Save Killyleagh Library - The Return of Sir Hans Sloane
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Sir Hans Sloane, former resident of Killyleagh and founder of the British Museum, returns through the mists of time to Killyleagh Castle to add his voice to the fight to keep his cherished Killyleagh Library open and explain its history and importance.
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Killyleagh - The Hans Sloane Trail
Killyleagh's noted physician, scientist and collector, botanist and chocolatier!
Hans Sloane was born in Killyleagh in 1660, was the youngest of seven sons born to Sarah Hickes and Alexander Sloan.
Only three sons reached adulthood and all three were to leave Killyleagh to pursue their careers; James in Parliament, William in commerce and Hans in medicine.
In 1687, Doctor Hans Sloane was given an opportunity that was to change his life forever. He was invited to accompany the new Governor of Jamaica, Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, as his personal physician. By this stage in his career he was a skilled naturalist, so Sloane recorded everything he saw and, in particular, collected plants and animals, shells and rocks. His plant collection alone amounted to more than 800 specimens, and together with his animal specimens were to be the foundation of his great collections.
Local Historian, Deirdre Armstrong, takes us on a tour of Killyleagh and explores the life of this remarkable man, who during his varied carrier, also became the developer of drinking chocolate for medicinal purposes.
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Killyleagh...where legends are born
There are few towns in Ireland with a history as rich as Killyleagh.
Situated on the shores of Strangford Lough, it is dominated by its picture postcard Castle that has been occupied by the Hamilton family for more than 400 years.
This broadcast quality DVD, narrated by UTV's Paul Clark, tells the remarkable story of a remarkable town.
Norman conquests, Scottish settlers, the Famine, Lobster fishing on Strangford Lough...it's all here as we recall the heroes from the past including Sir Hans Sloane (founder of the British Museum and inventor of milk chocolate), Rev Edward Hincks (decipherer of the ancient lanquages of the East), and Sir Henry Blackwood (a witness to Nelson's will at Trafalgar).
You will hear from Lt Col Denys Rowan-Hamilton on the Hamilton's and life in a castle, and see rare archive footage of the tanning process at Shrigley and the flax spinning that once made Killyleagh famous as a linen town.
And David Healy recalls his childhood days growing up in Killyleagh in an exclusive interview for this DVD.
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Killyleagh...Where Legends are Born
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There are few towns in Ireland with a history as rich as Killyleagh.
Situated on the shores of Strangford Lough, it is dominated by its picture postcard Castle that has been occupied by the Hamilton family for more than 400 years.
This broadcast quality DVD, narrated by UTV's Paul Clark, tells the remarkable story of a remarkable town.
Norman conquests, Scottish settlers, the Famine, Lobster fishing on Strangford Lough...it's all here as we recall the heroes from the past including Sir Hans Sloane (founder of the British Museum and inventor of milk chocolate), Rev Edward Hincks (decipherer of the ancient lanquages of the East), and Sir Henry Blackwood (a witness to Nelson's will at Trafalgar).
You will hear from Lt Col Denys Rowan-Hamilton on the Hamilton's and life in a castle, and see rare archive footage of the tanning process at Shrigley and the flax spinning that once made Killyleagh famous as a linen town.
And David Healy recalls his childhood days growing up in Killyleagh in an exclusive interview for this DVD.
Purchase the DVD at dupes.tv.
POPPY PARTY KILLYLEAGH
The Royal British Legion is celebrating its 90th anniversary and held Poppy Parties throughout the UK to raise funds. The NI event was held at Killyleagh Castle Co. Down.
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SERC Travel and Tourism students on an Acitivity Day in Delamont Country Park, near Killyleagh, Co Down facilitated by ActionOutdoorsNI
GRAVE of Rev JAMES PORTER, UNITED IRISHMAN Greyabbey
I've returned to Grey abbey churchyard to find the actual grave of the Rev James Porter executed in 1798 for his role in the Irish 1798 rebellion.
In this topsy-turvy wee world of ours that we call home,- here is the grave of Rev James Porter Dissenting Presbyterian Minister.
Rev Porter was one of the leaders/supporters of the United Irishmen in the 1798 rebellion. There were many other Presbyterian Ministers and laymen of the church along with Methodust friends, who suffered the same hanging fate as Porter for their involvement in the rebellion.
Porter, James, Rev., a distinguished United Irishman, was born about 1760, at Ballindrait, in the County of Donegal. After completing his theological studies at Glasgow, he was appointed Presbyterian minister of Grey Abbey, near Belfast, in 1784 or 1785. Five years afterwards he married. He was a good classical scholar. His library was extensive, and his scientific instruments and museum for the illustration of natural philosophy were superior to anything else of the kind then in the north of Ireland. Of an enthusiastic and liberal mind, he entered the Society of the United Irishmen. At first moderate in his views, seeking only Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform, he advanced with the progress of events, and being a good public speaker, and having a ready pen, soon took a foremost place in the movement. His writings in the Northern Star and Press were forcible and trenchant. He took the field with the insurgents in June 1798, was arrested for participation in the attack on Saintfield, tried by court-martial, and executed at Grey Abbey, in sight of his church and home. He suffered with fortitude. He was buried in Grey Abbey churchyard, where a marble slab marks his resting-place. I believe that Lord Londonderry was largely responsible for charges being pressed that brought about an end to Rev Porter's life.
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of The British Museum by James Delbourgo
Sir Hans Sloane was a wealthy society doctor with an insatiable appetite for collecting. President of both The Royal Society and The Royal College of Physicians, and married to a similarly wealthy heiress to Jamaican sugar plantations, with all the slavery they entailed, he amassed the largest single collection of objects in British history. Employing an international network of agents and finders, his voracious hoarding and impeccable taste formed the bedrock of the newly formed British Museum, to which he willed his collection and which opened in 1759 as the first free museum in the world.
This fascinating man, who lent his name to such London landmarks as Sloane Street, Sloane Square and Hans Crescent, has long remained an enigma. This handsome book redresses the balance and makes a riveting riveting read.
Sir Hans Sloane and the Foundation of Science at the British Museum, c. 1690–1760 — Edwin Rose
In 1687, the young physician Hans Sloane (1660–1753) was appointed to accompany King James II’s new colonial governor, the Duke of Albermarle, to Jamaica. Following the wishes of the famous naturalist, John Ray (1627–1705), who had asked Sloane to ‘search out and examine thoroughly the natural varieties of that island [Jamaica]’, he returned to England in 1689 with a huge quantity of natural history specimens. These formed the basis for the Sloane herbarium, which by the time of Sloane’s death in 1753 totalled 336 bound volumes of dried plants that originated from every known part of the globe. In addition, these volumes formed the basis for Sloane’s magnum opus: A Voyage to Jamaica (1707–25), Sloane’s annotated copy of which acted as a catalogue for his Jamaican collections.
In this talk, Edwin examines the relationship between Sloane’s copy of A Voyage to Jamaica and his vast herbarium, which remains intact, held by the Natural History Museum, London. He then examines the collection in the years following Sloane’s death in 1753, when he left the collection to the British nation on the condition that £20,000 was given to his heirs, alongside the development of the new Linnaean taxonomy. The British Parliament purchased the collection and passed the British Museum Act, founding the British Museum, the first state-owned public museum, now the British Museum (Bloomsbury), the British Library (St Pancras) and the Natural History Museum (South Kensington).
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Presented at Churchill College, 28 February 2018.
Sir Hans Sloane: A Chocumentary
A short documentary, following Sir Hans Sloane Chocolate. Based in London, UK, they produce bars, pralines and truffles for the high-end chocolate market.
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New Statue of Sir Hans Sloane at Chelsea Physic Garden
A time lapse video showing how our brand new statue of Sir Hans Sloane was installed!
The statue was donated and unveiled by The Earl Cadogan (a descendant of Sir Hans Sloane) and sculpted by Simon Smith after the original from 1737 by John Michael Rysbrack (1694-1771). The original statue was erected in the Garden by the Apothecaries in 1737 as a token of their gratitude after Sir Hans Sloane covenanted the Garden to the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Sir Hans Sloane was responsible for introducing the use of Cinchona (Peruvian bark) as a cure for malaria, and the active ingredient, quinine, is still used to save millions of lives.
So it seems fitting that the Garden further celebrates his life and legacy with this new statue.
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Sir Hans Sloane | The Collectors | Natural History Museum
Sir Hans Sloane was a doctor who collected curiosities with a passion. In his long life, he amassed one of the greatest ever private collections of plants, animals, antiquities, coins and other curios. It was to be the founding core of the British Museum and later the Natural History Museum.
This video is one of a series about the lives of some of the most influential naturalists in the Museum's history.
Sir Hans Sloane at The British Museum
Hans Sloane, inventor of hot chocolate
EPIC is an immersive experience that tells the many and varied stories of Irish emigration in 20 interactive galleries, including that of Hans Sloane, physician to the Royal family and credited with the discovery of hot chocolate.
EPIC is open daily in CHQ Dublin. For details and to book tickets visit epicchq.com.
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Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel
Writing is generally agreed to be among the greatest inventions in human history, perhaps the greatest invention, since it made history possible.
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Writing seems to have been invented in the late fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia in the form of wedge-shaped marks pressed into soft clay with a reed stylus: the script known as cuneiform. Through his work on this ancient language, Irving Finkel, has uncovered amazing secrets from over five thousand years ago, including the story behind Noah’s ark.
Irving Finkel is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia at the British Museum, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection of any modern museum. This work involves reading and translating all sorts of inscriptions, sometimes working on ancient archives to identify manuscripts that belong together, or even join to one another. He is the author of The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood.
This talk was filmed in the Ri on 18 January 2019.
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Slavery, Empire, and the Cabinet of Curiosities: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
February 28, 2018
James Delbourgo
In 1759, London’s British Museum opened its doors for the first time, the first free national public museum in the world. In this Phi Beta Kappa Lecture at Medical Center Hour, historian James Delbourgo explores the role of slavery and imperialism in making this now venerable institution possible by exploring the career of its founder, Anglo-Irish physician Sir Hans Sloane. Sloane worked in Jamaica as a plantation doctor, used money from sugar plantations in the caribbean and from the Atlantic slave trade to support his collecting, and created his own personal imperial network to assemble one of the greatest cabinets of curiosities in the world—and one of the key institutional legacies of the Enlightenment.
Co-presented with Phi Beta Kappa (Beta of Virginia), President's Commission on Slavery and the University, Department of History, and History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
1953 London Decorated for Queen Elizabeth II Coronation, Day and Night
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1953 London decorated for Queen Elizabeth II coronation, day and night