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5 giorni fa · Dillwyn is credited with discovering several species of the Conferva genus. Among the botanical illustrators of The British Confervae are the artists William Jackson Hooker, Ellen Hutchins and William Weston Young. He was elected in 1804 as a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1817 he temporarily retired from the pottery.
- Mary Adams Llewelyn
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- August 21, 1788
3 giorni fa · William Hooker Gillette built this home, his dream home, overlooking a wide span of the Connecticut River below. He was a descendent of Thomas Hooker, credited as the founder of Hartford.
3 giorni fa · Hadley, Maine. DIED. October 31, 1879. Garden City, New York. ARMY. Union. Hooker attended Hopkins Academy in Hadley before he went to West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1837, ranked 29 out of 50 in his class. He was assigned to the artillery and served in the Seminole War, on the frontier, Adjutant at West Point, and the Mexican War.
5 giorni fa · JDH's wife Frances has returned from Down House & is still unwell. JDH recounts the current whereabouts & activities of his children: Harriet Anne Hooker is in Cheltenham with her great aunt, William Henslow Hooker continues with the fiddle, & Charles Paget Hooker has spent his holiday with Barnard at Cheltenham.
5 giorni fa · William Jackson was an English composer and writer on music, whose opera The Lord of the Manor (1780) held the stage for many years. Jackson was organist and choirmaster at Exeter cathedral from 1777. His best-known other compositions are Twelve Songs (1755) and Twelve Canzonets for Two Voices (c.
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3 giorni fa · The First Mayor of London—Portrait of him—Presentation to the King—An Outspoken Mayor—Sir N. Farindon—Sir William Walworth—Origin of the prefix "Lord"—Sir Richard Whittington and his Liberality—Institutions founded by him—Sir Simon Eyre and his Table—A Musical Lord Mayor—Henry VIII. and Gresham—Loyalty of the Lord Mayor and Citizens to Queen Mary—Osborne's Leap into ...
5 giorni fa · ¶ The regnal year is blank in Hooker but given as 2 Richard II (i.e. 1378) in Archaeologia xxviii. 10. 10. * The same blank space occurs in the duplicate copy in Book52, f458. 11. * This motto occurs in Holinshead, ii, 108, 183, also as that of William Bradbridge, who was Bishop of Exeter from March 1, 1571, to June 27, 1578. in Izacke ...
