Firth, Joseph Firth Bottomley [formerly Joseph Firth Bottomley] (1842–1889), politician and municipal reformer, was born Joseph Firth Bottomley at Dobroyd, Shepley, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, on 21 February 1842, the eldest son of Joseph Bottomley, woollen manufacturer and merchant, and his wife, Ann, ...
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Firth, Joseph Firth Bottomley [formerly Joseph Firth Bottomley] (1842–1889), politician and municipal reformer
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Hogg, James Macnaghten McGarel, first Baron Magheramorne (1823–1890), civic administrator
John Davis
Hogg, James Macnaghten McGarel, first Baron Magheramorne (1823–1890), civic administrator, eldest son of Sir James Weir Hogg, first baronet (1790–1876), chairman of the East India Company, and his wife, Mary Claudine Swinton (d. 1874), was born at Calcutta on 3 May 1823. The merchant and philanthropist ...
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John Hooker (c. 1527–1601) by unknown artist, 1601 Exeter City Museums & Art Gallery
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Hooker [Vowell], John (c. 1527–1601), antiquary and civic administrator
S. Mendyk
Hooker [Vowell], John (c. 1527–1601), antiquary and civic administrator, was born at Bourbridge Hall, Exeter, the second son of Robert Vowell or Hooker of Exeter (b. in or before 1466, d. 1537) and his third wife, Agnes Doble (1502?–1537) of Woodbridge, Suffolk...
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Jurdain, Ignatius (bap. 1561, d. 1640), politician and civic reformer
Mark Stoyle
Jurdain, Ignatius (bap. 1561, d. 1640), politician and civic reformer, was baptized on 17 August 1561 at St Michael's Church, Lyme Regis, one of the eight children of William Jurdain of Lyme; his mother's name is unknown. In his youth Jurdain was sent to ...
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McArthur, Sir William (1809–1887), woollen merchant and politician
H. L. Malchow
McArthur, Sir William (1809–1887), woollen merchant and politician, was born at Malin, Donegal, Ireland, on 6 July 1809, the fifth child and second son of John McArthur (d. 1840) and Sarah, née Finlay (d. 1861). His father was a poor Scots-Irish farmer who had converted to Methodism in the 1790s and turned to itinerant preaching in the ‘linen triangle’ of ...
