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William Marrat
William Marrat (1772–1852) was an English printer, publisher and educator, known as a mathematician and antiquarian. Life Born at Sibsey, Lincolnshire, on 6 April 1772, Marrat was self-taught through wide reading and study of modern language. While at Boston, Lincolnshire, he for some years worked as a printer and publisher. In 1811–12 he, in conjunction with Pishey Thompson, ran ''The Enquirer, or Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository'', Boston. At other times Marrat was a teacher of mathematics, in Lincolnshire and elsewhere. He lived in New York City from 1817 to 1820, and edited there ''The Scientific Journal'' (imprint "Perth Amboy, N. J. and New York", 1818, nine numbers). He returned to England, and at Liverpool, where he settled in 1821. George Boole taught at his school, in 1833. From 1833 to 1836 Marrat was mathematical tutor in a school at Exeter, but on the death of his wife he returned to Liverpool. He died suddenly there on 26 March 1852, and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibsey
Sibsey is a village, civil parish and Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated at the junction of the A16 road (England), A16 and B1184 roads, north from Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston. Sibsey Northlands is to the north of the village. The Prime Meridian passes just to the west of Sibsey, crossing the Stone Bridge Drain canal. At the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census, Sibsey had a population of 1,996, reducing to 1,979 at the 2011 Census. Set in the fens of Lincolnshire, Sibsey is a focus of the farming community. The village is surrounded by farmland. The village won an award for best-kept village in 1989. The village has a village hall, a post office with shop, and a public house, the White Hart, on Main Road. Although the postal address for residences includes nearby Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, it is not in that Boston (borough), borough. Demography Landmarks The Sibsey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north-west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders Northamptonshire in the south for just , England's shortest county boundary. The county town is Lincoln, where the county council is also based. The ceremonial county of Lincolnshire consists of the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire and the area covered by the unitary authorities of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Part of the ceremonial county is in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and most is in the East Midlands region. The county is the second-largest of the English ceremonial counties and one that is predominantly agricultural in land use. The county is fourth-larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston is a market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Boston is north of London, north-east of Peterborough, east of Nottingham, south-east of Lincoln, south-southeast of Hull and north-west of Norwich. Boston is the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Boston local government district. The town had a population of 35,124 at the 2001 census, while the borough had a population of 66,900 at the ONS mid-2015 estimates. Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church ("The Stump"), the largest parish church in England, which is visible from miles away across the flat lands of Lincolnshire. Residents of Boston are known as Bostonians. Emigrants from Boston named several other settlements around the world after the town, most notably Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Name The name "Boston" is said to be a contraction of "Saint Botolph's town", "stone", or "'" (Old English, Old Norse an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pishey Thompson
Pishey Thompson (1784–1862) was an English publisher and antiquarian writer, known as a historian of Boston, Lincolnshire. He spent the years 1819 to 1846 in the United States. Life Thompson was born at Peachey Hall, Freiston, near Boston, Lincolnshire. He went to work as a bank clerk in Boston. In 1811–12 he ran ''The Enquirer, or Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository'', from Boston with William Marrat. Emigrating to America in 1819, Thompson was in business as a bookseller and publisher on Pennsylvania Avenue Pennsylvania Avenue is a diagonal street in Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County, Maryland, that connects the White House and the United States Capitol and then crosses the city to Maryland. In Maryland it is also Maryland Route 4 (MD 4) ..., Washington. There he became acquainted with Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, and other leading figures. Thompson had numerous interests in the US, including the settlement at Albion, Illinois, and was natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
