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In 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Secretary to the Prince of Wales, leased a large area of moorland from the Duchy of Cornwall estate, hoping to convert it into good farmland.
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Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.
In 1780, a farm was reclaimed on the site of an ancient tenement near the Two Bridges, and in 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt set about improving the moor at a place which he named Tor Royal, about south-east of Princetown.
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.
* General Sir Thomas Brotherton, ( 1785 – 1868 ), died nearby at Upper Court and is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard.
Scotland produced two influential genre painters, David Allan ( 1744 – 96 ) and Sir David Wilkie ( 1785 – 1841 ).
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 ).
* Sir Charles Edward Grey ( 1785 – 1865 ), MP for Tynemouth and North Shields, UK, then Governor of Barbados, 1841 – 1846
They also had a son, Sir John Dyke Acland, 8th Baronet ( born 1778 – died 1785, at about eight years of age ).
Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS ( 6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865 ) was an English systematic botanist and organiser, and botanical illustrator.
Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, ( 2 February 1785 – 26 November 1852 ) was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.
* Sir Charles Loftus, 2nd Baronet ( 1738 – 1806 ) ( created created Baron Loftus in 1785, Viscount Loftus in 1789, Earl of Ely in 1794 and Marquess of Ely in 1800 )
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Thomas Jefferson had tried to bring a French mechanic ( almost certainly Blanc ) and his methods to America in 1785, but the project never went anywhere.
Thomas Bell patented the technique of printing by copper rollers in 1783, and the first machine was set up by Livesey, Hargreaves & Co near Preston in 1785.
In these years he recovered the manuscript that he and Thomas Young had worked in his youth from Young's widow, who was living in Albany, and began to develop it into the work that was published in 1785 as Reason: the Only Oracle of Man.
While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”.
The petition requesting the establishment of the school, titled " The Founders ' Petition of 1785 ," was addressed to Governor Thomas Carleton and was signed by seven Loyalist men: William Paine, William Wanton, George Sproule, Zephaniah Kingsley, John Coffin, Ward Chipman, and Adino Paddock.
Thomas Jefferson explained in 1785 that there are three main limitations on the power of a court of equity: " If the legislature means to enact an injustice, however palpable, the court of Chancery is not the body with whom a correcting power is lodged.
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 ).
* Seth Thomas ( 1785 – 1859 ), was a famous 19th century American clock maker and pioneer of mass production.
Named in honor of Col. Thomas Gardner, the community was first settled in 1764 and officially incorporated as a town in 1785 after receiving land grants from the surrounding towns of Ashburnham, Westminster, Templeton and Winchendon.
SUTHERLAND, Thomas ( b. 1785 ) after Richard CATTERMOLE ( 1795-1858 ). jpg | Kensington Palace Cupola Room
He travelled to the area then known as the State of Franklin or western North Carolina, called " the Holston country ," by 1785 and, during a stay at a tavern adjacent to Colonel Thomas Amis ' home, had fallen in love with the Colonel's daughter, Mary Amis.
* Thomas de Quincey ( 1785 – 1859 ), author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ( 1822 ), lived in Lasswade from 1840 until his death in 1859.
His mother was the former Charlotte Lyon ( 1785 – 1871 ), a daughter of Thomas Lyon ( 1741 – 1796 ) ( who was the youngest son of the 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ) and the former Mary Wren ( died 1811 ).
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