Particular Deaths
The Dowager Lady Elphinstone died on Tuesday, August 24th. She met with an accident a short time before, being then thrown from a pony-chaise while driving out with her daughter, Mrs. W. Twiss Turner, of Ore Rectory. The injuries received by the accident had a fatal result. Mrs. Turner and her child were not hurt. Her ladyship, Frances, widow of Major-Gen. Sir Hard Elphinstone, was 74 years of age, and was greatly esteemed. Sir Howard, who died on the 28th April, 1846, was 73 years of age.
William Ades, Esq., died on the 7th of May, at Oakham, in the County of Rutland. He was formerly a Brede and Battle man, and was well known to many persons in Hastings. He was born at Brede Place, where his forefathers had been tenants for many generations, under the Frewen family. He was articled to the late Mr. Martin of Battle, and, later in life, was placed by the late John Frewen-Turner, Esq. at Oakham, where he established a large business, and became Clerk-of-the-Peace. He was 86 years of age, and left a considerable fortune.
Mr. J. B. Moor, and old and respected townsman, died of paralysis on the 28th of July, aged 66. He was many years lessee of the Pelham Arcade, at a time when evening promenade concerts were carried on during the season, political and other meetings were held, and where Mr. Moor himself carried on a jewellery and fancy trade. It is there that a descendant is still engaged in a similar business.
Edwin Richardson’s death was a melancholy one. He was a compositor in Mr. Stutchbery’s printing office in High Street. He had been missing from Sunday evening, Oct. 3rd, until Friday 8th, when his body was found immediately under a dangerous path close to the edge of the cliff at Fairlight. He was a very quiet young man and was regarded as a religious monomanic. He had frequently gone to the office before working hours to read the Bible, and had expressed an opinion that the Lord would soon come; that he would come through or over the East Hill, and would say “Ah, poor Kylong (a nickname he was known by) “come up hither”. He went out on the said Sunday evening to the “Look-out” on the East Hill, as he said, to see the comet, and there seemed no doubt at the inquest that he had wandered to the dangerous spot and fallen over.
The drowned body of Mr. Edward B. Watson was discovered on the beach in the parish of Fairlight. He was a retired draper, of London, about 60 years of age. Mr. Manser Thorpe, farmer at Bexhill had known him as a visitor there; John Burgess, of Bexhill had seen him at that place on the preceding Sunday morning; and Miss -
