He does not appear to have been very popular in the role of Lord Chancellor as the following is typical of the obituaries that were published after his death; “For five-and-twenty years Lord Eldon held possession of the woolsack. Here was a position and a power of doing good in the ha...
There is not much going on along the north bank of the Royal Albert Dock, and whilst I was walking, on a summer’s weekday morning, there were very few people around., so in this quiet place, it is strange to hear the sound of a jet aircraft taking off, or the quitter sound of ...
The London Book Fair has been canceled. Citing concerns about the potential spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, Reed Exhibitions has canceled this year's London Book Fair (LBF). The the event was scheduled to start next week. While large numbers of attendees from abroad had canceled, yesterda...
VILNIUS—The sad news of the death last April in London (from the coronavirus) of Rabbi Avrohom (Abraham) Pinter, the beloved principal of Yesodei Hatorah school in Stamford Hill, did not reach his friends and admirers in Vilnius until this week. Readers are referred to Cnaan Lifshiz’sJT...
There were many, long obituaries in the newspapers of the time, with the following being typical of the first few sentences: “ADMIRAL FITZROY – The public have lost a valuable servant and humanity a friend, unwearied in his efforts to save life, in the death of Admiral Robert FitzRoy, ...