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Blennerhassett Museum Of Regional History
Blennerhassett is an English name, English surname. Origin The name originates from the village of Blennerhasset (with one t) in Cumbria, England. People with the surname *Arthur Blennerhassett (1687–1758), Anglo-Irish lawyer, politician and judge *Arthur Blennerhassett (1719–1799), Anglo-Irish politician *Arthur Blennerhassett (1799–1843), Irish politician *Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett, Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett (1843–1917), German writer and biographer *Conway Blennerhassett (1693–1724), Irish politician *Harman Blennerhassett (1765–1831), Anglo-Irish aristocrat, plantation owner in western Virginia *John de Blennerhassett (1350–1384), English politician *John Blennerhassett (English MP) (by 1521–1573), English landowner and member of parliament *John Blennerhassett (judge) (c.1560–1624), Anglo-Irish judge and politician *John Blennerhassett (died 1677), Anglo-Irish politician *John Blennerhassett (died 1709), Anglo-Irish politician *John Blennerhassett (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Name
English names are names used in, or originating in, England. In England as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of a given name, commonly referred to as a first name, and a (most commonly patrilineal) family name or surname, also referred to as a last name. There can be several given names, some of these being often referred to as a second name, or middle name(s). Given names Most given names used in England do not have English derivation. Most traditional names are Hebrew (Daniel, David, Elizabeth, Susan), Greek (Nicholas, Dorothy, George, Helen), Germanic names adopted via the transmission of Old French/Norman (Robert, Richard, Gertrude, Charlotte), or Latin (Adrian, Amelia, Patrick). There remains a limited set of given names which have an actual English derivation (see Anglo-Saxon names); examples include Alfred, Ashley, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Harold and Oswald. A distinctive feature of Anglophone names is the surnames of import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett
Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett (1771 – June 16, 1842) was an English-American poet and aristocrat. Life Margaret Agnew was born in 1771, in Bishop Auckland, England. Her father, Robert Agnew, was the lieutenant governor of the Isle of Man. Margaret defied social and religious conventions by marrying her maternal uncle, Harman Blennerhassett, a wealthy Irish aristocrat. They shared a 7,000-acre estate in County Kerry until 1795, when their union and Harman's revolutionary ideals prompted them to sell the estate and immigrate to America. Margaret is said to have been above average height with brown hair and blue eyes. She often wore her hair bound in a silk headdress. She wrote and spoke French and Italian fluently. She would often accompany her husband on hunting trips and enjoyed horseback riding. The couple left London and sailed to New York City in America. Once there they traveled south to Pittsburgh, PA and then chartered a boat down the Ohio River. The couple settled b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blennerhassett (opera)
''Blennerhassett'' is a brief radio opera in one act by American composer Vittorio Giannini with a libretto by Phillip Roll and Norman Corwin. It was commissioned by CBS Radio as part of the Columbia Composers Commission, following the success of Giannini's earlier radio opera ''Beauty and the Beast''. It received its premiere in a radio broadcast on 2 November 1939. ''Blennerhassett'' was subsequently performed in several staged and concert productions, including a 1991 semi-staged concert performance in New York City by American Chamber Opera. A performance of the opera generally lasts less than thirty minutes, although the 1991 production added a 10-minute prelude set in a radio studio which reenacted the pre-broadcast preparation for the original premiere. Roles *Stephen – tenor *Madeleine – soprano *General Wilkinson – baritone *Anne – mezzo-soprano *Mrs. Field – contralto *A messenger – tenor Synopsis The opera is set on Blennerhassett Island, named for Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blennerhassett Island Bridge
Blennerhassett Island Bridge, with a network arch design, carries U.S. Route 50 ( Appalachian Development Highway System's Corridor D) over the Ohio River and the historic Blennerhassett Island between Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio and Washington, West Virginia in the United States. Construction of the bridge was overseen by the Walsh Construction Company of Chicago, and it opened to traffic on June 13, 2008. The completion of the span completed Corridor D between Interstate 275 east of Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ... to Interstate 79 at Clarksburg, West Virginia. Photo Gallery File:Blennerhassett Bridge 032.jpg File:Blennerhassett Bridge 002.jpg File:Blennerhassett Bridge 038.jpg File:Blennerhassett Bridge 040.jpg File:Blennerhasse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park
Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park is a state park located on Blennerhassett Island, a small island in the Ohio River, located in Wood County, West Virginia, USA. The property was the site of a Palladian mansion owned by Harman Blennerhassett, a participant in some of the alleged intrigues of Aaron Burr, and his wife Margaret Agnew.Gibbens, Alvaro F., ''Historic Blennerhassett Island Home'', Global Printing and Binding Co., Parkersburg, WV 1914. While the original mansion burned to the ground in 1811, a detailed replica, which can be toured, was built on its foundations in the 1980s. The Blennerhasset mansion greatly resembled George Washington's Mount Vernon, due to its Palladian style. The park is accessed via sternwheeler riverboat from Point Park on 2nd Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The riverboat ride takes about 20 minutes each way. Blennerhasset Museum of Regional History The Blennerhasset Museum of Regional History operates in conjunction with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blennerhassett Island
Blennerhassett Island is an island on the Ohio River below the mouth of the Little Kanawha River, near Parkersburg in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. Historically, Blennerhassett Island was occupied by Native Americans. Nemacolin, chief of the Delaware Nation, made it his last home, dying in 1767. European Americans knew it as Backus Island, named for Elijah Backus, who purchased it in 1792 in the wave of westward settlement following the American Revolutionary War. In 1798, Harman Blennerhassett, a figure in the Aaron Burr "treason" conspiracy, purchased the east end of the island with his wife Margaret Agnew and it became known by their name.Gibbens, Alvaro F., ''Historic Blennerhassett Island Home'', Global Printing and Binding Co., Parkersburg, WV 1914. Their residence, Blennerhassett House, where Burr and Blennerhassett are alleged to have plotted treason against the United States in the Burr Conspiracy, burned to the ground in 1811. That area has been design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blennerhassett, West Virginia
Blennerhassett is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Parkersburg- Marietta-Vienna, WV- OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,089 at the 2010 census. History This community is named after Blennerhassett Island, an island in the Ohio River near the area. The island's name originated from the owner of the island in the 19th century: Harman Blennerhassett, an Anglo-Irish immigrant to the United States. Geography Blennerhassett is located at (39.254298, -81.623522). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.0 square miles (13.0 km2), all land. Demographics At the 2000 census, there were 3,225 people, 1,227 households and 996 families living in the CDP. The population density was 643.8 per square mile (248.5/km2). There were 1,271 housing units at an average density of 253.7/sq mi (98.0/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.45% White, 0.56% African Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Blennerhassett ...
Thomas Blennerhassett (fl. 1584-1611) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1611. Blennerhassett may have been the son of Richard Blennerhassett, a member of the Carlisle Council in 1569. In 1584, Blennerhassett was elected Member of Parliament for Carlisle. He was re-elected MP for Carlisle in 1586. In 1597 he was Mayor of Carlisle. He was elected MP for Carlisle again in 1604. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Blennerhassett, Thomas Year of birth missing Year of death missing People from Carlisle, Cumbria Place of birth missing Mayors of Carlisle, Cumbria English MPs 1584–1585 English MPs 1586–1587 English MPs 1604–1611 Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Blennerhassett (priest)
The Venerable Archdeacon Richard Noel Rowland Blennerhassett (19 December 1909 27 December 2008) was Archdeacon of Tuam from 1956 until 1969. Blennerhassett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1933. His early clerical appointments were as curate in Cobh from 1933–37, which included British Army and Navy Chaplaincy, and as Rector of Comeragh and Kilmacthomas from 1937-45. He held Incumbencies at Stradbally, Knappagh, Aughavale, Omey, Athenry and Westport. In 1969, he moved to the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, where he held the position of Rector of the Timoleague Union of Parishes, including Kilbrittain Kilbrittain or Killbrittain () is the name of a village, townland and parish in County Cork, Ireland. The village lies about southwest of Bandon, and near Courtmacsherry and Timoleague. The coastal route around the edge of the parish is the R6 ... and Courtmacsherry, until his retirement in the early 1970s. Personal life The Archdeacon and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett
Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett KC, JP (22 July 1850 – 7 April 1913) was an Irish politician. Early life He was the only son of Richard Francis Blennerhassett and his wife Honoria Ponsonby, daughter of William Carrique Ponsonby. Blennerhassett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at Christ Church, Oxford. Career In a by-election in 1872, he entered the British House of Commons and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kerry until 1885. Blennerhassett was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1878, and in April 1894 became bencher and a King's Counsel. He was a Justice of the Peace for Kerry. Personal life On 21 September 1876, he married Mary Beatrice Armstrong, youngest daughter of the art historian Walter Armstrong. They had one son. Mary Beatrice is buried in the Armstrong family vault on the inside of the Lebanon Circle in Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet (5 September 1839 – 22 March 1909) was a Roman Catholic Anglo-Irish baronet and Liberal Party politician from County Kerry. Life Blennerhassett was the son of Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, 3rd Baronet, whose ancestors had settled in Kerry under Queen Elizabeth, and his wife Sarah Mahony. He was educated at Downside School, Stonyhurst College and Christ Church, Oxford. He then spent time at the Université catholique de Louvain, before travelling in Germany. In 1849, he succeeded his father as baronet. When he returned to the United Kingdom, he started ''The Chronicle'', a political and literary organ of liberal Catholicism. The first issue appeared on 23 March 1867, but its outspoken support for the Irish Home Rule movement made it unpopular. The last issue was published on 13 February 1868. Blennerhasset sat as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Galway Borough from 1865 to 1874 and for County Kerry from 1880 to 1885. He was High She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 1st Baronet
Colonel Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 1st Baronet (1741 - 14 March 1821) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and baronet. Life Blennerhassett was the son of Robert Blennerhassett and Frances Yielding. He was the great-grandson of Robert Blennerhassett MP.John Debrett, ''Debrett's Baronetage of England: with alphabetical lists of such baronetcies as have merged in the peerage, or have become extinct, and also of the existing baronets of Nova Scotia and Ireland'' (J.G. & F. Rivington, 1835), 347. He trained as an attorney and practised law. He was the colonel of the 'Laune Rangers' militia regiment of volunteers from 1779 to 1782. Between 1796 and 1797 he was a Justice of the Peace in County Kerry. Blennerhassett resettled his family at Cahirmoreaun, just outside Tralee, renaming both the house and the village Blennerville in his family's honour. He built a large new family home at Churchtown House, Knockane. In 1800 he was granted permission to hold four fairs a year and one market a week in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
