170 years ago in August 1851
Second application for the election of Frank Marner aged 7, to the Royal Asylum of St Ann's Society on Streatham Hill.
The appeal for votes states, 'His father, a Pork Butcher....in Lambeth and Holborn, died suddenly of cholera in 1849, leaving a widow....and seven children unprovided for'
(Lambeth Archives)
Second application for the election of Frank Marner aged 7, to the Royal Asylum of St Ann's Society on Streatham Hill.
The appeal for votes states, 'His father, a Pork Butcher....in Lambeth and Holborn, died suddenly of cholera in 1849, leaving a widow....and seven children unprovided for'
(Lambeth Archives)