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George Petrie ( 1790 – 1866 ), who had been actively involved in the OS was also revitalising the Antiquities Committee of the Royal Irish Academy, and opening up critically sound debate on early Christian buildings in Ireland with the publication of his book The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland: An Essay on the Origins and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, in 1845.
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George Petrie, a stock player on several incarnations of Jackie Gleason's television series and the Ewing family lawyer in Dallas, had a small role as a doctor.
* George W. Petrie Jr., Major, United States Army ( Retired ), a Green Beret, first man on the ground on the Son Tay Raid to rescue prisoners of war held in North Vietnam in 1970 ; Caldwell County's most decorated soldier of the Vietnam war ; planned and coordinated the Evacuation of Saigon, last U. S. Army Special Forces Officer to leave South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, April 30, 1975 ; two time recipient of the Silver Star.
The Irish word for round tower, cloigtheach, literally meaning bellhouse indicates this, as noted by George Petrie in 1845.
Subsequently, Newgrange was visited by a number of antiquarians, who often performed their own measurements of the site and made their own observations, which were often published in various antiquarian journals ; these included such figures as Sir William Wilde, Sir Thomas Pownall, Thomas Wright, John O ' Donovan, George Petrie and James Fergusson.
* The Trewe Encountre or Batayle Lately Don Between England and Scotland etc., Flaque ( 1513 ) in Petrie, George, ' Account of Floddon in the ' Trewe Encountre ' manuscript ', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries Scotland, vol.
Ross submitted the tune to music collector George Petrie, and it was then published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the 1855 book The Ancient Music of Ireland, which Petrie edited.
Some of the actors that appeared multiple times on the show include George O. Petrie and Frank Marth as various characters, Ethel Waite Owen as Alice's mother, Zamah Cunningham as Mrs. Manicotti, and Cliff Hall as the Raccoon Lodge President.
Indeed, only for the intervention of George Petrie of the Royal Irish Academy, and like-minded individuals from the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, most of the metalwork would have been melted down for the intrinsic value of its materials, as did frequently happen despite their efforts.
Others who contributed to the build-up of national consciousness during the 19th century included poet and writer George Sigerson, antiquarians and music collectors such as George Petrie and the Joyce brothers, editors such as Matthew Russell ( of the Irish Monthly ), scholars such as John O ' Donovan and Eugene O ' Curry and nationalists such as Charles Kickham and John O ' Leary.
Writers and journalists included Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, George Augustus Sala, J. M. Barrie, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Charles Petrie, Agatha Christie, Arthur Bryant and Tim Beaumont ( who wrote about food ).
Its location is unknown until 1837, when it was part of a collection owned by Messrs. Hodges & Smith of College Green, Dublin, and was cited by George Petrie in an essay on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill.
( Sources: A Biography by David Housel, 1961 ; More than Money: A Community, A College, Its People and the Bank that Served Them by Jacqueline White Kochak, 2007 ; A biography of George Petrie ; Hare family stories from his only surviving child, Joseph L. Hare, age 87.
George Petrie ( 1 January 1790 – 1866 ), was an Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist of the Victorian era.
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The town was finally reconstructed by sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah ( 1756 – 1790 ), the grandson of Moulay Ismail and ally of George Washington with the help of Spaniards from the nearby emporium.
The conventionalized scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank.
Jefferson was the first United States Secretary of State ( 1790 – 1793 ) serving under President George Washington.
Following his April 1789 inauguration, President George Washington occupied two executive mansions in New York City: the Samuel Osgood House at 3 Cherry Street ( April 1789 – February 1790 ), and the Alexander Macomb House at 39 – 41 Broadway ( February – August 1790 ).
George Washington's handwritten notes for the first State of the Union Address, January 8, 1790.: File: Washington-State of the Union. djvu | Full 7 pages.
George Washington delivered the first regular annual message before a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1790 in New York City, then the provisional U. S. capital.
This mansion at 6th & Market Streets served as the presidential mansion of George Washington and John Adams, 1790 – 1800.
Colonel Sir George Everest (; 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866 ) was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843.
Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot ( 1771 ), Benjamin Franklin ( 1778-09 ), Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1778 ), Voltaire ( 1781 ), Molière ( 1781 ), George Washington ( 1785 – 88 ), Thomas Jefferson ( 1789 ), Louis XVI ( 1790 ), Robert Fulton, 1803 – 04, and Napoléon Bonaparte ( 1806 ).
The Treason Act 1790 was duly passed by Parliament and given royal assent by King George III ( 30 George III.
The original city of Lebanon in Kentucky was renamed as Georgetown in 1790 in honor of George Washington.
George Winters, an Englishman, who originally settled in Pennsylvania, later moved to Frederick, and then moved west to establish a home in Midland sometime before 1765. The VanBuskirk ( Buskirk ) family built a stone house in about 1790 about south of Midland.
* William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, later 6th Duke of Devonshire ( William George Spencer Cavendish ; called " Hart "; 21 May 1790 – 18 January 1858 ), never married.
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