A short announcement appeared in the Morning Chronicle on 2nd October 1805. “The long pending match between the Chicken and the Gulley is fixed for Tuesday next. The combatants are now in training in Sussex in which the battle is to be fought. Most of the amateurs of pugilism have departed for Brighton in the…
Month: March 2017
A Sussex War Grave and its Literary Connection.
The name Horatio Hornblower will be known as a gallant but fictional Royal Navy Officer during the Napoleonic Wars. He has been played on film by Gregory Peck and more recently Ioan Gruffudd. But where did this unusual name come from? Edward Sibun Hornblower was born in Southwark, London on 13th November 1873. His father…
Quirky Sussex History by Kevin Gordon 