29th September 1852
Jersey’s Victoria College opens for the first time
Named in honour of Queen Victoria to commemorate her 1846 visit to Jersey, work began with the laying of Victoria College’s foundation stone, and was completed with its opening on 29 September 1852. Both events were marked with a certain amount of pomp and ceremony. Much of St Helier was closed for the foundation stone’s laying, as 12,000 locals watched the Bailiff place a time capsule containing two medallions depicting Victoria’s arrival, an inscribed plate, coins and the Acts of the States authorising the college’s construction. The day of its opening was marked with a parade, speeches and the unveiling of portraits of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which had been gifted to the school by the queen herself.
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Other events that occured in September
First cat to fly from Jersey finds fame
- Swannie made history when it became the first cat to fly between Jersey and the mainland.
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Composer Gerald Le Feuvre is born
- Le Fevure was born in Jersey and educated at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He founded the Kings Chamber Orchestra.
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Inquest launched into another Jersey railway death
- Philip Pinel was crushed by a train’s axle box, which was still smeared with his blood when police arrived at the scene.
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King killer Gilbert Millington dies at Mont Orgueil
- MP Gilbert Millington's signature was one of the close-to 60 names that appeared on the death warrant for King Charles I.
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