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Grove House School
Grove House School was a Quaker school in Tottenham, United Kingdom. School The school was established in 1828 as a boarding school for 75 boys of the Quaker community, initially under Thomas Binns. One of its founders was Josiah Forster, who had attended the Quaker school his grandfather had founded in 1752, Forster's School, also in Tottenham. Its curriculum was advanced for its time, and it did not use corporal punishment. After languishing around 1850, it was enlarged by Arthur Robert Abbott, who admitted non-Quaker boys but after buying the school in 1877, closed it, and took Anglican orders. It was located on the south side of Tottenham Green next to the building of a former Quaker school which had closed some two years before its opening. In 1890, the Quakers were to found another school, Leighton Park School, Reading as a direct descendant of Grove House. Following on from Grove House and in recognition of the earlier foundation of the school, the first senior Boarding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestantism, Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to "quake before the authority of God". The Friends are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to be guided by the inward light to "make the witness of God" known to everyone. Quakers have traditionally professed a priesthood of all believers inspired by the First Epistle of Peter. They include those with Evangelical Friends Church International, evangelical, Holiness movement, holiness, liberal, and Conservative Friends, traditional Quaker understandings of Christianity, as well as Nontheist Quakers. To differing extents, the Friends avoid creeds and hierarchical structures. In 2017, there were an estimated 377,557 adult Quakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornithologist
Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds. It has also been an area with a large contribution made by amateurs in terms of time, resources, and financial support. Studies on birds have helped develop key concepts in biology including evolution, behaviour and ecology such as the definition of species, the process of speciation, instinct, learning, ecological niches, guilds, insular biogeography, phylogeography, and conservation. While early ornithology was principally concerned with descriptions and distributions of species, ornithologists today seek answers to very specific questions, often using birds as models to test hypotheses or predictions based on theories. Most modern biological theories apply ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Alfred Pease, 2nd Baronet
Sir Alfred Edward Pease, 2nd Baronet (29 June 1857 – 27 April 1939), was a British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1902 and who became a pioneer settler of British East Africa, now Kenya. Early life Alfred Pease was a member of the family of Quaker industrialists, known in Britain as the Darlington Peases. He was the elder son of Joseph W. Pease, 1st Bt and his wife Mary Fox. His younger brother gained a peerage and became Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford. Alfred was educated at Grove House School, Tottenham, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Career He began his career in the family bank, J. & J. W. Pease, of which he later became both a director and partner. He held similar positions in Pease & Partners, whose subsidiary interests embraced collieries, Ironstone mines, limestone quarries, as well as iron manufacturing, fabrication and construction. In the course of his years, he served as managing director, Vice-Chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albright And Wilson
Albright may refer to: *Albright (surname) *Albright, Alberta, Canada *Albright, West Virginia, United States *Albright College, a liberal arts college located in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States *Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, United States *Albright Memorial Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States *Albright special The Albright special The complete guide to knots and knot tying — Geoffrey Budworth — p.70 — or Albright knot is a bend used in angling. It is a strong knot used to tie two different diameters of line together, for instance to tie monofil ..., a knot See also * Allbright, Missouri, United States {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Leatham Bright
William Leatham Bright (12 August 1851 – 23 September 1910) was an English Liberal politician. Bright was the son of John Bright, M.P., of One Ash, Rochdale and his wife Margaret Elizabeth Leatham. They employed Lydia Rous to teach their children. In time, he was educated at Grove House School, Tottenham, and at the University of London. He became a colliery agent and ship broker. In 1885 Bright was elected Member of Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent. He was in favour of Irish Home Rule and came into disagreement with his father on the matter and received a parental wigging. He is said to have left his father speechless by regretting in response that "two statesmen could not discuss politics without indulging in unnecessary personalities". Bright suffered from ill-health and resigned his seat in 1890. Bright died at the age of 59. Bright married Isabella McIvor Tylor at Carshalton Carshalton ( ) is a town, with a historic village centre, in south London, England, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rickman Godlee
Sir Rickman John Godlee, 1st Baronet (15 February 1849 – 18 April 1925) was an English surgeon. In 1884 he became one of the first doctors to surgically remove a brain tumor, founding modern brain surgery. Early life Godlee was born in West Ham, Upton, Essex, to a Quaker family, the second son of Rickman Godlee (1804–1871), a barrister at Middle Temple, and Mary Godlee (née Lister), daughter of Joseph Jackson Lister. He was thus a nephew of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Joseph Lister — whose biography he later wrote. He was educated at a school in Tottenham and took his Bachelor of Arts, B.A. at University College, London before he began his medical education. An expert draughtsman, and whilst still at University College, London, he was employed to make the original plates for Richard Quain (surgeon), Richard Quain's ''Anatomy'' — which in 1920 he presented to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Medical career He was admitted a Member of the Royal College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Pease (MP)
Arthur Pease, DL (12 September 1837 – 27 August 1898) was a British politician. He was the son of Joseph Pease. Biography He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Whitby from 1880 to 1885, and a Liberal Unionist MP for Darlington from 1895 until his death in 1898, aged 60. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Opium in India from 1893 to 1895. He married on 14 April 1864 to Mary Lecky Pike. They had two sons, Sir Arthur Pease (1866–1927), Herbert Pease (1867–1949), and one daughter named Winifred Pike Pease, who married in 1903 to Roger William Bulwer Jenyns, of Bottisham Hall, Cambridgeshire. They were parents of the art historian Soame Jenyns.Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th edition, 1952, ed. L. G. Pine, 'Jenyns of Bottisham Hall' pedigree References * External links * 1837 births 1898 deaths Deputy lieutenants of Durham Arthur Arthur is a masculine given name of uncertain etymology. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the lege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Henry Shorthouse
Joseph Henry Shorthouse (9 September 1834 – 4 March 1903) was an English novelist.Barbara Dennis, "Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (1834–1903)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 30 Nov 2012 doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36077. His first novel, '' John Inglesant'', was particularly admired as a "philosophical romance". It discusses a religious intrigue in the English 17th century. Biography Shorthouse was born in Great Charles Street, Birmingham, on 9 September 1834, as the eldest of three sons of Joseph Shorthouse (1797–1880) and his wife, Mary Ann, née Hawker. He grew up in Calthorpe Street, Edgbaston. His father had inherited a family chemical works manufacturing vitriol, and his mother's father had founded the first glasshouse in Birmingham. Both families were Quakers. He was educated partly at home and partly at Grove House School, Tottenham, and became a chemical manufacturer. At the Friends meeting house in Warwick on 19 August 1857, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 18322 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology. Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century cultural evolutionism. In his works '' Primitive Culture'' (1871) and ''Anthropology'' (1881), he defined the context of the scientific study of anthropology, based on the evolutionary theories of Charles Lyell. He believed that there was a functional basis for the development of society and religion, which he determined was universal. Tylor maintained that all societies passed through three basic stages of development: from savagery, through barbarism to civilization. Tylor is a founding figure of the science of social anthropology, and his scholarly works helped to build the discipline of anthropology in the nineteenth century.Paul Bohannan, ''Social Anthropology'' (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969) He believed that "research into the history and prehistory of man ..could be used as a basis for the reform of Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hodgkin Royal Medical Society, RMS (17 August 1798 – 5 April 1866) was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathology, pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood diseases, blood disease, in 1832. Hodgkin's work marked the beginning of times when a pathologist was actively involved in the clinical process. He was a contemporary of Thomas Addison and Richard Bright (physician), Richard Bright at Guy's Hospital in London. Early life Thomas Hodgkin was born to a Quaker family in Pentonville, St. James Parish, Middlesex, the son of John Hodgkin (tutor), John Hodgkin. He received private education with his brother John Hodgkin (barrister), John Hodgkin, and in 1816 took a position as private secretary to William Allen (English Quaker), William Allen. His aim was to learn the trade of apothecary, one of the routes into medicine, and Allen, des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover
Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover LL FRGS, FSA, FLS (16 August 1830 – 21 October 1919), was an English Quaker banker, philanthropist and collector of ancient manuscripts. Early years Peckover was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Algernon Peckover, of Bank House, Wisbech, by Priscilla Alexander, daughter of Dykes Alexander, a Quaker banker, of Ipswich, Suffolk. Priscilla Hannah Peckover was his sister. He was educated at Grove House School, Tottenham, London. Career The Peckovers were a Quaker banking family and owners of the Peckover Bank, which later merged into Gurney, Peckover and Company, he started as a clerk in 1847 and worked his way up and became a partner in 1866 retiring in 1894. His sister Priscilla Hannah Peckover was a pacifist and linguist. Peckover was also an active peace campaigner, chairing annual meetings of the Wisbech Local Peace Association. Retirement In his retirement he devoted himself mainly to meteorological studies and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP (12 September 1828, Tottenham, Middlesex – 22 May 1891 Harley Street, London) was a member of parliament and Lord Mayor of London. He was born the son of Thomas Fowler of Gastard, Wiltshire. He attended Grove House School, Tottenham and London University where he was awarded a B.A. degree in 1848. He was a banker and M.P. for the Penryn and Falmouth Constituency, (1868–1874) and Conservative M.P. for the City of London Constituency (1880–1891). He was also elected Sheriff of the City of London for 1880 and Lord Mayor of London in 1883 and 1885, the last Lord Mayor to serve multiple terms until Sir William Russell in 2019. He was created a baronet in 1885. He was the author of ''A visit to Japan, China and India''. According to Frank Harris, an admittedly unreliable source, Fowler excited the disgust of his fellow guests at a dinner given by William Thackeray Marriott by breaking wind copiously, and being apparently un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
