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In 1785 she bought a house, at Cowslip Green, near Wrington, in northern Somerset, where she settled down to country life with her sister Martha, and wrote many ethical books and tracts: Structures on the Modern System of Female Education ( 1799 ), Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess ( 1805 ), Coelebs in Search of a Wife ( only nominally a story, 1809 ), Practical Piety ( 1811 ), Christian Morals ( 1813 ), Character of St Paul ( 1815 ), Moral Sketches ( 1819 ).
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Her benefactors gone, and her own health in decline, she made her last appearance on the stage in Edinburgh in 1785.
In the early years of the 19th century, Lady Mary Elizabeth Bennet ( 1785 – 1861 ), daughter of the Lord of Tankerville, collected and cultivated every sort of Viola tricolor ( commonly, heartsease ) she could procure in her father's garden at Walton-upon-Thames, Surrey.
After 1785, she filled the role of wife of the first U. S. minister to the Court of St. James ( Britain ).
Gainsborough's painting of her around 1785, in a large black hat ( a style which she made sensationally fashionable, and came to be known as the ' Gainsborough ' or ' portrait ' hat ), has become famous for its fascinating history.
In March 1785 she became the mistress of the Cardinal de Rohan, a former French ambassador to the court of Vienna.
The mistake derived from a misreading of Talma's Mémoires where the actor recalls an episode in which a Madame Vestris-not Eliza Vestris, as she was born several years later, but Françoise-Marie-Rosette Gourgaud, who married Angiolo Vestris-played Camille to his Horace in 1785.
In 1785, she was living with her son George Spence Eyles, a clerk, on Church Street, Stoke Newington.
After his death she married Major Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe in Calcutta in 1782, and the couple returned to England in 1785.
In 1785, she married with Infante Gabriel of Spain ( 1752 – 88 ) whom she pedeceased by some weeks.
In 1785 she married Charles E. Whitlock, went with him to America, and played with much success there.
He was manager of the Newcastle, Sunderland, Lancaster, and Chester theatres, and from 1785 to 1791 she was one of the chief actresses of his circuit.
In 1785, she issued charters to nobles and townsmen.
In the 1770s she began writing political articles for Boston newspapers, and in 1785 she married a Dartmouth graduate, the Rev.
Ward continued promoting alliance and mutual friendship between the Cherokees and the colonists, as she showed during the negotiation of the Treaty of Hopewell ( 1785 ).
In December 1785, she enlisted the help of Henry Stuart to get Charles back to the Palazzo Muti in Rome.
An unusual episode in Marianne's life occurred when she gave birth ( 27 July 1785 ) to her first child, a son who was named Leopold after his grandfather.
She remained in Montreal with her two infants ( Norman's father was not yet one year's old ) and around 1780 met Alexander Henry the elder, to whom she was married in 1785.
In a sequence of four brilliant marriages she wed the eldest, but illegitimate, son of the 6th Earl Waldegrave ; then his brother, the 7th Earl ; the elderly, wealthy and well-connected politician George Harcourt ( 1785 – 1861 ); and, finally, the politically ambitious Chichester Fortescue, later Lord Carlingford.
In 1785 she bought a house, in the hamlet of Paradise, near Cowslip Green, where she lived with her sister, Martha, until 1828.
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The house was later named after John Odell, Washington's guide who bought the house in 1785.
Daniel Cooper ( 1785 – 1853 ), also an ex-convict acquired land here in 1825 with his partner Solomon Levey, whom he later bought out.
It was sold by the church, very likely in 1781, and certainly by 1785, when it was bought by Gavin Hamilton, who took it to England.
In 1785, George Anson bought No. 16.
The castle was home to the Gilbert family until the estate was sold in 1785 whereupon it gradually declined until a descendent bought it back in 1931 ; he gave it to the National Trust in 1951 on the condition that members of the family should continue to occupy the castle.
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He then served in the house of Pennsylvania General Assembly ( 1785 – 1788 ).
Genevieve's original riverfront location, parts were relocated in 1785 when the house was expanded at the new site.
By secretly, and as all parties were well aware, against the law, they both went through a form of marriage on 15 December 1785, in the drawing room of her house in Park Street, London.
The building that is now the home of the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed on the orders of Charles III in 1785 by the architect Juan de Villanueva in order to house the Natural History Cabinet.
He had previously received similar commission from the landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ) for the reparation of a history of the house of Hesse, and both works were completed in 1785.
It wasn't until 1783 that Soane received his first commission for a new country house, Letton Hall, Norfolk, the house was a fairly modest villa but it was a sign that at last Soane's career was taking off and led to other work in East Anglia ; Saxlingham Rectory in 1784 and Shotesham Hall, Shotesham in 1785 ; Tendring Hall, Suffolk, ( 1784 – 86 ) and the remodelling of Ryston Hall ( 1787 )
* William Herschel ( astronomer to George III and discoverer of the planet Uranus ) lived with his sister in a house on Horton Road in 1782 and from 1783 to 1785, he occupied " The Lawn " on Horton Road and built a 20 ft telescope in the garden.
The banker Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, just north of Dumfries, had experimented with double hulled pleasure boats propelled by cranked paddle-wheels placed between the hulls, and he got Symington to build the patent steam engine with its drive into a pleasure boat built in 1785 which was successfully tried out on Dalswinton Loch near Miller's house on 14 October 1788.
The wooden court house was completed sometime between 1782 and 1785 at a cost of $ 250.
The original farmhouse was built by William Player between 1687 and 1689 ; the Hobhouse family acquired the house in 1785 and have owned it ever since.
Physick graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1785, then began the study of medicine under Dr. Adam Kuhn, and continued it in London under Dr. John Hunter, becoming, on January 1, 1790, house surgeon of St. George's hospital.
Attingham Park was designed by George Steuart and was built in 1785 for Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick, on the site of an earlier house called Tern Hall ( which had been built to his own designs by Richard Hill of Hawkstone ).
Adams lived, from 1785 to 1788, in the house which still stands on the corner of Brook and Duke Streets.
In 1785 the London architect George Steuart designed and built a brick mansion house Lythwood Hall for the Blakeway family, which was accessed via a sweeping driveway through landscaped gardens to the west of the village.
He rebuilt the three-story brick mansion in 1785, called " the costliest house anywhere about ," and would occupy it for the remainder of his life.
The Grade I listed house was designed by Francis Smith in 1724 and John Soane in 1785.
In 1785 George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer entrusted Holland with the remodelling of his country house Althorp, the exterior was encased in white Mathematical tiles to hide the unfashionable red brick and he added the four Corinthian pilasters to the entrance front.
He would ultimately serve in the state's lower house in 1776-1779, 1781 – 1785, 1787 – 1790, and 1793-1796.
Revolutionary War General Peleg Wadsworth built the house in 1785 – 1786, the first wholly brick dwelling in Portland.
Longford Hall is a large country house in Longford, a village in Shropshire, England near the town of Newport, built in 1785 for Ralph Leeke who was political agent of the British East India Company, designed by Joseph Bonomi, who had worked with Robert and James Adam.
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