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This scrap of paper was among some papers which were kindly given to me by the executors of Joan Wild ( 1916 - 2010) who was born in Winster.

 

You will see that the scrap contains a short biography of Helen Mary Rains. Someone has written above the article “See photograph underneath.” Sadly, this photograph did not come to me with the scrap, more’s the pity.

 

The article starts – “Somewhere in Winster Churchyard is the grave of Miss Helen Mary Rains.” More of that later.

 

But first, I can add a little to the information in the article. Oh, I’d better tell you that on the back of the scrap written in the same hand as the note about the missing photograph is this: “August Issue 1984 of Winster Parish News.”

 

Miss Rains was born in Winster on 28 July 1859 and never married. She died on 30 July 1925.

 

In the last published Census of 1911 Miss Rains was living with her bachelor brother, Ralph Staley Rains, in Winster. Ralph was a farmer and Miss Rains was a school teacher employed by “County Council” – presumably Derbyshire.

 

And now – you’ve been patient wondering where Miss Rains’ grave is in Winster Churchyard. Click on this link to see a photograph of it which she shares with her brother.

www.flickr.com/photos/winsterderbyshire/3323295359/

 

Almshouses. 1720, altered early C20 and restored 1974. Built by the executors of the will of William Penny. Sandstone rubble boundary wall and ashlar entrance archway with ashlar dressings, the dwellings mostly covered by roughcast render, with green slate roofs. 2 parallel rectangular ranges at right-angles to the street, each comprising 5 units with a 6th added at the west end of both, forming a narrow courtyard closed by a chapel at the west end and a screen wall with entrance arch at the east end. The entrance archway of 3 bays with rusticated quoins, shallow Tuscan pilasters framing the centre, pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice, and shaped gable with hollow-moulded coping and ball finials. The central gateway is segmental-headed and has a robust rusticated surround, and wrought-iron gates with scrolled cresting; the original square lettered tablet in the gable has been recently replaced with a modern one copying the Latin inscription. The houses are single-storeyed, each unit of one bay with a window to the left of the door. The doorways have quoined jambs and double lintels, and the large cross-windows have slightly recessed flat-faced mullions and transoms, and leaded glazing. The roofs have coped gables with ball finials on the apex, and low rebuilt chimneys on the ridge. The added units at the west end are in matching style but on a larger scale. The courtyard has flagstone paving with gutters running along the front of the dwellings crossed by flagstone bridges to the doors. The chapel at the west end presents a shaped gable facade of coursed squared sandstone, with a keyed round-headed doorway in the centre approached by 3 steps with simple curved side-railings, a square tablet over the door inscribed FORGET NOT/ THE CONGREGATION /OF THY POOR, and a square bellcote on the apex of the gable, with a ball finial. The 2-bay side walls have cross-windows, and the west end has a tripartite round-headed window (but these are not visible from the courtyard). INTERIOR: the chapel has an oak dado of raised and fielded panels, and a roof truss with tie-beam and sturdy turned queen-posts. The altar table bears the date '1928', the probable date of restoration. HISTORY: William Penny (1646 - 1716) occupied various positions on the Town Council and was three times Mayor of Lancaster. When King Street was widened in the early C20 the two almshouses nearest the road were demolished, the screen wall rebuilt in its present position, the chapel shortened, and two new almshouses built next to the chapel. EH Listing

Underneath the arch between the north chapel and chancel, tomb of Sir David Phillip / Phelip 1450- 1506 and wife Anne Seymark 1533-1510 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/VG480o who is buried Chenies manor Bucks which she inherited ++

This was the site of a chantry set up after his death, licenced in November 1506 to David Cecille one of his executors "to fund a chantry of 2 chaplins or 1 chaplin perpetual for the good estate of the King while he lives and for his soul afterwards and for the soul of Elizabeth his late consort and the soul of the said David and of his father and mother and Anne his wife (when she dies) and all faithful with licence for the said chaplin to acquire in mortmoin lands to the value of 9l a year".

Anne was the co-heiress daughter of Thomas Seymark / Semark of Thornhaugh by Alice daughter of William Lexham

and Margaret Oldhall. She was the ward of Sir Richard Sapcote of Elton Hunts and later firstly married to his 2nd son William Sapcote having a son Guy Sapcote m Margaret daughter of Guy Wolston

Sir David & Anne m c1485 but had no children,

.Coming from a lowly welsh family Sir David served Henry Tudor (late Henry Vll) in France and fought at the Battle of Bosworth. He became a squire to the body and gentleman usher at court and steward to the kings mother Margaret Beaufort at Colley Weston palace near Stamford living nearby at Thornhaugh, He also held the office of Keeper of the Kings Swans in the waters of Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire and was also keeper of the royal forest of Kings Cliffe which bounded his estates and Windsor Park. .In 1499 he was sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham and a benefactor to the church of Holme in Hunts where there was a window inscription "Of your chartie pray for Sir Davy Phelip and my lady his wife, and for all benefactors of this windowe".

His nephew by marriage Richard Cecil www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z8mxo3 , father of William Cecil, Lord Burghley joined him having married advantageously Alice daughter of John Dicons alderman of Stamford by Margaret Seymark sister of his wife Anne Seymark ++

On the monument is the Dragon of Wales together with crowned Tudor Roses, and the Portcullis emblem of the Beauforts

The Semarks were out of favour after Bosworth and Annes marriage to David Phelip favoured by the Tudors and Ann's inheritance of the Cheyne fortune resulted into a family of position within the Court of Henry VIII.

www.cb5.co.uk/davidphelip.htm - Church of St Mary Stamford Lincolnshire

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 17, 2023) Fabien Cousteau, executor and founder of the Proteus Ocean Group (POG), and members of his team take a tour of various departments during a visit to the U.S. Naval Academy. Proteus is the world’s most advanced underwater research station, a collaborative global platform for researchers, academics, government agencies, and corporations to advance ocean science. U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen are working with Proteus as part of their final capstone project.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)

This Indenture, made the 24th day of April 1867 between the Reverend William Procter the younger of Doddington in the County of Northumberland Clerk of the 1st part (,) Isabella Young Gilchrist of Berwick upon Tweed, Spinster of the second part and the Reverend Aislabie Proctor of Alwinton in Northumberland Clerk B.A. and Arthur Baxter Visick of Berwick upon Tweed Dentist (,) for themselves and theirs heirs executors and administrators herein after designated the said Trustees of the third part. Whereas a marriage is intended to be solemnised between the parties hereto of the first and second parts and it has been agreed to such settlement as herein after is mentioned Witnesseth that in consideration of the intended marriage they the said William Proctor the younger and Isabella Young Gilchrist do hereby convey assign and transfer unto the said Trustees All sum or sums of money which he the said William Proctor the younger is entitled to in reversion under his Father and Mothers marriage settlement (,) which may come to him at any time from any member of his family descent or will and also all lands tenements or hereditarments now belonging to the said Isabella Young Gilchrist or which may belong to her or over which she has or may have any controlling power and All sum or sums of money which she the said Isabella Young Gilchrist is entitled to in reversion or which may come to her at any time from any member of her family by descent or will (.) To hold the same unto the said trustees upon Trust to call in (,) alter and vary the securities from time to time and invest the same upon Government (,) or real securities (,) or any railway stock upon which all calls which are paid (,) or on preference stock as they (with the consent in writing of the said William Proctor the younger and Isabella Young Gilchrist during their lives and of the survivor according to the discretion of the said Trustees) may think proper and with the like consent to sell all real estate and to give discharges for all purchase moneys (.) And upon trust to pay the rents (,) dividends and interest arising therefrom to the said William Proctor the younger during his life and after his decease (,) upon Trust to pay the same unto the said Isabelle Young Gilchrist for her life (,) then several receipts alone after they fall due to be the only discharge for the same and after both their deaths then upon Trust to pay the said rents (,) dividends and interest towards the maintenance and education of the said intended marriage (,) if any (,) and upon trust to divide the capital and the produce of the real estates equally between or amongst such children as and when they come to the age of twenty one years or day or days of marriage. But if any one or more of such children shall die leaving child or children (,) the child or children so left shall take their parents share and if there shall be no children or all of them shall die before they take a vested interest (,) then as to the property hereinbefore mentioned belonging to the said William Proctor the younger upon Trust to dispose of the same as he shall by will appoint and in default of such appointment to his next of kin according to the statute of distributions as if he had never been married and had died intestate (.) And with respect to the property hereinbefore settled belonging to the said Isabella Young Gilchrist upon trust to dispose of the same as she may by will executed either while covert or discovert appoint the same and in default of such appointment to her next of kin according to the statute of distributions as if she had never been married and had died intestate. And each of them the said Willian Proctor the younger and Isabella Young Gilchrist for himself and herself and for his (,) her and their heirs (,) executors and administrators and assigns hereby irrevocably appoints the said Trustees to be his (,) her and their lawful attorney and attornies to sue for and get in all monies which may arise or fall due to him (,) her and them by virtue of this settlement. And to act for him (,) her and them as fully as he (,) she or they could have acted if they had remained single and unmarried. In witness where of the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and the year first above written –

 

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Abstract of Title John Peake to 111 High Street and 1, 3, 5, 7 Chatham Street, Ramsgate dated 1879 contracted to be sold to Revd.’ Edward Grippen Banks.

 

111, High Street, Ramsgate:

 

3rd April 1826 Indenture between Charles Twyman of Dumpton, St Peters, Thanet, Yeoman, John Peake of Ramsgate, Carpenter and Wheelwright and Stephen Bayly of Ramsgate, Grocer.

 

Formerly in the occupation of: Thomas Johnson then Johanna and Mary Smith, then Mary Smith, then John Muddle, then John Heyburn.

 

1, 3, 5, 7 Chatham Street:

 

13th and 14th February 1824 Indenture between Martha Smith of Ramsgate, Widow, Sarah Joad of Ramsgate, Stephen Joad of Colchester, Essex, Surgeon, John Peake, William Peeke, Yeoman, Thomas Abbott and Edward Dering.

 

John Peake died 19th November 1878 and Elizabeth Peake and George Philpott appointed as Executors of his Will.

 

The Brinkworth Railway Station is no more!

 

The station was constructed as a ‘second class timber station building” rather than a stone building. It was demolished in November 1996, being badly affected by white ants.

 

Trains were met from north and south at midday. The refreshment room, which operated from 1895–1941 was a busy place. It could seat 200 people, and at times up to 15 women were employed there.

 

From 1894 until 1909 the Post Office operated from the station. Mail from Koolunga, Mundoora and Redhill was sorted and collected from the station by horse and buggy for local delivery.

 

The township of Brinkworth stands on Section 392 in the Hundred of Hart: granted to James White in 1866.

By 1892 part of it was owned by Frederick Belling and Peter Brinkworth (1842–1907) as executors of George Brinkworth who died at Gulnare in 1892 aged 81.

  

Brasília, 11/12/2014. Secretário nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional, Arnoldo de Campos, participa do painel Relatos de beneficiárias e executores de políticas públicas. foto: Ubirajara Machado/MDS

Draft Will of Elizabeth Pottle Teagle, Widow of 13 Havelock Road, West Kensington Park, Middlesex, 1885. Relict of Thomas Teagle.

 

Executor Frederick Long of Wymondham, Norfolk, Tailor. Beneficiaries, sister Mary Long, wife of Henry Long, of Wymondham, Tailor. Should she die first then to the daughter of Mary Long, Sarah Eliza Long, the wife of Frederick Long.

 

Elizabeth Pottle Teagle died 4 December 1892. Solicitor, Whites and Pomeroy, Wymondham, Norfolk

 

The Tenth Duke and Duchess of Manchester very involved in Kenya and the future and protection of Animals.

Kenya Wild Animal protection ordnance 1951.

No (18 of 1951) Appointments.

In Exercise of Powers conferred by section 52 of The Wild Animals Protection Ordinance

1951 I hereby Appoint.

 

1). Chridta Johannes cloete esq.

2). Ian Mcray Watson esq.

3).W CAMBELL Haughty Warner esq.

4). Ronald William Ryan Esq.

5). Major Peter Drummond carmachel

6). Andrew J Cross esq.

7). Hector S Douglas Esq.

8). Stephen Ifold elks esq.

9). Sr Vincent Glenday esq. K C M G

10). His Grace The Duke of Manchester

11). Sberlh Salm Mohamed Muhasmy

12). Harold Mearns Anthony Sutton esq.

 

To Be The Honary Game Wardens from the Date Hereof, May 15, 1958 Nairobi Kenya

 

WH HALE

Chief Game Warden

 

Draft Will of George Burges, 28 Hardres Street, Ramsgate, Kent dated 22nd March 1861.

 

Executors: Rev’d Henry Richards Luard, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Charles Thomas Hill of 51, Beaumont Square, Mile End, London.

 

Beneficiaries: Wife Jane Burges, daughters, Maria Burges, Anne Burges, infant, Fanny Burges, infant.

 

Property: 28 Hardres Street, Ramsgate, 2, St. Augustine Place, Ramsgate.

 

It was a lovely ceremony on the beach, where people shared memories of Brian. David, his executor and old friend committed the ashes to the sea, then we followed up with roses. His friend Lloyd and his great niece Martina took in the Pride Parade and some of the festivities after we hosted folks at the house for birthday cake. We chose the 20th for the memorial as it was Brian's birthday, as well as Lloyds - it's amazing when two friends have the exact same birthday. Larry and Brian had previously bought the pink t-shirts to wear to the parade he had intended to watch. After all that, Larry and I drove Lloyd and Martina to a couple of the places Brian had lived prior to him moving in with us, as well as a couple of the places he had worked, to give them a sense of 'Brian's Halifax.' Martina was a young girl the last time she saw him. We're only saying good-bye to his earthly presence, he will live in our hearts forever.

Dividido em Shounen e Shuojo (para meninos e meninas respectivamente), Gekigá, Seinen e Josei (mais realista, para homens e mulheres) e também Yaoi e Yuri (com público alvo homosexual, mas relativos as estórias e não a sexo explícito) e os famigerados e famosissímos Hentais (nem vou explicar), já são febre no mundo a mais de 20 anos e parte integrante da cultura japonesa a mais de meio século. Enquanto aqui no Ocidente é comum rotular quadrinhos como "coisa de criança ou adolescente" lá qualquer adulto lê sem que ninguém olhe tortamente com indiferença e desprezo, como normalmente ocorre aqui. Coleciono vários títulos e morro de raiva com algumas coleções que ficaram incompletas por conta de cancelamentos ou por que o desenhista (lá normalmente o criador quase sempre é o roteirista e desenhista) entra em crise existencial e pára de escrever/desenhar bem no melhor da estória. Dá uma raiva!! Mas nem por isso paro de ler e através deles conheçer mais um pouco das estórias fascinantes que só os orientais sabem criar e contar...

Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

 

The stable building at 128 West 18th Street is one of nine remaining brick-fronted stables from an original row of thirteen erected in 1864-66. Designed in a round-arched utilitarian style related to the German Rundbogenstil. it still features a mix of Romanesque and Renaissance Revival details. No. 128 West 18th Street has a tripartite triumphal arch composition which focuses on a central bifurcated Renaissance arch at the second story. Erected by Susan and Valentine Hall, the developers of the 18th Street row, the 128 West 18th Street Stable was retained by members of the socially prominent Hall family until 1905.

 

As a component of one of the two uniformly designed mid-nineteenth-century private carriage house groups remaining in Manhattan, it is a rare survivor. These stable rows reflect a period in the city's developmental history when private carriage houses began to be erected some blocks away from their owners' homes, on streets devoted almost exclusively to private stables and commercial liveries. An early manifestation of this trend, which became common practice during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the West 18th Street row was one of the most extensive of the period and contained unusually large and handsomely decorated stables.

 

The Tonnele Estate and the Development of the Private Stables on West 18th Street

 

Once part of the eighteenth-century farm of Peter Warren, the lots on the south side of West 18th Street between Sixth Avenue and the old Warren Road to the west were acquired by John Tonnele around 1817. Senior partner in the firm of Tonnele & Hall, the country's leading dealer in wool, Tonnele had extensive real estate holdings in Manhattan including large tracts on Sixth Avenue, 14th and 15th, and 17th and 18th Streets. In his will of 1846, Tonnele divided his real estate among his family, giving them the option of selling the property and investing the proceeds in trust for their heirs.

 

A total of thirty-two lots on West 17th and 18th Streets were left to his daughter Susan G. Hall. In March of 1863, she and the executors of the estate, her husband Valentine G. Hall and his brother George Hall, began selling off the lots which were then occupied by small dwellings and wood shanties.

 

As the area was semi-industrial in character, with a brewery located on the north side of 18th Street and the Weber piano factory occupying the northeast corner of Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, the Halls must have regarded the lots as unsuitable for first-class residential or commercial development. However, the lots' proximity to the fashionable Fifth Avenue residential district north of Uhion Square must have made them seem ideal for private stables and apparently they were offered for sale as such. By 1867, all the former Tonnele Estate lots on 17th and 18th Streets were occupied by private stables with restrictive covenants on the properties prohibiting their conversion to factories or commercial livery stables.

 

Stables were a necessity during the period when private urban transportation was limited to horses and carriages. While the majority of New Yorkers rented or boarded their horses in large commercial stables, the very wealthy maintained private stables. Traditionally, these were located directly behind their owners' homes, sometimes facing onto the less desirable street front of a through-the-block lot.

 

By the mid-nineteenth century, carriage-house rows developed to serve a few of the city's most exclusive streets. Remnants of these stable rows survive at 127 and 129 East 19th Street, originally part of a group of stables serving the houses on Gramercy Park South and Irving Place, and at 57 Great Jones Street, the sole survivor of a long row of stables which once backed onto the mansions on the north side of Bond Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street.

 

Around 1860, carriage houses began to be erected a few blocks from their owners' homes, on convenient but less fashionable streets, where land costs were lower and where the noises and smells associated with stables would not mar the character of a residential neighborhood.

 

Eventually a number of streets in Manhattan were devoted almost exclusively to private and livery stables. These included East 35th and East 36th Streets between Lexington and Third Avenues , East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues , and West 58th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue .

 

The twenty-nine stables erected on the former Tonnele Estate in the 1860s, extending from 121 to 143 West 17th Street and from 112 to 146 West 18th Street, were an early example of this type of development and together formed one of the most extensive groups of private stables built in Manhattan in the 1860s.

 

It should be noted that throughout the 1860s, most of the private carriage houses on these "stable streets" were commissioned on an individual basis and that speculatively-built rows were a rarity.

 

Perhaps the most extensive speculative development was Sniff en Court, a group of ten private carriage houses on a blind alley off East 36th Street, erected in 1864 for four investors by local builder John Sniff in, and subsequently sold to wealthy residents of Murray Hill.

 

Although uniform in design, the row from 122 to 146 West 18th Street was created through a combination of small-scale speculative development and individual commissions. In May and June of 1864, Elisha Brooks, a partner in the successful Brooks Brothers clothing firm, purchased the lots from 122 to 126 West 18th Street and had three identical stables erected on the site.

 

As work was proceeding on the Brooks stables, Susan Hall and her children agreed to use part of the proceeds from the sale of the lots on 18th Street to build a stable at 128 West 18th Street which would be retained for the family's use.

 

In mid-September, Valentine Hall entered into an agreement with Elisha Brooks to use the western wall of No. 126 as a party wall for the new stable at 128 West 18th Street. Though commissioned by a different client, this stable was identical in plan and design to the recently completed Brooks stables. Ey 1866, the nine remaining lots from 130 to 146 West 18th Street were sold off and stables were erected by their new owners.

 

Again, these continued the articulation of the Brooks stables to create a uniform row of thirteen stables, suggesting that Brooks had made the plans for his stables available to the other owners and/or that the same builder or architect was commissioned for all thirteen buildings.

 

The result was one of the most extensive stable rows in the city, containing unusually large and handsomely decorated buildings whose owners included a number of New York's wealthiest and most prominent citizens, among them Samuel F.B. Morse who was the original owner of the stable at 144 West 18th Street .

 

Susan and Valentine Hall, the developers of the 18th Street stables and owners of 128 West 18th Street, were members of the wealthy merchant class which came to dominate New York society in the mid-nineteenth century. Susan's father, John Tonnele, had begun his career as a glove merchant before rising to prominence in the wool trade. Tonnele used his profits to invest in real estate, amassing large holdings in Manhattan and Brooklyn as well as farmland in Pennsylvania and France.

 

Valentine Hall entered John Tonnele's wool business as a boy and after his marriage to Susan became a partner in the firm.

 

Hall had a reputation as a tough-minded businessman^ and like his father-in-law invested heavily in real estate. He accumulated one the city's great fortunes and by 1845 was able to retire from business and devote his time to investment and religious affairs. The Halls were among the first residents of Gramercy Park where in 1845 they built a Gothic Revival style house at 16 Gramercy Park South which was later altered and became the Players Club.

 

Their children made socially prestigious marriages — Valentine G. Hall, Jr., and Margaret Hall both wed members of the Ludlow family, Hudson River Valley aristocrats with ties to the Livingston, De Peyster, and Clarkson families, and Catherine Hall married Eugene Schieffelin, an artist and cousin of the owners of the Schieffelin pharmaceutical company. Among the Halls' descendents was Eleanor Roosevelt, who was raised by her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Valentine G. Hall, Jr.

 

In 1864, when the stable at 128 West 18th Street was under construction, Valentine and Susan Hall were living on East 25th Street, just off Madison Square — thus, it is likely that the building was first employed for their personal use.

 

In 1868, however, the family moved uptown to East 40th Street, remaining there a year before settling in Murray Hill. Since none of the Halls' children lived near the stable at that time, it seems probable that Susan Hall put the building up for rent. She retained ownership of the stable until her death in 1884 when, following the provisions of John Tonnele's will, the property was divided among her four children, Valentine G. Hall, Jr., Catherine Schieffelin, Margaret Ludlow, and John Tonnele Hall.

 

The Design of the 128 West 18th Street Stable

 

The stable at 128 West 18th Street is characteristic of contemporary carriage house design as adapted to a narrow urban lot. Originally two stories high, it was later raised a story. As built, the stable would have been divided into two major ground-floor spaces — a front room for carriages and a rear roam with stalls for horses. The front portion of the second floor would have contained quarters for the coachman or groom, while the rear would have been used as a hayloft. Windows were located only on the front of the building to spare neighbors the sights and smells associated with horses, but two large skylights provided additional light to the second-floor rooms.

 

The facade is designed in a round-arched utilitarian style derived from the German Rundbocrenstil . The Rundboaenstil evolved in Germany in the 1820s among a group of progressive architects who sought to create a synthesis of classical and medieval architecture by drawing on historic precedents in the round-arched Byzantine, Romanesque, and Renaissance styles.

 

Transmitted to this country through the immigration of German and Central European architects in the 1840s, as well as through architectural publications, the Rundbocrenstil tended to be conflated with other mid-nineteenth century round-arched styles such as the Romanesque and Renaissance Revivals.

 

Among the major American examples of the round-arched style are Charles Blesch and Leopold Eidlitz's St. George's Church on Stuyvesant Square at 16th Street, Alexander Saeltzer's Astor Library , at 425 Lafayette Street,18 and Thomas Tefft's Union Depot, Providence, R.I. .

 

The style is reflected in the design of the stable at 128 West 18th Street by the choice of materials , an emphasis on flat wall surfaces, and a clear definition of architectural elements. The meshing of classical and medieval motifs is apparent in the composition, which recalls both a Roman triumphal arch and the elevation of a medieval nave arcade, and in the incorporation of such details as the Renaissance-inspired cornice and diamond-pointed keystones and the Romanesque-inspired arcades and rusticated bands.

 

The facade's chief feature is a large central arch with a pair of inscribed arches and a bull's-eye tympanum. This motif, which was thought by nineteenth-century theorists to have originated in northern Italy during the Romanesque period and was widely used during the Renaissance, became a hallmark of the nineteenth-century round-arched styles, both here and in Germany.

 

Interestingly, the only other remaining group of mid-nineteenth century carriage houses in Manhattan, located at Sniff en Court, was also designed in the round-arched style and featured a triumphed arch composition with arched windows and doors flanking a central two-story arch. At 18th Street, the stables are larger and more elaborate in design.

 

In addition to its ties to the round-arched style, the design of the 128 West 18th Street stable is distinguished by its skillful superimposition of recessed and projected planes. The double-height arcade, carried on slender projected piers, is on a forward plane, while the wall membrane with its door and windew openings is recessed. A series of horizontal moldings break forward over the piers to unite the two planes. The moldings at the arches' imposts at the second story form the capitals for two pilaster orders .

 

In addition to their function in this individual design, the repeated use of horizontal elements and the alternation of large and small arches are important elements in creating a strong sense of rhythm and harmony within the row.

 

Description

 

Constructed as a two-story stable in 1864, the building at 128 West 18th Street was raised to three stories in 1905. The structure has a frontage of twenty feet on West 18th Street, and has been extended from its original depth of eighty-one feet to occupy the entire length of its ninety-two-foot-deep lot. Its painted brick and stone facade is designed in a round-arched utilitarian style and incorporates Romanesque and Renaissance details.

 

The facade is organized in a tripartite triumphal arch composition that focuses on a double-width center bay. At the ground story, the bays are articulated by projected piers. Originally, the wide center bay contained a pair of wood carriage doors, the eastern bay an arched window, and the western bay an arched entrance; the arches were ornamented by diamond-pointed keystones and stone bands ran across the facade at the sill, watertable, impost, and cornice lines.

 

Today, most of the stonework has been cut flush with the brickwork and covered with stucco. Aside from this alteration the eastern bay of the ground story remains largely intact. The window opening contains original four-over-four double-hung wood sash and an iron grille in a wood frame.

 

In the center bay cast-iron posts have been inserted in the brick piers and the piers have been narrowed to increase the width of the vehicle entrance. There is a wood garage door , set at about a fifteen degree angle from the plane of the facade and a metal roll-down gate which is attached to the face of the piers.

 

In the west bay, the west side of the recessed arch has been removed to provide additional room for a metal replacement door. Above the door, the original wood and glass transom has been replaced by brick infill and a metal louver. The first story is capped by a brick entablature which appears to be intact beneath the large painted metal sign extending across the width of the facade.

 

On the second story the piers carry an arcade in which the center arch is both wider and taller than the flanking arches. The arches are set-off by stone keystones and stone sills beneath the windows. Stone bards mark the impost line of the arches.

 

A small pilaster bisects the center bay into a pair of arched windows which are topped by a molded wood surround that features a central bull's-eye. The windows in this bay and the west bay retain their original frames . The window opening in the east bay has been lengthened and its sash replaced. The second story is capped by a pair of stringcourses, which were part of the original crowning entablature, and a projecting stone course which forms the sill for the third-story windows.

 

The third story is also faced with brick and has four regularly spaced round-arched windows which are taller and narrower than the windows on the lower stories. A pair of stringcourses spans the facade at impost level and the building is crowned by a brick entablature with a decorative frieze and corbelled cornice. The windows have their original one-over-one double-hung wood sash.

 

Subsequent History

 

In the 1870s and 1880s, the neighborhood to the east of the stables on 18th Street, which had once been exclusively residential, became the heart of New York's chief shopping district as the retail trade expanded along Broadway, Sixth Avenue, and 14th and 23rd Streets.

 

Several of the original owners of the stables on 18th Street responded to the change in the character of the neighborhood by moving uptown or to the suburbs. At least two of the stables were sold to neighboring businesses. Other owners seem to have retained their stables as investments, property values on Sixth Avenue having skyrocketed with the opening of such department stores as B. Altman's at 19th Street and Hugh O'Neill's near 20th Street , and the completion of the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railway in 1878.

 

The Halls retained ownership of the 128 West 18th Street Stable until 1905 when the building was sold to Catherine Foley.20 She commissioned George McCola to add a third story and install a ramp so that horses could be kept on the second floor.

 

When the work was completed in November of 1905, the property was acquired by Linda Stahlberg, later Linda Rau. The building remained a stable until 1918 when it was converted to a storehouse for paper stock and rags. By the late 1930s it had become a service garage. In the 1940s it was leased to the Acme Steel Partition Company as a garage and is currently occupied by the Nagel Roof Company, which also owns the adjacent former stable at 126 West 18th Street.

 

Today, the 128 West 18th Street stable building is a component of one of the two remaining mid-nineteenth century carriage house groups in Manhattan. While the ground story has been altered, the second story is generally well preserved and distinguishes the building as a notable example of the round-arched style as applied to a utilitarian building type.

 

- From the 1990 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report

" Here lyeth buryed John Cosworth of Cosowarth Esq., sometime of London, mercer, and Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall, who died 20th December 1575. He was the second son of Robert Coswarth of Cosowarth in this parish, and married Dorothy daughter of Sir William Lock alderman of London".

John was the son of Robert Cosworth and Maria daughter of John Wolvedon

He was Receiver General jointly with Sir Edward Waldegrave, in 1639 He succeeded to the family estates on the death of his nephew John Coswarth only son of. his elder brother, Nicholas in 1567.

Children - 8 sons and 1 daughter (2 sons and daughter died in their fathers lifetime)

1., Thomas his heir inherited the manor & Receivership m Agnes daughter of Sir John St Aubyn of Clowance by Blanche Whittington, having an only daughter Dorothy who m Thomas Kendall of Treworgie

2. John of Little Colan dsp m Bridget 1639 daughter of Henry Champernowne and relict of Thomas Hele of Fleet

3. Edward 1639 succeeded to Cosowarth m his cousin Dorothy co-heiress of John Arundeli of Trerise 1580 son of John Arundell 1561 by Katherine www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/soeL05 daughter of Nicholas Cosworth

4. Michael rector of Redruth, Duloe and Sampford Courtenay

5. William dsp

 

His 5 surviving sons were willed money to be paid to them aged 25 except for John who had to be 27.

To his wife he left ;£1000, the profits from his tin works in St. Agnes, and the use of '' two chambers over the buttrye in Cosowarthe aforesaide duringe her natural life with free comyog and goynge for herself her famillye and servantes in and to the said chambers." His son Thomas who was residuary legatee and executor was asked to " bestowe one tombstone of the value of £10 to laye over me when I am buryed."

Heraldry (L) chevron between 3 falcons* wings 5 bezants. Crest, a dragon's head couped Cosoward / Cosworth.

(R) Arms of Lock, Per fess {or and azure) a pale and 3 falcons, each holding in the beak a padlock

 

A inauguração do Complexo Viário Governador Roriz, nesta quarta-feira (12), foi um marco histórico para o DF. O conjunto de pontes e viadutos que formam a Ligação Torto-Colorado e o Trevo Triagem Norte homenageia o ex-governador do Distrito Federal, Joaquim Domingos Roriz, conhecido por ser um grande executor de obras. Em todos os discursos e conversas, não houve uma pessoa sequer que deixasse de lembrar o ex-gestor. Na foto Ibaneis Rocha, governador do Distrito Federal e Weslian Roriz. Foto Renato Alves / Agência Brasília

"Greetings to those who look upon these stones. This monument is raised to Thomas Fryer, Doctor of Medicine, the second Aesculapius, most well-de serving father of Henry Fryer Esquire and also to Mary the most devoted wife of Thomas and mother of Henry. The first of these (Thomas) died on 9 May 1623 aged 86. She however on 11 May 1614 aged 57 both yielding up to heaven what was of heaven, returning to earth what was of earth" This monument of memory is raysed by ye executors of Henry Fryer Esquire second sonne of the sayd Thomas Fryer doctor in physique who dyed ye 5 of June 1631 & is here interred leaving his deare wife Bridget to lament his losse & his large almes to ye poore to commend his faith incloistered in these piles of stone the reliques of the Fryer rest whose better part to heaven's gone. The poore man's bowels were his chest and 'mongst these 3, grave, heaven, poore he shared his corps, his sould his store"

 

Dr Thomas Fryer d1623 in doctors robes with wife Mary d1613 and favoured second son Henry dsp1631 a lawyer who died after a fall from his horse, kneel above Henry's widow Bridget. flic.kr/p/9S3E12

Catholics themselves, Thomas bought the manor from the catholic Barnes family

 

Thomas Fryer’s will, dated 9 November 1617, explicitly disinherits his eldest son, John, who had followed in both the family profession and the family religion, in favour of a younger son, Henry, a lawyer: - ‘I do give and bequeath to my eldest son John Frier, Doctor in Physick, the somme of fifty poundes of lawefull money of Englande although I must in confidence … confirme and protest and denounce openly and dolorous to all the worlde manifest thorough his many great impieties to his parents and especially towarde his tender carefull and mercifull mother, and other horrible immoralities and enormities, towarde his second brother Henry and other detestable misdemaynor towarde his sister Susan too horrible and shamefull to repeat, he hath not deserved to have one penny nor to be accounted my son, considering the care I took to bring him up to learning with no smale charge …’

The denunciation occupies almost half of Thomas Fryer’s two-page will. John’s offence is made more specific in a letter from a secretary of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot: =. ‘I can write you no news from Croydon, save only that Dr. Friar since the death of his wife goeth about to disinherit the young doctor his son, at the instigation of a younger son, and a daughter Susan, who both charge him with his Paduan Italian lechery towards themselves. My Lord Archbishop had the hearing of the matter. …"

 

Henry died without issue in 1631 having devised the manor to charitable uses subject to certain bequests, and John Fryer instituted proceedings against his executors. Henry's executors continued to hold the manor in 1634, and in 1635 Henry's widow Bridget obtained her dower, including the manor-house. In 1638 on the king's order John obtained the manor subject to Henry's specific bequests, although disputes over the will continued. By his will proved in 1672 John settled the manor on his nephews John Peacock and Andrew Mathew , sons of his sister Elizabeth Peacock of Petersfield, Andrew Mathew took possession. In pursuance of a decree of the Commissioners for Charitable Uses in 1675, and another of Chancery in 1676, the manor was conveyed to Christ's Hospital in 1677 subject to Henry Fryer's specific bequests and Bridget's dower. The choice of Christ's Hospital was the king's, acting on advice about his powers, and he directed that the endowment should be for his new foundation there for teaching mathematics and navigation. Bridget Fryer leased her dower to Christ's Hospital in 1677 and died in 1684. , After John Fryer’s death the Court of Chancery decreed that the whole of the estates should be vested in the governors of Christ’s Hospital, subject to the payment of specific sums mentioned in Henry Fryer’s will. Fryer’s Charity still exists, its funds now being devoted to educational purposes.

Monument by Maximilian Colt

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fryer_(17th-century_physician)

harltonparishcouncil.org.uk/Pages/Church/Fryer.html

 

harltonparishcouncil.org.uk/Pages/Church/Fryer.html

www.harltonvillage.org.uk/church/the-fryer-monument/ - Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Harlton Cambridgeshire

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The Shipley Art Gallery is an art gallery in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, located at the south end of Prince Consort Road. It has a Designated Collection of national importance.

 

Origins

The Shipley Art Gallery opened to the public in 1917. This was made possible by a bequest from wealthy local solicitor and art collector, Joseph Ainsley Davidson Shipley (1822–1909).

 

Shipley was a rather enigmatic person about whom little is known. He was born in Gateshead, near High Street. He was a solicitor in the Newcastle firm of Hoyle, Shipley and Hoyle. From 1884 until his death, he leased Saltwell Park House, now known as Saltwell Towers. Shipley's main passion was art and collecting paintings. He bought his first painting when he was sixteen and by the time he died he had amassed a collection of some 2,500 paintings.

 

On his death, Shipley left £30,000 and all his pictures to the City of Newcastle, which was to build a new gallery to house the collection. This was to be known as "The Shipley Bequest". Current belief within local history circles is that Shipley’s will expressly banned Newcastle’s art gallery as a recipient of the bequest, but this assertion must be dismissed: since the foundation stone of the Laing Art Gallery was laid only in August 1901 and the gallery opened in October 1904, the institution did not yet exist in 1900, when Shipley’s will was compiled. Shipley’s will did, in fact, declare that ‘the Art Gallery to be erected in Higham Place will not be and shall not be regarded as an Art Gallery within this trust’, owing to its being ‘too small’, but he conceded that if it ‘shall be capable of being enlarged so as to render it capable of holding all, then I direct my Trustees to raise the sum of £30,000 out of my residuary estate and pay the same to the treasurer of the gallery to be applied in or toward such enlargement as aforesaid’. It was only following a lengthy process that Gateshead Municipal Council was offered the collection. As it was impossible to house all of the paintings, 359 of the pictures recommended by the executors of Shipley's will were selected. A further group was then added by the Gateshead Committee, bringing the total to 504.

 

In 1914, after the sale of the remaining paintings, work began on the new art gallery. The building, which was designed by Arthur Stockwell, M.S.A. of Newcastle, opened on 29 November 1917. The stone entrance portico is distyle in antis – four Corinthian-style stone columns flanked by solid pilasters. These are surmounted by two sculptured figures, one representing the Arts and the other Industry and Learning, by W. Birnie Rhind, RSA. of Edinburgh.

 

Pevsner described the art gallery as a "bold arrangement of a brick central block and lower wings containing galleries". The building was designated as Grade II listed in 1982.

 

Present gallery

The original 504 paintings represented all the main European schools from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Since 1917, the collection has been added to, and now comprises some 10,000 items.

 

The gallery holds a strong collection of 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings, as well as 19th century British works, watercolours, prints, drawings and sculpture. Also featured are items of local interest, which include the popular painting by William C. Irving ((1866–1943) of "Blaydon Races" (1903) and a 1970 street scene of Redheugh Crossroads by Gateshead-born Charlie Rogers.

 

Since 1977 the gallery has become established as a national centre for contemporary craftwork. It has built up one of the best collections outside London, which includes ceramics, wood, metal, glass, textiles and furniture. The Shipley is home to the Henry Rothschild collection of studio ceramics. In 2008, the Shipley opened its Designs for Life gallery which showcases the gallery's collections of contemporary craft and design. The Gallery also hosts a varied programme of temporary exhibitions and has a strong partnership with the V&A Museum in London.

 

The Shipley Art Gallery is managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on behalf of Gateshead Council.

 

Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The town shares the Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge and multiple other bridges with Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

Historically part of County Durham, under the Local Government Act 1888 the town was made a county borough, meaning it was administered independently of the county council.

 

In the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 120,046 while the wider borough had 200,214.

 

History

Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as ad caput caprae ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attestations of the name, among them Gatesheued (c. 1190), literally "goat's head" but in the context of a place-name meaning 'headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats'. Although other derivations have been mooted, it is this that is given by the standard authorities.

 

A Brittonic predecessor, named with the element *gabro-, 'goat' (c.f. Welsh gafr), may underlie the name. Gateshead might have been the Roman-British fort of Gabrosentum.

 

Early

There has been a settlement on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne, around the old river crossing where the Swing Bridge now stands, since Roman times.

 

The first recorded mention of Gateshead is in the writings of the Venerable Bede who referred to an Abbot of Gateshead called Utta in 623. In 1068 William the Conqueror defeated the forces of Edgar the Ætheling and Malcolm king of Scotland (Shakespeare's Malcolm) on Gateshead Fell (now Low Fell and Sheriff Hill).

 

During medieval times Gateshead was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham. At this time the area was largely forest with some agricultural land. The forest was the subject of Gateshead's first charter, granted in the 12th century by Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham. An alternative spelling may be "Gatishevede", as seen in a legal record, dated 1430.

 

Industrial revolution

Throughout the Industrial Revolution the population of Gateshead expanded rapidly; between 1801 and 1901 the increase was over 100,000. This expansion resulted in the spread southwards of the town.

 

In 1854, a catastrophic explosion on the quayside destroyed most of Gateshead's medieval heritage, and caused widespread damage on the Newcastle side of the river.

 

Sir Joseph Swan lived at Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead from 1869 to 1883, where his experiments led to the invention of the electric light bulb. The house was the first in the world to be wired for domestic electric light.

 

In the 1889 one of the largest employers (Hawks, Crawshay and Company) closed down and unemployment has since been a burden. Up to the Second World War there were repeated newspaper reports of the unemployed sending deputations to the council to provide work. The depression years of the 1920s and 1930s created even more joblessness and the Team Valley Trading Estate was built in the mid-1930s to alleviate the situation.

 

Regeneration

In the late noughties, Gateshead Council started to regenerate the town, with the long-term aim of making Gateshead a city. The most extensive transformation occurred in the Quayside, with almost all the structures there being constructed or refurbished in this time.

 

In the early 2010s, regeneration refocused on the town centre. The £150 million Trinity Square development opened in May 2013, it incorporates student accommodation, a cinema, health centre and shops. It was nominated for the Carbuncle Cup in September 2014. The cup was however awarded to another development which involved Tesco, Woolwich Central.

 

Governance

In 1835, Gateshead was established as a municipal borough and in 1889 it was made a county borough, independent from Durham County Council.

 

In 1870, the Old Town Hall was built, designed by John Johnstone who also designed the previously built Newcastle Town Hall. The ornamental clock in front of the old town hall was presented to Gateshead in 1892 by the mayor, Walter de Lancey Willson, on the occasion of him being elected for a third time. He was also one of the founders of Walter Willson's, a chain of grocers in the North East and Cumbria. The old town hall also served as a magistrate's court and one of Gateshead's police stations.

 

Current

In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the County Borough of Gateshead was merged with the urban districts of Felling, Whickham, Blaydon and Ryton and part of the rural district of Chester-le-Street to create the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.

 

Geography

The town of Gateshead is in the North East of England in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear, and within the historic boundaries of County Durham. It is located on the southern bank of the River Tyne at a latitude of 54.57° N and a longitude of 1.35° W. Gateshead experiences a temperate climate which is considerably warmer than some other locations at similar latitudes as a result of the warming influence of the Gulf Stream (via the North Atlantic drift). It is located in the rain shadow of the North Pennines and is therefore in one of the driest regions of the United Kingdom.

 

One of the most distinguishing features of Gateshead is its topography. The land rises 230 feet from Gateshead Quays to the town centre and continues rising to a height of 525 feet at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Sheriff Hill. This is in contrast to the flat and low lying Team Valley located on the western edges of town. The high elevations allow for impressive views over the Tyne valley into Newcastle and across Tyneside to Sunderland and the North Sea from lookouts in Windmill Hills and Windy Nook respectively.

 

The Office for National Statistics defines the town as an urban sub-division. The latest (2011) ONS urban sub-division of Gateshead contains the historical County Borough together with areas that the town has absorbed, including Dunston, Felling, Heworth, Pelaw and Bill Quay.

 

Given the proximity of Gateshead to Newcastle, just south of the River Tyne from the city centre, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as being a part of Newcastle. Gateshead Council and Newcastle City Council teamed up in 2000 to create a unified marketing brand name, NewcastleGateshead, to better promote the whole of the Tyneside conurbation.

 

Economy

Gateshead is home to the MetroCentre, the largest shopping mall in the UK until 2008; and the Team Valley Trading Estate, once the largest and still one of the larger purpose-built commercial estates in the UK.

 

Arts

The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art has been established in a converted flour mill. The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, previously The Sage, a Norman Foster-designed venue for music and the performing arts opened on 17 December 2004. Gateshead also hosted the Gateshead Garden Festival in 1990, rejuvenating 200 acres (0.81 km2) of derelict land (now mostly replaced with housing). The Angel of the North, a famous sculpture in nearby Lamesley, is visible from the A1 to the south of Gateshead, as well as from the East Coast Main Line. Other public art include works by Richard Deacon, Colin Rose, Sally Matthews, Andy Goldsworthy, Gordon Young and Michael Winstone.

 

Traditional and former

The earliest recorded coal mining in the Gateshead area is dated to 1344. As trade on the Tyne prospered there were several attempts by the burghers of Newcastle to annex Gateshead. In 1576 a small group of Newcastle merchants acquired the 'Grand Lease' of the manors of Gateshead and Whickham. In the hundred years from 1574 coal shipments from Newcastle increased elevenfold while the population of Gateshead doubled to approximately 5,500. However, the lease and the abundant coal supplies ended in 1680. The pits were shallow as problems of ventilation and flooding defeated attempts to mine coal from the deeper seams.

 

'William Cotesworth (1668-1726) was a prominent merchant based in Gateshead, where he was a leader in coal and international trade. Cotesworth began as the son of a yeoman and apprentice to a tallow - candler. He ended as an esquire, having been mayor, Justice of the Peace and sheriff of Northumberland. He collected tallow from all over England and sold it across the globe. He imported dyes from the Indies, as well as flax, wine, and grain. He sold tea, sugar, chocolate, and tobacco. He operated the largest coal mines in the area, and was a leading salt producer. As the government's principal agent in the North country, he was in contact with leading ministers.

 

William Hawks originally a blacksmith, started business in Gateshead in 1747, working with the iron brought to the Tyne as ballast by the Tyne colliers. Hawks and Co. eventually became one of the biggest iron businesses in the North, producing anchors, chains and so on to meet a growing demand. There was keen contemporary rivalry between 'Hawks' Blacks' and 'Crowley's Crew'. The famous 'Hawks' men' including Ned White, went on to be celebrated in Geordie song and story.

 

In 1831 a locomotive works was established by the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, later part of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. In 1854 the works moved to the Greenesfield site and became the manufacturing headquarters of North Eastern Railway. In 1909, locomotive construction was moved to Darlington and the rest of the works were closed in 1932.

 

Robert Stirling Newall took out a patent on the manufacture of wire ropes in 1840 and in partnership with Messrs. Liddell and Gordon, set up his headquarters at Gateshead. A worldwide industry of wire-drawing resulted. The submarine telegraph cable received its definitive form through Newall's initiative, involving the use of gutta-percha surrounded by strong wires. The first successful Dover–Calais cable on 25 September 1851, was made in Newall's works. In 1853, he invented the brake-drum and cone for laying cable in deep seas. Half of the first Atlantic cable was manufactured in Gateshead. Newall was interested in astronomy, and his giant 25-inch (640 mm) telescope was set up in the garden at Ferndene, his Gateshead residence, in 1871.

 

Architecture

JB Priestley, writing of Gateshead in his 1934 travelogue English Journey, said that "no true civilisation could have produced such a town", adding that it appeared to have been designed "by an enemy of the human race".

 

Victorian

William Wailes the celebrated stained-glass maker, lived at South Dene from 1853 to 1860. In 1860, he designed Saltwell Towers as a fairy-tale palace for himself. It is an imposing Victorian mansion in its own park with a romantic skyline of turrets and battlements. It was originally furnished sumptuously by Gerrard Robinson. Some of the panelling installed by Robinson was later moved to the Shipley Art gallery. Wailes sold Saltwell Towers to the corporation in 1876 for use as a public park, provided he could use the house for the rest of his life. For many years the structure was essentially an empty shell but following a restoration programme it was reopened to the public in 2004.

 

Post millennium

The council sponsored the development of a Gateshead Quays cultural quarter. The development includes the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, erected in 2001, which won the prestigious Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2002.

 

Former brutalism

The brutalist Trinity Centre Car Park, which was designed by Owen Luder, dominated the town centre for many years until its demolition in 2010. A product of attempts to regenerate the area in the 1960s, the car park gained an iconic status due to its appearance in the 1971 film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. An unsuccessful campaign to have the structure listed was backed by Sylvester Stallone, who played the main role in the 2000 remake of the film. The car park was scheduled for demolition in 2009, but this was delayed as a result of a disagreement between Tesco, who re-developed the site, and Gateshead Council. The council had not been given firm assurances that Tesco would build the previously envisioned town centre development which was to include a Tesco mega-store as well as shops, restaurants, cafes, bars, offices and student accommodation. The council effectively used the car park as a bargaining tool to ensure that the company adhered to the original proposals and blocked its demolition until they submitted a suitable planning application. Demolition finally took place in July–August 2010.

 

The Derwent Tower, another well known example of brutalist architecture, was also designed by Owen Luder and stood in the neighbourhood of Dunston. Like the Trinity Car Park it also failed in its bid to become a listed building and was demolished in 2012. Also located in this area are the Grade II listed Dunston Staithes which were built in 1890. Following the award of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of almost £420,000 restoration of the structure is expected to begin in April 2014.

 

Sport

Gateshead International Stadium regularly holds international athletics meetings over the summer months, and is home of the Gateshead Harriers athletics club. It is also host to rugby league fixtures, and the home ground of Gateshead Football Club. Gateshead Thunder Rugby League Football Club played at Gateshead International Stadium until its purchase by Newcastle Rugby Limited and the subsequent rebranding as Newcastle Thunder. Both clubs have had their problems: Gateshead A.F.C. were controversially voted out of the Football League in 1960 in favour of Peterborough United, whilst Gateshead Thunder lost their place in Super League as a result of a takeover (officially termed a merger) by Hull F.C. Both Gateshead clubs continue to ply their trade at lower levels in their respective sports, thanks mainly to the efforts of their supporters. The Gateshead Senators American Football team also use the International Stadium, as well as this it was used in the 2006 Northern Conference champions in the British American Football League.

 

Gateshead Leisure Centre is home to the Gateshead Phoenix Basketball Team. The team currently plays in EBL League Division 4. Home games are usually on a Sunday afternoon during the season, which runs from September to March. The team was formed in 2013 and ended their initial season well placed to progress after defeating local rivals Newcastle Eagles II and promotion chasing Kingston Panthers.

 

In Low Fell there is a cricket club and a rugby club adjacent to each other on Eastwood Gardens. These are Gateshead Fell Cricket Club and Gateshead Rugby Club. Gateshead Rugby Club was formed in 1998 following the merger of Gateshead Fell Rugby Club and North Durham Rugby Club.

 

Transport

Gateshead is served by the following rail transport stations with some being operated by National Rail and some being Tyne & Wear Metro stations: Dunston, Felling, Gateshead Interchange, Gateshead Stadium, Heworth Interchange, MetroCentre and Pelaw.

 

Tyne & Wear Metro stations at Gateshead Interchange and Gateshead Stadium provide direct light-rail access to Newcastle Central, Newcastle Airport , Sunderland, Tynemouth and South Shields Interchange.

 

National Rail services are provided by Northern at Dunston and MetroCentre stations. The East Coast Main Line, which runs from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, cuts directly through the town on its way between Newcastle Central and Chester-le-Street stations. There are presently no stations on this line within Gateshead, as Low Fell, Bensham and Gateshead West stations were closed in 1952, 1954 and 1965 respectively.

 

Road

Several major road links pass through Gateshead, including the A1 which links London to Edinburgh and the A184 which connects the town to Sunderland.

 

Gateshead Interchange is the busiest bus station in Tyne & Wear and was used by 3.9 million bus passengers in 2008.

 

Cycle routes

Various bicycle trails traverse the town; most notably is the recreational Keelmans Way (National Cycle Route 14), which is located on the south bank of the Tyne and takes riders along the entire Gateshead foreshore. Other prominent routes include the East Gateshead Cycleway, which connects to Felling, the West Gateshead Cycleway, which links the town centre to Dunston and the MetroCentre, and routes along both the old and new Durham roads, which take cyclists to Birtley, Wrekenton and the Angel of the North.

 

Religion

Christianity has been present in the town since at least the 7th century, when Bede mentioned a monastery in Gateshead. A church in the town was burned down in 1080 with the Bishop of Durham inside.[citation needed] St Mary's Church was built near to the site of that building, and was the only church in the town until the 1820s. Undoubtedly the oldest building on the Quayside, St Mary's has now re-opened to the public as the town's first heritage centre.

 

Many of the Anglican churches in the town date from the 19th century, when the population of the town grew dramatically and expanded into new areas. The town presently has a number of notable and large churches of many denominations.

 

Judaism

The Bensham district is home to a community of hundreds of Jewish families and used to be known as "Little Jerusalem". Within the community is the Gateshead Yeshiva, founded in 1929, and other Jewish educational institutions with international enrolments. These include two seminaries: Beis Medrash L'Morot and Beis Chaya Rochel seminary, colloquially known together as Gateshead "old" and "new" seminaries.

 

Many yeshivot and kollels also are active. Yeshivat Beer Hatorah, Sunderland Yeshiva, Nesivos Hatorah, Nezer Hatorah and Yeshiva Ketana make up some of the list.

 

Islam

Islam is practised by a large community of people in Gateshead and there are 2 mosques located in the Bensham area (in Ely Street and Villa Place).

 

Twinning

Gateshead is twinned with the town of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in France, and the city of Komatsu in Japan.

 

Notable people

Eliezer Adler – founder of Jewish Community

Marcus Bentley – narrator of Big Brother

Catherine Booth – wife of William Booth, known as the Mother of The Salvation Army

William Booth – founder of the Salvation Army

Mary Bowes – the Unhappy Countess, author and celebrity

Ian Branfoot – footballer and manager (Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton)

Andy Carroll – footballer (Newcastle United, Liverpool and West Ham United)

Frank Clark – footballer and manager (Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest)

David Clelland – Labour politician and MP

Derek Conway – former Conservative politician and MP

Joseph Cowen – Radical politician

Steve Cram – athlete (middle-distance runner)

Emily Davies – educational reformer and feminist, founder of Girton College, Cambridge

Daniel Defoe – writer and government agent

Ruth Dodds – politician, writer and co-founder of the Little Theatre

Jonathan Edwards – athlete (triple jumper) and television presenter

Sammy Johnson – actor (Spender)

George Elliot – industrialist and MP

Paul Gascoigne – footballer (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers and Middlesbrough)

Alex Glasgow – singer/songwriter

Avrohom Gurwicz – rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva

Leib Gurwicz – rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva

Jill Halfpenny – actress (Coronation Street and EastEnders)

Chelsea Halfpenny – actress (Emmerdale)

David Hodgson – footballer and manager (Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Sunderland)

Sharon Hodgson – Labour politician and MP

Norman Hunter – footballer (Leeds United and member of 1966 World Cup-winning England squad)

Don Hutchison – footballer (Liverpool, West Ham United, Everton and Sunderland)

Brian Johnson – AC/DC frontman

Tommy Johnson – footballer (Aston Villa and Celtic)

Riley Jones - actor

Howard Kendall – footballer and manager (Preston North End and Everton)

J. Thomas Looney – Shakespeare scholar

Gary Madine – footballer (Sheffield Wednesday)

Justin McDonald – actor (Distant Shores)

Lawrie McMenemy – football manager (Southampton and Northern Ireland) and pundit

Thomas Mein – professional cyclist (Canyon DHB p/b Soreen)

Robert Stirling Newall – industrialist

Bezalel Rakow – communal rabbi

John William Rayner – flying ace and war hero

James Renforth – oarsman

Mariam Rezaei – musician and artist

Sir Tom Shakespeare - baronet, sociologist and disability rights campaigner

William Shield – Master of the King's Musick

Christina Stead – Australian novelist

John Steel – drummer (The Animals)

Henry Spencer Stephenson – chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II

Steve Stone – footballer (Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Portsmouth)

Chris Swailes – footballer (Ipswich Town)

Sir Joseph Swan – inventor of the incandescent light bulb

Nicholas Trainor – cricketer (Gloucestershire)

Chris Waddle – footballer (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday)

William Wailes – stained glass maker

Taylor Wane – adult entertainer

Robert Spence Watson – public benefactor

Sylvia Waugh – author of The Mennyms series for children

Chris Wilkie – guitarist (Dubstar)

John Wilson - orchestral conductor

Peter Wilson – footballer (Gateshead, captain of Australia)

Thomas Wilson – poet/school founder

Robert Wood – Australian politician

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 17, 2023) U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen give a presentation to Fabien Cousteau, executor and founder of Proteus Ocean Group (POG), and members of his team on their capstone project. The midshipmen are working with Proteus as part of their final capstone project. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)

Julgamento do assassinato dos ativistas José Cláudio e Maria dos Espírito Santo, que foram mortos em março de 2011 em Nova Ipixuna. O resultado do júri, que aconteceu nos dias 03 e 04 de abril, foi a condenação dos executores Alberto Lopes e Lindonjonson Silva, e absolvição de José Rodrigues, acusado de ser o mandante do crime. A ação provocou revolta nos familiares e movimentos agrários que acompanhavam o caso em vigília no Fórum de Marabá (PA).

 

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Robert Wyntryngham 1420 Canon of Lincoln, Prebendary of Liddington, and Provost of the college of priests here from possibly 1349, who resigned in 1398, but was re-appointed in from 1401 until his death .

Round the margin of the stone is a ribbon inscription, having the evangelistic symbols at the corners. is the inscription 'Hic jacet magister Robertus Wyntryngham, nuper Canonicus Ecclĩe Cath. Lincolñ et Prebendarius de Ledyngton ac Prepositus prepositur, sive Cantarie de Cotherstoke qui obiit quinto die julii Anno domini Millo ccccxx cujus amime (sic) ppicietur Deus. Amen.'Between every word one and sometimes two cinquefoils are engraved, and one between each letter of the final Amen, so as to fill up the space

 

He wears a full surplice with wide hanging sleeves and a canon's tippet with long ends; over this is a cope with orfreys and a clasp embroidered with fleurs-de-lis. The hands are joined in prayer; at the wrists are shown not only portions of the sleeves or cuffs of the cassock but also of an inner vest. The figure stands under an arched canopy with crocketed finial and pinnacles; the base of the canopy rests on a bracket supported by a single pillar.

 

(In 14c the chancel was rebuilt, larger and higher than the nave after a privately run religious college was founded in 1337 by former rector John Gifford. It was effectively a large royal chantry, its endowments including the manor and advowson of the church. Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, Blessed Apostles, St. Andrew and All Saints, the college had 12 Chaplains and 2 clerks, Mass being said daily for the king (Edward lll), Queen Phillippa and their children, and for their souls after death, also for John Gifford, his family and other benefactors of the college. John Gifford died in 1359 a victim of the Black Death. The college prospered until the late 15c when it was stripped of its lands and with only 3 priests remaining it was formally dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536).

 

In his will of 8 Aug. 1415 Robert Wintringham asked to be buried in the chancel of Si Andrew's, Cotherstoke, by the South wall juxta laTatorium (next to where the chaplains washed their hands)

He left a bequest for a new pavement for the chancel, and for a roof of lead. Also 200 marcs for masses for my soul, and the souls of my brother William, my father and mother, and all my benefactors,

There were bequests to the high altars of York and Lincoln Cathedrals, Wintringham and Barneby churches, Friars of Stamford, Northampton, Huntingdon, and Grantham and other religious houses. Also to Johan Skamston of Wyntryngham, and her daughter Isabella.Thomas Swyfte chaplain. Robert Wyntryngham jun., son of Thomas Wyntryngham, 10 marcs.

John Wyntryngham chaplain, son of the said Thomas, 15 marcs and all my books of civil and Common law, and if he dies, the same to go to his brother William.

To every other son of my brother Thomas, 5 marcs, and to Alice his daughter, x^^. for her marriage.

John Cator and Agnes his wife.

Dns. Eic. Butvyleyn prior of Peryho, and his brother Simon Butvyleyn.

My godson Robert, son of John Adam. Thomas atte Hall of Leicester. John Paye and Leticia his wife.

John Malyn. Thomas Hougman.

Several bequests to servants.

A Codicil contains a list of goods given to the house of St.

Andrew of Cotherstok.

A second Codicil limits the lands late of John Gourley to Robert Wyntryngham senior and his heirs male, with remainder to his brothers, Robert Wyntryngham junior and William Wyntryngham, and their heirs male.

Tenements in Oundell to be sold for pious uses. Executors: " Roger fflore, John Wyntryngham chaplain, Thomas Bassett, and William Rusteley.

Witnesses: " Richard Rothewell and Henry Deen chaplains, and Rob. ffetmor and Rob. Carter of Cotherstok.

Proved in Lincoln Cathedral, 18 July 1420, - Church of St Andrew, Cotterstock, Northamptonshire

 

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Draft Will of Eliza Maria Burbridge, 56, Royal Road, Ramsgate, Kent, 10 March 1888. Executor and beneficiary John Coules, 56 Royal Road, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer. Witnesses: Edward Wotton, Solicitor, Frederick Hollis Plummer, 31 Royal Road, Ramsgate, Commission Agent

 

Draft Conveyance Josiah Adams of Ramsgate, Clerk to A & K Daniel, Solicitors of Ramsgate, Miss Helen Bear, Minnie, Bear and Henry Bear, Grocer’s Assistant all of 7, Lorne Road, St Lawrence to Thomas Robert Tucker, Smacker Owner, of 26 La Belle Alliance Square, Ramsgate Land at Southwood, Ramsgate dated 26th July 1901.

 

Elizabeth Saxby’s Will of 26th November 1879 her niece Catharine Bear and Josiah Adams as Executors which included her house, Alpha Villa near Southwood and two cottages nearby also land that was formerly a Brickfield. Also held in Trust for her nephew John Bear, who died on 1st February 1881 and the the inheritance passed to his 3 children, Helen, Minnie and Henry Bear. Catherine Bear became the wife of Isaac Fenwick and died 19th January 1891.

 

Draft Will of Eliza Maria Burbridge, 56, Royal Road, Ramsgate, Kent, 10 March 1888. Executor and beneficiary John Coules, 56 Royal Road, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer. Witnesses: Edward Wotton, Solicitor, Frederick Hollis Plummer, 31 Royal Road, Ramsgate, Commission Agent

 

(Brasília - DF, 05/08/2020) Presidente do Senado Federal, Davi Alcolumbre conversa com a imprensa.

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Chief Constable of Hertfordhire 1911 to 1928.

 

ALFRED LETCHWORTH ANNIE LAW

 

Gazette Issue 26047 published on the 2 May 1890

The Prince of Wale's (North Staffordshire Regiment)

Alfred Letchworth Law (Queen's India Cadet),

vice H. S. Prickard, promoted!

 

Gazette Issue 33465 published on the 8 February 1929

ALFRED LETCHWORTH ANNIE LAW,

Deceased.

Pursuant to the Trustee Act, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any debts, claims or demands against the estate of Alfred Letchworth Annie Law, late of " The Dell," Hertingfordbury, near Hertford, in the county of Hertford, a Lieutenant-Colonel in His Majesty's Army (Retired), and Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, deceased,

who died on the 8th November, 1928, and whose will was proved in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of His Majesty's High Court of Justice on the 20th December, 1928, by Edward Desmond Cooper Law, of " The Dell,"

Hertingfordbury, in the county of Hertford, Assistant Brewer, and John Alexander Longmore, of Hertford aforesaid, Solicitor, the executors named in the said will, are hereby required to send in the particulars of their debts, claims or demands to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors for the said executors, on or before the 12th day of

April, 1929, after which date the said executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased among the persons entitled thereto, having regard only to claims and demands of which they shall then have had notice; and they will not

be liable for the assets of the said deceased, so distributed, to any person or persons of whose debts, claims or demands they shall not then have had notice.—Dated this 7th day of February, 1929.

LONGMORES, Hertford, Herts, Solicitors to (085) the said Executors.

 

College is my full time job so I set up my laptop to get the most out of school.

 

Since I didn't want to spend any money on virus protection, I picked up Comodo Firewall and Avast anti-virus.

 

I use Executor Instead of desktop shortcuts. It keeps everything tidy. I almost use keywords exclusively.

 

I use the Vista Sidebar to keep the time and date. I am keen on the weather as well. All the apps or folders I use the most I keep on the app launcher. I also use the Sidebar to keep up on my teams.

 

Stickies are great for little notes, but lately I've been using them to keep my schedule on my desktop. Along with my classes, I keep any important information like office locations and faculty websites. I can keep track of my work load by locking stickies under each class.

 

My laptop is on the underpowered side, so I use Stratup Optimizer to make startup easier on my machine as well as clean up junk or old programs.

 

CCleaner and Glary Utilities cleans up my computer and frees space.

 

I use System Explorer instead of Windows Task Manager. System Explorer can do everything Task Manager can as well as deeper performance information, action history, and more.

 

I don’t use foobar200, or CD Art Display, or any of that junk. I can get by with iTunes. It fulfills all my music needs.

 

You can’t see it, but I am using the NEXTLevel theme for Windows Vista. I have enough distractions on my desktop so I just keep my wallpaper solid black. It helps keep my productive.

 

Once I put everything together, I have a cheap laptop with free programs that accomplish everything a student needs.

 

Church of Simon and St Jude,

Monument to Sir John Pettus †1614 and Bridget Curtis and Sir Augustine Pettus †1613, alabaster. Commissioned by Thomas Pettus, Sir John’s second son, the executor of his will. Unknown, probably Norwich mason, also responsible for the Suckling monuments in St Andrew’s, restored 2007/8.

 

St Simon and St Jude was declared redundant in the 1890s, and abandoned in the 1930s. Now owned by the Norwich Churches Trust it has been saved from its state of collapse in the 1930s, but the inside has been butchered by the addition of the nave mezzanine. This makes it impossible to appreciate the monument to Sir John and his family, on filling the north wall flanking the chancel arch. Mercifully the late George Plunkett took a full set of photographs of the interior in the 1930s, including the monument (www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichsimonjude/plunkett/plunk...).

 

The monument rises from an impressive coloured alabaster base, to the Pettus coat of arms flanked by two obelisks. Sir John in his mayoral robes (he was Mayor in 1608) appears to kneel at a prayer desk opposite his wife, Bridget Curtis, although there is no sign of their legs. Blomefield writing in the 18th century mistook the armorials and identified the kneeling figure as Sir Augustine, who, unlike his father, was never Mayor of Norwich. Most of the literature has followed Blomefield, who was corrected by the Norfolk Heraldry Society (information from Tony Sims). Sir John and Lady Bridget are flanked by pilasters; his decorated with lances, hers with pomegranates and other fruit. Their children, two sons and two daughters kneel underneath, while Sir Augustine, who had died under a year before his father, is repeated lying stiffly in his full armour looking out from the monument, his head propped on his right arm, holding what could be a gauntlet or drinking horn, showing the fingers of a small hand.

Sir John had moved beyond both the family’s relative humble origins as tailors and local politics when in 1604 he had become the first Norwich Member since 1558 to be elected to two consecutive parliaments. He was active as an MP, while continuing his charitable work in Norwich. At the death of his father he had inherited considerable wealth, as well as the family house on Elm Hill, once extending to the churchyard, now nos. 41-43, and the estate at Rackheath, since at death his moveable goods, which included a substantial armoury of nine guns, were valued at £952 19s. 6d and the house on Elm Hill contained 27 rooms, together with stables for eight horses.

Blomefield, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 4: The History of the City and County of Norwich, part II, ‘chapter 42: East Wimer ward', (1806), pp. 329-367; Chris Kyle, ‘Sir John Pettus’ in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, , ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010.

 

A sculpture sits in the middle of the Zeil pedestrian streetin Frankfurt, Germany. The poster doesn't know the title, artist or subject matter of this sculpture... Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 400 with a Nikkor 35-135mm ƒ 3.5-4.5 AF lens. (at 35)

 

The scupture had a "addition" when this was shot, a Featered Rat on the figure's head...

 

If an artistic executor of the sculptor, or the sculptor him/her self, has any copyright objections to this photo, Flickr-mail the poster stating that you are such an executor, state the objection(s), and it will be taken down...

 

While you are contacting the poster anyway, please tell him the name of the sculptor and piece.

  

Maple Lawn Cruise Night, Fulton, MD, June 16, 2021.

1857 Will of Crozier Eaton, Part I, from the Pulaski County, Virginia Will Book I & II, Pages 445-448. Obtained from The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA. Transcribed by Christopher Walker, August 18, 2016©.

 

This is an important pre-Civil War document that is unique because it contains the first and last names of four slaves: JOHN BLACK, CHARLOTTE BLACK [Charlotte Black Walker (1836-abt. 1895)], LUCINDA ANN BLACK [Lucinda Ann Walker Austin (1855-1890)], and CRAIG BLACK [Craig Black (1830-Unknown)]. This will is also unique in that it gives the following instructions to the executors of Crozier Eaton's estate: "the balance of my slaves I want appraised and sold to my Executors at private sale, to such persons as they, the slaves may respectively select provided the selected person will give the amount of the appeasement, and provided further that no mother and her child are to be separated."

 

Charlotte Black Walker was my great, great grandmother and Lucinda Ann Walker Austin was her daughter.

 

The Crozier Eaton House, now known as the John Hoge House, located in Belspring, Pulaski County, Virginia was added in 1988 to the National Register of Historic Places.

  

Page 445

 

I Crozier Eaton of the County of Pulaski and State of Virginia being of sound mind but weak in body from a disease from which I have but very little hope of ever recovering, have thought it best to make some disposition of the earthly goods which the Lord in his good providence has blest me with. I therefore make ordain and declare this instrument of writing to be my last Will and Testament.

 

First—I direct that all my just debts which are but few in number and none of magnitude be paid off by my Executors. Secondly. I give to my wife Kesiah [sic] Eaton who has always been good and kind to me, one Negro Man named John Black, and one Negro woman named Charlotte Black and her child named Lucinda Ann, two head of Horses called Ned and Bolly, two Beds & Bedsteds [sic] with full furniture, one Set Chairs One Cupboard and Cupboard sense and one Cooking Stove with its fixtures, also five hundred dollars in money, all of which is to be bonafidely [sic] hers without reserve or limitation.

 

Thirdly. I give to my aged Father Two hundred dollars in money not that he is likely to need it, but is a token of my love and affection for him.

Fourthly—I give to my brothers Joseph Eaton, David Eaton, Edward Eaton, and my sister Elizabeth Williams and my sister in law Juliet Eaton, my tract of land lying...

 

Page 446

...on Proerty [sic] in the County of Montgomery containing about fifteen hundred acres, the land was deeded to me by Lorenzo D. Kirk, and the title is somewhat doubtful, they are therefore to take all my right to it, and hold it if they can, but should they loose [sic] it, they are to have nothing from my Estate in lieu of it, nor are they to have any recourse on Kirk or his heirs for it.

 

Fifthly. In this fore part of this will I have given to my wife these slaves, John Black, Charlotte Black & her child Lucinda Ann, the balance of my slaves I want appraised and sold to my Executors at private sale, to such persons as they, the slaves may respectively select provided the selected person will give the amount of the appeasement, and provided further that no mother and her child are to be separated. In making sale of these slaves my Executors are to give a credit of Twelve months, the purchasers giving bond with good security.

 

Sixthly. I direct that my tract of land lying in the County of Pulaski and well known as the Rubush [sic] place be sold at public auction on a credit of say Six Twelve and Eighteen months, and I own the half of a hundred acre tract of land in Giles County which lies on the North side of Walkers Big Mountain, this I want sold also on a like credit, but in each case the purchaser is to give bond with good personal security and the title retained until the purchase money is fully paid. I further direct that all my goods and chattels, stock and farming utensils not specifically devised, be sold according to law, together with two shares of stock in the Giles and Pulaski Turnpike Company, also half of my wheat and Bacon, these being much more than my wife will need, the other half must be left for the use of the family.

 

Seventhly. I give to my brother Edward Eaton the tract of land on which I now live, lying and being in the County of Pulaski on Neck Creek, containing about Two hundred and fifty Acres, for which he is to pay Thirty Six hundred Dollars at the end of five years from the time of my decease or at the death of my wife, just as the one or the other times may suit him best, four hundred Dollars of which is to be paid to the children of my deceased sister Nancy Scott taken collectively their names are not now recollected, four hundred dollars to the children of my deceased brother Richard Eaton, taken collectively, William F. Eaton only excepted, he is to have no part [illegible] Four hundred Dollars to Joseph Eaton, Four hundred Dollars to John Eaton, Four hundred Dollars to Richard...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography provides

 

"Cassel, Sir Ernest Joseph (1852–1921), merchant banker and financier, was born on 3 March 1852 in Cologne, Germany, the youngest of the three children of Jacob Cassel (1802–1875) and Amalia, née Rosenheim (d. 1874). Jacob Cassel had a small banking business, founded by his father, Moses Cassel, which provided a modest but comfortable income. Since at least the late seventeenth century the Cassels had been active in financial affairs in the Rhineland; several of them were advisers or agents for the prince electors. Ernest had a brother, Max Cassel, born in 1848, who died in 1875, and a sister, Wilhelmina Cassel (later Schoenbrunn), to whom he remained close and who managed his household in England in later years. In later life Cassel gave entirely conflicting accounts of the atmosphere of his early home life and the truth is difficult to establish.

 

Ernest was educated in Cologne until the age of fourteen, when he started work with the banking firm of Eltzbacher. In 1869 he emigrated to Liverpool, where he is said to have arrived with a bag of clothes and a violin, and no evident promise of a job. He soon started work with a firm of German grain-merchants in Liverpool, but a little over a year later he moved to a clerkship with the Anglo-Egyptian Bank in Paris. The outbreak shortly afterwards of the Franco-Prussian War forced him, as a German subject, to return to England, this time to a clerkship at the London merchant bank, Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, where he was closely associated with Henri Bischoffsheim. This move was probably facilitated by an introduction from the powerful but mysterious European financier Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Cassel was linked with the independent and enterprising businessman until the latter's death in 1896, and he may have modelled his career on Hirsch's.

Early career and marriage

Within a year Cassel, aged only nineteen, had demonstrated his flair by rapidly saving the affairs of a Jewish firm in Constantinople in which Bischoffsheims had an interest. In 1874 he was appointed manager, at an unusually early age, at a salary said to have been £5000 a year, following a series of further highly successful negotiations, especially in connection with South American loans. In addition to his salary he obtained substantial commission from the rescue or liquidation of troublesome ventures on Bischoffsheims' behalf. Such activities gained for him international contacts through whom he became profitably involved on his own account in American and other overseas enterprises. When his father died in 1875, leaving Ernest a half share with his sister of RM 91,286 (£4500), Cassel could afford to settle more than his own half (£3000) upon his sister, who was now divorced, and her two children. When he married in 1878 he was able to put aside capital of £150,000.

 

In 1878 Cassel married Annette (d. 1881), daughter of Robert Thompson Maxwell, of Croft House, Croft, Darlington, and on the day of his marriage he became a naturalized British subject. His wife died of tuberculosis three years later, to his great grief. They had one daughter, Maud. Mrs Cassel had been converted to Roman Catholicism and by her wish Cassel, never devoutly Jewish, was received into the Roman Catholic church shortly after her death. His devotion to his new religion was never very evident, nor was his conversion widely known until, at his appointment to the privy council in 1902 he chose, to general surprise, to be sworn in on the Catholic Bible. He never remarried and is not known to have had any intimate relationships for the remainder of his life. He was known as a warm and sociable man, devoted to his daughter and to what remained of his family, and he sustained a number of close and lasting friendships. Margot Asquith described him as ‘a man of natural authority … dignified, autocratic and wise; with a power of loving those he cared for’. She added that ‘he had no small talk and disliked gossip’ (Adler, 328). Others who knew him less well described him as kind but cold. He was a very private man who left no intimate record of his life or feelings and destroyed most of his personal papers. After his wife's death his sister and her children, Anna (later Anna Jenkins) and Felix (later knighted, and a prominent barrister and Conservative assistant attorney-general) moved to live with him, and they adopted the name Cassel. First Wilhelmina and then Anna acted as his official hostesses.

Expansion of financial affairs

Thereafter Cassel's main preoccupations, other than his family, were with international finance and entry into high society. He increased his fortune vastly and rapidly through investment in the mining, transportation, and processing of Swedish iron ore (he was responsible for introducing the Gilchrist–Thomas processing technique into Sweden) and in the rapidly expanding American railways. In the early 1880s his association with Bischoffsheims was on a profit-sharing rather than a salaried basis, but he never formally became a partner. In 1884 he left the firm, though he continued to occupy part of their offices until 1898 while working on his own account. He did not join another finance house until 1910, preferring to work independently or to associate in consortia with other financiers for specific projects.

 

International finance in the fast-growing international economy of the late nineteenth century was risky, requiring a cool head, good contacts, and a shrewd capacity to keep on good terms with powerful people in many countries. At this Cassel was adept. He was known for the sharpness of his dealing and he aroused considerable suspicion, antagonism, and jealousy, though no proof of actual dishonesty was ever disclosed. His great wealth endowed him with a useful capacity for flexibility in his dealings when necessary. In Sweden, for example, he countered the hostility of influential men to the degree of economic power he wielded by allowing Swedish representatives to dominate the board of his company (the Grangesborg-Oxelsund Traffic Company Ltd) and by selling many of its fast-rising shares to Swedish bankers, politicians, and journalists at below the market price, though still at considerable profit. His enemies referred to these tactics as ‘Cassel's greasing system’ (Grunwald, 131). He played an important role in the economic development of Sweden.

 

At least as important in determining Cassel's great success as any dubious dealing in Sweden and elsewhere was his immense, unremitting capacity for hard work. He was constantly in touch with a multitude of simultaneous transactions, delegating effectively yet never losing control, always available for the key meeting or decision, yet rarely working from his office, constantly travelling among business locations or entertaining contacts. He never neglected to keep in contact with the world of influence wherever it was to be found, whether at the card table, the dinner table, or at Cowes. Also important was his capacity to choose shrewd people to assist him with his affairs or to run specific projects. From 1902 he employed the influential Reginald Brett, Viscount Esher, who was succeeded in 1904 by Sir Sidney Peel. He appointed the talented former public servant Sir Henry Babington-Smith to head the National Bank of Turkey in 1909. They remained close friends and associates and Babington-Smith was an executor of Cassel's will. But the essential ingredients of Cassel's success were his own keen observation and judgement of international and financial affairs, which drew on information from his huge range of contacts worldwide.

 

From his earliest days with Bischoffsheims, Cassel had been profitably involved with American enterprises, notably the disentanglement of the affairs of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Railway. In the course of such activities he had become a close and lasting friend of Jacob H. Schiff of the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., through whom he became profitably interested on his own account in other American enterprises. One of his first operations after becoming independent of Bischoffsheims was the reorganization of the Louisville and Nashville Railway, which he carried through in conjunction with Kuhn, Loeb and with Wertheim and Gompertz of Amsterdam.

 

From the late 1880s Cassel's interests expanded into South America. He arranged the finances of the Mexican Central Railway for some time and in 1893 he issued the Mexican government's 6 per cent loan. In 1896 he issued the Uruguay government's 5 per cent loan. To a lesser extent he was also active in China, still concentrating on transport and mining, and also in 1895 issuing a 6 per cent government loan. Between 1890 and 1910 he was also involved in arranging loans for Japan, Egypt, Turkey, and Russia. He took relatively little interest in domestic investment, though he did play a part in financing the building of the London underground from 1894, through participation in the Electric Traction Company. However, this did not prove to be a profitable investment. From 1897 Cassel began a long and more rewarding association with Vickers, Sons & Co., the shipbuilding and armaments firm. He organized their purchase of the Barrow Naval and Shipbuilding Construction Company and of the Maxim Gun and Nordenfelt companies. For some years he underwrote the financial issues for Vickers and its subsidiaries.

 

Cassel was an early investor in gold and diamond mining in South Africa, and this was an important source of his increasing fortune in the 1890s and 1900s. In 1897 he agreed to finance the Aswan Dam and Asyut barrage on the upper Nile, another successful intervention in an underdeveloped economy. He later moved, also profitably, into financing the development of sugar production and marketing (through the Daira Sanieh Company) and also of railways in Egypt. In 1898 he established the National Bank of Egypt and the Agricultural Bank of Egypt, which played an especially important role in financing agricultural development. So also did the Société Anonyme de Wadi Kom Ombo, which he played a leading role in establishing for the purpose of irrigating the great desert plain from the Nile to Gebel es Silsila. A similar attempt to stimulate the economic development of Morocco by establishing the State Bank of Morocco, which Cassel reluctantly undertook in 1906 at the urging of the British and French governments, was less successful. The National Bank of Turkey, which he established in association with other London bankers at the urging of the Turkish government in 1909 with the aim of expanding British commercial and financial involvement in Turkey (in particular for the development of mineral resources), was also unsuccessful. It proved impossible to defeat the strength of French financial and commercial interests in Turkey.

 

Characteristically Cassel calmed the potential for opposition in Egypt by winning the friendship of the khedive of Egypt. He arranged for him to meet Cassel's other good friend, King Edward VII, in 1903 and in 1904, and he made him a loan of £500,000 at the low rate of 2.5 per cent, in return for commercial and land concessions. This infuriated the consul-general, Lord Cromer, who had encouraged Cassel's initial ventures in Egypt as a means of increasing British influence, but who had the thankless task of attempting to curb the khedive's expenditure. In 1903 Cassel also donated £341,000 to equip and operate travelling eye hospitals in Egypt. This may have been motivated by a desire to mollify opposition. His motives were probably mixed, as he also gave generously to philanthropic causes in Britain. Whatever the motive, the outcome was a major contribution to combating the ravages of eye diseases such as trachoma in poverty-stricken rural Egypt.

 

Cassel was suspected of demanding honours in return for services to governments and this was a persistent theme in London society gossip of the time. There is certainly an interesting congruence between his progress through the honours lists of the world and his financial services. He became KCMG in 1899, following his major Egyptian deals, and was sworn of the privy council in 1902, after the accession of Edward VII. He had been the friend and companion of the prince of Wales at racing and cards, and as Edward's financial adviser (in succession to Hirsch) he was reputed to be responsible for the surprising fact that Edward ascended the throne free from debt. He became a commander of the Légion d'honneur and received the British GCVO in 1906, following the establishment of the State Bank of Morocco. He was made GCB in 1909, following his agreement to a Foreign Office request to put a further £500,000 into the ailing Bank of Morocco. His collection of decorations, of which he was immensely proud, came to include: commander, first class, of the royal order of Vasa, Sweden (1900); the grand cordon of the Imperial Ottoman order of the Osmanieh, conferred by the khedive in 1903; the crown of Prussia, first class (1908); the grand cross of the Polar Star, Sweden (1909); the order of the Rising Sun, first class, Japan (1911); and the Red Eagle of Prussia, first class, with brilliants (1913).

High society, politics, and philanthropy

Cassel penetrated the élite with the same determination and with some of the same methods by which he achieved business success. From the time of his marriage he cultivated, at a succession of rented and, later, personally owned country houses, the social and political élites—on the hunting field, with the shooting party, at the racecourse, and at the card table. By the 1890s he was an accepted house-guest of the Devonshires at Chatsworth. He took up hunting despite a certain dislike of horses and his incompetence at riding them. He started to own and breed racehorses in 1889, and continued until 1894 in company with Lord Willoughby de Broke, and thereafter alone. Among the chief stallions owned by him were Cylgad and Hapsburg; among his mares were Gadfly, Sonatura, and Doctrine. He had some successes on the course, though the nearest he came to winning the Derby was to come second with Hapsburg in 1914. It took him thirteen years to achieve election to the Jockey Club, in 1908. The patronage of Edward VII enabled his entry to circles otherwise closed to a largely self-made German Jew, but it could not win him entire acceptance.

 

Some prominent politicians were more welcoming to Cassel. Both Randolph and Winston Churchill were his good friends, as were the Asquiths. Cassel's own politics appear to have been Conservative, but he was never active in the political world. Like other prominent financiers his advice was sought on financial matters by politicians of both parties and by civil servants. He was described in 1903 by Sir Edward Hamilton, joint permanent secretary at the Treasury, as ‘one of the representative men—Natty Rothschild, John (Lord) Revelstoke (the head of Barings) and Cassel, whom I now regard as my first counsellors’ (Hamilton diaries, BL, Add. MS 48658, 16 Nov 1903). Cassel was consulted by Sir Michael Hicks Beach and by Asquith when they were chancellors of the exchequer. Lloyd George dined with him while he held the office but was more reserved. A certain aloofness towards party politics was one of the keys to Cassel's business success; in 1909, at the height of the budget crisis, when the City was organizing against Lloyd George's proposed taxes, Cassel wrote to his son-in-law, Wilfred Ashley, stressing his ‘absolute loyalty to whatever government I happen to be serving, and if whoever happened to be in power could not be certain of this he would not give me, and I certainly would not wish, his confidence’ (Cassel to Ashley, 18 Aug 1909, Broadlands Archive, Cassel MS, folder X6). He did not sign the City's anti-budget petition, though he did cautiously arrange to shift funds to the United States to avoid the new taxes. He was an early, though anonymous, contributor to the Tariff Reform League. Also in the 1900s he opposed the City's Jewish-led boycott of Russian finance in retaliation for the persecution of the Jews. He argued that negotiation and alliance with Russia were more likely to mute their antisemitism than was a boycott.

 

Especially in his earlier years Cassel mixed widely in theatrical and artistic circles. Alma-Tadema and Burne-Jones were both grateful for his friendship and patronage. He amassed an impressive collection of old masters, including important works by Van Dyck, Franz Hals, Romney, Raeburn, Reynolds, and Murillo, and he acquired French and English furniture, Renaissance bronzes, Dresden china, Chinese jade, and old English silver. He gave away at least £2 million in charitable donations, including £200,000 in 1902 for the founding of the King Edward VII Sanatorium for Consumption at Fenhurst, near Midhurst, with a further £20,000 in 1913; £10,000 in 1907 to the Imperial College of Science and Technology; in 1909 a half share of £46,000 with Lord Iveagh for founding the Radium Institute; £210,000 in 1911 for setting up the King Edward VII British–German Foundation for the aid of distressed people in Germany; £30,000 for distressed workers in Swedish mines; £50,000 to Hampshire hospitals in memory of his daughter; in 1913 £10,000 to Egyptian hospitals; and £50,000 for the sick and needy of Cologne.

 

Despite his formal conversion to Roman Catholicism, Cassel still regarded himself as Jewish and devoted a considerable amount of money and effort to the international attempts of wealthy Jews to acquire a national home for Jews fleeing from Russia, a movement in which Hirsch had been prominent. During the First World War, Cassel gave at least £400,000 for medical services and the relief of servicemen's families. In 1919 he donated £500,000 for an educational trust fund which was used to establish a faculty of commerce at the London School of Economics, to support the Workers' Educational Association, to finance scholarships for the technical and commercial education of working men, to promote the study of foreign languages by the establishment of professorships, lectureships, and scholarships, and finally to support the higher education of women. He gave £212,000 for the founding of a hospital at Penhurst, Kent, for functional nervous disorders.

Personal grief, winding down, and death

In 1910–11 Cassel came to a turning point in his life, for a mixture of personal and political reasons. He felt great personal grief at the death of Edward VII, as well as losing much of his social and political influence, to the undisguised and often openly antisemitic glee of certain members of high society. The friendship between Edward and ‘Windsor-Cassel’ was close and strong. The two had met at the racecourse about 1896, possibly introduced by Hirsch, and were friends thereafter. They even looked somewhat alike: substantially built, bearded, and moustached in similar style.

 

Equally tragically, in 1911 his only daughter died after a long battle with tuberculosis. Cassel devoted much care to her in her last year. In 1901 she had married Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred Ashley, grandson of the great earl of Shaftesbury and great-grandson of Lady Palmerston, through whom he had inherited Broadlands House in Hampshire. Ashley had been Conservative MP for Blackpool since 1906; he served as minister of transport in 1924–9, and was created Baron Mount Temple of Lee in 1932. He was on friendly terms with Cassel, who provided him with financial advice. After his daughter's death Cassel's affection centred upon his two granddaughters, especially the elder, Edwina.

 

Having decided to reduce the volume of his activity, in 1910 Cassel became a partner in the merchant bank of S. Japhet & Co., but he kept up independent interests and an office close to his sumptuous new home, Brook House in Park Lane. He had previously lived at 48 Grosvenor Square. Brook House had six marble-lined kitchens; an oak-panelled dining room, designed to seat one hundred in comfort; and the entrance hall was panelled in lapis lazuli alternating with green-veined cream-coloured marble and was described as the ‘giant's lavatory’ by Edwina's friends. Until his death Cassel lived there much of the time. He also had a flat in Paris, a Swiss villa (Villa Cassel, at Riederfurk, in the canton of Valais), another villa in the south of France, a stud farm at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, bought in 1899, and three country houses bought between 1912 and 1917. These were the Six Mile Bottom estate, Cambridgeshire, purchased in 1912; Branksome Dene, Bournemouth, bought in 1913; and Upper Hare Park, Cambridgeshire, which he acquired in 1917.

 

The more general curtailment of Cassel's activities may have been due to anticipation of that great disrupter of international finance, a major war. Certainly his personal investments were safely concentrated in North America by 1914. He was strongly aware of the danger of war with Germany as early as 1908. Between 1908 and 1912 he and the German shipowner Alfred Ballin made secret efforts to bring together German and British political leaders to try to avert conflict. When war came he made one of the largest contributions to the war loan and was a member of the Anglo-French financial mission to the USA in 1915, which resulted in a large American loan. Such activities did not prevent Cassel from suffering constant attack in Britain for his German birth, including an unsuccessful attempt to remove him from the privy council.

 

Thereafter Cassel confined his attention to a limited amount of American business and to racing and shooting parties with old friends, and he was cared for by Edwina. He died on 21 September 1921, sitting at his desk at Brook House, and was buried at Kensal Green cemetery, London, according to Roman Catholic rites. Shortly afterwards Edwina married Lord Louis Mountbatten (Earl Mountbatten of Burma), bringing Broadlands House, which she inherited, into the Mountbatten family. Cassel left an estate worth £7,333,411 gross (with a probate value of £6 million), most of it to his immediate family. He left small items from his art, china, and jade collections to a list of old and valued friends who included the Asquiths, Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill, Lord Birkenhead, Mrs Keppel, Lord Revelstoke, Lord and Lady Reading, and the marchioness of Winchester, as well as some banking friends."

  

Kensal Green Cemetery, London

Church of St Mary, Stamford - Underneath the arch between the north chapel and chancel, tomb of Sir David Phillip / Phelip 1450- 1506 and wife Anne Seymark 1533-1510 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/VG480o ++

This was the site of a chantry set up after his death, licenced in November 1506 to David Cecille one of his executors "to fund a chantry of 2 chaplins or 1 chaplin perpetual for the good estate of the King while he lives and for his soul afterwards and for the soul of Elizabeth his late consort and the soul of the said David and of his father and mother and Anne his wife (when she dies) and all faithful with licence for the said chaplin to acquire in mortmoin lands to the value of 9l a year".

Anne was the co-heiress daughter of Thomas Seymark / Semark of Thornhaugh by Alice daughter of William Lexham

and Margaret Oldhall. She was the ward of Sir Richard Sapcote of Elton Hunts and later firstly married to his 2nd son William Sapcote having a son Guy Sapcote m Margaret daughter of Guy Wolston

Sir David & Anne m c1485 but had no children,

.Coming from a lowly welsh family Sir David served Henry Tudor (late Henry Vll) in France and fought at the Battle of Bosworth. He became a squire to the body and gentleman usher at court and steward to the kings mother Margaret Beaufort at Colley Weston palace near Stamford living nearby at Thornhaugh, He also held the office of Keeper of the Kings Swans in the waters of Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire and was also keeper of the royal forest of Kings Cliffe which bounded his estates and Windsor Park. .In 1499 he was sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham and a benefactor to the church of Holme in Hunts where there was a window inscription "Of your chartie pray for Sir Davy Phelip and my lady his wife, and for all benefactors of this windowe".

His nephew by marriage Richard Cecil www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/n6C9NX , father of William Cecil, Lord Burghley joined him having married advantageously Alice daughter of John Dicons alderman of Stamford by Margaret Seymark sister of his wife Anne Seymark ++

On the monument is the Dragon of Wales together with crowned Tudor Roses, and the Portcullis emblem of the Beauforts

The Semarks were out of favour after Bosworth and Annes marriage to David Phelip favoured by the Tudors and Ann's inheritance of the Cheyne fortune resulted into a family of position within the Court of Henry VIII.

www.cb5.co.uk/davidphelip.htm

Portrait of a Gentleman

 

West Building, Main Floor—Gallery 59

 

•Date: c. 1770-1773

•Medium: Oil on Canvas

•Dimensions:

oOverall: 128 × 102 cm (50⅜ × 40 3/16 in.)

•Credit Line: Andrew W. Mellon Collection

•Accession Number: 1940.1.11

•Artists/Makers:

oPainter: Joseph Wright, British, 1734-1797

 

Provenance

 

William Curzon [1836-1916], Lockington Hall, Derbyshire; purchased 1916, at the dispersal of the Curzon estate, by Mrs. Claire Marion Cox, London, as Richard, Earl Howe, by John Singleton Copley; consigned 1932 by Mrs. Cox to (The Hackett Galleries, New York); returned to Mrs. Cox and later consigned to (Mrs. Chambers Wood, New York), who sold it 1932 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[1] purchased May 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1940 to NGA.

 

[1]Knoedler’s records give the early provenance (letter from Elizabeth Clare to NGA curator William Campbell, 5 November 1963, in NGA curatorial files). Clare quotes a letter from Mrs. Cox to Mrs. Wood, undated but presumably 1932, in which Mrs. Cox states that the 1916 dispersal “was a hurried executors’ sale and few persons attended it.”

 

Associated Names

 

•Cox, Claire Marion, Mrs.

•Curzon, William

•Hackett Galleries, The

•Knoedler & Company, M.

•Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.

•Wood, Chambers, Mrs.

 

Exhibition History

 

•1932—Inaugural exhibition, Museum of the City of New York, 1932, no catalogue, as by Copley.

•1933—The Opening Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1933, no. 1, as by Copley.

 

Technical Summary

 

The medium-to-heavyweight canvas is twill woven; it has been lined. The ground is off-white, thinly applied. The painting is mostly executed in thin, opaque layers; the costume is rendered in thicker paint applied in small strokes, the furry texture of the lapels being created by means of a stiff white paint covered with a transparent blue glaze; there is a low impasto in the leaves and highlights. The background is extensively abraded, but otherwise there is minimal paint loss. The moderately thick natural resin varnish has discolored yellow to a moderate degree.

 

Bibliography

 

•1941—Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 43, no. 497, as Richard, Earl Howe by John Singleton Copley.

•1942—Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 249, repro. 7, as Richard, Earl Howe by John Singleton Copley.

•1949—Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 130, repro., as Richard, Earl Howe, by John Singleton Copley.

•1965—Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 140, as Richard, Earl Howe.

•1968—European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 127, repro., as Richard, Earl Howe.

•1968—Nicolson, Benedict. Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light. 2 vols. London, 1968: 1:36, 207; 2:pl. 90.

•1970—American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 166, repro., as Richard, Earl Howe (?).

•1975—European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 376, repro., as Richard, Earl Howe (?).

•1975—Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 530, color repro.

•1980—American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as Richard, Earl Howe (?).

•1985—European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 439, repro., as Richard, Earl Howe (?).

•1992—Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 342-344, repro. 343.

  

From British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries:

 

1940.1.11 (497)

 

Portrait of a Gentleman

 

•c.1770-1773

•Oil on canvas, 128 × 102 (50⅜ × 40⅛)

•Andrew W. Mellon Collection

 

Technical Notes

 

The medium-to-heavyweight canvas is twill woven; it has been lined. The ground is off-white, thinly applied. The painting is mostly executed in thin, opaque layers; the costume is rendered in thicker paint applied in small strokes, the furry texture of the lapels being created by means of a stiff white paint covered with a transparent blue glaze; there is a low impasto in the leaves and highlights. The background is extensively abraded, but otherwise there is minimal paint loss. The moderately thick natural resin varnish has discolored yellow to a moderate degree.

 

Provenance

 

William Curzon [1836-1916], Lockington Hall, Derbyshire. Purchased 1916, at the dispersal of the Curzon estate, by Mrs. Claire Marion Cox, London, as Richard, Earl Howe, by John Singleton Copley; consigned by Mrs. Cox 1932 to (Hackett Galleries), New York; returned to Mrs. Cox and later consigned to (Mrs. Chambers Wood), New York, who sold it 1932 to (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York,1 from whom it was purchased May 1936 by The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh.

 

Exhibitions

 

Inaugural exhibition, Museum of the City of New York, 1932, no cat., as by Copley. The Opening Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1933, no. 1, as by Copley.

 

The traditional identification of the sitter as Admiral Earl Howe (1726-1799), plausible solely on account of a Curzon provenance,2 is now discounted.3 The sitter is not portrayed in naval uniform, and, unlike Howe, he has a cleft chin. He is elegantly dressed, with a felt hat and a waistcoat lined with pale blue velvet.

 

The traditional attribution to Copley (whose style in the 17608 had affinities with that of Wright) was first corrected in 1965 by Charles Buckley, with the support of Benedict Nicolson.4 The use of an unconventional pose, the delight in materials—notably the furry lapels and the soft leather gloves—the contrived lighting, and the rocky background with trailing vines are all characteristic of Wright’s style. Nicolson described the portrait as a typical work of the early 17705, the period immediately preceding the artist’s Italian years (1773-1775).5 The doublebreasted waistcoat with large pointed lapels worn by the sitter was characteristic of fashion in the 1760s.

 

A version, rather inferior in quality and differing slightly in the arrangement of the background but identical in pose, costume, and lighting, was formerly owned by Captain R. T. Hinckes, of Foxley, Herefordshire. This portrait was then attributed to Zoffany and identified as representing the Marquis de Rinneau, sometime French ambassador in London.6

 

Notes

 

1.Knoedler’s records give the early provenance (Elizabeth Clare to William P. Campbell, 5 November 1963, in NGA curatorial files). Clare quotes a letter from Mrs. Cox to Mrs. Wood, undated but presumably 1932, in which she states that the 1916 dispersal “was a hurried executors’ sale and few persons attended it.”

2.Lord Howe’s eldest daughter, who became Baroness Howe after her father’s death (there were no sons), married in 1787 the Hon. Penn Assheton Curzon. Their son, Richard, who succeeded his paternal grandfather as Viscount Curzon of Penn, took the name of Howe after that of Curzon and in 1821 became the ist Earl Howe of the second creation. The portrait was said to have come from the collection of Baroness Howe, but this cannot be verified.

3.Nicolson 1968; 1 : 207.

4.William P. Campbell, memorandum, 14 June 1965, noting Buckley’s verbal opinions, in NGA curatorial files. The portrait was catalogued as Wright by Campbell in NGA 1970, 166, and by Wilmerding in NGA 1980,307.

5.Nicolson 1968 (see biography), i: 207; compare, for example, the portrait of Sir George Cooke in Kansas City of about 1770-1771 (Nicolson 1968, 2: pl. 86).

6.Hinckes sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 16 April 1937, no. 132, bought in. The evidence for this identification is unknown. No other portraits of anyone named Rinneau seem to be extant, so that the identification cannot be substantiated visually. Moreover, no one bearing the name of Rinneau, or a name remotely similar to it, is listed as ambassador, minister, or chargé d’affaires in London at any time in the eighteenth century (the official list was kindly communicated to me by Anne Lewis-Loubignac, French Embassy, London).

 

References

 

•1968—Nicolson 1968, 1: 36,207;2: pi. 90.

•1970—NGA 1970:166, repro. 167.

•1976—Walker 1976: no. 530, color repro.

•1980—NGA 1980: 307.

Draft Title of Mr. Charles Ratsey Isle of Wight for 23 Camden Road, Ramsgate sold to Edward G. Saxby, 1874.

 

26th & 27th November 1838: Indenture between Anna Rose, Ramsgate, Widow, William Peal, Ramsgate, Carpenter and Samuel Watkins.

 

Anna Rose inherited under the Will of her husband John Rose, dated 3rd March 1838. John Mercer of Ramsgate the joint Executor.

 

The land and premises near that of Edward Lampley and that of John Clark who had also purchased premises from Anna Rose. John Rose had purchased the land under

the Will of Revd. William Abbott.

 

Indenture dated 8th & 9th March 1836 between Sarah and Jane Abbot, Catherine Daniel and John Rose.

 

13th March 1839 Mortgage between William Peal and Hannah Peake, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire.

 

Hannah Peake died 15th January 1858 her named Executors, John White and Gilbert Fraught? were minors, under 21 Courts took measures to protect their interests until they became of age.

 

William Peal died 5th October 1872 and his Will of 26th October 1872 appointed his wife, May Ann and son, William Oliver Peal Executrix and Executor.

 

24th May 1873 Indenture of Grant between Mary Ann Peal, Cleveland Road, Surbiton, Surrey, Widow, Charles Ratsey, Cowes, Isle of Wight, Sailmaker

 

Draft Will of Jane Moggs of Wymondham, Norfolk, 16th September 1903.

 

She names her brother, James Moggs, Nephew James Herbert Butolph, her Great Nephew Frederick James Butolph son of her nephew Robert Hilling Butolph, God Child Catherine Neave daughter of John Neave of Ivy House, Broome, her friend Jemima Clitheroe of 106 Park Lane, London as Beneficiaries . She appointed Edward William Routh Clarke of Wattlefield Hall, Wymondham and John Bartle Pomeroy, Solicitor, Wymondham as her executors.

 

Jane Moggs born 1820 at Woodton, Norwich was the daughter of James and Henrietta Moggs. From at least 1851-1891 she worked for The Clarke Family, first as a Nurse to William Robert Clarke, Brewer and Merchant and his wife Elizabeth at Market Street, Wymondham and then at their home at Wattlefield, Wymondham.

 

By 1881 she worked as a Companion to their daughter Isabel Eva Clarke and in 1891 as her Housekeeper at Venetian Cottage, Norwich Common, Wymondham, Forehoe, Norfolk. Jene died in 1908 at the age of 89.

 

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 17, 2023) U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen give a presentation to Fabien Cousteau, executor and founder of Proteus Ocean Group (POG), and members of his team on their capstone project. The midshipmen are working with Proteus as part of their final capstone project. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)

The Prop Store had another couple of panels listed at the time I got mine.

 

This one had just been sold but I grabbed the image anyway. Looking at it again it differs slightly from mine, having the two round holes in the grill that is visible in the detention corridor and Executor close ups.

 

It also has more silver paint which looks to have been painted on top of the darker grey.

 

If the Prop Store had 10 of these, they would have sold in order of how well they had stood the test of time. I'd like to have seen the first one to go!

 

[Image courtesy of Prop Store]

 

– I have since matched this one to one in Gus Lopez's collection

On December 2nd., the 29th. Anniversary of the death of Philip Larkin I attended the annual PL Society Christmas event in the Mercure Royal Hotel in Hull. Following the customary formalities and a reading from his latest collection of poems by Anthony Thwaite (one of the literary executors of Philip Larkin's estate) we sat down to afternoon tea.

In the photograph from left to right: The gentleman standing wearing blue knitwear is Professor James Booth author of the recently published biography on Larkin: Philip Larkin a Life Art & Love, on his right closer to camera is the Whitbread Prize- winning author Ann Thwaite (A.A.Milne & Frances Hodgson), on her right her husband the poet and writer Anthony Thwaite. The lady in the wheelchair is Betty Mackereth who was appointed by Larkin as his secretary at Hull University Library in 1957, sorry to see her mobility has deteriorated since I saw her last at this event in 2013.

Draft Title of Mr. Charles Ratsey Isle of Wight for 23 Camden Road, Ramsgate sold to Edward G. Saxby, 1874.

 

26th & 27th November 1838: Indenture between Anna Rose, Ramsgate, Widow, William Peal, Ramsgate, Carpenter and Samuel Watkins.

 

Anna Rose inherited under the Will of her husband John Rose, dated 3rd March 1838. John Mercer of Ramsgate the joint Executor.

 

The land and premises near that of Edward Lampley and that of John Clark who had also purchased premises from Anna Rose. John Rose had purchased the land under

the Will of Revd. William Abbott.

 

Indenture dated 8th & 9th March 1836 between Sarah and Jane Abbot, Catherine Daniel and John Rose.

 

13th March 1839 Mortgage between William Peal and Hannah Peake, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire.

 

Hannah Peake died 15th January 1858 her named Executors, John White and Gilbert Fraught? were minors, under 21 Courts took measures to protect their interests until they became of age.

 

William Peal died 5th October 1872 and his Will of 26th October 1872 appointed his wife, May Ann and son, William Oliver Peal Executrix and Executor.

 

24th May 1873 Indenture of Grant between Mary Ann Peal, Cleveland Road, Surbiton, Surrey, Widow, Charles Ratsey, Cowes, Isle of Wight, Sailmaker

 

Star Wars Celebration Europe 2013

 

Die Star Wars Celebration Europe ist das weltgrößte Treffen von Fans der Science-Fiction-Filmsaga Star Wars.

 

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Underneath the arch between the north chapel and chancel, tomb of Sir David Phillip / Phelip 1450- 1506 and wife Anne Seymark 1533-1510 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/VG480o who is buried Chenies manor Bucks which she inherited ++

This was the site of a chantry set up after his death, licenced in November 1506 to David Cecille one of his executors "to fund a chantry of 2 chaplins or 1 chaplin perpetual for the good estate of the King while he lives and for his soul afterwards and for the soul of Elizabeth his late consort and the soul of the said David and of his father and mother and Anne his wife (when she dies) and all faithful with licence for the said chaplin to acquire in mortmoin lands to the value of 9l a year".

Anne was the co-heiress daughter of Thomas Seymark / Semark of Thornhaugh by Alice daughter of William Lexham

and Margaret Oldhall. She was the ward of Sir Richard Sapcote of Elton Hunts and later firstly married to his 2nd son William Sapcote having a son Guy Sapcote m Margaret daughter of Guy Wolston

Sir David & Anne m c1485 but had no children,

.Coming from a lowly welsh family Sir David served Henry Tudor (late Henry Vll) in France and fought at the Battle of Bosworth. He became a squire to the body and gentleman usher at court and steward to the kings mother Margaret Beaufort at Colley Weston palace near Stamford living nearby at Thornhaugh, He also held the office of Keeper of the Kings Swans in the waters of Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire and was also keeper of the royal forest of Kings Cliffe which bounded his estates and Windsor Park. .In 1499 he was sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham and a benefactor to the church of Holme in Hunts where there was a window inscription "Of your chartie pray for Sir Davy Phelip and my lady his wife, and for all benefactors of this windowe".

His nephew by marriage Richard Cecil www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z8mxo3 , father of William Cecil, Lord Burghley joined him having married advantageously Alice daughter of John Dicons alderman of Stamford by Margaret Seymark sister of his wife Anne Seymark ++

On the monument is the Dragon of Wales together with crowned Tudor Roses, and the Portcullis emblem of the Beauforts

The Semarks were out of favour after Bosworth and Annes marriage to David Phelip favoured by the Tudors and Ann's inheritance of the Cheyne fortune resulted into a family of position within the Court of Henry VIII.

www.cb5.co.uk/davidphelip.htm - Church of St Mary Stamford Lincolnshire