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Sir David Dale, 1st Baronet
Sir David Dale, 1st Baronet (1829–1906) was a British businessman, ironmaster and industrialist. For much of his business career associated with the companies largely controlled by the Pease family, he made his way in financial management and became a prominent figure in north-east England. From age 40 onwards, he was engaged in arbitration and labour issues, and received recognition with a baronetcy. Background and early life He was born on 11 December 1829 at Berhampore, Murshidabad district, Bengal, the younger of two sons, in a family of three children, of David Dale of the East India Company's service. His father was a judge of the city court there. Dale's mother was Ann Eliza(beth) Douglas (1802–1879); the couple married at Calcutta in 1819. Paternal background David Dale senior (1795–1830) was a close friend of William Carey (missionary), William Carey. He had at some point acted as Political Resident to the Nawab of Bengal, with seat in the Murshidabad district, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murshidabad
Murshidabad (), is a town in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. This town is the headquarters of Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river, Bhagirathi River. During the 18th century, Murshidabad was a prosperous and cosmopolitan town. Murshidabad was the capital of the Bengal Subah for seventy years. This town was the home of wealthy banking and merchant families from different parts of the Indian subcontinent and wider Eurasia. European companies, including the British East India Company, the French Indies Company, French East India Company, the Dutch East India Company and the Danish East India Company, conducted business and operated factories around the city. The town was also a centre of art and culture. The city's decline began with the defeat of the last independent Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The Nawab was demoted to the status of a zamindar kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mellis
James Mellis MD (1781–1846) was a Scottish surgeon in the Bengal Presidency of the East India Company. He is now known as an early writer on dengue fever. Life He was the son of the Aberdeen brewer James Mellis and his wife Mary Stuart; his sister Mary married the Wesleyan Methodist minister George Douglas and had three children, the eldest being James Douglas (1800–1886), a medical man in Canada. Mellis graduated M.A. at Marischal College in 1799. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1802. He served as surgeon on the Indiaman ''Fame'' in 1803–4, on station at Madeira. In 1806 he was examined for his degree of M.D. at Marischal College, and that year joined the Bengal Army, with rank Assistant Surgeon. Mellis was ranked as Surgeon in 1818. He attended the missionary William Carey in 1823. Around 1830 he was attached to the 9th Regiment Native Infantry, posted at Neemuch, and took a furlough period. In 1837 he became a Superintending Surgeon, and remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Of Friends
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to "quake before the authority of God". The Friends are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to be guided by the inward light to "make the witness of God" known to everyone. Quakers have traditionally professed a priesthood of all believers inspired by the First Epistle of Peter. They include those with evangelical, holiness, liberal, and traditional Quaker understandings of Christianity, as well as Nontheist Quakers. To differing extents, the Friends avoid creeds and hierarchical structures. In 2017, there were an estimated 377,557 adult Quakers, 49% of them in Africa followed by 22% in North America. Some 89% of Quakers worldwide belong to ''evangelical'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darlington
Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. It lies on the River Skerne, west of Middlesbrough and south of Durham. Darlington had a population of 107,800 at the 2021 Census, making it a "large town" and one of the largest settlements in North East England. The town is linked to London, Leeds, York, Newcastle and Edinburgh by the East Coast Main Line and the A1. History Darnton Darlington started as an Anglo-Saxon settlement. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon ''Dearthington'', which seemingly meant 'the settlement of Deornoth's people' but, by Norman times, the name had changed to Derlinton. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the town was usually known by the name of ''Darnton''. Darlington has a historic market area in the town centre. St Cuthbert's Church, built in 1183, is one of the most important early English churches in the north of England and is Grade I listed. The oldest church in Darlington is St Andrew's Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence (1807 Ship)
''Providence'' was a merchant ship built at Calcutta, India, and launched in 1807. She made four voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), on one of which she delivered convicts to New South Wales. The ship was scuttled at St Martin's, Isles of Scilly in 1833 after grounding while on a voyage from London to Bombay, India. EIC voyage #1 (1809-1810) Captain Hugh Reid sailed ''Providence'' from Bengal to Britain, leaving Calcutta on 18 June 1809, resting at Diamond Harbour on 23 June, passing Saugor on 25 July, and reaching Madras on 24 September. ''Providence'' then reached the Cape on 25 December and St Helena on 27 January 1810, before arriving at the Downs on 16 April. Reid sold ''Providence'' in England. A supplement to ''Lloyd's Register'' for 1810 shows the master changing to Barclay, and the next ''Lloyd's Register'' shows her owner as Barclay. ''Providence'' was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain on 9 July 1810. EIC voyage #2 (1810-12) Captain Andrew Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Dunscomb
John William Dunscomb (February 23, 1804 – December 16, 1891) was a merchant and political figure in Canada East, Province of Canada (now Quebec). He represented Beauharnois in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1842 as a Government supporter and supporter of the union of the two Canadas. Dunscomb was born in 1804 in St. John's, Newfoundland, the son of John Dunscombe, but his business was based in Montreal, Lower Canada. He married Caroline Birch Dumford, with whom he had one daughter. Dunscomb served on the municipal council for Montreal from 1840 to 1841, when he resigned from the council. Following the rebellion in Lower Canada, and the similar rebellion in 1837 in Upper Canada (now Ontario), the British government decided to merge the two provinces into a single province, as recommended by Lord Durham in the Durham Report. The ''Union Act, 1840'', passed by the British Parliament, abolished the two provinces and their separate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Île D'Orléans
Île d'Orléans (; ) is an island located in the Saint Lawrence River about east of downtown Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was one of the first parts of the province to be colonized by the French, and a large percentage of French Canadians can trace ancestry to early residents of the island. The island has been described as the "microcosm of traditional Quebec and as the birthplace of francophones in North America." It has about 7,000 inhabitants, spread over six villages. The island is accessible from the mainland via the Île d'Orléans Bridge from Beauport, Quebec, Beauport. Quebec Route 368, Route 368 is the sole provincial route on the island, which crosses the bridge and circles the perimeter of the island. At the village of Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec, Sainte-Pétronille toward the western end of the island, a viewpoint overlooks the impressive ''Chute Montmorency'' (Montmorency Falls), as well as a panorama of the St. Lawrence River and Quebec City. Geography The I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayrshire
Ayrshire (, ) is a Counties of Scotland, historic county and registration county, in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. The lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area of Ayrshire and Arran covers the entirety of the historic county as well as the island of Arran, formerly part of the historic county of Buteshire. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine, North Ayrshire, Irvine and it borders the counties of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire to the north-east, Dumfriesshire to the south-east, and Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire to the south. Like many other counties of Scotland, it currently has no administrative function, instead being sub-divided into the council areas of East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. It has a population of approximately 366,800. The electoral and valuation area named Ayrshire covers the three council areas of East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire, therefore covering the whole histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Competitor (ship)
''Competitor'' was launched at Whitby in 1813. She was initially a West Indiaman and then traded with India. She made two voyages transporting convicts to Australia, one to Van Diemen's Land and one to Port Jackson. She is last listed in 1833. Career ''Competitor'' cost £10,396 19 s 4 d. She entered the ''Register of Shipping'' in 1814 with Anthony Buck, master, G. Smales, owner, and trade Whitby–West Indies. ''Competitor'' only entered ''Lloyd's Register'' in the volume for 1815. She entered with trade Portsmouth–London. On 10 June 1816 ''Orpheus'', Bathgate, master, was sailing from New Orleans to Liverpool when she foundered at . ''Competitor'' was coming from Jamaica when she saved the crew. ''Competitor'' then brought them into London. In 1820 ''Competitor''s registry shifted to London. On 6 September Captain G. Low sailed ''Competitor'' to Bombay under a license from the British East India Company. Her owner was now Longster. Convict voyage to Van Dieman's Land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royapettah
Royapettah is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India. Location Royapettah is located at the central part of the city of Chennai, with an elevation of 9 m (29 ft.) above mean sea level. The neighbourhood comes under Teynampet Zone (number 9) and ward number 118 (old number 112) of the Chennai Corporation. Boundaries Royapettah is bounded in the direction of Northwest by Nungambakkam, North by Chintadripet, Northeast by Chepauk, West by Gopalapuram, East by Triplicane, Southwest by Teynampet, South by Mylapore and Southeast by Marina Beach. History Royapettah, along with the suburbs of Nungambakkam and Teynampet, was part of the Great Choultry Plain, as the British had it in their records back in 1721. Soon after the arrival of the British in the city in the early 17th century, a large Eurasian population started settling in Royapettah and surrounding regions in the 17th and 18th centuries. Muslim settlements started appearing in the neighbourhood from the latt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodosia (ship)
Several ships have been named ''Theodosia'': * was built at Shields in 1782. She spent 20 years trading with the Baltic, and then another dozen trading with North America and the Baltic. From 1816 she traded with India, sailing under a license from the British East India Company. She was wrecked while returning from a voyage to India in 1825. * was built in the United States in 1811, almost certainly under another name. She was taken in prize and a began sailing under the British flag in 1815. She sailed between London and India under a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She caught fire in February 1820 and her crew and passengers had to abandon ship. * was launched at Livorno in 1807 as the French privateer ''Nouvelle Enterprise''. The Royal Navy captured her in 1807 in the West Indies and initially took her into service. It renamed her ''Theodosia'' (or ''Theodocia'') in 1808. She served in the Mediterranean until the Navy sold her in 1814. She then became the merca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Mellis Douglas
Campbell Mellis Douglas (5 August 1840, in Quebec City – 31 December 1909), was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. The awarding of the VC to Douglas was one of the few (only six in number) instances of the VC being awarded for actions taken not in the face of the enemy. (Another instance with a Canadian connection was the awarding of the VC to Timothy O'Hea (an Irishman serving in the British army) for actions taken at Danville, Quebec in 1866 relating to Canada's defence against Fenian raids.) Douglas joined the British Army in 1862. Details Douglas was born in Quebec City to Dr. George Mellis Douglas and Charlotte Campbell. His father was a prominent doctor in Quebec and served as a Surgeon with the Royal Quebec Volunteers and Eastern Townships Loyal Militia during the Rebellions of 1837–38. His maternal grandfather was Archibald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
