Notes about the Rowland, Mallett, and Netherclift families and some relations and friends / [Ralph Thomas].

  • Thomas, Ralph, 1840-
Date:
1909
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    Oddly enough ‘ Miss Bassano ’ was a friend of ours, though quite independently of my cousins Kate and Fanny and not until many years after Fanny’s death, so that I am able to give some particulars about her which will not be found anywhere else. Louisa Bassano (Mrs Frederic Boddy) was second daughter of dementi Bassano of Venezia, his wife Elizabeth was born 17 march 1800 and died at Tooting 20 may 1893. Mrs Boddy was born ii february 1819 and died at Tooting 20 august 1908. The following song in the National Library is by Mme Bassano’s sister :—The northern wind, song written by A[rthur] J[ohnJ H[orsford] composed for Miss Teresa Bassano by Josephine M[aud] Horsford. London Cramer [1864]. Mrs Horsford also composed a ‘ Mazurka for the piano,’ neither of these have got to the National Library. ‘ Teresa ’ is the wife of Mr John Boyd Kinnear, English and Scotch barrister and M.P. for East Fifeshire in i886. General Alfred Bassano C.B. (see Boase’s Modern English Biography) to whose memory a tablet is erected in Fulham Church was no relation. In a notice in The Athenaeum 23 January 1858, Fanny’s name is coupled with that of ‘ Mr Thomas ’ who was no relation to the present writer. I presume he was Lewis William Thomas (see Boase’s Modern English Biography). At a concert ‘ Miss A. Thomas ’ was one of the singers with Fanny, she was no relation. I attended the Monday Popular Concerts from the first. I have the program for that of the 26th march i860, second season. ‘Miss Fanny Rowland’ was the lady singer. She was accompanied on the piano by her great friend G. A. Macfarren. During the interval she introduced me to Miss Arabella Goddard one of the most popular pianists England has ever had. Fanny gave her first Concert at Willis’s Rooms on the 31 may 1883, tickets one guinea. She had then practically retired. The patrons numbering among them some thirty