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FATAL COLLISION

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LOSS OF A LUGGER AND THREE LIVES

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A collision, involving the loss of the Lowestoft lugger Renown and three lives, occurred just outside Newcombe Sand, off Lowestoft.  It was daylight at the time, and the disaster was witnessed from the shore and piers.  The lugger was making for Lowestoft with herrings, when the steamer Sardinian, of London, 600 tons register, came up under her lee and crashed into her.  The crew were hurled into the water.  Lines were thrown from the steamer, but by this time the Renown had sunk.  The steamer's boat was launched, and Charles Armes, skipper, Samuel Berick, and a seaman named Tunmore got into it, while Pearson, Meadows and Richard Armes saved themselves by clinging to the steamer's ropes, and were drawn on board.  Three others, Charles Armes, a boy named Rumsby, and Richard Long, were sucked down by the sinking lugger and drowned.  Samuel Berick had a narrow escape.  He hung onto a rope for fifteen minutes until exhausted, and thinking his rescue hopeless, made a desperate effort to swim to the lugger's upturned boat, which he fortunately succeeded in doing, and was eventually rescued by the steamer's boat.  A Lowestoft tug hurried to the scene of the wreck and brought the swimmers to port.

The News of the World, 9 December 1900

DISASTERS AT SEA

The Lowestoft fishing-boat Renown, while making for Lowestoft yesterday morning, and when about a mile off the port, collided with the steamer Sardinian, of London.  The Renown was cut down to the water's edge and sank in five minutes.  Three of the crew - Richard Long, Charles Armes, and Joseph Rumsby - were drowned, but six other men, who completed the crew, were saved by means of life lines and the steamer's boat.  The occurrence was plainly seen from the fish markets at Lowestoft and caused great consternation among buyers and market men.  A tug was at once despatched to the steamer and the six survivors, three of whom were in an exhausted condition through being in the water over 15 minutes, were taken to the Lowestoft Sailors' Home, where every attention was given to them.  One of the survivors stated that the Renown was sailing for Lowestoft, with a good cargo of herrings, the result of two nights' work.  When she was about a mile from shore the steamer was seen coming along.  It was then 8 o'clock and the weather was clear and bright.  The crew of the Renown were all on deck, having been engaged in shifting some of the canvas.  Seeing that the steamer did not alter her course they shouted, but the Sardinian still kept on, apparently with the intention of crossing the Renown's bows.  Instead of doing so, however, the Sardinian struck the fishing-boat on the starboard bow, cutting her down.  The water rushed in and all the crew were thrown into the water.  Life lines were thrown and three men with their aid managed to scramble on board the steamer.  Three others were picked up by the steamer's boat, but the tree whose names have been given were drowned, being sucked down by the Renown as she disappeared a few minutes after the collision.  The Sardinian is an iron three-masted steamer of 700 tons register, and is owned by Messrs. Wood and Co., of London.

The Times, 4 December 4 1900

THE BRITISH PEERAGE.

Now ready, in a handsome volume, price 5s.

FORSTER'S POCKET PEERAGE OF GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND;

with a Baronetage of the United Kingdom, and a List of the Members of the Nobility

holding Courtesy Titles, &c.  By HENRY RUMSBY FORSTER, of the "Morning Post".

David Bogue, Fleet-street.

The Daily News, 20 May 1851

Inquest:

The City and Southwark Coroner, Mr S. F. Langham, held an inquest at Guy's Hospital on the body of William Rumsby, aged 65, late of 5, Rockley-cottages, Ladywell, who was fatally injured at Catford Railway Station on Boxing night. The deceased was a signalman in the employ of the South-Eastern Railway, and on the night in question was acting as deputy-stationmaster at Catford. A train from Croydon to Charing-cross - the last to call at the station that night - had just taken up the passengers and was starting when the deceased rushed towards it, and opening a door endeavoured to get in. He lost his hold and fell on to the line. The guard, noticing the door open, signalled for the train to stop, and it was then found that one of the deceased's legs had been nearly cut off. Strangely enough, he did not appear to know he was hurt, for, recognizing the guard by his voice, he called out he was all right and told the guard to start his train. He was picked up and carried to London-bridge Station and from thence to Guy's Hospital, where he died next day. He had tried to catch this train to avoid having to walk home to Ladywell. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

The Times, 30 December 1884

Bankruptcy Adjudication:

Rumsby, George, Gorleston, market gardener.

The Times, 2 October 1897

Country Properties:

OPPOSITE HIGHCLIFFE CASTLE GOLF LINKS - Architect's MODERN HOUSE for SALE: 6 bed, 3 reception, 2 bath rooms. 3 balconies : central heating : 1/4 acre : £2,750 - W.S.Rumsby, Chartered Architect. Highcliffe, Hants

Hampton & Sons, Auctioneers and Estate Agents, 6 Arlington Street, St James's, London SW1

The Times, May 9 1939

Ecclesiastical News

In the Baptist church, Rev. W. Charles King has become minister at Early Rise, Reading; ... and Rev. F. W. Rumsby at Raleigh-park, S.W.

The Times, 2 November, 1908   

FREE CHURCH PULPIT CHANGES

The following changes in Free Church pulpits are announced in the Christian World:-

BAPTIST: The Rev. A. G. Parry, of Reading, the Rev. F. W. Rumsby, of Portsea, and the Rev. H. West, of Penydarren, are resigning their pastorates.

The Times, January 9, 1936

LODDON - Petty Sessions, Wednesday.

Before Sir T.P. BEAUCHAMP, Bart., R. GILBERT, Esq., and the Rev J.J. SMITH.

Henry REYNOLDS and Robert RUMSBY, of Heckingham, labourers, and Ellen SMITH and Esther SMITH, of Loddon, single women, were charged with being drunk and indecently behaving themselves at Loddon, on April the 25th. Having been convicted before, they were sent to prison for seven days, at the expiration of which they will have to pay costs, 6 Shillings and 9 Pence each.

Beccles & Bungay Weekly News, May 22 1866

EPITOME OF SUFFOLK NEWS

Another Suicide.---An inquest was held at Peasenhall, on Friday, before John MUSKETT, Esq., coroner, on the body of Thomas RUMSBY, aged 36 years, who destroyed himself by cutting his throat on the 22nd September.

Deceased had been unwell from fever, and was of unsound mind from the effects of it. He was found upstairs with his throat cut immediately after he had done it, and the doctor was sent for, who sewed up the wound, but deceased did not live more than a quarter of an hour afterwards. The act was done with a hog knife, which was found in deceased's room. Verdict, "That the deceased destroyed himself whilst of unsound mind."

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch: The East Anglian Magazine Photographic Archive

"PEOPLE" Section:
Photograph: Jack Rumsby 

Suffolk record Office, Ipswich Branch, Hartismere Petty Sessions

Clerk to Justices ---
Quarter Sessions: Prosecution briefs

FILE - John Mann v. James Rumsby and Samuel Mayhew, larceny - ref. BB6/10/3/6 - date: 1 Jul 1910

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 14

(Before Mr. Serjeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a Bench of Magistrates, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell.)

William Witts, aged 22, was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Henry Rumsby, and stealing therein a pair of boots and other articles, value 40l., his property.

Mr. Cooper prosecuted and Mr. Horry defended.

The prosecutor was a boot and shoemaker, carrying on business at 10, Ratcliffe-row, St. Luke's, and the prisoner lived very near, in Page's-yard.  Mr. Rumsby went to bed late on the night of the 23d of October, leaving a number of pairs of boots in the shop-window and leather and other property safe in the shop.  Next morning he discovered that in the night two holes had been bored in the shutters of the shop-window, by which means a man's hand had been introduced and the bolts drawn back; then the window had been opened, the shop entered, and property to the extent of 40l. stolen.  In the course of the day it was discovered that the prisoner had pledged a pair of boots (which were identified by Mr.  Rumsby as one of the pairs which had been in his window) at a pawnbroker's in the New Kent-road, and upon this he was taken into custody.

Mr. Horry, for the defence, suggested that a man of the name of Jones, who had sometimes been seen in the prisoner's company, and who, since this transaction, had absconded, might have been the party committing the offence.  There was nothing to connect the prisoner with the transaction, except his pledging the boots, and if Jones had taken them he might very well have made the prisoner an innocent tool in disposing of this pair.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.

The prosecutor said, in answer to inquiries, that he knew nothing of the prisoner, who had only been in his neighbourhood for the last three months, beyond the fact that he and his companions were living with common prostitutes, and that a companion of his had been tried at the Old Bailey.

The Times, November 14, 1853

POLICE.

WORSHIP STREET. - Henry Tarbott Hall, a respectably-dressed, middle-aged person, was charged before Mr. HAMMILL with having obtained, by false and fraudulent representations, the sum of 3l. 5s., and three pairs of boots, of the value of 2l. from Mr. John Rumsby, a shoemaker in John's-row, St. Luke's.

The prosecutor stated that in the early part of November his house was burglariously entered, and plundered of property to the amount of between 40l. and 50l.  One of the thieves was shortly afterwards captured, and committed for trial at the Middlesex Sessions, where he was convicted of the offence and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.  Shortly before the trial the prisoner came to his house, and, having represented himself as a qualified attorney who had been engaged in several similar cases, offered his professional services to conduct the prosecution.  Upon the faith of his representations, witness consented to employ him in that capacity and furnished him with funds to the amount of 3l. 5s., for the alleged purpose of retaining counsel and procuring a copy of the depositions, the prisoner having at the same time assured him that the amount would be refunded by the county, and that he would guarantee its repayment to him immediately after the trial.  After the burglar was convicted the prisoner called upon the prosecutor, and said the money had not yet been paid, but as his own expenses would amount to 2l., he would take goods from the shop to that amount.  Accordingly he selected three pairs of boots and took them away.  It had since appeared that 2l. 5s. had been paid to the prisoner on account of the expenses of the trial, and that the prisoner had given a false address, and had been acting as an attorney without a certificate, which rendered him liable to a penalty of 5l.

The prisoner said he had faithfully discharged his duty towards the prosecutor, and there was no ground for the present charge.

 Mr HAMMILL considered that the case required the fullest inquiry, and ordered the prisoner to find bail, himself in 100l. and two sureties in 50l. each, to appear again on Saturday next.

The Times, December 12, 1853

EXPLOSION IN A CHURCH

A most serious explosion occurred last evening in the church of St. John's, Maddermarket, Norwich.  The minister of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Rumsby, and the choir boys were about to engage in choir practice, and on a light being applied to one of the burners a large body of gas which had escaped exploded.  The effects of the explosion were most severe, several windows (one of them filled with stained glass) being blown out, while the fittings of the church were also much damaged.  Mr. Rumsby and one of the choir boys were hurt, but no lives were lost.  The floor of the church was completely torn up, and some of the wood work of the pulpit was also damaged.

The Times, September 14, 1876

LEGAL NOTICES

MR. WILLIAM SAMUEL RUMSBY deceased.  Pursuant to the Statute 22nd and 23rd Vic cap.35, intituled "An Act to further amend the Law of Property and to relieve Trustees."  Notice is hereby given that all CREDITORS and other persons having any claims or demands upon or against the Estate of Mr William Samuel Rumsby late of Woodbridge in the County of Suffolk Boot and shoe Manufacturer Currier Leather Seller and Manufacturer's Agent deceased (who died on the 9th day of June 1894 and letters of administration to whose personal estate and effects were granted to Mrs. Susanna Rumsby of Woodbridge aforesaid widow on the 27th day of July 1894 by the Ipswich District Registry of the Probate Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice) are hereby requires to send full particulars of their claims and demands to me the undersigned Solicitor for the said Mrs Susanna Rumsby on or before the 22nd day of October next and notice is hereby also given that after that day the said Mrs Susanna Rumsby will proceed to distribute the assets of the deceased among the parties entitled thereto having regard only to the claims of which she shall then have had notice and that she will not be liable for the assets or any part thereof so distributed to any person of whose debt or claim she shall not then have had notice.

Dated this 10th day of September 1894

WILLIAM W. WELTON Woodbridge Suffolk Solicitor for the Administratrix

The Times, September 12, 1894

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned William Samuel Rumsby and Burnell Hubert Trebartha Rodd carrying on business as Architects and Surveyors at Hampshire House, The Square, Bournemouth in the county of Hants has been dissolved by mutual consent from the thirtieth day of October one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven.  The said Burnell Hubert Trebartha Rodd will continue to practise under his own name at the former offices of the partnership at Hampshire House, Bournemouth aforesaid.  The said Walter Samuel Rumsby will also continue to practise in his own name at other offices at Hampshire House, Bournemouth aforseaid. - Dated the 22nd day of December one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven.

>The London Gazette, 31 December 1937

LAW NOTICES, Jan 13

PROBATE, DIVORCE, AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION

Court I - Before Mr. Justice Bargrave Drane, at 11 - Applications to make Absolute the Decrees Nisi in the following Causes: -- Gray v. Gray and Balfour - Rumsby v. Rumsby otherwise Waldron

The Times, 13 January, 1908       

MARRIAGES

DENNY : RUMSBY. -     On the 9th Oct., at the Parish Church, Wimbledon, by the Revd. E. Keyden, M.A., Captain Herbert Evans Denny, A.M.I.C.E, Royal Engineers, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Denny, of Wimbledon, and grandson of the late John Evans, Esqre., M.I.C.E., to Helen Muriel Clara, elder daughter of E. J. Rumsby, Esq., late P.W.D, India, and Mrs. Rumsby, Alwyne-mansions, Wimbledon.

The Times, 12 October 1918

MR. D. J. ESSEX AND MISS P. M. RUMSBY

The engagement is announced between David John, adopted son of Miss Rosamund Essex, of St. Albans, and Patricia Marian, only daughter of Mrs. L. E. Rumsby, of Welling.

The Times, 21 April 1960

UNIVERSITY NEWS

Oxford Class Lists, Oxford July 5

Class 2. - T. W. Rumsby (St. John's), French

The Times, 6 July 1929

Reading, July 9

B.Sc. with Honours (Special).- Chemistry. - Class II.- Rumsby, G A

The Times, 10 July 1934

Degrees Conferred at Oxford

M.A.- T. W. Rumsby, St. John's

The Times, 5 August 1935

BIRMINGHAM

The honorary degree of Master of Education will be conferred at the degree Congregation to be held on December 16, on T. W. Rumsby, headmaster of George Dixon Grammar School for Boys, Birmingham

The Times, 14 July 1960

HOCKEY

St Lawrence v. Old Lawrentians

The Old Lawrentians beat St. Lawrence College at Ramsgate by six goals to one.  Lack of combination among the forwards and half-backs accounted for the School's heavy defeat.

Old Lawrentians: ... J. E. Slade, W. Berry, R. Friend, J. Rumsby and W. F. S. Toop, forwards.

The Times, 22 March 1932

FOOTBALL

WALTHAMSTOW HAD FEW WORRIES

Walthamstow Avenue 2, Great Yarmouth 1

...Yarmouth, in their present shape, are but two years old, for before last season they were professionals. In view of this the club put up a great defensive fight, and the half-backs, with Rumsby outstanding, were often stretched to the limit without collapsing...

Great Yarmouth: R.Rumsby

The Times, 2 November 1959

RODEX OF LONDON

A good estimate says that 150 hours of patient skill went into weaving the fabric in this Rodex coat.  And that was just the start.  Cleansing, bushelling, the all-important cutting and tailoring - done to the most elegant Rodex designs.  That's why your Rodex coat is worth what it costs - and stays young for years.  See this and other Rodex coats at: ... Cheltenham: Knight & Rumsby

The Times, 22 October 1968

Frederick Rumsby, a prominent Hull runner, died yesterday without regaining consciousness, as the result of engaging in a 20 miles Marathon race on Saturday.  During the race Rumsby several times complained of dizziness to the cyclist scout accompanying him, but kept on running.  Just as he was finishing the 20 miles he collapsed, and was carried into an inn, where he lay unconscious till death took place.  He was only 22, and won the race last year.

BUSINESS APPOINTMENTS

Mr. L. G. Rumsby, assistant manager of the Bank of America, London branch, has retired after more than 40 years in the City.

The Times, 1 January 1966

COURT AND SOCIAL

R. E. Surveyors of Works Club

The annual dinner of the Royal Engineers Surveyors of Works Club was held last night at the Connaught Rooms.  The club's chairman, Captain W. N. Rumsby, presided...

The Times, 27 January 1968

GOOD FOOD GUIDE

The 100 Compensations of Brussels

De Hoef in Uccle is even more attractive: an early seventeenth-century farmhouse that has kept its original decor of dark wood and also has a pleasant garden at the back where you can dine in summer. The set menus (about 120F) offer hardly any choice, and the main dish is simply steak au feu du bois, so this is not a restaurant for gourmet meals; but the steaks are large and of good quality and the atmosphere animated and congenial.  The owners and most of the staff are Belgian.  The chef rôtisseur spoke excellent English and we told him so.  "Not surprising", he said, "my name is Kenneth Rumsby and I'm from Norwich."

The Times, 17 August 1968

The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette January 11th 1902
 

EAST HARLING
Petty Sessions
Before Sir E C NUGENT, H T PARTRIDGE, Major KEPPEL and A N C HEMSWORTH
Poachers and Assault: William BRYANT, labourer Diss, Alfred BUCKLEY, labourer Diss, Ernest SPARROW, brushmaker, Diss and William BARBER, Percy BRYANT and Alfred RUMSBY, privates in the Norfolk Regiment charged with trespassing in search of conies in Kenninghall and assaulting Mr BETNEY, farmer of KENNINGHALL and his nephew, William BASSOM.  William BRYANT, William BARBER, Percy BRYANT and Alfred RUMSBY each fined £1 1s or 14 days. Alfred BUCKLEY 18/6 or 14 days, Ernest SPARROW 16s or 10 days for trespassing.  For assault, Percy BRYANT and Alfred RUMSBY were each fined £1 3/6 or 14 days.

 British War Medals 

(Hull City Museums Catalogue of British War Medals)

 By: John H Rumsby

Card Cover with 36 Pages

Published: 1982

Publisher: Hull Museums