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Vulliamy Family
The Vulliamy family originated in Switzerland, they were notable as clockmakers in 18th and 19th century Britain, and as architects in the 19th and 20th century. *(François) Justin Vulliamy (1712–1797), born in Switzerland, moved to London to study in the 1730s and ended up settling there. He set up a business in partnership with Benjamin Gray (1676–1764), who was in 1742 appointed watchmaker in ordinary to King George II; he married Gray's daughter Mary and had four children with her, namely: **Jane Vulliamy (born 1743) **Benjamin Vulliamy (1747–1811), took over the business from his father, he married Sarah de Gingins (1758–1841) and had fourteen children, namely: ***Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780–1854), last in the family clockmaking firm, as none of his children went into it; he married Frances Moulton Stiles (1796–1868) and had three children, namely: ****Benjamin Lewis (1815–1895), fundholder ****George John Vulliamy (1817–1886), architect and civil engineer, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George II Of Great Britain
, house = Hanover , religion = Protestant , father = George I of Great Britain , mother = Sophia Dorothea of Celle , birth_date = 30 October / 9 November 1683 , birth_place = Herrenhausen Palace,Cannon. or Leine Palace, Hanover , death_date = , death_place = Kensington Palace, London, England , burial_date = 11 November 1760 , burial_place = Westminster Abbey, London , signature = Firma del Rey George II.svg , signature_alt = George's signature in cursive George II (George Augustus; german: link=no, Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 ( O.S.) until his death in 1760. Born and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent British monarch born outside Great Britain. The Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of Union 1707 positioned his grandmother, So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived in London. Random House profile Retrieved 1 January 2007. Hughes won the 1977 and 2003 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration. In 2007, her 1977 winner, ''Dogger'', was named the public's favourite winning work of the award's first fifty years. She won the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Clockmakers
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British People Of Swiss Descent
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Vulliamy Family
The Vulliamy family originated in Switzerland, they were notable as clockmakers in 18th and 19th century Britain, and as architects in the 19th and 20th century. *(François) Justin Vulliamy (1712–1797), born in Switzerland, moved to London to study in the 1730s and ended up settling there. He set up a business in partnership with Benjamin Gray (1676–1764), who was in 1742 appointed watchmaker in ordinary to King George II; he married Gray's daughter Mary and had four children with her, namely: **Jane Vulliamy (born 1743) **Benjamin Vulliamy (1747–1811), took over the business from his father, he married Sarah de Gingins (1758–1841) and had fourteen children, namely: ***Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780–1854), last in the family clockmaking firm, as none of his children went into it; he married Frances Moulton Stiles (1796–1868) and had three children, namely: ****Benjamin Lewis (1815–1895), fundholder ****George John Vulliamy (1817–1886), architect and civil engineer, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
:''George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman.'' George McCartney, 1st Earl McCartney (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806), also spelt Macartney, was an Anglo-Irish statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat who served as the governor of Grenada, Madras and the British-occupied Cape Colony. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled " a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets". Early years He was born in 1737 as the only son of George McCartney, High Sheriff of Antrim and Elizabeth Winder. Macartney descended from a Scottish branch of the McCartney family whose ancestors originated in Ireland and were granted land in Scotland for serving under Edward Bruce, Robert the Bruce's brother. The Macartneys of Auchenleck, Kirkcudbrightshire settled in Lissanoure County Antrim, Ireland, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy
Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy (1869 – 4 August 1923) was an English ceramic artist, painter, and writer. Half-Belgian, after training as a portrait artist Vulliamy worked mainly as a designer of art pottery and is best known for her work portraying bats, goblins, and other grotesque creatures. She was also a writer, and at least one of her plays was produced in London. Early life Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Vulliamy was the daughter of Arthur Frederic Vulliamy (1838–1915), a solicitor, by his marriage in 1864 to Anna Marie Museur, a native of Brussels. She was the fourth of thirteen children and was christened at St John's, Ipswich, on 6 March 1869.VULLIAMY, Blanche Georgina (sic) at suffolkpainters.co.uk, accessed 28 January 2018 Her father was a nephew of the architect |
Ed Vulliamy
Edward Sebastian Vulliamy (born 1 August 1954) is a British journalist and writer. Early life and education Vulliamy was born and raised in Notting Hill, London. His mother was the children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes, his father was the architect John Sebastian Vulliamy, of the Vulliamy family, and his grandfathers were the Liverpool store owner Thomas Hughes and the author C. E. Vulliamy. He was educated at the independent University College School and at Hertford College, Oxford, where he won an Open Scholarship, wrote a thesis on the Northern Ireland "Troubles" and graduated in Politics and Philosophy. Career 1970s-1990s In 1979, he joined Granada Television's current affairs programme ''World in Action'', and in 1985 won a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for a film about Ireland. In 1986, he joined ''The Guardian'' as a reporter, later Rome correspondent covering the Mafia and Southern Europe. From there, he covered the Balkan wars, revealing a gulag o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colwyn Edward Vulliamy
Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (20 June 1886 – 4 September 1971), was an Anglo-Welsh biographer and author. He was mostly credited as C. E. Vulliamy, but he sometimes used the pen name Anthony Rolls for his crime fiction. Born in Glasbury, Radnorshire, into a landed branch of the Vulliamy family, Vulliamy was the son of Edwyn Papendiek Vulliamy and Edith Jane Beaven. His ''James Boswell'' (1933) has been called “the cruellest and most damaging portrait of his subject that has ever been composed”. Vulliamy's ''Ursa Major: A Study of Dr Johnson and His Friends'' (1946) was chosen as a book of the month by the Right Book Club in 1948. Apart from his more serious work as a biographer, historian and archaeologist, Vulliamy also wrote detective fiction. His novel ''Don Among the Dead Men'' (1952) was filmed as ''A Jolly Bad Fellow'', a black comedy starring Leo McKern. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Vulliamy
Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 31 December 1811), was a British clockmaker responsible for building the Regulator Clock, which, between 1780 and 1884, was the main timekeeper of the King's Observatory Kew and the official regulator of time in London. In 1773 Vulliamy had received a Royal Appointment as the King's Clockmaker. Biography Benjamin Vulliamy was born in London, the son of Justin Vulliamy and his wife Mary. A clockmaker from Switzerland, the father had immigrated to London around 1730. Justin became an associate of Benjamin Gray, a watchmaker established in Pall Mall. He married Gray's daughter Mary in London. Justin succeeded his father-in-law in taking over the business. From an early age, the younger Vulliamy showed interest in pursuing his father's career. As an adult, he began to earn a reputation as a builder of mantel clocks, decorative timepieces that adorned the halls of high society. (In the 21st century, some of his works can be found at the Derby M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Vulliamy
Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect descended from the Vulliamy family of clockmakers. Life Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 1791, and articled to Sir Robert Smirke. He was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1809, where he won the silver medal the year after for an architectural drawing, and the gold medal in 1813. He was elected Royal Academy travelling student in 1818, after which he studied abroad for four years, mostly in Italy, but also visiting Greece and Asia Minor. He was a great-uncle of the art potter Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy. Vulliamy died at Clapham Common, on 4 January 1871. Works *speculative housing in Tavistock Square and Gordon (later Endsleigh) Place in Bloomsbury (1827) *Neo-Gothic churches in the London area **St Bartholomew's, Sydenham (1826–31) **St Barnabas's, Addison Road, Kensington (1828–9) **St Michael's, Highgate (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Parkman Sturgis
Henry Parkman Sturgis (1 March 1847 – 1 March 1929) was an American-born banker in England and a Liberal politician. Early life Sturgis was born in the United States on 1 March 1847. He was a son of Russell Sturgis and his third wife, Julia Overing Boit, a daughter of Eleanor Auchmuty (née Jones) Boit and John Boit Jr., one of the first Americans involved in the maritime fur trade. Among his siblings were the authors Julian Sturgis and Howard Sturgis and Mary Greene Hubbard Sturgis (wife of Bertram Falle, 1st Baron Portsea). From his father's previous marriage to Mary Greene Hubbard, his elder half-brother was prominent architect and builder John Hubbard Sturgis. Sturgis was named after his uncle, Henry Parkman Sturgis (1806–1869), who with his brother Russell Sturgis (1805–1887) made a fortune from the Manila-based mercantile house Russell & Sturgis founded with George Robertson Russell. His cousin Maria Trinidad Howard Sturgis Middlemore was an author. Education an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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