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Cheyne Row
Cheyne Row is a residential street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from the crossroads with Upper Cheyne Row, where it becomes Glebe Place, leading down to a t-junction with Cheyne Walk which forms an embankment of the River Thames. It was named after Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven (c. 1624–1698) who purchased the manor of Chelsea in Middlesex, then a rural village. Notable buildings 16–34, including Carlyle's House at No 24, are grade II* listed, and built in 1708. 22-33 are grade II listed. The grade II listed Roman Catholic parish church, Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea is on the corner of Cheyne Row and Upper Cheyne Row. Notable residents No 24 was home to the historian Thomas Carlyle and is now known as Carlyle's House and is a National Trust property open to the public. It was later home to the actor and writer Thea Holme (1904–1980), who moved there when her husband became the house's curator. In 1833, Lei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cheyne is both a surname of Scottish origin which means "oak tree", and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Bob Cheyne * Rob Cheyne *John Cheyne (speaker) Speaker of the House of Commons (14th century) *John Cheyne, Baron Cheyne (–1499), English courtier and hostage after the Treaty of Picquigny (1475) * John Cheyne (physician) (1777–1836), British physician, surgeon and author *George Cheyne (physician) (1671–1743), physician and medical writer *Sir Reginald Cheyne, (fl. 13thc.), Lord Chamberlain of Scotland *Thomas Cheney (Cheyne) (–1558), Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports *Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1841–1915), English divine and Biblical critic *Sir William Cheyne, 1st Baronet (1852–1932), British surgeon and bacteriologist who pioneered the use of antiseptical surgical methods in the United Kingdom *John Cheyne (1905), British lawyer, see Bannatyne v Overtoun *Alec Cheyne (1907–1983), Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, Chelsea, Nîmes, Colchester Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlyle's House
Carlyle's House, in Cheyne Row, Chelsea, central London, was the home of the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane from 1834 until his death. The home of these writers was purchased by public subscription and placed in the care of the Carlyle's House Memorial Trust in 1895. They opened the house to the public and maintained it until 1936, when control of the property was assumed by the National Trust, inspired by co-founder Octavia Hill's earlier pledge of support for the house.Cumming, Mark, ed. (2004). "Cheyne Row, Chelsea". ''The Carlyle Encyclopedia''. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 90–91. . It became a Grade II listed building in 1954 and is open to the public as a historic house museum. The Carlyles in residence In the early months of 1834, Carlyle had decided to move from Craigenputtock, the couple's residence in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, to London. He arrived in London in May, seeking his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marietta Pallis
Marietta Pallis (1882–1963) was a Greeks, Greek-Briton ecology, ecologist and botany, botanical artist. She is noted for research in aquatic botany, especially the Norfolk Broads and the Danube Delta as well as her creation of devotional landscapes. Biography Pallis was born in Bombay, the daughter of the Greeks, Greek poet and language reformer Alexandros Pallis. She moved to England when she was 12 and was brought up in Liverpool. Her younger brother was Marco Pallis, an author and mountaineer who wrote about Tibet. From 1904 to 1907 she studied botany at Liverpool University and attended Newnham College, Cambridge from 1910 to 1912. Pallis rented and later owned Long Gores farm, marshland property in Hickling, Norfolk. Pallis studied the plav, floating reed systems of the Danube Delta; writing a paper for the journal of the Linnaean Society in 1916. Following her father's death in 1935, Pallis travelled the eastern Mediterranean with her partner Phyllis Clark. She purchase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Emily Allen
Hope Emily Allen (1883–1960), was an American scholar of medieval history who is best known for her research on the 14th-century English mystic Richard Rolle and for her discovery of a manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe. Early life and education Hope Emily Allen was born in Kenwood, Madison County, New York, on November 12, 1883. Her parents, Henry Grosvenor Allen and Portia Allen (born Underhill), had previously lived for a time in the Oneida Community, an experimental group based on socialist principles that broke up in 1880. Allen spent much of her life living on property that originally belonged to the community. She also lived in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, attending Niagara Falls (Ontario) Collegiate. Allen undertook her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College, with special interests in the study of Middle English literary texts, taught by medievalist Carleton Brown. She graduated in 1905 as one of "The Ten" top scholars. The next year she completed graduat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Collett (artist)
John Collet or Collett (1725 – 6 August 1780) was an English satirical artist. Life He was born in London about 1725, and son of a gentleman holding a public office. He was a pupil of painter George Lambert, and studied at the art school in St Martin's Lane. He first exhibited at the exhibition of the Free Society of Artists in 1761, to which he sent three landscapes. In 1762, he exhibited with the same society ''A Gipsy telling some Country Girls their Fortune.'' From this time, though he occasionally exhibited landscapes, portraits, animals, and other subjects, his pictures are mainly of a humorous description, based on the style of William Hogarth, whose 'comedy in art' he strove to imitate, if not to surpass. There was a large demand for his pictures, and the engravings from them, many by first-class engravers, were published by Carington Bowles, Smith & Sayer, Boydell, and other well-known publishers. Collett continued to exhibit with the Free Society of Artists up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle". Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson to the public. Hunt's presence at Shelley's funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Louis Édouard Fournier. Hunt inspired aspects of the Harold Skimpole character in Charles Dickens' novel ''Bleak House''. Early life James Henry Leigh Hunt was born 19 October 1784, at Southgate, London, where his parents had settled after leaving the United States. His father, Isaac, a lawyer from Philadelphia, and his mother, Mary Shewell, a merchant's daughter and a devout Quaker, had been forced to come to Britain because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Holme
Thea Holme (nee Johnston, 1904–1980) was a British actor and writer. Holme was born Thea Johnston in 1904. Her father was the architect Philip Mainwaring Johnston. She studied art at The Slade and then theatre at the Central School of Drama. She made her professional stage debut in 1924 as Hippolyta in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', at the Richmond Theatre. She was in repertory at the Oxford Playhouse, where her husband Stanford Holme was producer, in the 1930s. She performed for both the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and the BBC Repertory Company during World War II, as well as directing at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. Holme also appeared for BBC television in several adaptations of classic novels including ''The Warden'', ''Emma'', ''Persuasion'' and ''Nicholas Nickleby''. She was also a dramatist, adapting works for stage and radio, including Jane Austen's ''Mansfield Park'' and ''Northanger Abbey''. She subsequently moved with her husb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Trust
The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is a separate and independent National Trust for Scotland. The Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to "promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the Nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest". It was given statutory powers, starting with the National Trust Act 1907. Historically, the Trust acquired land by gift and sometimes by public subscription and appeal, but after World War II the loss of country houses resulted in many such properties being acquired either by gift from the former owners or through the National Land Fund. Country houses and estates still make up a significant part of its holdings, but it is also known for its protection of wild land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled in mathematics, inventing the Carlyle circle. After finishing the arts course, he prepared to become a minister in the Burgher Church while working as a schoolmaster. He quit these and several other endeavours before settling on literature, writing for the '' Edinburgh Encyclopædia'' and working as a translator. He found initial success as a disseminator of German literature, then little-known to English readers, through his translations, his ''Life of'' '' Friedrich Schiller'' (1825), and his review essays for various journals. His first major work was a novel entitled ''Sartor Resartus'' (1833–34). After relocating to London, he became famous with his ''Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea, London
Chelsea is an affluent area in west London, England, due south-west of Charing Cross by approximately 2.5 miles. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames and for postal purposes is part of the south-western postal area. Chelsea historically formed a manor and parish in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex, which became the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea in 1900. It merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington, forming the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea upon the creation of Greater London in 1965. The exclusivity of Chelsea as a result of its high property prices historically resulted in the coining of the term " Sloane Ranger" in the 1970s to describe some of its residents, and some of those of nearby areas. Chelsea is home to one of the largest communities of Americans living outside the United States, with 6.53% of Chelsea residents having been born in the U.S. History Early history The word ''Chelsea'' (also formerly ''Chelceth'', ''Chelchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Our Most Holy Redeemer And St Thomas More, Chelsea
The Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, also referred to as Holy Redeemer Church, is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Chelsea, London. it was built in the 19th century and opened on 23 October 1895. It was designed by Edward Goldie. It is situated on the corner of Upper Cheyne Row and Cheyne Row, next to Carlyle's House in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. History Construction In the early 1890s, Cardinal Herbert Vaughan requested Canon Cornelius James Keens to go to Chelsea and create a mission to serve the local Catholic population.History from HolyRedeemerChelsea.co.uk, retrieved 4 February 2015 In 1892 Canon Keens obtained permission from the |
Middlesex
Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbouring ceremonial counties. Three rivers provide most of the county's boundaries; the Thames in the south, the Lea to the east and the Colne to the west. A line of hills forms the northern boundary with Hertfordshire. Middlesex county's name derives from its origin as the Middle Saxon Province of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex, with the county of Middlesex subsequently formed from part of that territory in either the ninth or tenth century, and remaining an administrative unit until 1965. The county is the second smallest, after Rutland, of the historic counties of England. The City of London became a county corporate in the 12th century; this gave it self-governance, and it was also able to exert political control over the rest of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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