parapluie defended his face and wig; thus he was always prepared
to enter into any company without impropriety, or the appearance of
neglect. And he (Hanway) was the first man who ventured to walk the
streets of London with an umbrella over his head: after carrying one
near thirty years, he saw them come into general use." Hanway died
1786.

J.F.


As far as I remember, there is a portrait of Hanway with an umbrella
as a frontispiece to the book of Travels published by him about 1753,
in four vols. 4to.; and I have no doubt that he had used one in his
travels through Greece, Turkey, &c.

T.G.L.


In the hall of my father's house, at Stamford in Lincolnshire,
there was, when I was a child, the wreck of a very large green silk
umbrella, apparently of Chinese manufacture, brought by my father from
Holland, somewhere between 1770 and 1780, and as I have often heard,
the first umbrella seen at Stamford. I well remember also an amusing
description given by the late Mr. Warry, so many years consul at
Smyrna, of the astonishment and envy of his mother's neighbours at
Sawbridgeworth, in Herts, where his father had a country-house, when
he ran home and came back with an umbrella, which he had just brought
from Leghorn, to shelter them from a pelting shower which detained
them in the church-porch, after the service, on one summer Sunday.
From Mr. Warry's age at the time he mentioned this, and other