3-082-829 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Royal Visit to Warwickshire: the Prince of Wales viewing the room in which Shakspere was born, at Stratford-On-Avon, 1895. 'From a Sketch by our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior. On May 18 the Prince...went to Stratford-on- Avon with Lord and Lady Warwick and several of their friends. He first visited the house in which Shakspere was born, where Sir Arthur Hodgson, chairman of the trustees, received his Royal Highness. An address of welcome from the Corporation was presented by the Mayor, Mr. J. Smallwood, with the Town Clerk and Council, at the Town Hall. The Grammar School, with the adjacent Hall and Chapel of the Guild of the Holy Cross, was next visited. Here the Head Master, the Rev. R. S. de Courcy Laffan, showed everything of interest. At the parish church, which contains Shakspere's tomb, the Vicar, the Rev. G. Arbuthnot, acted as cicerone. His Royal Highness visited also the Shakspere Memorial Theatre, the Library, and the Picture Gallery. He and the Earl of Warwick's party took tea at Clopton House, the residence of Sir Arthur Hodgson, and returned to the Castle'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.