Wine Merchant Research Articles

Mycenae, 1952

The British excavations at Mycenae in 1952 were conducted with a research grant from the American Philosophical Society assisted by contributions from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trustees, and the British School at Athens, under whose aegis the work was carried out. The principal objectives were the ruins by side of the modern carriage road once tentatively called a Hellenistic Gymnasium, further investigation of the Prehistoric Cemetery outside the Lion Gate to the west, the clearing of the House of the Oil Merchant (found in 1950 and formerly called the House of Stirrup Jars) and of the House ofthe Wine Merchant (found in 1951 and part of the Cyclopean Terrace Building).The so-called Hellenistic Gymnasium, now completely cleared, proved to be a Fountain House to be identified with the Perseia Krene seen by Pausanias among the ruins of Mycenae. Here presumably Tsountas found the inscribed poros base which mentions Perseus and clearly belonged to a fountain. There are two basins, one wide and one narrow, built against a terrace wall of ashlar poros of late classical date. The existing ruins are Hellenistic, but overlie an earlier water channel. The water was probably led down from the well-known spring (now called neromána) which lies about twenty minutes above the acropolis to the east. Built into one of the basins is an inscription dating from the second quarter of the fifth century B.C., a boundary stone from a shrine of Hera. The identification of this Fountain House as the Perseia Krene confirms yet further the accuracy of Pausanias' account of Mycenae.

British Food Journal Volume 51 Issue 5 1949

The first of a series of lectures arranged by the Wine Trade Club for the present session was given on March 8th, at Vintners Hall, London, when Mr. R. H. Monier‐Williams, B.A., read a paper on “ Legal Matters in the Wine and Spirit Trade ”. Capt. F. H. T. Ree, R.N. (Rtd.), occupied the chair, and in opening the proceedings said that probably most of those present were aware of the fact that Mr. Monier‐Williams was the greatest authority on the problems which beset their trade and he had steered them very successfully through more troubles than he cared to remember. In the course of his address Mr. Monier‐Williams referred to the question of misdescription of an article, and more particularly in relation to wine labels. The Merchandise Marks Act provided that every person who applied any false trade description to goods should be guilty of an offence unless he proved that he acted without intent to defraud. The most usual way in which a trade description was falsely applied was on a label, but the delivery of an invoice containing a false trade description of goods was an “ application ” of that description, and a retailer who gave such an invoice was, prima facie, guilty of an offence under the Act. To establish the defence that he acted without intent to defraud, the defendant must satisfy the Court that he did not know that the trade description which he applied to the goods was false, because he was mistaken as to what the goods really were. For instance, a wine merchant bought, in all good faith, several dozen bottles of wine labelled “ sherry”. It was invoiced to his customers as “ sherry ”, to which it was found to bear no resemblance except possibly in colour. The wine merchant was entitled to be acquitted, but he must have acted in good faith. If the prosecution proved that the merchant knew or must have known perfectly well that the stuff was not sherry, or that he applied the description without caring whether it was true or false he should be convicted. In answering charges a defendant would establish a defence if he proved that he was mistaken as to what the goods were and did not know, therefore, that the trade description was false. Nevertheless, his defence would fail unless he could establish certain matters laid down in the Act, namely that, having taken all reasonable precautions against committing an offence, he had at the time no reason to suspect the genuineness of the trade description, and that, on demand made by or on behalf of the prosecution, he gave all the information in his power with respect to the persons from whom he obtained the goods.

Character Names in the Waverley Novels

One of the longest established conventions in English literature is that of giving self-interpreting names to characters. Scores of instances might be drawn from morality plays, Elizabethan and Restoration drama, with its Justice Greedys and Lovelesses, and eighteenth-century novels and plays, with their Slipslops and Lydia Languishes. During Scott's day George Colman the Younger, in his The Heir at Law, 1808, entertained audiences with Stedfasts and Homespuns and references to Lawyer Ferret, Lady Littlefigure, Lord Sponge, Mrs. Holdbank, Lady Betty Pillory, the Hon. Mrs. Cheatwell, Lord Spindle, Master Drumstick, Mrs. Sudds, Old Latitat (a lawyer, of course), Lord Loggerhead, Lord Docktail, Twist, and Young Vats (the beau brewer). Later in the century, Dickens peopled his pages with Mr. Glibs, Surgeon Slashers, and Professor Wheezys; but, as most of his names were chosen solely for their comicality, they lack suggestive variety. Thackeray's social satire is at times unreal because of an excessive use of telltale soubriquets; this is particularly true of The Book of Snobs with its infinity of Lord and Lady Snobbingtons. George Eliot exhibits little subtlety in this field; perhaps the most obvious instances are those of Scrag Whale, an explorer, Greenland Grampus, Proteus Merman, and Professor Sperm N. Whale in Theophrastus Such. The convention has even survived to the present day, though with somewhat impaired vitality. Mr. Burthen, a carrier, Mr. Bulge, a wine merchant, Dr. Chestman, Hardman, a blacksmith, Louisa Menlove, Rootle, a dentist, Tipman, a valet, and Parson Billy Toogood appear in Hardy's novels; and the Earl of Frogs, Gosling, an apprentice, Grubb, Lady Hammergallow, Mrs. Jabber, and Mrs. Montague Pangs in those of H. G. Wells.

Wine merchants' terms

Journal Article Wine merchants' terms Get access H. Askew H. Askew Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 150, Issue 22, 29 May 1926, Page 394, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/150.22.394i Published: 29 May 1926

Wine merchants' terms

Wine merchants' terms

Wine merchants' terms

Wine merchants' terms

Wine merchants' terms

Wine merchants' terms

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Wine Merchants' terms

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Wine merchants' terms

Wine merchants' terms

Joseph Black and Belfast

UNDER the title of “Joseph Black: His Belfast Friends and Family Connections” Mr. Henry Riddell has recently published in the Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society (vol. iii., 1919–20, p. 49) an interesting account of Joseph Black's connection with Belfast. As is well known, the famous chemist was born at Bordeaux, where his father, John Black, was a factor and wine merchant, but his ancestors for many generations back were Ulstermen, and he himself received his school education either in the old Latin School in Belfast, endowed by Earl Donegall in 1666, or at the hands of a Mr. Sprott, a schoolmaster of repute in that city. Up to the age of twelve Black was educated by his mother, Margaret Gordon, who is described as a woman of great force of character and many accomplishments. She was the daughter of Robert Gordon, a merchant of Aberdeen, and was married to John Black in 1716, by whom she had issue eight sons and five daughters, Joseph Black, who was born in 1728, being the fourth son.

The Late Mr. Gassiot

WE last week announced briefly the death of Dr. J. P. Gassiot, and now give some account of the principal scientific results obtained by him. Mr. Gassiot, partner in the firm of Martinez Gassiot and Co., wine merchants, Mark Lane, first devoted his spare time to electrical experiments about the year 1838. An Electrical Society was formed about that time in which he took an active part. At one of the meetings it was observed that when the two copper wires forming the poles of a powerful voltaic battery were crossed and drawn asunder so that the voltaic arc passed between them, the positive terminal became heated to incandescence, while the negative remained comparatively cool. This excited great interest in Mr. Gassiot's mind and led him to make several experiments, but without thoroughly explaining the phenomenon. In the course of these experiments he procured powerful batteries, first of Daniell's construction, then of Grove's, and ultimately a large water battery.

Epitaph of a wine merchant

Epitaph of a wine merchant