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Susanna Dorothy (Forster) Dixon
Susanna Dorothy (Forster) Dixon (1757 – 1822) was an English author who translated from the German, Uno von Troil's ''Letters on Iceland'', and published in 1780. Much of this entry is based on an article by Benjamin Colbert titled "Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840: A Bio-Bibliographical Database," and published by University of Wolverhampton. Life She was the eldest of Edward Forster the elder and his wife Susanna's seven children, and was born in Walbrook, London, on 1 August 1757. Her father retired to Walthamstow in 1764, where she was educated alongside her brothers Thomas Furly Forster, Benjamin Meggot Forster and Edward Forster the Younger. She was the niece of Benjamin Forster and the aunt of the polymath Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster. In 1798, she married the Rev. Francis Dixon fellow of St Benet's College Cambridge, and rector of Bincombe with Broadway, Dorset. They lived at Vicarage House, Henham, Essex. Following her husband's early death in 1801, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uno Von Troil
Uno von Troil (24 February 1746 in Stockholm – 1803) was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala 1786–1803. Biography He was the son of Samuel Troilius, who had also been archbishop. He was known for great wit at a young age. After studies and travels abroad to the Netherlands, Göttingen, and Iceland (accompanied by James Lind, Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander and others), he returned home and was ordained priest in 1773. In 1775 he was appointed court chaplain. He married in 1776. In 1778 he became vicar of Storkyrkan church in Stockholm. In 1780 he was consecrated bishop of Linköping. He was appointed as archbishop in 1786, at the age of 40. As such, he was also the Speaker of the Clergy in the Riksdag of the Estates until his death. He was also a member of several scientific societies, and was a benefactor of such throughout his life. He was president of Pro Fide et Christianismo, a Christian education society. See also *List of Archbishops of Uppsala References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bincombe
Bincombe is a small village, or hamlet, and civil parish in Dorset, England, north of Weymouth. The village is from Upwey railway station and from Bournemouth International Airport. The main road running through the village is Icen Lane. The civil parish, which includes a small part of the settlement of Broadwey to the west, had a population of 514 in the 2011 census. The village stands on a limestone ridge south of Dorchester. Holy Trinity Church dates from the early 13th century. Large military camps for the observation of the English Channel were formed on the hills in this parish in the reign of George III, and two deserters, in trying to escape with details of the different camps, were captured in the English Channel, tried by court martial and shot on Bincombe Down. Their remains are buried in the churchyard, where the stone can still be seen.Kelly’s Directory of Dorset, 1895, p25. The same incident, differently interpreted, forms the basis of Thomas Hardy's sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1822 Deaths
Eighteen or 18 may refer to: * 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19 * one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018 Film, television and entertainment * ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the short story ''God's Dice'' * ''Eighteen'' (film), a 2005 Canadian dramatic feature film * 18 (British Board of Film Classification), a film rating in the United Kingdom, also used in Ireland by the Irish Film Classification Office * 18 (''Dragon Ball''), a character in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise * "Eighteen", a 2006 episode of the animated television series ''12 oz. Mouse'' Music Albums * ''18'' (Moby album), 2002 * ''18'' (Nana Kitade album), 2005 * '' 18...'', 2009 debut album by G.E.M. Songs * "18" (5 Seconds of Summer song), from their 2014 eponymous debut album * "18" (One Direction song), from their 2014 studio album ''Four'' * "18", by Anarbor from their 2013 studio album '' Burnout'' * "I'm Eighteen", by Alice Cooper commonly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1757 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. * January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Louis XV of France, who is slightly wounded by the knife attack. On March 28 Damiens is publicly executed by burning and dismemberment, the last person in France to suffer this punishment. * January 12 – Koca Ragıp Pasha becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, and administers the office for seven years until his death in 1763. * February 1 – King Louis XV of France dismisses his two most influential advisers. His Secretary of State for War, the Comte d'Argenson and the Secretary of the Navy, Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville, are both removed from office at the urging of the King's mistress, Madame de Pompadour. * February 2 – At Versailles in France, representatives of the Russian Empire an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. He held the position of president of the Royal Society for over 41 years. He advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by sending botanists around the world to collect plants, he made Kew the world's leading botanical garden. He is credited for bringing 30,000 plant specimens home with him; amongst them, he was the first European to document 1,400. Banks advocated British settlement in New South Wales and the colonisation of Australia, as well as the establishment of Botany Bay as a place for the reception of convicts, and advised the British government on all Australian matte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gough (antiquarian)
Richard Gough (21 October 1735 – 20 February 1809) was a prominent and influential English antiquarian. He served as director of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 1771 to 1791; published a major work on English church monuments; and translated and edited a new edition of William Camden's ''Britannia''. He is not to be confused with the Richard Gough who wrote a "History of Myddle", Shropshire, in 1700. Life Gough was born in London, where his father, Harry Gough, was a prosperous director of the British East India Company and also a member of parliament. In 1751 he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he began his work on British topography, eventually published in 1768. Leaving Cambridge in 1756, without a degree, he began a series of antiquarian excursions in various parts of Great Britain. Gough was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1767, and was its director from 1771 to 1791. As director, he urged the Society to increase the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gilpin (priest)
William Gilpin (4 June 1724 – 5 April 1804) was an English artist, Church of England cleric, schoolmaster and author. He is best known as a travel writer and as one of those who originated the idea of the picturesque.Malcolm Andrews"Gilpin, William (1724–1804)"''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Retrieved 20 March 2016 Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004, pay-walled. Life Gilpin was born in Cumberland, the son of Captain John Bernard Gilpin, a soldier and amateur artist. From an early age he was an enthusiastic sketcher and collector of prints, but while his brother Sawrey Gilpin became a professional painter, William opted for a career in the church, graduating from Queen's College, Oxford in 1748. While still at Oxford, Gilpin anonymously published ''A Dialogue upon the Gardens... at Stow in Buckinghamshire'' (1748). Part guidebook to Stowe, part essay on aesthetics, it shows that Gilpin had already begun to develop his ideas on the picturesque. Unusually for the time, Gilpin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classics, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,'' published in 1751. Gray was a Self-criticism, self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular. He was even offered the position of Poet laureate, Poet Laureate in 1757 after the death of Colley Cibber, though he declined. His writing is conventionally considered to be Preromanticism, pre-Romantic but recent critical developments deny such Teleology, teleological classification. Early life and education Thomas Gray was born in Cornhill, London. His father, Philip Gray, was a scrivener and his mother, Dorothy Antrobus, was a milliner. He was the fifth of twelve children, and the only one to survive infancy.John D. Baird, 'Gray, Thomas (1716–1771)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uno Von Troil's Letters On Iceland, Translated By Susanna Dorothy Forster
Uno or UNO may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Television * "Uno" (''Better Call Saul''), premiere episode of the American TV series ''Better Call Saul'' * ''Uno'' (film), a 2004 Norwegian drama film * Rai Uno, an Italian TV channel **''Telegiornale Uno'', a news program broadcast on Rai Uno * Sky Uno, a channel in the Sky family of networks in Italy * Azteca Uno, a Mexican television channel Games * ''Uno'' (card game), a brand of card game by Mattel ** ''Uno'' (handheld game), for the Game Boy Color ** ''Uno'' (video game), the video game version of ''Uno'' Music Albums * ''Uno'' (La Ley album) * ''Uno'' (Malpaís album) * ''Uno'' (Uno Svenningsson album) * ''Uno'' (ThisGirl album) * ''Uno'' (Uno Svenningsson album) *'' ¡Uno!'', an album by Green Day Songs * "Uno" (Heung me song), 2019 song by rapper Ambjaay * "Uno" (Little Big song), 2020 song that was to represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 * "Uno" (Muse song), 1999 song by Muse * "Uno" (Enrique Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henham
__NOTOC__ Henham, or Henham-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is situated north from London Stansted Airport. The parish includes the hamlets of Little Henham and Pledgdon Green. Parish population at the 2011 Census was 1,233. Henham's parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. The community Village Shop & Post Office situated opposite the Village ponds is run totally by volunteers. The local public house is The Cock Inn. A dragon legend at Henham began with the 1669 pamphlet ''The Flying Serpent or Strange News Out of Essex'', which promoted further alleged sightings of the dragon. Today, many signs in the village contain dragon motifs. Henham was a station on the Elsenham to Thaxted branch line. The village holds a bi-annual 10 kilometre run in the final weeks of May. There is a Tennis Club, Village Hall and OSCA (Hall & rooms for local activities). A monthly magazine "The Dragon" is distributed free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus"), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century through to the early 19th century it was also commonly known as St Benet's College. The college is notable as the only one founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guild of Corpus Christi and the Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, making it the sixth-oldest college in Cambridge. With around 250 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates, it also has the second smallest student body of the traditional colleges of the University, after Peterhouse. The College has traditionally been one of the more academically successful colleges in the University of Cambridge. In the unofficial Tompkins Table, which ranks the colleges by the class of degrees obtained by their undergraduates, in 2012 Corpus was in third position, with 32.4% of its undergraduates achievi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Colbert
Benjamin Colbert (born 1961) is a British-based American academic who is Reader in English at the University of Wolverhampton and an expert on historical travel writing. Educated at Tulane University, Oxford University and UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ..., he is the author of ''Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision'' (2003) and the editor of volume 3 of ''British Satire 1785–1840''. He is the editor of the Database of British Travel Writing, 1780–1840. References Academics of the University of Wolverhampton 1961 births Living people American expatriate academics University of California, Los Angeles alumni Tulane University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford {{US-English-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
