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In 1851 he offered a prize of £ 200 for a new design of self-righting lifeboat, won by James Beeching, which became the standard model for the new Royal National Lifeboat Institution fleet.
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Even then she did not publish the poems and they were only offered to the public posthumously in 1851.
Even further back, one 1851 issue of The Lancet London advertised at least two sources of digestive biscuits, one such baker, William Hill, offered " brown meal digestive biscuits ".
In 1851, Franz Liszt offered to revive the opera in a new production ( and version ) in Weimar, and suggested changes to the score to Berlioz.
The Bishop of Monterey, Dominican Joseph Sadoc Alemany, offered the site to Italian Jesuits John Nobili and Michael Accolti in 1851 on condition that they found a college for California's growing Catholic population.
In 1851, he decorated a vase, later offered by Emperor Napoleon III of France to Prince Albert, now part of the Royal Collection at St. James's Palace, London.
A member of the Whig Party like his father, Harlan got an early start in politics when, in 1851, he was offered the post of adjutant general of the state by the governor at that time, John L. Helm.
He was again a representative in the state legislature in 1851, was offered the position as Massachusetts Attorney General in 1851, but declined ; and served as mayor of Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1851 and 1852.
Aikins was offered the Reform ( i. e., Liberal ) nomination for York West in the 1851 Canadian parliamentary election, but declined.
In 1851, when Lord Stanley ( who became the Earl of Derby later that year ) attempted to form a protectionist administration, Inglis was offered the presidency of the Board of Control, which he accepted initially, only to withdraw a few days later.
It was Governor Young who offered a prize of £ 2000 in 1851 for the first person to travel up the Murray River to its junction with the Darling River ( now the town of Wentworth ) in a paddle steamer.
1851 and prize
Under the tuition of Antoine François Marmontel, the Conservatoire's professor of piano, Bizet's pianism developed rapidly ; he won the Conservatoire's second prize for piano in 1851, and first prize the following year.
Notable among his medallic work are the obverse designs for the prize, juror and other medals for The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851, the year of his death.
Regarded by Howard Staunton as ' one of the finest players in England ' he was primarily an enthusiastic amateur of chess, yet in his sole tournament appearance at London 1851 he took second prize behind Adolf Anderssen.
This was the largest telescope in North America at that time, and their images of the moon took the prize for technical excellence in photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
His Das apostolische und das nachapostolische Zeitalter ( 1851 ), which developed out of a prize essay ( 1849 ), passed through three editions in Germany ( 3rd ed., 1885 ), and was translated into English ( 2 vols., 1886 ).
The challenge stood for over 67 years until, at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the American locksmith Alfred Charles Hobbs was able to open the lock and, following some argument about the circumstances under which he had opened it, was awarded the prize.
The pipe organ in St Anne's won first prize in the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Crystal Palace, and is much prized by musicians.
His best work is undoubtedly to be found in the charming ( 4 vols, 1835-1837 ) and ( 1844 ), where the folk-lore and natural features of his native province are worked up into story form, and in Un Philosophe sous les toils, which received in 1851 a well-deserved academic prize.
1851 and £
The sale was completed in November 1851, the price being £ 32, 000, and Prince Albert formally took possession the following autumn.
However, stamps from Henry Archer's perforation trials had been issued the last few months of 1850, then during the 1851 parliamentary session of 1851, at the House of Commons, and finally in 1853 / 54 after the government paid Mr. Archer £ 4, 000 for his machine and the patent.
The University was founded in 1851 as Owens College, named after John Owens, a textile merchant, who left a bequest of £ 96, 942 for the purpose.
The buildings, which occupied 21 acres, were designed by Captain Francis Fowke of the Royal Engineers, and built by Charles and Thomas Lucas and Sir John Kelk at a cost of £ 300, 000 covered by profits from the Great Exhibition of 1851.
In 1851, the value of these and of his other literary works was recognized by the grant of a Civil List pension of £ 200 a year.
On 30 December 1851 Sturt resigned his position and was given a pension of £ 600 a year and settled down on of land close to Adelaide and the sea.
It was endowed with a donation of £ 1, 000 by John Disney in 1851, followed by a further £ 3, 500 in a bequest at his death.
In 1851 he endowed with £ 1, 000 the Disney Professorship of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
In 1851 the market had been stated to be ‘ making progress ’; and £ 150 was subscribed to give a treat to the poor at its re-opening.
In 1851, when the US Congress refused to support the American section at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, Peabody advanced £ 3000 to improve the exhibit and uphold the reputation of the United States.
In 1851 the Falkland Islands Company, which had been incorporated by charter in the same year, bought Mr Lafone's interest in Lafonia, as the peninsula came to be called, for £ 30, 000.
£ 9, 000 was paid in 1851, but the rest was not.
In 1851, Mr Lafone's interest in Lafonia, as the peninsula came to be called, was purchased for £ 30, 000 by the Falkland Islands Company, which had been incorporated by charter in the same year.
By 1851 the new building was complete, costing £ 20, 000 and having a Tudor-like appearance.
The shareholders received £ 7, 372 in 1850, and the canal company was dissolved in 1851.
On leaving college he went to London, and in the course of four years spent his inheritance of £ 8, 000, meanwhile editing a periodical in aid of the World's Fair of 1851.
In October 1851 Agar arranged to have a box of bullion worth £ 200 ( equal to £ today ) sent on the train to Folkestone, where he would collect it under an assumed name.
He helped build an orphan asylum donating in 1851 £ 100 ( which according to some sources was his salary as mayor ) to the Hamilton Ladies ' Benevolent Society for the costs of construction.
1851 and 200
In 1851 the new governor of Timor, Solor and Flores, Lima Lopes, faced with an impoverished administration, agreed to sell eastern Flores and the nearby islands to Dutch in return for a payment of 200, 000 Florins.
The colony of New South Wales had a population of just 200, 000 in 1851, but the huge influx of settlers spurred by the goldrushes transformed the Australian colonies economically, politically and demographically.
Some population figures: 1828: 6, 800 ; 1832: 8, 100 ; 1851: 15, 200 ; 1880 ( the first to report nationality ): 11, 829 Germans and 11, 812 Czechs ; 1890: 11, 642 and 16, 585 ; 1900: 15, 400 and 23, 400 ; 1910: 16, 900 and 27, 300 ; 1921 ( the first held under Czech rule ): 7, 415 and 35, 800.
When Jose Maria Echeverria, a sergeant in the army taken captive by the Maya, resided in the town in 1851 – 53, it had about 200 Maya and 200 whites, all well armed and apparently fighting together, with the whites under their own commander, a man " of reddish complexion ".
* Heinz Schmitt: Karl Friedrich Drais von Sauerbronn: 1785 – 1851 ; ein badischer Erfinder ; Ausstellung zu seinem 200.
In 1851, the population of Mudgee was 200.
In 1851 the attendance was 200 for morning worhsip ( with 180 scholars ), 200 scholars in the afternoon and 40 for evening worhsip with 50 scholars.
An 1851 visit to London generated a commission for a Picture Bible, for which he created over 200 woodcuts.
His collection, which was purchased in 1851 by the Bibliothèque Nationale, comprised 136 volumes, 165 portfolios of documents and 200 packets of extracts from title-deeds, known as the Carrés d ' Hozier.
A route through Kemptville was chosen after Walter Shanley walked over 200 miles in search of the best route, and ground was broken on October 9, 1851.
City council had been indebted for $ 60, 000 in 1851 and $ 200, 000 in 1853 and later in 1865, the property of the company ( then renamed ) was foreclosed in a Toronto auction at a huge loss, and money invested by municipalities was totally lost.
At its height during 1851 to 1853, the gang earned an estimated $ 200, 000 under Saul's leadership.
In 1851, Edward Smith Hall, editor of the Sydney Monitor, purchased the land for 200 pounds.
In 1851, Edward Smith Hall, editor of the Sydney Monitor, purchased the land for 200 pounds.
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