1882

The world has changed dramatically since our firm was first established in 1882.  Here is a summary of some of the milestone events at that time.

March 24
Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).

March
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian claims to be the 'Reformer of Islam' or Majaddid of the Muslim 14th century.

April 3
Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford.

May 20
The Triple Alliance is formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.

June 30
U.S. presidential assassin Charles Guiteau is hanged.

August 20
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.

September 5
The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

December 6
The last transit of the planet Venus until 2004 occurs.

Nikola Tesla conceives the rotating magnetic field principle and uses it to invent the alternating current generator/motor.

The Married Women's Property Act 1882 in Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings.

The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded (now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys).

Founding of:

• Waterloo Rugby Club
• Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (as Hotspur F.C.)
• Albion Rovers F.C. (though the amalgamation of two Coatbridge clubs, Albion and Rovers)
• Queens Park Rangers F.C.
• Burnley F.C.
• Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club

Births

January 18
A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)

January 25
Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)

February 2
James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)

February 15
John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)

April 24
Hugh Dowding, commander of the RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)

May 5
Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette (d. 1960)

July 27
Geoffrey de Havilland, British aviation pioneer and aircraft company founder (d. 1965)

August 17
Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul (d. 1974)

Deaths

March 24
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)

April 3
Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b. 1847)

April 19
Charles Darwin, Naturalist and author of ‘A History of Natural Selection’ (b. 1809)

April 27
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and writer (b. 1803)

July 20
Fanny Parnell, Irish poet and founder of the Ladies' Land League (b. 1848)

Yorkshire Cricket in 1882

T Emmett was club captain until Lord Hawke assumed the captaincy during the Scarborough Festival in the last week of August when Yorkshire won handsome victories over MCC and 1 Zingari by an innings and 70 runs and 91 runs respectively. In 1883 Yorkshire was declared Champion County for the fifth time. Lord Hawke was appointed Captain in 1883, bringing much needed authority and discipline to an often fractious side. One of the great early figures in the game, Lord Hawke was captain for 28 years, later becoming Yorkshire President and President of MCC.

A well known cricketer of the time was Ephraim Lockwood, whose first-class honours include Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire (1872-1883), North of England (1869-1883), United North of England Eleven (1870-1879), Players of the North (1873-1880), All England Eleven (1876), The Players (1869-1883), England (1874-1878), Gloucestershire and Yorkshire (1877), England XI (1879-1884), R Daft's American XI (1880), Over 30 (1880-1881), T Emmett's XI (1881-1883), Lord Sheffield's XI (1881), A Shaw's XI (1882), Lancashire and Yorkshire (1883) and the Rest of England (1883). Lockwood was famously the "sober" member of the Yorkshire team during the 1870s when it was colloquially known as "ten drunks and a parson" as Lockwood was a lay preacher and a man of temperate habits.