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Macau, Protestant Cemetery, 2019.
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George Chinnery (Chinese: 錢納利; 5 January 1774 – 30 May 1852) was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China.
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Chinnery returned to London in 1801 without his wife and two infant children. In 1802 he sailed to Madras (Chennai) on the ship Gilwell. He established himself as a painter there and then in Calcutta (Kolkata), where he became the leading artist of the British community in India.
By 1813 Chinnery was a freemason, listed as a member of Calcutta's well-to-do masonic lodge Star in the East. This was one of three masonic lodges in that city which took part in the official welcome for Lord Moira (1754-1826), also a freemason, on his arrival there (1813) as the new Governor-General of India.[1] Chinnery's masonic career is otherwise little documented, and its connection with his artistic output unexplored.
Some of his most famous paintings are of the Indian family of Colonel James Achilles Kirkpatrick British Resident to the Nizam of Hyderabad who had set up home, to some scandal among his fellow Europeans, with the Indo-Iranian great niece of the Nizam of Hyderabad's chief minister. He painted The Kirkpatrick Children presenting them " [with a] sympathy that is rare in portraiture of the period; the boy looking straight at the viewer with a self-conscious stance, hand on hip, while the girl looks uncomfortably at the floor." [2] Mounting debt prompted a move in 1825 to southern China.
From 1825 until his death in 1852 Chinnery based himself in Macau,[3] but until 1832 he made regular visits to Canton (now Guangzhou). He painted portraits of Chinese and Western merchants, visiting sea-captains, and their families resident in Macau. His work in oil paint was closely imitated by the Cantonese artist Lam Qua, who himself became a renowned portrait painter. Chinnery also painted landscapes (both in oils and in watercolours), and made numerous drawings of the people of Macau engaged in their daily activities.
At the time, westerners were restricted in their access to China, trading out of settlements in Macau and later Hong Kong, where Chinnery also went - His interest in the local scene does indeed set him apart from most western artists of the time.[4]
In 1846 he made a six-month visit to Hong Kong, where he suffered from ill health but made detailed studies of the newly founded colony. He died in Macau on 30 May 1852 and is buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery there.
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(from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Chinnery)
George Osborne holds the budget box in 11 Downing Street ahead of his budget statement to Parliament, 22 June 2010; Crown copyright.
Who wouldnt want a picture of a half naked balding man in their home???? George Costanza at his best...wood laminate picture $40 firm
arrives at the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
French postcard. 1910s. Cliché Félix, No. 11.
Georges Coquet (1866-1916) was a French stage and screen actor. Coquet obtained his diploma of the Paris Conservatory in 1888. He first played classical stage roles, then moved over to vaudeville, and finally played at the Comédie-Française. After a first part in the Pathé thriller La main (1907), Coquet became a prolific Pathé actor between 1911 and 1914, mostly playing in comedies (e.g. those with Max Linder). He was married to Andrée Marly, who was twenty years younger than he, with whom he also acted together in a number of Pathé shorts such as Deux vieux garçons (Michel Carré, 1911), Le Vase brisé (1912), Serment de fumeur (Camille de Morlhon, 1912), and À la française (1912). In 1912 René Leprince directed Coquet several times, such as Le club des élégants and L'infidèle. Probably his last part Coquet had in the Gaumont comedy L'épreuve (1914), directed by Louis Feuillade and starring Renée Carl.
St George - Doncaster Minster
The original 12th-century Norman building burnt down on the last day of February 1853. This fire resulted in the loss of the medieval library which was above the south porch.
The current building was designed by architect Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1853 and constructed between 1854 and 1858 at a cost of £43,126 4s 5d. It was consecrated by the Archbishop of York on 14 October 1858.
It is one of Doncaster's most architecturally important buildings evidenced by its Grade I listing and was described by Sir John Betjeman as "Victorian Gothic at its very best". It was given minster status by the Bishop of Sheffield on 17 June 2004.
Amongst its treasures are a clock by Dent (the designer of the Palace of Westminster Clock, more usually known as Big Ben) and a spectacular 5 manual organ by the renowned German organ builder Edmund Schulze (1824–1877).
The minster has eight bells with a tenor of 29 long cwt 2 qr 17 lb (3,321 lb or 1,506 kg).
British postcard in the Wrench series, no. 1002. Sent by mail in 1902. Photo: Langfier Ltd London. Louis Langfier was a well-known British studio photographer in the early 20th century.
Sir George Alexander (1858-1918) was an English actor and theatre manager, who produced and starred in Oscar Wilde's plays Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Ernest. He also acted in two silent films and is the great, great uncle of Hugh Laurie.
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George McClellan was a lieutenant during the Mexican American War and a Union Major General during the Civil War. He was also the 24th Governor of New Jersey and a Presidential hopeful in 1864.
McClellan graduated from West Point academy as 2nd in his class in 1846 and was placed as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. In October of 1846, McClellan was sent down to the Texas Mexico border to serve under future president Gen. Zachary Taylor. McClellan would then serve under Gen. Winfield Scott where he would run reconnaissance missions missions while in Mexico. After the war, McClellan returned to West Point to rejoin the Army of Engineers.
At the beginning of the Civil War, McClellan sided with the Union and excepted a position as General of Ohio volunteers. In short time, McClellan would take command of the Department of Ohio which included giving him control of the armies in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, western Pennsylvania, and western Virginia. He would take control of the forces of western Virgina taking two decisive victories over the confederacy forcing them to leave the area. This would make McClellan a national heroe and help Virginia split into two different states.
In 1861, after the loss at the Battle of Bull Run, President Lincoln called for McClellan to take over that Army of the Potomic and lead them against confederate forces. McClellan, at this time, was second in charge to only Winfield Scott who was commander and chief of the United States Army. After taking over the army, McClellan saw different than what other Union generals saw and became very suspicious of everybody around him. He was one of a few generals in the United States Army who believed in slavery because it was written in the Constitution. He started refusing to explain his war strategies and kept them a secret from the likes of Major General Winfield Scott. Scott would hand Lincoln his resignation due to distrust among him and McClellan to which Lincoln would refuse. After hearing from sources that McClellan would resign for the same reason, Lincoln accepted Scott's resignation dur to health issues. This would make McClellan the Commander and Chief of the United States Army.
After taking command of the army, McClellan would be slow to attack the confederate forces around Washington. McClellan had become paranoid and thought the confederacy had around 150,000 troops stationed there while there was less then 35,000. Lincoln and his cabinet became very frustrated with McClellan and ordered him to the White House to force him to tell his strategy for attacking the confederacy. McClellan would do so in which Lincoln would order him to strike now. After more slow movement by McClellan, Lincoln was forced to remove McClellan from his duty as commander and allow him to only serve as General of the Army of the Potomic.
McClellan would lead his group down to Richmond, Va and onto Williamsburg, Va where he would chase Confederate Major Robert E Lee. While see victories in Virginia, Lee was able to escape McClellan each time. He finally tracked Lee down one lat time outside Sharpsburg, Md at the Battle of Antietam. However, McClellan came down with a fever and missed much war action so he was forced to rely on his men, but McClellan had still not given anybody his strategy. The Union would take the victory at Antietam but Lee still escaped. Congress put all blame on McClellan and Lincoln removed him from duty awarding General Burnside the Army of the Potomic and Ulysses S Grant as commander and chief.
In 1864, as Lee moved into Pennsylvania and Gettysburg, Lincoln and Grant tried to have McClellan reinstated into the army to lead a group into Gettysburg, but Congress refused the reinstatement. McClellan would turn his attention to politics where he would receive the Democratic nod to run for President in 1864. McClellan would run against President Lincoln and would support the continuation of war. His race was held up with inconsistency when Ohio congressman, George Pendleton, was chosen as his running mate. Pendleton was a peace time supporter and spoke out against the war. Lincoln would win the election easily at an electoral vote of 212 to 21 and a poplar vote of 55% to 45%.
In 1868, the democrats wanted McClellan to run again for President, but he refused when he found out Ulysses S Grant was running as the Republican. In 1877, McClellan was taken by surprise when he was nominated to run for the off ice of Governor of New Jersey even though he had never shown interest. McClellan accepted the nomination and won the election serving one term as the 24th Governor of New Jersey.
George McClellan passed away in 1885. He is buried at Riverview Cemetery in Trenton, NJ.
So i met this lady George while watching this dude Alex tattoo a Pigs Head at Garage Studios in Brighton.
I noticed she had a tattoo on her ankle, and asked to shoot her, and when i told her why, she rolled up her sleeve for me and showed me another tattoo.
The best part, i shot this at Garage Studio's in front of their ultra-cool infinity wall and i didn't have to pay a hire fee,... mwa ha ha ha ha.... right place, right time y'all.
Canon 30D. George with Mug of Tea.
George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, looks through his speech on Britain's Economic Future during his tube journey to give a speech at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf, London, Monday October 26, 2009. (Photo by Andrew Parsons)
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American postcard by Flying A, no. 27. Photo: Flying A.
George Field (1877-1925) was an American actor and director of silent films. From 1913 till 1916, he worked for Flying A in Santa Barbara. Field starred in 207 films until 1924.
George Field was born George Blankman Field in 1877 in San Francisco, California. His parents were George Durgin Field and Elizabeth Blankman. He began as a stage actor on the West Coast. Around 1912 he became a silent screen actor. He starred for the Nestor company in such short silent Westerns as Young Wild West's Mexican Mix-Up (Al Christie, 1912) and Young Wild West Cornered by Apaches (Al Christie, 1912). From 1913 till 1916, he worked for Flying A in such short Westerns as The Fugitive (Wallace Reid, 1913) and The Cowboy Heir (N.N., 1913) and dramas like The Hermit (Tom Ricketts, 1914) opposite Edward Coxen and Winifred Greenwood. In 1913 he married his leading lady, Winifred Greenwood. They divorced in 1918.
After a short intermission, George Field returned in 1918 to the screen in the William S. Hart Western Riddle Gawne (William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer, 1918). George later worked for another cowboy star, Dustin Farnum. During the early 1920s, George Field continued to appear in well-known silent films such as Blood and Sand ( Fred Niblo, 1922) and The Young Rajah (Phil Rosen, 1922), both starring Rudolph Valentino. However, illness cut his career short and he was forced to leave acting in late 1924. That year, he starred in his last film, the Western Trigger Fingers (B. Reeves Eason, 1924) with Bob Custer. George Field died of tuberculosis in 1925 in Los Angeles, California. He was 47. Wikipedia: "George's funeral notice appeared in The Los Angeles Times and stated that he was the beloved husband of Mary L. Field, so his divorce from Winifred is almost certain."
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St George's Church is in Church Walk, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ashton-under-Lyne, the archdeaconry of Rochdale and the diocese of Manchester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It was a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.
Since 1776 there has been a chapel of ease dedicated to Saint George on the north bank of the River Tame overlooking its main crossing point. This replaced an earlier chapel of ease that had been damaged by a landslip in 1774. In the early part of the 19th century the fabric of the church had deteriorated and it was considered to be unsafe. In 1835 the incumbent approached Lord Stamford, the patron of the living, to provide land for a new church on a different site. Land was found for this about 0.25 miles (0.4 km) to the northwest.
The foundation stone was laid on 3 September 1838, the same day as the foundation stone for Sharpe's St John's Church at Dukinfield, by Viscount Combermere, a former Grand Master of the local Masonic Lodge. It was consecrated on 24 June 1840 by the Bishop of Chester. The new church was also dedicated to Saint George. It was a Commissioners' church designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe. It cost £4,012 (equivalent to £390,000 in 2021) to build and £2,712 of this was met by a grant from the Church Building Commission. The church provided seating for 1,022 people.
However the congregation of the old St George's Church did not want to leave their building for the new church, and successfully petitioned for the old church to be retained rather than demolished. It re-opened on 29 September 1843 with a new incumbent, separate from that of the new church. Nonetheless there was serious tension between the two churches, which was not resolved until the incumbent of the new church died suddenly in 1847.
In 1881 the north and south galleries were removed from the church. The west gallery was not removed until 1976 when the interior of the church was divided by a brick wall. The portion to the east of the wall continued in use as a church, and the portion to the west was modified "for parochial, social, educational, and recreational facilities".
The church is built in stone with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a seven-bay nave with north and south aisles under one roof, a small single-bay chancel and a west tower. The tower is in three stages with corner buttresses rising to pinnacles. The windows are thin lancet windows, containing Geometrical tracery. The east window consists of two pairs of lancet windows, each surmounted by a round window, with another round window above them. The interior of the church has been divided. The arcades are carried on octagonal piers. The alabaster font is in the form of an angel holding a shell. The stained glass is by Lightfoot. The three-manual organ was built by Renn & Wadsworth.