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Louis Celeste Lecesne
Louis Celeste Lecesne (c. 1796 or 1798 – 22 November 1847), also known as Lewis Celeste Lecesne, was an anti-slavery activist from the Caribbean islands. Lecesne was on a committee to improve the rights of free men of colour. He was arrested twice, and transported for life from Jamaica with John Escoffery. Their case was taken up by Dr. Stephen Lushington. Lecesne was compensated after successfully having the case reversed by the British government.Seizure and Imprisonment in Jamaica— Petition of L.C.Lecesne and J.Escoffery ''Hansard'', 21 May 1824, vol. 11 cc796-804, accessed 9 October 2008. Lecesne became an activist against slavery and attended the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Au Prince
Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is defined by the IHSI as including the communes of Port-au-Prince, Delmas, Cite Soleil, Tabarre, Carrefour and Pétion-Ville. The city of Port-au-Prince is on the Gulf of Gonâve: the bay on which the city lies, which acts as a natural harbor, has sustained economic activity since the civilizations of the Taíno. It was first incorporated under French colonial rule in 1749. The city's layout is similar to that of an amphitheater; commercial districts are near the water, while residential neighborhoods are located on the hills above. Its population is difficult to ascertain due to the rapid growth of slums in the hillsides above the city; however, recent estimates place the metropolitan area's population at around 3.7 million, nearly half of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Anglin Scarlett
Sir William Anglin Scarlett (1777 accessed September 2009–1831) was Chief Justice of Jamaica known for his love of justice. Early life Scarlett was the son of Robert Scarlett who owned property in . His elder brother, , was to become Attorney General. He was educated in and at |
Fenchurch Street
Fenchurch Street is a street in London linking Aldgate at its eastern end with Lombard Street and Gracechurch Street in the west. It is a well-known thoroughfare in the City of London financial district and is the site of many corporate offices and headquarters. The name "Fenchurch" means "church in the fenny or marshy ground" and presumably refers to St Gabriel Fenchurch, which stood at the junction of Fenchurch Street and Cullum Street until it was destroyed by the Great Fire. To the south of Fenchurch Street and towards its eastern end is Fenchurch Street railway station, a mainline terminus with services towards east London and Essex. Other notable sites include the commercial buildings at 20 Fenchurch Street and 30 Fenchurch Street (formerly known as ''Plantation Place''). Streetscape Fenchurch Street is home to many shops, pubs and offices, including 20 Fenchurch Street, a 525 ft tall skyscraper completed in 2014. Located at No. 71 is Lloyd's Register, where th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Murray III
John Murray III (1808–1892) was a British publisher, third of the name at the John Murray company founded in London in 1777. Life The eldest son of John Murray II (1778–1843) by Anne Elliott, daughter of Charles Elliot, the Edinburgh publisher, he was born on 16 April 1808. When he was four years old his father moved the firm to 50 Albemarle Street, which became a meeting-place for men of letters. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Edinburgh University, where he graduated in 1827. He completed his education by foreign travel, in Weimar delivering the dedication of Lord Byron's ''Marino Faliero'' to Goethe. Publisher There resulted the research for a series of books for tourists, the ''Murray's Handbooks for Travellers''. In 1836 Murray saw through the press the first of the handbooks, his own ''Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine''; and three more were written by himself. Subsequently, he enlisted specialists: Richard Ford (''A Handbook for Travellers in Spain''), Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wilson Bridges
Reverend George Wilson Bridges (1788–1863) was a writer, photographer and Anglican cleric. After eloping with his wife, he was Rector for the Jamaican parish of St Dorothy until late 1817, and then Manchester from 1817 to 1823. He moved to become rector at the neighbouring parish of St Ann from 1823 to 1837.Joseph John Williams ''Voodoos and obeahs: phases of West India witchcraft'' New York : L. MacVeagh, Dial Press, 1932, accessed September 2009. He published works against William Wilberforce and another book resulted in his London publisher being found guilty of libel against Louis Celeste Lecesne and John Escoffery. After his wife left him, he lost four of their daughters in a boating accident. Bridges went to Canada and returned to England to meet William Fox Talbot and take up photography. He toured around the Mediterranean taking 1,700 early pictures including Egypt, Greece, the Holy Land and Mount Etna erupting. His last parish was in Gloucestershire. Life Bridges w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Murray (publisher, Born 1778)
John Murray (27 November 1778 – 27 June 1843) was a Scottish publisher and member of the John Murray publishing house. He published works by authors such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Maria Rundell. Life The publishing house was founded by Murray's father, who died when Murray was only fifteen years old. During his adolescence, he ran the business with a partner Samuel Highley, but in 1803 the partnership was dissolved. Murray soon began to show the courage in literary speculation which earned for him later the name given him by Lord Byron of "the Anak of publishers", a reference to Anak in the Book of Numbers. In 1807 Murray took a share with Archibald Constable in publishing Sir Walter Scott's '' Marmion''. In the same year, he became part-owner of the ''Edinburgh Review'', although with the help of George Canning he launched in opposition the '' Quarterly Review'' in 1809, with William Gifford as its editor, and Scott, Canning, Robert Southey, Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Jamaica
The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), founded in 1879, is the country's most significant cultural, artistic and scientific organisation: ''The Gleaner'', 19 January 2015. a patron and promoter of the arts in , sponsoring exhibitions and awards. It is also the country's museums authority, as well as administering other national arts and cultural outlets including the , the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica, and the ''' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of The United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament (MPs). MPs are elected to represent constituencies by the first-past-the-post system and hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved. The House of Commons of England started to evolve in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1707 it became the House of Commons of Great Britain after the political union with Scotland, and from 1800 it also became the House of Commons for Ireland after the political union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922, the body became the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the independence of the Irish Free State. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the Lords' power to reject legislation was reduced to a delaying power. The g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hill (Jamaica)
Richard Hill (1795 - 1872), was a Jamaican lawyer and leader of the free people of colour, when they campaigned for equal rights in the early nineteenth century. In addition to his legal practice, Hill was also a naturalist, a poet, and an educator, as well as an administrator. Background Richard Hill was born in Montego Bay on 1 May 1795, to a white merchant of the same name, who migrated to the Colony of Jamaica from Lincolnshire. His mother was of mixed race, being part East Indian and part African. The couple also had two daughters, named Ann and Jane. Richard's father was an opponent of the system of slavery that dominated Jamaican life in the early nineteenth century. He made his son promise to fight for the cause of freedom and to never rest until the civil disabilities under which black people suffered had been entirely removed, and slavery abolished.Cundall, ''Richard Hill'', p. 37. His parents sent young Richard to be educated in England, where he attended the Elizabethan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Osborn (Jamaica)
Robert Osborn (1800–1878) was a Jamaican newspaper editor and campaigner for equal rights for free people of color. Campaigner for equal rights Robert was born on 5 April 1800, the son of Kean Osborn, a white Jamaican planter of Scottish descent, and a woman of colour. Kean Osborn served as speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1798. When Kean died in 1820, his will made no provision for his mixed-race illegitimate son, Robert. In 1828, he co-founded ''The Watchman'' along with Edward Jordon. This Jamaican newspaper campaigned for equal rights for free coloureds in colonial Jamaica, and soon became a voice for the anti-slavery movement in Jamaica. After emancipation, Jordon and Osborn changed the name of their newspaper to ''The Morning Journal''. In 1830, together with Jordon, he presented a petition to the Jamaican Assembly, which eventually agreed to grant free coloureds the rights to vote and to run for public office. Political career In 1832, Osborn won a seat on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Jordon
Edward Jordon (1800-1869), or Edward Jordan, was a leading campaigner for equal rights for free people of color in Jamaica during the nineteenth century. Background Edward was born in the Colony of Jamaica on 6 December 1800, the son of a white man from Barbados with the same name, and a Jamaican black woman named Grace. Jordon found employment as a clerk in the firm of James Brydon, a Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston merchant, who later terminated Jordon's service because he objected to the free coloured's growing participation in the campaign for equal rights for Jamaica's free people of colour. Jordon wrote in reply, "I regret to learn that my political sentiments should, in your opinion, render a separation necessary." Campaigner for equal rights In 1823, the free coloureds of Jamaica presented a petition to the Jamaican Assembly asking for restrictions placed upon them to be lifted, and that free people of colour be allowed to testify in a court of law. However, the Assembly rej ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west lies the small Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration."Haiti" ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Haiti is in size, the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the Caribb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
