Anglers Calendar for yanuary 



(Some Salmon Fishing 'very welcome to the hardiest Anglers 

 after the Close Time} 



I EDMUND BURKE, statesman, orator, writer : when a schoolboy an angler in the Gresse, 



Kildare, born 1730. 



3 CHARLES R. MATURIN, writer and trout angler, died 1842. [*852. 



ELIOT WARBURTON, writer (" The Crescent and the Cross" etc.), and trout angler, died 



6 JAMES SMITH, angler and writer. Jerrold said " Rejected Addresses " was suggested 



by a Darenth trout, died I 840. 

 JOHN DENNIS (or DENNYS), writer, died 1734. [See " fMusa Piscatrix" 



7 ROBERT NICOLL, poet and excellent angler, born 1814. 

 ALLAN RAMSAY, poet, fisherman, born 1715. 



9 MAJOR, publisher of 11 The Compleat Angler," died 1849. 



10 Salmon fishing opens on Halladale, Strathy, Naver, Borgie, Helmsdale, Thurso, Hope, Polla. 

 LINNAEUS, naturalist, died 1778. 



THOMAS (Lord) ERSKINE, advocate, scholar, and angler, born 1749. 



11 GEORGE WASHINGTON (General), angler, 1st President U.S.A., born 1732. 

 EDWARD JESSE, naturalist and angler, born 1780. 



E. MARSTON (" The Amateur Angler"}, born 1825. 



12 ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON CREWE MILNES, Earl of Crew e, born 1858. 



14 Salmon fishing opens on Tay. 



Dr. GEORGE BERKELEY, Bishop of Cloyne, philosopher, and advocate of " Tar-watt r 



Cure," and fish-diet and fish-culture in South (Irish] Blackwaters, died 1753. 

 HENRY MACKENZIE, writer and angler, died 1831. 



GEORGE SELWYN MARRYAT, soldier, sportsman, naturalist, and perfect angler, died 1896 

 Dr. JOHN WOLCOT, died 1819. [See " ZMusa Piscatrix" 



15 THOMAS CROFTON CROKER, writer of legends, and good trout angler, born 1798. 

 EDMUND SPENSER, poet, who celebrates the Awin-dhu (the Blackwater), which runs close 



by the Castle Kilcolman, where he wrote most of the " Faerie Queen" died 1599. 



17 JOHN RAY, naturalist, observer of, and recorder of the habits offish, died 1705. 



1 8 HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON, poet, born 1840. [See " tMusa Tiscatrix" 

 20 RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, born 1866. 



Bishop SANDERSON, died 1663. WALTON wrote his life. 

 22 ROBERT BURNS (" a chiefs amang ye takin 1 notes "), born 1759. 

 JAMES HOGG ("The Ettrick Shepherd"), born 1772. 

 DAN MACLISE, artist; in boyhood an angler in the Dripsey, Cork, born 1811. 



26 GENERAL GORDON, soldier and angler, died 1885. 



27 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, American naturalist, one of the first, if not the first, to draw 



attention to the Black Bass as a sporting fish in American waters, died 1851. 



28 Sir THOMAS BODLEY, died 1612. 



Sir WILLIAM BEECHEY, painter and angler, and instructor in both arts of his son the 



Admiral, died 1839. 

 GENERAL GORDON, soldier and angler, born 1833. 



30 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, scholar, and writer in prose and verse, and angler in Usk and 



other Western rivers, born 1755. 



3 1 Salmon fishing opens Coquet, Tweed, the Shetland rivers, and in the Irish districts of 



Dublin, Waterford, Limerick, Galway, Connemara, Ballinakill, Ballina, Sligo, 

 Letterkenny, and Ballycastle, 



