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* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )
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The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia ( 1882 – 83 ) as the quest to regain The Ashes.
Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83, which he was to captain, he would regain " the ashes ".
The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.
A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.
The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking their first series win since 1882 with a 2 – 1 victory in 1891 – 92.
In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).
* 1882 – The " Elektromote " – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
* María Teresa, ( 12 November 1882 – 23 September 1912 ), married to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria on 12 January 1906
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In 1882, the Australian Hugh Victor McKay had a similar idea and developed the first commercial combine harvester in 1885, the Sunshine Harvester.
Selborne was assistant private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Childers, from 1882 to 1885, when he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for East Hampshire.
Sir Hugh Allan, KCMG ( September 29, 1810 – December 9, 1882 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian shipping magnate, financier and capitalist.
The organ dates from 1800 by England & Russell, but has had work done in 1829 by Hugh Russell, 1859 by Robson, 1870 and 1882 by Gray & Davison, 1946 by W. J.
The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).
From 1882 to 1889 he was principal of University Hall, as Arthur Hugh Clough had been a generation before.
He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Rodham ( 1879 – 1965 ) and Hannah Jones ( 1882 – 1952 ), British immigrants descended from a line of coal miners from Co. Durham and Wales.
However, in mid July 1882 du Plat Taylor was authorised by the Postmaster General, Henry Fawcett and the Secretary of State for War, Hugh Childers to organise an Army Post Office Corps ( APOC ), and on Saturday 22 July 1882 Queen Victoria issued a Royal Warrant to that effect.
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* February 15-Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain died ( born 1882 ).
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( eventually Murray paid £ 180 to Darwin for the 1st edition and by Darwin's death in 1882 the book was in its 6th edition, earning Darwin nearly £ 3000.
* September 18 – Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun and described it as " The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4 ″ in diameter ; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight.
In February 1882, C. A. L. Totten ( then a 1st lieutenant in the U. S. Army ) wrote to both the Secretaries of State and Treasury to suggest some sort of commemoration for the Great Seal, which was to have its centennial later that year, in particular including a version of the never-cut and rarely seen reverse side.
It was expanded 18 February 1882 to form the 1st Regiment with Headquarters at Socorro and the 2nd Regiment with Headquarters at Albuquerque.
The 1st Battalion then served in Africa taking part in the Highland Brigade's dawn assault on the Egyptian position at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882.
In 1881 he entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and in 1882 he was commissioned as a subaltern in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards.
Duncker's eminent position among German historians rests mainly on his Geschichte des Alterthums ( 1st ed., 1852 – 1857 ; English translation by Evelyn Abbott, 1877 – 1882 ).
Rodolfo Graziani, 1st Marquis of Neghelli ( August 11, 1882 – January 11, 1955 ), was an officer in the Italian Regio Esercito ( Royal Army ) who led military expeditions in Africa before and during World War II where he earned the nicknames " the Butcher of Fezzan " and " the Butcher of Ethiopia ".
The Lehrbuch was eventually superseded by the Vorlesungen uber Pflanzenphysiologie ( 1st ed., 1882 ; 2nd ed., 1887 ; Eng.
Sir John Anderson ( later 1st Viscount Waverley ), Home Secretary ( 1939 – 1940 ), Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 1943 – 1945 ) was born in Eskbank in 1882.
The region was named after John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1870 to 1874 and 1880 to 1882.
* Philipp Ernst, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst ( 5 June 1853, Schillingsfürst-26 December 1915, Bad Reichenhall ); married 1st ( 10 January 1882, Vienna ) Princess Chariclée Ypsilanti ( 8 October 1863, Paris-22 June 1912, Schillingsfürst ); married 2nd morganatically ( 6 August 1913, Edinburgh ) Henriette Gindra, created Frau von Hellberg 10 July 1914 ( 7 October 1884, Vienna-15 May 1952, Innsbruck )
The 1st Battalion ( the former 38th ) was sent to Egypt in 1882 as part of the British invasion of the country.
It was created in 1882 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Roundell Palmer, 1st Baron Selborne, along with the subsidiary title of Viscount Wolmer, of Blackmoor in the County of Southampton.
Gerrit Forbes, ( 1880 – 1964 ), m. 1st to Florence Emerson, ( 1882 – 1906 ), m. 2nd to Marthe De La Fruglaye, m. 3rd to Dita Weber
The 1st Battalion had been based there for a decade before departing for Egypt and thence to Britain in 1883, while the 2nd Battailon arrived in 1882 after service in Malta and Egypt.
On April 24, 1882 he authorized formation of the 1st Company of Arizona Rangers in Tombstone making John H. Jackson its Captain.
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