Yorkshire Men Document
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John Harrison
Born 31st March, 1693, Wragby, Yorkshire. Son of Henry Harrison, a carpenter and estate surveyor. Mechanical inventor. He invented the ‘Chronometer’, and the ‘Grid iron pendulum’. He was making clocks with his younger brother James in 1718...
Born 31st March, 1693, Wragby, Yorkshire. Son of Henry Harrison, a carpenter and estate surveyor. Mechanical inventor. He invented the ‘Chronometer’, and the ‘Grid iron pendulum’. He was making clocks with his younger brother James in 1718...
Walter Farquhar Hook
Born 13th March, 1798, London. Nephew of Theodore Edward Hook. On 24th March 1837, he came from Oxford to become the Vicar of Leeds. For the next 22 years he preached in Leeds. His finest achievements include the rebuilding of St. Peter’s Parish Church, and dividing Leeds into 17 parishes from its only one...
Born 13th March, 1798, London. Nephew of Theodore Edward Hook. On 24th March 1837, he came from Oxford to become the Vicar of Leeds. For the next 22 years he preached in Leeds. His finest achievements include the rebuilding of St. Peter’s Parish Church, and dividing Leeds into 17 parishes from its only one...
Dick Turpin
Born in 1706, Essex. Cattle rustler, robber, torturer, murderer, horse thief, and member of the ‘Essex Gang’ His father was John Turpin an Inn keeper. Dick had a £50 reward offered for his capture in 1735, and a £100 bounty imposed in 1736. He retired to Yorkshire in 1737, and assumed the name John Palmer...
Born in 1706, Essex. Cattle rustler, robber, torturer, murderer, horse thief, and member of the ‘Essex Gang’ His father was John Turpin an Inn keeper. Dick had a £50 reward offered for his capture in 1735, and a £100 bounty imposed in 1736. He retired to Yorkshire in 1737, and assumed the name John Palmer...
Born 27th October, 1728, Marton, Yorkshire. A famous Yorkshire navigator, raised to the rank of Commander in 1771. In 1746, he was a deckhand aboard a Whitby boat that took coal to London, which caused him to join the Royal Navy...