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59
TNA:PRO MEPO 3/128 and 3/129.
60
The Times
(26 July 1877); Dilnot (1928), p. 88.
61
The Times
(3, 13, 17–18 August 1877).
62
The Times
(27 and 30 August 1877).
63
The Times
(7 September 1877).
64
The Times
(10 November 1877).
65
TNA:PRO HO45/9442/66692a Memorandum from Holker and Giffard to Home Secretary (29 August 1877).
66
Ibid., from Liddell to Home Secretary (1 September 1877).
67
Ibid., from Sir Augustus Stephenson (2 September 1877).
68
Newcastle Courant
(14 September 1877).
69
Hampshire Telegraph
(15 September 1877).
70
Williams (1890), Vol. 2, pp. 48–55, 69–80; Clarke (1918), pp. 136–48; Dilnot (1928); Stewart (2000); Stratmann (2006), pp. 108–29.
71
Ibid.
72
Hertfordshire Express
(15 September 1877).
73
Ibid.
74
The Times
(14 September 1877).
75
The Times
(21 September 1877).
76
Ibid.
77
Ibid.
78
Daily Telegraph
(22 September 1877).
79
The Times
(22 and 24 September 1877).
80
Daily Telegraph
(24 September 1877).
81
Dilnot (1928); Stewart (2000); OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805); national and regional newspapers (25 October–21 November 1877).
82
TNA:PRO HO45/9442/66692a Lewis and Lewis to R.A. Cross (25 September 1877) and (10 October 1877).
83
Ibid. Henderson to Cross (2 October 1877); Stewart (2000), pp. 117–8.
84
Juxon (1984), pp. 146–54.
85
Clarke (1918), p. 138.
86
Ibid., pp. 144–5.
87
The Times
(21 September 1877).
88
OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805).
89
Ibid.
90
Ibid.
91
Ibid.
92
Ibid.
93
Clarke (1918), p. 141.
94
Ibid.
95
TNA: PRO HO27.
96
OBP (October 1877), John Meiklejohn, Nathaniel Druscovich, William Palmer, George Clarke, Edward Froggatt (t18771022–805).
97
Ibid.
98
Ibid.
99
Clarke (1918), p. 146.
100
Daily Telegraph
(21 November 1877).
101
D. Walker-Smith and E. Clarke (1939), p. 106.
102
TNA:PRO HO45/9442/66692A Clarke memorandum (15 December 1877).
103
Ibid., Cross to Henderson (15 December 1877).
104
Ibid., Henderson memorandum (15 December 1877).
105
TNA:PRO MEPO 21/14/4724.
106
TNA:PRO HO 65/37 Liddell to Henderson (4 January 1878).
107
Ibid., (22 October 1879).
108
TNA:PRO CRIM 4/914; PCOM 2/77 and PCOM 2/103.
109
Jackson’s Oxford Journal
(4 December 1880);
New York Times
(31 December 1881); Probate records.
110
Clarke (1914), pp. 147–8; 1881 census; Probate records.
111
Reynolds’s Newspaper
(13 June 1880); 1881 and 1891 censuses.
112
Juxon (1984), pp. 223–4;
Freeman’s Journal
(8 and 9 July 1884) and (3 October 1884);
Bristol Mercury
(22 December 1884).
113
Northern Echo
(19 November 1884);
Aberdeen Weekly Journal
(16 December 1884);
Manchester Times
(30 October 1886).
114
Reynolds’s Newspaper
(18 November 1888).
115
Leeds Mercury
, Saturday supplement (4 January–5 April 1890).
116
The Times
(11–13 November 1903).
117
Meiklejohn (1912), p. 130.
118
TNA:PRO HO 45/9442/66692a Statement of William Walters (17 February 1880);
Newcastle Courant
(2 July 1880).
119
Bristol Mercury
(22 September 1882).
120
Daily Post
(8 October 1885).
121
TNA:PRO HO 144/21/60045 Benson to Cross (11 October 1885).
122
Fitzgerald (1888), Vol. 1, p. 338.
123
Wikipedia, ‘Adelina Patti’.
124
TNA:PRO HO 144/21/60045 Benson to Cross (11 October 1885); Fitzgerald (1888), Vol. 1, p. 338.
125
Liverpool Mercury
(18 May 1888).
126
TNA:PRO HO 45/9442/66692.
127
Ibid.
128
TNA:PRO MEPO 2/134 Williamson memoranda (6 July 1870) and (20 November 1871).
129
TNA:PRO HO 45/9442/66692.
130
Ibid.
131
Stewart (2000), pp. 200–3.
132
TNA:PRO HO45/10002/A49463 Monro to Home Office (5 November 1888).
133
Andrews (1985), p. 44.
134
Campbell (2002), p. 147.
135
TNA:PRO MEPO 2/238; HO 144/190/A46472E.
136
Ibid.
137
White (2007), p. 402; Emsley (1996), p. 66; Wikipedia, ‘Edmund Henderson’.
138
Kelly’s Commercial Directory
(1882–83); OBP (November 1881), Mary Saunders (t18811121–11).
139
Kelly’s Commercial Directory
(1884–91).
140
Northern Echo
(11 August 1886).
141
Information courtesy of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemason’s Hall, London.
142
OBP (October 1892), Thomas Neill [Cream] (t18921017–961).
143
TNA:PRO MEPO 3/144 Report of Inspector Harvey (23 May 1892); Shore (1923).
144
OBP (March 1895), Henry John Clarke, Ellen Lyon (t18950325–334).
Epilogue
1
Collins (1868), p. 324.
2
The Times
(21 November 1877).
3
Dilnot (1928), p. 54.
4
Clarke (1918), p. 144.
5
Ibid., p. 138.
6
Walker-Smith and Clarke (1939), pp. 243–5.
7
Clarke (1918), pp. 1–2.
8
Stewart (2000).
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