Notes

Note for: Eugene Hay Cameron, 1848 - 1885 Index

The baby in this photograph is Cameron's first born grandson, Archie Camer on. Archie was the child of Cameron's eldest son, Eugene Hay Cameron and h is wife Carolyn Catherine Browne. Julia Margaret Cameron took this photogr aph and many other studies of baby Archie when the young family visited t he Isle of Wight in 1865 from their home in the West Indies.

This photograph is dated April 1865 and therefore is one of the earliest s tudies of Archie. Cameron photographed him regularly between April and Aug ust that year, often including him in Biblical scenes as the Christ chil d, the infant Samuel or in studies representing the Holy Family.

Though Archie appears at the centre of this Holy Family group, his real pa rents do not. In this study Mary Ryan, Cameron's maid, leans over the slee ping child.

Notes

Note for: Frederick William Maitland, 1850 - 1906 Index

MAITLAND, Frederic William (1850-1906), law teacher, legal historian: bou nd volumes of mss included in Selected Essays, presented by Miss Ermenga rd Maitland on 2 Feb 1956:-
http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/archives/ialslib.htm

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Note for: Cecelia Warre-Cornish, 1886 - Index

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Adm. Sir William Wordsworth Fisher

Spouses of Adm. Sir William Wordsworth Fisher

1 Cecilia Warre-Cornish
Birth Date 1886
Father Francis Warre Warre-Cornish (8 MAY 1839 - 1916)
Mother Blanche Ritchie ( - 1923)

Adm. Sir William Wordsworth Fisher and Cecilia Warre-Cornish had the follo wing children

1 Son Fisher
2 Son 2 Fisher
3 Rosamund Fisher
4 Daughter 2 Fisher

Descendants of Adm. Sir William Wordsworth Fisher and Cecilia Warre-Corni sh

1 Son Fisher

2 Son 2 Fisher

3 Rosamund Fisher = Hon. R.D. Coleridge

4 Daughter 2 Fisher

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Note for: Erasmus Darwin, 12 DEC 1731 - 18 APR 1802 Index

Darwin, Erasmus, MD, FRS, Naturalist

Born: 12 DEC 1731
Died: 18 APR 1802
Notes:
Author "Zoömonia, or the Laws of Plants"; "Phytologia"; "The Botanic Garde n";
"The Loves of Plants".

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Note for: Josiah Wedgwood, 12 JUL 1730 - 3 JAN 1795 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Master Potter, FRS

Individual note:
Josiah Wedgwood, (1730-1795), English potter, whose works are among the fi nest examples of ceramic art.

English potter, whose works are among the finest examples of ceramic ar t.
Wedgwood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, on July 12, 1730, into a fami ly with a long tradition as potters. At the age of nine, after the dea th of his father, he worked in his family's pottery.

In 1759 he set up his own pottery works in Burslem. There he produced a hi ghly durable cream-coloured earthenware that so pleased Queen Charlotte th at in 1762 she appointed him royal supplier of dinnerware. From the publ ic sale of Queen's Ware, as it came to be known, Wedgwood was able, in 176 8, to build near Stoke-on-Trent a village, which he named Etruria, and a s econd factory equipped with tools and ovens of his own design. At first on ly ornamental pottery was made in Etruria, but by 1773 Wedgwood had concen trated all his production facilities there.

During his long career Wedgwood developed revolutionary ceramic material s, notably basalt and jasperware.

In 1754 Wedgwood began to experiment with coloured creamware. He establi shed his own factory, but often worked with others who did transfer printi ng (introduced by the Worcester Porcelain Company in the 1750s). He also p roduced red stoneware; basaltes ware, an unglazed black stoneware; and jas perware, made of white stoneware clay that had been coloured by the additi on of metal oxides. Jasperware was usually ornamented with white relief po rtraits or Greek Classical scenes. Wedgwood's greatest contribution to Eur opean ceramics, however, was his fine pearlware, an extremely pale creamwa re with a bluish tint to its glaze.

Wedgwood's basalt, a hard, black, stone-like material known also as Egypt ian ware or basaltes ware, was used for vases, candlesticks, and realist ic busts of historical figures. Jasperware, his most successful innovatio n, was a durable unglazed ware most characteristically blue with fine whi te cameo figures inspired by the ancient Roman Portland Vase. Many of t he finest designs were the work of the British artist John Flaxman