Tonbridge School; One Exhibition of £2 :I3S
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534 TONBRlnG~. KENT. [KELLY'S School; one scholarship of £100 per annum, founded by Sir of the inmates receive any pension from the charity; the Thomas Whyte, at St. John's College, Oxford, awarded by , endowed charities for distribution in kind amount to £44 the master and fellows of St. John's; one exhibition of yearly, derived from rents, &c. left by various persons. £29 6s. 6d. per annum, founded by 1\1l'1. Henry Fisher, at The traffic of the town carried on by means of thQ J,razenose College, Oxford, in the gift of the governors of railways and the river Medway, is considerable; there are Tonbridge School; one exhibition of £2 :I3S. 4d. per gunpowder mills on the banks of the river, breweries, corn annum, founded by Mr. Thomas Lampard, in the gift of mills, and tanneries, and a substantial trade is maintained the churchwardens of Tonbridge. The head master and in wool stapling. A cattle market, well supplied with fat four of the assistant masters receive boarders, viz., Rev. and store stock, is held on the first and third Tuesday in Theo. B. Rowe M.A. head master, School House; Rev. J. R' each lllonth, and a cattle fair is held in the last week in Little lILA. Park House; Owen Ilbert esq. M.A. Hillside; Rev. l October. A. Lucas M.A. Parkside; Rev. J. A. Babington M.A. Judd About half a mile from the town, on the Wells road, is a House. chalybeate spring, possessing all the properties of the waters The Town Hall and Market House stands in the centre of Tunbridge Wells. ?f th~ town, and is an ol~ pl~in brick. building with an DRY HILL PARK AND QUARRY HILL are fashionable lllummated. clock, n~ar Whl~h 18 ~n old timbered house. I suburbs. The neighbourhood is picturesque and thickly The PublIc Hall, slt.uated IJ?- ~lgh Street, a:nd ez:ected m wooded. Somerhill Park is the seat of Sir Julian Goldsmid 18Z4 by. a company, IS a bUlldmg of r.ed brIck with stone hart D.L., J.P.; the mansion is a noble stone building, in the facm~s m the ItalIan style; the ~all Will hold 800 persons, Elizabethan style, and stands in an undulating park of and IS used for.cOflcerts. an~ meetmgs... I about 400 acres, adorned with forest trees, with a lake The Mechl;tm~s Instltutl.on,. estabhshed 1ll July, 1850 , extending over 7 acres: the public are at all times per ceased to eXIst m 18~2 and its hbrary was taken to form the mitted free access to the park; the gardens are large and nucleus of a Free LIbrary under the control of the Local well cultivated. Board. The Almshouses at the southern extremity of the town The area .is ~5,275 acres, rateable v~lue £236,854; and were founded and endowed by Mr. George Petley, of this ~he populatiOn ill 1861. was 21,004, and.m 1871, ~9,756, ~nd place, in 1707, for 12 persons of either sex being inhabitants m 1881, 35,91,5, ~f WhICh ?0,443 was ~n TUn?rl~ge ~ells of Tonbridge, each inmate receiving two guineas per annum. Local Board d~str~ct, 3,870 m So.uthboro , 9,25.6 1',1 TonbrIdge The almshouses in the churchyard are for 12 poor persons, Local Board dIstrIct, and 2,346 m the rural distrIcts. and were originally erected by a bequest of John Brightling, Pm'ish Clerk, SS. Peter and Paul, George Stidolph; St. blacksmith, of this town, in 1648, and rebuilt in 1847; none Stephen's, R. Leonard. Official Establishment,;, Local Institutions &c. POST & MONEY ORDER & TET,EGRAPH OFFICE, Savings Bank County Fire ef Provident Life, R. W. Annison, High street & Government Annuity & Insurance Office, High street.- Gresham Life, J. L. Ffolliott, Hilden Manor farm. Richard Ware, postmaster. Letters from London delivered Guardian, F. T. Bridger, I Crescent place, Houseland fields at 7 & 11.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; dispatched at 10.10 a.m.3, Kent Fire, E. Plowright, Old Bank house 8.30 & 9.50 p.m. Money orders are granted & paid from Lion Fi7'e, O. Gray, St. Stephen's villa 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. & on saturdays to 8 p.m Liverpool ef London ef Globe, C. H. Hogben, 7 Salford ter- ST. STEPHEN'S BRANCH MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings race & G. E. Lawson, 133 High street Bank.-Miss Esther Clement, postmistre..~s. Letters dis- Manchester Fire, T. Day, High street patched at 9.25 a.m. 2.15 & 7.45 & 9 p.m National Provincial Plate Glass, J. L. Ffolliott, Hilden Manor farm URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY. Northern .Pi1'e ef Life. William F. Cuthbert, High street Clerk, Joseph SneUing, High street Norwich Union Fire, T. A. Flemons, 94 High street Medical OJficer, Charles O. Baylis M.D. II Beulah road, Tun Ocean, Rail·way ef General Accident, J. L. Ffolliott, Hilden bridge Wells Manor farIIl Surveyor ef Collector, George Hohbs, Lavender hill Phamix Fire, G. Stenning, High street & J. Brown III.~pector qf Nuisances, William Noot, Pembury road Royal, G. Palmer, 3 Salford terrace Royal Exchange, F. East, High street COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR TONBRIDGE DIVISION. Royal Farmers ~ General Fire, Life ef Hail, G. Langridge, Beeching Arthur Thomas esq. Ferox hall, Tonbridge The Great Hall, Tunbridge Wells Byng Hon. J. M. o. Great Culverden, 'I'unbridge Wells Scottish Equitable, A. J. Nottidge, 157 High street Cazalet Edward esq. Fairlawn, Shipborne Sun Fire, Alleyne & Walker, East street Cox Homersham esq. Marlfield house, Tonbridge Western Counties Life, )V. F. Cuthbert, High street Darbishire Henry Astley esq. Oakdene, Edenbridge West of England .Fire ef Life, R. Robinson, Rose bank, De L'Isle & Dudley, The Rt. Hon. Lord, Penshurst castle Houseland Field George H. esq. Ashurst PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:- Geary William NeYlll Montgomeryesq. Oxon Hoath, T0n- bridge Cemetery,)Villiam Henry Morgan, clerk to the burial board; Hankey Thomson esq. Shipborne grange Robert Corke, superintendent Hardinge Right Hon. Viscount, South park, Penshurst County Court, J. J. Lonsdale, judge; Thomas Fuller Walker, Hardinge Sir Edmund Stracey bart. Fowler's Park, Hawk- registrar and high bailiff. The Court is held alternate hur.st months at the police station: the following places are Morley Samuel esq. M.P. Hall place, Leigh within its jurisdiction-viz.: Bidborough (part of), Capel, Powell Charles esq. Speldhurst Chiddingstone, Edenbridge, Hadlow, Haycsdcn, Hever, Rodger Robert esq. Hadlow castle Hildenborough, Leigh, Nizells, Heath, Penshurst, Ton- Salomons Sir David Lionel bart. Bromuhill, Tunbridge bridge & Tudely - Wells County Police Station, Alfred Barnes, superintendent I Inland Revenue Office, Angel inn, Albert Waddington, super- Streatfeild Alexander Champion esq. The Bourne, Hadlow • Streatfeild Henry Dorrien esC[. Chiddingstone YISOr Talbot John Gilbert esq. M.P. Falcolnhurst et. Edenbridge Kent (1st) Rijle VollJ.nteer<~ (comprising A, B, C, D, E, F, G Waldo E. W. Meade esq. Stonewall, Chiddingstone & H Companies); hed.d quarters, Angel hotel, Tonbridge, Cle1'k to the jJfagistrates, Thomas !,'uller )Yalker, East street, i Colonel Viscount Hardinge A.D.C. lieut.-col.; Major Fredk. Tonbridge I C. S. Dyer, adjutant; Thomas 'W~'les, quarter master; Pett.v Sessions are held at the POlice Station, Tonbridge, Blackall Marsack, surgeon; Adam Young, acting sur- every tuesday at II a.Ill geon; Rev. T. Moore M.A. Rev. Canon Edward Hoare M.A. The following places are included in the Tonbridge Petty & Rev. Thomas S. Curteis M.A. acting chaplains Sessional division :-Bidborough, Brenchley, Capel, Chid Public Hall, High street, Joseph Snelling, sec dingstone, Cowden, Edenbridge, Hadlow, Hever, Leigh, Stamp 0.tJice, High street. Richard Ware, sub-distributoI Penshurst, Shipbourne, Tudeley & Tonbridge Town Hall, Tom Pawley, proprietor INSURANCE AGENTS: Volunteer .Fire Brigade, High street, J n. Le !"leming, capt. Atlas, J. Snelling .Accident <f Glasgow, Fire (3' Life, J. Snelling TONBRIDGE UNION. British Empire ]I£utual Life, J. Brown, 2 Ventnor place, Board da~': Alternate fridays at 11 a.m. at the \<\rorkhouse, Primrose hill Pembury. British Equitable, J. Smith, High street The wlioll comprises the ten following parishes viz.: Ashurst, Bidborough, Brenchley, Capel, Hadluw, Horsmon- Clerical, Medical 4" General, J. Rogers, 4 Priory terrace •.