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Luard, Henry
Henry Richards Luard (25 August 1825 – 1 May 1891) was a British medieval historian and antiquary. Biography Luard was born on 25 August 1825 in London, the son of Henry Luard. His uncle was Lt.-Col. John Luard, and his cousins included Lt.-Gen. Richard George Amherst Luard and the organist Bertram Luard-Selby. He received his early education at Cheam School, Surrey. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1847; and in 1849 was elected to a Fellowship. He entered holy orders, and served as vicar of the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge from 1860 to 1887. Luard Road in Cambridge is named after him. Antiquarian activities Luard was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of King's College London; and was Registrary of the University of Cambridge, where he worked on cataloguing the manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library. He edited 17 volumes of medieval chronicles and other texts for the Rolls Series, and was an early scholarly editor of the papers of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Luard
Lieutenant-Colonel John Luard (1790–1875) was a British Army officer and author of ''History of the Dress of the British Soldier'' Life He was fourth son of Captain Peter John Luard of the 4th Dragoons, of Blyborough, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Charles Dalbiac of Hungerford Park, Berkshire, born on 5 May 1790. His seven brothers included Henry Luard, a banker (father of the antiquarian Henry Luard, Henry Richards Luard) and Robert (father of the organist Bertram Luard-Selby). He served in the Royal Navy 1802–1807, and on 25 May 1809 obtained a cornetcy without purchase in his father's old regiment. Luard served in the 4th Dragoons through the Peninsular War campaigns of 1810–1814, gaining a Military General Service Medal with clasps for the battles of battle of Albuera, Albuera, battle of Salamanca, Salamanca, and battle of Toulouse (1814), Toulouse. Afterwards he served with the 16th Light Dragoons as lieutenant at the battle of Waterlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellows Of King's College London
Fellows may refer to Fellow, in plural form. Fellows or Fellowes may also refer to: Places *Fellows, California, USA *Fellows, Wisconsin, ghost town, USA Other uses * Fellowes, Inc., manufacturer of workspace products *Fellows, a partner in the firm of English canal carriers, Fellows Morton & Clayton *Fellows (surname) *Mount Fellows, a mountain in Alaska See also *North Fellows Historic District The North Fellows Historic District is a historic district located in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. The city experienced a housing boom after World War II. This north side neighborhood of single-family brick homes built between 1945 and 1959 ..., listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wapello County, Iowa * Justice Fellows (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luard Family
The Luard family is an English family of Huguenot origin associated with Blyborough in Lincolnshire and Witham in Essex that was involved in several areas of public life.Johanna Merz, ''The Luards of Blyborough Hall'' (2014). Members include: * Arthur John Hamilton Luard (1861−1944), English cricket player and army officer, great-nephew of John * Bertram Luard-Selby (1853−1918), British organist and composer, nephew of John, cousin of Henry and Richard * Caroline Mary Luard (née Hartley) (d. 1908), British murder victim, whose husband was a half-brother of Bertram, nephew of John, and cousin of Henry and Richard * Charles Camac Luard (1867–1947), British army officer, son of Richard * Constance Mary Luard (née Wilson) (1881−1955), British tennis player, whose husband was a nephew of Richard and cousin of Charles * Edward Chauncey Luard (1856−1900), British planter and philatelist, nephew of Henry * Henry Richards Luard (1825–1891), British antiquarian, nephew of J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Lakotas breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 7 ** General Miles' forces surround the Lakota in the Pine Ridge Reservation. ** The Inter-American Monetary Commission meets in Washington DC. * January 9 – The great shoe strike in Rochester, New York is called off. * January 10 – in France, the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at Boulogne. The French government promptly takes loan. * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1825 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Francis. * February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula forming westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its wide isthmus. * February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of United States Electoral College votes following the 1824 United States presidential election, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States in a contingent election. * February 10 – Gideon Mantell names and describes the second known dinosaur ''Iguanodon''. * February 10 – Simón Bolívar gives up his title of dictator of Peru and takes the alternative title of ''El Libertador''. * February 12 – Second Treaty of Indian Springs: The Creek (people), Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge
The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly known as the burial ground for the Parish (Church of England), parish of St Giles' Church, Cambridge, St Giles and St Peter's Church, Cambridge, St Peter's, is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, England. Many notable University of Cambridge academics are buried there, including three Nobel Prize winners. Although a Church of England site, the cemetery includes the graves of many Nonconformist (Protestantism), non-conformists, reflecting the demographics of the parish in the 19th and 20th centuries, which covered much of West Cambridge. It was established in 1857 while the city of Cambridge was undergoing rapid expansion, although the first burial was not until 1869. It covers one and a half acres and contains 1,500 graves with 2,500 burials. Originally surrounded by open fields, it is now bounded by trees and the gardens of detached houses, and is a designated city wildlife site. In 2020 it was formally closed to new burial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdeacon Of Stafford
The Archdeacon of Lichfield (called Archdeacon of Stafford until 1980) is a senior cleric in the Diocese of Lichfield who is responsible for pastoral care and discipline of clergy in the Lichfield archdeaconry. The archdeaconry was erected – as the Archdeaconry of Stafford – in the ancient Diocese of Coventry (later called Coventry and Lichfield, Lichfield and Coventry & Lichfield) before 1135, around the time when archdeacons were first being appointed across England. On 24 July 1877, the archdeaconry of Stoke-upon-Trent was created from the northern part of the Stafford archdeaconry. After the deanery of Stafford was transferred on 26 September 1979 to the Stoke archdeaconry, Stafford archdeaconry was renamed the archdeaconry of Lichfield on 25 April 1980. The present archdeacon is Dr Sue Weller. List of archdeacons High Medieval :''At its creation, the archdeaconry was in the Diocese of Coventry.'' * 1135–1145: Robert * bef. –aft. : William * bef. –aft. : Helias * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hodson (priest)
The Ven. George Hodson (1788–1855) was Archdeacon of Stafford from 9 May 1829 to his death from cholera at Riva del Garda on 13 August 1855. Hodson was born in Carlisle the youngest son of George, a merchant, and educated at Carlisle Grammar School. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1806 but migrated to Magdalene College in 1810. He was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1812. He was a curate at Clifton, Bristol in 1815. For a period Hodson was tutor to Albert Way, son of Lewis Way, at Stanstead Park. While this was teaching in a home environment, he gathered other pupils there, including in 1819 Samuel Wilberforce. In 1820 he became curate at Maisemore, and took a group of pupils with him, an arrangement that ran at least to 1822. Hodson became perpetual curate of Christ Church, Birmingham in 1824. He was vicar of St Michael & All Angels, Colwich, Staffordshire, from 1828 to 1851, then at St Mary's Church, Lichfield. He also served as Chancellor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton () was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author. Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment that followed. His book (''Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy''), first published in 1687, achieved the Unification of theories in physics#Unification of gravity and astronomy, first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy, shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating calculus, infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science. In the , Newton formulated the Newton's laws of motion, laws of motion and Newton's law of universal g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge. It is the largest of over 100 libraries Libraries of the University of Cambridge, within the university. The library is a major scholarly resource for members of the University of Cambridge and external researchers. It is often referred to within the university as the UL. Thirty-three Libraries of the University of Cambridge#Affiliated Libraries, faculty and departmental libraries are associated with the University Library for the purpose of central governance and administration, forming "Cambridge University Libraries". Cambridge University Library is one of six legal deposit libraries under UK law. It holds about 9 million items (including maps and sheet music) and, through legal deposit, purchase and donation it receives around 100,000 items every year. The University Library is unique among the legal deposit libraries in keeping a large proportion of its material on open access and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
