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William Clarke Gellibrand
William Clark(e) Gellibrand (1791–1884) was an English merchant in the Russian Empire. Early life He was the elder son of William Gellibrand (settler), William Gellibrand (1765–1840), who emigrated from the United Kingdom to Van Diemen's Land at the end of 1823 with Joseph Tice Gellibrand. Their mother was Sophia Louisa Hinde or Hynde (1759–1793), of Hampstead. The Gellibrand family were at Brentford from 1792 to 1805, when William Gellibrand gave up his ministry which was at the Brentford Butts presbyterian chapel, built 1783, with Hugh Ronalds in the congregation; his wife died in 1793. William Clarke Gellibrand was a schoolfellow in Brentford of Percy Bysshe Shelley at the academy run by the Rev. Alexander Greenlaw, Zion House or Sion House or Syon House; he told Augustine Birrell an anecdote of that time. Russia merchant Gellibrand became involved in the Russia trade as a partner in J. Hubbard & Co. with John Hubbard, father of John Gellibrand Hubbard. There was a family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, religious, and economic diversity. From the 10th–17th centuries, the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
