Keswick Museum and Art Gallery District was bought for £160 for the Trustees of the Keswick Museum. 1882 Fitz Park Trust formed with the intention of providing space for the use of inhabitants of Keswick and its neighbourhood, and the visitors thereto, as a pleasure ground and a place of recreation. 1884 Canon Rawnsley, Vicar of Crosthwaite founds the Keswick School of Industrial Art 1886 Mr John Postlethwaite replaced Dr Knight as Honorary Curator of the Museum. 1887 Fitz Park was opened to the public with support from Henry and Thomas Hewetson. 1895 The National Trust was founded by Canon Rawnsley, Octavia Hill and Robert
The Tale of Peter Rabbit explains, a Potter family friend and sometime poet, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, set Potter's tale into "rather dreadful didactic verse and submitted it, along with Potter's illustrations and half her revised manuscript, to Frederick Warne & Co.," who had been among the original rejecters. Warne editors declined Rawnsley's version "but asked to see the complete Potter manuscript" – their interest stimulated by the opportunity "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" offered the publisher to compete with the success of Helen Bannerman's wildly popular "Little Black Sambo" and other small-format children's books then on the market. When Warne inquired about the lack of