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Joseph Hume

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Joseph Hume FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish doctor and Radical MP. [1]

67 relations: Aberdeen Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), Allan Octavian Hume, Blank verse, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Daniel O'Connell, Divine Comedy, East India Company, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Fellow of the Royal Society, Flagellation, Francis Place, George Byng (1764–1847), Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake, Groat (coin), Impressment, Indian Civil Service (British India), Indian National Congress, James Duff, 4th Earl Fife, James McGrigor, James Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Broadhurst, John O'Connell (MP), Joseph Gerrald, Kensal Green Cemetery, Kilkenny City (UK Parliament constituency), London, Maurice Margarot, Member of parliament, Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency), Monitorial System, Montrose Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), Montrose, Angus, Obelisk, Old Calton Burial Ground, Ornithology, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Patrick Chalmers (MP), Peace, Retrenchment and Reform, Political Martyrs' Monument, Public expenditure, Radicals (UK), Richard Steward, Samuel Charles Whitbread, Sandstone, Savings bank, Scottish Borders, Second Anglo-Maratha War, Sinking fund, Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet, ..., Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir of Huntershill, Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace, Thomas Wood (British Army officer), Tories (British political party), United Kingdom general election, 1812, United Kingdom general election, 1818, United Kingdom general election, 1830, United Kingdom general election, 1837, United Kingdom general election, 1841, University of Edinburgh, Westminster, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (UK Parliament constituency), William Edward Baxter, William IV of the United Kingdom, William Skirving, William Williams (Radical politician). Expand index (17 more) »

Aberdeen Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Aberdeen Burghs was a district of burghs constituency which was represented from 1708 to 1800 in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1832 in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Allan Octavian Hume

Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (6 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a member of the Imperial Civil Service (later the Indian Civil Service), a political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India.

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Blank verse

Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.

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Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Her Majesty's Exchequer, commonly known as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or simply the Chancellor, is a senior official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of Her Majesty's Treasury.

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Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), often referred to as The Liberator or The Emancipator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover

Ernest Augustus (Ernst August; 5 June 1771 – 18 November 1851) was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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Flagellation

Flagellation (Latin flagellum, "whip"), flogging, whipping or lashing is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, lashes, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, etc.

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Francis Place

Francis Place (3 November 1771 in London – 1 January 1854 in London) was an English social reformer.

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George Byng (1764–1847)

George Byng DL JP (17 May 1764 – 10 January 1847), of Wrotham Park in Middlesex (now Hertfordshire), and of Wentworth House, 5, St James's Square, London, was a British Whig politician.

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Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake

General Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake (27 July 1744 – 20 February 1808) was a British general.

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Groat (coin)

The groat is the traditional name of a long-defunct English and Irish silver coin worth four pence, and also a Scottish coin originally worth fourpence, with later issues being valued at eightpence and one shilling.

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Impressment

Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice.

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Indian Civil Service (British India)

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) for part of the 19th century officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in British India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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James Duff, 4th Earl Fife

James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife KT, GCH (6 October 1776 – 9 March 1857), was a Scot who became a Spanish general.

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James McGrigor

Sir James McGrigor, 1st Baronet, LLD (9 April 1771 – 2 April 1858) was a Scottish physician, military surgeon and botanist, considered to be the man largely responsible for the creation of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

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James Mill

James Mill (born James Milne, 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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John Broadhurst

John Charles Broadhurst (born 20 July 1942) is an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church.

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John O'Connell (MP)

John O'Connell JP DL (24 December 1810 – 24 June 1858) was one of seven children (the third of four sons) of the Irish Nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell and his wife Mary.

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Joseph Gerrald

Joseph Gerrald (9 February 1763 – 16 March 1796) was a political reformer, one of the "Scottish Martyrs".

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Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.

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Kilkenny City (UK Parliament constituency)

Kilkenny City was an Irish Borough constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP).

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Maurice Margarot

Maurice Margarot (1745–1815) is most notable for being one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical society demanding parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency)

Middlesex is a former constituency.

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Monitorial System

The Monitorial System, Madras System, or Lancasterian System was an education method that became popular on a global scale during the early 19th century.

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Montrose Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Montrose Burghs was a district of burghs constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1950.

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Montrose, Angus

Montrose (Monadh Rois) is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland.

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Obelisk

An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος obeliskos; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.

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Old Calton Burial Ground

The Old Calton Burial Ground is a graveyard at Calton Hill, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to the north-east of the city centre.

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Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Patrick Chalmers (MP)

Patrick Chalmers FSA (31 October 1802 – 23 June 1854) was a British soldier, writer and politician.

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Peace, Retrenchment and Reform

Peace, Retrenchment and Reform was a political slogan used in early-19th-century British politics by Whigs, Radicals and Liberals.

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Political Martyrs' Monument

The Political Martyrs Monument, located in the Old Calton Burial Ground on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, commemorates five political reformists from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Public expenditure

Public expenditure is spending made by the government of a country on collective needs and wants such as pension, provision, infrastructure, etc.

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Radicals (UK)

The Radicals were a loose parliamentary political grouping in Great Britain and Ireland in the early to mid-19th century, who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.

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Richard Steward

Richard Steward or Stewart (1593? – 1651) was an English royalist churchman, clerk of the closet to Charles I and designated Dean of St. Paul's and Westminster, though not able to take up his position because of the wartime circumstances.

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Samuel Charles Whitbread

Samuel Charles Whitbread (16 February 1796 – 27 May 1879) was a British Member of Parliament, member of the Whitbread brewing family and founding president of the Royal Meteorological Society.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Savings bank

A savings bank is a financial institution whose primary purpose is accepting savings deposits and paying interest on those deposits.

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Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders (The Mairches, "The Marches"; Scottish Gaelic: Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Second Anglo-Maratha War

The Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) was the second conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

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Sinking fund

A sinking fund is a fund established by an economic entity by setting aside revenue over a period of time to fund a future capital expense, or repayment of a long-term debt.

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Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet

Sir James Carnegie of Kinnaird and of Pitarrow, 5th Baronet DL (1799 – 30 January 1849) was a Scottish politician and de jure 8th Earl of Southesk, 8th Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and 8th Baron Carnegie, of Kinnaird and Leuchars.

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Thomas Fyshe Palmer

Thomas Fyshe Palmer (1747–1802) was an English Unitarian minister, political reformer and convict.

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Thomas Muir of Huntershill

Thomas Muir (24 August 1765 – 26 January 1799), often known as Thomas Muir the Younger of Huntershill, was a Scottish political reformer.

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Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace

Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace PC (1768 – 23 February 1844) was an English politician.

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Thomas Wood (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Thomas Wood (1804 – 24 October 1872) was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to 1847.

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Tories (British political party)

The Tories were members of two political parties which existed sequentially in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 17th to the early 19th centuries.

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United Kingdom general election, 1812

The 1812 United Kingdom general election was the fourth general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.

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United Kingdom general election, 1818

The 1818 United Kingdom general election saw the Whigs gain a few seats, but the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool retained a majority of around 90 seats.

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United Kingdom general election, 1830

The 1830 United Kingdom general election was triggered by the death of King George IV and produced the first parliament of the reign of his successor, William IV.

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United Kingdom general election, 1837

The 1837 United Kingdom general election was triggered by the death of King William IV and produced the first Parliament of the reign of his successor, Victoria.

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United Kingdom general election, 1841

In the 1841 United Kingdom general election, there was a big swing as Sir Robert Peel's Conservatives took control of the House of Commons.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames.

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Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (UK Parliament constituency)

Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset represented in the English House of Commons, later in that of Great Britain, and finally in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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William Edward Baxter

William Edward Baxter (1825 – 10 August 1890) was a Scottish businessman, Liberal politician and travel writer.

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William IV of the United Kingdom

William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837.

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William Skirving

William Skirving (c. 1745–1796) was one of the five Scottish Martyrs for Liberty.

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William Williams (Radical politician)

William Williams (12 February 1788 – 26 April 1865), was a Welsh Radical politician.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hume

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