Category:Hanoverian

From Dittopedia

During the 18th century, the roads around Thames Ditton were plagued with highwaymen, and influential voices within the community began to call for an organised police force. ^[1]

In 1801, the population of Thames Ditton was still small: 1,288 people living in 265 houses; 167 of the workers were occupied in agriculture and 87 in trade, manufacture and handicraft. Because of the large number of mansions and estates in the area, there would have been many domestic and ancillary employees living in the village, some working at Hampton Court Palace. ^[1]

Education

Thanks to wealthy people such as Baroness de Ros and the Sullivans and Taylors, a school for girls in Thames Ditton was started before the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1812 or earlier. Some form of National School for girls operated from September 1812, and boys were taught from 1818. At least 60 girls were being educated in 1816-17, some coming from Molesey and Tolworth. An admission register of 1820 showed an Infant School in a building in Church Walk. ^[2]

On St Nicholas Church

In a letter from Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth of 19th October 1810:

'A very striking instance of your position might be found in the churchyard of Ditton-upon-Thames, if you know such a place. Ditton-upon-Thames has been blessed by the residence of a poet who, for love or money, I do not well know which, has dignified every gravestone for the last few years with brand new verses, all different and all ingenious, with the author's name at the bottom of each. This sweet Swan of Thames has so artfully diversified his strains and his rhymes that the same thought never occurs twice,-- more justly, perhaps, as no thought ever occurs at all, there was a physical impossibility that the same thought should recur, It is long since I saw and read these inscriptions; but I remember the impression was of a smug usher at his desk in the intervals of instruction, levelling his pen. Of death, as it consists of dust and worms, and mourners and uncertainty, he had never thought; but the word death he had often seen separate and conjunct with other words, till he had learned to speak of all its attributes as glibly as Unitarian Belsham will discuss you the attributes of the word God in a pulpit, and will talk of infinity with a tongue that dangles from a skull that never reached in thought and thorough imagination two inches, or farther than from his hand to his mouth, or from the vestry to the sounding-board of the pulpit. But the epitaphs were trim and sprag, and patent, and pleased the survivors of Thames Ditton above the old mumpsimus of Afflictions sore.' ^[1]

References

• 1. Wikipedia
• 2. Burchett, P. 1984. A Historical Sketch of THAMES DITTON. Surrey: Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents' Association. ISBN 0-904-81120-4.

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Articles in category "Hanoverian"

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B Bridges Almshouse C Crime in Thames Ditton E Ember Lane F Lord Edward FitzGerald G Giggs Hill Green H George Harvest Health in Thames Ditton

H cont. Helping the Poor of Thames Ditton Theodore Hook I Imber Court J George Jarvis O George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow P Portsmouth Road Pubs of Thames Ditton R River Thames

R cont. Roads of Thames Ditton S Schools and Colleges of the Dittons William Speer Richard Sullivan T Thames Ditton Congregational Church W Weston House