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Joseph Aston (1762 – 19 October 1844) was an English journalist, dramatist, and miscellaneous writer.
He was the son of William Aston (died 1826), gunsmith, of Deansgate, in Manchester from 1770; by 1811 William Aston & Son were gunsmiths at 53 King's Street. In October 1790 Joseph Aston married Elizabeth Preston, also of Manchester. [1] In 1803 he opened a stationer's shop at 84 Deansgate, where on 1 January 1805 he issued the prospectus of the Manchester Mail, published at sixpence and professing "no political creed". From 1809 till 1825 he was publisher and editor of a conservative journal, the Manchester Exchange Herald. Afterwards he moved to Rochdale, where he started the Rochdale Recorder and then retired to live at Chadderton Hall. He died at Chadderton Hall on 19 October 1844, and was buried at Tonge, adjoining Middleton. Aston was the friend and executor of Thomas Barritt, the antiquary. For about 34 years he also enjoyed the closest intimacy with James Montgomery, the poet and editor of the Sheffield Iris, who submitted to him most of his manuscripts for revision and criticism. [2] In Aston's youth his political views were Liberal and favoured reform, but in later life he wrote in a Conservative spirit. [3] His wife, by whom he had children including a daughter, survived him; she died 20 July 1852. [4]
Deansgate is a main road through Manchester city centre, England. It runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile long.
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 545,500 as of 2017. It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous built-up area, with a population of 3.2 million. It is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council.
Chadderton Hall Park is a park in Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Its roots stretch back to the 13th century being the land on which Chadderton Hall once stood. It contains a large field area with a small football pitch, a playground area, several flower gardens and a small café situated next to the Park's bowling green. The River Irk runs through the centre of the park.
He himself was a facile writer of verses, the majority of which appeared in his own paper. Of his dramatic pieces, Conscience, a comedy, was performed at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, in 1815, with moderate success; and he also wrote Retributive Justice, a tragedy, and A Family Story, a comedy.
The Theatre Royal in Manchester, England, opened in 1845. Situated next to the Free Trade Hall, it is the oldest surviving theatre in Manchester. It was commissioned by Mancunian businessman John Knowles who wanted a theatre venue in the city.
His published works nearly all relate to Manchester. They include The Manchester Guide: a brief historical description of the towns of Manchester & Salford, 1804, 2nd edition, 1815, 3rd, with plates, 1826; History and Description of the Collegiate Church of Christ, Manchester; Lancashire Gazetteer, 1st edition 1808, 2nd, 1822; An Heroic Epistle from the Quadruple Obelisk in the Market Place to the New Exchange, 1809; A Descriptive Account of Manchester Exchange, 1810; A Picture of Manchester 1816 (facsimile reprint of 1st ed., Manchester: Joseph Aston, 1816: Manchester: Morten, 1969 ISBN 0901598011); Metrical Records of Manchester, in which its History is traced (currente calamo) from the days of the ancient Britons to the present time, 1822.
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Richard Wright Procter enumerates Aston's "newspapers, books, and plays" but omits "his pamphlets and reprints on local history" as being too numerous in chapter XIII, Literary Deansgate of his Memorials of Manchester Streets. [5]
Richard Wright Procter (1816–1881) was an English barber, poet and author.
The East India Company College, or East India College, was an educational establishment situated at Hailey, Hertfordshire, nineteen miles north of London, founded in 1806 to train "writers" (administrators) for the Honourable East India Company (HEIC). It provided general and vocational education for young gentlemen of sixteen to eighteen years old, who were nominated by the Company's directors to writerships in its overseas civil service. It closed in 1858.
Manchester city centre is the central business district of Manchester, England, within the boundaries of Trinity Way, Great Ancoats Street and Whitworth Street. The City Centre ward had a population of 17,861 at the 2011 census.
General Sir Edward Paget was a British Army officer.
The Düsseldorf school of painting refers to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Academy in the 1830s and 1840s, when the Academy was directed by the painter Wilhelm von Schadow. The work of the Düsseldorf School is characterized by finely detailed yet fanciful landscapes, often with religious or allegorical stories set in the landscapes. Leading members of the Düsseldorf School advocated "plein air painting", and tended to use a palette with relatively subdued and even colors. The Düsseldorf School grew out of and was a part of the German Romantic movement. Prominent members of the Düsselorf School included von Schadow, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Andreas Achenbach, Hans Fredrik Gude, Oswald Achenbach, and Adolf Schrödter.
James Gillespie Graham was a Scottish architect, prominent in the early 19th century.
William Nassau Molesworth (1816–1890) was an English priest and historian.
The Stotts were a family of architects from Oldham, North West England, of Scottish descent who specialised in the design of cotton mills. James Stott was the father, Joseph and his elder brother Abraham Stott had rival practices, and in later years did not communicate. Their children continue their practices.
The Livingston family of New York is a prominent family that migrated from Scotland to the Dutch Republic, and then to the Province of New York in the 17th century. Descended from the 4th Lord Livingston, its members included signers of the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Several members were Lords of Livingston Manor and Clermont Manor, located along the Hudson River in 18th-century eastern New York.
Joseph Nightingale was a prolific English writer and preacher. He was particularly noted for his topographic writing and his interest in shorthand.
Barbara Hofland was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. She was asked by John Soane to write a description of his still extant museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields.
James Pigot was a British publisher of directories, and a pioneering publisher of trade directories.
David William Paynter (1791–1823) was an English author.
Alport Town was a district of Manchester, England, that included over 300 houses. It was effectively wiped out by the construction of the Great Northern Warehouse and its ancillary buildings and roads in the 1890s. Known by several names over a period of years, including Aldeparc, Aldport, Over Alporde, Nether Alteport, Alporton, Hooperton and Upperton, the area was known as Alport or Alport Town around the time of its demise.
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The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.
