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Possibly George COUSINS, brother of William Edward COUSINS however Mary Abigail COUSINS nee WILLIAMS had a brother George. His actual identity is not known though. His photograph is amongst several of the HARDY members of the family in the album and he does bear a physical resemblance to them so it could well be that he is a from that side of the family instead. The HARDY girls had an uncle George Simpson HARDY who was lord of the manor and farmer at Ramsey Hall, Ramsey, Essex. He was the executor of their father's estate.
“The friends at Haydock and others have long desired a Bethesda Home in the North, but it was not feasible until Miss Annie Dawson left the Gospel Standard Bethesda Fund a legacy, estimated to produce the sum of £18,000 to £20,000, but which under the careful management of the Executor, Mr R H Wilkinson of Manchester, ultimately realised the munificent sum of £25,346. With this benefaction the Bethesda Committee felt they could go ahead in building a Home for their requirements. The first thing was the selection of a site in Lancashire, for the terms of the Will stipulated that it should be in that county and that the Home should be primarily, but not exclusively, for applicants from Lancashire and Yorkshire. After much prayerful consideration the Bethesda Committee decided to purchase a site at the rear of the Haydock Chapel....”
[From “Gospel Standard Bethesda Fund and Homes”, 2nd ed, 1964]
The Gospel Standard Bethesda Fund had been established in 1944 to make provision for “the care of invalids or infirm friends [i.e. persons connected with the Gospel Standard Baptist churches] in their declining days”. The Fund's home at Haydock was the first to be purpose-built, following conversions of pre-existing buildings at Redhill (1948), Brighton (1951) and Tunbridge Wells (1953). It was constructed by Messrs Pearce and Baker to a design by Mr S W G Hunt, architect, on a plot of land behind “Providence” Strict Baptist Chapel, Clipsley Lane, that had previously been used for rearing turkeys. The home was designed for occupation by 18 residents in 14 single rooms and 2 double rooms, with a lounge, study, sick bay, kitchen etc, all on the ground floor and staff accommodation on an upper level. Externally, gardens were laid out to provide a lawn on each side of the building, with fruit trees on the western edge and rose beds and ornamental shrubs. A public address system enabled residents with severe mobility issues to follow services taking place in the Chapel.
The “Dawson Home” -as Miss Dawson's will had stipulated it should be called- was officially opened on 4 April 1964, David Evans (minister and member at Haydock) conducting a prayer meeting in the morning and Benjamin Ramsbottom (“Gospel Standard” editor, 1971-2015, and pastor at Bethel Luton) preaching in the afternoon.
William Fendick Esq. deceased itemised Bill to Executors, 1866, Bristol, Middlesex
An itemised account from John Hawley to the Executors of the Estate of William Fendick. Executors, Henry Fendick, Robert Fendick, John B. Fendick.
Probate Registers show William Fendick of 41 Cambridge Street, Pimlico died 1 April 1866. Henry Fendick of 46 Fore Street, City of London, Linen Draper, Robert Fendick of 23 Portland Square, Bristol, Surgeon and John Brasnett Fendick of 126 Holloway Road, Oil and Italian Warehouseman, the sons of William were the Executors.
The family appear to have originally been from Walton, Norfolk.
Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The stable building at 140 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. 140 West 18th Street has an asymmetrical arcaded composition which focuses on a pair of bifurcated Renaissance arches at the second story.
Erected for merchant Henry Rice, the stable has had several notable owners, among them Catherine Lorillard Spencer, daughter of Peter A. Lorillard, one of the founders of the Lorillard Tobacco Company; her nephew Alfred R. Conkling, a prominent attorney and author; and merchant Malcolm Graham. 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 rcw 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 eigthteenth-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 her lots which were then occupied by snail 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 Union 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 small 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.3 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' houses, sometimes facing onto the less desirable street front of a through-the-block lot.
By the mid-nineteenth century/ carriage-house rews 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 backing 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.7 Perhaps the most extensive speculative development was Sniffen 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 Sniffin, 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 £ran 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.10 Though commissioned by a different client, this stable was identical in plan and design to the previously completed Brooks stables. By 1866, the nine remaining lots extending frcan 130 to 146 West 18th Street had been sold. Their new owners also had stables erected which followed the articulation established by the Brooks stables, creating a uniform row of thirteen stables.
This would suggest 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 .
The stable at 140 West 18th Street was constructed for Henry G. Rice, senior partner in the drygoods firm of Rice, Chase & Company located at 47 Worth Street, who resided at 21 East 15th Street. Following his death in 1868 the stable was purchased by Catherine lorillard Spencer. Daughter of Peter A. Lorillard, one of the founders of the P. & G. Lorillard Tobacco Company, Catherine Lorillard inherited a considerable fortune from her father at his death in 1843.
At the age of fifty she married Lieutenant William Spencer , widower of her late sister Eleanora. The Spencers occupied a large mansion at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and East 16th Street during the 1860s and the 18th Street stable was probably purchased for their personal use. The property remained in Catherine Spencer's possession until her death in 1882, when her extensive land holdings were sold at auction.
At the sale many of Catherine Spencer's properties were purchased by her heirs. Howard Conkling, son of her niece Eleonora Ronalds Conkling, bought the 18th Street stable which was then being leased at a rental of $1,000 per year.
He kept the stable for only a year before selling it to his brother Alfred R. Conkling. A lawyer and author, Conkling studied at Yale, Harvard, the University of Berlin, and Columbia College where he earned his law degree. As a young man he was attached with the U.S. Geological Survey and traveled extensively in the West. He specialized in real estate law and was president of the Realty league of New York City. He also served as a member of the New York City Board of Aldermen and New York State Assembly and was actively involved in the reform wing of the Republican Party.
His books included Appleton's Guide to Mexico, Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, and City Government in the United States. Conkling retained the 18th Street stable for about three years before selling it in April, 1887 to Malcolm Graham.
The son of John Lordmer Graham, a prominent attorney and Post Master of New York City, Malcolm Graham began his career as a clerk in the firm of Smith, Young & Company. After a few years, he became affiliated with the firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham , dealers in guns and ammunition. Malcolm Graham and his partner Marcellus Hartley were also part-owners and officers of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, the Remington Arms Company, and the Bridgeport Gun Implement Company.
Graham served on the Board of Trustees of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for many years and was a member of the Century, Metropolitan, Union, Union League, and New York Yacht Clubs. During the 1880s and 1890s he maintained homes in Seabright, New Jersey and at 13 West 17th Street in New York — thus, it seems likely that the 18th Street stable remained a private stable during his lifetime.
The Design of the 140 West 18th Street Stable
The stable at 140 West 18th Street is characteristic of contemporary carriage house design as adapted to a narrow urban lot. Typically, 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 restricted to 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 Rundbogenstil . The Rundbogenstil 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 Rundbogenstil 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, and Thomas Tefft's Union Depot, Providence, R.I. . The style is reflected in the design of the stable at 140 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 incorporation of such details as the Renaissance-inspired cornice and diamond-pointed keystones and the Romanesque-inspired arcades and rusticated bands. Especially noteworthy are the large second-story arches each containing 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, is also designed in the round-arched style. 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 140 West 18th Street stable is distinguished by its skillful superimposition of recessed and projected planes. The double-height arches, carried on slender projected piers, are on a forward plane, while the wall membrane with its door and window 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.
While the same decorative treatment is employed for all the buildings in the 18th Street row, this is the only surviving building in which the center and western bays are the same width and the bifurcated arch motif is repeated.
Description
The two-story stable structure at 140 West 18th Street has a frontage of twenty-three 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 the round-arched style and incorporates Romanesque and Renaissance details.
The facade is organized in an asymmetrical arcaded composition comprising a narrow eastern bay and double-width center and western bays. 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 entrance, and the western bay a window; the arches were ornamented by diamond-pointed keystones and stone bands ran across the facade at the sill, watertable, impost, and cornice lines.
Today, the ground story has been extensively altered. The corner pier in the eastern bay retains some original ornament but the arched surround has been removed and the door opening reduced in height. There is a metal door topped by stuccoed brick.
A metal roll-down gate spans the entire center bay. In the western bay the stone sill and watertable survive, but the original window surround was removed in 1933 and the window opening enlarged to contain a large multipane-steel-sash window. That window was subsequently removed and the opening has been sealed with brick and stucco. The cornice that originally separated the first and second stories has also been removed.
On the second story the piers carry an arcade in which the center and western arches are both wider and taller than the eastern arch, The arches are set-off by stone keystones. Stone bands mark the impost line of the arches and stone sills are set beneath the winders.
The center and western bays are bisected by small brick pilasters. Each of these bays contains a pair of arched windows which is topped by a molded wood surround that features a central bull's-eye. The windows retain their original wood four-over-four top sash but the lower sash has been replaced. The building is crowned by a simple molded brick entablature.
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 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 stable at 140 West 18th Street was retained by the Estate of Malcolm Graham until 1915 when the building was purchased by Margaret Kielev who owned the adjacent former stable building at 142 West 18th Street. In 1933 the two buildings were joined and altered for use as a garage and auto repair shop on the ground floor and manufacturing on the upper floors.
Today, the 140 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
Burial Extract certified and another piece of paper work by Robert V Reyner, dated 26th March 1906 sworn to F. W. Standley, Commissioner of Oaths and that he knew Caroline Parker late of Bowden Terrace for 25 years and that she was the same person described in the Bank of England Books.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
Caroline, nee Sparkhall, Parker died 2nd March 1906. The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
I am re-reading the section of Nigel Hamilton's acclaimed three volume biography of British Field Marshall Sir Bernard Law Montgomery that describes how Monty was the chief planner and executor of the D-Day invasion. The segment is in volume two, Master of the Battlefield: Monty's War Years 1942-44. Monty was second in command after General Dwight D. Eisenhower who was Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force.
On June 6, 1944, 156,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France to start the liberation of Western Europe. 83,000 British, Canadian and French troops landed at Gold, Juno and Sword beaches as 73,000 US troops simultaneously landed at Omaha and Utah beaches.
The upper inset picture is the commemorative social media posting by Veteran Affairs Canada. The lower picture shows, from right, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, William, Prince of Wales and French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal greeting one of the few remaining Canadian veterans of the D-Day invasion. French President Emmanuel Macron, King Charles III and US President Joe Biden were further along the Normandy coast at another commemorative event where US troops landed 80 years ago.
Draft for Summons to Walter Newton, Buxton Heath, Hevingham, Norfolk for non-payment of Medical services provided by Dr. Richard John Morton 27th November to 22nd December 1898 and 15th August 1899. Summoned by Thomas Purdey, Solicitor executor of Dr. Richard
John Morton deceased Aylsham, Norfolk, who died 20th October 1902. For up to 4 years after his death payments were still being made and collected by his Solicitors and his wife and recorded. Dated 8th October 1903.
Richard John Morton was born in 1849 the son of Richard Kay, also a Surgeon and Eliza Mary Needham Morton. He married Mary Ann (Marion) Magar 5th May 1872 at Holy Trinity, Lambeth. Morton of Aylsham Family Papers.
Walter Norton born 27th September 1866 at Hevingham, Norfolk son of William Norton and Elizabeth Medler. A Fowl Dealer he married Sarah Elizabeth Gibson 9th January 1892 at St Mary at Coslany, Norwich. Sarah Elizabeth Gibson born circa 1873 daughter of Robert Gibson and Sarah Ann Gibson. The 1901 census shows them living at Buxton Heath. The Summons was not issued, Walter agreed to pay 10 Shillings then 5 Shillings a Month.
In memory of J O Hallswell Phillipps an eminent Shakespearian student who died the 3rd January 1889, the lower portion of this window was dedicated by his nephew and executor Ernest E Baker 1891 - Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire
Draft Will of Mrs. Lucy Lewin, 35 Grange Road, Ramsgate, Kent, 1890.
Executor/Executrix Douglas William Lewin, Son, Alice Hevenson Lewin, Daughter.
Beneficiaries: Douglas William Lewin, Son, Alice Hevenson Lewin, Daughter, Constance Lucy Lewin, Daugher, Edward Wotton, Solicitor
Thomas Cope first appears as a brickmaker in the 1842 trade directory at Steels Nook, Longton and the business is listed as being run by his executors by 1864. In 1869 the works is listed as Holden Bridge Brickyard, Smallthorne and it is last mentioned in 1904.
William Fendick Esq. deceased itemised Bill to Executors, 1866, Bristol, Middlesex
An itemised account from John Hawley to the Executors of the Estate of William Fendick. Executors, Henry Fendick, Robert Fendick, John B. Fendick.
Probate Registers show William Fendick of 41 Cambridge Street, Pimlico died 1 April 1866. Henry Fendick of 46 Fore Street, City of London, Linendraper, Robert Fendick of 23 Portland Square, Bristol, Surgeon and John Brasnett Fendick of 126 Holloway Road, Oil and Italian Warehouseman, the sons of William were the Executors.
The family appear to have originally been from Walton, Norfolk.
HIGH COURT OF KENYA IN NIROBI
PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION
Case number 14 1996,
By the Most Noble Andrea Duchess of Manchester of P.O box 25667.
Nairobi in Kenya. And Lancelot Christian Benjamin Sassoon, of P.O Box
30383 Nairobi aforesaid executors of the deceased will by messers Archer and Wilcock. Advocates of Nairobi for a grant of probate for the will of the most Noble Sidney Aurthur Robin George Drogo. The 11th Duke of Manchester of Marula Lane Karen in Kenya who
Died in Tennessee USA on June 3rd 1985.
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A shot of a small piece of 'test-greebling' for the main 'city' structure down the spine of the Executor. I am trying to replicate the appearance of the actual studio model which uses lots and lots of flat plate jutting out to create the detail...
Spencer Singer, Baker, of Ramsgate, Kent, Draft Will dated 7th May 1860.
Executors George Friend, Cabinet Maker of Ramsgate and Henry Twyman, of Ramsgate, Sexton of St. George’s Church.
Beneficiaries: Wife Ann, Son, Alexander John Dewdney Singer, and six other children, Tabitha Francis Hadgman Langley, wife of Henry Langman of Southampton, Hampshire, Engineer, Charlotte Ann Dewdney Singer, Walter Spencer Edward Singer, Matilda Sarah Holmes Singer, Alfred Spencer John Singer and Edmund John Henry Singer.
T. W. Grove Snowden, Solicitor, L. Elgar, Clerk.
Spencer Singer died 8th November 1873 and Will probated 8th January 1874
Property involved: 52, 53, High Street, 47, 68, 69 Hardres Street, 8 Regent Street, Ramsgate.
Looking east past one of two 17c parish chests to the north chapel built as a chantry by Philip Copleston and his brother Walter c 1460 in memory of their father John who died in 1458, and lived at Coplestone House in this parish, which was the family residence for several centuries.
They most probably were executors of their father’s will and did this at his posthumous request. In his will of 18th October 1858 John Coplestone had requested burial in St. Katherine’s aisle here next to his wife Elizabeth, who had died the previous year. The well-worn ledger stone can still be viewed in the aisle. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/wc5x79SM8Z
By the latter half of the 16c the chapel became the Coplestone family pew and for their comfort a fireplace (now boarded up) was installed, the original stone chimney still remains on the outer walls.
The most striking features are the beautiful screen and the ancient prie-dieu known as the Copleston desk carved in 1472 for the marriage of Philip Coplestone and Anne Bonville, an heiress from her maternal grandmother Leva Gorges , this marriage greatly boosting the Coplestone coffers, and which has the Copleston & Gorges coats of arms. The desk is now used at the entrance to the chancel by the vicar. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/o4gY3V44qo
Documentary references to the Copleston family go back as far as 1275, but there is ample evidence to show that the family was here long before. Three generations previously held the same lands under the name of St Vedest , before they too the name Copleston from the property they lived in where stands the ancient Copleston Cross mentioned in a Saxon charter of 974 AD
The Jacobean Communion Table, once the chancel altar, was made by Leonard Reeve at a cost of 19s in 1640.
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"In 1998, director Barbara Dawson secured the donation of Francis Bacon's studio from the artist's heir John Edwards and Brian Clarke executor of the Estate of Francis Bacon. In the August of that year, the Hugh Lane team removed the studio and it's entire contents from London to Dublin. The team, led by conservator Mary McGrath, comprised archaeologists who made the survey and elevation drawings of the small studio, mapping out the spaces and locations of the objects and conservators and curators who tagged and packed each of the items, including the dust. The walls, doors floor and ceiling were also removed. The relocated studio opened to the public in 2001. Over 7,000 items were found and these were catalogued on a specially designed database." www.hughlane.ie/history-of-studio-relocation
Richard Foxe (sometimes Richard Fox) (c. 1448–5 October 1528) was an English churchman, successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
He was born at Ropsley near Grantham, Lincolnshire. His parents belonged to the yeoman class, and little is known about Foxe's early career. He is thought to have gone to Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he drew many members of his subsequent foundation, Corpus Christi. He also appears to have studied at Cambridge University, but nothing definite is known of his first thirty-five years.[1]
In 1484, he was in Paris possibly for the sake of learning or because he had made himself unpopular with Richard III. There he came into contact with Henry Tudor, who was beginning his quest for the English throne, and was taken into his service. In January of 1485 Richard intervened to prevent Foxe's appointment to the vicarage of Stepney on the ground that he was keeping company with the "great rebel, Henry ap Tuddor."
The important offices conferred on Foxe immediately after the Battle of Bosworth imply that he had already seen more extensive political service than can be traced in records. Doubtless Henry had every reason to reward his companions in exile, and to rule like Ferdinand of Aragon by means of lawyers and churchmen rather than trust nobles like those who had made the Wars of the Roses. But without an intimate knowledge of Foxe's political experience and capacity he would hardly have made him his principal secretary, and soon afterwards Lord Privy Seal[2] and elected Bishop of Exeter on 29 January 1487, being consecrated on 8 April.[3] The ecclesiastical role provided a salary that was not at Henry's expense; for Foxe never saw either Exeter or the diocese of Bath and Wells to which he was moved in February of 1492.[4] His activity was confined to political and especially diplomatic channels; during John Morton's lifetime, Foxe was his subordinate, but after the archbishop's death he was first in Henry's confidence, and had an important share in all the diplomatic work of the reign. In 1487 he negotiated a treaty with King James III of Scotland, and in 1491 he baptized the future King Henry VIII of England. In 1492 he helped conclude the Peace of Etaples, and in 1493 he was chief commissioner in the negotiations for the famous commercial agreement with the Netherlands which Bacon seems to have been the first to call the Magnus Intercursus.
Meanwhile in July of 1494 Foxe had been translated to the see of Durham,[5] not merely because it was a richer see than Bath and Wells but because of its political importance as a palatine earldom and its position with regard to the Borders and relations with Scotland. For these reasons rather than from any ecclesiastical scruples Foxe visited and resided in his new diocese; and he occupied Norham Castle, which he fortified and defended against a Scottish raid in Perkin Warbeck's interests in 1497. But his energies were principally devoted to pacific purposes. In that same year he negotiated Perkin's retirement from the court of James IV, and in 1498–1499 he completed the negotiations for that treaty of marriage between the Scottish king and Henry's daughter Margaret which led ultimately to the union of the two crowns in 1603 and of the two kingdoms in 1707. The marriage itself did not take place until 1503, just a century before the accession of James I.
This consummated Foxe's work in the north, and in August of 1501 he was once more translated to the see of Winchester,[6] then reputed the richest bishopric in England. In that year he brought to a conclusion marriage negotiations not less momentous in their ultimate results, when Prince Arthur was betrothed to Catherine of Aragon. His last diplomatic achievement in the reign of Henry VII was the betrothal of the king's younger daughter Mary to the future emperor Charles V.
In 1500 he was elected chancellor of Cambridge University, an office not confined to noble lords until a much more democratic age, and in 1507 master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. The Lady Margaret Beaufort made him one of her executors, and in this capacity as well as in that of chancellor, he had the chief share with Fisher in regulating the foundation of St John's College, Cambridge, and the Lady Margaret professorships and readerships. His financial work brought him a less enviable notoriety, though history has deprived him of the credit which is his due for "Morton's Fork." The invention of that ingenious dilemma for extorting contributions from poor and rich alike is ascribed as a tradition to Morton by Francis Bacon; but the story is told in greater detail of Foxe by Erasmus, who says he had it from Sir Thomas More. It is in keeping with the somewhat malicious saying about Foxe, reported by William Tyndale, that he would sacrifice his father to save his king, which is not so damning as Wolsey's dying words.
The accession of Henry VIII only increased Foxe's power, the personnel of his ministry remaining unaltered. The Venetian ambassador called Foxe "alter rex" and the Spanish ambassador Carroz said that Henry trusted him more than any other adviser, although he also reports Henry's warning that the Bishop of Winchester was, as his name implied, "a Foxe indeed." He was the chief of the ecclesiastical statesmen of Morton's school, believed in frequent parliaments, and opposed the spirited foreign policy which laymen like Surrey are supposed to have advocated. His colleagues were William Warham and Ruthal, but Warham and Foxe differed on the question of Henry's marriage, Foxe advising the completion of the match with Catherine of Aragon while Warham expressed doubts as to its canonical validity. They also differed over the prerogatives of Canterbury with regard to probate and other questions of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Thomas Wolsey's rapid rise in 1511 put an end to Foxe's influence. The pacific policy of the first two years of Henry VIII's reign was succeeded by an adventurous foreign policy directed mainly against France; and Foxe complained that no one dared do anything in opposition to Wolsey's wishes. Foxe resigned the privy seal because of Wolsey's ill-advised attempt to drive King Francis I of France out of Milan by financing an expedition led by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1516. Cuthbert Tunstall protested, Wolsey took Warham's place as chancellor, and Foxe was succeeded by Ruthal, who, said the Venetian ambassador, "sang treble to Wolsey's bass." Yet he warmly congratulated Wolsey two years later when warlike adventures were abandoned at the peace of London. But in 1522, when war was again declared, he emphatically refused to bear any part of the responsibility, and in 1523 he opposed in convocation the financial demands which met with a more strenuous resistance in the House of Commons.
He now devoted himself to his long-neglected episcopal duties. He expressed himself as being as anxious for the reformation of the clergy as Simeon for the coming of the Messiah; but was too old to accomplish much himself in the way of remedying the clerical and especially the monastic depravity, licence and corruption he deplored. His sight failed during the last ten years of his life, and Matthew Parker claimed that Wolsey suggested his retirement from his bishopric on a pension. Foxe refused, and Wolsey had to wait until Foxe's death before he could add Winchester to his archbishopric of York and his abbey of St Albans, and thus leave Durham vacant as he hoped for his own illegitimate son. Foxe died on 5 October 1528.[6]
The crown of Foxe's career was his foundation of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which he established in 1515–1516. Originally he intended it as an Oxford house for the monks of St Swithin's, Winchester; but he is said to have been dissuaded by Bishop Oldham, who foretold the fall of the monks. The scheme breathed the spirit of the Renaissance; provision was made for the teaching of Greek, Erasmus praised the institution and Pole was one of its earliest fellows. The humanist Juan Luís Vives was brought from Italy to teach Latin, and the reader in theology was instructed to follow the Greek and Latin Fathers rather than the scholastic commentaries. Foxe also built and endowed schools at Taunton and Grantham - The King's School, Grantham remains one of England's leading educational institutions - and was a benefactor to numerous other institutions. He died at Wolvesey; Corpus possesses several portraits and other relics of its founder.
after Johannes Corvus,painting,late 16th century
Abstract of Title Trustees of Will of John F Clark to Lewknor Cottage, Picton Road, Ramsgate Kent, 1904. List several previous Indentures etc.plus value of any houses and what and what cannot be built on the Land. First 19th & 25th March 1799 redemption of Land Tax by John Garrett.
Amongst many others:
28th August 1866 Indenture between Sir Robert Garrett, George Young, Edward Newman, Robert Beckford Johnstone, John Francis Bontenis.
7th July 1876 John Frederick Clark died. His wife Mary Ann Clark and son-in-law Birches Frost Wills are named as Executors and Trustees
2nd December 1878 Agreement between John Frederick Clark and Jennings Butler for £100.
28th December 1896 Jennings Butler died and by his Will of 1895 Thomas Newman, Alfred Thomas Brewer and his Niece Isabella Butler Long made Trustees and Executors of his Will.
5th March 1898 Isabella Butler Long died.
15th September 1902 Indenture of Mortgage between Mary Ann Clark, Widow of Ramsgate, Birches Frost Wills, Carpenter, Ramsgate, Sarah Kingdom Klug of 112 Clifton Hill, St Johns Wood, London, Widow.
John Frederick Clark born circa 1821 at Ramsgate was a Carpenter/Builder. He married twice: Elizabeth Hooper Moses 30th June 1844 at Ramsgate and Mary Ann Bobey 23rd October 1871 at St. Lawrence, Kent.
Spencer Singer, Baker, of Ramsgate, Kent, Draft Will dated 7th May 1860.
Executors George Friend, Cabinet Maker of Ramsgate and Henry Twyman, of Ramsgate, Sexton of St. George’s Church.
Beneficiaries: Wife Ann, Son, Alexander John Dewdney Singer, and six other children, Tabitha Francis Hadgman Langley, wife of Henry Langman of Southampton, Hampshire, Engineer, Charlotte Ann Dewdney Singer, Walter Spencer Edward Singer, Matilda Sarah Holmes Singer, Alfred Spencer John Singer and Edmund John Henry Singer.
T. W. Grove Snowden, Solicitor, L. Elgar, Clerk.
Spencer Singer died 8th November 1873 and Will probated 8th January 1874
Property involved: 52, 53, High Street, 47, 68, 69 Hardres Street, 8 Regent Street, Ramsgate.
Draft Will of George Burges, Classical Scholar of 28 Hardres Street, Ramsgate, Kent dated 24th October 1861.
George Burges born 1786 Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, he was educated at Cambridge. He was a noted Scholar and author. Named in his father’s will, Thomas Burges of Calcutta, India, dated 1798 along with Elizabeth Burges as his natural children. He left 60,000 rupees for their keep.
George Burges named his wife Jane Burges and his four daughters; Maria Burges, Anne Burges, Fanny Burges and Jane, nee Burges, Hill the wife of Charles Thomas Hill as beneficiaries. The Reverend Henry Richards Luard and Charles John Hill as Executors. He states that he makes no mention of his three sons in Australia as he has already done the best he can for them. George died 11th January 1864.
Robert John Welch M.Sc. (b. 22 July 1859 d.28 Sept 1936) was an Irish photographer interested in natural history, particularly mollusca. Born 19-21 Main Street, Strabane, County Tyrone, the oldest of five children and the eldest of the three sons of David Welch (b.1831 d.1875) and Martha Welch, née Graham (b.1840 d.1908), who was the daughter of a local shoemaker from Strabane, she was aged 17 in 1857 when she married David.
David & Martha’s siblings:
1. Robert J. Welch (b.1859 d.1936).
2. Sara Elizabeth Welch (b.1860 d.1915).
3. Catherine M Welch (b.1861 d.1945).
4. David Alexander Welch (b.1864 d.1884) aged 19.
5. William Hunter Welch (b.1865 d.1952) photographer lived in Alberta, Canada.
David Welch was an accomplished Scottish amateur photographer from Kirkcudbright, who had come to Ulster to work as ‘agent’ for a Strabane shirt manufacturer, possibly Grosvenor Shirts aka, Porter’s Mills, Derry Road, Strabane.
In the early 1860s, he set up as a professional photographer, enjoying the patronage of the leading landowner of the Strabane area, James Hamilton (b.1811 d.1885), 2nd marquess and (from 1868) 1st duke of Abercorn. Hamilton’s appointment as lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1865 enabled his protégé to call himself photographer by appointment to the viceroy.
In 1863 David moved to Victoria Terrace, Enniskillen, and then in 1868 to Newry. A short spell in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire in the early 1870s was followed by a return to Ireland. David Welch eventually settled in Bangor, where he died suddenly in 1875 when Robert was aged 16. In the same year, the family made a decision to move to Belfast and Robert took up employment with a local photographer called E.T. Church (b.c1870 d.c1879) who had a studio at 53, Donegal Place, Belfast. Although Robert joined as an assistant, this was the beginning of his training to become a professional photographer.
Robert established his own business in 1883 at 49, Lonsdale Street, Belfast making his home above it. Much of his time was spent taking pictures that reflected the life of the people and the contemporary landscape. The Ulster Museum, Belfast, houses the majority of these.
His mother Martha and sister Sara are said to have helped in the studio hand tinting photographs while Robert stated that his mother was interested in shells and flowers, she was also decribed as a publisher of photography highlighting her infulence on the buisness. Sara was a photographic assistant and managed the buisness accounts. From the death of his sister Sara in 1860 Robert sufered a nervious breakdown and his other sister Catherine came over from Leeds and spent 2 years helping look after Robert.
Many of his “Irish views” were used in railway carriages, hotels, transatlantic liners, and as illustrations in tourist guides and travel books. Over the period from the 1880’s to the 1930’s Welch built up a fine collection of negatives of Belfast street scenes, which today provides a valuable record of the changes over the period of 50 years. William Alfred Green (b.1870 d.1958), another noted Belfast photographer, was an apprentice of Welch, and photographed many of the same subjects and sites as his mentor.
In 1900, he was awarded a Royal warrant for his work from Queen Victoria, one of only 10 photographers outside the British Isles to receive this honour. He was commissioned by the Royal Commission of Enquiry in 1886 to record the damage caused in Belfast after the anti-Home Rule riots of that year. He was appointed official photographer to the shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff (c1894-1920) and the Belfast Ropeworks Co. He lectured and contributed many papers and illustrations to a variety of natural history publications throughout his life. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, President of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club, and President of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1923 he had an honorary doctorate conferred upon him by Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1927 the Northern Ireland Parliament granted him a civil pension of £100 a year. He died on 28 September 1936 at the age of 77, leaving an estate valued at less than £500.
After his death his friends acquired, by donation or by purchase from his executors, a collection of some 5,000 of his glass plate negatives, along with many lantern slides, original prints, and various memorabilia. This ‘Welch Collection’ was presented to the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery (now the Ulster Museum) as a memorial to the man and his work. A selection of these photographs, with commentary, were published in 1977. The glass negatives of the photographs taken for Harland & Wolff are held in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
An Ulster History Circle, also known as a Blue plaque was unveiled in Welch's honour on the 26 March 2010, at the home in which he was born in a house betweebn 19 to 21 Main Street, Strabane, County Tyrone.
RMS Olympic
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic. This included service as a troopship during the First World War, which gained her the nickname "Old Reliable", and during which she rammed and sank the Type U 57 U-boat U-103 on 12 May 1918. She returned to civilian service after the war, and served successfully as an ocean liner throughout the 1920s and into the first half of the 1930s, although increased competition, and the slump in trade during the Great Depression after 1930, made her operation increasingly unprofitable. Olympic was withdrawn from service and sold for scrapping on 12 April 1935 which was completed in 1937.
Olympic was the largest ocean liner in the world for two periods during 1910–13, interrupted only by the brief tenure of the slightly larger Titanic, which had the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage, before the German SS Imperator went into service in June 1913. Olympic also held the title of the largest British-built liner until RMS Queen Mary was launched in 1934, interrupted only by the short careers of Titanic and Britannic.
Built in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), Olympic was the first of the three Olympic-class ocean liners, the others being Titanic and Britannic. They were the largest vessels built for the British shipping company White Star Line, which was a fleet of 29 steamers and tenders in 1912. The three ships had their genesis in a discussion in mid-1907 between the White Star Line's chairman, J. Bruce Ismay, and the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan, who controlled the White Star Line's parent corporation, the International Mercantile Marine Co. The White Star Line faced a growing challenge from its main rivals Cunard, which had just launched Lusitania and Mauretania, the fastest passenger ships then in service and the German lines Hamburg America and Norddeutscher Lloyd. Ismay preferred to compete on size and economics rather than speed and proposed to commission a new class of liner that would be bigger than anything that had gone before as well as being the last word in comfort and luxury. The company sought an upgrade in their fleet primarily in response to the largest Cunarders but also to replace their largest and now outclassed ships from 1890, RMS Teutonic and RMS Majestic. The former was replaced by Olympic while Majestic was replaced by Titanic. Majestic would be brought back into her old spot on White Star's New York service after Titanic's loss.
The ships were built in Belfast by Harland & Wolff, who had a long-established relationship with the White Star Line dating back to 1867. Harland and Wolff were given a great deal of latitude in designing ships for the White Star Line; the usual approach was for the latter to sketch out a general concept which the former would take away and turn into a ship design. Cost considerations were relatively low on the agenda and Harland and Wolff was authorised to spend what it needed on the ships, plus a five per cent profit margin. In the case of the Olympic-class ships, a cost of £3 million for the first two ships was agreed plus "extras to contract" and the usual five per cent fee.
Harland and Wolff put their designers to work designing the Olympic-class vessels. It was overseen by Lord Pirrie, a director of both Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line; naval architect Thomas Andrews, the managing director of Harland and Wolff's design department; Edward Wilding, Andrews' deputy and responsible for calculating the ship's design, stability and trim; and Alexander Carlisle, the shipyard's chief draughtsman and general manager. Carlisle's responsibilities included the decorations, equipment and all general arrangements, including the implementation of an efficient lifeboat davit design.
On 29 July 1908, Harland and Wolff presented the drawings to Bruce Ismay and other White Star Line executives. Ismay approved the design and signed three "letters of agreement" two days later authorising the start of construction. At this point the lead ship which was later to become Olympic, had no name, but was referred to simply as "Number 400", as it was Harland and Wolff's four hundredth hull. Titanic was based on a revised version of the same design and was given the number 401. Bruce Ismay's father Thomas Henry Ismay had previously planned to build a ship named Olympic as a sister ship to Oceanic. Thomas Ismay died in 1899 and the order for the ship was cancelled.
Construction of Olympic began three months before Titanic to ease pressures on the shipyard. Several years would pass before Britannic would be launched. To accommodate the construction of the class, Harland and Wolff upgraded their facility in Belfast; the most dramatic change was the combining of three slipways into two larger ones. Olympic and Titanic were constructed side by side. Olympic's keel was laid on 16 December 1908 and she was launched on 20 October 1910, without having been christened beforehand. By tradition, the White Star Line never christened any of their vessels and for the launch the hull was painted in a light grey colour for photographic purposes; a common practice of the day for the first ship in a new class, as it made the lines of the ship clearer in the black-and-white photographs. The launch was filmed both in black and white and in Kinemacolor, with only the black and white footage surviving. The launches of Titanic and Britannic were also filmed, though only Britannic's film survived. Her hull was repainted black following the launch. The ship was then dry-docked for fitting out.
Olympic was driven by three propellers. The two three-bladed wing propellers were driven by two triple-expansion engines, while the four-bladed central propeller was driven by a turbine that used recovered steam escaping from the triple-expansion engines. The use of escaped steam was tested on the SS Laurentic two years earlier.
Tonnage: 45,324 gross register tons, Length: 882 ft 9 in (269.1 m), Beam: 92 ft 9 in (28.3 m), Height: 175 ft (53.4 m) (keel to top of funnels), Draught: 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m), Decks: 9 decks (8 for passengers and 1 for crew), Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service, 1911), Capacity: 2,435 passengers, Crew: 950.
RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg on the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died, making the incident the deadliest sinking of a single ship at the time. Titanic, operated by the White Star Line, carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from the British Isles, Scandinavia, and elsewhere in Europe who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada. The disaster drew public attention, spurred major changes in maritime safety regulations, and inspired a lasting legacy in popular culture.
RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat upon entering service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners built for the White Star Line. The ship was built by the Harland and Wolff shipbuilding company in Belfast. Thomas Andrews Jr., the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward John Smith, who went down with the ship.
The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury. It included a gymnasium, swimming pool, smoking rooms, fine restaurants and cafes, a Victorian-style Turkish bath, and hundreds of opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available to send passenger "marconigrams" and for the ship's operational use. Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, which contributed to the ship's reputation as "unsinkable".
Titanic was equipped with 16 lifeboat davits, each capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total of 48 boats. Despite this capacity of 48, the ship was only equipped with a total of 20 lifeboats. Fourteen were regular lifeboats, two were cutter lifeboats, and four were collapsible and proved difficult to launch while the ship was sinking. Together, the 20 lifeboats could hold 1,178 people, about half the number of passengers on board, and one-third of the number of passengers the ship could have carried at full capacity (a number consistent with the maritime safety regulations of the era). The British Board of Trade's regulations required 14 lifeboats for a ship 10,000 tonnes. Titanic carried six more than required, allowing 338 extra people room in lifeboats. When the ship sank, the lifeboats that had been lowered were only filled up to an average of 60%.
The name Titanic derives from the Titans of Greek mythology. Built in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, RMS Titanic was the second of the three Olympic-class ocean liners. White Star sought an upgrade of its fleet primarily to respond to the introduction of the Cunard giants but also to considerably strengthen its position on the Southampton–Cherbourg–New York service that had been inaugurated in 1907.
Tonnage: 46,329 gross register tons, Length: 882 ft 9 in (269.1 m), Beam: 92 ft 6 in (28.2 m), Height: 175 ft (53.4m) (keel to top of funnels), Draught: 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m), Decks: 9 decks, Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service), Capacity: 2,453 passengers, Crew: 874.
HMHS Britannic
HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She was operated as a hospital ship from 1915 until her sinking near the Greek island of Kea, in the Aegean Sea, in 21 November 1916. At the time she was the largest hospital ship in the world.
Britannic was launched just before the start of the First World War. She was designed to be the safest of the three ships with design changes made during construction due to lessons learned from the sinking of the Titanic. She was laid up at her builders, Harland and Wolff, in Belfast for many months before being requisitioned as a hospital ship. In 1915 and 1916 she served between the United Kingdom and the Dardanelles.
On the morning of 21 November 1916 she hit a naval mine of the Imperial German Navy near the Greek island of Kea and sank 55 minutes later, killing 30 people. There were 1,066 people on board; the 1,036 survivors were rescued from the water and lifeboats. Britannic was the largest ship lost in the First World War.
After the First World War the White Star Line was compensated for the loss of Britannic by the award of SS Bismarck as part of postwar reparations and entered service as RMS Majestic.
The wreck was located and explored by Jacques Cousteau in 1975. The vessel is the largest intact passenger ship on the seabed in the world. It was bought in 1996 and is currently owned by Simon Mills, a maritime historian.
Britannic's keel was laid on 30 November 1911 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, on the gantry slip previously occupied by Olympic, 13 months after the launch of that ship, and Arlanza, launched seven days before. The acquisition of the ship was planned to be at the beginning of 1914. Due to improvements introduced as a consequence of the Titanic's disaster, Britannic was not launched until 26 February 1914, which was filmed along with the fitting of a funnel. Several speeches were given in front of the press, and a dinner was organised in honour of the launching. Fitting out began subsequently. The ship entered dry dock in September and her propellers were installed.
Reusing Olympic's space saved the shipyard time and money by not clearing out a third slip similar in size to those used for the two previous vessels. In August 1914, before Britannic could commence transatlantic service between New York and Southampton, the First World War began. Immediately, all shipyards with Admiralty contracts were given priority to use available raw materials. All civil contracts including Britannic were slowed.
The naval authorities requisitioned a large number of ships as armed merchant cruisers or for troop transport. The Admiralty paid the companies for the use of their ships but the risk of losing a ship in naval operations was high. The larger ocean liners were not initially taken for naval use, because smaller ships were easier to operate. Olympic returned to Belfast on 3 November 1914, while work on Britannic continued slowly.
The need for increased tonnage grew critical as naval operations extended to the Eastern Mediterranean. In May 1915, Britannic completed mooring trials of her engines, and was prepared for emergency entrance into service with as little as four weeks' notice. The same month also saw the first major loss of a civilian ocean liner when Cunard's RMS Lusitania was torpedoed near the Irish coast by a German Type U 19 SM U-20.
The following month, the Admiralty decided to use recently requisitioned passenger liners as troop transports in the Gallipoli Campaign (also called the Dardanelles service). The first to sail were Cunard's RMS Mauretania and RMS Aquitania. As the Gallipoli landings proved to be disastrous and the casualties mounted, the need for large hospital ships for treatment and evacuation of wounded became evident. Aquitania was diverted to hospital ship duties in August (her place as a troop transport would be taken by Olympic in September). Then on 13 November 1915, Britannic was requisitioned as a hospital ship from her storage location at Belfast.
Repainted white with large red crosses and a horizontal green stripe, she was renamed HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic and placed under the command of Captain Charles Alfred Bartlett. In the interior, 3,309 beds and several operating rooms were installed. The common areas of the upper decks were transformed into rooms for the wounded. The cabins of B Deck were used to house doctors. The first-class dining room and the first-class reception room on D Deck were transformed into operating rooms. The lower bridge was used to accommodate the lightly wounded. The medical equipment was installed on 12 December 1915.
Nora Fisher McMillan aka: Mrs Mac (b.1908 d.2003) born in Belfast, Eleanor Fisher, the first of Ernest and Janet Fisher's two daughters, but known as "Nora", was a larger-than-life self-taught expert in natural history, especially conchology, specialising in post-glacial fresh-water Mollusca, but with broad academic interests in the history of natural history, geology and other areas, as well as being a keen amateur botanist, naturalist and local historian. She wrote prolifically, with over 400 publications to her name.
Her interest in shells from the age of six had been sparked by summer visits to the beach at Millisle, Co. Down and encouraged by a family friend, Henry Cairns Lawlor (b.1870 d.1943)
, who introduced her to the photographer and malacologist Robert Welch, she joined the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club (BNFC). There her career began as a young girl in the Junior Section, where she gained a good knowledge of marine animals and flowering plants. During the 1920s her growing expertise in conchology was nurtured by Welch and other prominent members of the Field Club such as Robert Lloyd Praeger (b.1865 d.1953), the geologist John Kaye Charlesworth (b.1889 d.1972), and especially Arthur Stelfox (b.1883 d.1972), who was a major influence on her.
On 27th March 2003, during an interview with Julia Nunn and Dr Peter Crowtherford for the Ulster Museum, about her early days in Northern Ireland, Nora was asked “What was Robert Welch really like?”, she replied, “Very sweet. He was one of those teachers of natural history who would go to endless trouble for anybody. I owe everything to him, because he knew who to ask and who to get in touch with, the most selfless man you could imagine”. The interview appeared in Mollusc World, the newsletter of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Francis Joseph Bigger (b.1863 d.1926) was an Irish antiquarian, revivalist, solicitor, architect, author, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. His collected library, now distributed across several public institutions, comprised more than 18,000 books, journals, letters, photographs, sketches, maps, and other materials. He was a prolific sponsor and promoter of Gaelic culture, authored many works of his own, founded (or co-founded) several institutions, and revived and edited the Ulster Journal of Archaeology.
Bigger joined the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, and was later its secretary and its president. He also helped to organize the Glens Feis, a feis at Cushendall, out of a desire to promote Gaelic culture that also saw him join, and become a member of the executive committee of, the Gaelic League.
John Wilfrid Jackson (b.1880 d.1978) lived to a ripe old age, dying in his 99th year. During his life he made major contributions to conchology and to the Conchological Society. As his obituary records, he also made telling contributions in local natural history, the study of cave mammals, archaeology, Carboniferous geology and the study of Brachiopods.
A close friendship developed with Robert Welch, when Jackson was starting out in conchology. Following correspondence and shell exchange, JWJ visited Ireland in the summer of 1904 and made personal contact with Welch. Later that year Jackson, inspired by Welch’s photography, purchased his first camera and for the rest of his life photographed, developed and printed all his own material. Their long friendship lasted until 1936 when Welch died.
Robert Lloyd Praeger (b.1865 d.1953) was an engineer by qualification and initial practice, a librarian of long and senior standing by profession and a naturalist by inclination. He joined the Belfast Naturalists Field Club (BNFC) at age 11, and was already judging a category in the precursor to the Chelsea Flower Show at the age of 17. His first job was with the Belfast City and district water commissioners, and while working with this body on an expansion of Belfast Harbour Facilities, he also conducted studies on fossils, which led to his first post-college academic paper in 1886. In 1887 he co-authored his first book, on The Ferns of Ulster, with a businessman and botanist, William H. Phillips (b.1830 d.1923). In 1888 he declined a medium-term engineering position and applied unsuccessfully for a job at the Natural History Museum in Dublin; he worked the next five years on short engineering contracts while carrying on his naturalist work.
Praeger published a book in 1900 called the “Official Guide to County Down and the Mourne Mountains” and it containted seventy photographs of scenery by Robert Welch.
Arrol Gantry
The Arrol Gantry was a large steel structure built by Sir William Arrol & Co. at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was built to act as overhead cranes for the building of the three Olympic-class liners.
William Arrol (b.1839 d.1913) had constructed a shipyard for William Beardmore (b.1856 d.1936) and Company at Dalmuir on the Clyde. This included a large gantry structure over the building berth. In 1906 it was used for the construction of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Agamemnon, then the largest battleship launched on the Clyde.
The Beardmore gantry was 750 ft (230 m) long, 135 ft (41 m) wide and 150 ft (46 m) high, spanning a single building berth. The Belfast gantry would be very similar to this first gantry, although larger at 840 ft (260 m) long and spanning two building berths. The central girder between the berths allowed the addition of a larger cantilever crane.
Kenneth Elder, executor, receives the American flag from U.S. Army Capt. Andrew M. Pannozzo-DaRonco, Delta Company Commander, 1/3 Infantry Battalion, Military District of Washington, during the graveside service for U.S. Army Capt. Stephanie Rader in Arlington National Cemetery, June 1, 2016, in Arlington, Va. Rader worked as a U.S. spy, as a member of the Office of Strategic Services, in Europe after World War II. (U.S. Army photo by Rachel Larue/Arlington National Cemetery/released)
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In Memory of Benjamin Braswell who departed this life in 1817 leaving a magnificent bequest for the benefit of the orphans of Morgan county
For ages to come the recipients of big bounty shall rise up and bless the name of the noble Christian Philanthropist
The Braswell fund has been is being dispersed in the education of every indigent orphan in the county
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His will stated the following,
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State of Georgia ) In the name of God Amen. I, BENJAMIN BRASWELL, of the County & State aforesaid being sick and weak in body but of sound & perfect memory and calling to mind the transitory things of this life do make & ordain this to be my last will & testament revoking all other wills made by me in my name, Viz,
Having no children of my own it is my wish to dispose of my property so that it may be of a benefit to the unfortunate poor, etc. ----
Firstly. It is my will that any Executors hereafter named shall dispose of my sundry household and furniture with all my stock of Horses, Cattle and hogs in a way they may think best for the purpose of promoting the intention of this my last will and testament.
Secondly. It is my will that my Executors do dispose of the following named Negroes in the manner hereafter presented in this will Susannah, Nancy, Milbery, Jack, Ephrain, Amy, Abram, Solloman, Ransom, Lusana, Lucy Alicat & Benjamin. but the above negroes are to be sold on the following conditions which is to say that each Negroe is to be sold to such person as they may chuse for a master provided such person so chosen will pay at least one half the value of such Negroe and after the sale of all my property as aforesaid and together with all the money now in hand and also that is due me it is my express wish that my Executors do take the whole amount of the money and lodge it in the funds of the State Bank and whenever there shall be a sufficient sum arising from the interest of the principal it is my will that my Executors shall appropriate the said money to the sole purpose for Educating of Orphan children in the County of Morgan and it is my earnest request that after the death or refusal to act of my Executors, that the Court of Ordinary and their Successors in office in Morgan County do take the money into their hands and cause the true intent and meaning of this my last will and testament to be carried affect. I do hereby appoint as my Executors to this my last will & testament JAMES MALCOM, DAVIS GRISHAM & WILLIAM ________.
Given under my hand & seal this 20th day of March 18__
BENJAMIN BRASWELL (Seal)
Recorded 28th Feby 1818 Jn NESBIT
Georgia ) Personally appeared in open court came EPPIE DUKE &
Morgan County ) DAVID MALCOM Subscribing Witnesses to the within will who after being duly sworn saith that they saw the testator BENJAMIN BRASWELL sign & seal the same and heard him proclaim it to be his last will and testament and that they believe he was at the time in his proper sanity and that Z. AEIDDLETON also signed his name as a witness to the same sworn to & subscribed in open court this 1 day of Sepr 1817
E. DUKE
DAVID MALCOM
Recorded 28th Feby 1818 John Nesbet Clk
There is nothing I can add to this.
"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 dsp 1631 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
www.harltonvillage.org.uk/church/the-fryer-monument/ - Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Harlton Cambridgeshire
The theme idea for the colors came from an executor skin. I am horrible with coming up with good color matches, so I had red, but got tired of it and switched to black on gray (less contrast that way).
While reading the executor forum, I saw a post where someone had their classic windows arranged the same way (only the colors weren't weird like I had it before), so I decided to try this out again.
Unfortunately, executor took a long time to index my documents, way more time than launchy did, so I went back to launchy, which is displayed.
The picture doesn't get in the way because it becomes transparent on mouseover and is clickthrough. If I want to change the picture, I push alt or ctrl and right click, and if I want to delete anything from my desktop notes, alt/ctrl leftclick the pic.
Since I had rainmeter running also, i got rid of TitlebarClock and used rainmeter + always on top instead.
A Companhia Urbanizadora da Nova Capital (Novacap) encabeçou obras importantes para a segurança e a melhoria dos espaços públicos do Distrito Federal. Seja com a força de trabalho de seus servidores, seja com a expertise de licitar e fiscalizar obras, a empresa sempre participa de todas as ações de infraestrutura do DF.Foto: Joel Rodrigues/Agência Brasília
1994 Rover Metro Rio 5-door.
Supplied by Mann Egerton of King's Lynn.
Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"Executor sale. Husband and wife owned from new with original bill of sale included in the file. Complete with the original service book stamped 1994 to 1997.
V5 present
MoT September 2017
Recorded mileage 22,000
Estimate: NO RESERVE
Result: £450."
This grand honeycomb mosaic fronts the entry to a business on W. Northampton St., Wilkes-Barré, PA. Notice the design framing the doorway. The old time executors of such things were really talented!
Draft Will of Mrs. Lucy Lewin, 35 Grange Road, Ramsgate, Kent, 1890.
Executor/Executrix Douglas William Lewin, Son, Alice Hevenson Lewin, Daughter.
Beneficiaries: Douglas William Lewin, Son, Alice Hevenson Lewin, Daughter, Constance Lucy Lewin, Daugher, Edward Wotton, Solicitor
written 25-April-1783 in Reading, Berks Co., PA
My immigrant ancestor who came to PA in 1749
"I, Heinrich Schroefler, residing in Reading, Berks County in Pennsylvania, a sock (stocking) weaver am old and weak of limb but sound of mind and memory, am considering my mortality and am therefore making my last will and testament and give my worldly goods away , that is to say,
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My will is and I intend that my executors or the one who outlives the others, shall sell all my portable goods at public venture except such articles as later shall (word or words missing) and that goes for such goods to divide, therefore a third of everything to my wife Magdalena Schroefler and the other 2/3rds parts when the whole is divided in 3 equal parts to my sons Christopher, Heinrich, Godfried, Carl and George Schroefler and to my grandchild, Conrad Schroefler, to be divided in six equal parts,
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To my son, George Schroefler, I leave my fine loom with everything which belongs to it, to him and his (not legible)
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I intend that my executors, or the one who outlives the others, shall sell my house, half of the lot of land on which I live, situated on the north side of the above mentioned city of Reading, bordering on the west on a 20 foot wide alley and Richard Street and from east to west 115 feet long and from (word missing) north 60 feet wide. This is half of the lot of land which can be found on the map of the city of Reading under the number 144, page 144. I give my heirs absolute right, after the law D. (words missing) to write, do and deliver to the aguyer and his heirs forever (word missing) afore mentioned lot of land.
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According to this, my will and testament, all my debts shall be paid and what money is left, divided.
Four pounds in gold to my wife, Magdalene Schroefler and the rest too my sons and grandchild, C. Schroefler, a son of my deceased son, Conrad Schroefler, in six equal parts. In the case that my grandson Conrad Schroefler should die before coming of age, His part shall go to the afore mentioned sons in equal parts. I am telling and implore my (word missing) Christopher and Heintich Schroefler again that this is my last will and testament and will make my preceding testament and will null and void and let my signature and seal show that this is my last will and that there is no other.
This shows my hand and seal on April 25, 1783
Heinrich (his mark) Schroefler
signed and sealed
in our presence
Johann Rees, Alexander Eisenbeis
1967 Triumph Spitfire Mk.3.
Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"Offered on behalf of the executors. Husband and wife owned from new. Original handbook, service book, shell service records and an A4 folder of invoices and correspondence dating back to 1967. Restored in 2014 at a cost of well in excess of £10,000 by MW restorations. Fitted with wire wheels and both hard and soft tops."
Sold for £7140 on an estimate of £7000 to £9000.
Thomas Nash (baptised 20 June 1593 – died 4 April 1647)[1] was the first husband of William Shakespeare's granddaughter Elizabeth Barnard. He lived most of his life in Stratford-upon-Avon, and was the dominant male figure amongst Shakespeare's senior family line after the death of Dr. John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law, in 1635.
Nash was baptised at the parish church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon and entered in the register as “Thomas filius Anthonij Nash generosi”, i.e. “Thomas, son of Anthony Nash gentleman”. His mother's maiden name was Mary Baugh and she came from Twyning, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.[3] His father Anthony, a friend of Shakespeare and farmer of his tithes, was born in Old Stratford.
Nash entered Lincoln's Inn, one of the four Inns of Court in London, on 15 May 1616 at the at the age of 13, and was called to the bar on 25 November 1623, but there's no evidence that he ever went on to practice law.[4] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that he may however have taken over a rôle that his father held in being an agent for Sir John Hubaud, a High Sheriff of Warwickshire; but Sir John Hubaud died in 1583, ten years before Thomas was born.[4]
When Thomas's father died in 1622, he was bequeathed properties in Stratford: the Bear Inn (opposite the Swan) and a house in Bridge Street, and a piece of land called “the Butt Close by the Avon” where burghers used to shoot at archery butts.[5][6] Thomas was an executor to his father's will. It appears that Thomas held on to the Bear Inn: his father-in-law, Dr. John Hall, once treated someone that he called one of Thomas's servants “lying at the Bear”, presumably indicating that he was a publican or worker at that inn. Hall's first treatment for the poor heavily jaundiced servant elicited “seven Vomits”, and this and a series of further treatments “cured him perfectly”.[7]
Nash was part of the 1633 trimvirate, along with John Hall and the vicar of Harbury Richard Watts, that was to oversee the wranglings associated with Thomas Quiney and his lease on a house called The Cage.[8] Nash apparently lived in the house now known as Nash's House, before moving in with his mother-in-law next door at New Place after the death of Dr. Hall in 1635. Nash is known to have been a declared royalist, a supporter of Charles I and indeed a donor to the king's cause to the tune of £100,[9] which may have led to Queen Henrietta Maria and the king's entourage staying with Thomas and his family at New Place in July 1643.[10]
According to Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, Nash's coat of arms was emblazoned “double quarterly of four, First, 1 and 4 argent on a chevron between three ravens' heads erased azure, a pellet between 4 cross-crosslets sable, for Nash; 2 and 3 sable a buck's head caboshed argent attired or, between his horns a cross patée, and across his mouth an arrow, Bulstrode. Second, 1 and 4, for Hall, 2 and 3 Shakespeare”.
Nash married Elizabeth Hall, Shakespeare's granddaughter, on 22 April 1626 at Holy Trinity church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Thomas de Quincey conjectured that this date was chosen to celebrate the birthday of Elizabeth's famous grandfather, who was baptised on 26 April and whose birthday is celebrated out of tradition alone on 23 April. Being 32 years old at the time of the marriage, Nash was 14 years older than his 18 year old bride.[12] They had no children, and Elizabeth was the last direct descendent of Shakespeare.
Thomas Nash died in 1647, at the age of 53. In the will that he made on 20 August 1642 he bequeathed memorial rings (a common practice at the time) to Thomas and Judith Quiney, Shakespeare's son-in-law and daughter.[14] Less straightforwardly, he also bequeathed property that did not belong to him, for example leaving New Place, the property of his mother-in-law Susanna Hall, to his cousin Edward Nash.[14] Indeed, Nash even refers to Susanna in a letter as “Mrs. Hall, my mother-in-law, who lives with me”.[2] Susanna successfully retained the house, which Shakespeare had bought in 1597, after some legal wrangling.
Nash was buried in the chancel of Holy Trinity, immediately to the right of Shakespeare's as one faces the altar. To be accorded this honour required some kind of position recognised by the church as fitting, such as holding parish tithes. His burial inscription and epitaph reads:[15]
HEERE RESTETH YE BODY OF THOMAS
NASHE, ESQ. HE MAR. ELIZABETH, THE
DAVG: & HEIRE OF IOHN HALLE, GENT.
HE DIED APRILL 4. A. 1647, AGED 53.
Fata manent omnes, hunc non virtute carentum
vt ncque diuitiis, abstulit atra dies;
Abstulit, at referet lux ultima; siste viator,
si peritura paras per male parta peris.
His widow Elizabeth remarried two years later.