![]() He had claimed to be Richard, Duke of York (youngest of the Princes in the Tower, sons of the late Edward IV) in 1852 the first pillar boxes in Britain were installed in St Helier, Jersey, overseen by Anthony Trollope, the novelist, in his capacity as a postal inspector in 1863, during the American Civil War, the Battle of Chattanooga began, ending in victory for Union forces on November 25 in 1874 the first book edition of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd was published shortly before the final magazine instalment in 1910 Hawley Harvey Crippen, aka Dr Crippen, was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, after being found guilty of poisoning and dismembering his second wife. In 1499 Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, was hanged.
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