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Basil Champneys
Basil Champneys (17 September 1842 – 5 April 1935) was an English architect and author whose most notable buildings include Manchester's John Rylands Library, Somerville College Library (Oxford), Newnham College, Cambridge, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford's Rhodes Building. Life Champneys was born in Whitechapel, London, on 17 September 1842 into a family with a modest income. His father, William Weldon Champneys, was an Evangelical Vicar of St Mary's Church, Whitechapel (later Dean of Lichfield). His mother, Mary Anne, was fourth daughter of the goldsmith and silversmith Paul Storr (his cousins thus including Rev. Vernon Storr, Archdeacon of Westminster from 1931 to 1936, Rev. Frank Utterton, Archdeacon of Surrey from 1906 to 1908, the artists Rex Whistler and Laurence Whistler, and the academic Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker). One of eight children, he attended Charterhouse School, showing a talen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a Victorian era, late-Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It is part of the University of Manchester. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. It became part of the university in 1972, and now houses the majority of the Special Collections of The University of Manchester Library, the third largest academic library in the United Kingdom . Special collections built up by both libraries were progressively concentrated in the Deansgate building. The special collections, believed to be among the largest in the United Kingdom, include medieval illuminated manuscripts and examples of early European printing, including a Gutenberg Bible and a Mainz Psalter, the second largest collection of printing by William Caxton, and the most extensive collection of the editions of the Aldine Press o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Utterton
Rev Canon Frank Ernest Utterton (baptised 4 October 1844 – 19 April 1908) was Archdeacon of Surrey from 1906 until 1908, then the second most senior post in the Diocese of Winchester. The son of Bishop John Sutton Utterton and Eleanor, daughter of the goldsmith and silversmith Paul Storr, he was born in Holmwood, Surrey and educated at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1863, and graduated B.A. in 1866. He was ordained in 1868, and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Farnham, Surrey. He was Curate-in-charge of Frensham from 1870 to 1874; Rector of the village parish, Seale from 1874 to 1876; and Vicar of the multi-church parish and town of Leatherhead from 1876. He died in Winchester, aged 63. First cousins on his mother's side were Sir Francis Champneys, 1st Baronet, and his brothers Basil Champneys Basil Champneys (17 September 1842 – 5 April 1935) was an English architect and author whose most notable buildings include Manchester's J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athenaeum Club, London
The Athenaeum is a private members' club in London, founded in 1824. It is primarily a club for men and women with intellectual interests, and particularly (but not exclusively) for those who have attained some distinction in science, engineering, literature or the arts. Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday were the first chairman and secretary and 51 Nobel Laureates have been members. The clubhouse is located at 107 Pall Mall at the corner of Waterloo Place. It was designed by Decimus Burton in the Neoclassical style, and built by the company of Decimus's father, James Burton, the pre-eminent London property developer. Decimus was described by architectural scholar Guy Williams as "the designer and prime member of the Athenaeum, one of London's grandest gentlemens' Doric portico">sic">'sic''">sic.html" ;"title="'sic">'sic''clubs". The clubhouse has a Doric order">Doric portico, above which is a statue of the classical goddess of wisdom, Athena, from whom the club derives its name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan
William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan (1690 – 16 April 1746), was a Scottish peer and Jacobitism, Jacobite, who died at the Battle of Culloden. Pardoned for his part in the Jacobite_rising_of_1715, 1715 Rising, Lord Strathallan raised a troop of cavalry for Charles_Edward_ Stuart, Prince Charles in Jacobite_rising_of_1745, 1745 and appointed Jacobite Governor of Perth, Scotland, Perth. While the main army invaded England, he remained in Scotland to recruit additional troops and was replaced by John_Drummond,_4th_Duke_of_Perth, Lord John Drummond in late November 1745. He died at Culloden in April 1746. His eldest son James (1722-1765) also took part in the Rising and escaped to France. He was Attainder, attainted in July 1746, losing titles and lands; his estates were repurchased by the family when he died in 1765 and the titles restored in 1824. Life William Drummond was the eldest surviving son of Sir John Drummond of Machany (ca 1670-1707) and Margaret, daughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Drummond (civil Servant)
Maurice Drummond (9 July 1825 – 18 May 1891) was a British civil servant who was the second holder of the post of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District. He was also a writer for ''The Pall Mall Gazette'' and ''St James's Gazette''. Early life Drummond was born in Grosvenor Place, Belgravia, and baptised in the parish of St George's Hanover Square, London. He was the third son of Charles Drummond (1790–1858; great-grandson of Jacobite William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan) and Hon. Mary Dulcibella Eden. His mother was the ninth child and sixth daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland. His father was a senior partner in the family banking firm of Messrs. Drummond (later Drummonds Bank). Career In 1848, Maurice was appointed as a clerk in the Treasury in compensation in kind for the death of his uncle Edward Drummond (1792–1843), fatally shot when he was mistaken for Robert Peel, to whom he was private secretary.Norman Fairfax, ''From Quills to Computers - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris & Co
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861–1875) was a furniture, furnishings and decorative arts manufacturer and retailer founded by the artist and designer William Morris with friends from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Pre-Raphaelites. With its successor Morris & Co. (1875–1940) the firm's Middle Ages, medieval-inspired aesthetic and respect for craft, hand-craftsmanship and traditional textile arts had a profound influence on the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. Although its most influential period was during the flourishing of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the 1880s and 1890s, Morris & Co. remained in operation in a limited fashion from World War I until its closure in 1940. The firm's designs are still sold today under licences given to Sanderson & Sons, part of the Walker Greenbank wallpaper and fabrics business (which owns the "Morris & Co." brand,) and to Liberty (department store), Liberty of London. Early years Morris, Marshall, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llandaff Cathedral
Llandaff Cathedral () is a Church in Wales cathedral and parish church in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. It is the seat of the Bishop of Llandaff, head of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff. It is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and three Welsh saints: Dubricius (), Teilo and Oudoceus (). It is one of two cathedrals in Cardiff, the other being the Roman Catholic Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral in the city centre. The current building was constructed in the 12th century on the site of an earlier church. Severe damage was done to the church in 1400 during the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr, during the English Civil War when it was overrun by Parliamentarian troops, and during the Great Storm of 1703. By 1717, the damage to the cathedral was so extensive that the church seriously considered the removal of the see. Following further storms in the early 1720s, work was begun in 1734 on a new cathedral designed by John Wood, the Elder, but this was never completed, and inste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Prichard
John Prichard (6 May 1817 – 13 October 1886) was a Welsh architect in the neo-Gothic style. As diocesan architect of Llandaff, he was involved in the building or restoration of many churches in south Wales. Personal history John Prichard was born in Llangan, near Cowbridge, Wales on 6 May 1817, the twelfth son of the rector Richard Prichard, who served as vicar-choral of Llandaff for 35 years. He was descended from the Prichard family of Collenna. John Prichard trained as an architect under Thomas Larkins Walker, and as a result was deeply influenced by the ideas of Augustus Pugin; much of his work was in a neo-Gothic style. He established a practice in Llandaff, Cardiff, becoming 'Resident Diocesan Architect' in December 1844. Between 1852 and 1863 he was in partnership with John Pollard Seddon. Many of his major commissions were restoration works, most famously for Llandaff Cathedral (1843–69); Prichard and Seddon worked on the cathedral from the 1840s until 186 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Tripos
The Classical Tripos is the taught course in classics at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. It is equivalent to '' Literae Humaniores'' at Oxford University. It is traditionally a three-year degree, but for those who have not previously studied Latin and Greek, a four-year course has been introduced. It is not essential to have a Greek A-Level to study for the three-year degree as intensive Greek teaching is available, but most students will have a Latin A-Level. Classics at Cambridge consists of language ( Greek and Latin), classical literature, ancient history, classical art and archaeology, classical philosophy, and linguistics. Parts of the degree Prelims to Part I Taken by those doing the four-year course, this is an introduction to Latin, with Greek being taken up in Part IA. Part IA During the first year, undergraduates take subjects to gain a general idea of the ancient world and to discover which area is most appealing to them. Much of the work is lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at Oxford or Cambridge. Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture in Cambridge with its Trinity Great Court, Great Court said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. Academically, Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge colleges), coming top from 2011 to 2017, and regaining the position in 2024. Members of Trinity have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 received by members of the University of Cambridge (more than any other Oxford or Cambridge college). Members of the college have received four Fields Medals, one Turing Award and one Abel Prize. Trinity alumni include Francis Bacon, six British Prime Minister of the United Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charterhouse School
Charterhouse is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Godalming, Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, Smithfield, London, it educates over 1000 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years. Charterhouse is one of the original nine English Public school (United Kingdom), public schools reported upon by the Clarendon Commission in 1864 leading to its regulation by the Public Schools Act 1868. Charterhouse charges full boarders up to £47,535 per annum (2023/2024). It educated the British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and has List of Old Carthusians, multiple notable alumni. History In May 1611, the London Charterhouse came into the hands of Thomas Sutton (1532–1611) of Knaith, Lincolnshire. He acquired a fortune by the discovery of coal on two estates which he had leased near Newc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay Of Birker
Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker (24 February 1909 – 13 February 1994), was a British peer and academic. Education and life in China Lindsay was the son of Sandie and Erica Lindsay, née Storr. On his mother's side, he was descended from the goldsmith and silversmith Paul Storr; his cousins thus included Rev. Vernon Storr, Archdeacon of Westminster from 1931 to 1936, Rev. Frank Utterton, Archdeacon of Surrey from 1906 to 1908, the obstetrician Sir Francis Champneys, 1st Baronet and his brothers, Basil Champneys and Weldon Champneys, and the artists Rex Whistler and Laurence Whistler. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Balliol College Oxford. After Oxford, he became a lecturer at Yenching University in Beiping, China and American University in Washington, D.C. Using his protected status as a foreign citizen, Lindsay began smuggling radio and medical supplies to the communists, who were resisting the Japanese occupation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
