BIB_ID
416592
Accession number
MA 14050.49
Creator
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882, author.
Display Date
Norfolk, England?, 1849?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 23.4 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Title from first line of poem.
Poem possibly inspired by a dispute over the custody of a blunderbuss which served as a key piece of evidence in the 1849 trial of the convicted murderer James Blomfield Rush, and the subsequent conflict and ill-will between the chief participants in the dispute, named here in Donne's poem. Cf. Norwich Murders / by Morson Maurice Staff. Barnsley : Wharncliffe Books, 2006.
Colonel John "Tiger" Smith (1791-1852), of the 2nd Madras Light Cavalry, inherited Ellingham Hall in Norfolk in 1846, where he maintained his residence until the time of his death in London on February 21, 1852.
Poem possibly inspired by a dispute over the custody of a blunderbuss which served as a key piece of evidence in the 1849 trial of the convicted murderer James Blomfield Rush, and the subsequent conflict and ill-will between the chief participants in the dispute, named here in Donne's poem. Cf. Norwich Murders / by Morson Maurice Staff. Barnsley : Wharncliffe Books, 2006.
Colonel John "Tiger" Smith (1791-1852), of the 2nd Madras Light Cavalry, inherited Ellingham Hall in Norfolk in 1846, where he maintained his residence until the time of his death in London on February 21, 1852.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Satirical poem concerning local residents of Norfolk, including Colonel (John) "Tiger" Smith, and three others, identified as: (Henry) Hubbersty (Superintendent of county police), (Rev. Edward) Postle, and (Colonel Richard Montague)) Oakes (Chief Constable of Norwich).
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