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Percy Florence Shelley
Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet (12 November 1819 – 5 December 1889), was the son of the English writer and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist and author of ''Frankenstein''. He was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to live beyond infancy. His middle name, possibly suggested by his father's friend Sophia Stacey, came from the city of his birth, Florence in Italy. He had two elder half-siblings, by his father's first marriage to Harriet Westbrook, and three full siblings who died in infancy. Early life and education Shelley was born as the fourth child of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his namesake, and his wife, author Mary Shelley. His elder siblings, consisting of a premature girl who died at a few weeks old and a brother and a sister who died in childhood, left him as the only surviving child after his mother suffered a miscarriage in 1822. His parents lived in Italy for several years, until his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence was a centre of Middle Ages, medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful House of Medici, Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Italian language, standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sporting Magazine
''The Sporting Magazine'' (1792–1870) was the first English sporting periodical to devote itself to every type of sport. Its subtitle was "Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit". History ''The Sporting Magazine'' was established in 1792. The magazine was published in London, but was able to offer extensive coverage of events nationally because the editor, John Wheble, had established a wide-ranging network of informants, writers and contributors throughout the shires. Much of the information in the magazine stemmed from the readers themselves, who were urged to contribute material. The editor insisted that information should be accurate, rejecting contributions where he had doubts. Readers would also respond to one another's letters and sharp debates often occurred within the magazine's columns, acting as an additional check on the accuracy of material. The editor refuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tite Street
Tite Street is a street in Chelsea, London, England, within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, just north of the River Thames. It was laid out from 1877 by the Metropolitan Board of Works, giving access to the Chelsea Embankment. History The street is named after William Tite who was a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, responsible for the construction of Chelsea Embankment to the south of Tite Street. Gough House stood on the eastern side of the street, and was built around 1707. It became a school in 1830, then the Victoria Hospital for Children in 1866. In 1898, the building was considered inadequate for its purpose. The hospital moved to St George's Hospital, and the original building was demolished in 1968. The site is now occupied by Daughters of the Cross, St Wilfred's convent and home for the elderly. In the late 19th century, the street was a favoured and fashionable location for people of an artistic and literary disposition. On 27 November 1974, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townhouse (Great Britain)
In British English, British usage, the term townhouse originally referred to the opulent town or city residence (in practice normally in City of Westminster, Westminster near the seat of the monarch) of a member of the British nobility, nobility or Landed gentry, gentry, as opposed to their country seat, generally known as a English country house, country house or, colloquially, for the larger ones, stately home. The grandest of the London townhouses were Single-family detached home, stand-alone buildings, but many were Terraced house, terraced buildings. British property developers and estate agents often market new buildings as townhouses, following Townhouse, the North American usage of the term, to aggrandise modest dwellings and to avoid the negative connotation of cheap Terraced houses in the United Kingdom, terraced housing built in the Victorian architecture, Victorian era to accommodate workers. The aristocratic pedigree of terraced housing, for example as survives in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist)
Carlo Pellegrini (25 March 1839 – 22 January 1889), who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape, was an Italians, Italian-United Kingdom, British artist who served from 1869 to 1889 as a caricaturist for ''Vanity Fair (British magazine 1868-1914), Vanity Fair'' magazine, a leading journal of London society. His work for the magazine made his reputation and he became its most influential artist. Early life Pellegrini was born in Capua, then in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. His father came from an ancient land-owning family, while his mother was allegedly descended from the Medici. He was educated at the Collegio dei Barnabiti, and then at Sant'Antonio in Maddaloni, near Naples. As a young man he caricatured Naples, Neapolitan society, modelling his portraits on those of Melchiorre Delfico (caricaturist), Melchiorre Delfico and Daumier and other French and British artists of the period. Pellegrini claimed to have fought with Giuseppe Garibaldi, Garibaldi; however, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanity Fair (British Magazine)
''Vanity Fair'' was a British weekly magazine that was published from 1868 to 1914. Founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles in London, the magazine included articles on fashion, theatre, current events as well as word games and serial fiction. The cream of the period's "society magazines", it is best known for its witty prose and caricatures of famous people of Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian era, Edwardian society, including artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, business people and scholars. Taking its title from Vanity Fair (novel), Thackeray's popular satire on early 19th-century British society, ''Vanity Fair'' was not immediately successful and struggled with competition from rival publications. Bowles then promised his readers "Some Pictorial Wares of an entirely novel character", and on 30 January 1869, a full-page caricature of Benjamin Disraeli appeared. This was the first of over 2,300 caricatures to be published. According to the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sheriff Of Sussex
The office of Sheriff of Sussex was established before the Norman Conquest. The Office of sheriff remained first in precedence in the counties until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the Lord-Lieutenant the prime office under the Crown as the Sovereign's personal representative. At various times the sheriff of Surrey was also sheriff of Sussex (1229–1231, 1232–1240, 1242–1567, 1571–1635), The office of Sheriff of Sussex ceased with local government re-organisation in 1974, when the county was split for local government purposes into East Sussex (see High Sheriff of East Sussex) and West Sussex (see High Sheriff of West Sussex). The High Sheriffs remain the Sovereign's representative in the County for all matters relating to the Judiciary and the maintenance of law and order. List of officeholders 1229–1565 1566–1570 1571–1636 1636–1702 1702–1799 1800–1899 1900–1973 References {{Authority control Sussex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boscombe
Boscombe () is a suburb in Bournemouth England. Historically in Hampshire, but today in Dorset, it is located to the east of Bournemouth town centre and west of Southbourne. Originally a sparsely inhabited area of heathland, from around 1865 Boscombe developed rapidly from a small village into a seaside resort alongside Bournemouth. Its first pier opened in 1889. There are numerous architectural styles within the town, ranging from the elaborate Victorian style of the Royal Arcade and St Clement's Church, notable examples of Art Deco such as the former Gas & Water Company store at 709 Christchurch Road, and the modernist 1950s styles of the pier and Overstrand buildings. Alongside these are modern flats developments such as The Reef, The Point (sometimes called the Pointer by some residents) and Honeycombe Beach. The nickname ''Bos Vegas'' has gained popularity in recent years and occurs with slight spelling variation in the names of two Boscombe businesses. Boscombe is h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Abinger
Baron Abinger, of Abinger in the County of Surrey and of the City of Norwich, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 12 January 1835 for the prominent lawyer and politician James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, Sir James Scarlett, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Lord Abinger was succeeded by his eldest son, the second baron. He represented Norwich (UK Parliament constituency), Norwich and Horsham (UK Parliament constituency), Horsham in the British House of Commons, House of Commons. He was succeeded by his son, the third baron. He was a lieutenant-general in the army and fought in the Crimean War. On the death of his son, the fourth baron, the line of the eldest son of the first baron failed. The late baron was succeeded by his second cousin, the fifth baron. He was the grandson of Peter Campbell Scarlett, third son of the first baron. When he died the title passed to his younger brother, the sixth baron, and then to another brother, the seventh baro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger
Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Richard Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger, (25 November 1878 – 21 July 1943) was a British Army officer and peer. Family Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett, himself son of Peter Campbell Scarlett, third son of James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger. His mother, Bessie Florence Gibson, was the daughter of Edward Gibson, but had been adopted by Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet, and his wife. On the death of his kinsman, the 4th Baron Abinger, in December 1903, Scarlett's elder brother Shelley Scarlett succeeded as the 5th Baron Abinger. The following year, Hugh (along with his siblings Robert, Ruth, Percy, and Leopold) were allowed to use the style ''The Honourable'' by a Royal Warrant of Precedence. On his eldest brother's death without male heirs in 1917, the next brother Robert Scarlett succeeded as the 6th Baron Abinger. He too, died without male heirs, and Hugh succeeded to the Barony in 1927. Scarlett married M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger
Robert Brooke Campbell Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger (8 January 1876 – 10 June 1927) was a British peer. Personal life and family Scarlett was the second son of Lieutenant Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett and Bessie Florence ( Gibson). In 1904, Scarlett, along with his siblings Hugh, Ruth, Percy, and Leopold, were authorised to use the style ''The Honourable'' by a Royal Warrant of Precedence. He succeeded his older brother Shelley as Baron Abinger in 1917. Scarlett was a barrister of the Inner Temple and served in the Royal Navy. In 1917, Lord Abinger married Marguerite Jeanne Steinheil (née Japy). Steinheil's claims to fame hitherto rested partly from having been obliquely described as present at the death of French President Félix Faure in 1899 and for having been acquitted of murdering her husband in 1909. They had no children, and the title of Baron Abinger passed to the 6th Baron's younger brother Hugh. References *"Abinger, Baron (Scarlett) (Baron UK 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger
Shelley Leopold Laurence Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger (1 April 1872 – 23 May 1917) was a British peer and military officer. Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett, and a great-grandson of the James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, 1st Baron Abinger. His mother had been adopted by Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet, son of Mary Shelley, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Career Scarlett served as an Honorary Attaché in Stockholm from 1897 to 1899. Scarlett succeeded his second cousin as the 5th Baron Abinger in 1903. In 1904, a Royal Warrant of Precedence was issued, which allowed Scarlett's siblings (Robert Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger, Robert, Hugh Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger, Hugh, Ruth, Percy, and Leopold) to be styled ''The Honourable''. Scarlett served in the First World War from 1914, holding the rank of captain and honorary major in the 3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. On 17 October 1915, Scarlett was awarded a temporary commission in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
