ROW NINETY FOUR‑ (Palmer gives no name)
(NOW ROW
91)
Penrice Back
Row*2
Joseph
Cotman's Row, Mayor 1745,57,59.*2
ROW NINETY FOUR‑ (Palmer gives no name)
(NOW ROW
91)
Penrice Back
Row*2
Joseph
Cotman's Row, Mayor 1745,57,59.*2
From King Street to Deneside:
Today the number is 91, and this
half row connects King Street with
Deneside.
Cotman's house at the north‑west corner, was late
the property and residence of the
famous literary genius,
John Aikin M.D.*2
At the north‑west corner stood
a stately house
erected in the
last century by Joseph Cotman Esq.,
who filled the office of Mayor 1745, 1757, and 1759.*1 On the
last occasion he had
the honour of
entertaining Dr.Hayter, Bishop
of Norwich. This house was sold in 1786
to Dr.Aikin M.D., the youngest child and only son of Rev.John Aikin D.D. of
Kibworth, Leicestershire, and
was born in 1747. He studied in London and Edinburgh, but eventually took
his degree at the University of
Leyden. He had left Yarmouth after a
year but was
implored to come back,
and then bought
the house. "A very good and pleasant one". He was a friend of the
clergy. He moved to London in 1792,
and there turned to literature.
He published poems, and books including‑
"England Delineated", a new edition of Lewis's Materia Medica,
and "a view of the character and
public services of
Howard" (the philanthropist). There is some of his poetry quoted in
P.P.vol II, P.142. He died in 1822.
The Occupants, Row Ninety Four,
1886
( from Dene Side to King Street)
Bambridge, H.E., dentist
(no residents listed at the
later dates)