William Napier, 9th Lord Napier
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The Lord Napier
Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China
In office: 31 December 1833 – 11 October 1834
Preceded by: Position created
Succeeded by: John Francis Davis
Personal details
Born: 13 October 1786, Kinsale, Ireland
Died: 11 October 1834, Macau
Spouse(s): Elizabeth Cochrane-Johnstone
Profession: Naval officer, trade envoy
William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Baron Napier (Chinese: 律勞卑) FRSE (13 October 1786 – 11 October 1834) was a British Royal Navy officer and trade envoy in China.
Early life
Napier was born in Kinsale, Ireland, on 13 October 1786. He was the son of Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (1758–1823) and the father of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick (1819–1898).
He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1803 and served -- with distinction -- as a midshipman on HMS Defiance at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). He later served as lieutenant under Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald.
In 1818 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir David Brewster, Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, and John Playfair.[2]
A peer of Scotland, Lord Napier was an elected Scottish representative in the House of Lords from 1824 to 1832. In December 1833, upon the ending of British East India Company's monopoly on trade in the Far East, he was appointed by Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston, a family friend of Napier, as the first Chief Superintendent of Trade at Canton (now Guangzhou), in China. The Second and Third Superintendents were John Francis Davis and Sir George Best Robinson, respectively. He arrived at Macau on 15 July 1834 on board the East India Company frigate Andromanche, and reached Canton ten days later, with the mission of expanding British trade into inner China. Lacking the necessary diplomatic and commercial experience, he was not successful in achieving the objective.
Having failed to secure a meeting with Lu Kun, the Governor-general of the Liangguang, Napier's frustration in failing to break an intractable trade deadlock and secure the rights of British traders led to his favoring a military solution. He sent the frigates Andromache and Imogene to Whampoa on 11 September, defying an edict issued by Lu Kun, in a 'casualty-less' skirmish of cannon fire as the British warships breached defences at the Bocca Tigris. After a prolonged stalemate, Lord Napier, sapped by typhus, was forced to retire to Macau in September 1834, where he died of the fever on 11 October. Originally buried in Macau, he was later exhumed for reburial at Ettrick in Scotland.
Napier was the first British representative to suggest seizing Hong Kong. In a dispatch to Lord Palmerston on 14 August 1834, he suggested a commercial treaty, backed by an armed force, be done to secure the rights and interests of European merchants in China. He recommended that a small British force "should take possession of the Island of Hongkong, in the eastern entrance of the Canton River, which is admirably adapted for every purpose".
Family
Lord Napier married Elizabeth Cochrane-Johnstone (c. 1795–1883), daughter of Scottish adventurer Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone, in 1816; they had two sons and six daughters. His eldest son, Francis Napier, also entered diplomatic service and was promoted by Palmerston for the rest of his life.
Honours
Following his death, the British Government placed a memorial to him before the Macao Customs Office. After being lost for a short time, it was moved to the Hong Kong Cemetery, and then to the Hong Kong Museum of History, where it now rests.
Notes
1. Laughton, J. K.. "Napier, William John, ninth Lord Napier of Merchistoun (1786–1834)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004 ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19773.
2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
3. Hanes & Sanello 2004, p. 27.
4. Lydia He. LIU; Lydia He Liu (30 June 2009). The Clash of Empires: the invention of China in modern world making. Harvard University Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-674-04029-8.
5. Eitel 1895, p. 56
6. "Family of William John NAPIER, 9th Lord NAPIER and Elizabeth COCHRANE-JOHNSTONE".
Further reading
• Eitel, E. J. (1895). Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882. London: Luzac & Company.
• Hanes, W. Travis; Sanello, Frank (2004). Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another. Sourcebooks. ISBN 9781402229695.
• Hoe, Susanna; Roebuck, Derek (1999). The Taking of Hong Kong: Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. ISBN 0-7007-1145-7.
• Melancon, Glenn. "Peaceful Intentions: The First British Trade Commission in China, 1833-5,” Historical Research 73 (2000) password required.
• Morse, Hosea Ballou. International Relations of the Chinese Empire: The Period of Conflict: 1834-1860. (1910) online pp 118-144
• Napier, Priscilla (1995). Barbarian Eye: Lord Napier in China, 1834, the Prelude to Hong Kong. London: Brassey's. ISBN 9781857531169.
• Welsh, Frank; Rao, Maya (1996). A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong. ISBN 1-56836-134-3.
External links
• The Napier Affair (1834)
• Another description of the Napier Affair
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Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier
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The Right Honourable The Lord Napier, KT [Order of the Thistle] PC [Privy Council of the UK]
Portrait of Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier in 1866
Acting Viceroy of India
In office: 24 February 1872 – 3 May 1872
Monarch: Queen Victoria
Preceded by: Sir John Strachey, As Acting Viceroy
Succeeded by: The Lord Northbrook
Governor of Madras Presidency
In office: 27 March 1866 – 19 February 1872
Preceded by: Sir William Thomas Denison
Succeeded by: Alexander John Arbuthnot, As Acting Governor
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia
In office: 1861–1864
Preceded by: John Crampton
Succeeded by: Andrew Buchanan
Personal details
Born: 15 September 1819, Thirlestane Castle, Selkirkshire, United Kingdom
Thirlestane Castle.
Died: 19 December 1898 (aged 79), Florence, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality: British
Spouse(s): Anne Jane Charlotte Manners
Alma mater: Trinity College, Cambridge
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick, KT, PC (15 September 1819 – 19 December 1898) was a Scottish polyglot, diplomat and colonial administrator. He served as the British Minister to the United States from 1857 to 1859, Netherlands from 1859 to 1860, Russia from 1861 to 1864, Prussia from 1864 to 1866 and as the Governor of Madras from 1866 to 1872. He also acted as the Viceroy of India from February to May 1872.
Francis Napier was born on 15 September 1819 to William John Napier and had his early education through private tutors. He joined the Trinity College, Cambridge in 1835 but did not complete his graduation. Instead, he mastered foreign languages and served as a diplomat in foreign missions. In 1866, he was appointed Governor of Madras and served from 1866 to 1872. On the assassination of the Earl of Mayo, the then Viceroy of India in February 1872, Napier was appointed to act temporarily as the Viceroy of India and served from February to May 1872. Napier returned to the United Kingdom in July 1872 and in his later life, chaired the Napier Commission. Napier died at Florence, Italy on 18 December 1898 at the age of 79.
Napier was made a Knight of the Thistle in 1864. In 1872, he was created Baron Ettrick in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in recognition of his services in India.
Early life and education
Francis Napier was born on 15 September 1819 to William John Napier, the 9th Lord Napier of Merchistoun and his wife, Elizabeth Cochrane-Johnstone at Thirlestane Castle in Selkirkshire. He was the eldest son of the couple.
Napier had his early education in private and was schooled at Saxe-Meiningen. He joined Trinity College, Cambridge in 1835 but did not complete his graduation. However, he acquired a knowledge of a few foreign languages under the tutorship of one Rev. Walter Patterson. Napier became the 10th Lord Merchistoun on the death of his father William John Napier on 11 October 1834.
Diplomatic career
Due to his fluency in multiple languages, Napier's lack of educational qualifications was overlooked and he was appointed to the British embassy at Vienna and later, Constantinople, where he served as an attache. In 1848, Napier was appointed Secretary of the British delegation at Naples. He served as the Acting Ambassador for a period of eighteen months in Naples, when Italy was embroiled in the Sicilian insurrection.
After his experience in Naples, he found time to publish a book assessing contemporary painters in Naples.[1] An aristocratic haughtiness regarding the local populace infuses his writing, dismissing the skills of more than one artist, and in reactionary fashion, the revolutionary instincts of the masses. In the preface, he writes:
It was the fortune of the author to hold a diplomatic employment at the Court of Naples, during a period in which the appropriate pastimes of that pleasant city were discarded for the illusions and regrets of political change. These transactions, of which the melancholy issue is notorious, were of a nature to engross and often to darken the thoughts of one, who had an intimate knowledge and a foreboding view of the revolutionary drama; the resources of society were limited by the suspicions and passions which altered and envenomed the conversation even of cultivated men; and the author was induced, alike by necessity and taste, to expend his relaxation and recover his serenity in the study of the local Arts.
— Notes on Modern Painting at Naples, 1850
Napier's handling of affairs as acting ambassador in Naples impressed the then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Palmerston. He was posted to the British embassy at St Petersburg, where he became a close confidante of Tsar Alexander II. After serving short, satisfactory terms at the British embassies at St Petersburg and Constantinople, Napier was appointed envoy extraordinaire and minister plenipotentiary to the United States and served from 1857 to 1859. Napier's tenure in Washington was soon mired in controversy. The abolitionist Charles Sumner and elements of the Northern press accused the British minister of being a pro-slavery partisan. More damaging still in the eyes of the British government was the claim that he had taken upon himself to declare in conversations that Britain recognized the Monroe Doctrine, when all the British governments till then had repudiated it. Critics at the Foreign Office accused him of "giving up everything the United States can wish for, even before they ask it", which for them explained Napier's immense popularity with Washington's influential residents. He was recalled and given the less sensitive post of minister to the Netherlands.[2] Napier served there from 1859 to 1861 and in Prussia from 1864 to 1866. He was then appointed Governor of Madras in 1866 and served from 27 March 1866 to 19 February 1872.
Governor of Madras
Napier Bridge in Chennai
As soon as Napier took office as the Governor of Madras, he was faced with a severe famine in Ganjam District. He took the services of Florence Nightingale whom he had known in Constantinople. Napier undertook many major irrigation schemes during his tenure. The Pennar Dam was completed during his tenure and two other irrigation works, the Rushikulya Dam in Ganjam and the Mullaperiyar Dam were conceived during his tenure.
Despite being at odds with different viceroys over financial issues throughout his tenure, Napier was able to resolve disputes in an amicable manner due to the friendly relations he had with Sir John Lawrence and well as his successor, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo. When the Earl of Mayo was assassinated in the Andamans on 8 February 1872, Napier was designated to act as the Viceroy of India and he served for a short time before being relieved by Lord Northbrook. For his creditable performance as Governor of Madras, Napier was created Baron Ettrick of Ettrick in the peerage of the United Kingdom.[3]
In 1869, Napier constructed the Napier Bridge across the Coovum River in Chennai.[4] The Napier Park in Chennai[5] and the Napier Museum in Trivandrum, Travancore were set up in his memory. Between 1866 and 1872,[6] he had partially restored the Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal as well, which was earlier demolished considerably by Grandson of King Thirumalai Nayak.
In addition there is a surgical ward in Stanley Medical College Hospital in Chennai, named in his honor. The ward was originally built with the help of donations by the Governor Napier.
Later life and death
At the end of his term as acting Viceroy of India, Napier returned to the United Kingdom and acted as the President of the Social Science Association during its meetings at Plymouth and Glasgow in October 1874.[7] During this time, Napier also served in the London School Board.[7]
Lord Napier was the chairman of the Napier Commission[7](the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands) which was appointed in 1883 and reported in 1884.
Napier died in Florence, Italy on 19 December 1898 at the age of 79.[7]
Honours
Napier was appointed to Privy Council in 1861 and made a Knight of the Thistle in 1864.
Family
Napier married Anne Jane Charlotte (1824–1911) on 2 September 1845. The couple had four sons.[8]
• William Napier, 11th Lord Napier (1846–1913)
• John Scott (1848–1928)
• R. N. Basil (1850–1874)
• Mark Francis (1852–1919)
Portrait
The New York Times gives a short physical description of Napier on his appointment as Viceroy of India.
Lord Napier is sixty-two years old, considerably above middle size, strong, healthy, with calm, handsome face, gray hair and whiskers, an early riser, very often a late goer to bed, gifted with inexhaustible energy, tact common sense and acuteness of judgement.[9]
References
1. Napier, Lord Francis (1855). Notes on Modern Painting at Naples.. West Strand, London: John W. Parker and Son. pp. I.
2. Brian Jenkins, Lord Lyons, A Diplomat in An Age of Nationalism and War, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014, pp. 85–89.
3. "GREAT BRITAIN.; The American Squadron Protest of English Catholics Against Italy's Coorse to the Pope-Governor-General of India" (PDF). The New York Times. London. 17 July 1872.
4. "Special lighting on Napier Bridge". The Hindu. Chennai. 29 July 2010.
5. Illustrated guide to the South Indian Railway: including the Mayavaram-Mutupet, and Peralam-Karaikkal railways. Higginbotham's. 1900. pp. 18.
6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
7. "BARON NAPIER IS DEAD.; He Was at One Time British Minister to This Country" (PDF). The New York Times. 19 December 1898.
8. "The Royal Household in Scotland". Burke's Landed Gentry of Scotland. Burke's Peerage. p. 1104.
9. "LORD NAPIER.; The Next Ruler for the Eastern Empire of Britain His Record What May be Expected of Him" (PDF). The New York Times. 17 February 1872.
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Francis Napier Beaufort-Palmer, youngest son
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Ancestors
1. Francis Napier Beaufort-Palmer (Mason)
2. Sir Francis V. Beaufort Palmer 1845 - ante 1941
4. Rev. William Palmer (Beaufort) 1803 - post 1881
5. F/? Beaufort (Palmer) + ante 1881
Spouses
1. 23rd Jul 1929 Jessie (Sylvia) Mason (Beaufort-Palmer)
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Francis Napier Beaufort-Palmer
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Died: 24 Sep 1984
Cemetery: Hove Cemetery (South), Old Shoreham Road, Hove, Brighton and Hove, England, United Kingdom
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William Palmer (theologian)
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The Reverend William Palmer
Born: William Patrick Palmer, 14 February 1803
Died: October 1885 (aged 81–82), London, England
Spouse(s): Sophia Bonne (m. 1839; died 1872)
Ecclesiastical career
Religion: Christianity (Anglican)
Church: Church of England
Academic background
Alma mater: Trinity College, Dublin; Worcester College, Oxford
Influences: Charles Lloyd[1]
Academic work
Discipline: Theology
School or tradition: High-church Anglicanism[2]
Institutions: Worcester College, Oxford[3]
William Patrick Palmer (1803–1885), who called himself Sir William Palmer, 9th Baronet, from 1865 (although his claim to the title was never acknowledged), was an Anglican theologian and liturgical scholar of the 19th century.
Life
Born 14 February 1803,[4] Palmer graduated from Worcester College, Oxford. He was an early supporter and influence in the Oxford Movement, but was superseded by John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey. Palmer initially supported the Tracts for the Times, but as opposition to the Oxford Movement grew, he withdrew his support, prompting a cooling in his friendship with Newman and a slow decline in his involvement with the movement.[2] Palmer died in October 1885 in London.[2]
Works
Palmer was author of the Origines Liturgicæ and Treatise on the Church of Christ (1838).[2] The latter formulated the notion, called the "Branch Theory" that, provided that both the apostolic succession, and the Faith of the Apostles are kept intact, then there the Church exists, albeit in one of its branches. This was applied to the Anglican Church.
References
Footnotes
1. Andrews 2015, p. 23.
2. Nockles 2004.
3. Douglas 2012, p. 560; Lebreux 1998, p. 7.
4. Nockles 2004; Rigg 1895, pp. 168–169.
Bibliography
• Andrews, Robert M. (2015). Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732–1807. Brill's Series in Church History. 70. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004293793. ISBN 978-90-04-29379-3. ISSN 1572-4107.
• Douglas, Brian (2012). A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology. Volume 1: The Reformation to the 19th Century. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004221321. ISBN 978-90-04-21930-4.
• Lebreux, Marie-Pascale (1998). William Palmer of Magdalen College: An Ecclesiastical Don Quixote (MA thesis). Montreal: McGill University. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
• Nockles, Peter B. (2004). "Palmer, William Patrick (1803–1885)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21225.
• Rigg, James McMullen (1895). "Palmer, William (1803–1885)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 43. New York: Macmillan and Co. pp. 168–170.
External links
• Works by or about William Palmer in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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Francis Beaufort Palmer
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Francis Beaufort PALMER
Background
PALMER, Francis Beaufort was born on July 7, 1845. Son of Reverend William Palmer (one of the originators of the Oxford Movement) ...
The Oxford Movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of England which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of Oxford, argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology. They thought of Anglicanism as one of three branches of the "one holy, catholic, and apostolic" Christian church. By the 1840s many participants decided that the Anglican Church lacked grace, and converted to Roman Catholicism.
The movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841. Tractarians were also disparagingly referred to as "Newmanites" (before 1845) and "Puseyites" (after 1845) after two prominent Tractarians, John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey...
Tractarians argued for the inclusion of traditional aspects of liturgy from medieval religious practice, as they believed the church had become too "plain"...
[T]he Oxford Movement was also criticised for being both secretive and collusive....
It incorporated ideas and practices related to the practice of liturgy and ceremony to incorporate more powerful emotional symbolism in the church... the Eucharist gradually became more central to worship, vestments became common, and numerous Roman Catholic practices were re-introduced into worship....
One of the results was the establishment of the Christian Social Union, of which a number of bishops were members, where issues such as the just wage, the system of property renting, infant mortality and industrial conditions were debated...
Concerns that Tractarianism was a disguised Roman Catholic movement were not unfounded; Newman believed that the Roman and Anglican churches were wholly compatible. He was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845 and was ordained a priest of the Church the same year. He later became a cardinal (but not a bishop)...
Others associated with Tractarianism.
• Lord Salisbury
-- Oxford Movement, by Wikipedia
and Sophia, daughter of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, Knight Commander of the Bath, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Sir Francis Beaufort, KCB [Order of the Bath] FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society] FRGS [Royal Geographical Society] FRAS [Royal Astronomical Society] MRIA [Royal Irish Academy]
-- Francis Beaufort, by Wikipedia
Education
Studied at University College, Oxford.
Career
Bar, 1873; Bencher Inner Temple, 1907. Ivt. cartulary-register 1907.
Works
Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies: Subject to the Companies Acts 1862 to 1883 (Classic Reprint) (Excerpt from Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to C...)
The Companies ACT, 1900, with Explanatory Notes and Appendix Containing Prescribed and Other Forms; Together with Addenda to "Company Precedents" (Paperback) - Common (Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We h...)
Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the Companies Acts 1862 to 1883. with Copious Notes (Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We h...)
Conveyancing and Other Forms and Precedents: Relating to Companies Incorporated Under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1867. with Copious Notes (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
Membership
Clubs: Athenaeum, Burlington Fine Arts.
Clubs: Athenaeum, Burlington Fine Arts.
Connections
Spouse 1898, Georgiana Elizabeth, daughter of 8th Baron [Arthur John] de Hochepied Larpent [Father: John James de Hochepied Larpent [1783-1860]; Mother: Georgiana Frances Reeves [1801-1886]; Spouse: Catherine Mary Melville (m. 9/27/1859); Child: Sybil Margurite Gonne de Hochepied Larpent].
Father: William Palmer
Mother: Sophia
Spouse: Georgiana Elizabeth
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John James De Hochepied Larpent (1783 - 1860)
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John James De Hochepied Larpent family tree
Father: John Larpent: 1741 - 1824
Mother: Anna Margaretta Porter 1758 - 1832
Spouse(s): Georgiana Frances Reeves 1801 - 1886
Children
1. Arthur John Hochpied Larpent 1832 - 1887
2. Lionel Henry Planta [L.H.P.] De Hochepied Larpent 1834 - 1907
3. Egmont De Hochepied Larpent 1841 - 1912
4. Rev. George Porter De Hochepied Larpent 1839 - 1871. Born in Bel Antwerp British Subject in 1839 ...
5. Clarissa Catherine Larpent 1830 - 1861
6. Geraldine De Hochepie. Larpent 1836 - 1913
7. Augustus De Hochepied Larpent 1827 - 1827
8. Louisa De Hochepied Larpent 1833 - 1920
9. Juliet De Hochepied Larpent 1829 - 1829
10. Frederick De Hochepied Larpent 1843 - 1919
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In January 1898, Mr W. C. Peppe, manager of the Birdpur Estate in north-eastern Basti District, U. P., announced the discovery of soapstone relic-caskets and jewellery inside a stupa near Piprahwa, a small village on this estate. An inscription on one of these caskets appeared to indicate that bone relics, supposedly found with these items, were those of the Buddha. Since this inscription also referred to the Buddha’s Sakyan kinsmen, these relics were thus generally considered to be those which were accorded to the Sakyas of Kapilavastu, following the Buddha’s cremation. The following year (1899) these bone relics were presented by the (British) Government of India to the King of Siam, who in turn accorded portions to the Sanghas of Burma and Ceylon.
William George Peppe, brutal murderer of 1857 in the eye of Hindustan (INDIA).
How William George Peppe became Hero For East India Company?
It was year 1857, The British were amazed and stunned. They could understand it well that the sepoy "Mutiny" has developed into a People's War and they realized it fully that the people's uprising is like a flood which sweeps away everything that comes in its way and spares nothing.
During this same period people of Mahua Dabar had killed Six British Army Officer in bits and pieces this was in revenge that British army had given to their fathers and to their village. In the early 19th century, the East India Company, eager to promote British textiles, had cut off the hands of hundreds of weavers in Bengal. Twenty weavers’ families from Murshidabad and Nadia had then fled to Awadh, whose nawab resettled them in Mahua Dabar and allowed them to carry on with their livelihood. Many of the first-generation weavers had already lost their hands, but they taught the craft to their sons and the small town of 5,000 people soon became a bustling handloom centre. It was around March-April 1857 when Zaffar Ali, a young man whose grandfather had migrated from Bengal, spotted a boat coming down the Manorama (a tributary of the Ghagra) on whose banks the town was located. The historians’ report names the six soldiers beheaded: Lt T.E. Lindsay, Lt W.H. Thomas, Lt G.L. Caulty, Sgt Edwards and privates A.F. English and T.J. Richie.
It was in consequence of this understanding that the Gorakhpur Judge W. Wynard and Collector W. Peterson appointed the Zamindar of Birdepur Willam Peppe as Deputy Magistrate of Basti and gave him half the troops of the 12th Irregular Horse Cavalry for his backing. Peppe was ordered to crush the people's uprising immediately by whatever means it may be possible.
So, on 20 June 1857, Peppe deployed the 12th Irregular Horse cavalry and surrounded Mahua Dabar from all sides and burned the township murdered thousands of people and burned them to ashes. Razed the entire town of Mahua Dabar. After this event he also mentioned on the colonial revenue records, that the area was marked as gair chiragi (non-revenue land). Soon this message reached like fire in every home and town of Hindustan that if any one revolt against British Empire he or they will be crushed to the ground, and very soon British Army gained its power again in India for this great work Willam Peppe was rewarded by East India Company he was granted land is in Basti district, round Birdpur. He was first manager and then owner of a large European estate there, which is still held by his successors, his sons Messrs. W. C. and G. T. Peppe and Mrs. Larpent, his daughter. Annie Jane Peppe married Lieut. Col. L. H. P. [Lionel Henry Planta de] Larpent, H. C. S. (References : Gazetteer; Foster B., M. N page# 822).
-- William Claxton Peppe: Persons of Indian Studies, by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen
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Arthur John de Hochepied Larpent, 8th Baron de Hochepied Larpent
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Arthur John de Hochepied Larpent, 8th Baron de Hochepied Larpent1
M, #585043, b. 18 March 1832, d. 24 August 1887
Arthur John de Hochepied Larpent, 8th Baron de Hochepied Larpent was born on 18 March 1832.1 He was the son of John James de Hochepied Larpent and Georgiana Frances Reeves.1 He married Catherine Mary Melville [1838-1872] on 27 September 1859 at Hove, Sussex, England.1 He died on 24 August 1887 at age 55.1
Children of Arthur John de Hochepied Larpent, 8th Baron de Hochepied Larpent and Catherine Mary Melville
1. John Melvill de Hochepied Larpent, 9th Baron de Hochepied:
2. Henrietta Kemble de Hochepied Larpent1 b. 23 Sep 1865, d. 1941
3. Sybil Margurite Gonne de Hochepied Larpent1 b. c 1868, d. 1948
Children of Arthur John de Hochepied Larpent, 8th Baron de Hochepied Larpent and Catherine Mary Melville
1. 9th Baron John Melvill de Hochepied Larpent, Male, 1860–1903
2. Clarissa Catharine de Hochepied Larpent, Female, 1862–Deceased
3. Georgiana Elizabeth de Hochepied- Larpent, Female, 1863–1923
4. Henrietta Kemble de Hochepied Larpent, Female, 1865–1941
5. Catherine Mary Louisa de Hochepied Larpent, Female, 1867–1953 (Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom)
6. Sybil Marguerite Gonne de Hochepied Larpent, Female, 1868–1948
7. Beatrice Charlotte Frances de Hochepied, Female, 1870–1942
-- by ancestors.familysearch.org
Citations
[S4567] Bill Norton, "re: Pitman Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 6 April 2010 and 19 April 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: Pitman Family."
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Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
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Born: 1846, Marylebone, London
Marriage: Georgiana Elizabeth de Hochepied Larpent in 1898 in Kensington, London 27
Died: 15 June 1917, London aged 71
Francis Seymour Larpent; Charlotte Rosamund Larpent (née Arnold)
by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, circa 1830
29 1/2 in. x 24 1/2 in. (749 mm x 622 mm)
Sitters: Charlotte Rosamund Larpent (née Arnold) (died 1879), Second wife of Francis Seymour Larpent. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Francis Seymour Larpent (1776-1845), Civil Servant. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Given by Francis Napier Beaufort-Palmer, 1951
-- Francis Seymour Larpent; Charlotte Rosamund Larpent (née Arnold), by National Portrait Gallery
Charlotte Rosamund (Arnold) Larpent (abt. 1792)
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Charlotte Rosamund Larpent formerly Arnold
Born about 1792 [location unknown]
Daughter of [George Arnold Arnold of Halstead Place, Kent] and [mother unknown]
George Arnold Arnold (1748 - 1805), British (English) School
Category: Art / Oil paintings
Date: 1768 - 1805
Materials: Oil on canvas
Measurements: 744 x 610 mm
Place of origin: England
Collection: Knightshayes Court, Devon (Accredited Museum) NT 541116
-- George Arnold Arnold (1748 - 1805), British (English) School, by nationaltrustcollections.org
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Francis Seymour Larpent — married 4 Dec 1829 [10 Dec. 1829] in All Souls Mary le Bone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
[children unknown]
Died [28 April 1879.] [Bath]
Profile last modified 22 Aug 2020
Biography
Charlotte was born about 1792.
Sources
1. "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJWD-C2Z : 13 March 2020), Francis Seymour Larpent, Esquire, 1829.
2, "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQKZ-MVK : 22 May 2019), Francis Larpent, Dorking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
General Notes:
Barrister (1911)
Noted events in his life were:
1. He appeared on the census in 1871 in 62 Montagu Square, St. Marylebone, London.
2. Census UK 1911: 1911, 29 Bryanston Square, Marylebone, London.
3. Resided: 15 June 1917, 29 Bryanston Square, Marylebone, London. 13
4. He had an estate probated on 12 September 1917 in London. 13
Francis married Georgiana Elizabeth de Hochepied Larpent in 1898 in Kensington, London.27 [England and Wales free Marriage Index, 1837-1915.] (Georgiana Elizabeth de Hochepied Larpent was born c 1865 in Bombay, India 10 [1911 UK Census.] and died on 26 April 1923 in London 13 [13 England and Wales National Probate Calendar, 1861-1941, England and Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administration), 1861 - 1941 (Ancestry.co.uk).])
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Palmer's Company Law -- A Practical Handbook for Lawyers and Business Men. With an Appendix containing the Companion (Consolidation) Act, 1908, and Rules. Eighth Edition. By Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer, Bencher of the Inner Temple. Royal 8vo. 1910. Price 12s. 6d. cloth.
Palmer's Company Precedents -- For use in relation to Companies subject to the Companies Acts.
Part I: General Forms. Tenth Edition. By Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer Bencher of the Inner Temple, assisted by the Hon. C. MacNaghten, K.C., and Edward Manson, Barrister-At-Law. Royal. 8vo. 1910. Price 38s. cloth.
Part II: Winding-Up Forms and Practice. Tenth Edition. By Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer. Royal 8vo. 1910. Price 32s. cloth.
Part III: Debentures and Debenture Stock. Tenth Edition. By Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer. Royal 8vo. 1907. Price 25s. cloth.
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Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
by Open Library
1845-1917
31 works
Company law
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer, Geoffrey Morse
First published in 1902
Company precedents
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1956
(Palmer's) Company guide
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1946
Palmer's corporate insolvency
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1996
(Palmer's) Private companies
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1941
Private companies
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1877
Private companies, their formation and advantages and the mode of converting a business into a private company
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1949
Palmer's Company precedents
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer, K.W. Mackinnon, R. Buchanan-Dunlop
First published in 1951
Peerage law in England
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1978
Company precedents for use in relation to companies subject to the Companies (consolidation) Act, 1908
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
Milner a Palmers Company Cases 1987 V 3
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1988
Schmitthoff C M Palmer Comp Law V1 Special E24
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1987
Milner a Palmers Company Cases 1988 V 4
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1989
Company Cases
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1986
Company law
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 2000
Peerage Law in England
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 2007
Palmer's Company Precedents
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer, R A K Wright, Buchanan-Dunlop
First published in 1960
Peerage law in England
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1907
The Shareholders' and Directors' Legal Companion: A Manual of Every Day Law and Practice, for ..
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1882
The Shareholders' and Directors' Companion: A Manual of Every-day Law and Practice for Promoters ..
by Sir Francis Beaufort Palmer
First published in 1880
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A Handbook of Tibetan Culture [Excerpt]
by Graham Coleman
Copyright The Orient Foundation, 1993
About the Book: Over the past nine years the Orient Foundation has compiled a database that brings together information on over 600 Tibetan-related organizations throughout the world. Compiled under teh auspices of HH The Dalai Lama, this book provides comprehensive information about Tibetan Buddhism and culture for the general public including: Museums, teaching centres, retreat centres and publications listed in a country-by-country gazetteer.
About the Author: Graham Coleman is President of the Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture (UK), a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization. He has been editing Tibetan Buddhist poetry and prose texts in cooperation with various distinguished translators since the mid-1970s, and is the writer and director of the acclaimed feature documentary "Tibet -- A Buddhist Trilogy."
TIBET SOCIETY AND RELIEF FUND OF THE UK
Address: Olympia Bridge Quay, 70 Russell Road, Kensington, London, UK, W14 8JA.
Tel: 071-603 7764.
Telex/Fax: 071-603 7764.
Year Established: 1959.
Founder: Francis Napier Beaufort Palmer.
General Description: The society was founded in June 1959 in order to give expression to the widespread interest and deep concern aroused in the UK by the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The objects are: to promote the cause of Tibetan independence, to bring before the world the sufferings of the oppressed people of Tibet, to assist those Tibetans who had fled from Tibet to India and elsewhere and to promote understanding of Tibetan history, culture and religion.
Facilities and Services: Members receive periodical newsletters giving the latest information about the Tibetan situation in general and the society's activities. The latter include lectures, film sows, exhibitions and social events.
Ecumenical Centres:
BUDDHIST SOCIETY
Address: 58 Eccleston Square, London, UK, SW1V 1PH.
Tel: 071 834 5858.
Distribution Details: The Society publishes a quarterly journal entitled The Middle Way.
Year Established: 1924.
Lama/Scholar: Ven. Sumedho Bhikkhu.
General Description: The Buddhist Society was established in 1924; it is one of the oldest Buddhist Societies in Europe. The object of the society is to publish and make known the principles of Buddhism and to encourage the study and application of these principles. The society adheres to no one Buddhist school, and aims to give the newcomer an impartial introduction to the many branches of Buddhism practised in Britain today.
Teaching Programme: A comprehensive programme of all classes, lectures and special events held at the Society is printed in the quarterly journal The Middle Way.
Facilities and Services: The Society's premises are open to both members and non-members between 2 and 6pm every day except Sunday. Public lectures and classes are mostly held from 6:30pm. Members are entitled to use the society's General Lending and Reference Libraries, the former either by direct borrowing or by post.
Government Offices
OFFICE OF TIBET (UK)
Address: Linburn House, 342 Kilburn High Road, London, UK, NW6 2QJ.
Tel: 071 328 8422.
Telex/Fax: 071 624 4100.
General Description: Bureau of the Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama for the UK and Scandinavia.
Libraries
BRITISH LIBRARY OMPB
Address: Great Russell Street, London, UK, WC1 3DG.
INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY AND RECORD NEWS, DEPT. ORIENTAL MSS AND PRINTED BOOKS
Address: British Library, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, UK, SE1 8NG.
WELLCOME INSTITUTE, FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Address: 183 and 200 Euston Road, London, UK, NW1 2BP.
Tel: 071 383 4414.
Telex/Fax: 071 388 3164
Year Established: 1913.
Founder: Sir Henry Wellcome.
General Description: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine is a reference library and contains manuscripts, xylographs, books, paintings and drawings chiefly connected with the history of medicine. The institute has acquired prior to 1970 seventy-seven Tibetan manuscripts, fifty-four Tibetan xylographs, one modern print in Tibetan script, a mani stone, twenty-eight thangkas, eighteen banners, ten other paintings and drawings and eight printing blocks. Museum objects are on indefinite loan to the Science Museum.
Museums
ASHMOLENA MUSEUM
Address: Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolen Museum, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, OX1 2PH.
Tel: 0865 278071.
Telex/Fax: 0865 278018.
Year Established: 1683.
Founder: Elias Ashmole.
General Description: The Department of Eastern Art holds a collection of several hundred Tibetan artefacts, some being on longterm loan from the Bodleian Library and a private collection. Bronze and other metal images and various ritual objects and vessels predominate. There are also over 100 thangkas at present in the collection; the majority of which are on loan. A selection from the collections is on permanent display in the department's galleries.
BRITISH MUSEUM, DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL ANTIQUITIES
Address: Great Russell Street, London, UK, WC1B 3DG.
Tel: 071 636 1555.
Telex/Fax: 071 323 8480.
Year Established: 1753.
General Description: The British Museum was founded by an Act of Parliament in 1753. The material from Tibet includes objects in the following categories: religious and ritual equipment of all kinds, costumes, arms and armour, banner paintings, inscriptions, bookcovers, sculpture in most media, and some categories of domestic equipment.
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OF THE ORIENT FOUNDATION: About Us
by The Orient Foundation
Accessed: 7/3/21
Activities:
The principal activity of the Foundation is the multimedia documentation of Classical Indian and Tibetan Knowledge Resources and the development of regional and international access to these resources.
Creating, Conserving and Developing Access to Multimedia Documentary Resources:
Beginning in 1995, the Foundation assisted in the setting up of twenty-four fully equipped multimedia documentation centres and libraries in the major Tibetan monasteries of India. The project’s archive and administrative hub is housed at the Foundation’s New Media Centre in the library building of the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, U.P. To date, the multimedia documentation programme has resulted in the live recording and archiving of 20,500 hours of oral commentary to the key classical texts of Indo-Tibetan culture by the greatest masters, scholars, doctors and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition, a still image archive of over 19,000 photographs has been created and over 900 hours of digital video documentation of the classical arts traditions has been completed. This documentation programme, has been supported by grants from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trusts, the Prince Claus Fund and the Ministry of Culture (Government of India).
From the start of the project, each partner library received analogue master and distribution copies of the documentary records created in their educational institution and each partner library has provided day-to-day access to the documentary materials to their institution’s scholars and students.
In 2007, the Foundation completed the digitization of the entire master analogue collections and in January 2010, the Foundation completed the compression of the entire master digital collections into MP3 format (for audio material), MP4 format (for video material) and JPEG format (for photographic material).
In March 2010, copies of the entire oral commentarial archive began to be distributed throughout the network of partner monastery and nunnery libraries in both India and Nepal. (See partner list.) In order to increase the security of the master archival materials, both master analogue and digital copies of the entire archive are now held at the Songtsen Library in Dehradun and the Tibetan Yungdrung Bon Library at Dolanji.
Throughout the development of both the analogue and digital multimedia resource materials the Foundation has followed the technical guidelines as set out by the National Sound Archive of the UK, the National Film and Television Archive of the UK, and UNESCO.
In April 2010, the process of creating an internet based multimedia platform for providing worldwide access to the Foundation’s archival resources began. The online multimedia digital archive was completed and launched in March 2012. (See: http://www.tibetan-knowledge.org.) New documentary materials are being added to the archive continuously and the online resource is being regularly updated, as new documentary materials are digitally processed and catalogued.
Since 2010, in order to provide a means whereby apprentice artists could study the surviving works of earlier generations of eminent artists, the Foundation has been working in partnership with the major museums, monasteries and private collectors in India and Nepal, who hold classical Tibetan art collections. As a result, the most exemplary thangkas, held in over 30 collections, have either been photographed in situ by Foundation staff or high resolution photographs have been donated to the archive by the collection holders. Between 2011 and 2012, the Foundation assisted in the creation of the first online training resource for classical Tibetan artists. (See: http://www.tibetan-arts.org.)
Training:
In 1997, the Foundation assisted in an All-India initiative to introduce the benefits of networked, multilingual, multimedia Information Technologies to the Vice Chancellors of India’s leading universities and the heads of India’s major archives, libraries and museums, co-funded by the European Commission and the Ford Foundation.
Since 1997, the Foundation has conducted regular workshops at the Central University for Tibetan Studies for its network of partner monastery and nunnery libraries. These workshops have focused on providing training in multimedia documentation, archival conservation and library distribution methods.