However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

Just as important was the influence of the 19th century English designer William Morris, who had argued that art should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function.

* William Placid Morris ( 1794 – 1872 )

He also published influential biographies of William Morris ( 1955 ) and ( posthumously ) William Blake ( 1993 ) and was a prolific journalist and essayist.

Thompson's first major work was his biography of William Morris, written while he was a member of the Communist Party.

* William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary ( 1st ed.

It should also be compared to William Morris ' novel News from Nowhere.

Nevertheless, he remained close to Rossetti, with whom he also joined William Morris's design company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., in 1861.

From 1891 to 1896, William Morris ' Kelmscott Press published books that are some of the most significant of the graphic design products of the Arts and Crafts movement, and made a very lucrative business of creating books of great stylistic refinement and selling them to the wealthy for a premium.

At first approaching the subject through The Republic by Plato, he soon turned to contemporary ideas of socialism as expressed by the recently formed Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of William Morris.

Tapestry woven by William Morris | Morris & Co..

Morris developed the research program of IALA in consultation with Edward Sapir, William Edward Collinson, and Otto Jespersen.

This interest in the " Arthur of romance " and his associated stories continued through the 19th century and into the 20th, and influenced poets such as William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edward Burne-Jones.

William Morris, early english Libertarian Marxism | libertarian marxistMarxism started to develop a libertarian strand of thought after specific circumstances.

" One does find early expressions of such perspectives in ( William ) Morris and the Socialist Party of Great Britain ( the SPGB ), then again around the events of 1905, with the growing concern at the bureaucratisation and de-radicalisation of international socialism ".

It was strongly associated with G. D. H. Cole and influenced by the ideas of William Morris.

Both Karl Marx and the early socialist William Morris arguably had a deep concern for environmental matters.

* Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10571-1 ).

* 1834 – William Morris, English writer and designer ( d. 1896 )

Neon ( Greek ( neon ) meaning " new one ") was discovered in 1898 by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay ( 1852 – 1916 ) and Morris W. Travers ( 1872 – 1961 ) in London.

* William Morris, 1887

It is the work of the famous geographer William Morris Davis who not only made important contributions to the establishment of discipline in his country, but revolutionized the field to develop geographical cycle theory which he proposed as a paradigm for Geography in general, although in actually served as a paradigm for Physical Geography.

The bulk of the work of William Morris Davis led to the development of a new branch of Physical Geography: Geomorphology whose contents until then did not differ from the rest of Geography.

William Hogarth, self-portrait, 1745

Many consider the most significant painting in the collection to be a self-portrait of Indiana-born William Merritt Chase.

Detail from the Red Velvet Room ceiling of a self-portrait of William Kent.

The arts are represented by a self-portrait of William Kent ( art ), a supine bust of Inigo Jones ( sculpture ) and a putto with a temple plan of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis as depicted by Palladio.

William Morris Hunt self-portrait, 1866

* Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

One of the earliest group automorphisms ( automorphism of a group, not simply a group of automorphisms of points ) was given by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856, in his Icosian Calculus, where he discovered an order two automorphism, writing:

* 1856 – William Willett, English builder and daylight saving time advocate ( d. 1915 )

* 1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.

In 1856, William Walker, an American filibuster began incursions into Central America.

The first human-made ( synthetic ) organic dye, mauveine, was discovered serendipitously by William Henry Perkin in 1856.

* 1856 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist ( b. 1795 )

* 1915 – William Willett, English campaigner for daylight saving time ( b. 1856 )

Initially invited by the Liberals in 1855 to join their struggle against the Conservatives, a United States adventurer named William Walker declared himself king in 1856.

* 1795 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist ( d. 1856 )

* 1799 – William Sprague III, American politician ( d. 1856 )

In 1856 William Henry Perkin, while trying to manufacture quinine, accidentally manufactured the organic dye now known as Perkin's mauve.

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In 1856, under the direction of Postmaster General James Campbell, Toppan and Carpenter, ( commissioned by the U. S. government to print U. S. postage stamps through the 1850s ) purchased a rotary machine designed to separate stamps, patented in England in 1854 by William and Henry Bemrose, who were printers in Derby, England.

The first synthetic organic dye, mauveine, was discovered by William Henry Perkin in 1856 while he was attempting to synthesize quinine.

In 1856, Anthony further attempted to unify the African-American and women's rights movements when, recruited by abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster, she became an agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society of New York.

* April 19 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer ( b. 1856 )

* March 4 – William Willett, English promoter of daylight saving time ( b. 1856 )

* September 7 – Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter ( born 1856 )

* May 10 – William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand ( b. 1856 )

* November 27 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution, as King-Grand Duke William III signs the new constitution without the Chamber of Deputies ' consent.

* November 12 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist ( d. 1856 )

The term " Occam's razor " first appeared in 1852 in the works of Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet ( 1788 – 1856 ), centuries after Ockham's death.

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.