Anthony Highmore (1719–1799) was an English draughtsman.
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Anthony Highmore (1719–1799) was an English draughtsman.
He was the only son of Joseph Highmore, known for five views of Hampton Court, engraved by John Tinney. He was deaf, and resided mostly at Canterbury, where he studied theology. He died on 3 October 1799, in his eighty-first year. [1]
Joseph Highmore was an English portrait and historical painter, illustrator and author.
John Tinney was an English engraver and printseller. He carried on business at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, London, where his own works were published. He is now known for his pupils: John Browne, Anthony Walker and William Woollett.
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Highmore married early in life Anna Maria, daughter of the Rev. Seth Ellis of Brampton, Derbyshire. They had fifteen children, one of whom was Anthony Highmore the legal writer. [1]
Brampton is an area in the west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Originally a village separate from the town, it became absorbed into it over time due to urban sprawl. It is centred on Chatsworth Road, the main arterial road (A619) that connects the town with the Peak District and Manchester.
Anthony Highmore (1758–1829) was an English legal writer, known also for works on London charities and the Honourable Artillery Company.
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Joseph Collyer, also called Joseph Collyer the Younger, was an English engraver. He was an associate of the Royal Academy and portrait engraver to the British Queen Consort, Queen Charlotte.
The Theological Repository was a periodical founded and edited from 1769 to 1771 by the eighteenth-century British polymath Joseph Priestley. Although ostensibly committed to the open and rational inquiry of theological questions, the journal became a mouthpiece for Dissenting, particularly Unitarian and Arian, doctrines.
The Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity is a senior professorship in Christ Church of the University of Oxford. The professorship was founded from the benefaction of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), mother of Henry VII. Its holders were all priests until 2015, when Carol Harrison, a lay theologian, was appointed to the chair.
Frodsham Hodson (1770–1822) was an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1809.
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Sir John Richardson (1771–1841) was an English lawyer and judge.
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William Anthony Holmes, D.D. (1782–1843) was a Church of Ireland cleric, chancellor of Cashel from 1832 and rector of Templemore, in the same diocese.
Alphonse François Lacroix (1799–1859) was a Swiss missionary in Bengal.
