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John Wharlton Bunney
1828 births | 1882 deaths | english paintersJohn Wharlton Bunney (20 June 1828 – 23 September 1882) was a Pre-Raphaelite English artist of the nineteenth century.A. Wedderburn, Memoir of the Late John Wharlton Bunney, London, V. Brooks, Day, 1882.
His father was a merchant captain whom Bunney, as a boy, accompanied on several voyages around the world. Bunney demonstrated a strong talent for drawing and draftsmanship from an early age. The young Bunney became a follower of John Ruskin; he studied with Ruskin at the Working Men's College soon after its founding in 1854, and later worked as a clerk for Smith, Elder & Co., Ruskin's publisher. Bunney was able to give up his clerical job and make his living by his art and art teaching by 1859; Ruskin commissioned him to execute a series of drawings in Italy and Switzerland.Van Akin Burd, Christmas Story: John Ruskin's Venetian Letters of 1876–1877, Dover, DE, University of Delaware Press, 1990; p. 146.
Henri de Dion
1828 births | 1878 deaths | french engineers | légion d'honneur recipients Henri de Dion
Earl Henri de Dion (December 23, 1828 – April 13, 1878) was a French engineer. His work helped in the construction of the Eiffel Tower. For his contributions to its construction, de Dion was honored by being listed as one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower. The 72 scientists Eiffel Tour, retrieved May 17, 2008
Arthur Thomas Thrupp
1828 births | 1889 deaths | british military personnel of the crimean war | royal navy admirals Admiral Arthur Thomas Thrupp (1828-06-08 – 1889-05-04) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the Crimean War and Opium Wars who held various commands.
Career
Born in 1828 at Paddington to Charles Joseph Thrupp and Judith Thrupp neé Styan, and younger brother of George Athelstane Thrupp, Thrupp entered the Royal Navy in 1843.Robert Sands (conductor)
1828 births | converts to mormonism | irish latter day saints | mormon missionaries in the united kingdom | mormon pioneers | mormon tabernacle choir conductorsRobert Sands was the first conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir after the building of the current tabernacle. Prior to Sands taking over as conductor the choir was lead by Charles J. Thomas and performed in the Old Tabernacle which was on Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
Sands was born on April 15th, 1828 in Balana Screen, County Derry, Ireland. He moved to Scotland where he was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1849 and then served for a time as a missionary for the faith in that same land.
Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
1828 births | 1870 deaths | people of massachusetts in the american civil war | united states army generalsJoseph Eldridge Hamblin (1828-70)was an American soldier of the Civil War, born at Yarmouth, Mass. Long a member of the Seventh Regiment of the New York militia, he enlisted in 1861 as adjutant in Duryea's Zouaves and served in Virginia under Butler, McClellan, Meade, and Grant, and Sheridan in the Sixty-fifth New York. He especially distinguished himself at Cedar Creek, where he was wounded. He was brevetted brigadier general and in 1865 promoted to full rank, with the brevet of major general, for gallantry at Sailor's Creek After the war he was prominent in the New York National Guard.
Frederick de St Croix Brecken
1828 births | 1903 deaths | historical conservative party of canada mps | members of the canadian house of commons from prince edward island | prince edward island conservative party mlas | prince edward island lawyersFrederick de St. Croix Brecken (December 9 1828 – October 14 1903) was a lawyer and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He represented Charlottetown in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1873 to 1876 and Queen's County in the Canadian House of Commons from 1878 to 1882 and from 1883 to 1884 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Charlottetown, the son of John Brecken and Margaret Leah de St. Croix. He was educated in Charlottetown and then articled in law with Robert Hodgson, continuing his studied at Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple in London. On his return, he was called to the bar and set up practice in Charlottetown with Thomas Heath Haviland. In 1858, Brecken married Helen Leith Boyd Emslie. In 1875, he was named Queen's Counsel. He was named attorney general in 1859. When that post became elective in 1863, he ran successfully for a seat in the island's assembly and served in the Executive Council as Attorney General from 1870 to 1872 and 1873 to 1876. He was defeated in the provincial election of 1876. Brecken ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in 1873. He was defeated for the federal seat by John Theophilus Jenkins in 1882 but was declared elected in 1883 after an appeal. In 1884, he was named postmaster of Charlottetown and continued to serve in that post until his death in Charlottetown in 1903.
William Willis Garth
1828 births | 1912 deaths | alabama lawyers | members of the united states house of representatives from alabamaWilliam Willis Garth (October 28 1828 – February 25 1912) was an American politician who served the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1877 and 1879. He was born on October 28 1828 in Morgan County, Alabama. He pursued classical studies at Lagrange, Virginia and at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, and studied law at the University of Virginia. He was admitted to the Alabama bar and practiced law at Huntsville, Alabama. During the Civil War, he served as a lieutenant colonel on the staff of General James Longstreet in the Confederate Army.
Garth was elected in 1876 as a Democratic representative to the 45th Congress, but was defeated for reelection in 1878. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Huntsville, Alabama on February 25 1912. He was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville.
