Talk:Samson Fox

"...In 1870 he provided most of the funds (£45,000 in two donations) to build the Royal College of Music in London...(sic wiki entry on SF at 8 Sep 2011)"
If he provided the money in 1870 and the building went up in the 1890s, does anyone know what happened to the money during the intervening >2 decades? And please?

Regards Charles01 (talk) 07:59, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Broken link
The Icevirtuallibrary link doesn't work for me. Is it just me or is it a broken link? TheRetroGuy (talk) 21:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC)


 * It (that link) doesn't work for me either.  I'd assumed it was a problem with my dysfuntional ISP because usually it is.   But if the link doesn't work for either of us, I begin to sniff a link-related trend.   Regards Charles01 (talk) 18:46, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * If it is broken I think we can still use it if it's delinked, but more details are added. I've done that with a couple of BBC and Guardian deadlinks in the past, but just kept the headline and attributed it to the website. If Icevirtuallibrary is still a valid site (I'll check that out) then it might be ok, or it may be that the link has moved. TheRetroGuy (talk) 21:41, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I found this obituary at the same site. Also, they appear to charge for their information so it may be a valid link, but which requires subscription. TheRetroGuy (talk) 21:47, 9 September 2011 (UTC)


 * That looks like a good source for his date of death, and a nice source on other aspects of the guy's life.  Thank you.   Originally I flagged the sentence because it referred to a parliamentary election in 1903, and according to me there wasn't one in 1903 either nationally or, as far as I can fathom, in Walsall.   Whatever he was doing in Walsall in 1903 I have difficulty thinking SF was campaigning in a parliamentary election that didn't happen.    The source you found doesn't repeat the election bit, so I think I'll remove it from the wiki entry and wait to see if anyone comes forward to justify putting it back!   Regards  Charles01 (talk) 08:11, 10 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, the closest general elections at that time were in 1900 and 1906. There were a few by-elections in 1903 (see here), but nothing in Walsall for that year. To be honest though, if he'd stood for Parliament it would have been mentioned in Wednesday's programme. TheRetroGuy (talk) 12:01, 10 September 2011 (UTC)