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
Octavia Jordan Perry Octavia Jordan Perry Octavia Jordan Perry (1895–1991) was an American writer. She was born 21 April 1895 in Orange County, North Carolina, where her father was a country doctor. While a young child, she moved with her family to Durham, North Carolina. In 1916 she graduated from Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and three years later married Charles W. Perry. In 1963, Perry published "My Head’s High for Proudness", a folk tale set in the North Carolina mountains and inspired by summers spent in Sparta, North Carolina. She published "The Indian Bracelet", a children's story,