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George Elliot (1813–1901)
Admiral Sir George Augustus Elliot (25 September 1813 – 13 December 1901) was a British Royal Navy flag officer and politician. Naval career He was born in Calcutta, the son of Admiral Sir George Elliot. He entered the navy in November 1827, and was made lieutenant on 12 November 1834. Until 1837 he served aboard HMS ''Astraea'' along with Lord Edward Russell, also later to become a Member of Parliament. On 15 January 1838 he was made captain of the brig ''Columbine'' at the Cape and South Africa stations, under the direct command of his father, capturing six slavers in the two years he served in this position. In February 1840 he went to China with his father, and on 3 June was given command of HMS ''Volage'' after the death of its previous captain, returning to England in 1841 with his invalided father on board as a passenger. From 1843 to 1846 Elliot commanded the frigate HMS ''Eurydice'', designed by his father, on the North American station, and in December 1849 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Print
The salt print was the dominant paper-based photographic process for producing positive prints (from negatives) from 1839 until approximately 1860. The salted paper technique was created in the mid-1830s by English scientist and inventor Henry Fox Talbot. He made what he called "sensitive paper" for "photogenic drawing" by wetting a sheet of writing paper with a weak solution of ordinary table salt (sodium chloride), blotting and drying it, then brushing one side with a strong solution of silver nitrate. This produced a tenacious coating of silver chloride in an especially light-sensitive chemical condition. The paper darkened where it was exposed to light. When the darkening was judged to be sufficient, the exposure was ended and the result was stabilized by applying a ''strong'' solution of salt, which altered the chemical balance and made the paper only slightly sensitive to additional exposure. In 1839, washing with a solution of sodium thiosulfate ("hypo") was found to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Napier (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier (6 March 1786Priscilla Napier (1995), who is not elsewhere free from error, gives the birth year as 1787 (p. 1, and book title), but provides no evidence. All other authorities agree on 1786. – 6 November 1860) was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the War of 1812, the Napoleonic Wars, Syrian War and the Crimean War, and a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars. An innovator concerned with the development of iron ships, and an advocate of humane reform in the Royal Navy, he was also active in politics as a Liberal Member of Parliament and was probably the naval officer most widely known to the public in the early Victorian Era. Military career French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Napier became a midshipman in 1799 aboard the 16-gun sloop , but left her in May 1800 before she was lost with all hands. He next served aboard , flagship of Sir John Borlase Warren.Priscilla Napi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Cambridge University Cricket Club, established in 1820, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge. The club was recognised as holding first-class cricket, first-class status until 2020. The university played List A cricket in 1972 and 1974 only. It has not played top-level Twenty20 cricket. With some 1,200 members, home matches are played at Fenner's. The club has three men's teams (Blues, Crusaders and the Colleges XI) and one women's team (from the incorporation of Cambridge University Women's Cricket Club (CUWCC) in 2000) which altogether play nearly 100 days of cricket each season. The inaugural The University Match (cricket), University Match between Cambridge and Oxford University Cricket Club was played in 1827 and the match was the club's sole remaining first class fixture each season until 2020. The club has also operated as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence (Cambridge UCCE) which included List of Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cricket), bails (small sticks) balanced on three stump (cricket), stumps. Two players from the Batting (cricket), batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding Cricket bat, bats, while one player from the Fielding (cricket), fielding team, the bowler, Bowling (cricket), bowls the Cricket ball, ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one Run (cricket), run for each of these swaps. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches the Boundary (cricket), boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled Illegal delivery (cricket), illegally. The fielding tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dacres Butler
Sir Thomas Dacres Butler (3 October 1845 – 29 December 1937) was a British Army officer and senior civil servant. Biography Butler was born in Hambledon, Hampshire, the son of Colonel Thomas Butler and Arabella Dacres. He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned into the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot. He gained the rank of captain in 1873. He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 18 April 1882. Butler served as Secretary to the Lord Chamberlain in the Royal Household before becoming Yeoman-Usher of the Black Rod, the deputy of Black Rod, in 1892. He served in the House of Lords in this position until 1929, notably overseeing the installation of electric lighting to the House in 1904. He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order The Royal Victorian Order () is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished personal service to the monarch, members of the royal family, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Carnegie, 9th Earl Of Northesk
Lieutenant-Colonel George John Carnegie, 9th Earl of Northesk DL (1843 – 1891) was a British nobleman and soldier. Early life He was born the son of William Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk and Georgiana Maria Elliot on 1 December 1843. Career Lord Rosehill, as he then was, was commissioned into the 1st Dragoons in 1862, but transferred to the Scots Fusilier Guards as a lieutenant later the same year. He was promoted captain in 1866 and lieutenant-colonel in 1873. He retired in 1874. Personal life He married Elizabeth Georgina Frances Elliot, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot and Hersey Susan Sydney Wauchope, on 28 February 1865 and had four children. * Helen Alice Carnegie (died 1908), who married barrister Sir Francis Lacey in 1890. * David John Carnegie, 10th Earl of Northesk (1865–1921), who married Elizabeth Boyle Hallowes, eldest daughter of Maj.-Gen. George Skene Hallowes, in 1894. * Lt.-Col. Hon. Douglas George Carnegie (1870–1937), who married Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal United Services Institute
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI, Rusi) is a defence and security think tank with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1831 by the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley. The institution was registered as Royal United Service Institute for Defence and Security Studies and formerly known as the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. The current chair of RUSI is David Lidington, Sir David Lidington and its director-general is Rachel Ellehuus. History RUSI was founded in 1831, making it the oldest defence and security think tank in the world, at the initiative of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington. Its original objective was to study naval and military science. The Duke of Wellington spearheaded the establishment of RUSI in a letter to ''Colbourn's United Service Journal'' arguing that "a United Service Museum" should be formed, managed entirely by naval and mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Chatham was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 general election, when the borough of Chatham, Medway, Chatham was enfranchised under the Reform Act 1832. It was abolished for the 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Rochester and Chatham (UK Parliament constituency), Rochester and Chatham constituency. This then became Medway (UK Parliament constituency), Medway in 1983. When the boroughs of Rochester upon Medway and Gillingham merged to form the larger unitary Borough of Medway in 1998, the Parliamentary constituency of Medway only covered part of the new borough, so for the 2010 election it was renamed Rochester and Strood (UK Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The party sits on the Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing of the Left–right political spectrum, left-right political spectrum. Following its defeat by Labour at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election it is currently the second-largest party by the number of votes cast and number of seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons; as such it has the formal parliamentary role of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition. It encompasses various ideological factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites and Traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. There have been 20 Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Temeraire (1876)
HMS ''Temeraire'' was an ironclad battleship of the Victorian era, Victorian Royal Navy which was unique in that she carried her main armament partly in the traditional broadside battery, and partly in barbettes on the upper deck. Design and construction Propulsion ''Temeraire'' was equipped with two Humphrys & Tennant 2-cyl. steam engines, each driving one shaft and developing a total of 7,697 hp (5,661 kW), with which she reached a top speed of 14.65 knots (16.86 mph). Steam was supplied by twelve boilers. The ship could carry a maximum of 629 t. coal. ''Temeraire'' was rigged as a two-masted barque and had a sail area of 25,000 sq ft. The ship's crew consisted of 580 officers and ratings.Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 p 18. Armament Her armament was partly conventional, being deployed on the broadside, and partly experimental. She was the first British ship to use barbettes of any kind, with the barbettes located on the midline on the upper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
