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Ellen Creathorne Clayton
Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Mrs Needham; 15 February 1834 – 19 July 1900), born Eleanor Creathorne Clayton, was an author and artist. Biography Eleanor Creathorne Clayton was born in Dublin on 15 February 1834 but moved to London with her father in 1841. Her father, Benjamin Clayton III, was a wood engraver. Her grandfather, Benjamin Clayton II, and her great-grandfather Benjamin Clayton I, were also wood engravers. Her aunt, Caroline Millard Caroline Millard (also known as Mrs Millard) (died 26 April 1894) was an Irish wood engraver. Life Caroline Millard was born Caroline Clayton in Dublin, she was the daughter of the wood engraver, Benjamin Clayton II. In 1841, she married the E ..., was wood engraver based in Dublin. Clayton was contributing articles and illustrations from the age of fourteen to a number of papers including Sala's paper as well as two of her father's publications, ''Chat'' and ''Punchinello''. Though she is best known for her dictionary of English wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Clayton III
Benjamin Clayton III (6 January 1809 – 11 August 1883) was an Irish wood engraver and miniature painter. Life Benjamin Clayton III was born in Dublin on 6 January 1809. His parents were Benjamin Clayton II, a wood engraver, and Eleanor Creathorne. He had two younger brothers, and a sister, Caroline Millard. Clayton married Mary Graham in 1833. Both his sons, Albert Victor and Herbert Benjamin, became engravers, and his daughter, Eleanor, became an artist and writer. Clayton died of bronchitis and chronic rheumatism on 11 August 1883. He is buried at Nunhead. He studied under his father, and later became a miniature painter. Between 1834 and 1841, Clayton exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy. In July 1841, Clayton moved to London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Clayton II
Benjamin Clayton II (1786 – 17 November 1862) was an Irish wood engraver. Life Benjamin Clayton II was born in Dublin in 1786, and was baptised in St John's Church. His father was wood engraver, Benjamin Clayton I. He had two brothers, Samuel and Robert, who were both engravers. He married Eleanor Creathorne in 1808, while still living with his father on Ryder's Row. They had 3 sons and 3 daughters. All 3 sons, Benjamin, Robert, and Jeffrey Creathorne, and one of his daughters, Caroline, all became engravers. Clayton died in Ashton, County Dublin on 17 November 1862. Clayton was primarily a wood engraver, and contributed to ''Dublin Penny Journal'' and the ''Catholic Penny Magazine''. In 1820 his engraving "Wood Quay and N.E. Suburbs" appeared in Hardiman's ''History of Galway'', and "The Interior of the House of Lords as prepared for the Trial of Queen Caroline" in ''The Freeman's Journal''. The latter is possibly the first illustration in a Dublin daily newspaper aside fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Clayton I
Benjamin Clayton I (circa 1754 – 1814) was an Irish wood engraver. Life Benjamin Clayton I was born in Dublin around 1754. His father was a clock-maker. Clayton was married twice. He had 3 sons with his first wife, Samuel, Benjamin, and Robert, who all became engravers. He married a second time in 1812, to his servant maid, Mary Woods. He died at Ryder's Row in 1814. Clayton entered the Dublin Society Schools in 1766, and went on win prizes for "pattern drawing" in 1769 and 1770. He worked as an engraver, initially from Great Britain Street, and from 1807, 1 Ryder's Row. His work was primarily book illustrations. Examples of his work can be found in ''The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine'' in 1794 to 1795. In 1796, he engraved "View of Loughlinstown Camp" and "A View of Sarah Bridge" after J. H. Campbell for John Ferrar's ''View of Dublin''. He also etched political and other caricatures including "The City Fox running away with the Farmer's Goose". Clayton also engraved math ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Millard
Caroline Millard (also known as Mrs Millard) (died 26 April 1894) was an Irish wood engraver. Life Caroline Millard was born Caroline Clayton in Dublin, she was the daughter of the wood engraver, Benjamin Clayton II. In 1841, she married the English cabinet-maker, Thomas Millard, who had moved to Dublin from Cheltenham in 1838. He went on to establish a photographic studio with James Simonton in 1856 on Sackville Street. He died on 6 February 1882. Millard died at her home, 10 Mount Pleasant Square, on 26 April 1894. She is buried in Mount Jerome. Her son, William Millard, became a sculptor. Her niece, by her brother Benjamin Clayton III, was the author Ellen Creathorne Clayton. She trained as an engraver under her father, and had a successful engraving business in Dublin. In 1844, she won a prize from the Irish Art Union for her title page of ''Spirit of the Nation'' after Burton. Her engraving of Daniel Maclise Daniel Maclise (25 January 180625 April 1870) was an I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Augustus Sala
George Augustus Henry Fairfield Sala (November 1828 – 8 December 1895) was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the ''Illustrated London News'' as G. A. S. and was most famous for his articles and leaders for ''The Daily Telegraph''. He founded his own periodical, ''Sala's Journal'', and the Sydney Savage Club. The former was unsuccessful but the latter still continues. Life Sala was born on 24 November 1828 in London. His legal father Augustus John James Sala (1789–1829) being the son of an Italian who came to London to arrange ballets at the theatres. His natural father and godfather was Captain Charles "Henry" Fairfield, an acquaintance of his mother, Henrietta Catharina Simon (1789–1860), an actress and teacher of singing. She was the daughter of Catherina Cells, a former slave, and Demerara planter D. P. Simon. His great-grandmother was the Caribbean entrepreneur, Dorothy Thomas. He was at school at Paris from 1839 but his family returned to England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1834 Births
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1900 Deaths
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19th-century British Women Writers
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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