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Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q

By Boase, Frederic

Classic work by Boase, Frederic.

Total Chapters: 18•Public Domain Free Read

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VOLUME II.

I-Q. TRURO: NETHERTON AND WORTH, FOR THE AUTHOR. 250 COPIES ONLY PRINTED. P...

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I I’ANSON. I’ANSON, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward I’Anson 1775–1853, surveyor and architect). _b._ St. Laurence, Pountney hill, London 25 July 1812; ed. at Mercha...

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part in Lord Nelson’s victory over the Danes off Copenhagen

2 April 1801 and was ultimately the last survivor of those present; retired commander 11 March 1860. _d._ 3 July 1875 aged 86. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict._ (1849) 579. J...

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part in agitation on Public Health acts 1848; chairman Croydon

local board of health; published works with his bro. Geo. W. Johnson; author of The use of crushed bones as manure 1836, three editions; The life of sir Edward Coke 2 vols. 1...

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book 1850, 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 4 Buenos Ayres, Margate 7 Sep.

1855. _bur._ churchyard of Chelsham, Surrey, by the side of his parents. _Passages from the life of Alderman Kelly. By R. C. Fell_ (1856), _portrait_; _Curwen’s Booksellers_ ...

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book 1826; The refutation of nonconformity on its own professed

principle 1836; An exposition of some of the differences between Scripture and Calvinism 1843; Every infant regenerated in baptism, a doctrine of the church of England 1850; ...

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part in Rossini’s opera Donna del Lago; _m._ Frederick Lablache

(1815–87) when she retired from the stage; taught singing; struck with a wave while bathing. _d._ Paris 23 Sep. 1877. LABLACHE, FANNY ROSE LOUISE (younger dau. of the succee...

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part 1 translated by W. H. Leeds 1836; Illustrations of the

public buildings of London 1838; An essay on the present state of architectural study and the revival of the Italian style, Printed in Studies and examples of school of Engli...

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part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was

nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer, of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion,...

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book 3 vols. 1835; The commercial and financial legislation of

Europe and America 1841; Commercial statistics of all nations 5 vols. 1844–50; The progress of America from the discovery by Columbus 2 vols. 1847; Sketches of the Austrian a...

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part i_, _pp._ 336–7 (1870).

MC PHERSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1796, major 1 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col. commandant 67 N.I. 182-, col. 5 June 1829 to 8 Oct....

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part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P.

Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with Smith O’Brien in 1829. _d._ Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June 1891. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 21 June. _I...

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book 1858; The book of field sports and library of veterinary

knowledge 1860–63; Miles’ Modern practical farrier 1863–64; English country life 1868–69; Pugilistica, being one hundred and forty-four years of the history of British boxing...

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chapter vi to The history of the Roman empire from Vespasian,

Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. _d._ Futtyghur, Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at Futtyghur. _Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain_, ...

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part in the Fenian movement from 1858; was head centre of

the Fenian brotherhood several years; published Foras feasa ar Eirinn, The history of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D., translated from the original Gaelic and copiously ann...

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part in the Fenian invasion of Canada June 1870; organised the

rescue of all the military political prisoners from Western Australia April 1876; wrote odes to commemorate many national celebrations; author of Songs from the Southern seas...

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book 1859; On the evidence of accomplices 1863. _d._ Burlington

terrace, East Melbourne 9 May 1869. _bur._ Sydney 15 May. _Heads of the people_, _Sydney_, _i_ 93 (1847) _portrait_; _P. Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 374. PLUNK...

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VOLUME II.

This Index contains references to the most important, curious, and interesting facts, to be found in the pages of this work. A Abbot, mitre...

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