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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Albert Edward , Prince of Wales . (search)
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.
See Edward VII.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley , Sir John , 1607 - (search)
Berkeley, Sir John, 1607-
A proprietor of New Jersey; born in 1607; was in the military service of Charles I. when the King knighted him at Berwick on the Tweed.
In the civil war that afterwards ensued, he bore a conspicuous part, and he remained in exile with the royal family many years.
In 1653 Berkeley was placed at the head of the Duke of York's establishment; and two years before the Restoration (1660), of that of the Prince of Wales, who, when crowned king (Charles II.), raised Berkeley to the peerage as Baron Berkeley of Stratton, in the county of Somerset.
On the Restoration he became one of the privy council, and late in 1699 he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland.
He was then one of the proprietors of New Jersey, and was not above suspicion of engaging in the corrupt practice of selling offices.
Samuel Pepys, who was secretary of the Admiralty (1664), speaks of him in his Diary as the most hot, fiery man in his discourse, without any cause, he ever saw. Lord B
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke , Edmund , 1730 -1797 (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bute , John Stuart , Earl of , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carteret , Sir George 1599 - (search)
Carteret, Sir George 1599-
English naval officer; born in St. Ouen, Jersey, in 1599.
Charles I. appointed him governor of the Island of Jersey; and when the civil war broke out he was comptroller of the navy, and esteemed by all parties.
Leaving the sea, he went with his family to Jersey, but soon afterwards returned to help his royal master.
In 1645 he was created a baronet, and returned to his government of Jersey, where he received and sheltered the Prince of Wales (afterwards Charles II.) when the royal cause was ruined in England.
Other refugees of distinction were there, and he defended the island gallantly against the forces of Cromwell.
At the Restoration he rode with the King in his triumphant entry into London.
Carteret became one of the privy council, vice-chamberlain, and treasurer of the navy.
Being a personal friend of James, Duke of York, to whom Charles II.
granted New Netherland, Carteret and Berkeley (another favorite) easily obtained a grant of territor
Cholera, Asiatic
Described by Garcia del Huerto, a physician of Goa, about 1560, appeared in India in 1774, and became endemic in Lower Bengal, 1817; gradually spread till it reached Russia, 1830; Germany, 1831; carrying off more than 900,000 persons on the Continent in 1829-30; in England and Wales in 1848-49, 53,293 persons; in 1854, 20,097. First death by cholera in North America, June 8, 1832, in Quebec.
In New York, June 22, 1832.
Cincinnati to New Orleans, October, 1832 (very severe throughout the United States). Again in the United States in 1834, slightly in 1849, severely in 1855, and again slightly in 1866-67.
By the prompt and energetic enforcement of quarantine it was prevented from entering the United States in 1892.
The German steamship Moravia reached New York Harbor Aug. 31, having had twenty-two deaths from cholera during the voyage.
The President ordered twenty days quarantine for all immigrant vessels from cholera-infected districts, Sept. 1.
On Sept. 3,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Edward vii. , Albert Edward , 1841 - (search)
Edward vii., Albert Edward, 1841-
King of Great Britain and Emperor of India; born in Buckingham Palace, Nov. 9, 1841; eldest son of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort; created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester a month after his birth; educated by private tutors, at Christ Church, Oxford, and at Cambridge.
In 1860, under the guidance of the Duke of Newcastle, he visited the United States, where he received an enthusiastic welcome.
President Buchanan and his official family extended to him a grand entertainment at the national capital, and the cities which he visited vied with one another in paying him high honors.
The courtesies so generously extended to him laid the foundation for the strong friendship which he always afterwards manifested for Americans.
After this trip he travelled in Germany, Italy, and the Holy Land.
In 1863 he married the Princess Alexandra, daughter of Christian IV., King of Denmark, and after his marriage he made prolonged tours in many foreign
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), George (Augustus) 1683 - (search)