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George Phillips Bevan (1829 – 1889) FSS FGS was a Welsh statistician, geographer and author, and the brother of William Latham Bevan. His father was William Hibbs Bevan (1788-1846), who was high sheriff for Breconshire in 1841, and his brother, William Bevan, was archdeacon of Brecon from 1875. His mother Margaret, daughter of Joseph Latham, was also of Beaufort. Bevan's ''Statistical Atlas'' (1882) His ''Statistical Atlas'' was a massive tome with 45 plates, each 20×28 inches, and many statistical tables. It provides a useful reference list of schools of the period. ''The Educational Condition of the United Kingdom'' These tables and map provide a useful reference to educational institutions of the 1880s, including statistical information about the following: * Primitive Methodist ** ''York Jubilee School'' (Elmfield College) ** ''Birmingham Bourne College'' * Moravian **Fulneck School Fulneck School is a small independent day and boarding school, situated in the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaufort, Blaenau Gwent
Beaufort ( cy, Cendl or ''Y Cendl'') is a community and village located in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and the preserved county of Gwent. It currently lies on the northern edge of the county borough of Blaenau Gwent in Wales. According to the 2011 census, the population of the ward and community of Beaufort is 3,866 The settlement arose on the boundary of two parishes, Llangattock in Brecknockshire and Aberystruth in Monmouthshire on the 1779 establishment of the Beaufort Iron Works by Edward and Jonathan Kendall (Cendl) after whom the new settlement was first named. Description The village's name derives from the fact that much of the local land was originally owned by the Duke of Beaufort. It is bordered to the west by the Ebbw River which passes close to St David's Church (Church in Wales). 'Carmeltown', with its Carmel Chapel, lies between the Rassau and the rest of Beaufort. The 'rest of Beaufort' (i.e. geographically the eastern part of Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Felkin
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Statisticians
Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic people) Animals * Welsh (pig) Places * Welsh Basin, a basin during the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian geological periods * Welsh, Louisiana, a town in the United States * Welsh, Ohio, an unincorporated community in the United States See also * Welch (other) Welch, Welch's, Welchs or Welches may refer to: People *Welch (surname) Places * Welch, Oklahoma, a town, US *Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community, US *Welch, Texas, an unincorporated community, US * Welchs, Virginia, an unincorporated c ... * * * Cambrian + Cymru {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William Thomas Burbidge
Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847–1905) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries. Biography Burbidge was born at Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 21 March 1847, was son of Thomas Burbidge, a farmer and fruit-grower. Burbridge entered the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick as a student in 1868, and proceeded in the same year to the Royal Gardens, Kew. Here he showed skill as a draughtsman and was partly employed in making drawings of plants in the herbarium. Leaving Kew in 1870, he was on the staff of ''the Garden'' from that year until 1877. In 1877 Burbidge was sent by Messrs. Veitch as a collector to Borneo. He was absent two years, during which he also visited Johore, Brunei, and the Sulu Islands. He brought back to Great Britain many remarkable plants, especially: *pitcher plants, such as "Nepenthes rajah" and "N. bicalcarata"; *orchids, such as " Cypripedium laurenceanum", " Dendrobium burbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Francis Rimbault
Edward Francis Rimbault (13 June 1816 – 26 September 1876) was an English organist, musicologist, book collector and author. Life Rimbault was born in Soho, London, to a family of French Huguenot extraction that had emigrated to England in 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.A. Hyatt King, introduction to ''Catalogue of the Music Library of Edward Francis Rimbault Sold at London 31 July-7 August 1877, With the Library of Dr. Rainbeau'' (Buren, Netherlands: Frits Knuf, 1975). His father, Stephen Francis Rimbault, was an organist, arranger and composer. The younger Rimbault was taught music by his father, Samuel Wesley and William Crotch. At age 16, he became organist of the Swiss Church in Soho. His career as a lecturer, for which he was much in demand, began in 1838. Rimbault edited many collections of music. In addition to editing or arranging contemporary operas, Rimbault took a strong interest in editing or arranging earlier English music. He did editorial work f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Boutell
Charles Boutell (1 August 1812 – 31 July 1877) was an English archaeologist, antiquary and clergyman, publishing books on brasses, arms and armour and heraldry, often illustrated by his own drawings. Life Boutell was born at Pulham St Mary, Norfolk, the son of the Rev. Charles Boutell. He entered St John's College, Cambridge, and graduated BA in 1834. In 1836 he took his MA at Trinity College, Oxford. Having served briefly as curate of Hemsby, Norfolk, and then curate of St Leonard's Church, Sandridge, Hertfordshire (1837–46), during which period, in 1839, he was ordained priest. He was subsequently rector of Downham Market (1847–1850) and vicar of Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen, Norfolk (1847–55). After moving to London in 1855 he held various positions, including reader at St Luke's, Lower Norwood, Surrey (1860–67). He was secretary of the St Albans Architectural Society, founded in 1845; and was one of the founders in 1855 of the London and Middlesex Archaeological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wallis
George Wallis (1811–1891) was an artist, museum curator and art educator. He was the first Keeper of Fine Art Collection at South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria & Albert Museum) in London. Early years George Wallis, son of John Wallis (1783–1818) and his wife Mary, née Price (1784–1864), was born at Wolverhampton on 8 June 1811. His father died early, and George Wallis was adopted by his grand-uncle, John Worralow, who was a famous maker of steel-jewellery at the time of George III. George Wallis was educated at the Grammar School from 1825 to 1827 and received initial training in japanned ware painting. He practised as an artist and art educator in Wolverhampton from 1827 to 1832, but then left for Manchester where he lived the next five years. He taught sisters Martha Darley Mutrie and Annie Feray Mutrie at the Manchester School of Design and he later gave them both private classes. He attended the Royal Manchester Institution; practised painting; became co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Kinnear Clark
Daniel Kinnear Clark (17 July 1822 – 22 January 1896) was a Scottish consulting railway engineer. He served as Locomotive Superintendent to the Great North of Scotland Railway between 1853 and 1855, and also wrote comprehensive books on railway engineering matters. Biography Clark was born at Edinburgh on 17 July 1822. He served an apprenticeship with Thomas Edgington & Son, a Glasgow ironworks. He then worked for another private firm, followed by the North British Railway The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at Berwick. The line opened in 1846, and from the outset the company followe .... In 1851, he set up as a consulting engineer in London; he was 30 years old. He became a Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 1854. The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) had been established in 1845 with the aim of building a railway to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford Pim
Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim (12 June 1826 – 30 September 1886) was a Royal Navy officer, Arctic explorer, barrister, and author. He was the first man who travelled from a ship on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage to one on the western side. Early years Pim was born in Bideford, Devon, England, son of Edward Bedford Pim of Weirhead, Exeter, a British navy officer who died of yellow fever in 1830 off the coast of Africa while engaged in the suppression of the slave trade, and Sophia Soltau Harrison, eldest daughter of John Fairweather Harrison, Esquire of Totnes. Educated at the Royal Naval School, the younger Pim went to India in the British Merchant Navy, and in 1842, upon return to England, was appointed a volunteer in the Royal Navy. Career In 1845, Pim was posted to the survey ship, HMS ''Herald'', under Captain Henry Kellett. For the next six years he took part in surveys in the Falkland Islands, the western coast of South America, and north to Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Christopher Trout Bartley
Sir George Christopher Trout Bartley, (22 November 1842 – 13 September 1910) was an English civil servant, banker and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1885 to 1906. Biography Bartley was born at Stoke Newington, the son of Robert Bartley and his wife Julia Anne Lucas. He was educated at Clapton, London, Clapton, London and University College School. He entered public service and worked for twenty years at the Science and Art Department, becoming Assistant Director. He was interested in poverty and social issues and published works on education and on building self-reliance He supported technical education, and was treasurer of the Society of Arts. He established a Penny Bank, which became the National Penny Bank. He was a Justice of the Peace, J.P. for Middlesex and Westminster. Trout Bartley stood for parliament in Hackney (UK Parliament constituency), Hackney at the 1880 United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Davenport (engraver)
Samuel Davenport (1783–1867) was an English line engraver. He was one of the earliest to engrave on steel. Life Davenport was born at Bedford, 10 December 1783: while he was still small, his father, an architect and surveyor, moved to London. There he was in due course articled to Charles Warren. His earlier works were book illustrations after the designs of Henry Chawner Shenton, Henry Corbould, and others; but subsequently he engraved in outline a large number of portraits for biographical works. He died 15 July 1867. His son, Samuel Thomas Davenport (born 1821), was also an engraver. Works Davenport is said by Redgrave to have 700 portraits for one publication alone. Examples of his work are the plates which he engraved for the ''Forget-Me-Not'' annual between 1828 and 1842, and which include: *''The Sister's Dream'', ''Fathime and Euphrosyne'', and ''The Disappointment'', after Henry Corbould; * ''The Orphan Family'', after Alexander Chisholm; * ''The Frosty Reception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hatton
Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton (3 February 1837 (baptised in Andover 22 March 1837) – 31 July 1907) was an English novelist and journalist. He was Editor of ''The Sunday Times'' from 1874 to 1881. Life Hatton was born and baptised in Andover, Hampshire, but his parents, Francis Augustus and Mary Ann Hatton, moved to Chesterfield when he was young, where he later became apprenticed as a printer to his father. Hatton married Louisa Johnson and had three children: the artist Helen Howard Hatton, Bessie Lyle Hatton, and Frank Hatton. His brother Joshua Hatton was also a journalist. Hatton accompanied Henry Irving on an North American tour to write his biography. Joseph Hatton died in St John's Wood, Middlesex at the age of 70. Works Editor *''Bristol Mirror'' *'' Gentleman's Magazine'' *''School Board Chronicle'' *''Illustrated Midland News'' *''The Sunday Times'' *'' The People'' (1892) Novels (incomplete) In title order: *''Bitter Sweets: a Love Story'', London, 1865 *''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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