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Robert Kitchin
Sir Robert Kitchen (alt. Kytchen) was Alderman of Bristol. He died on 19 June 1594. He gifted one of the four bronze 'nails' (merchants' counting tables) to The Exchange in Bristol. Abel Kitchin, later Mayor of Bristol, was one of his four executors. It is not known if Robert Kitchin, who was originally from Kendal Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south-east of Windermere and north of Lancaster. Historically in Westmorland, it lies within the dale of th ..., was Abel Kitchin's father or uncle. Henry Swainson Cowper'Robert Kitchin, Mayor of Bristol; a native of Kendal', ''Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society'', 29 (1929), pp. 198, 201/ref> References External links Record copy of a portrait of Robert Kitchin, Bristol City Museums, M4073 1594 deaths Businesspeople from Bristol 16th-century English nobility {{Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Joseph Manning Drawing Portrait Of Alderman Robert Kitchin In Counsil House Taken From An Older Painting
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 (Roman numerals, MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (Roman numerals, MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The Industrial Revolution, 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 Gunpowder empires, Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
