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The Margate Macaroni [1772]
Etching published by Matthew Darly, London, November 30, 1772
A perfect, well-travelled young Englishman of the 18th century who affected foreign customs and manners was called a "Macaroni" and Matthew Darly of the Strand, London published an album of caricatures in 1772, Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c designed by the greatest personages, artists &c. The etching of a Margate Macaroni shows an obese man with very short fat legs. In his right hand he holds an enormous cane which rests on the ground, in his left is a lorgnette (magnifying glass). He wears a looped macaroni club, a laced hat and coat, and a sword. Margate and other towns like Bath, the subject of another of the caricatures, already had the reputation of a rather plebeian watering place.
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John Coakley Lettsom [ca 1770]
John Coakley Lettsom [1744-1815], one of the founders of the Royal Seabathing Infirmary
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Captain Davis [1780]
A print of the Margate character Captain Davis. Under the print is a misquotation from Hamlet, reading in the original, "I am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly / I know a hawk from a handsaw". Reporting Davis’s death, the Kentish Gazette [January 18, 1788] said ‘A few days since died in a hay-loft at Margate the person who has long wandered in an insane state in various parts of this county, by the name of Captain Davis. He went to rest at night apparently in health, but not being seen at his usual hour in the morning, and searching the place where he had slept for some time past, he was found quite dead. Eleven guineas, it is said, were in his pocket.’
Published by E. Harding of Fleet Street, London. [undated but probably ca 1780 since Davis died in 1788].
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Tho Wicks cook on Duke of Kent 1817 [1817]
Thos. Wicks, 71 yrs. of age, The Cook of the Duke of Kent Margate Packet, Captn. Brown
Etched by G.M. Brighty, from the original sketch by G. Shepheard
Soft ground etching; dated faintly in image 1817.
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R. B. Watts [1820]
R. B. Watts. Founder of the Philanthropic Harmonists Institution. Author of the Steam Yacht Guide to Margate Etc. Dedicated to the Members of the above Institution by their obliged servant C. Dyer
London June 1820
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Daniel Jarvis [1826]
Mezzotint, after John Jackson. Print made by William Ward. Original Picture in the Town Hall at Margate
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Presentation to Daniel Jarvis [1828]
"The Directors of the Margate Pier and Harbour Company, desirous of providing a permanent record of the great and successful efforts which have been made during the last twenty years...have caused this Stone to be inscribed...."
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Bellman Philpot [1831]
From "A humorous Poem". By the Author of “Brighton”.
Illustrated by Nine Engravings on Wood, from designs by Robert Cruikshank. William Kidd, London, 1831
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The Bellman [no date]
“Don’t laugh for I am going to Cry”.
Published by R. C. Osborne, No 20 High Street, Margate.
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Francis William Cobb [1847]
Taken from a Portrait of Francis William Cobb, Esquire
Painted for the Inhabitants of Margate
and placed in the Town Hall
portrait by A. Ludiveco: Lithograph by W. L. Walton. [date from Canterbury Journal November 13, 1847]
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Margate People: 1850 - 1890
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Simmondo - performing in the concert room at Jollys [1865]
from "All about Margate and Herne Bay." [1865]
W. Kent & Co.
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Dr Frederick Chambers [former Mayor of Margate] [1874]
Chambers was Mayor of Margate in 1870, 1871 and 1872.
from "The Pictorial World", 5 September, 1874.
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Dr Rowe [1874]
from "The Pictorial World", 5 September, 1874.
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T. Talfourd [Mayor of Margate] [1874]
from "The Pictorial World", 5 September, 1874.
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Frederick Chambers [former Mayor of Margate] ) [1877]
Chambers was Mayor of Margate in 1870, 1871 and 1872.
from "Thanet Figaro" July 14 1877.
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Alf Bourne [performer on the sands] [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Donkey Dick [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Captain Frederick Hodges [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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John Hurst [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Mrs Knock [One of the Margate Bathing Women] [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Old Jennie [One of the Margate Bathing Women] [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Organ man [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Richard Tappenden [Town crier] [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Sergeant Shelbee [Policeman] [1882]
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Frederick Chambers [former Mayor] [1882]
Chambers was Mayor of Margate in 1870, 1871 and 1872.
from "Margate and Ramsgate. All about and round about them". By Chas. H. Ross
“Judy” Office, London [1882]
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Frederick Chambers [1880]
Local disagreements about the widening of Queens Street
source unknown
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