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* 1850 – John Collier, British writer and painter ( d. 1934 )
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Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.
His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.
Albert Goodwill Spalding ( Byron, Illinois September 2, 1850 – September 9, 1915 in Point Loma, San Diego, California ) was a professional baseball player, manager and co-founder of A. G. Spalding sporting goods company.
The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.
The Christadelphian community in Britain effectively dates from Thomas's first lecturing tour ( May 1848 – October 1850 ).
* 1850 – History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
His first wife, Juliet Macpherson ( c. 1776 – 1850 ), was a daughter of James Macpherson ( 1736 – 1796 ), a probable translator of Ossian poems.
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As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.
At Christmas 1850 he was invited by Mark Lemon to fill the position of joint cartoonist ( with John Leech ) on Punch.
Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.
# Francis Lightfoot Lee II ( 1782 – 1850 ), who married Jane Fitzgerald ( died 1816 ), daughter of Col. John Fitzgerald and Jane Digges.
On July 17, 1850, Vega became the first star ( other than the Sun ) to be photographed, when it was imaged by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory, also with a daguerreotype.
He met his future wife, Mary Everest, there in 1850 while she was visiting her uncle John Ryall who was Professor of Greek.
Peckforton Castle was built between 1844 and 1850 for John Tollemache, the largest landowner in Cheshire at the time, who was described by William Ewart Gladstone as " the greatest estate manager of his day ".
Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850, due to the opposition of both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs.
* Senator John Bell ( with the assent of Texas ) in February 1850: New Mexico would get all Texas land north of the 34th parallel north ( including today's Texas Panhandle ), and the area to the south ( including the southeastern part of today's New Mexico ) would be divided at the Colorado River of Texas into two Southern states, balancing the admission of California and New Mexico as free states.
As part of the " Great Triumvirate " or " Immortal Trio ," along with his colleagues Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun, he was instrumental in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
The next European to see the species was John M. Wooster, who carved his initials in the bark of the ' Hercules ' tree in the Calaveras Grove in 1850 ; again, this received no publicity.
John Caldwell Calhoun (; March 18, 1782March 31, 1850 ) was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century.
Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent ( 2 June 1850 – 13 June 1931 ) transformed The Boots Company, founded by his father, John Boot, into a national retailer, which branded itself as " Chemists to the Nation ", before he sold out his controlling interest to American investors in 1920.
Her mother was Mary Cadwalader Rawle ( 1850 – 1923 ) whose maternal grandfather was John Cadwalader ( 1805 – 1879 ) and father was lawyer William Henry Rawle ( 1823 – 1889 ).
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