7 November 1844, Brighton Gazette:
DIED. At St Leonards, on Sunday morning, after a very short but severe illness, Mr Edward Chamberlin, second son of Mr William Chamberlin, of the Royal Victoria Hotel [who was the manager].
18 November 1844, Brighton Gazette:
Miss Burdett Coutts arrived in London last week from Germany, and has since left town for St Leonards [Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) inherited her grandfather’s fortune of £1.8 million, equivalent to £210 million today, in 1837; a noted philanthrophist. She also visited St Leonards in, at least, 1880 and 1892].
26 December 1844, Brighton Gazette:
We regret to mention the death of Mr Corbould, the distinguished artist, who, while riding on horseback on Sunday, Dec. 8, near St Leonards, suddenly fell from his horse, mortally struck by apoplexy. He had been staying at St Leonards on a visit to Lady Chantrey, to whom, it was understood, he was about to be united [Henry Corbould died at Robertsbridge of apoplexy aged about 57. Lady Chantrey was the widow of sculptor Francis Leggatt Chantrey, who died in 1841. The 12 December issue tells us that she was staying at what is now the Royal Victoria Hotel].
Not less than 100 families were provided with a good dinner on Christmas Day, in consequence of being employed by Mr Troup, who has expended a large sum of money in commencing the new square and crescent, called Warrior’s Square.
31 December 1844, Sussex Advertiser:
HASTINGS AND ST LEONARDS. There is literally no news of any kind – nothing whatever is stirring. We are, to use a common expression, all “as dull as a great thaw.”
24 January 1845, Durham County Advertiser:
In London, at 6, Upper Wimpole Street, on Monday last, Mrs Carruthers, of St Leonard’s on Sea, relict of David Carruthers, Esq., M.P. [He was elected Conservative MP for Hull in 1835 and died later that year. The widow Mary Carruthers left a Canterbury will, in which son and executor Charles Bladen Carruthers said she was of 34 Marina]
11 Feb 1845 Sussex Advertiser:
HASTINGS AND ST LEONARDS. On Thursday last, an inquest was held at the Horse and Groom, St Leonards, before the coroner, John Shorter, Esq., on the body of Henry Edwards, aged 4 months. Mary Anne Edwards, the mother, stated, that the child was an illegitimate son of hers; having on the previous night put him to bed about 10 o’clock. She had been in the habit of giving him a teaspoon full of Godfrey’s cordial to make him sleep better, as she had to sit up to needle work. The first bottle she got she had from Mr Murton, a chemist, without any directions how to use it, and the second she had from a different shop, without a label to it. The child took the breast at 6 o’clock in the morning, after which he went to sleep again; and on waking up between 7 and 8, she found it dead on her arm. – Dr Gilbert said he had made a post mortem examination of the body, and considered the death was occasioned by a convulsive fit from the irritation of the teeth. – In accord with which opinion the jury brought in their verdict.
13 March 1845, Brighton Gazette:
WANTED, by a young person of respectable connections, a situation as LADY’S MAID, to attend upon an Invalid or Single Lady; is kind and obliging in her disposition, and in whom confidence may be placed. Is an excellent needlewoman, and can have an unexceptionable character. – Address to C.S., Mrs Philpott’s, 38, Marina, St Leonards on Sea.
27 March 1845, Brighton Gazette:
HASTINGS. On Monday last an accident happened in the parish of Bulverhithe, on the works of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway. It appears that while a lad, named Edward Hammond, about 16 years of age, was running with a loaded earthcart for the purpose of throwing out its contents to form an embankment, he tripped up in unhooking the horse from the cart; the wheels passed over his right foot, and severely injured it. He was shortly afterwards conveyed to the Hastings and St Leonards Infirmary. This is the first accident which has happened on this part of the line since its commencement.
1 May 1845, Brighton Gazette:
ST LEONARDS. A detachment of the 1st Dragoon Guards arrived here on Saturday last, and remained until Monday. On Sunday evening the band delighted a large concourse of persons with their delightful strains, the polka tunes not being forgotten.
5 May 1845, Morning Post:
The Dowager Lady Howden has arrived in Hereford-street from the Marina, St Leonards on Sea, where she has been, as usual, passing the winter months [Morning Post, 30 Oct 1845, has: The Dowager Lady Howden has arrived in town from Grimston House, Tadcaster, en route to St Leonards on Sea. This was Theodosia Sarah Frances, daughter of John Meade, 1st Earl of Clanwilliam; she had married, 1798, John Francis Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, a Lieut.-General in Madras, who died in July 1839. The Dublin Evening Post, 17 Dec 1853, states that she died on the 13th at St Leonards, aged 80].
22 May 1845, Brighton Gazette:
TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. WANTED, AN IN-DOOR APPRENTICE TO A TAILOR AND DRAPER, in a most fashionable Watering Place. – Address to Mrs J.H. Job, Watch Maker, St Leonards on Sea. – A Premium required [In the 1851 census Joseph Hadden Job was at 8 Marina, age 35, watch maker & jeweller, born Hastings, with wife Maria, 32, born Hastings, and 8 children, including the eldest, Joseph, 15, apprentice, ‘deaf’, and also Alfred Avery, 15, watch maker apprentice, born St Leonards, and Kezia White, 31, nurse, born Battle; no mention of a tailor’s or draper’s business].
29 May 1845, Brighton Gazette:
On Monday night last, as Mr Pilcher, landlord of the Warriors’ Gate Inn, and Mr Eldridge were coming from Brede in a gig, the horse ran away, and threw the parties out; they received some severe, but not dangerous contusions [Another newspaper report says Eldridge was William Mantell Eldridge, who owned the inn; the inn was where the post office on London Road is now situated. I have written a post on William Mantell Eldridge, St Leonards brewer and public house owner].
19 June 1845, Brighton Gazette:
Borough Bench. June 12. JOHN MORRIS was charged with having, on the 30th May, drawn an invalid chair upon a foot-pavement, called south Colonnade. Defendant pleaded guilty.
Major Jeffries dismissed the case, at the same time telling defendant that he ought not to draw his chair farther on the pavement than was absolutely necessary for the accommodation of invalids.
Mr Shorter said he was anxious that the case should stand on its own merits, and he therefore did not prejudice it by stating that several similar complaints had been made against Morris.
Inspector Campbell – He made use of a very improper expression to the policeman the last time he was told of it.
Major Jeffries – That is very improper, because the policeman was only doing his duty. If you (Morris) are brought up again on a similar charge, you will be fined heavily; therefore you had better be cautious in future [South Colonnade no longer exists: it was a row of shops opposite Undercliff, on the sea side of the road].
23 October 1845, Brighton Gazette:
Magistrates’ Clerk’s Office. Tuesday, October 21. Present, B. Smith, Esq.
MOSES ADES was committed for trial at the Adjourned Sessions at Lewes, on a charge of stealing, on the 20th October, at St Leonards, eleven lamb skins and one sheep skin, valued at 18s, the property of Mr Edward Farncomb, to whom he was gamekeeper [Tried 27 November, pleaded not guilty, and sentenced to two months hard labour. In 1849 Ades took Farncomb to court asking for £17 13s for wages due. Defendant said as Ades was convicted of a felony while in his employ he was not entitled to recover, and non-suited. In the 1851 census Ades was at 12 Lavatory, 46, laborer, born Mountfield, married to Eliza].
On Monday last, a labouring man named William Gower, in the employ of Mr Reece, of Bexhill, met with an accident, near Bopeep. It appeared that in attempting to get from the shafts of a waggon he missed his footing and fell, when one of the wheels passed over his hips. Lady Dundas was passing at the time in her carriage, when she kindly gave it up to the poor fellow, and ordered him to be delivered to the Infirmary, whither he was immediately conveyed, and he now lies in a fair way of recovery.
20 November 1845, Brighton Gazette:
DEATH OF THE RIGHT. HON. WILLIAM DUNDAS. — The above right hon. gentleman died at Quarry House, his residence, at St Leonards-on-Sea, on Friday last… [poignantly, this was of course the husband of Lady Dundas who had helped out William Gower a few weeks before. William Dundas was a Conservative MP in Scotland; his Wikipedia article has a portrait. The obituary concludes by observing that ‘he received a sum little short of £4000 annually from the public purse, arising out of the fees as Register of Sasines, and as a compensation for the loss of fees as Keeper of the Signet.’ This ‘sum’ is equivalent to about £424000 today].