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Hanover, House of

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Beeby, James

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James Beeby invented a system of shorthand in the late-18th or early 19th century. The system was adopted by some users, including Anne Isabella Byron, Lord Byron's wife, but later systems superseded Beeby's by the mid-19th century. From the guide to the James Beeby Shorthand Prayer Book, Beeby, James Shorthand Prayer Book, 1844, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan) ...

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to be ...