Anglers' Calendar for December 



(Sporting vfngling only for Pike} 



I Close time for salmon commences, Camel, Fowey, Urr, Tweed. 



3 ROBERT MONTGOMERY, poet and angler, died 1855. 



On this day (1896) was sold, at the rooms of SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, a first 

 edition of THE book to MR. PICKERING for 415. 



4 JOHN GAY, poet and fisherman, died 1732. [See " fMusa Piscatrix? 



5 Sir HENRY WOTTON, -writer, friend of Izaak Walton, died 1639. [See " fMusa Pis- 



catrix" 

 THOMAS BEWICK, artist, engraver, and naturalist, died 1795. 



6 Sir DAVID BAIRD, General, salmon angler, born 1757. 



Rev. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM (" Ingoldsby "), writer, and trout fisher in Kent, born 



1788. 



9 JOHN O 'DONOVAN, Irish scholar, in early life an accomplished angler, died 1861. 

 10 Sir WILLIAM FENWICK WILLIAMS (" of Kars "), General, an excellent angler, born 1 800. 

 SIR HUGH MIDDLETON, founder of the New River Company. New River once excellent 



for London anglers ! ! ! Tried 1631. 

 ALEXANDER RUSSEL, editor of" The Scotsman" and angler, born 1814. 



13 Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON, died 1784. 



14 GEORGE WASHINGTON, died 1799. 



15 IZAAK WALTON, died at Winchester, 1683. 



1 6 THOMAS PENNANT, naturalist, died 1798. 



17 Archbishop MAGEE, orator and angler, born 1821. 



Sir HUMPHREY DAVY, chemist, angler, and author of" Salmonia," born 1778. 

 EDMUND HORT NEW, born 1871. 



1 8 THOMAS DOUBLEDAY, poet, died 1870. [See " SAusa Piscatrix? 



19 J. W. M. TURNER, artist and angler, died 1851. 

 21 Rev. JOHN RUSSELL (" Passon Jack "), born 1795. 



24 HUGH MILLER, geologist and angler, died 1856. 

 Colonel PETER HAWKER, born 1786. 



FRANCIS FRANCIS, writer, enthusiastic general sportsman and voluminous writer on angling, 



died 1886. 

 MATTHEW ARNOLD, born 1822. [See " ZMusa Piscatrix? 



25 Colonel GURWOOD (Editor of "Wellington Despatches"), once a keen angler, died 



1854. 



WILLIAM COLLINS, poet s at one time a keen angler, born 1720. 

 27 CHARLES LAMB (" Elia "), poet, essayist, who wrote " It might sweeten a man's temper at 



any time to read Izaak Walton" died 1834. 

 Louis PASTEUR, chemist and angler, born 1822. 



29 Rev. W. H. MAXWELL, ex-soldier, historian, novelist, and miscellaneous writer, and 

 sportsman ; author of" Wild Sports of the West," died 1850. 



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