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William Roxburgh (June 29, 1759 – April 10, 1815) was a Scottish physician and botanist. Roxburgh was born at Underwood in the parish of Craigie, Ayrshire. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and became surgeon's mate on a East India Company ship at the age of 17 and completed two voyages to the East in that capacity until the age of 21. Took up a position in Madras and turned his attention to botany. Made rapid progress and acquired so such a reputation that he was in a short time invited by the government of Bengal, to take charge of the Calcutta Botanical gardens there from Colonel Rob ...

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Victor Emmanuel I (July 24, 1759–January 10, 1824) was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, and Aosta, and King of Sardinia from 1802 to 1821. The second son of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel was known from birth as the Duke of Aosta. He succeeded his brother, Charles Emmanuel IV, as King of Sardinia upon the latter's abdication in 1802. Until 1814, when he was able to return to Turin, he was forced to live in Sardinia, which was the ...

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Adrien Duport (1759 - 1798) was a French politician. He was born in Paris. He became an influential advocate in the parlement, and was prominent in opposition to the ministers Calonne and Loménie de Brienne. Elected in 1789 to the states-general by the Paris nobility, he displayed remarkable eloquence. As a jurist, he contributed during the Constituent Assembly to the organization of the judiciary of France. In his report of March 29, 1790, he advocated trial by jury; but ...

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William Thornton (May 20, 1759 - 28 March 1828) was the original architect of the United States Capitol. Born on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, Thornton received medical training in Edinburgh, Scotland. He emigrated to the United States of America in 1787. Thornton's design for the Capitol had been submitted after the close of a competition in which 17 entries were found wanting. His plan was approved on July 25, 1793, wit ...

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William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 - 29 July 1833) was an English parliamentarian and leader of the campaign against the slave trade. Born in Hull, he was the son of a wealthy merchant who died when William was still a child. Placed under the guardianship of his uncle and aunt (a strong supporter of John Wesley), William developed an early interest in Methodism. His mother, however, was disturbed by this devel ...

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Charles Simeon (1759 - November 13, 1836), was an English evangelical clergyman. He was born at Reading and educated at Eton College and Cambridge. In 1782 he became fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and took orders, receiving the living of Holy Trinity, Cambridge, in the following year. He was at first so unpopular that services were frequently interrupted, and he was often insulted in the streets. Having overcome public prejudice, he subsequently gained a remarkable and lasting ...

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The Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. The son of Prime Minister George Grenville, Grenville studied at Eton, Christ Church, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, and entered the Commons in 1782 and soon became a close ally of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, serving in the government as Paymaster of the Forces from 1784 to 1789. In 1789 he served briefly as Speaker of the British House of Commons before, he entered ...

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Phillip allocated Ruse one and a half acres (6,000 m²) of already cleared ground and assisted in clearing a further five acres (20,000 m²). He was to be given two sows and six hens and was to be fed and clothed from the public store for 15 months. In return, if he was successful, he was to be granted 30 acres (120,000 m²). After 15 months Ruse announced that he and his wife Elizabeth (he married her in 1790) were now self-sufficient in food, and their farm formed the nucleus of a small community of farmers who, while ...

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Ruse's gravestone, which he carved himself, reads: "Sacred to the memory of James Ruse who departed this life sep 5 in the year of Houre Lord 1837. Natef of Cornwell and arrived in this coleney by the Forst Fleet, aged 77. My mother reread me tenderley With me she took much paines And when I arrived in this coelney I sowd the forst grains And now with my heavenly father I hope for ever to remain." A replica of his tombstone stands in the front garden of Barrengarry House, the administration block at Jame ...

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