Mr. Jackson at Denstone College: Mr. F. G. Jackson, F.R.G.S., the leader of the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition, gave a lecture on Saturday afternoon at Denstone College, his old school in Staffordshire. A large gathering of local scientists and others had been invited to meet him, and the audience, numbering some five hundred, was accommodated in the great Schoolroom. Mr. Jackson delighted his hearers by an interesting and valuable lecture, dealing chiefly with his geographical work in Franz Josef Land, and enlivened by frequent anecdotes. The company present included the Headmaster, the Chaplain, and the assistant masters, with the boys of the school, and the following visitors: Lady Pinsent, Mrs. J. Edwardes, Mrs. Jackson, Col. Moseley (Hulland Hall), Miss Grosvenor Jennings, Capt. and Mrs. Dawson, Revs. Worthington (Netherseale). Birley, Barns, Barnwell, Mayne, Boissier, Cave Humfry, Jourdain, Adamson, Streeter, Keble, Fielden, Oakden, Wrottesley, Thomas, etc.
[see also Walsall Advertiser: Saturday 1st April 1899]
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GRO0254 Hennock: Emily Hetty Sabine Homfray: 1845 – 1922