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In the News (Sun 20 Dec 09)

  
  The Booth Family
A magisterial inquiry was held by me, one of her majesty's Justices of the Peace, in and for the Southern Bailiwick of the colony of Victoria, on the 3rd.
He was suffering from atrophy of the optic nerve and had suicidal tendencies: about 10 or 12 years ago I was called in and found that he had used a large chandler’s knife and had severed some of the vessels in his arm.
THOMAS born 1864 Creswick married Margaret Louisa Williams 1893 Fingal, Tasmania.
members.iinet.net.au /~gstanden/booth.html   (2916 words)

  
  Creswick Birth Death & Marriages Extracted from the Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 1859 - 1865
November, 1864, at Creswick, by the Rev Thomas Williams, Walter Sturnes Baldwin of Ware, Hertfordshire, England, to Jane, second daughter of Mr Samuel Perry, formerly of Odcombe, Somertshire.
Pollard, Frederick Edwards, of Creswick, youngest son of the late Rev. William Edwards, of Kilmersdon, Somersetshire, to Charlotte, third daughter of Mr John Organ, late of Penzance, Cornwall.
Gilbert - At Nuggetty Gully, Creswick, on the 23
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~pobjoyoneill/newsppr/BDM5965.htm   (4489 words)

  
 War Memorials: Boldmere Swimming Club
Showing an adult teaching a child to swim, it was sculpted by Benjamin Creswick in 1920, and cast in the back garden of his home, 'Elmwood', in nearby Jockey Road.
Creswick (1853 - 1946) came to Birmingham to work at the School of Art, as Master of Modelling and Modelled Design, from 1889- 1918.
He exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Arts in 1914 and was responsible for a number of architectural sculptures, which can still be seen on Birmingham buildings.
www.birmingham.gov.uk /GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=770&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=10538   (125 words)

  
 Joseph TREWEEK m 1844 Harriet JOB
In 1855 Joseph, his twin brother Benjamin and their younger brother Nicholas, who both arrived from Cornwall in May 1855, held Miner's Rights which qualified them to vote in the Electoral District of Ballarat in the Police District of Ballarat.
In John A Graham's book Early Creswick, facsimile edn 1987, Creswick Historical Society (first published 1942) it says that on the 21st of May 1855 land sales of 5750 acres in lots were held in the Parish of Spring Hill realising a value of £8475.
The deceased, who was widely known and highly respected, was the mother of Messrs Joseph, Benjamin and Nicholas Treweek, Mrs J Hutchins (Newlyn), Mrs Pascoe (Melbourne), Mrs I Robinson (Allendale), Mrs Geo Clarke (Ballarat), Mrs AG Wallace (Kingston), and there are over 60 grandchildren.
users.ncable.net.au /~jburrell/gen/treweek/tre_job.html   (717 words)

  
 Lost Branches
Mary Rebecca PRESTON, daughter of Benjamin PRESTON and Mary Ann LAMPRELL, born 1872 at Kingston, VIC, died 1928 at Ballarat, VIC, married 1897 William Charles BEASLEY, son of William BEASLEY and Amanda RICKARD.
William Benjamin (Wax) BEASLEY born 1903 at Kingston, VIC, died 1981 at Ballarat, VIC, married 1928 Ada Jane THOMAS, daughter of Joseph Thomas & Florence Mary Ann STOUT.
She was born 1887 at Creswick, VIC, died 1946 at Kingston, VIC, married 1907 Richard Ernest JAMES, son of Thomas JAMES and Ellen TYKE, in 1907 at VIC.
www.geocities.com /rvoull/lost.html   (1183 words)

  
 Gahan Families 2
Benjamin and Amelia married in 1857 in Geelong, Victoria.
Benjamin GAHAN and Eliza or Elizabeth COLLINGWOOD are listed as the parents of Benjamin GAHAN b.
I have found no further reference to Benjamin, Eliza or Thomasina in Australia but there is a death registered in Talbot, Victoria of Phoebe GAHAN in 1899, 40 years old and parents listed as Benjamin GAHAN and Eliza DESANLONDE.
www.angelfire.com /biz6/gahanfamilies/families.htm   (1742 words)

  
 Wardour Street Area: Pulteney Estate | British History Online
Although asymmetrical, the upper part of the front is balanced about the central feature which is two bays wide and four storeys high.
There are three tiers of windows, the top tier having arched heads, and over the wide west bay rises a pedimented dormer gable.
Both the large and small gables are decorated with finials in the form of beavers, realistically modelled by Creswick.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.aspx?compid=41109   (5625 words)

  
 Chapter Excerpt: The Arts and Crafts Companion by Pamela Todd   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Meanwhile, in Birmingham and Glasgow, other Arts and Crafts groups bloomed, once again around the focus of an art school sympathetic to their ideals that quickly became the home of the local style.
The Birmingham Group included artists and designers such as Arthur Gaskin, Henry Payne, Charles March Gere, Bernard Creswick, the enamelists Sidney Meteyard and his wife Kate Eadie, and Mary Newill, a designer of embroideries and stained glass.
All were teaching at the Birmingham School of Art's "Art Laboratories" in the mid-1890s.
www.twbookmark.com /books/64/0821228412/chapter_excerpt18518.html   (4514 words)

  
 Benjamin Latrobe sculptors and architects information
Benjamin Latrobe'''Benjamin Henry Latrobe''' (May 1, 1764 - September 3, 1820) was an architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol.
He was born in England at the Moravian community at Fulneck in Yorkshire and, at the age of 7, sent away to the Moravian School at Niesky in Silesia on the borders of Saxony and Poland.
He complained in jest that after building just the Philadelphia Waterworks and the Bank of Pennsylvania, the whole town copied him, and his influence on public architecture endures.
www.artbrain.co.uk /sculptors-architects/benjamin-latrobe.htm   (312 words)

  
 Arts and Crafts Movement - 1880-1889
The group included Selwyn Image, Herbert Horne, Clement Heaton and Benjamin Creswick.
Oscar Wilde arrived in New York City and began a US lecture tour on the aesthetic movement.
Benjamin Harrison inaugurated President of the United States.
anc.gray-cells.com /T1880.html   (386 words)

  
 Ben Did You Mean Ben?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ben is a shortened version of the given name Benjamin.
Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Disraeli
Benjamin O. Davis Jr Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
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 The Worshipful Company of Cutlers - Hall
However, by 1951 all the damage had been repaired and the Hall came back into full use.
On the outside of the wall facing Warwick Lane will be seen a finely carved terracotta frieze by the Sheffield sculptor Benjamin Creswick (1853-1946).
Creswick was a pupil of John Ruskin and had worked as a grinder in Sheffield.
www.cutlerslondon.co.uk /hall.htm   (897 words)

  
 A H Mackmurdo
A H Mackmurdo's Century Guild’s production workshops included furniture and metalwork, wallpaper, enamelling, and textiles.
Artists associated with the Century Guild included the artist Heywood Sumner, the potter William de Morgan, the enameller Clement Heaton, and Benjamin Creswick, a sculptor, besides others.
Various others were fellow-travellers who, like Selwyn Image, kept close to the Guild without being members - Voysey was one such.
www.encyclocentral.com /6883-A_H_Mackmurdo.html   (400 words)

  
 Children of Benjamin TREWEEK m 1887 Mary Louisa ROBINSON
Bullarook Parish Plan: All this land was originally part of John Hepburn's Mount Prospect Pre-emptive Right of 640 acres.
Harold Vernon TREWEEK b 11 Apr 1895 Kingston [Vic 13473] bap 25 Mar 1896 Kingston [Src St John's C of E Creswick R/N KIN1/675] d 5 Jun 1926 aged 31 yrs Kingston [Vic 3035] bur Creswick [Src St John's C of E Creswick Reg Kingston] with parents (Vernon) Occ Farmer.
Albert Edward TREWEEK b 1897 Kingston [Vic 12173] d 1 Feb 1923 aged 25 yrs Kingston [Vic 2101] bur 3 Feb 1923 Creswick [Src St John's C of E Creswick, Kingston] with parents.
users.ncable.net.au /~jburrell/gen/treweek/tre_rob.html   (417 words)

  
 Thomas Carlyle by Benjamin Creswick
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Carlyle's house at 24 Cheyne Row (then number 5)
Sculpted by Creswick to a design by C. Voysey
www.victorianweb.org /victorian/sculpture/creswick/1.html   (66 words)

  
 The Andrews Pages : Norton, Derbyshire : Kelly's Directory, 1891
D.L., J.P. Chantry Grange, of Col. Nathaniel Creswick, and Grange House, of Mrs.
Gladwin ; Norton House has been rebuilt and is the residence of Edward Montague Earle Westby esq.- Bernard Cammell esq.
Simpson Benjamin Greaves, Sweetbriar villas, Stanley road, Meersbrook
www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com /dby/kelly/norton.htm   (2045 words)

  
 London Elephants
The present hall of 1888 in Warwick Lane (pictured) was built on a site previously occupied by the Royal College of Physicians.
It was designed by T Taylor Smith with a terracotta frieze by Benjamin Creswick showing cutlers working at their craft.
The hall has a hammerbeam roof and the committee room is panelled in Jacobean oak from a house in Yarmouth.
www.london-footprints.co.uk /artelephants.htm   (1632 words)

  
 Benjamin Creswick
Along with Arthur Heygote Mackmurdo, Selwyn Image, William De Morgan, and others, Benjamin Creswick was a founding member of the Century Guild of Artists in 1882.
London: The Fine Art Society with Haslam & Whiteway Ltd., 1981.
A loan exhibition of sculpture and medals sponsored by The Victorian Society.
www.victorianweb.org /sculpture/creswick/index.html   (49 words)

  
 North East Last Night of the Proms, Charity Concerts and Suzanne Manuell Evening - NEPAC
Find out more about the North East Last Night of the Proms and The Suzanne Manuell Evening Concert 2008, which have become two of the North East's favourite musical events.
NEPAC present the Bradley Creswick and Friends MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA evening on May 2008.
Our Chinese Banquet will be held this year in JUNE 2008 at 7pm
www.nepac.org.uk   (699 words)

  
 Birmingham City University - Institute of Art and Design Archives
Publication of new volume on Birmingham public sculpture
Works of art by two former Heads of Sculpture of Birmingham School of Art – William Bloye and Benjamin Creswick – as well as former student David Patten’s Industry and Genius: Monument to John Baskerville (1990) feature in Birmingham: Public Sculpture Trails, a fully illustrated guide recently published by Liverpool University Press.
Written by George Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse, the Archives’ own Research Assistant, it focuses on central Birmingham and is designed with the visitor to the city very much in mind.
www.biad.uce.ac.uk /research/archives/pages_news/pubsculpub.php   (258 words)

  
 Detailed Record
Ground floor with arched entrances left and right of modern shop fronts.
First floor with 3 triplets of windows with a band of excellently carved lively reliefs by Benjamin Creswick below and within broad arches with big voussoir stones; left and right, a 2-light window and a pedimented 3-light window.
Second floor with a canted bay window rising into the storey above 2 segmentally-pedimented 3-light windows, a broad canted bay window and 3 arched windows.
www.imagesofengland.org.uk /Details/Default.aspx?id=217010   (294 words)

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