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Thomas Snelling
Thomas Snelling (1712 – 2 May 1773) was an English numismatist. Life Snelling carried on business as a coin dealer and bookseller at 163 Fleet Street, London, next to the Horn Tavern (later the Anderton's Hotel). The 1756 Newbury Hoard came into his possession. He discussed it in his 1762 work on silver coins. Snelling's name occurs as a purchaser at London coin-sales c.1766; and among his numismatic customers was William Hunter (anatomist), William Hunter the anatomist. Another of his customers was the Rev. Joseph Kilner, who built up a collection that he left to Merton College. Snelling died on 2 May 1773, and his son, also Thomas Snelling, carried on business as a printseller at the same address, and published posthumously two of his father's works. Snelling's coins, medals, and antiques were sold by auction at Langford's, Covent Garden, 21–24 January 1774. The coins were principally Greek and Roman. There are three portrait medals of Snelling in the British Museum, by G. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Snelling Thane
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kirk (medallist)
John Kirk may refer to: Military *John Kirk (soldier) (1827–1865), awarded the Victoria Cross *John Kirk (Medal of Honor), American Indian Wars soldier on List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars Sportspeople *John Kirk (footballer, born 1922) (1922–?), English football winger with Darlington *John Kirk (footballer, born 1930), Canadian football inside forward with Accrington Stanley *John Kirk (cyclist) (1890–1951), British Olympic cyclist Politicians *John Kirk (New Zealand politician) (born 1947) *John Angus Kirk (1837–1910), Canadian politician and farmer * John P. Kirk (1867–1952), American politician, mayor of Ypsilanti, Michigan Others *John Kirk (antiquarian) (1760–1851), Roman Catholic priest and antiquary * John Kirk (explorer) (1832–1922), worked alongside David Livingstone in southern Africa *John Foster Kirk (1824–1904), American historian, journalist, educator and bibliographer *John Kirk (archaeologist) John Lamplugh Kirk M.R.C.S ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1773 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – The hymn that becomes known as ''Amazing Grace'', at this time titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by curate John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. * January 12 – The first museum in the American colonies is established in Charleston, South Carolina; in 1915, it is formally incorporated as the Charleston Museum. * January 17 – Second voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook in HMS Resolution (1771) becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. * January 18 – The first opera performance in the Swedish language, ''Thetis and Phelée'', performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset in Stockholm, Sweden, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera. * February 8 – The Grand Council of Poland meets in Warsaw, summoned by a circular letter from King Stanisław August Poniatowski to respond to the Kingdom's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1712 Births
Year 171 ( CLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Herennianus (or, less frequently, year 924 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 171 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Marcus Aurelius forms a new military command, the ''praetentura Italiae et Alpium''. Aquileia is relieved, and the Marcomanni are evicted from Roman territory. * Marcus Aurelius signs a peace treaty with the Quadi and the Sarmatian Iazyges. The Germanic tribes of the Hasdingi (Vandals) and the Lacringi become Roman allies. * Armenia and Mesopotamia become protectorates of the Roman Empire. * The Costoboci cross the Danube (Dacia) and ravage Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. They reach Eleusis, near Athens, and destr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A View Of The Silver Coin And Coinage Of Scotland Fleuron T057771-48
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry William Henfrey
Henry William Henfrey (1852–1881) was an English numismatist. Life Born in London on 5 July 1852, he was eldest son of Arthur Henfrey, and was educated at Brighton College. He was prevented by an accident from going on to the University of Oxford. Henfrey was encouraged in archæological and numismatic studies by Peter Cunningham, Joseph Bonomi the Younger, and Admiral William Henry Smyth. He joined the Numismatic Society of London in 1868, and became a member of the council. He was a foreign member of the Belgian and French numismatic societies, and of several American societies. He was elected a member of the British Archæological Association in 1870. Henfrey died, after returning from a visit to Italy, on 31 July 1881 at Widmore Cottage, his mother's house at Bromley, Kent. Works In 1870 Henfrey published ''A Guide to the Study of English Coins'', London, (2nd edit. by Charles Francis Keary, London, 1885). His major work was ''Numismata Cromwelliana'', London, a full acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hawkins (numismatist)
Edward Hawkins (5 May 1780 – 22 May 1867) was an English numismatist and antiquary. For over 30 years he was the Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum. Life Born at Macclesfield on 5 May 1780, he was the eldest son of Edward Hawkins of Macclesfield, banker, and his wife Ellen, daughter of Brian Hodgson of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He was educated at Macclesfield grammar school, and privately from 1797 to 1799 by Richard Ormerod, vicar of Kensington. Around 1799, he returned to Macclesfield, and received a commission in a volunteer corps raised there. He was employed under his father in the Macclesfield bank until 1802, when the family left Macclesfield, and settled at Court Herbert in Glamorganshire. While there he was a partner with his father in a bank at Swansea, and they superintended the copper works at Neath Abbey. In 1807, he left Court Herbert, and lived successively at Glanburne, Drymon, and Dylais in North Wales. At this time he turned his attention to bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tassie
William Tassie (177726 October 1860) was a British gem engraver and cameo modeller of Scottish descent, who worked in London in the early 19th century. He took over the business of his uncle, James Tassie, after James's death in 1799. He added largely to his uncle's collection of casts and medallions. His portrait of Pitt, in particular, was very popular, and circulated widely. On 28 January 1805, Tassie won the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery and its painting collection in a lottery held to pay off the debts of its owner, John Boydell. Tassie's three-guinea ticket won the top prize among the 22,000 sold. Boydell had died just before the drawing. His nephew Josiah Boydell offered to buy the gallery and its paintings back from Tassie for £10,000, but Tassie refused and auctioned the paintings at Christie's.Friedman, 4, 87–90; Merchant, 70–75. The painting collection and two reliefs by Anne Damer fetched a total of £6,181 18s. 6d. Tassie died in 1860 and is buried in Bromp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thane (dealer)
John Thane (1748–1818) was an English art dealer, working also as an engraver and printseller. He is known for ''British Autography'', a multi-volume work of portraits with handwriting samples of famous personages. Life Thane carried on business for many years in Soho, London, and became known for his expertise on pictures, coins, and ''objets de vertu''. He was a friend of the antiquarian Joseph Strutt (engraver and antiquary), Joseph Strutt, who at one period resided in his family. On John Fothergill (physician), John Fothergill's death in 1780 his collection of engraved portraits was sold to Thane, who cut up the volumes and disposed of the contents to the principal collectors of British portraits at that time; this collection had been made initially by John Nickolls. At the 1798 sale of the print collection of John Barnard (1709–1784), Thane acted as agent for Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode. He paid high prices for works by Rembrandt. After Carcherode's death the following yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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