HAMPSHIRE 



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HAMPSTEAD 



Hampshire. 



Map of the South of England county, which includes the Isle of 

 Wight 



LITEBARV ASSOCIATIOHS. Ham j 

 shire was first notably used- as a 

 literary background in Gilbert 

 White's Natural History of Sel- 

 borne. Jane Austen made capital 

 out of the comfortable classes of 

 the county in which most of her 

 life was spent (Steventon and 

 Chawton). Cobbett extended his 

 Rural Rides into Hampshire. 

 Charles Kingsley dealt with the 

 county in Yeast, described the 

 road to Winchester in Hereward 

 the Wake, and the Hartford Flats 

 in Madam How and Lady Why. 



Bibliography. General History of 

 Hampshire, 3 vols., B. B. Wood- 

 ward, 1861-69 ; History of Hamp- 

 shire, T. W. Shore, 1892 ; Hamp- 

 shire with the I. of Wight, G. A. B. 

 Dewar, 1900 ; Hampshire Days, 

 VV. H. Hudson, 1903 ; Highways 

 and Byways in Hampshire, D. H. 

 M. Read, 1908 ; Victoria History of 

 the Counties of England, Hamp- 

 shire. 5 vols., ed. H. A. Doubleday 

 and W. Pa-e, 1 90S- 12. 



Hampshire. British cruiser. 

 The first Hampshire fought under 

 Blake in 1655, and thenceforward 

 there was a Hampshire in most of 

 Britain's naval battles down to the 

 end of the 18th century. The last 

 ship to bear the name was a cruiser 

 of the Devonshire class. Her length 

 was 460 ft,, beam 68J ft., displace- 

 ment 11,000 tons. 



On June 5, 1916, off the Orkneys, 

 in extremely rough weather, the 



Hampshire, which was conveying 

 Lord Kitchener on a mission to 

 Russia, ran into a minefield and 

 sank. There were only twelve 

 survivors out of her complement 

 of over 600 officers and men, 

 among those lost being Lord 

 Kitchener (q.v.) and his staff. 



Hampshire Regiment. For- 

 merly the 37th and 67th Foot. 

 Raised in 1702 and 1758 respec- 

 tively, this 

 regiment first 

 saw active 

 service in Hol- 

 land, after- 

 wards taking 

 part in Marl- 

 borough's 

 battles. At 

 Dettingen, 

 1743, and 

 Minden, 1759, it played a notable 

 part. The regiment formed a por- 



Hampshire Regiment 

 badge 



tion of the "fighting brigade" em- 

 ployed against the French in Hol- 

 land, and distinguished itself at 

 Tournai, 1794, and Barossa, 1811. 

 Later campaigns include the 

 Indian Mutiny, the China War, 

 1860-61, the Afghan War, 1878-80, 

 and the Burmese War, 1885-87. 

 After the S. African War it saw 

 field service in Somaliland. 



In the Great War battalions of 

 Hampshires, regular and territorial, 

 served in every theatre of war. 

 The 1st battalion, as part of the 

 llth brigade, fought at Mons and in 

 later battles on the W. front. The 

 2nd was part of the 29th division. 

 The depot is at Winchester. See 

 The Battle Story of the Hampshire 

 Regiment, F. E. Stevens, 1920. 



Hampson, WALTER (b. 1864). 

 Yorkshire poet. Born at Rothwell, 

 Yorkshire, he entered the railway 

 service and became an engine 

 driver. Beginning to write poems 

 in the Yorkshire dialect, he won 

 the name of the Footplate Poet, 

 while he also edited The Yorkshire 

 Clock Almanack. His poems include 

 Songs of the Line ; Tykes Abroad ; 

 and A Wheel in Wharfeland. See 

 Anthology of Yorkshire Verse, 

 F. W. Moorman, 1916. 



Hampstead. Parl. and mun. 

 bor. and residential district of 

 N.W. London. Occupying about 

 3^ sq. m., it is 

 served by the 

 Hampstead 

 (Tube), N.L., 

 Midland, and 

 District Rlys., 

 and has good 

 'bus and tram 

 services. Modern 

 buildings i n- 

 clude the town 

 library ; New and 



Hampstead arms 



H.M.S. Hampshire, the cruiser in which Lord Kitchener 

 was travelling when she sank 



Cribb, Southsea 



hall ; public 



Hackney Colleges (Congregational); 

 Westfield College for Women ; Uni- 

 versity College School, 1907 ; 

 Hampstead General Hospital, on 

 the site of Bartrum House, once 

 the residence of Sir Rowland Hill ; 

 New End Military Hospital ; Mount 

 Vernon Hospital ; Royal Soldiers' 

 Daughters' Home, and Sailors' 

 Orphan Girls' Home. The church 

 of S. John, 1747, replaced a struc- 

 ture pulled down in 1745, and 

 ? contains a bust 

 of Keats, by 

 Anne Whitney, 

 presented by 

 Americans. 



In the church- 

 yard were buried 

 Sir James Mack- 

 intosh, Joanna 

 Baillie, who lived 

 at Bolton House, 

 in 1806-51 ; Lucy 

 Aiken, John 

 Constable, George 



