A roll nf'the distinguished men and •women -who' have made Hastings - <ind St. -Leonards their homo, or who have stayed in > the tewn,.• would: fill? columns of "a 'newspaper.' , In'the visitors' book of the ,'Hoyal yVictoria Hotel there > is ■inscribed, in boyish hanatn i ting, under a date in 1875, the note, '"Very' happy •here...■ Sorry to; go •.away.."- The. boy Ti'ho wrote trio -words is -now King George. Jt was at this same hotel that Louis Philiippe* of France spent the first part'of his exile. !Garrick. Charles Lnmb, Turner,:,the. artist Lord Brron. ■Sir John Moore, Tom r Hood, Herbert L s 3pencer, and' Lord' Terinvson. all figure 'in the town's visiting:' list.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18185, 23 September 1924, Page 6
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