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Edmund Larken
Edmund Roberts Larken (1809–1895) was an English cleric and Christian socialist, a patron of radical causes and author on social matters. Along with other unconventional views, he was noted as possibly the first parish priest of his time to wear a beard.Rosemary Ashton, ''G. H. Lewes: An unconventional Victorian'' (2000), pp. 88–9. Life Larken's father, Edmund Larken (1766–1831), worked for the East India Company. His sister Eliza married William Monson, 6th Baron Monson; his brother Arthur Staunton Larken (1816–1889), the third son, was known as an officer of arms, becoming Portcullis Pursuivant and then Richmond Herald. Larken matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1829, graduating B.A. in 1833, and M.A. in 1836. He was ordained deacon in 1833, and priest in 1834. At Oxford he considered himself a follower of Richard Whateley.Hill, pp. 149–50Google Books He became rector of Burton by Lincoln, remaining there from 1843 to 1895; he was presented to the living by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Minter Morgan
John Minter Morgan (1782–1854), was an English author and philanthropist. Early life John Minter Morgan was born in London in April 1782. His father, John Morgan, a wholesale stationer at 39 Ludgate Hill, and a member of the court of assistants of the Stationers' Company, died at Claydon, Suffolk, on 1 March 1807, aged 66. The son, inheriting an ample fortune, devoted himself to philanthropy. Works His projects were akin to those of Robert Owen of Lanark but were avowedly Christian. His first book, published in 1819, entitled ''Remarks on the Practicability of Mr. Owen's Plan to improve the Condition of the Lower Classes'', was dedicated to William Wilberforce, but met with slight acknowledgement. His next publication was an anonymous work in 1826, ''The Revolt of the Bees'' which contained his views on education. ''Hampden in the Nineteenth Century'' appeared in 1834, and in 1837 he added a supplement to the work, entitled ''Colloquies on Religion and Religious Education''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Laing (bibliographer)
John Laing (1809 – 3 April 1880) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, known as a bibliographer. Life He was born in Edinburgh, but spent his early youth at Dalmeny, where his father was for factor to the Earl of Rosebery; his mother was Mary Fyfe, of a Banffshire family. After taking the course at Edinburgh University in arts and theology, he was, in 1842, ordained assistant and successor to John M. Robertson, minister of Livingston, Linlithgowshire. At the disruption of 1843 he withdrew from the establishment, joined the newly formed Free Church, and for a time continued his ministry in the same parish. On 29 August 1843, he married at Livingston Catherine Fyfe, daughter of a West India proprietor, and had three daughters, the eldest of whom predeceased him. In 1846 Laing became chaplain to the Presbyterian soldiers at Gibraltar and afterwards at Malta. Failing health, together with a reluctance to appear in public, caused him to resign his charge. In 1850, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Halkett
Samuel Halkett (21 June 1814 – 20 April 1871) was a Scottish librarian, now known for his work on anonymous publications. Life He was born in 1814 in the North Back of the Canongate, Edinburgh, where his father was in business as a brewer. He was educated at two private schools, and was apprenticed at the age of fourteen. For five years he was employed by Messrs. Marshall & Aitken, and afterwards by Messrs. Abernethy & Stewart, with whom he remained until he went into business for himself. His spare time was devoted to study, spoken of by Sir William Hamilton and others in supporting his successful candidature for the keepership of the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, in 1848. In 1860 he was living at 35 East Claremont Street in Edinburgh's New Town.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1860 Halkett died in April 1871, aged 57, leaving a widow and four children. He is buried against the south wall of the main section of Warriston Cemetery, backing onto the former railway. Works On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James A
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Holyoake
George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906) was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secularist paper, the ''Reasoner'', from 1846 to June 1861, and a co-operative one, ''The English Leader'', in 1864–1867. Early life George Jacob Holyoake was born in Birmingham, where his father worked as a whitesmith and his mother as a button maker. He attended a dame school and a Wesleyan Sunday School, began working half-days at the same foundry as his father at the age of eight, and learnt his trade. At 18 he began attending lectures at the Birmingham Mechanics' Institute, where he encountered the socialist writings of Robert Owen and later became an assistant lecturer. He married Eleanor Williams in 1839 and decided to become a full-time teacher, but was rejected for his socialist views. Unable to teach full-time, Holyoake took a job as an Owenite social missionary. His first p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Archer Hirst
Thomas Archer Hirst FRS (22 April 1830 – 16 February 1892) was a 19th-century English mathematician, specialising in geometry. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1883. Life Thomas Hirst was born in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, England, where both his parents came from families in the wool trade. He was the youngest of four sons. The family moved to Wakefield so that the boys could attend a better school. Thomas attended Wakefield Proprietary School for four years from 1841. Of these days, he said "... I could obtain the most rudimentary and necessary instruction. I remember, however, that here mathematics was my favourite study ..." He left the school at fifteen to work as an apprentice engineer in Halifax, surveying for proposed railway lines. It was there that he met John Tyndall, ten years older than Hirst and working as an engineer in the same firm. In his late teens, at the instigation of Tyndall, Hirst decided to go to Germany for education, initially in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Leader (English Newspaper)
''The Leader'' was a radical weekly newspaper, published in London from 1850 to 1860 at a price of 6''d''. Founders George Henry Lewes and Thornton Leigh Hunt founded ''The Leader'' in 1850. They had financial backing from Edmund Larken, who was an unconventional clergyman looking for a vehicle for "Christian liberal" views. Others involved were George Dawson and Richard Congreve. After a year Larken and Holyoake took over the rest of the shares.The Carlyle Letters, ''TC to Joseph Neuburg; 2 February 1852''; footnote 2. DOI: 10.1215/lt-18520202-TC-JN-01 CL 27:25-28 Contributors Lewes contributed theatre criticism under the pseudonym 'Vivian'. Later editors appear to ha ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association For The Repeal Of The Taxes On Knowledge
Taxes on knowledge was a slogan defining an extended British campaign against duties and taxes on newspapers, their advertising content, and the paper they were printed on. The paper tax was early identified as an issue: "A tax upon Paper, is a tax upon Knowledge" is a saying attributed to Alexander Adam (1741–1809), a Scottish headmaster. Administration of Lord Liverpool and the press The "taxes on knowledge" were at their peak in 1815, as the Napoleonic Wars ended. The Liverpool administration actively discouraged certain sections of the press, with prosecutions, including those for seditious libel, aimed at editors and writers. The principle of taxing publications and pamphlets had been introduced by an Act of 1712, at the level of a halfpenny (½''d''.). The duty had risen over time to 4''d''. The Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act of 1819 was not very effective in controlling the circulation of news, but cramped the development of newspapers. It was aimed at the journalism o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 70 novels to her credit and 50 volumes of various works including novels, tales, plays and political texts. Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand stood up for women, advocated passion, castigated marriage and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society. Personal life Childhood Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, the future George Sand, was born on 1 July 1804 in Paris on Meslay Street to Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde. She was the paternal great-granddaughter of the Marshal of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Ann Ashurst Bardonneau
Elizabeth "Eliza" Ann Ashurst Bardonneau (8 July 1813 – 25 November 1850) was a member of an important family of radical activists in mid-nineteenth-century England and the first translator of George Sand's work into English. The family supported causes ranging from women's suffrage to Italian unification. Early life On 8 July 1813, Elizabeth Ashurst was born to Elizabeth Ann Brown and William Henry Ashurst (solicitor), William Henry Ashurst. She was the oldest child. Her siblings were William Henry Ashurst Jr., Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld, Caroline Ashurst (Stansfeld), Emilie Ashurst (Venturi) and Matilda Ashurst Biggs, Matilda Ashurst (Biggs). She grew up in the Ashurst home in Muswell Hill, London. George Sand translations Ashurst and the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini met and began corresponding in 1844. She sent him a translation of ''The Mosaic Workers'' by George Sand. Mazzini responded that he liked it and suggested that she also translate a work of Sand's he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilda Hays
Matilda Mary Hays (8 September 1820 – 3 July 1897) was a 19th-century English writer, journalist and part-time actress. With Elizabeth Ashurst, Hays translated several of George Sand's works into English. She co-founded the ''English Woman's Journal''. Her love interests included the actress Charlotte Cushman, with whom she had a 10-year relationship, and the poet Adelaide Anne Procter. Early life Hays was born in London on 8 September 1820, the daughter of a corn merchant named John Hays and his wife Elizabeth Mary Atkinson. Elizabeth had previously been married to Jacob Breese until his death in February 1807, giving Matilda two elder half-sisters, Emma Marianne and Clara, who married Frederick Salmon in 1830. Matilda's full siblings were Elizabeth, Susanna and Albert. Hays was identified as a Creole or, according to Joseph Parkes, half Creole. If this is true, it must be through her mother's side, as her father's family were Londoners going back at least three generations. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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