Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.

On 24 December 1803, Jérôme married Elizabeth Patterson ( 1785 – 1879 ), daughter of Baltimore merchant William Patterson and his wife, Dorcas Spear.

After 1785, she filled the role of wife of the first U. S. minister to the Court of St. James ( Britain ).

At some point in the 1785 – 1787 period he married and the couple had a child, but the names of the wife and child, and their eventual fates, are not known.

* October 7-Isabella Colbran, soprano and first wife of Gioacchino Rossini ( b. 1785 )

Two years later ( 28 September 1784 ), her father remarried the younger sister of his deceased wife, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, but this union ended just one year later, when Charlotte died of complications resulting from childbirth on 12 December 1785.

General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB ( 7 December 1785 – 12 February 1860 ), Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian, third son of Colonel George Napier ( 1751 – 1804 ) and his wife, Lady Sarah Lennox ( 1845-1826 ) was born at Celbridge, near Dublin.

McMinn married his first wife, Anna Cooper, in 1785, and they had one daughter, Jane.

Moses Hanen, his wife Elizabeth, and their 5 children settled in Washington County, PA between 1785 & 1789.

In 1785 his wife Christina had been created Baroness Donoughmore and on her death in 1788, his eldest son Richard ( 1756 – 1825 ) succeeded to the title.

He was the only child of Pollard Hopewell and his wife, Catherine Hebb, who were married on December 19, 1785.

In 1785 he married his first wife, Sarah, who had four children with him – two sons and two daughters, the latter both died young.

A nobleman born in Sarreguemines the son of Charles Victor Bachasson, Seigneur de Montalivet, Maréchal de camp, Knight of the Order of Saint Louis and Councilor Secretary of the King in the Chancellery of Corsica, etc., and second wife Marthe de Saint-Germain, Noble Femme, he was counsellor to the Grenoble parlement from 1785 à 1790, and, while in Valence, he became friends with a Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a young officer at the time.

Carlo Buonaparte died on 24 February 1785, and, due to his frivolous spending, left his surviving wife and eight children penniless.

* Nelson's letters to his wife and other documents, 1785 – 1831, ed.

* Elizabeth (" Betsy ") Patterson Bonaparte ( 1785 – 1879 ), Baltimore-born wife of Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte ( m. 1803 ).

Gen. Joseph Martin had a son by his second wife Susannah Graves, Col. Joseph Martin, born in Henry County in 1785, who served in the War of 1812.

Six of their children survived infancy and early childhood: William Tudor ( 1779-1830 ); John Henry ( 1782 – 1802 ), who roomed with Washington Allston at Harvard ; Frederic ( September 4, 1783 – February 6, 1864 ); Emma Jane ( 1785 – 1865 ), who married Robert Hallowell Gardiner ; Delia ( 1787 – 1861 ), who became the wife of Charles Stewart, captain of the USS Constitution ; and Henry James ( 1791 – 1864 ).

He was a son of Pedro José Chamorro Argüello and wife Josefa Margarita Alfaro Monterroso and paternal grandson of Fernando Chamorro Lacayo ( d. 1785 ) and wife Bárbara Nicolasa Argüello del Castillo.

In August 1785, his neighbor, Colonel William Christian, who had been developing a neighboring property, brought his wife Anne ( née Henry ) and family from Virginia.

He married his second wife, Ursula Sarah Browne in 1785 ; and the couple had four children: George, Nathaniel, Harry and Emma.

# Karl Franz von Berenhorst ( Sandersleben, 1 March 1735 – Dessau, 6 June 1804 ), married in Schweinitz on 7 February 1785 to Johanne Eleonore Scholtz ; their two sons, Henry Karl and George Franz, were killed in battle ; neither of them married or had children.

They married in 1785 ( which was after he left Kassel ) and had three children, but their marriage was not happy.

In 1785 William left the Hague and removed his court to Guelders, a province remote from the political centre.

The school opened with only eight boys but when the Barbaulds left in 1785, around forty were enrolled, a testament to the excellent reputation the school had acquired.

In September 1785, the Barbaulds left Palgrave for a tour of France ; Rochemont's mental health had been deteriorating and he was no longer able to carry out his teaching duties.

In 1785, James Harryman left the interest from £ 100 to provide shoes and stockings for the children of this school.

Sometime around 1785 or 1786, which was two years after the Treaty of Paris and Treaties of Versailles were signed on September 3, 1783 ending the American Revolutionary War, the future Proprietors and Pioneers of Sherburne, New York left Kent, Connecticut and emigrated to Duanesburgh, Schenectady County, New York.

In 1785, he left the Isle of Bourbon for Pondicherry in India, where he became an aide de camp to the Governor-General of the French colonies in India.

Unofficial importations from Spanish America seldom fared well: when another French botanist Joseph Dombey landed his collections at Cadiz in 1785 they were impounded and left to rot in warehouses, while he was refused permission even to have seeds planted.

Mary at left, aged nine, with her two younger sisters Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom | Sophia and Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom | Amelia in 1785.

In 1785 elections Sir Jeffrey Dunstan was left without opposition when Sir John Harper died.

His next flight was June 29th 1785 and left from St George's Fields on the south side of the Thames.

In a March 5, 1785 petition to Congress, Fraunces stated that the Revolutionary War had left him " on the precipice of Beggary.

For example, in 1785 Benjamin Franklin Bache mocked George Washington by terming him the " Grand Lama of this Country ".

They believed that sending him to France would take his mind off his wife's death, so he was appointed minister to France in 1785.

His father gave him a basic education, but until the outbreak of the Revolution, he was a domestic servant, and from 1785 occupied the office of commissaire à terrier, assisting the nobles and priests in the assertion of their feudal rights over the peasants.

Pius VI soon named him, in February 1785, simultaneously both as a Cardinal-Priest, with his titular church being the Basilica of St. Callistus, and as the Bishop of Imola, an office he held until 1816.

When Louis Philippe's grandfather died in 1785, his father succeeded him as Duke of Orléans and Louis Philippe succeeded his father as Duke of Chartres.

People who molded the early religious and political character of America are buried here, including John Harris II, the first United States Senator from Pennsylvania, William Maclay, as well as four of the six commissioners who planned the town of Harrisburg with him in 1785.

He was admitted to the Académie française on 26 February 1784, and to the Académie des Inscriptions in 1785, when Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's simultaneous membership of all three Academies was renewed in him.

He resigned all his legal offices in 1785, retaining only that of Commissary General of the stores at Gibraltar, which continued to provide him with a substantial income until his death.

In 1785 he was invited to Padua University, but to retain his services his sovereign doubled his salary and allowed him leave of absence for a visit to Turkey where he remained nearly a year and made many observations, among which may be noted those of a copper mine in Chalki and of an iron mine at Principi.

In 1785, Toll, Burmann's successor, resigned, and Wyttenbach was appointed to succeed him.

And, when Franklin was recalled to America in 1785, Le Ray honored him with a commissioned portrait painted by Joseph Siffred Duplessis that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

The fame which this publication acquired him led to his being engaged by Schütz and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland to prepare an Allgemeines Repertorium der Literatur, published in 8 volumes ( Jena and Weimar, 1793 – 1809 ), which condensed the literary productions of 15 years ( 1785 – 1800 ), and included an account not merely of the books published during that period, but also of articles in periodicals and magazines, and even of the criticisms to which each book had been subjected.

He was well-educated, and intended to become a lawyer, but his father's death when he was still a boy made it necessary for him to seek his fortune, and he enlisted as a private in the French infantry in 1785.

It was illustrated in Aitken's Principles of Midwifery or Puerperal Medicine ( 1785 ) and used by him in his dissecting room.

The lot, which included plates, blocks, and copyright, was purchased by Sir Peter Thompson and afterwards was sold by him to William Herbert, who made use of it for his own edition of the book ( 1785 – 1790 ).

In 1785, Kara Mahmud's forces attacked Montenegrin territory, and Austria offered to recognize him as the ruler of all Albania if he would ally himself with Vienna against the Sublime Porte.

Though Joseph did secure in the 1785 Treaty of Fontainebleau that the Southern Netherlands would be compensated by the Dutch Republic for the continued closing the Scheldt, this achievement failed to gain him much popularity.

One friend wrote to him in 1785, hailing his works as " inspired by God.

The case dragged on in court for years but was finally settled against him in 1785, on the grounds that his specifications were deficient and that he had borrowed his ideas from Leigh reed-maker Thomas Highs.

* 1785: Sydney in ( Cape Breton ) Nova Scotia was named after him by Col J. F. W.

In 1785 the well-known actor, John Henderson, asked his friend, the critic Richard " Conversation " Sharp, to go and see the newcomer, Kemble, and to report back to him.

Meantime he wrote two treatises, Essai sur l ' électricité ( 1781 ) and Physique générale et particulaire ( 1782 – 1784 ), which gained him the friendship of Buffon, who in 1785 appointed him subdemonstrator in the Jardin du Roi, and proposed that he continue Buffon's Histoire naturelle.

In 1784 Francis was returned to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the borough of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ; and although he took an opportunity to disclaim every feeling of personal animosity towards Hastings, this did not prevent him, on the return of the latter in 1785, from doing all in his power to bring forward and support the charges which ultimately led to the impeachment resolutions of 1787.

It was at Cambridge in 1785 that Clarkson entered a Latin essay competition that was to set him on the course for most of the remainder of his life.