Anglers* Calendar for May 



1 Fishing opens on Stour (Kent], Avon, and Erme. 



2 GEORGE WITHER, poet, died 1677. 



3 THOMAS HOOD, died 1845. [See " fMusa Piscatrix." 



4 ULYSSES ALDROVANDUS, naturalist and pisciculturist, died 1607. 



5 Archbishop MAGEE, orator and angler, died 1891. 



7 H. W. BUNBURY, artist and angler, died 1811. 



8 Captain BARCLAY (Allardyce), of Ury, N.B., athlete, pedestrian, and salmon angier, 



died 1854. 



10 LEONARD MASCALL, buried 1589. 



12 FRANCIS GROSE ("Captain"), antiquary, angler, and Jriend and patron of Robert 

 Burns, died 1791. 



1 5 Fishing opens on Clwyd and Elwy. 



DANIEL O'CoNNELL (" The Liberator "), lawyer, statesman, an expert angler, died 

 1847. 



1 6 GEORGE CLINT, artist and angler, died 1854. 



1 8 JAMES WILSON, naturalist, writer of 11 Rod and Gun" died 1856. 

 ROBERT BLAKE Y, writer and angler, born 1795* 



19 Professor JOHN WILSON (" Christopher North "),poet, writer, and angler, born 1785. 

 CHARLES APPERLEY ("Nimrod"), sporting writer, and fly fisher, died 1843. 



2 1 Sir JOHN HAWKINS, biographer of Walton, biographer of Cotton, and editor of" Compleat 



Angler" died 1789. 



22 ALEXANDER POPE, born 1688. [See " M usa Piscatrix" 



23 Foundation of Ministerial 'fish dinner at Greenwich, due to Sir Robert Preston, Bart., 



who before then had entertained first one guest, then two, then a third (William 

 Pitt} and so on, from his Parliamentary friends, at his "fishing house" by Dagen- 

 ham Reach. 

 THOMAS HOOD, born 1799. [See " {Musa Piscatrix" 



24 Birth 1707 <?/~LINN/EUS, naturalist. 



28 Sir HUMPHRY DAVY, chemist, angler, and author of" Salmonia, or Days of Fly-fishing^ 



died 1829. 



29 " Oak apple day," till lately said to be the culmination of the "green drake " (May fly) 



dapping on the Westmeath lakes. 

 Sir THOMAS DICK LAUDER, Bart., writer and angler, died 1848. 



30 ALEXANDER POPE, died 1744. {See " ^Musa Piscatrix" 

 ROBERT B. MARSTON, writer and angler, born 1853. 



31 The " Cotswold Games " day. The C. G. were founded in James I.'s reign by Robert 



Dover (attorney-at-law), who celebrated them in verse, as did Drayton in " Poly- 

 olbion." In Wharf edale, the day used to be called " Great sedge day" possibly on 

 account of the prevalence ofthefiy " Great sedge " so plentiful at that date. A local 

 ballad ran : 



" Who can't a trout on sedge day kill, " Nor nought he a" the Cotswold garnet 



Has little share o 1 craft or skill, T the fisher's angle make true claims." 



The First Edition of" The Compleat Angler" was published in this month, 1653. 



