History of modern anatomy - Germany it was obligatory that the bodies of all people unable to pay for their burials, all dying in prisons, all suicides and public women should be given up. In all these countries the supply was most ample, exhumation was unknown, and the cost of learning anatomy to the students was not high. In Great Britain the earlier exhumations seem to have caused very little popular concern; Hunter, it is said, could manage to get the body of any person he wanted, were it that of giant, dwarf, hunchback or lord, but later, when the number of students increased very rapidly, the trade of "resurrection man" became commoner, and attracted the lowest dregs of the vicious classes. It is estimated that in 1828 about 200 people were engaged in it in.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield - of a Jacobite family. William Murray was educated at Perth grammar school and Westminster School, of which he was a king's scholar. Entering Christ Church College, Oxford, he graduated in 1727. A friend of the family, Lord Foley, provided the funds for his legal training, and he became a member of Lincoln's Inn on his departure from Oxford, being called to the bar in 1730. He was a good scholar and mixed with the best literary society, being an intimate friend of Alexander Pope. His appearance in some important Scottish appeal cases brought him into notice, and in Scotland at least he acquired an immense reputation by his appearance for the city of Edinburgh when it was threatened with disfranchisement for the affair of the Porteous mob. His English practice had.
John Ball - John Ball John Ball (d. 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. Little is known of his early years, but he lived probably at York and afterwards at Colchester. He gained considerable fame as a preacher by expounding the doctrines of John Wycliffe, but especially by his insistence on the principle of social equality. These utterances brought him into collision with the archbishop of Canterbury, and on three occasions he was committed to prison. He appears also to have been excommunicated, and in 1366 all persons were forbidden to hear him preach. His opinions, however, were not moderated, nor his popularity diminished by these measures, and his words had a considerable effect in stirring up the rising.
John Wain - John Wain John Wain (born John Barrington Wain, March 14, 1925 - May 24, 1994) was a poet, critic and Professor of Poetry, associated with the literary group The Movement. For most of his life, John Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. Background and Work Wain was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and later attended St. John's College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1946 and M.A. in 1950. He wrote his first novel Hurry on Down in 1953, which was about the life of a graduate and how he turns his life against conventional society. Other notable novels include Strike the father dead (1962) and Young shoulders (1982), the latter winning the Whitbread Prize. His use of non-capital.
University of Durham - University of Durham is the third-oldest university in England, after Oxford and Cambridge. Located in the beautiful cathedral city of Durham, it is one of the United Kingdom's leading research universities - coming eleventh in the 2002 Research Assessment Exercise and never out of the top twenty of either the Times Good University Guide or the Sunday Times University Guide. It is a member of the 1994 Group of Universities, representing medium-sized research universities. The current Chancellor of the University is Sir Peter Ustinov. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 1.1 Stockton 1.2 Durham Today 1.3 Chancellors of the University 2 Colleges 2.4 Bailey 2.5 Hill 2.6 Queen's Campus 2.7 Others 3 Constitution 3.8 The Visitor 3.9 The Chancellor 3.10 The Vice-Chancellor 3.11 Convocation 3.12 Council 3.13 Senate 3.14 Colleges 3.15.
Clifford A. Pickover - University's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. Pickover graduated first in his class from Franklin and Marshall College, after completing the four-year undergraduate program in three years. His books have been translated into French, Greek, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Polish. He is currently an associate editor for the scientific journal Computers and Graphics and is an editorial board member for Odyssey and Leonardo. Dr. Pickover's primary interest is in finding new ways to continually expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics, and other seemingly-disparate areas of human endeavor. In particular, he is the author of over thirty books on such topics as computers and creativity, art, mathematics, black holes, human behavior and intelligence, time travel, alien life, and science fiction. Pickover is an inventor with dozens of patents,.
Thomas Frognall Dibdin - both died on the way home to England in 1780, and Thomas was brought up by a maternal uncle. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and studied for a time at Lincoln's Inn. After an unsuccessful attempt to obtain practice as a provincial counsel at Worcester, he was ordained a clergyman at the close of 1804, being appointed to a curacy at Kensington. It was not until 1823 that he received the living of Exning in Sussex. Soon afterwards he was appointed by Lord Liverpool to the rectory of St Mary's, Bryanston Square, which he held until his death. The first of his numerous bibliographical works was his Introduction to the Knowledge of Editions of the Classics (1802), which brought him under the notice of the third Earl Spencer,.
Edward Alleyn - actor, was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of Dulwich College. He was born in London, the son of an innkeeper. Known to contemporaries as "Ned", his surname is sometimes spelled Allen or Alleyne. It is not known at what date he began to act, but he certainly gained distinction in his calling while a young man, for in 1586 his name was on the list of the earl of Worcester's players, and he was eventually rated by common consent as the foremost actor of his time. In the 1590s Alleyn's career reached its peak, his imposing stage presence making him ideally suited to the Marlovian roles of Faustus and Tamburlaine, which were probably created especially for him. He retired at the height of his fame around 1598,.
St. John's College, Oxford - St. John's College, Oxford St. John's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Thomas White, a merchant, in 1555. Fairly large, it comprises approximately 400 undergraduates and 250 postgraduates and academic staff, and is the wealthiest college in Oxford. The college stands on St. Giles, which it owns, and is close to the Martyrs' Memorial. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Notable Former Students 3 Academics/Teachers 4.
St John's College, Cambridge - St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is one of the colleges making up the University of Cambridge, and was founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1511. It is now Cambridge's second largest college by size of its membership, behind Trinity College. The college was founded on the original site of the 13th century Hospital of St John in Cambridge at the suggestion of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and chaplain to Lady Margaret. However, Lady Margaret died without having mentioned the foundation of St John's in her will and testament and it was largely the work of John Fisher which ensured that the college was founded. He had to obtain the approval of King Henry VIII of England, the Pope through an intermediary Polydore Vergil,.
St John's College - St John's College There are a number of colleges with the name "St John's". For example: St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, Oxford St John's College, Annapolis, Maryland St John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico St John's University, New York (formerly St. John's college) This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
St. John's College, Annapolis - St. John's College, Annapolis St. John's College, Annapolis, is the sister campus to St. John's College, Santa Fe. St. John's College is one college on two campuses. The school follows a unique curriculum, sometimes called the Great Books Program, based on discussion of works from the Western philosophic and literary canon. The four-year, all-required program of study allows students to engage directly with some of the greatest minds in Western civilization, through reading and discussing original works of philosophy, mathematics, science, music, poetry, and fiction. There are no textbooks and all classes are based on discussion. Tutors, as professors are called at the College, guide the classes but do not lead them. Each student is challenged to judge for himself the various viewpoints he encounters, and.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir John Buchan (August 26, 1875 - February 11, 1940), 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish novelist and politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Born in Perth, Scotland, he was educated at Glasgow University and Brasenose College, Oxford, winning the Newdigate prize for poetry while a student at the latter. Buchan at first entered into a career in law in 1901, but almost immediately moved into politics, becoming private secretary to Alfred Milner, who was high commissioner of South Africa - hence Buchan gained an acquaintance with the country that was to feature prominently in his writing. Buchan married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor, cousin of the Duke of Westminster, on July 15, 1907. Together they had four children, two of whom.
John Eliot (statesman) - John Eliot (statesman) Sir John Eliot (1592 - November 27, 1632), English statesman, son of Richard Eliot, a member of an old Devon family who had settled in Cornwall, was born at his father's seat at Port Eliot in Cornwall. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on December 4 1607, and leaving the university after three years he studied law at one of the Inns of Court. He also spent some months travelling in France, Spain and Italy, in company, for part of the time, with young George Villiers, afterwards duke of Buckingham. Eliot was only twenty-two when he began his parliamentary career as member for St Germans in the "Addled Parliament" of 1614. In 1618 he was knighted, and next year through the patronage of.
John Strype - John Strype John Strype (November 1, 1643 - December 11, 1737) was an English historian and biographer. Born in Houndsditch, London, he was the son of John Strype, or van Stryp, a member of a Brabant family who, to escape religious persecution, had settled in London. Located in what became known as Strype's Yard in Petticoat Lane, he was a merchant and silk throwster. The younger John was educated at St Paul's School, and on July 5 1662 entered Jesus College, Cambridge; he went on from there to Catherine Hall, where he graduated B.A. in 1665 and M.A. in 1669. On July 14 of the latter year he became perpetual curate of Theydon Bois, and a few months afterwards curate and lecturer of Leyton in the.
John Stainer - John Stainer John Stainer (June 6, 1840 - March 31, 1901) was an English composer and organist. Born in Southwark, he sang as a boy in the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, afterwards becoming organist successively of St Michael's College, Tenbury, Magdalen College, Oxford and finally, in 1872, St Paul's. His work as choir trainer and organist set standards for Anglican church music which are still influential today. He was also active as an academic, becoming professor of music at Oxford University in 1889 and conducting pioneering research into early music. As a composer he produced a large amount of sacred music of varying quality, including the cantata The Crucifixion, the Sevenfold Amen and numerous hymn tunes. Bibliography Peter Charlton - John Stainer and the musical.
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews - John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews (17 September 1779-1861), was a British politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. The second son of the Rev. George Campbell, D.D., he was born at Cupar, Fife, Scotland, where his father was for fifty years parish minister. For a few years Campbell studied at the United College, St Andrews. In 1800 he was entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn, and, after working briefly for the Morning Chronicle, was called to the bar in 1806, and at once began to report cases decided at nisi prius (ie. on jury trial). Of these Reports he published four volumes, with learned notes; they extend from Michaelmas 1807 to Hilary 1816. Campbell also.
Oxford University Student Union - Oxford University Student Union The Oxford University Student Union is the official student government of the University of Oxford. It is better known in Oxford by its acronym, OUSU. It exists to represent Oxford students in University decision-making, to act as the voice of students in the national higher education policy debate, and to provide direct services to the student body. It is not to be confused with the Oxford Union Society, which though similarly named is an entirely separate organisation. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Structure 2 History 3 Milestone Oxford Presidents 4 Official Web Site 5 External Links to Former Presidents 6 Related Web Sites Structure Oxford University Reflecting the federated nature of the University of Oxford itself, OUSU is both an association of.
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton - heir to the throne of Scotland after the descendants of James VI. He married in his fourteenth year May Feilding, aged seven, daughter of Sir William Feilding, later 1st Earl of Denbigh, and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 14 December 1621. He succeeded to his father's titles on the latter's death in 1625. In 1628 he became master of the horse and was also appointed gentleman of the bedchamber and a privy councillor. In 1631 Hamilton took over a force of 6,000 men to assist Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years' War in Germany. He guarded the fortresses on the Oder while Gustavus fought Tilly at the Battle of Breitenfeld, and afterwards occupied Magdeburg, but his army was destroyed by disease and starvation, and after the.
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