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"...In 1870 he provided most of the funds (£45,000 in two donations) to build the Royal College of Music in London...(sic wiki entry on SF at 8 Sep 2011)"
If he provided the money in 1870 and the building went up in the 1890s, does anyone know what happened to the money during the intervening >2 decades? And please?
It (that link) doesn't work for me either. I'd assumed it was a problem with my dysfuntional ISP because usually it is. But if the link doesn't work for either of us, I begin to sniff a link-related trend. RegardsCharles01 (talk)18:46, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
If it is broken I think we can still use it if it's delinked, but more details are added. I've done that with a couple of BBC and Guardian deadlinks in the past, but just kept the headline and attributed it to the website. If Icevirtuallibrary is still a valid site (I'll check that out) then it might be ok, or it may be that the link has moved.TheRetroGuy (talk)21:41, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That looks like a good source for his date of death, and a nice source on other aspects of the guy's life. Thank you. Originally I flagged the sentence because it referred to a parliamentary election in 1903, and according to me there wasn't one in 1903 either nationally or, as far as I can fathom, in Walsall. Whatever he was doing in Walsall in 1903 I have difficulty thinking SF was campaigning in a parliamentary election that didn't happen. The source you found doesn't repeat the election bit, so I think I'll remove it from the wiki entry and wait to see if anyone comes forward to justify putting it back! RegardsCharles01 (talk)08:11, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the closest general elections at that time were in1900 and1906. There were a few by-elections in 1903 (see here), but nothing in Walsall for that year. To be honest though, if he'd stood for Parliament it would have been mentioned in Wednesday's programme.TheRetroGuy (talk)12:01, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
