Collapse of the South Sea Company's shares causes financial crisis in London and ruins many investors. Their rapid inflation and the speculation mania it had encouraged become known as the South Sea ...

Edward Wakefield began his study of colonial affairs in 1826 while serving a three- year sentence for an illegal marriage in a London gaol. He focused on the depressed condition of the Australian ...

Albemarle was a Dutch-born courtier who came to England as a page to William III in 1688. The King granted him and earldom and Irish lands in 1696, much to the disgust of Parliament, where William's ...

Charles Inglis was a Canadian clergyman and educator who became the first Anglican bishop of Nova Scotia. Inglis went to North America and became a master in a church school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ...

Studied medicine and was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1828. In 1833, he travelled to Jamaica working as a magistrate to judge disputes between black apprentices and their white masters ...

(1761 or 1769-1852), Engraver and antiquary; father of Sir Edwin Landseer ...