* Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1844 )

The English version was invented in 1829 by Sir Charles Wheatstone and a patent for an improved version was filed by him in 1844.

In 1844, he met the noted artist Sir William Allan, who came to Russia with a commission to paint a history of the life of Peter the Great.

In 1844 he was commissioned into the British army and posted to India, where he served under Sir Colin Campbell during the First Anglo-Sikh War.

* Y Digrifwr: Casgliad o gampiau a dichellion Thomas Jones o Dregaron yn Sir Aberteifi ; yr hwn sydd yn cael ei adnobod yn gyffredin wrth yr enw Twm Sion Catti (" The Joker: a collection of exploits and tricks of Thomas Jones of Tregaron in Cardiganshire, commonly known by the name of Twm Sion Catti "): pamphlet published in 1844.

This started with the Foord viaduct, designed by Sir William Cubitt, completed in 1844.

The manor then passed to Henry Tufnell ( d 1854 ), MP for Ipswich and Devonport, Liberal chief whip, Lord of the Treasury, m. Anne Augusta Wilmot-Horton ( daughter of the Governor of Ceylon d. 17 / 9 / 1843 ), m. 2 1844 Frances Byng ( daughter of Sir John Byng Earl of Staffford, d. 1846 ), m. 3.

* Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ), naval surgeon, physician and, later, an important Australian land-owning pioneer and constitutional reformer, was from Carrickfergus.

A stone obelisk monument was erected there in 1844 by Sir John Franklin in tribute to Flinders ' achievements.

Lancelot " Capability " Brown designed the grounds to which Sir Charles Barry added a grand terrace, in 1844.

* Sir Augustus Wall Callcott ( 1779 – 1844 ), painter

Most references say that it was first used in this way on 20 March 1844 to allow Sir George Henry Rose, Member for Christchurch, to resign his seat.

His poems were first edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold ( New York, 1844 ); another American edition, by W. A. Whitmore, appeared in 1859 ; an authorized edition with a memoir by Derwent Coleridge appeared in 1864: The Political and Occasional Poems of W. M. Praed ( 1888 ), edited with notes by his nephew, Sir George Young, included many pieces collected from various newspapers and periodicals.

His son, Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth ( 1844 – 1939 ), the eldest, became a well-known Liberal politician, sitting in parliament for Hastings from 1869 to 1880 and for the Clitheroe division of Lancashire from 1885 till 1902, when he was created Baron Shuttleworth.

* 1844 Sir Robert Prescott Stewart

Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas ( 27 July 1780 – 23 November 1844 )

His elder son, Sir George Henry Rose ( 1771 – 1855 ), was in parliament from 1794 to 1813, and again from 1818 to 1844, and in the meantime he was British minister at Munich, at Berlin, and at Washington.

Two other prominent Penrith pioneers were Irish-born Thomas Jamison ( 1752 / 53-1811 ), a member of the First Fleet and surgeon-general of New South Wales ( after whom Jamisontown is named ), and his son, the landowner, physician and constitutional reformer Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ).

In June 1844 he was appointed interpreter at Amoy ( Xiamen ) and in March 1845 he and his consul, Mr ( afterwards Sir ) Rutherford Alcock, were transferred to Foochow, where Parkes was attacked by stone-throwing Manchu soldiers on 4 October.

* Rear Admiral Sir George Seymour 1841 – 1844

* Rear Admiral Sir William Bowles 1844 – 1846

* Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet ( 1844 – 1919 ), Scottish Liberal politician

Sir John Edwin Sandys FBA ( 19 May 1844 – 6 July 1922 ), was a classical scholar.

* 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

* 1844 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( d. 1930 )

In November 1844, the anonymously published popular science book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, written by Scottish journalist Robert Chambers, widened public interest in the concept of transmutation of species.

* April 21 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

For example, Ulrich Jasper Seetzen noted during his travels in Ottoman Syria in 1808-09 that 150 persons were employed in the glass industry in Hebron, while later, in 1844, Robert Sears wrote that Hebron's population of 400 Arab families " manufactured glass lamps, which are exported to Egypt.

) ( 1844 ): Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, during his Government of the Low Countries, in the Years 1585 and 1586 Camden Society

In the spring of 1844, The Gentleman's Magazine attributed a sudden burst of charitable giving in Britain to Dickens's novella ; in 1874, Robert Louis Stevenson waxed enthusiastic after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to give generously ; and Thomas Carlyle expressed a generous hospitality by staging two Christmas dinners after reading the book.

Herr's Mill Covered Bridge was built in 1844 by Joseph Elliot and Robert Russell at a cost of $ 1787.

On December 31, 1844, Robert Partott and William Edmunson purchased the first lots in town, at a cost of $ 39. 50 each.

Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, ( 23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930 ) was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.

His grandfather, also Robert Baldwin (" Robert the Emigrant "), father of William Warren Baldwin, ( April 25, 1775 – January 8, 1844 ) moved to Upper Canada from Ireland in 1799.

In 1913, he enrolled at Yale University, where his grandfather James Smith Bush, class of 1844, and his uncle Robert E. Sheldon Jr., class of 1904, had matriculated.

The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, authored by Robert Chambers in St Andrews and published anonymously in England in 1844, proposed a theory which combined radical phrenology with Lamarckism, causing political controversy for its radicalism and unorthodoxy, but exciting popular interest and preparing a huge and prosperous audience for Darwin.

In early 1844, the new Governor, Robert Fitzroy investigated and at a meeting with Te Rauparaha, Te Rangihaeata and other Māori said: " In the first place, the white men were in the wrong.

Prior to the completion in 1844 of a long tunnel through a spur in the Moelwyn Mountain, the slate trains were worked over the top via inclines ( designed by Robert Stephenson ), the site of which can still be seen but there are no visible remnants.

The earliest usage of the term ' scientific romance ' is thought to be in 1845, by critics describing Robert Chambers ' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a speculative natural history published in 1844, and was used again in 1851 by the Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal and Literary Review in reference to Thoman Hunt's Panthea, or the Spirit of Nature.

In this respect, he followed the model laid down by the Edinburgh publisher Robert Chambers in his anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation ( 1844 ).

In 1844, under the influence of Johannes Ronge and Robert Blum, belief in the rights of man, tolerance among men, and humanism grew, and by 1859 they had established the Bund Freireligiöser Gemeinden Deutschlands ( Union of Secular Communities in Germany ).

Abel's Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, 1818, gives a detailed account of the collection's misfortunes .< Fortunately, he had left some specimens with sir George Staunton at Canton, who was kind enough to return them to him ; living specimens of the Chinese Abelia that we know today were introduced by Robert Fortune in 1844.

* Robert Taylor ( Radical ) ( 1784 – 1844 ), English clergyman turned freethinker