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Frank Harrison Hill
Frank Harrison Hill (1830–1910) was an English journalist. Life Baptised on 4 March 1830 at Boston, Lincolnshire, he was younger son of George Hill, merchant there, by his wife Betsy, sister of Pishey Thompson. Educated at Boston grammar school, Hill entered as a divinity student the Unitarian New College, Manchester, where he studied under James Martineau. In June 1851 he completed the five years' course of study for the ministry, but he may never have preached. Meanwhile in 1848 he had matriculated at the University of London, and having graduated B.A. in the first class in 1851 acted from 1853 to 1855 as private tutor in the family of Dukinfield Darbishire of Manchester; the elder of his pupils, S. D. Darbishire, was subsequently known as the stroke of the Oxford University boat (1868–70), and afterwards practised as a doctor at Oxford. Somewhat later Hill became tutor in the family of Mrs. Salis Schwabe, also of Manchester. Hill is thought to have owed his introduction t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Boston is north of London, north-east of Peterborough, east of Nottingham, south-east of Lincoln, south-southeast of Hull and north-west of Norwich. Boston is the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Boston local government district. The town had a population of 35,124 at the 2001 census, while the borough had a population of 66,900 at the ONS mid-2015 estimates. Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church ("The Stump"), the largest parish church in England, which is visible from miles away across the flat lands of Lincolnshire. Residents of Boston are known as Bostonians. Emigrants from Boston named several other settlements around the world after the town, most notably Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Name The name "Boston" is said to be a contraction of "Saint Botolph's town", "stone", or "'" (Old English, Old Norse an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866. The third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, Russell was educated at Westminster School and Edinburgh University before entering Parliament in 1813. In 1828 he took a leading role in the repeal of the Test Acts which discriminated against Catholics and Protestant dissenters. He was one of the principal architects of the Reform Act 1832, which was the first major reform of Parliament since the Restoration, and a significant early step on the road to democracy and away from rule by the aristocracy and landed gentry. He favoured expanding the right to vote to the middle classes and enfranchising Britain's growing industrial towns and cities but he never advocated universal suffrage and he opposed the secret ballot. Russe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Black (novelist)
William Black (13 November 1841 – 10 December 1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his lifetime, Black's novels were immensely popular and compared favourably with those of Anthony Trollope. However, his fame and popularity did not survive long into the 20th century. Biography William was born to James Black and his second wife Caroline Conning. He was educated to be a landscape painter, a training that influenced his literary life. As a writer, he became known for his detailed, atmospheric descriptions of landscapes and seascapes in novels such as ''White Wings: A Yachting Romance'' (1880). At the age of 23 he went to London, having had some experience with Glasgow journalism. He joined the staff of the '' Morning Star'' and later the '' Daily News'', of which he became assistant-editor. He wrote a weekly serial in ''The Graphic''. During the Austro-Prussian War, he acted as a war correspondent. Black's first novel, ''James Merle'', appeared in 1864, and ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Paul
Herbert Woodfield Paul (1853–1935) was an English writer and Liberal MP. Life He was the eldest son of George Woodfield Paul, Vicar of Finedon, and Jessie Philippa Mackworth.''Who Was Who, 1929-40'' He was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he became President of the Oxford Union. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1878. He was a leader-writer on the '' Daily News''. In 1883 he married Elinor Budworth, daughter of the Hon. William Ritchie, Legal member of the Viceregal Council at Calcutta.Foster, ''Men at the Bar'', 1885 In 1892 Paul became MP for Edinburgh South. He lost his seat in 1895, but returned to the House of Commons as MP for Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ... from 1906 to January 1910. From 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Biography Lang was born in 1844 in Selkirk, Scottish Borders. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first Duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of '' Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books'' which he edited. He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto School, and the Edinburgh Academy, as well as the University of St Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Saintsbury
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur. He is regarded as a highly influential critic of the late 19th and early 20th century. Biography Born in Lottery Hall, Southampton, he was educated at King's College School, London, and at Merton College, Oxford, where he achieved a first class BA degree in Classical Mods, (1865), and a second class in ''literae humaniores'' (1867). He left Oxford in 1868 having failed to obtain a fellowship, and briefly became a master at the Manchester Grammar School, before spending six years in Guernsey as senior classical master of Elizabeth College, where he began his literary career by submitting his first reviews to '' The Academy''. From 1874 until he returned to London in 1876 he was headmaster of the Elgin Educational Institute, with a brief period in 1877 on ''The Manchester Guardian''. From the early 1880s until 1894 he wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Macdonell (judge)
Sir John Macdonell (1 August 1846 – 17 March 1921) was a British jurist. He was King's Remembrancer (1912–1920) and invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I of Great Britain, George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved Bathing#Medieval .... Shaw of Dunfermline gives a prefatory biography in ''Historical Trials''. John Macdonnell married writer and journalist Agnes Harrison in 1873. Selected publications * * * ''The Law of Master and Servant'', 1883 * 1914 edition, Boston: Little, Brown & Co.* ''Law and Eugenics'', 1916 * ''Historical Trials'' OUP, 1927; republished in 1931, 1933, 1936 as #23 in Thinker's Library References External links *Sir John Macdonell, National Portrait Gallery, London* 1846 births 1921 deaths Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Minto
William Minto (10 October 18451 March 1893) was a Scottish academic, critic, editor, journalist and novelist. Life Minto was born at Nether Auchintoul, near Alford, Aberdeenshire. He was son of James Minto, a farmer, and his wife Barbara Copland. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, graduating as an M.A. in 1865 and "winning the leading prizes in mathematics, classics and philosophy".Trevor Royle, ''The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature'', London: The Macmillan Press, 1983; republished as an ebook by Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd., 1993, "Minto, William" entry. In 1866 he began studying at Merton College, Oxford, but left the following year without taking a degree. He became assistant professor under Alexander Bain, who held the Regius Chair of Logic and the Regius Chair of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen. During this period he wrote the book, ''Manual of English Prose Literature, Biographical and Critical'', which was pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin McCarthy (1830–1912)
Justin McCarthy (22 November 1830 – 24 April 1912) was an Irish nationalist, journalist, historian, novelist and politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1879 to 1900, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Early life McCarthy was born in Cork City, Cork, and was educated there. He began his career as a journalist, aged 18, in Cork. From 1853 to 1859 he was in Liverpool, on the staff of the ''Northern Daily Times''. In March 1855, he married Charlotte Ailman. In 1860 he moved to London, as parliamentary reporter to the '' Morning Star'', of which he became editor in 1864. He gave up his post in 1868, and, after a lecturing tour in the United States, joined the staff of the '' Daily News'' as leader-writer in 1870 (where he was employed for the next twenty-three years) and was also to write for several periodicals including ''The Fortnightly Review'', ''The Contemporary Review'' and ''The Nineteenth Century''. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter William Clayden
Peter William Clayden (20 October 1827 – 19 February 1902) was a British Nonconformist and Liberal journalist and author.G. S. Woods, âClayden, Peter William (1827–1902)€™, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 31 Aug 2012. Life Clayden was a Unitarian minister from 1855 to 1868. He edited the ''Boston Guardian'' and wrote on political and social topics for the '' Edinburgh Review'' and the ''Cornhill Magazine''. He strongly supported the North in the American Civil War. In 1866 he started to write for the '' Daily News'', relinquishing his ministry in 1868 to become a member of its regular staff in London as a leader writer and assistant editor. In 1887 he was appointed night editor, which he would hold until 1896. Clayden strongly supported William Ewart Gladstone's anti-Turkish stance over the Eastern Question and chronicled his times from a Liberal perspective in various books. He wrote (or compiled a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Richard Robinson
Sir John Richard Robinson (2 November 1828 – 30 November 1903) was an English journalist, manager and editor of the ''Daily News''. Life Born on 2 November 1828 at Witham, Essex, he was the second son of eight children of Richard Robinson, a congregational minister. His wife Sarah was the daughter of John Dennant, also a congregational minister, of Halesworth, Suffolk. At eleven he entered the school for the sons of congregational ministers at Lewisham. Withdrawn from school on 26 June 1843, he was apprenticed to a firm of booksellers at Shepton Mallet. His first effort towards journalism was a descriptive account (in the '' Daily News'' 14 February 1846) of a meeting of Wiltshire labourers to protest against the Corn Laws. After reporting for the ''Bedford Mercury'', he obtained a post on the ''Wiltshire Independent'' at Devizes, and sent regular reports of the local markets to the ''Daily News''. In 1848 Robinson went to London. Having become a unitarian, he was made sub-edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms (the most of any British prime minister) beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, serving over 12 years. Gladstone was born in Liverpool to Scottish parents. He first entered the House of Commons in 1832, beginning his political career as a High Tory, a grouping which became the Conservative Party under Robert Peel in 1834. Gladstone served as a minister in both of Peel's governments, and in 1846 joined the breakaway Peelite faction, which eventually merged into the new Liberal Party in 1859. He was chancellor under Lord Aberdeen (1852–1855), Lord Palmerston (1859–1865) and Lord Russell (1865–1866). Gladstone's own political doctrine—which emphasised equalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
