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Boscawen Un Leaning Central Pillar (1797–1877)
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Boscawen may refer to: * Boscawen (surname) * Boscawen, New Hampshire, a town in the United States * Truro Boscawen (electoral division), an electoral division of Cornwall, United Kingdom * Boscawen Park, a cricket ground in Truro, Cornwall * Boscawen SSSI, a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Geological Conservation Review site in Cornwall, United Kingdom. * Boscawen-Un, a stone circle in Cornwall, United Kingdom * HMS ''Boscawen'', several ships and a shore establishment * ''Boscawen'', a British privateer, originally the French frigate ''Médée'' (1741), captured by Edward Boscawen in 1744 * Boscawen, pen name of Nathaniel Greene (journalist) Nathaniel Greene (1797–1877) was an American journalist. Biography Nathaniel Greene was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire on May 20, 1797. He became an apprentice in the office of the '' New Hampshire Patriot'' in 1809 and in 1812 edited the Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boscawen (surname)
Boscawen is a surname of Cornish origin, derived from Boscawen-Un. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Boscawen (1862–1939), Cornish gardener, horticulturist and clergyman * Charles Boscawen (1627–1689), English politician * Edward Boscawen (1628–1685), English politician * Edward Boscawen (1711–1761), British admiral, third son of Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth * Edward Boscawen, 1st Earl of Falmouth (1787–1841), British peer and politician * Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth (1819–1889), horse breeder and classic race winner * Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth (1847–1918), British army officer * George Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth (1758–1808), British army officer and statesman * George Boscawen, 2nd Earl of Falmouth (1811–1852), British peer and politician * George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth (1919– ), British peer * Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth (c. 1680–1734), British peer and politician * Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boscawen, New Hampshire
Boscawen is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,998 at the 2020 census. History The native Pennacook people called the area ''Contoocook'', meaning "place of the river near pines". In March 1697, Hannah Duston and her nurse, Mary Neff, were captured by Abenaki Indians and taken to a temporary village on an island at the confluence of the Contoocook and Merrimack rivers, at the site of what is now Boscawen. In late April, Duston and two other captives killed ten of the Abenaki family members holding them hostage, including six children, and escaped by canoe to Haverhill, Massachusetts. On June 6, 1733, Governor Jonathan Belcher granted the land to John Coffin and 90 others, most from Newbury, Massachusetts. Settled in 1734, the community soon had a meetinghouse, sawmill, gristmill and ferry across the Merrimack River. A garrison offered protection, but raiding parties during the French and Indian Wars left some dead or carried into ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truro Boscawen (electoral Division)
Truro Boscawen ( Cornish: ) was an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returned one member to sit on Cornwall Council between 2009 and 2021. It was abolished at the 2021 local elections, being succeeded by Truro Boscawen and Redannick and Truro Moresk and Trehaverne. Councillors Extent Truro Boscawen represented almost the whole of the centre of Truro, including Truro Cathedral and the Royal Cornwall Museum, as well as the north of the city, including Tregurra, Moresk and most of Daubuz Moors (a small part of which was covered by the Truro Trehaverne division). Despite its name, it did not cover Boscawen Park Boscawen Park is a cricket ground located in recreation grounds along Malpas Road in Truro, Cornwall. The ground is situated directly next to the River Truro, which runs alongside its western side. The end names are the City End to the north and ... which was entirely within the neighbouring Truro Tregolls division. The division was abolishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boscawen Park
Boscawen Park is a cricket ground located in recreation grounds along Malpas Road in Truro, Cornwall. The ground is situated directly next to the River Truro, which runs alongside its western side. The end names are the City End to the north and the Malpas End to the south. Alternatively, these ends are also known as the Cathedral End and River End. History Boscawen Park is not located in the Boscawen electoral ward but shares the same name. The name probably originates from Edward Boscawen, an admiral and Member of Parliament from Truro. Established by 1858, a team representative of Cornwall first played there against an All England Eleven in that same year. Cornwall County Cricket Club first used the ground in July 1895, eight months after the club's founding, when it played a friendly against Devon. Cornwall first played minor counties cricket there over seventy years later, with Devon the visitors in the 1968 Minor Counties Championship. Two years later, the first List A ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boscawen SSSI
St Loy's Cove is a small wooded valley and beach in the civil parish of St Buryan in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located two miles to the south of St Buryan churchtown, and between Penberth and Lamorna. There are just a few buildings in the cove, one of which, Cove Cottage, provides bed and breakfast and a cafe. St Loy's is within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), the Boscawen SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and is part of a GCR Geological Conservation Review site. The South West Coast Path passes through the cove. Geography The stream at the bottom of the valley flows out to sea under a boulder storm beach backed by soft orange–brown cliffs of head deposits formed by solifluction when the climate was similar to that of Greenland's today. These cliffs are easily eroded and amongst the rounded boulders on the beach are irregular shaped granite stones that have fallen from the cliff. Boscawen SSSI The Boscawen SSSI, which encompasses the whole of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boscawen-Un
Boscawen-Ûn () is a Bronze Age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of nineteen upright stones in an ellipse with another, leaning, middle stone just south of the centre. There is a west-facing gap in the circle, which may have formed an entrance. The elliptical circle has diameters . It is located at . The Gorseth Kernow was inaugurated here in 1928. An old Welsh triad mentions one of the three principal ''gorseddau'' of the Island of Britain as "Beisgawen yn Nyfnwal" (Boscawen in Dumnonia), which was taken to refer to Boscawen-Ûn by the Gorseth's founders. That Welsh triad dates to only the 18th century when it was made up by Iolo Morganwg, Edward Williams. Location Boscawen-Un is in southwest Cornwall, in the Penwith district north of St Buryan, by the A30 road from Penzance to Land's End. Both the Merry Maidens stone circle and the two Pipers standing stones can be seen as can the sea. Boscawen-Un is a Cornish name, from the words ''bos'' (farms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Boscawen
Two ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Boscawen'', after Admiral Edward Boscawen, whilst another ship was planned: * was a 4-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1773. * HMS ''Boscawen'' was to have been an 80-gun second rate ship of the line. She was laid down in 1811 but subsequently cancelled. * was a 70-gun third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ... launched in 1844. She was converted into a training ship in 1874 and was renamed ''Wellesley''. She was damaged by fire in 1914 and was subsequently broken up. * was a training establishment in a number of locations, in service from 1862 to 1922 at Portland and later Shotley, and again from 1932 to 1947. A number of ships were renamed HMS ''Boscawen'' whilst serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Médée (1741)
''Médée'' was a French ''frégate du deuxième ordre'', or 26-gun frigate, built in 1740. She is widely considered to be the inspiration for a long line of similar sailing frigates, and was the first ship captured by the British Royal Navy in the War of the Austrian Succession. She became a privateer and was wrecked at St Ives, Cornwall, following a succession of gales in November 1745. Construction ''Médée'' was designed by Blaise Ollivier, with twenty-six 8-pounder guns, and was launched in February 1741 at Brest.Winfield &Roberts p.204 She was regarded as the first of the 'true' frigate designs: she was built with two decks, but only the upper deck mounted guns. These guns were relatively heavy, and the higher mounting meant that they could be used in rough seas. Capture and final voyage ''Médée'' was captured in the English Channel by on 4 April 1744 (Julian calendar date) and briefly served as HMS ''Medea'' in the British Royal Navy. She was sold in March 1745, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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