Leonard Erskine Hill, 1866-1952

1953 ◽  
Vol 8 (22) ◽  
pp. 431-443 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Football Player ◽  
First World War ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Joseph Priestley ◽  
First World

Sir Leonard Hill, who died on 30 March 1952, in his 86th year, came of a family which could claim distinction both in the scholastic field and for public services. His great grandfather, T. W. Hill, was a disciple of Joseph Priestley, and with his four sons, Arthur, Rowland (the future postal reformer whose efforts resulted in the penny postage, Fellow of this Society), Matthew Davenport (Recorder of Birmingham), and Frederick (the prison reformer), founded a school for boys at Birmingham which was conducted on novel lines which attracted much attention in the early years of the nineteenth century. Arthur Hill was followed as headmaster and owner of the school by his second son, Birkbeck, who married Annie, daughter of Edward Scott, a solicitor of Wigan. The school was moved to Bruce Castle, Tottenham, and it was here that Birkbeck Hill’s son, Leonard, was born on 2 June 1866. Birkbeck Hill sold the school and moved to Burghfield, near Reading, and devoted himself henceforward to literary work, editing Boswell’s Life of Johnson for the Clarendon Press, as well as other John- soniana. Leonard Hill, after going to a preparatory school at Bournemouth, which he disliked, went to Haileybury, where he followed the ordinary classical course, but received only poor mathematical training and had no opportunity at all for the study of natural science. Nevertheless, he attained the sixth form owing, as he maintained, to his knowledge of history, literature and scripture rather than to his acquaintance with the ancient languages, and at the same time he gained a reputation as a Rugby football player. He wanted to be a farmer, but his parents had other ideas, and decided that his elder brother, Maurice, should be a barrister (he was subsequently a judge in the Admiralty and Divorce Courts), that another brother, Norman, should be a solicitor (at a later date he became secretary to the Steam Shipping Association of Liverpool and an authority on shipping in the first World War), and that Leonard should enter the medical profession.

Shipping and Trade between Hamburg-Bremen and the Indian Ocean, 1870–1914

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-386
Author(s):  
Hermann Kellenbenz
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
East Africa ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
Short Survey ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
First World

This study is intended to give a short survey on the development of shipping and trade between two main German ports and the Indian Ocean from the early years of the Bismarck period to the beginning of the First World War. The study deals with the area from East Africa to East India and from Indochina to Indonesia. China, the Philippines, and Australia will not be considered. It is based on an analysis of published material.

scholarly journals P.A. Sorokin’s Participation in the Process of Institutionalizing Sociology in Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Mikhail B. Glotov
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
First World War ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Soviet Regime ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Science In Russia ◽  
Sociological Society ◽  
First World

This article is an overview of P.A. Sorokin’s participation in the processes of developing sociology as a science in Russia during his studies at the Department of Sociology at the Psychoneurological Institute, at the Faculty of Law at the St. Petersburg University, in preparation for thesis presentation during the First World War and in the early years of the Soviet regime. Particular attention is paid to his publications, participation in organizing the functioning of the first Russian sociological society named after M.M. Kovalevsky, Department of Sociology at the Petrograd University and in the empirical research conducted by the Sociological Institute.

Youthful Horizons

Willy Ley ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared S. Buss
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
First World War ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Chapter 1 pieces together Ley’s childhood in Berlin. It attributes his early fascination with science through his consumption of popular science and science fiction. By analyzing the themes and representations in his favorite books, this chapter presents Ley as an idealistic dreamer, who longed to become an explorer during the First World War and the early years of Weimar Germany.

scholarly journals Les premières années du Salon des Humoristes à Alger (1924-1930) :

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Camilla Murgia
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First Editions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First World

My contribution focuses on the early years of the Salon des Humoristes held in Algiers in the 1920s. This event contributed to the development of caricature in Algeria in the wake of the First World War. Although it is difficult to trace the careers of all the caricaturists because of a lack of biographical information, we shall see that those present in the first editions of the Salon des Humoristes in Algiers were most often born in Europe where they trained before settling in Algeria, while some others were born in the French departments of Algeria. The first edition of the Salon des Humoristes d'Alger took place in 1924 and was hailed with success by the Algerian press. This initiative had a precedent in Paris, notably with the Salon des Humoristes held in the French capital in 1907. My paper aims to explore this echo between the Algerian and the Parisian Salon and to discuss the impact of caricature in the early years of this event. My objective is to understand to what extent the training and artistic background of the exhibitors determined and/or allowed the development of Algerian caricature and what its relationship with the Parisian exhibition was. 

scholarly journals Forgoten authores Nikica Bovolini a contribution to illuminating an unknown literary work

2016 ◽  
pp. 181-187
Author(s):  
Vera Crljic
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
First World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

The paper deals with the work of the little-known writer Nikica Bovolini (Dubrovnik, 1899 - Belgrade, 1975). She published a book of short stories entitled Between Light and Darkness (Izmedju svijetla i tmine), in Dubrovnik, in 1921. The copy of this book kept in the holdings of the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade is unique because it contains a handwritten addition - the autograph of a poem entitled To the Serbian Warrior (Srpskom ratniku), signed by the authoress. In this poem, dated in Dubrovnik in 1918, written at the end of the First World War, the young poetess Nikica Bovolini expresses sincere admiration for the Serbian soldier as a liberator of the Adriatic. The short stories in this collection were written at the end of the Great War or immediately after it, mostly inspired by the struggle for freedom and unification of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as well as by the importance of educating young generations and the development of science in creating a better society. In periodical publications between the two world wars appeared a small number of her poems and three articles that were not of literary character. The full extent of her creativity is unknown. Nikica Bovolini was from the first generation of nurses that graduated from the School of Nursing of the Red Cross Society of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, founded in 1921 in Belgrade. As an instructor and assistant to the headmistress of the School of Nursing she significantly contributed to the organization and education of nurses in Yugoslavia after the First World War.

Frank Lee Pyman, 1882-1944

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 681-697 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
First World War ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Advanced Age ◽  
World War ◽  
Great Ability ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
First World

Frank Lee Pyman was born at Malvern on 9 April 1882 and died on 1 January 1944 after a prolonged illness bravely and cheerfully borne. His grandfather, George Pyman, J.P., of Raithwaite Hall, Whitby, was a self-made man of the sea, of Scandinavian extraction one or two generations back. George Pyman spent his early years on the ocean; later he owned a steamer and eventually a fleet of boats, the firm controlling them being known as George Pyman & Co. of West Hartlepool. George was a talented and capable business man who founded shipping firms for his sons in various ports; Frank and Fred were put in charge of Pyman Bros of London, Jack was put into the firm of Pyman, Watson & Co., and James went to Newcastle-on-Tyne and Hull to join Pyman, Bell & Co. The combined fleets of these firms in the period before the first World War of 1914 were one of the greatest family tramp concerns in the country. George’s fifth son, Francis-(but usually known as Frank and father of Frank Lee Pyman), was born in 1854 and was a man of great ability. He shone at school at West Hartlepool as a boy and later (1869), at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, took the Lord Provost’s Medal in Greek, one in French and a special prize for proficiency in the Greek Testament. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1874, and turned from classics to law, winning firstclass honours in the Law Tripos in 1877. In 1878 he graduated in honours, B.A. and LL.B., becoming M.A. in 1881. He began to qualify for the Bar, but gave this up to devote himself to his shipping concern. This interest was, however, apparently short-lived, for he took to politics, being a keen liberal, but overworked himself in this sphere. After a visit to Egypt and the East he returned to politics and acted as private secretary to Lord Rosebery in 1887, and in 1892 contested Whitby in the liberal interest. His health again gave way under the strain and he lived in prolonged retirement, dying eventually at the advanced age of eighty-seven years.

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