Anglers'* Calendar for April 



i Ouse (Sussex^, Usk and Rumney, also Londonderry (district], open for 



angling. Trout fishing in Thames commences. 



3 GEORGE HERBERT, scholar, poet, musician, and model parish clergy 

 man, born at Montgomery Castle, Wales, 1593. Izaak Walton 

 wrote his life. 

 JOHN WILSON, Professor ("Christopher North"), philosopher, 



writer, angler, died 1854. 

 7 W. L. BOWLES, the Rev., poet, critic, died 1850. 



Sir FRANCIS CHANTREY, sculptor, angler, born 1782. 

 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, born 1770. [See " Musa Piscatrix." 



13 Sir HENRY DE LA BECHE, geologist and angler, died 1855. 

 FREDERICK HALFORD (" Detatched Badger"), writer, naturalist and 



angler, born 1844. 



14 CHARLES JAMES LONGMAN, publisher and angler, born 1852. 



15 WILLIAM OLDYS, antiquary, wrote the life of Charles Cotton, died 



1761. 

 MATTHEW ARNOLD, died 1888. [See " ^Musa Piscatrix." 



1 6 THOMAS SATCHELL, publisher and Walton bibliographer, died 1887. 

 23 JAMES A. FROUDE, writer and angler, born 1818. 



WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, was born 1564, and died 1616. [See 



" Musa Piscatrix." 



WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, died 1850. [See " <Musa Piscatrix." 

 J. M. W. TURNER, painter and angler, born 1775. 



25 " Cuckoo 1 s-day " of Wessex folk. 

 OLIVER CROMWELL, born 1599. 



26 DAVID HUME, philosopher, historian, and angler (in the Whiteadder, 



Berwickshire), born at Ninewells, 1711. 



27 THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A., died 1834. 



28 CHARLES COTTON, of Beresford of the Peak, Derbyshire, poet, angler, 



friend, and " angling son " of Izaak Walton, whose instructor 



in fly fishing he was, born at Beresford, 1630. 

 Rev. JOHN RUSSELL ("Passon Jack"), model parish priest, 3VL.F.H. 



and angler, died 1883. 



30 Taff, Ely, Dovey, Ogmore, Axe, Camel, and Bangor (district), opens. 

 JAMES MONTGOMERY, poet and angler, died 1854. 

 THOMAS DUNCAN, artist and angler, died 1845. 



