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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
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On 7th November 1779 Joseph Sabine (age 9) was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
In 1788 the Linnean Society of London by botanist Sir James Edward Smith. The society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, the 'father of taxonomy'.
In 1820 the Royal Astronomical Society was founded as Astronomical Society of London.
In 1828 John Lubbock 3rd Baronet (age 24) became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
In 1831 the Astronomical Society of London became the Royal Astronomical Society upon receiving a Royal Charter from King William IV of the United Kingdom (age 65).
Henry George Herbert 2nd Earl Carnarvon was appointed Vice President of the Royal Horticultural Society.
From 1810 to 1830 Joseph Sabine (age 39) was appointed honourary secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society.
In 1912 Adrian Jones (age 66) became a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He was elected Fellow in 1923.
In 1818 Henry Gastineau (age 27) the Society of Painters in Water-colours when he exhibited for the first time.
In 1821 Henry Gastineau (age 30) was appointed Associate of the Society of Painters in Water-colours.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1823 Henry Gastineau (age 32) was appointed Member of the Society of Painters in Water-colours.
In 1710 Maurice Johnson (age 22) founded the Spalding Gentlemen's Society.
Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life. 20th February 1721. A Lincolnshire feast was held at the Ship tavern, Temple bar. when I went into the dining room above stairs, where the better sort of company was; it was talkd, that there was an old gentleman belowstairs whom they fancied to be Sir Isaac Newton (age 78). I instantly went down, & finding it to be so, sat down with him. they above sent to desire us to walk up into the chief room. I answerd, the chief room was where Sir Isaac Newton sat. upon which the upper room was immediately left to the ordinary company, and the better sort came to us.
Sir Isaac enjoy'd himself extremely in this society of his countrymen; & talkd much, & pleasantly. particularly I remember one part of the conversation turn'd upon musick, of which Sir Isaac was fond; & of the opera's then beginning to be in vogue among us. it was no wonder, his soul should be delighted with harmony. Sir Isaac said they were very fine entertainments; but that "there was too much of a good thing; it was like a surfiet at dinner. I went to the last opera," says he, "The first act gave me the greatest pleasure. The second quite tired me: at the third I ran away." He left 5 guineas, & desired the stewards to call upon him for every subscription relating to his countrymen .
About this time upon the request of my friend Mr Maurice Johnson, he readily enterd himself a member of the literary society at Spalding, which still subsists. he made them a present of books: desirous of incouraging every laudable attempt to promote learning, in any branch.
He carryed me with him in his chariot to see the coinage at the Mint, in the Tower: their method of weighing to an extreme nicety, & the rest of thir operations.
In 1723 George Lynn (age 16) joined the Spalding Gentlemen's Society.
In 1730 Samuel Pegge (age 25) was elected to the Spalding Gentlemen's Society.
In 1733 Smart Lethieullier (age 31) was elected a Member of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society.
Before 1749 Edward Bellamy joined the Spalding Gentlemen's Society.