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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 5: West Point, 1818-25. (search)
and my own began about this time. My grandfather, Major Richard Howell, was born in Delaware. For some of these particulars I am indebted to my friend and cousin, General Meredith Read, of the United States Army, who is too much esteemed and too widely known to need other introduction to my readers. For other data I am obliged to my cousin, Justice Daniel Agnew, of Beaver, Pa. His great-grandfather was a Howell of Caerleon, Monmouth County. One of the sons moved to Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales, where he was seated until he moved to Delaware about 1690, and became a large planter there. One of his daughters married Colonel John Read, the signer. Richard, the father of William B. Howell, was a practising lawyer in Mount Holly, N. J., before the Revolution, and his only brother, Lewis, was a surgeon. Richard Howell married Keziah Burr, a member of the Society of Friends, and upon the breaking out of the war of the Revolution he joined the Continental forces among the f
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., II: a word about America. (search)
spectacle of an upper class materialized, a middle class vulgarized, a lower class brutalized, one has earned the right, perhaps, to speak with candor of the social systems of other countries. Mr. Lowell complains that we English make our narrow Anglicism, as he calls it, the standard of all things; but we are worth nothing, says Mr. Lowell of himself and his countrymen, we are worth nothing except so far as we have disinfected ourselves of Anglicism. Mr. Hussey Vivian, the member for Glamorganshire, goes to travel in America, and when he comes back, delighted with the country and the people, he publishes his opinion that just two things are wanting to their happiness,--a sovereign of the British type, and a House of Lords:-- If Americans could only get over the first wrench, and elect a king of the old stock, under the same limited constitutional conditions as our sovereigns, and weld their separate states into one compact and solid nation, many of them would be only too thankfu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
es, 1; East Grinstead, 1; Arundel, 1; Rye, 1; Westmoreland, 2; Warwickshire, 4; Coventry, 2; Warwick, 1; Wiltshire, 10; New Sarum, 2; Marlborough, 1; Devizes, 1; Worcestershire, 5; Worcester, 2. Yorkshire.—West Riding, 6; East Riding, 4; North Riding, 4; City of York, 2; Kingston-upon-Hull, 1; Beverley, 1; Scarborough, 1; Richmond, 1; Leeds, 1; Halifax, 1. Wales.—Anglesey, 2; Brecknockshire, 2; Cardiganshire, 2; Carmarthenshire, 2; Carnarvonshire, 2; Denbighshire, 2; Flintshire, 2; Glamorganshire, 2; Cardiff, 1; Merionethshire, 1; Montgomeryshire, 2; Pembrokeshire, 2; Haverfordwest, 1; Radnorshire, 2. The distribution of the persons to be chosen for Scotland and Ireland, and the several counties, cities, and places therein, shall be according to such proportions and number as shall be agreed upon and declared by the Lord Protector and the major part of the council, before the sending forth writs of summons for the next Parliament. XI. That the summons to Parliament shall b
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Price, Richard 1723-1791 (search)
Price, Richard 1723-1791 Clergyman; born in Tynton, Glamorganshire, Wales, Feb. 23, 1723; was a dissenting minister, connected with churches at Stoke-Newington and Hackney, as pastor and preacher, from 1743 until a short time before his death. He wrote much on morals, politics, and political and social economy. His Appeal on the subject of the National debt is said to have been the foundation of Pitt's sinking-fund scheme. In 1776 he published Observations on Civil liberty and the justice and policy of the War with America. It was a powerful plea for justice and right, and 60,000 copies were distributed. The corporation of London gave him a vote of thanks and the freedom of the city; and in 1778 the American Congress invited him to become a citizen of the United States, and to aid them in the management of their finances, promising him a liberal remuneration. In 1783 Yale College conferred on him the honorary degree of Ll.D., and in 1784 he published Observations on the i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ius Hostilius. Cresy dates the introduction of locks from the period of the building of this canal. It was a curious contrivance called a conch, with a balance-lever and hanging gate, which somehow opened to allow the boats to pass. This was used at Governolo, to dam up the waters of the Mincio on the side of Mantua. It was probably a kind of sluice. See Cresy's Ency. Civil Engineering, pp. 185 – 188. Canal-lock. The first canal-lock in England was constructed by John Trew of Glamorganshire for the Exeter Canal. The lock-chambers were 300 feet in length, 80 in breadth at top, 50 at the bottom. The gates were in pairs, at each end, 25 feet high, and each leaf 20 feet wide, furnished with iron and brass work that they might be moved with facility. Sluices were made to admit and remove the water in locking. The object was to ascend to a level in the river Ex, above a weir constructed across the river. This account disproves the statement that locks were introduced into
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
d proportions of arches. 1. Vielle Brionde, over the Allier. 2. Holy Trinity, over the Arno. 3. Pont-y-Prydd. over the Taaf. 4. Mantes, over the Seine. 5. Blackfriars, over the Thames. 6. St Mascence, over the Oise. 7. Waterloo, over the Thames. 8. Gloucester, over the Severn. 9. London, over the Thames. 10. Chester, over the Dee. 11. Great Western Railway, over the Thames at Maidenhead. A remarkable bridge (3) was built in 1751 across the Taaf, in Glamorganshire, Wales, by William Edwards, a country mason. He had previously erected two bridges on the same spot: the first was carried away by a sudden and extraordinary flood; the second by the crowding up of the crown of the arch by overloading its haunches before the parapet was finished. Peronnet could have taught him better, but Edwards was a skillful and persevering man, and ultimately succeeded. The present bridge has a span of 140 feet, rise of 35 feet, and is a segment of a circle 175
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
The Last of Nelson's Officers at Trafalgar.--The London Sunday Times, of May 5, reports :--Lieutenant Roteley died at his residence, May Hill, Swansea, on the 21st, aged 76. Lieut. Roteley was the last surviving officer of the ship Victory, of Trafalgar, having fought with Nelson at the memorable engagement at Trafalgar. He was allowed to retire from full pay about forty years ago, and from that time he has enjoyed his pension. On his retirement he held the rank of Brevet Major in the Venezuelan service. He was much esteemed, and will be regretted by all who knew him. Out of nine hundred men who were on board the Victory at Trafalgar, five only now remain; and Lieut. Roteley was the last surviving officer. He was born at the Castle Hotel, Neath, Glamorganshire.