THE DINNER HOUR.
In Henry VIII.'s time the English Court dined an hour before noon. In Cromwell's time the dinner had advanced to one o'clock. ■ Bishop Percy says that at the Restoration, and for some "years after, the fashionable hour of dining was twelve o'clock, " the play" beginning at three. The Revolution postponed dinner to two. Pope dined all his life at two, and Addison conformed to this rule for the last thirty years of his life. About 1740* Pope complained of Lady Suffolk dining so late as four, and in 1745 very great people generally had fixed upon that hour, which was still in force about 1789. About 1804-5 Oxford colleges, which had dined at three and four, put on these hours to four and five, which became good general hours until Waterloo, when six came in. Grimod d r . la Reyniere writes ot dinne,. in 1803 beginning at six and lasting three and even five hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12663, 17 September 1904, Page 5 (Supplement)
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