. John Ellerthorpe as an active, energetic,
Christian man, for upwards of eighteen years, and during the past
six years he has been under my immediate control.

His wonderful daring and success in saving the lives of drowning
persons, have now become matters of history, and have been fully
recognised by the late Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, the Royal
Humane Society, and the local officials in Hull, by whom he is best
known and valued.

I am, Sir, yours very obediently,
DALE BROWN, _Supt. Dock Master_.
Rev. Henry Woodcock.

The following appeared in the Hull newspapers, November the 9th, 1864.

[Sidenote: PRESENTATION TO THE HERO.]

'Presentation to the 'Hero of the Humber.'--On the 6th of November,
1861, a public presentation of a gold watch and a purse containing
upwards of 100 guineas, was made to Mr. John Ellerthorpe, of Hull,
known thenceforth as the 'Hero of the Humber,' on account of his
having saved twenty-nine persons from drowning. To commemorate that
interesting event, as well as to add another to Mr. Ellerthorpe's
well earned honours, a few friends met last Evening at Mr.
Rawlinson's, 'Sykes Head,' Wellington Street. After a well-served
supper, Mr. Councillor Symons, who, in the absence of Mr. Alderman
Fountain, presided, called upon Mr. John Corbitt (of the Air and
Calder Company), who presented to Mr. Ellerthorpe a purse
containing twenty-three and a half guineas, subscribed by the
leading shipping firms of Hull.

'Mr. Corbitt said:--The subscription was proposed by Mr. W. Dyson,
sen. (Bannister, Dyson, & Co.), and has been most warmly and
heartily taken up by all the leading firms, who were most ready and
forward to mark their sense of the obligations of the shipping
interest to Mr. Ellerthorpe's assiduous attention to duty, obliging
disposition, and untiring activity at his post night and day
(Applause). All present knew how valuable those services were, and
how much the dispatch of business depended upon them. It had been a
pleasing duty to himself to receive the subscriptions, they were
tendered in such a willing and hearty spirit (Cheers). Mr. Corbitt
then presented to Mr. Ellerthorpe the purse, which contained the
following inscription:--

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