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1753 In Great Britain
Events from the year 1753 in Great Britain. Incumbents * Monarch β George II * Prime Minister β Henry Pelham ( Whig) Events * 29 January β after a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns to her mother's home in London and claims that she was abducted. The following criminal trial causes uproar. * 6 June β Parliament passes Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" in England and Wales, requiring marriages to be performed by licensed ministers and the reading of banns of marriage; it comes into effect in 1754. * 7 June β the British Museum is established in London by Act of Parliament. * 7 July β Parliament's Jewish Naturalization Act, a measure to end discrimination against Jews, receives royal assent, but widespread opposition leads to its repeal in 1754. * 11 September β last sitting of the Cornish Stannary Parliament. * 23 October β first naval patients admitted to Royal Hospital Haslar in Hampshire. When the main bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of British Monarchs
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603. On 1 January 1801, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merged, which resulted in the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the secession of southern Ireland in the 1920s. List Queen Anne became monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. She had ruled England, Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland since 8 March 1702. She continued as queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death. Her total reign lasted 12 years and 147 days. During the reign of Queen Anne, Parliament settled the rules of succession in the Act of Settlement 1701, defining Sophia of Hanover (granddaughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Revival Architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly serious and learned admirers of the neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, intending to complement or even supersede the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws upon features of medieval examples, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, and hood moulds. By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic had become the preeminent architectural style in the Western world, only to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s. The Gothic Revival movement's roots are intertwined with philosophical movements associated with Catholicism and a re-awakening of high church or Anglo-Catholic belief concerned by the growth of religious nonconformism. Ultimately, the "Anglo-Catholicism" t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1825 In The United Kingdom
Events from the year 1825 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents * Monarch β George IV * Prime Minister β Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory) * Foreign Secretary β George Canning * Parliament β 7th Events * 1 March β a fire destroys the outbound East Indiaman in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of more than 80 lives, but passing ships save over 550. * 21 March β British premiΓ¨re of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1824) is presented by the Philharmonic Society of London at its Argyll Rooms conducted by Sir George Smart (and with the choral "Ode to Joy" sung in Italian). * 23 April β royal charter granted to the Geological Society of London. * 15 June β Work on the new London Bridge, designed by John Rennie, begins. * 22 June β Cotton Mills Regulation Act establishes a maximum of 12-hour day for children under 16. * July ** A new Combination Act makes Trades unions legal according to narrowly defined principles. ** England and Wales' dryest July on r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock
Admiral William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, GCB (9 July 175320 August 1825) was an officer in the Royal Navy and Governor of Newfoundland. Early life and education Waldegrave was the second son of John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave, and Elizabeth (nΓ©e Gower). He was educated at Eton. Naval career Waldegrave joined the Royal Navy in 1766, initially in HMS Jersey, the flagship of the Mediterranean fleet. He was promoted to Lieutenant and later Commander in 1775 when he received command of the sloop HMS ''Zephyr''. He was further promoted to Captain in 1776 when he sailed to India in HMS Rippon, flagship of Admiral Edward Vernon. After 15 months poor health forced him home but from 1778 to the end of the War of American Independence in 1783 he was a frigate captain. He spent the next ten years travelling and beginning a family. At the start of the French Revolutionary War Waldegrave commanded HMS ''Courageux'' under Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood at Toulon and later HMS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1832 In The United Kingdom
Events from the year 1832 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents * Monarch β William IV * Prime Minister β Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( Whig) * Foreign Secretary β Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston * Parliament β 10th (until 3 December) Events * 12 February β second cholera pandemic begins to spread in London, starting from East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. It will claim at least 3000 victims. In Liverpool, Kitty Wilkinson becomes the "Saint of the Slums" by promoting hygiene. * 7 June β the Great Reform Act becomes law, extending suffrage to all upper-middle-class men, and abolishing the rotten boroughs. Similar legislation is passed for Scotland (the Scottish Reform Act) and Ireland (An Act to Amend the Representation of the People of Ireland, the Irish Reform Act). * 4 July β University of Durham founded by Act of Parliament * 16 July β "The Bad Day": 31 sixareens, the traditional fishing craft of Shetland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Bell (educationalist)
Andrew Bell (27 March 1753 β 27 January 1832) was a Scottish Episcopalian priest and educationalist who pioneered the Madras System of Education (also known as "mutual instruction" or the "monitorial system") in schools and was the founder of Madras College, a secondary school in St Andrews. Life and work Andrew Bell was born at St. Andrews, in Scotland on 27 March 1753 and attended St. Andrews University where he did well in mathematics and natural philosophy, graduating in 1774.Blackie 901 In 1774 he sailed to Virginia as a private tutor and remained there until 1781 when he left to avoid involvement in the war of independence. He returned to Scotland, surviving a shipwreck on the way, and officiated at the Episcopal Chapel in Leith. He was ordained Deacon in 1784 and Priest in the Church of England in 1785. In February 1787 he went out to India and went ashore at Madras, where he stayed for 10 years. He became chaplain to a number of British regiments and gave a course ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1831 In The United Kingdom
Events from the year 1831 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents * Monarch β William IV * Prime Minister β Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( Whig) * Foreign Secretary β Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston * Parliament β 9th (until 23 April), 10th (starting 14 June) Events * 3 March β Tithe War breaks out in Ireland. * 7 March β Royal Astronomical Society receives its Royal Charter. * 12 April β Broughton Suspension Bridge over the River Irwell collapses under marching troops. * 27 April β ending of the First Anglo-Ashanti War (1823β1831). * 28 Aprilβ1 June β general election results in a Whig victory, and a mandate for electoral reform. * MayβJune β Merthyr Rising in Merthyr Tydfil. * 30 May β census in the United Kingdom. * 1 June β Royal Navy officer and explorer James Clark Ross leads the first expedition to reach the Magnetic North Pole. * 8 June β Freeminers in the Forest of Dean, led by Warren James, break down enclosures in the Forest. * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Roscoe
William Roscoe (8 March 175330 June 1831) was an English banker, lawyer, and briefly a Member of Parliament. He is best known as one of England's first abolitionists, and as the author of the poem for children '' The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast''. In his day he was also respected as a historian and art collector, as well as a botanist and miscellaneous writer. Early life He was born in Liverpool, where his father, a market gardener, kept a public house called the Bowling Green at Mount Pleasant. Roscoe left school at the age of twelve, having learned all that his schoolmaster could teach. He assisted his father in the work of the garden, but spent his leisure time on reading and study. Later, he wrote: :This mode of life gave health and vigour to my body, and amusement and instruction to my mind; and to this day I well remember the delicious sleep which succeeded my labours, from which I was again called at an early hour. If I were now asked whom I consider t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The History Of Sir Charles Grandison
''The History of Sir Charles Grandison'', commonly called ''Sir Charles Grandison'', is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson first published in February 1753. The book was a response to Henry Fielding's ''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'', which parodied the morals presented in Richardson's previous novels. The novel follows the story of Harriet Byron who is pursued by Sir Hargrave Pollexfen. After she rejects Pollexfen, he kidnaps her, and she is only freed when Sir Charles Grandison comes to her rescue. After his appearance, the novel focuses on his history and life, and he becomes its central figure. Background The exact relationship between Fielding's ''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'' and Richardson's ''The History of Sir Charles Grandison'' cannot be known, but the character Charles Grandison was designed as a morally "better" hero than the character Tom Jones. In 1749, a friend asked Richardson "to give the world his idea of a good man and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 β 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'' (1740), '' Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady'' (1748) and ''The History of Sir Charles Grandison'' (1753). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with their six children, but remarried and had six more children, of which four daughters reached adulthood, leaving no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and joined the admired writers of his day. Leading acquaintances included Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding, the physician and Behmenist George Cheyne, and the theologian and writer William Law, whose books he printed. At Law's request, Richardson printed some poems by J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lind
James Lind (4 October 1716 β 13 July 1794) was a Scottish doctor. He was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting one of the first ever clinical trials, he developed the theory that citrus fruits cured scurvy. Lind argued for the health benefits of better ventilation aboard naval ships, the improved cleanliness of sailors' bodies, clothing and bedding, and below-deck fumigation with sulphur and arsenic. He also proposed that fresh water could be obtained by distilling sea water. His work advanced the practice of preventive medicine and improved nutrition. Early life Lind was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1716 into a family of merchants, then headed by his father, James Lind. He had an elder sister. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh. In 1731 he began his medical studies as an apprentice of George Langlands, a fellow of the Incorporation of Surgeons which preceded the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1739, he entered the Navy as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hume
David Hume (; born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) β 25 August 1776) Cranston, Maurice, and Thomas Edmund Jessop. 2020 999br>David Hume" ''EncyclopΓ¦dia Britannica''. Retrieved 18 May 2020. was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. Beginning with '' A Treatise of Human Nature'' (1739β40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as an Empiricist. Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one event caus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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