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Frederick Wicks
Frederick Wicks (23 February 1840 – 30 March 1910) was an England, English author and inventor, whose book ''The British Constitution and Government'' was first published in 1871 and ran to several editions. He was born in Stockwell, Surrey, the youngest son of Samuel Wicks (1790-1854), a maize, corn dealer, & Mary Wicks (née Groves) (1797-1868). In 1864 Wicks wrote of the events surrounding the trial and execution of Franz Muller. Frederick Wicks, who in the 1870s became proprietor of the ''Glasgow Daily News'', was in 1878 the inventor of the Wicks Rotary printing, Typecasting Machine. It is recorded that ''"for many years he had been working at a machine which would cast new type so quickly and so cheaply as to do away with the old system of distribution and substitute new type every day. In 1899 his machine was practically perfect, and ''The Times'' entered into a contract with him to supply any quantity of new type every day. The difficult question of distribution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockwell
Stockwell is a district in south west London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. It is situated south of Charing Cross. Battersea, Brixton, Clapham, South Lambeth, Oval and Kennington all border Stockwell. History The name Stockwell is likely to have originated from a local well, with "stoc" being Old English for a tree trunk or post. From the thirteenth to the start of the nineteenth century, Stockwell was a rural manor at the edge of London. It included market gardens and John Tradescant's botanical garden – commemorated in Tradescant Road, which was built over it in 1880, and in a memorial outside St Stephen's church. In the nineteenth century it developed as an elegant middle-class suburb. Residents included the artist Arthur Rackham, who was born on South Lambeth Road in 1867, moving with his family to Albert Square when he was 15 years old. Another famed cultural figure who was born in Stockwell in October 1914, was theatre director Joan Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
