Duke Of Northumberland Research Articles

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., C.B.E., M.V.O. (President of the Royal Sanitary Institute)

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., C.B.E., M.V.O. (President of the Royal Sanitary Institute)

The life and times of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland, 1504?-1553

Journal Article The life and times of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland, 1504?-1553 Get access Charles Sturge, Ph.D. Charles Sturge, Ph.D. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 5, Issue 14, November 1927, Pages 108–109, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1927.tb00459.x Published: 12 October 2007

University and Educational Intelligence

CAMBRIDGE.—Mr. Roger Fry, Sir John Marshall, and Prof. A. V. Hill have been elected honorary fellows of King's College. The Council has proposed to the University that the degree of LL.D., honoris caussa, be conferred upon the Duke of Northumberland, Sir Archibald Denny, Sir Eustace Tennyson-D'Eyncourt, and Sir Charles Oman in connexion with meetings to be held at Cambridge this summer of the Institution of Naval Architects and of the Royal Archaological Institute. It is also proposed that the degree of M.A., honoris causa, be conferred upon Lieut.-Col. J. E. Craster, late R.E. Sir Humphry Rolleston has been appointed to represent the University at the coming Imperial Social Hygiene Congress.

News and Views

ON July 14, in the House of Lords, the Duke of Northumberland directed attention to the alteration in the status of the engineer officers of the Royal Navy brought about by the Admiralty Fleet Order 3241/25, issued last November. This matter has already been referred to in these columns on several occasions. In his remarks the Duke of Northumberland said that the Order abolished the last vestige of the improved status of the engineer officer under the 1902 scheme for the amalgamation of the engineering branch with the deck officers. Not only did it relegate the engineer officer to the non-executive branch of the Navy, but it also emphasised the distinction between the deck officer and the engineer officer by re-imposing the wearing of the purple stripe. The Duke of Northumberland was supported by Viscount Chelms-ford and the Earl of Selborne, the latter remarking that the point of view of the engineer officers had been recapitulated by Engineer Rear-Admiral Sheen in a letter in the Times of June 1, and to that he had seen no answer. Moreover, the Order might do great harm and could do no possible good. Viscount_ Chelmsford said that the question had arisen when he was First Lord and he had left a personal note for his successor, Mr. Bridgeman, to the effect that there had been no acute demand for the change, and that the system as it then stood was working well. The Duke of Montrose also spoke. He seemed to think that because purple had been worn by emperors, engineers should not object to it. The answer to that is, of course, that it is the way it has been imposed and what it signifies that renders it so distasteful. With his suggestions that engineer officers should have executive command of certain establishments ashore and that an engineer officer should be ap-j pointed a Sea Lord of the Admiralty a good many will agree.

Current Topics and Events

ARRANGEMENTS are being made by a committee convened by the Royal Society to celebrate on June 26 the centenary of Lord Kelvin's birth. The committee is composed as follows: Sir Richard Glaze-brook (chairman), Prof. F. O. Bower (Royal Society of Edinburgh), Mr. W. R. Cooper (Physical Society), Sir John Dewrance (Institution of Mechanical Engineers), Mr. D. N. Dunlop (hon. secretary), Mr. F. Gill (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Sir Donald MacAlister (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow), Sir Charles Morgan (Institution of Civil Engineers), The Duke of Northumberland (Institution of Naval Architects), Dr. E. C. Pearce (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge), Dr. Alexander Russell (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Mr. F. E. Smith (Royal Society). A large number of Dominion, American and foreign men of science and engineers will be attending conferences at the British Empire Exhibition at that time, and July 10 and n have been selected as convenient dates for the Kelvin centenary celebrations. These will include a meeting for the receipt of addresses from delegates, at which Sir J. J. Thomson will deliver a memorial oration, and a dinner at which the Rt. Hon. Earl-Balfour has promised to preside. There will also be an exhibition of Kelvin apparatus, and probably a memorial volume will be prepared containing the addresses and speeches delivered, with some account of the apparatus exhibited. It is hoped that the president and council of the Royal Society will receive the delegates during the celebrations at the rooms of the society in Burlington House.

George Fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland

George Fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland

Inaugural Address by HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, President of the Congress

Inaugural Address by HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, President of the Congress

A Silver Dish from the Tyne

In the Journal of Roman Studies for last year Professor Haverfield gives an account of certain silver vessels of the late Roman age found on the banks of the Tyne, near Corbridge, in the eighteenth century. I wish to discuss in some detail one of these vessels, which has great importance for the history of late Greek art. This is the remarkable dish or lanx found in 1735 on the north bank of the Tyne, now belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, and kept at his castle of Alnwick.Other vessels of silver were found, not with it, but near the same spot: a two-handled cup, a bowl bearing the Christ monogram, a silver basin, a small silver vase. Professor Haverfield has figured these, so far as he could. That all these vases belonged together is probable though not certain. Only one of them bears a clear indication of date, the Christian monogram, in the form which it takes on coins of the Constantine period. This particular vessel one would naturally give to the time of Constantine, that is, to the earlier part of the fourth century. It does not follow that all the vessels are of this date: but as we shall see presently, it is a date not unsuitable for the dish which we are considering.

George Fitzroy, duke of Northumberland

George Fitzroy, duke of Northumberland

First Duke of Northumberland: Natural Issue

First Duke of Northumberland: Natural Issue

George fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland, and his duchess

George fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland, and his duchess

George Fitzroy, duke of Northumberland, and his duchess

George Fitzroy, duke of Northumberland, and his duchess

The Duke of Northumberland on Liberty.

The Duke of Northumberland on Liberty.

The Smithsonian Institution: Its Documentary History 1

THE Smithsonian Institution, the great scientific establishment at Washington, which, in many respects, is to the United States of America what the Royal Society is to this country, was founded under the will of James Smithson (b. 1765), a son of Hugh Smithson, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, by Elizabeth Macie, a cousin of the Percys. The story of how it came to be founded, and of its great work for the United States and for the world, has been more than once recounted in this Journal. An article contributed by the late Dr. G. Brown Goode (NATURE, vol. liii. pp. 257, 281) in January, 1896, contained a veiy full account of the origin of the Institution and of the system of its administration; and, when the same writer edited, under the auspices of the Institution itself, a work on the “History of its First Half-Century,” we took occasion in reviewing it to give a comprehensive outline of the rise and progress of this great centre of scientific energy (NATURE, vol. lviii. p. 271).

His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G

His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G

Two American Institutions

I.—THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. IN 1826, Mr. James Smithson, F.R.S., an English gentleman (a natural son of the first Duke of Northumberland), in a fit of pique at the action of the Committee of the Royal Society, who had declined to accept a scientific paper he had submitted, bequeathed to the United States of America a large sum of money, (£105,000), “to found at Washington under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”

Presidential Address of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland at the Newcastle Meeting

Presidential Address of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland at the Newcastle Meeting

Societies and Academies

LondonRoyal Institution of Great Britain, May 8. Sir Henry Holland, Bart. M. D. president, in the chair. The following Vice-presidents were nominated for the ensuing year:-Duke of Northumberland, Lord Lindsay, W. Spottiswoode, the Treasurer, Sir Frederick Pollock. William S. Burton, Arthur Samuel Hobson, Richard Liebreich, Abraham De Mattos Mocatta, and Edward Stanhope Pearson, were elected members. John Tyn-dall, F.R.S., was re-elected Professor of Natural Philosophy.

The Proposed School of Physical Science at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

THE proposal to found a College in Newcastle for the teaching of Physical Science needs from us more than a mere passing mention. The idea of such an Institution is not a new one, indeed it is only justice to the coal-owners, chemical manufacturers, and engineers of that busy centre of commercial enterprise, to say that they have long confessed to a sort of shame that youths, intended for responsible positions connected with the various industries on the banks of the Tyne, Wear, and Tees, have had to seek their scientific training in metropolitan or continental schools; whilst young men a shade lower in the social scale, with no disposition to undervalue such knowledge, have had to depend upon their own limited resources for its partial acquirement, with the alternative of remaining in entire ignorance. The feeling of soreness on this point had attained sufficient force fifteen years ago to induce the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers to take preliminary steps towards establishing a college for the teaching of practical science. Meetings were held, architects consulted, plans drawn, and eventually those interested in the project were informed that about 35,000l. would be wanted from them if they were really in earnest. The Duke of Northumberland (Duke Algernon) was applied to, and his response was characteristic; it amounted practically to this:—“Raise 30,000l. and I will make it 40,000l., but while you are about it, do the thing well.” One would have thought that such an offer to so wealthy a body was equivalent to an order for the buildings to be advanced without delay. Unfortunately interests began to clash, individual promoters had pet ideas which they were unwilling to sacrifice, and there was no agreement as to the way the scheme should be carried out. The University of Durham, it was admitted on all sides, must have some share in the work, and no one could suggest a basis of connection that was mutually satisfactory, so by the end of the year 1855 the North of England had heard the last of the proposed “British College of Practical Mining and Manufacturing Science.” It is perhaps no wonder if younger men, looking back at Duke Algernon's munificent offer, have accustomed themselves to think, “we would not have done as our fathers did.”

IV. Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot. Communicated by Frederic Madden, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., Treasurer

The publication of the curious Chronicle relative to the latter part of Edward the Third's reign, so ably illustrated by you in the last portion of the Archæologia, has led me more particularly to examine the volume in which that Narrative, together with many other historical and legal Tracts, is bound up, forming Nos. 6215—6232, of the Harleian Collection. The greater part of these Tracts, as you are, no doubt, aware, were certainly once in the possession of Stow (several of them being written with his own hand), and after his death [1605] passed, with his other papers, into the hands of Sir Simonds d'Ewes, whence they were transferred to the noble library of the Earl of Oxford. So far all is void of difficulty. But there is yet another possessor to be accounted for, between the period of Stow's decease and the acquisition of these MSS. by Sir Simonds d'Ewes—I mean, the person who has numbered, and prefixed a title to, the greater part of the contents of the volume in question, and who simply signs his initials R. ST. with the date 1615. I am unable, I confess, satisfactorily to ascertain the individual alluded to, but in No. 6219, I find a paper on the affairs of Scotland, headed by Stow thus: “Out of a great boke of Records borowyd of Master Stevenson.” I conjecture, therefore, that it is to this Master Stevenson we are chiefly indebted for the collection and preservation of the tracts, all of which are more or less valuable to the historian.