Anglers* Calendar for 



(The best Salmon Angling Month on the Moy River} 



1 JAMES GILRAY, caricaturist, died 1815. 



Sir DAVID WILKIE, painter and angler, died 1841. 



Pilgrimage commences to Sf. Patrick's purgatory, Lough Derry (Co. Donegal) once famed 



for unspotted (" Holy ") trout. 

 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (" Kit "), poet, died 1593. [See " fMusa Piscatrix'' 



2 General Sir JAMES ALEXANDER, author, and editor of 11 Angling in Canada" born \ 803. 



3 ROBERT TANNAHILL, Scottish riverside poet, born 1774. 

 Sir WILLIAM Ross, artist and angler, born 1 794. 



4 " HI-REGAN," angling writer, born 1837. 



W. YARRELL, naturalist, and angler, born 1784. 



7 JOHN RENNIE, of Preston-Kirk, Haddingtonshire, N.B., engineer, designed first or nearly 



first salmon ladder, born 1761. 



R. D. BLACKMORE, writer of"Lorna Doone," etc., angler, born 1825. 

 HENRY SINCLAIR HALL, chief promoter of the " eyed-hook " system of angling, born 1 848. 



8 Sir SAMUEL BAKER, explorer, writer, angler, born 1821. 



Dr. RICHARD CARMICHAEL, famous angler and fly dresser ; he was swallowed in quick- 

 sand near Dublin, 1 849. 

 Sir JOHN MILLAIS, P.R.A., artist and angler, born, Southampton, 1829. 



1 1 GEORGE WITHER, poet, born 1588. 



BEN JONSON ("Rare Ben "), dramatist, born 1674. 



HENRY S. HALL, M.A., writer of mathematical handbooks, angler, and promoter of 

 " eyed hooks," for use in angling, 1848. 



12 The Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY, novelist, poet, angler, born 1819. [See " zMusa 



Piscatrix" 



WILLIAM COLLINS, died 1759. 

 Rev. JOHN HODGSON, died 1845. 



1 3 Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, patron of fishes. 



RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH, writer, an enthusiastic but most unskilful angler, died 

 1817. 



14 THOMAS PENNANT, naturalist and fisher, born 1723. 



15 THOMAS RANDOLPH,/"^/, born 1605. 

 THOMAS CAMPBELL, poet, angler, died 1 844. 



17 The Rev. R. H. BARHAM, (author of ll lngoldsby Legends"), an apt angler with fly in 



Kentish rivers, died 1845. 



18 WILLIAM COBBETT, economist, jturnalist, writer ("Rural Rides") and angler, died 1835. 

 20 GEORGE SELWYN MARRY AT, accomplished dry fly angler, born 1840. 



25 WILLIAM SMELLIE, naturalist, died 1795. 



THOMAS SANDBY, water-colour painter and angler, died 1798. 



26 The Rev. GILBERT WHITE (of Selborne), writer, naturalist, and pisciculturist, died 



1793. 



30 WILLIAM THOMPSON (of Belfast), naturalist, early observer of, and writer on Irish (fish) 

 species, born 1805. 



