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
British Army during the Victorian Era British Army during the Victorian Era The British Army during the Victorian era served through a period of great technological and social change. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, and died in 1901. Her long reign was marked by the steady expansion and consolidation of the British Empire, and industrialisation and the enactment of liberal reforms (by both Liberal and Conservative governments) within Britain. The British Army began the period with few differences from the British Army of the Napoleonic Wars that fought at Waterloo. There were three main periods of the Army's development during the era. From the