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Bosanquet (surname)
Bosanquet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher) (1848–1923), English philosopher * Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer) (1877–1936), English cricketer, credited with inventing the googly, a bowling technique * Caroline Bosanquet (1940–2013), British cellist, music teacher and composer * Charles Bosanquet (1769–1850), English official and writer * Charles Bosanquet (academic), Charles Ion Carr Bosanquet (1903–1986), first Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University * Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet (1843–1923), 16th Governor of South Australia * Sir Frederick Albert Bosanquet, KC, JP (1837–1923), Common Serjeant of London * Helen Bosanquet (1860–1926), English social theorist and social reformer * Jacob Bosanquet Jr. (1755–1828), High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and Chairman of the East India Company * James Whatman Bosanquet (1804–1877), English banker and writer on biblical chronology * Honourable Sir John Bosanquet KS PC (1773 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher)
Bernard Bosanquet (; 14 June 1848 – 8 February 1923) was an English philosopher and political theorist, and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work influenced but was later subject to criticism by many thinkers, notably Bertrand Russell, John Dewey and William James. Bernard was the husband of Helen Bosanquet, the leader of the Charity Organisation Society. Life Born at Rock Hall near Alnwick, Bosanquet was the son of Robert William Bosanquet, a Church of England clergyman. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford. After graduation, he was elected to a Fellowship at University College, Oxford, but, after receiving a substantial inheritance upon the death of his father in 1880, resigned it in order to devote himself to philosophical research. He moved to London in 1881, where he became an active member of the London Ethical Society and the Charity Organisation Society. Both we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bosanquet
Sir John Bernard Bosanquet KS PC (2 May 1773 – 25 September 1847) was a British judge. Life He was born to Samuel Bosanquet, the governor of the Bank of England, and his wife Eleanor, and was educated at Eton College before being accepted into Christ Church, Oxford. He gained his BA on 9 June 1795 and his MA on 20 March 1800. He became a member of Lincoln's Inn on 22 January 1794 and was called to the bar on 9 May 1800, joining the home circuit. He also attended the Essex sessions, of which his father was chairman. Before his call he had, with Christopher Puller, started the ''Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas and Exchequer Chamber, and in the House of Lords''. Of these reports there are two series, the first in three volumes from 1790 to 1804, and the second in two volumes from 1804 to 1807. Owing to family influence his career at the bar was soon a successful one. He became general counsel to the East India Company in 1814, and the Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Richard Bosanquet
Samuel Richard Bosanquet (1 April 1800 – 27 December 1882) was an English barrister, known as a writer on legal, social and theological topics. Life He was born on 1 April 1800 into the Bosanquet family of Forest House, Essex, and Dingestow Court, Monmouthshire; the banker and biblical writer James Whatman Bosanquet was a younger brother. Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with honours, a first class in mathematics and a second in classics, he took his B.A. degree in 1822, and proceeded M.A. in 1829. Called to the bar at the Inner Temple, he was one of the revising barristers appointed with the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. In 1843 Bosanquet succeeded to the family estates. He was for 35 years chairman of the Monmouthshire quarter sessions. A philanthropist, he promoted local institutions and enterprises. Bosanaquet died at Dingestow Court, on 27 December 1882. Works Bosanquet began by writing leading articles for ''The Times'', b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Courthope Bosanquet
His Honour Sir Samuel Ronald Courthope Bosanquet, QC (6 September 1868 – 5 November 1952) was a British barrister who served as an Official Referee of the Supreme Court from 1931 to 1943. Bosanquet came from an old Huguenot settled in England family which produced many prominent lawyers: his father was Samuel Courthope Bosanquet, sometime High Sheriff of Monmouthshire and chairman of the quarter sessions, while his uncle was Sir Frederick Albert Bosanquet, Common Serjeant of the City of London. Bosanquet was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Law Tripos as well as a LLB, and where he was President of the Cambridge Union in 1891. He read in chambers with A. J. Ram, then was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1893. Joining the Oxford Circuit, he became Recorder of Ludlow in 1919 and Recorder of Walsall in 1928. His practice was predominantly on circuit at quarter sessions, and he took silk in 1924. He was Chanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet (31 July 1841 – 7 August 1912) was an English scientist and music theorist, and brother of Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet, and philosopher Bernard Bosanquet.Bosanquet was the son of Rev. R. W. Bosanquet of Rock Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland. He was educated at Eton College, and took first class honors in Natural Science and Mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford, and later became a fellow of St. John's College. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London but worked mainly tutoring at Oxford, notably for the Natural Science School, and later was Professor of Acoustics at the Royal College of Music. He was a musician and an authority on organ construction, and published a number of experimental and theoretical papers on acoustics, electromagnetism and astronomy. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1871 and Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890. Bosanquet developed classes for musical tunings used mapping pitches in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Carr Bosanquet
Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871–1935) was a British archaeologist, operating in the Aegean and Britain and teaching at the University of Liverpool from 1906 to 1920 as the first holder of the Chair of Classical Archaeology there. Life and work Bosanquet was born in London on 7 June 1871, the son of Charles Bertie Pulleine Bosanquet, of Rock Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland. He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Pitt Club. Admitted in 1892 as a student at the British School at Athens – thus an approximate contemporary of John Linton Myres - he was among the first to lead excavations at the Minoan seaside town of Palekastro on Crete, from 1902 to 1905. He also served as Assistant Director and then Director, from 1899 to 1906, of the British School, during one of its productive periods as a research centre. He ran other important excavations on newly independent Crete, inland at Praisos (1901–02) and initiated the School' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Bosanquet
Reginald Tindal Kennedy Bosanquet (9 August 1932 – 27 May 1984) was a British journalist and broadcaster who was an anchor of '' News at Ten'' for ITN from 1967 to 1979.Eddie Dyj"Bosanquet, Reginald (1932–1984)" BFI screenonline Early life Bosanquet, of Huguenot descent, was the only child of the England cricketer Bernard Bosanquet (credited with inventing the googly). His great-great-grandfather was Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Lord Chief Justice (1829–1843), through whom Bosanquet was senior lineal representative of the ancient Scales barony, although he never sought to establish his claim to the title and a seat in the House of Lords. Education Bosanquet was educated at several independent boarding schools: at Ashbury College in Rockcliffe Park in the city of Ottawa; Wellesley House School, in the seaside town of Broadstairs in Kent; and Winchester College, before going up to New College at the University of Oxford, where he read history. Television Bosanq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet
Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet (26 December 1903 St. Stephen's-by-Saltash, Cornwall, England – 10 January 1984 Cambridge) was a British mathematician who worked in analysis Analysis ( : analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (3 ..., especially Fourier series. His daughter, Rosamund Caroline Bosanquet (1940-2013) was a British cellist, music teacher and composer. References * * People from Saltash 1903 births 1984 deaths 20th-century English mathematicians Scientists from Cornwall {{mathematician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Whatman Bosanquet
James Whatman Bosanquet (1804–1877) was an English banker and writer on biblical chronology. Life He was son of the banker Samuel Bosanquet III of Forest House, Essex, and Dingestow Court, Monmouthshire, (1768–1843) and his wife Laetitia Philippa Whatman, daughter of James Whatman of Kent, and was born 10 January 1804; Samuel Richard Bosanquet was his elder brother. He was educated at Westminster School (God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Hea ..., and at the age of 18 entered Bosanquet, Salt, & Co., the family bank. In due course he became a partner. He lived at Claysmore in Middlesex. A contributor to the ''Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology'', Bosanquet subsidised its publication; and he also supported other works on Assyriology. He died 22 Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)
Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet (13 October 1877 – 12 October 1936) was an English cricketer best known for inventing the googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman. When bowled, it appears to be a leg break, but after pitching the ball turns in the opposite direction to that which is expected, behaving as an off break instead. Bosanquet, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex between 1898 and 1919, appeared in seven Test matches for England as an all-rounder. He was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1905. Bosanquet played cricket for Eton College from 1891 to 1896, before gaining his Blue at Oriel College, Oxford. He was a moderately successful batsman who bowled at fast-medium pace for Oxford University between 1898 and 1900. As a student, he made several appearances for Middlesex and achieved a regular place in the county side as an amateur. While playing a tabletop game, Bosanquet devised a new technique for delivering a ball, later named the " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Bosanquet
Jacob Bosanquet Jr. (1755 – 30 July 1828) was a British merchant who was chairman of the East India Company. Life He was born in Hamburg, the son of the merchant Jacob Bosanquet. He became a junior partner in his cousin's firm of Bosanquet & Willermin, silk merchants, for several years before being elected to the Direction of the East India Company in 1782. After serving three terms as a Director, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the British East India Company, Deputy Chairman of the company three times (1797, 1802 and 1810) and Chairman of the British East India Company, Chairman of the company, in each of the years 1798, 1803 and 1811). Bosanquet acquired the manors of Broxbournebury, Hoddesdonbury and Baas. and was pricked High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1803–04. Family Bosanquet was married 27 September 1790 to Henrietta, daughter of George Armytage (politician), Sir George Armytage, Baronet and had two sons and two daughters.A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Bosanquet
Helen Bosanquet (''née'' Dendy; 10 February 1860 – 7 April 1925) was an English social theorist, social reformer, and economist concerned with poverty, social policy, working-class life, and modern social work practices. Helen worked closely with the Charity Organisation Society (COS), using her direct experience with living among "the poor". Bosanquet focused much of her career on family, specifically working-class families, and their relationship with poverty. Helen was the wife of English philosopher Bernard Bosanquet. Biography Early life Helen Dendy was born in Manchester in 1860 to Reverend John Dendy and his wife, Sarah Beard (1831–1922), one of nine children, the fifth child and the youngest daughter of John Relly Beard. Helen was one of three children, Mary Dendy was her elder sister and her brother was biologist Arthur Dendy (1865–1925). Education Helen and her sister were educated at home by a governess. In 1886, at the age of twenty-six, she attended New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
