and master cutler combined 798.
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, d. 1822, poet, his executor 1414,
• his friend 1653,
• his works considered profane 1011.
• She wore a wreath of roses, a song 254.
• Sheridan, Thomas, d. 1817, his daughter Mrs. Norton 1179.
• Ship builders, Elder 1416,
• Fairfield co. 1416,
• Kirk 243,
• Laing 279,
• Laird 280.
• Shipowners, Inman 16,
• Jenkins 76,
• Pollok 1576.
• Shipping Companies, African steam ship co. 280,
• British and North American co. 280,
• British India steam navigating co. 639,
• Guion line 1416,
• Inman line 16,
• Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia co. 16,
• North German Lloyd’s 1416,
• New Zealand co. 1416,
• Scottish Oriental 1416.
• Ships and Shipping, anti-fouling composition for bottoms of 1412,
• curves of stability 101,
• international code of marine signals 908,
• Manby’s rocket apparatus 715,
• self holding brakes for windlasses 1079,
• ship broker 439,
• signal stations for ships 908,
• unimmersible boats 715.
• See also Steamships.
• Shipwrecks, Alfonzo xii 473,
• Athénienne 1683,
• Brother Jonathan 14,
• Elizabeth 715,
• Great Britain 605,
• Kent 607, 608,
• Lady Elgin 14,
• Liberia 514,
• London 1222, 1317,
• Northfleet 258,
• Pacific 1252,
• Rothsay castle 988,
• Royal charter 473,
• Victoria 986.
• Shoeblack brigade founded 608.
• Shoemakers, learned, Kendall 191,
• Kennedy 197,
• Kitto 248,
• Knight 255,
• Leatherland 345,
• Lochore 466,
• M’ Kay 619,
• Mason, F. 781,
• Mason, Sir J. 783,
• Miller 876,
• Mitchell 903,
• Murray 1055,
• Odger 1212,
• Richardson 876.
• Shoreham, Sussex, harbour constructed 539.
• Shorthand, libraries of books on 415,
• Lewis’ system 415,
• Lloyd’s stenography 458,
• shorthand writers 1548,
• the only writer in Devonshire 314.
• Shrewsbury school, Shropshire, head master 195.
• Silk, manufacturer Nicholson 1141,
• mercer Jeffery 70.
• Silver, made from base metals 1329,
• to separate silver from lead 1388.
• Singh, Duleep, d. 1893, The Maharajah, his guardian 479.
• Singers, See also Actors,
• Amadi 504,
• Andrews 1382,
• Barnett 1506,
• Bianchi 273,
• Bolton 306,
• Celli 1684,
• Cole 1087,
• Fillippi 1500,
• Fisher 688,
• Grisi 736,
• Incledon 9,
• Isaacs 25,
• Jackson 273,
• Jones 132,
• Jonghmans 147,
• Kennedy 196,
• King 306,
• Knight 254,
• Knyvett, C. 265,
• Knyvett, D. 265,
• Knyvett, W. 265,
• Lablache, F. 271,
• Lablache, L. 271,
• Lacy, J. 273,
• Lacy, J. W. 273,
• Land 289,
• Lanza 306,
• Lee 351,
• Leffler 368,
• Lind 433,
• Linn 441,
• Love 502,
• Maas 555,
• Maeder 688,
• Manvers 730, 755,
• Mario 736,
• Marras 743,
• Masson 788,
• Miranda 900,
• New 1114,
• Orridge 1262,
• Oudin 1276,
• Parepa-Rosa 1334,
• Parry 1364,
• Pasta 1376,
• Patey 1382,
• Paton 1383,
• Patti 1388,
• Paul 1393,
• Penna 1450,
• Perkins 1467,
• Piccolomini 1468,
• Persiani 1475,
• Phillipps 1499,
• Phillips, H. 1506,
• Potocki 1599,
• Povey 254, 1607,
• Purdy 1673,
• Puzzi 1679,
• Pyne, G. 1683,
• Pyne, J. K. 1684,
• Pyne, L. F. 1684,
• Pyne, S. 1684,
• Roze 1467,
• Schulz 744,
• Stephens 306,
• Travis 265,
• Tree 306, 1404,
• Vestris 794,
• Waylett 351,
• Woods 1384,
• Wyndham 271.
• Singers, Comic, Leybourne 421,
• Lloyd 226,
• Maynard 816,
• Moody 941,
• Ogden 1217,
• Pearce 1415,
• Powell 1609,
• Vance 421.
• Skating, National skating association founded 1012,
• skating rink 1644.
• Slap Bang, the expression first used 1471.
• Slavery, anti-slavery advocate, Lushington 535,
• engagés libres system 656,
• meeting in London 1616,
• slave owner 1542.
• Sleep, on going to sleep 945.
• Sleigh, Burrowes Willcocks Arthur, colonel, d. Chelsea March 1869, proprietor of Daily telegraph 407.
• Smith, Albert, d. 1860, entertainer, takes lessons in fencing and boxing 31,
• writes an entertainment 1364.
• Smith, Thomas Assheton, yachtman, d. 1858, Pandora’s voyage to North Pole 498.
• Smith, John, of the Pop Gun inn, a traitor 384.
• Smoke-jack maker 513.
• Snow, lost and buried for a night in the 64.
• Snuff boxes, painting of 578.
• Soap, hardened by sulphate of soda 1168,
• resin used in manufacture 1565.
• Societies, See also Associations, col. 1703
• and Institutions, col. 1722.
• Acclimatisation, secretary 513.
• Alliance national land and building founded 1156.
• Amalgamated society of railway servants, president 78.
• Artists’ benevolent fund, secretary 769.
• Arundel, their fictile ivories 1108.
• Antiquaries, director 894.
• Art union of London founded 1566.
• Artists’ annuity fund founded 1681.
• Askesian founded 1460, 1509.
• Astronomical founded 142.
• Artists’ annuity fund, president 532.
• Bath and West of England agricultural 537, 1549.
• Berwickshire naturalists’ club, founders 114.
• Brighton and Sussex medico-chirurgical 80.
• British gynæcological, first president 824.
• British homœopathic founded 1690.
• British mineralogical and geological founded 1460.
• Cambrian promoted 1363.
• Cambrian archæological association founded 127.
• Cambridge Camden founded 1089.
• Chemical founded 491, 885.
• Chetham founded 1355.
• Choral harmonists’ founded 1184.
• Classical harmonists’ founded 1184.
• Church of England protection, president 436.
• City philosophical founded 1484.
• Civil engineers, secretary 308.
• Coffee tavern company originated 1586.
• Cymmroderion founded 1287.
• Devonshire association founded 1447.
• Emancipation for slaves founded 525.
• English church union founded 1286,
• president 436.
• Entomological founded 1122.
• Entomological, New South Wales founded 652.
• Epidemiological founded 897.
• Ethnological originated 228.
• Female emigration founded 1688.
• Financial reform union founded 1156.
• For improvement of religious condition of seamen originated 237.
• Gaelic, the founder 476,
• first chief of 675.
• Geographical, president 1033.
• Geological of Cornwall, founders 705, 1336.
• Governesses asylum, founder 278.
• Handel founded and ceased 598.
• Hardwick’s debating founded 667.
• Hermetic founded 234.
• Highland and agricultural of Scotland, secretary 809.
• Historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1527.
• Horticultural, secretary 434.
• Hunterian founded 1290.
• Irish founded 782.
• Jersey agricultural and horticultural founded 348.
• Juridical founded 421.
• Linnean, librarian 242.
• Linnean, New South Wales, constituted 652.
• London and Middlesex archæological, president 481.
• London oratory founded 264.
• London political union founded 1156.
• London, for promoting christianity among Jews, mission to Poland 570.
• London trade council formed 1212.
• Lowtonian founded 514.
• Martineau founded 774.
• Meteorological, president 720.
• Microscopical founded 444,
• president 1687.
• Miners’ national union, president 581.
• National choral established 766.
• National complete suffrage union founded 862.
• National orphan home founded 233.
• Owls commencement and ending 260.
• Oxford Old college historical revived 1077.
• Parliamentary candidate founded 1473.
• Pharmaceutical, founder 8.
• Philharmonic established 1184.
• Philosophical of London founded 1484.
• Political union founded 1032.
• Ray, founders of 114.
• Religious tract, book editor 724,
• books of travels 724,
• secretary 146.
• Royal, Woollaston medals made of palladium 109.
• Royal agricultural founded 861, 1678.
• Royal Asiatic, last original member 672.
• Royal astronomical, Lee bequests 354,
• president 721.
• Royal geographical, secretary 36.
• Royal horticultural, scientific director 1041.
• Royal microscopical founded 1290.
• Royal society of literature founded 85.
• Royal society for protection of life from fire, 509.
• Royal toxophilite 1576.
• Scottish corporation, secretary 914.
• Sisterhood of Good Samaritans at Coatham 1389.
• Smeatonian society of engineers, treasurer 1067.
• Society for suppression of vice, secretary 1641.
• Society of arts, the Swiney cup 659.
• Society of English medallists founded 1585.
• Society of reporters founded 415.
• Sunday school union founded 1152.
• Sussex archæological founded 515.
• Torquay natural history founded 1447.
• Tract, secretary 144.
• Utilitarian founded 875.
• Wernerian natural history founded 57.
• Wetteravian, a member 359.
• Women’s printing founded 1378.
• Yorkshire agricultural founded 861.
• Zoological, secretary 902.
• Society men and women, Jersey 90,
• Montagu 929.
• Solicitors general, Collier 925,
• Jervis 91,
• Karslake 160,
• Keating 169,
• Kelly 182.
• Soda water apparatus 1460.
• Somersault throwers, Lee 356,
• Lees 365,
• Myers 1065.
• Somersetshire, lords lieutenant 5, 1596.
• Song writers, Kenny 203,
• Mackay 619,
• Mitchell 903,
• Perry 1470,
• Roberts, Mrs. V. 274.
• Sothern Edward Askew, d. 1881, actor, Our american cousin produced 174.
• South Kensington museum, catalogue compiler 212,
• Jones collection 133,
• Percy’s metallurgical specimens 1464.
• Southey, Robert d. 1843 poet, an acquaintance 1409,
• Mason corresponds with him 782.
• Southwark, Surrey, borough court of record 1406,
• high steward of 1406.
• Spain, Jameson created a caballero of 57,
• Lorca outrage on H. D. Jencken 75,
• St. Sebastian forlorn hope at 127.
• Spelling, J. Jones system of Welsh spelling 130,
• Mavor’s spelling book 806.
• Spiral ascensionist, Ethardo 1203.
• Spiritualists, Moses a medium 998,
• Mountford 1008.
• Spithead, Hants. sea forts constructed 344.
• Split ring makers 783.
• Spirits, sale of spirits amendment act 772.
• Spurgeon, Charles Hadden, d. 1892, preacher, his sermon on baptismal regeneration 1669,
• sermons and books printed 1376.
• Stafford, first mayor 779.
• Staffordshire, lord lieutenant 423.
• Stained glass, designer of Oliphant 1233.
• Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy, d. 1839, her medical attendant 855.
• Stanley, Arthur Penryn, d. 1881, dean of Westminster his great friend 1423.
• Stanley, Henry Morton i.e. John Rowlands b. 1841, expedition for relief of Emin Pacha 56.
• Stationers, Key 214, 401,
• Parkins 1354.
• Stationery, cheap paper and envelopes introduced 1355.
• Statues and Busts, Akroyd 1493,
• Albert 135, 1157,
• Carpenter 1154,
• Clyde 743,
• Crosby 1154,
• Derby 1157,
• Franklin 1157,
• Gilpin 104,
• Gough 104,
• Iddesleigh 1176,
• Ingram 14,
• Jacob 43,
• Jefferies 68,
• Jesse 94,
• Jessel 95,
• Jones 141,
• Key 215,
• Kiallmark 216,
• Lane 296,
• Lander 316,
• Lawrence 330,
• Leeman 363,
• Lewis 413,
• Lloyd 460,
• Liardet 422,
• Locke 467,
• Logan 476,
• Louis Philippe 135,
• Macaulay 563,
• Macdonald 584,
• Macleod 657,
• Mc Niell 672,
• Maning 719,
• Marsh 751,
• Marshall 759,
• Mary, Queen 1028,
• Mason 783,
• Mathew 791,
• Maurice 805,
• May 813,
• Mayer 813,
• Mayo 819,
• Moffat 104,
• Moor 914,
• Mort 992,
• Murray, D. 1042,
• Napier, C. J. 1074,
• Napier, W. F. P. 1080,
• Napier, R. C. 1072,
• Neill 1095,
• Napoleon iii 135,
• Oastler 1195,
• O’Brien 1201,
• O’Hagan 1224,
• Outram 1157, 1279,
• Owen 1287,
• Parkes 1353,
• Peabody 1408,
• Pease 1427,
• Peel L. 1434,
• Peel W. 1435,
• Phayre 1488,
• Pierce 1528,
• Plowden 15,
• Pond 1577,
• Pugin 1665,
• Quain, J. R. 1685,
• Quain, R. 1686,
• Richard Cœur de Lion 743,
• Sadler 1339,
• Tennant 1339,
• Victoria, Queen 135, 1157,
• Vincent 104,
• Wales, prince of 15,
• Wallace 1339,
• Watt 1028,
• Wellington 1157,
• William iv 1154.
• Steam hammers 989, 1085.
• Steam locomotives, competition at Rainhill 198,
• Field’s boiler 855,
• high pressure 1466, 1467,
• Rocket, The 1521.
• Steam ships, boomerang propeller 907,
• direct acting annular cylinder screw engine 800,
• double cylinder engine 800,
• feathering screw propeller 800, 801,
• first screw steamer to the Levant 923,
• inventors of steam navigation 886,
• iron boats built 889,
• iron first used in building 280, 1079,
• iron plating in alternate strakes 1077,
• Jackson’s propeller 32,
• Manby’s oscillating engines 1449,
• marine engine improvements 58,
• oscillating engines first used 1099,
• oscillating engine, slide valves worked by an eccentric 800,
• paddles used instead of wheels 502,
• propellers 801,
• screw propellers 513, 1536,
• steeple engine invented 1075,
• surface condenser for engines 1075,
• twin screw invented 375.
• See also Ships.
• Steam vessels, Atlantic greyhound, i.e. City of Rome 101,
• City of Berlin 16,
• La Normandie 101.
• Steel, Bessemer process used 843,
• steel smelters 95.
• Steel pen makers, Mason 783,
• Perry 783, 1472.
• Stereoscopic and photographic company 1183.
• Stephenson, George, d. 1848, engineer, his connection with E. Pease 1426.
• Stirlingshire, lord lieutenant 940.
• Stock exchange, London, the twelve jewish brokers 932.
• Stockport, Lancashire, chartist disturbances 1447,
• Jennison’s gardens established 83.
• Stone throwing 442.
• Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, d. 1896, author and lord Byron 374.
• Street dramatic reciter 1126.
• Street making, concrete for 905.
• Strickland, Agnes, d. 1874, author, her sister 941.
• Strikes, dock labourers 1182.
• Strutt, Mr., theatrical manager 171.
• Struve, Dr., prepares mineral waters at Brighton 230.
• Stuart, Charles Edward, d. 1788, The Young Pretender, his widow 1690.
• Sudburry, Suffolk, disfranchised 123.
• Suez, Egypt, first Englishman residing there 406.
• Sugar, duties abolished 1175,
• machine for cutting 1019,
• sugar refiners 599.
• Suicides, Jackson, Arthur Gregory, hanged himself 28.
• Jones, John, died from attempted suicide 132.
• Jullien, Louis G. A. J., wounded himself with a knife 156.
• Lardner, Leopold James, threw himself from a window 308.
• Le Grew, James, committed suicide 373.
• Levy, Amy, inhaled fumes of charcoal 407.
• Lingard, James W., committed suicide 439.
• Low, Walter, took paregoric 510.
• Lowndes, Jefferson, shot himself 515.
• Lyttleton, George W. L., Baron, jumped out of a window 551.
• Martin, G., cut his throat 765.
• Matthiessen, A., took prussic acid 798.
• Mercer, George, shot himself in bed 846.
• Montgomery, W., shot himself 938.
• Morris, R., shot himself 985.
• Mowat, J. L. G., hanged himself Oxford 1010.
• Moxon, Walter, drank hydrocyanic acid 1012.
• Owen, G., took poison 1285.
• Patton, George, cut his throat and threw himself into Almond river 1391.
• Paul, Wentworth F. D., took prussic acid 1395.
• Peace, W., shot himself St. Mary’s hospital 1416.
• Perceval, Arthur Philip, took laudanum 1461.
• Perry, Richard Davis, shot himself 1472.
• Pigott, Richard, shot himself at Madrid 1534.
• Price, David, shot himself 1636.
• Sulphate of ammonia produced from gasses of blast furnaces 1099.
• Sun, bright line spectrum of the cornea first seen 1567.
• Sunday, Strome ferry case 198,
• Sunday receptions 1653.
• Surgeons, College of, diploma returned 630,
• president 168.
• Surgery, abdominal aorta tied for aneurism of the iliac 52,
• anatomical museums 148, 158,
• bleeding, last advocates of 312,
• Cæsarean operation 11,
• double stethoscope invented 343,
• external iliac artery tied 1115,
• ether inhaling apparatus 1263,
• excision of varicose veins, operation for 759,
• flexible cautery invented 338,
• galvano cautery introduced 759,
• hospitals, circular wards for 759,
• hernia, operation for 528,
• hydrocele, cure of 459,
• instrument for removal of uterine polypi 1223,
• Kiernan’s anatomy classes suppressed 218,
• knee joint, excision of 126,
• Lane’s medical school 586,
• larynx, operations on the 630,
• lithotomy operations 39, 459,
• liver discoveries respecting its structure 218,
• Lizar’s lines 454,
• membrane of the eye discovered 41,
• nævi, injection of with liquor ammoniæ 459,
• Pagan’s obstetric forceps 1302,
• patent truss 399,
• pure rubber bandage for ulcers 767,
• screw lithotrite tourniquet 399,
• strabismus, cure of 633,
• syphon douche invented 144,
• tissue paper for dressing wounds 603,
• tongue removed for cancer 1189,
• tracheotomy without tubes 767,
• upper jaw removed 454.
• Sussex, duke of, d. 1843, his wife the duchess of Inverness 18.
• Sweden, seaweed sent to England 225,
• steamboats introduced 1292.
• Swell, a broken down 1199.
• Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st., a drama 1629.
• Swimmers, Drumlanrig 1687,
• Johnson 109,
• Kirkpatrick 245,
• Leverell 404,
• Lort 498,
• Pearce 1415.
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles, b. 1837, poet, ode by 8,
• Queen Mother published 1523.
• Swinfen v. Swinfen, a barrister suing for his fees 196.
• Swordsman, M’ Ian 612.
• Sydenham, See Crystal palace, col. 1712.