Pare, William 1819-1855

Owen, Robert, 1771-1858

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Robert Owen (1771-1858) was born at Newtown, Wales to a working family, his father being employed as the local postmaster. From an early age Owen was encouraged to read and debate, and using this knowledge he was able to mentor the younger children at his school. Aged just 10 he left school and was apprenticed to a Mr James McGuffog, a linen draper from Stamford, Lincolnshire, and, according to his Autobiography, he was independent from his parents from this point onwards. ...

Say, Thomas, 1787-1834

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Thomas Say (1787-1834) was a naturalist, entomologist, conchologist and explorer. The son of physician-apothecary Bejamin Say and his wife Ann Bonsall, granddaughter of the botanist John Bartram (1699-1777), Say was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 27, 1787. His mother died when he was six. Say’s connections with his great-uncle naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823), Bartram’s friend and neighbor the ornithologist Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) and Charles Wilson Peale (17...

Horton, Sir, Robert John, Wilmot-, 1784-1841, 3rd Baronet, politician

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Royal Hotel, Dundee

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Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864

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General Convention of the Industrial Classes

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Cox, William, fl 1848

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Association of All Classes of All Nations

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Finch, John, fl 1843

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Wilderspin, Samuel, 1792-1866

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Samuel Wilderspin was the controversial self-styled founder of the Infant School System. He was born in Hornsey, North London in 1792 and was an apprentice clerk in the City before being introduced to infant education by Buchanan. He trained with Buchanan at a school in Vincent Square, London and then became master of his own school in Quaker Street, Spitalfields. From 1824 he worked for the Infant School Society and as a freelance, teaching others about his system of schooling. He ...

Offord, William, fl 1855

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Evans, William, fl 1855

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Pare, William, 1805-1873

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William Pare (1804-1873) was a Birmingham tobacconist, who was one of the founders of the first Birmingham Cooperative Society. He left Birmingham in 1842 to become acting governor of Robert Owen's community at Queenswood, Hampshire, from 1842-1844, and published numerous works on cooperation. Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Wales in 1771. He was apprenticed to a draper in Stamford, Northamptonshire at the age of 10, and continued his working education in London from the ages of 13 to 16. In 17...

Gilchrist, John Borthwick, 1759-1841

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Epithet: orientalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000625.0x000074 Orientalist. From the description of Papers, 1825-1834 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 24560934 Scottish surgeon and orientalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Calcutta, to Dr. Currie, a friend of Robert Burns and an authority on him, 1801 June 30. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Grey, Henry George, 1802-1894, 3rd Earl Grey, statesman

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Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820

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Father of Queen Victoria. From the description of Letter signed : Kensington Palace, to Mrs. Fitzherbert, 1811 May 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891090 From the description of Letter signed : Castle Hill Lodge, to Sir William Buckey, 1807 July 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891083 From the description of Letter : Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Lieutenant Colonel Fisher, 1796 Apr. 27. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25206939 From the descri...

National Community Friendly Society

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Marshall, Thomas, fl 1843

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Rational Society

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Edouart, Augustin Amant Constant Fidele, 1789-1861

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