{"id":288,"date":"2015-07-14T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/07\/14\/in-1847-philmer-eves-was-appointed-as-a-porter-to\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:31:17","slug":"philmer-eves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/07\/14\/philmer-eves\/","title":{"rendered":"The marriage of Philmer Eves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-288 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/07\/14\/philmer-eves\/attachment\/289\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/files\/2015\/07\/tumblr_nrh1zkGwA01tit5hqo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In 1847, Philmer Eves was appointed as a Porter to King\u2019s\u00a0College London. In the letter above,\u00a0written in May 1848, he asked if he could have a small advance on his wages in\u00a0order to move from the College Lodge, run by the Gatekeeper, James Nightingale,\u00a0and his wife, Kezia, into a privately rented unfurnished, presumably cheaper,\u00a0room elsewhere. He planned to get\u00a0married and wished to free up a little money to buy things necessary for the\u00a0wedding and the start of married life. A\u00a0note was made to the effect that the matter was deferred until October for\u00a0reconsideration which may have scuppered his plans.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the parish records held at the London\u00a0Metropolitan Archives, Philmer Eves married Elizabeth Wood on 10 September 1848\u00a0in St Pancras Church. In the 1851 census,\u00a0they were living in Brydges (now Catherine) Street, near the Theatre Royal\u00a0Drury Lane, and he was still working as a Porter at King\u2019s. By 1861, Philmer and his wife had moved to\u00a0Cheshire where they stayed until his death in 1876. It is nice to see that despite the lack of\u00a0assistance from the College he was still able to get married and kept working\u00a0at King\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Philmer Eves\u2019 letter comes from a large collection of\u00a0letters and documents sent to the Secretary of King\u2019s College London which date\u00a0from the foundation of the College in 1829 through to the late 19<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>and early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. A\u00a0detailed catalogue of the collection is currently being prepared and will be\u00a0made available on our catalogue website very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1847, Philmer Eves was appointed as a Porter to King\u2019s\u00a0College London. In the letter above,\u00a0written in May 1848, he asked if he could have a small advance on his wages in\u00a0order to move from the College Lodge, run by the Gatekeeper, James Nightingale,\u00a0and his wife, Kezia, into a privately rented unfurnished, presumably cheaper,\u00a0room elsewhere. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/07\/14\/philmer-eves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The marriage of Philmer Eves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[181,180,150,176,178,179,177],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kclca","tag-cheshire","tag-drury-lane","tag-kcl","tag-london","tag-nineteenth-century","tag-st-pancras","tag-wedding","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}