Several of the buildings on the Brown campus from its founding 18th century period through the 20th century offer fine representation of the Georgian style of American colonial era architecture.

John Nash was one of the most prolific architects of the late Georgian era known as The Regency style, he was responsible for designing large areas of London.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

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The era was preceded by the Georgian period and followed by the Edwardian period.

Several other Georgian era Irish country houses have been suggested as sources of inspiration for the overall floor plan, details like the bow-fronted south front, and interior details like the former niches in the present Blue Room.

Furthermore, the Georgian literati, reacting to the Russian rule in Georgia and the suppression of national institutions, contrasted Tamar's era to their contemporary situation, lamenting the irretrievably lost past in their writings.

Much later, it became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, which led to a major expansion that left a heritage of exemplary Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone.

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Armenian and Georgian brandies ( always called cognacs in the era ) were considered some of the best in the world, often beating their French competitors at the International Expositions in Paris and Brussels in the early 1900s.

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The Georgian era saw a German-born monarch and German-born composer define the English oratorio.

Today's Clapham is an area of varied housing from the large Queen Anne, Regency and Georgian era homes of the Old Town and Clapham Common to the grids of Victorian housing in the Abbeville area.

Some Georgian architecture and Victorian era terraced housing survive in patches: for example Arbour Square, the eastern side of Stepney Green, and the streets around Matlock Street.

The name is often applied to the areas of the borough close to Upper Street such as St Mary's, St Peter's, Barnsbury, and Canonbury, developed in the Georgian era.

Other historic buildings in the area include Hamilton Old Parish Church, a Georgian era building completed in 1734 and the only church to have been built by William Adam.

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Augustus was regarded by many of the early 18th-century English aristocracy as the greatest of all the Roman Emperors ( the early Georgian era was known as the Augustan Age ).

As one example of this phenomenon, many of the houses in Roaring Spring built at the turn of the century appear to be older Victorian types, such as many Gothic Revivals models of the era which are really double-pile Georgian types in plan.

The term " new town " in Ireland was also used for some earlier developments, notably during the Georgian era.

During the Georgian era, Beverley was the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire and became the prime market town in the area during the 18th century, beating out competition from Pocklington, Howden and Market Weighton.

During the Georgian era Ripon, unlike several other cities, was not significantly affected by the Industrial Revolution despite the existence of various guilds.

During the Soviet era, the Georgian Orthodox Church largely was suppressed, as were many other religious institutions ; many churches were destroyed or turned into museums, concert halls, and other secular establishments.

As the city continued to prosper during the 18th century, Georgian Dublin became, for a short period, the second largest city of the British Empire and the fifth largest city in Europe, with the population exceeding 130, 000.

The most recent was Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who suffered a fatal crash during his final practice run for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.

Henry Newbolt, writing in the early 1930s, estimated that there were at least 1000 active British poets ; the vast majority of these would be recognisably ' Georgian ', making the pool of names close to unfathomable.

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson ( 2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962 ) was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.

Much of it is actually the remains of a building remodeled in English Georgian Revival style in 1924 for Harris Hammon, who purchased the estate at Point Breeze as built in 1850 by Henry Becket, a British consul in Philadelphia.

The Kershaw House, Georgian mansion first built, 1775-1780, by Joseph Kershaw, merchant and leading citizen of Camden became the headquarters for the occupying British army, 1780-1781.

Lascelles Abercrombie ( also known as the Georgian Laureate, linking him with the " Georgian poets ") ( 9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938 ) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the " Dymock poets ".

During the Georgian Era, titles in the peerage of Ireland were often granted by the British monarch to Englishmen with little or no connection to Ireland, as a way of preventing such honours from inflating the membership of the British House of Lords.

The late Georgian and Victorian periods produced the zenith of the British watercolor, among the most impressive 19th century works on paper, by Turner, Varley, Cotman, David Cox, Peter de Wint, William Henry Hunt, John Frederick Lewis, Myles Birket Foster, Frederick Walker, Thomas Collier and many others.

The best known pre-20th century new town in the UK was undoubtedly the Edinburgh New Town, built in accordance with a 1766 master plan by James Craig, and ( along with Bath and Dublin ) the archetype of the elegant Georgian style of British architecture.

In the years after independence in 1922, independent Ireland had little sympathy for Georgian Dublin, seeing it as a symbol of British rule and of the unionist identity that was alien to Irish identity.

The North side consists of Queen Street Station, the North British Railway Hotel ( now the Millennium Hotel ), which date from the 1840s, and George House, which replaced an older Georgian building, built in 1979 to provide extra office space for Glasgow City Council, and now the offices of Ernst & Young.

Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC ( 28 September 1735 – 14 March 1811 ), styled Earl of Euston between 1747 and 1757, was a British Whig statesman of the Georgian era.

Both of these buildings were constructed by Macquarie in defiance of the British government's ban on expensive public building projects in the colony and reflect the tension between Macquarie's vision of Sydney as a Georgian city and the British government's view of the colony as a dumping ground for convicts to be financed as cheaply as possible.

Language families which distinguish ejective consonants include all three Caucasian families ( Northwest Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian languages and Kartvelian Georgian language ); the Athabaskan, Siouan and Salishan families of North America, along with the many diverse families of the Pacific Northwest from central California to British Columbia ; the Mayan family and Aymara ; the southern varieties of Quechua ( Qusqu-Qullaw ); the Afro-Asiatic family ( notably most of the Cushitic and Omotic languages, Hausa and South Semitic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya ) and a few Nilo-Saharan languages ; Sandawe, Hadza, and the Khoisan families of southern Africa.

The Georgian era is a period of British history which takes its name from, and is normally defined as spanning the reigns of, the first four Hanoverian kings of Great Britain ( later the United Kingdom ): George I, George II, George III and George IV.

The Georgian era was moreover a time of British expansion throughout the world.

* Georgians British Library history resources about the Georgian era, featuring collection material and text by Dr. Matthew White.

James Bowen was commissioned by Howe for his leadership in the battle, he rose through the levels-commander of the Argot, the Dreadnought, and in Georgian England titled " defender of Madeira ", led the fleet which rescued the British army at Corunna in the Peninsula war, retired as a Rear Admiral, Commissioner of the Royal Navy.

George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, KG, PC ( 6 October 1716 – 8 June 1771 ) was a British statesman of the Georgian era.

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire PC ( 30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793 ), known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era.