His principal teacher there was John Goss, whose own teacher, Thomas Attwood, had been a pupil of Mozart.

The most influential of these was the Birmingham Political Union, led by Thomas Attwood.

* 1796 Thomas Attwood

In Birmingham, the older Birmingham Political Union sprang to life under the leadership of Thomas Attwood.

* March 24 – Thomas Attwood, organist and composer ( b. 1765 )

In 1835 he married Anglela Attwood, daughter of Thomas Attwood MP and Elizabeth ( Carless ) in London.

* Thomas Attwood – Ozmyn and Daraxa

* Thomas Attwood, British economist and campaigner for electoral reform, was born at Hawne House, Halesowen on 6 October 1783

Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield both Liberals, were elected as the Birmingham's first MP's.

Earlier, Thomas Attwood and his followers had left the movement because they were keenly opposed to attainment of the Charter by any means other than legislative.

* November 23 – Thomas Attwood, composer ( died 1838 )

Other famous residents include landscape painter David Cox, the composer Granville Bantock and Thomas Attwood who became the first MP from Birmingham.

The Birmingham School of economists argued an underconsumptionist theory from 1815, and some of the writings of the school's leading member Thomas Attwood contain formulations of the multiplier effect and an income-expenditure model.

Born to a musical family, Goss was a boy chorister of the Chapel Royal, London, and later a pupil of Thomas Attwood, organist of St Paul's Cathedral.

The young Goss, however, became a pupil of Thomas Attwood, organist of St Paul's Cathedral.

Goss dedicated his anthem to his old teacher Thomas Attwood ; it was performed at the Mansion House in June 1834.

* Thomas Attwood by Sioban Coppinger and Fiona Peever, 1993.

Image: Thomas Attwood on the steps. jpg | Thomas Attwood, empty plinth, and scattered bronze pages on steps

Thomas Attwood ( 6 October 1783 – 6 March 1856 ) was a British banker, economist, political campaigner and Member of Parliament.

Thomas Attwood was born in Halesowen, then a detached part of Shropshire, and attended Halesowen Grammar School ( now Earls High School ) before being moved to Wolverhampton Grammar School.

When Seamus Heaney gave an Oxford lecture on the poet he opened by addressing the assembly, " Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry ", querying how ' Thomas the Poet ' is one of his forgotten attributes.

The project began in 1992 when David Wexelblat, Glenn Lai, David Dawes and Jim Tsillas joined forces addressing bugs in the source code of the X386 X server ( written by Thomas Roell ), as contributed to X11R5.

Behn's story was adapted for the stage by Irish playwright Thomas Southerne, who stressed its sentimental aspects, and as time went on, it came to be seen as addressing the issues of slavery and colonialism, remaining very popular throughout the 18th century.

In addressing the question of who invented the incandescent lamp, historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison.

In the preface to The Maid of Honour ( 1632 ) he wrote, addressing Sir Francis Foljambe and Sir Thomas Bland: " I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

At an Association meeting held in July 1846 at Conciliation Hall, the meeting place of the Association, Thomas Francis Meagher, a Young Irelander, addressing the peace resolutions, delivered his ' Sword Speech ', in which he stated, " I do not abhor the use of arms in the vindication of national rights ... Be it for the defence, or be it for the assertion of a nation's liberty, I look upon the sword as a sacred weapon.

* 19 February — Thomas O ' Donnell, a Nationalist Member of Parliament, is stopped by the speaker from addressing the British House of Commons in Irish.

However some reports and fans do claim that Sir Thomas Lipton intended to send a direct letter to Woolwich Arsenal F. C., addressing it to W. A.

Thomas S. Monson addressing the student body during a weekly devotional

Frederick Copleston, however, explains that Thomas laid out his proofs not in an effort to counter atheism, but was addressing certain early Christian writers such as John of Damascus, who asserted that knowledge of God's existence was naturally innate in man, based on his natural desire for happiness.

* EMI Classics: Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear, Thomas Allen ; CBSO Chorus ; Boys of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

* Thomas F. Birmingham, politician

The contract for the Haddiscoe Cut was signed with Thomas Townsend of Birmingham on 3 July 1832, and work began at once.

He was born at Birmingham, where his father, Thomas Wright Hill, for long conducted the private schools Hazelwood and Bruce Castle.

She has recently exhibited at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam ; The Eastshire Museums in Scotland, Kilmarnock ; Camden Arts Centre, London ; Sculpture Center, New York ; Thomas Dane Gallery, London ; La Casa Encendida, Madrid ; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ; and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.

Birmingham natives Leo Baker, Wade Gray, Riley Shamburger, and Thomas " Pete " Ray were killed when their ( two ) aircraft were shot down.

Born Thomas John Kummer in Birmingham, Alabama, Sebring was the son of an accountant, Bernard Kummer, and his wife Margarette.

There is a bronze statue of Hebe, by Robert Thomas ; ( 1966 ), in Birmingham city centre, England.

During the Birmingham Blitz, on the night of 11 December 1940, all but the fine tower and classical west portico of St Thomas ' Church, Bath Row, was destroyed by German bombs.

Thomas Dobbs ( actor ) of Birmingham invents a reaping machine in 1814, which consists of a circular saw or sickle, the grain is drawn or fed up to the saw by means of a pair of rollers.

Sutton did not establish itself as a market town like Birmingham was able to, and the market appears to have fallen out of use as a new charter was granted to Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick for a market to be held on the same day, as well as fairs on the eve of Holy Trinity and also on the eve of St Martin.

* Hospital of St Thomas of Canterbury, Birmingham, England United Kingdom

Bachus was born in Birmingham to Edith Wells and Spencer Thomas Bachus, Jr.

He is the son of Major Thomas Howarth MC ( headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham, Second Master of Winchester College and High Master of St. Paul's School and Margaret Teakle.

Finally 1652 marks the first record of a Birmingham bookseller and the first Birmingham-published book: The Font Guarded, by the local puritan Thomas Hall.

The march of the King and his army south from Shrewsbury in the days leading up to the Battle of Edge Hill in October 1642 met strong local resistance, with troops headed by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Earl of Derby being ambushed by local trainbands in Moseley and King's Norton, and the King's baggage train attacked by Birmingham townspeople and his personal possessions plundered and transported to Warwick Castle while the King stayed with the Royalist Sir Thomas Holte at Aston Hall.

Aston Hall, built in 1635 by the Cavalier | Royalist Thomas Holte | Sir Thomas Holte, still bears the scars from its attack by local Roundhead | Parliamentarian s in 1643Royalist revenge was exacted on Easter Monday, 3 April 1643, when Prince Rupert returned to Birmingham with 1, 200 cavalry, 700 footsoldiers and 4 guns.

A distinct and powerful " Birmingham interest " emerged decisively with the election of Thomas Skipwith at the Warwickshire by-election of 1769, and over following decades candidates for seats as far afield as Worcester, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leicester and Lincoln sought support in the town.

When his chapel was cleared after his death, his chaplain, Fr Benjamin Hulme, discovered the box containg the relics, which were examined and presented to Bishop Thomas Walsh, ( RC ) Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District in 1837 and were enshrined in the new St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, opened in 1841, in a new ark designed by Augustus Pugin.