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John Martineau (1834–1910)
John Martineau the younger (1789 – 6 January 1832) was an English sugar refiner and engineer, best known for his involvement in the firm Taylor & Martineau. Life He was the third son of John Martineau, the elder, of Stamford Hill.Charles Harold Evelyn-White, ''The East Anglian; or, Notes and queries on subjects connected with the counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk'' New Series vol. 1 (1886) pp. 53–5archive.org./ref> In 1815 he took out a patent with his cousin Peter Martineau (son of Peter Finch Martineau) for a new means of decolourising sugar during refining. Through the mining interests of the Martineau family, he came into contact with his cousins John Taylor (civil engineer), John Taylor and Philip Taylor (civil engineer), Philip Taylor, who became business partners. At that point the Taylors were running a chemical business, backed by Martineau money. Under the influence of the Martineaus, the Taylors introduced a high-pressure boiler manufactured by Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor & Martineau
Philip Taylor (1786–1870) was an English civil engineer. A significant innovator of the 1820s in steam engine design, he moved abroad to become an industrial leader in France and Italy (Kingdom of Sardinia). Early life He was the fourth son of John Taylor (Unitarian hymn writer), John and Susannah Taylor of Norwich; and the brother of Richard Taylor (editor), Richard Taylor, Edward Taylor (music writer), Edward Taylor, John Taylor (civil engineer), John Taylor and Sarah Austin (translator), Sarah Austin. He was educated at Dr. Houghton's school in Norwich. Between 1801 and 1805 Taylor was with his brother John, who was employed by a copper mine in western Devon, for the Martineau family of Norwich. They came to know the Cornish engineer Arthur Woolf, though in Philip's case this was at a later point. Taylor had been sent to study surgery under Dr. Harness at Tavistock, Devon, Tavistock; but this apprenticeship did not result in a career. He returned to Norwich, where he joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Clinton Robertson
Joseph Clinton Robertson (c.1787–1852), pseudonym Sholto Percy, was a Scottish patent agent, writer and periodical editor. He was a political radical prominent in the early days of the working-class press in London, and in the debates within the Mechanics Institute movement. Early life He was born about 1787, the son of Rev. Joseph Robertson and Isobel Mathieson of Stewarton, Scotland. Rev. Joseph Robertson was Minister of Leith Wynd Chapel, Edinburgh, Scotland, but banished from Scotland for performing illegal marriages. ''The Mechanics' Magazine'' Robertson founded ''The Mechanics' Magazine'' in 1823, and edited and largely wrote it until the year of his death. It was a low-priced scientific weekly, and the first publication of its kind. To begin with he was in close alliance with Thomas Hodgskin: they had met in Edinburgh. It took advantage of a stamp tax exemption for technical weeklies not dealing in news. Robertson also devised a way of generating cheap content by an earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1832 Deaths
Events January–March * January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. * January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white planters organize militias and the British Army sends companies of the 84th regiment to enforce martial law. More than 300 of the slave rebels will be publicly hanged for their part in the destruction. * February 6 – The Swan River Colony is renamed Western Australia. * February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida. * February 12 ** Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands. ** A cholera epidemic in London claims at least 3,000 lives; the contagion spreads to France and North America later this year. * February 28 – Charles Darwin and the crew of arrive at South America for the first time. * March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1789 Births
Events January–March * January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet '' What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution. * January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential election and House of Representatives elections are held. * January 9 – Treaty of Fort Harmar: The terms of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) and the Treaty of Fort McIntosh, between the United States Government and certain native American tribes, are reaffirmed, with some minor changes. * January 21 – The first American novel, '' The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth'', is printed in Boston, Massachusetts. The anonymous author is William Hill Brown. * January 23 – Georgetown University is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (part of modern-day Washington, D.C.), as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States. * January 29 – In Vietnam, Emperor Quang Trung crushes the Chinese Qing forces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Martineau (college Administrator)
Jane Martineau (1812 – 2 January 1882) was a British college administrator, and the founding administrator of Bedford College, London. Life Jane Martineau was born in London, the first child of seven born to sugar refiner and mechanical engineer John Martineau (1789–1832), and Jane (née Taylor; 1792–1868). She was educated in Stratford upon Avon. In 1831, the family emigrated to America, but returned following John Martineau's death at sea. From a close family, Jane continued living with her other unmarried sisters long after the death of their mother. Between 1849 and 1855, Martineau registered to study at Bedford College, taking classes in astronomy, drawing, English, geography, mathematics, moral philosophy, and political economy. The college had been founded by Elizabeth Jesser Reid, a friend and - like Jane - a Unitarian. Her skills in administration were sharpened by lessons in bookkeeping, helping her to manage her family's accounts. Martineau was part of Bedfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Taylor (dissenting Preacher)
John Taylor (1694–1761) was an English dissenting preacher, Hebrew scholar, and theologian. Early life The son of a timber merchant at Lancaster, he was born at Scotforth, Lancashire. His father, John was an Anglican, his mother, Susannah a dissenter. Taylor began his education for the dissenting ministry in 1709 under Thomas Dixon at Whitehaven, where he drew up for himself a Hebrew grammar (1712). From Whitehaven he went to study under the tutor Thomas Hill, son of the ejected minister Thomas Hill, near Derby. Leaving Hill on 25 March 1715, he took charge on 7 April of an extra-parochial chapel at Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, then used for nonconformist worship by the Disney family. He was ordained (11 April 1716) by dissenting ministers in Derbyshire. In 1726 he declined a call to Pudsey, Yorkshire. In Norwich In 1733 he moved to Norwich, as colleague to Peter Finch, son of Henry Finch. So far Taylor had not deviated from dissenting orthodoxy, though hesitating about s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cowling Taylor
Richard Cowling Taylor (18 January 1789 – 26 October 1851) was an English surveyor and geologist. Life Taylor, third son of Samuel Taylor, farmer, was born at Hinton, Suffolk, on 18 January 1789. He was educated at Halesworth, and articled to Mr. Webb, land surveyor at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, in July 1805. He received further instruction from William Smith (1769–1839), the "Father of British geology", and finally became a land surveyor at Norwich in 1813, moving to London in October 1826. In the early part of his career he was engaged on the Ordnance Survey of England. Subsequently he was occupied in reporting on mining properties, including that of the British Iron Company in South Wales, his plaster model of which received the Isis medal of the Society of Arts. In July 1830 he went to the United States of America, and, after surveying the Blossburg coal region in Pennsylvania, spent three years in the exploration of the coal and iron veins of the Dauphin and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Buckenham
New Buckenham is a village and civil parish in the Counties of England, English county of Norfolk. The parish covers an area of and had a population of 468 in 197 households at the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census, falling marginally to a population of 460 in 209 households at the 2011 census. The small parish includes only the village, New Buckenham Common and some outlying houses and farmland. It is in the Non-metropolitan district, local government district of Breckland (district), Breckland. A nucleated village, New Buckenham has a medieval grid plan encompassing a village green, green that originally served as the Marketplace, market place. At the green there is a historic market house, a grade II-star listed building which features a whipping post, and commonly called the Market Cross. The village entirely comprises a Conservation Area (United Kingdom), conservation area together with the adjacent Buckenham Castle, which lies in the neighbouring parish of Old Buck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish surgeon and Radicals (UK), Radical Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP.Ronald K. Huch, Paul R. Ziegler 1985 Joseph Hume, the People's M.P.: DIANE Publishing. Early life He was born the son of a shipmaster James Hume in Montrose, Angus, who died shortly after he was born. He attended Montrose Academy, where he knew the older James Mill; and from 1790 was apprenticed to a local surgeon-apothecary, John Bale. Medical career Hume studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen and then the University of Edinburgh. He had as patron David Scott (of Dunninald), David Scott MP. Before he qualified, he saw wartime service as surgeon-mate on the hoy HMS Hawke (1794), HMS ''Hawke''; and then was on the East Indiaman Hope (1797 EIC ship), ''Hope'' for 18 months. In 1799 Hume sailed to India, nominated to the Bengal service by Jacob Bosanquet of the British East India Company. He wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Maudslay
Henry Maudslay ( pronunciation and spelling) (22 August 1771 – 14 February 1831) was an English machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor. He is considered a founding father of machine tool technology. His inventions were an important foundation for the Industrial Revolution. Maudslay's invention of a metal lathe to cut metal, circa 1800, enabled the manufacture of standard screw thread sizes. Standard screw thread sizes allowed interchangeable parts and the development of mass production. Early life Maudslay was the fifth of seven children of Henry Maudslay, a wheelwright in the Royal Engineers, and Margaret (''nee'' Whitaker), the young widow of Joseph Laundy. His father was wounded in action and so in 1756 became an 'artificer' at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich (then in Kent), where he remained until 1776 and died in 1780. The family lived in an alley that no longer exists, off Beresford Square, between Powis Street and Beresford Street. Career Maudsl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Bramah
Timothy is a masculine name. It comes from the Greek name ( Timόtheos) meaning "honouring God", "in God's honour", or "honoured by God". Timothy (and its variations) is a common name in several countries. People Given name * Timothy (given name), including a list of people with the name * Tim (given name) * Timmy * Timo * Timotheus * Timothée * Timoteo (given name) Surname * Bankole Timothy (1923–1994), Sierra Leonean journalist * Christopher Timothy (born 1940), Welsh actor * Miriam Timothy (1879–1950), British harpist * Nick Timothy (born 1980), British political adviser Mononym * Saint Timothy, a companion and co-worker of Paul the Apostle * Timothy I (Nestorian patriarch) Education * Timothy Christian School (Illinois), a school system in Elmhurst, Illinois * Timothy Christian School (New Jersey), a school in Piscataway, New Jersey Arts and entertainment * "Timothy" (song), a 1970 song by The Buoys * ''Timothy Goes to School'', a Canadian-Chinese children's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Borthwick Gilchrist
John Borthwick Gilchrist (19 June 1759 – 9 January 1841) was a Scottish surgeon, linguist, philologist and Indologist. Born and educated in Edinburgh, he spent most of his early career in India, where he made a study of the local languages. In later life, he returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh and London. In his final years, he moved to Paris, where he died at the age of 81. He is principally known for his study of the Hindustani language, which led to it being adopted as the lingua franca of northern India (including present-day Pakistan) by British colonists and indigenous people. He compiled and authored ''An English-Hindustani Dictionary'', ''A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language'', ''The Oriental Linguist'', and many more. His lexicon of Hindustani was published in Arabic script, Nāgarī script, and in Roman transliteration. He is also known for his role in the foundation of University College London and for endowing the Gilchrist Educational Trust. Biography E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
