Showing 855 results

Authority record

Fleetwood, William

  • MS070
  • Person
  • 1656-1723

William Fleetwood was born on 1 January 1656 in the Tower of London and educated at King's College, Cambridge. He became one of the most celebrated preachers of his day, often speaking before the Royal family and to parliament. On 2 June 1702 he was appointed to a canonry at Windsor. He also held several other appointments and a fellowship at Eton. He was created Bishop on Ely on 19 November 1714. Many of his sermons were published. The Chronicon was written to address the question about the ability to retain a College fellowship while in the possession an estate of practically no value because of the change in the value of money. It was published anonymously in London in 1707. Fleetwood died at Tottenham, near London, on 4 August 1723.

Mosley, Oswald

  • MS072
  • Person
  • 1661-1726

Oswald Mosley was the father of Sir Oswald Mosley. Sir Oswald was created a baronet in 1720. He was fourth in descent from Anthony Mosley, brother of Nicholas Mosley who became the Lord Mayor of London in 1599. This creation of the baronetcy became extinct in 1779. The family lived in Rolleston, Staffordshire.

Gnecco, Francesco

  • MS076
  • Person
  • 1769-1810/11

Francesco Gnecco, composer, was born in Genoa, ca. 1769. He was primarily a composer of operas but also wrote chamber and sacred music. The most famous of his twenty-five operas is La prova d'un opera sera. It was originally in one act with a libretto by Artusi and titled La prima prova dell'opera gli orazi e curiazi (Venice, 1803). It was changed to a two act work with Gnecco's own libretto (Milan, 1805) and performed throughout Europe until 1860. Gnecco died in Milan in 1810 or 1811.

Copley, Elizabeth Mary

  • MS081
  • Person
  • 1800-1887

Elizabeth Mary Copley was born on 11 April 1800, the daughter of Sir Joseph Copley Bart. and lived at Sprotbrough Hall in Yorkshire, England. Sprotbrough Hall stands on a limestone ridge overlooking the River Don, near Doncaster. It was built in the late seventeenth century by Sir Godfrey Copley and contained a large library and a valuable collection of paintings. The hall was auctioned for death duties in 1925 and demolished in 1926. Miss Copley died on 12 January 1887.

Church of Christ (Toronto, Ont.)

  • MS083
  • Corporate body
  • 1889-19--

The Churches of Christ are autonomous Christian congregations associated with one another through common beliefs and practices. They have roots in the American Restoration Movement. According to the manuscript this congregation started in October 1889 at Broadway Hall, moved to Brunswick Avenue, October 1897, and then to Bathurst Street in November 1902. The Elders of the church in 1904 were William Forrester, Duncan Stirling, James Stewart, and John Smart.

Marchesi, Tommasso

  • MS085
  • Person
  • 1773-1852

Tommaso Marchesi, Italian composer, conductor and organist, was born in Lisbon on 7 March 1773. He studied with Sanislao Mattei at Bologna. In 1808 he founded the Accademia dei Filarmonica. He died in Bologna on 6 June 1852.

Wilkes, John

  • MS087
  • Person
  • 1727-1796

John Wilkes, politician, man of fashion, and dilettante, was born in Clerkenwell on 17 October 1727 and educated by a Presbyterian minister, Leeson, at Alylesbury, Buckinghamshire before going on to the University of Leyden. Through marriage he gained an estate at Aylesbury and was before long separated from his wife. As a supporter of Pitt, he was returned in the general election of 1761, and together with Pitt's brother-in-law, he organized the Bucks. militia of which he was appointed colonel in June 1762. Foiled in his plan to either become an ambassador or the governor of Quebec, he began to write pamphlets, published anonymously, against the government. He was answered by Smollet in The Briton and helped to found The North Briton in order to have a vehicle for response. Its first issue was published on 5 June 1762. Wilkes had a very chequered career with repeated arrests, a conviction for libel, and a successful return to the House of Commons. The manuscript of 22 October 1764 was written in response to his conviction. He spent several years in exile in France. He died in London on 26 December 1796.

Macdonald, Archibald

  • MS088
  • Person
  • 1786-1872

Archibald Macdonald was born in Callander, Perthshire, Scotland in 1786 or 1787. He was commissioned a lieutenant on 25 July 1805 in the 35th Regiment. He served in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars. He came to Canada in 1819 and settled beside Rice Lake, near Cobourg, Ont. He served as a member of the provincial legislature from 1831-1834. He died in 1872. A much longer biography as well as a transcription of the journal can be found in Library Research News 4, no. 6 (July 1980).

France. Ministère de l'Algérie et des Colonies

  • MS091
  • Corporate body

After the abolition of slavery in the French West Indies in 1848, the policy of allowing the immigration of Indian and Asians as indentured labourers was established. The ship Réamur transported these indentured labourers from the French controlled porets of Karikal and Pondicherry in the south of India to French Guyana and Marinque.

Sheldon, Ralph

  • MS092
  • Person

Ralph Sheldon was probably an Englishman temporarily living in Nancy, France. He undertook a tour of Switzerland in the late eighteenth century.

Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of

  • MS093
  • Person
  • 1536-1608

Thomas Sackville, first Earl of Dorset, barrister, member of parliament, and poet. Sackville was born in 1536 at Buckhurst, Surrey and perhaps educated at Hart Hall, Oxford and St. John's College, Cambridge. He became a barrister in the Inner Temple and a member of parliament, 1558-1563. In 1567 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Buckhurst, and in 1608 was created Earl of Dorset. He served as an ambassador and then lord treasurer from 1599 until his death at his desk in Whitehall, London, 19 April 1608. Sackville was also an accomplished poet.

Fenton, J.

  • MS095
  • Person
  • [18--]

The Robert Fuge, a brig, travelled from Liverpool to Quebec City in the summer of 1819. The master of the ship was A.G. Blewett. On board were J. Fenton and 32 other settlers. The ship arrived in Quebec on 26 August, after a voyage of 60 days.

Moir, David Macbeth

  • MS109
  • Person
  • 1798-1851

David Macbeth Moir, physician and author, was born in Musselburgh, Scotland, on 5 January 1798. He also used the pen name of the delta symbol . He was educated in Edinburgh and became a frequent contributor of Constable's Edinburgh Magazine and Blackwood's Magazine. He married Catherine E. Bell on 8 June 1828. He published one novel, The Autobiography of Mansie Wauch (1828). He died in Dumfries on 6 July 1851.

Lavradio, Louis de Almeida Soares Portugal Alarcao Eco e Melo, marques de,

  • MS110
  • Person
  • 1727-1790

Luís de Almeida Portugal Soares de Alarcão d'Eça e Melo Silva Mascarenhas, 2nd Marquess of Lavradio was the 11th Viceroy of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, the second one that ruled the colony after the seat of government moved to Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of a Marquis of the same title, D. António de Almeida Soares e Portugal and his wife, D. Francisca das Chagas Mascarenhas. During the 1762 Spanish invasion of Portugal, he commanded the 1st Cascais Infantry Regiment.

Marshall, George

  • MS113
  • Person

George Marshall served as the ship's Fourth Officer on the East India Company ship The Royal Charlotte. The ship of 499 tons made its first voyage beginning in 1771 or 1772.

Comiers, Claude

  • MS114
  • Person
  • d.1693

Comiers was a mathematician and kabbalist.

Roessner, Andreas and Maria

  • MS130
  • Person
  • [17--]

Andreas Roessner, burgess and basketmaker lived in Kelheim, Bavaria, with Maria his wife.

Results 41 to 60 of 855