James Heywood (philanthropist)

James Heywood
Born28 May 1810
Died17 October 1897
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
OccupationPolitician
Spouse(s)Anne Kennedy Escher
Children1 daughter
Parent(s)Nathaniel Heywood
Ann Percival
RelativesThomas Percival (grandfather)
Benjamin Heywood (brother)

James Heywood (28 May 1810 – 17 October 1897) was a British MP, philanthropist and social reformer.

Early life

James Heywood was born on 28 May 1810 in Manchester, Lancashire. He was the son of banker Nathaniel and Ann (née Percival) Heywood, and was the brother of Benjamin Heywood and Thomas Heywood and grandson of Thomas Percival. He matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge and was admitted to the Inner Temple.

Career

Heywood was a member of the Portico Library and the Manchester Statistical Society, of which he was president between 1853–55,[citation needed] and published a study of the population of Miles Platting in Manchester.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and served as their President from 1875 to 1877.[2] He was also interested in geology and in 1840 donated some hundred specimens to help form the mineral collection of Manchester Museum.[3] In 1835, he became the first president of the Manchester Athenaeum and he was also involved with the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.[4]

Heywood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1839. His candidature citation read: "James Heywood, Esq of Trinity College, Cambridge, residing at 17 Cork Street, London, Barrister of the Inner Temple, author of a Report on the Geology of the Coal District of South Lancashire, published in the Transactions of the British Association, & also of a Report on the state of the population in Miles Platting, Manchester, published in the Journal of the Statistical Society of London; a gentleman much attached to science, being desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society, we the undersigned, do, from our personal knowledge, recommend him as deserving of that honor, & as likely to be a useful & valuable member"[1]

헤이우드는 1847년부터 1857년까지 노스 랭커셔의 자유당 하원의원이었다. 그는 무료 도서관, 박물관, 미술관, 반대자들을 위한 대학 입학, 여성들을 위한 대학 학위를 위해 캠페인을 벌였다. 그는 일요일에 이용할 수 있는 여가 활동을 위해 캠페인을 벌인 일요 협회의 회장이었다.

헤이우드는 켄싱턴 베스트리 홀에 있는 켄싱턴 중앙 도서관의 1889년 헌납보다 10년 전인 1870년대에 노팅힐 게이트에 켄싱턴에 첫 무료 도서관을 열었다.[5]

사생결단

헤이우드는 1853년 6월 11일 존 케네디의 딸이자 알버트 에셔의 미망인인 앤 소피아와 결혼했다. 그들은 런던에 살았다.[6]

헤이우드는 1897년 10월 17일에 죽었다.

참조

  1. ^ a b "Library and Archive catalogue". The Royal Society. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Royal Statistical Society List of Past Presidents". Royal Statistical Society. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  3. ^ "The Manchester Museum - Rocks and Minerals". Manchester University. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  4. ^ White, Alan (1990). "Class, culture and control: the Sheffield Athenaeum movement and the middle class 1847-64". In Wolff, Janet; Seed, John (eds.). The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class. Manchester University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-71902-461-0.
  5. ^ Denny, Barbara; Starren, Carolyn (1998). Kensington Past. London, U.K.: Historical Publications. p. 152. ISBN 9780948667503. OCLC 42308455.
  6. ^ "James Heywood". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 5 August 2010.[원본]

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외부 링크

영국의 의회
선행자 노스 랭커셔 주의 의원
1847 – 1857
포함: John Wilson-Patten 		성공자
전문 및 학술 협회
선행자 맨체스터 통계학회의 회장
1853–55 		성공자
윌리엄 메트칼프