Category: People
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Margaret Fuller, the American feminist writer who died in a shipwreck
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an influential American critic, teacher, and feminist writer, recognized for her contributions to American culture, particularly through her seminal work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845). Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, Fuller was a gifted child who pursued rigorous education despite limited access for women at the time, which impacted her health.
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Emanuel (Manny) Shinwell, 20th Century British Politician
Glimpse history through old images of Emanuel Shinwell, a British politician who served in the Atlee postwar Labour cabinet.
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William Scott, Lord Stowell
William Scott, Lord Stowell, was born during a Jacobite emergency in Newcastle, but rose to great heights in Oxford and London.
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The Reverend Hugh Moises
Back in the 1700s, the Reverend Hugh Moises was the Headmaster of a Newcastle school which nurtered many future eminent men.
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Charles Hutton, Coal Hewer to Mathematician
Discover the life of Newcastle’s Charles Hutton, once a coal hewer in the 1770s, who died a well respected mathematician.
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The Reverend Richard Dawes
The Reverence Richard Dawes, headmaster of Newcastle’s Royal Grammar School, was included in a section about eminent men of Newcastle upon Tyne in a book published in 1855.
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John Scott, Earl of Eldon and Lord Chancellor of England
Discover how John Scott, Earl of Eldon, rose from Love Lane in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1770s, to Lord Chancellor of England in 1801.
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Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, Hero of Trafalgar
Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood was one of the eminent men of Newcastle upon Tyne written about in a book published in 1855.
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The Reverend John Brand
The Reverend John Brand was a historian added as one of the eminent men of Newcastle upon Tyne in a book in 1855.
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The Reverend Henry Bourne
The Reverend Henry Bourne was one of the eminent men of Newcastle upon Tyne whose life was described in a book published in the year 1855.