Robert Edmund Graves

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement
Author: Robert Edmund Graves

Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement”, published in 1912, is a work by Robert Edmund Graves. It explores elements such as the British Museum, Jenkins and exhibition.

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Robert Edmund Graves, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ On the bequest to the nation in 1846 of the splendid library of Thomas Grenville, Rye was entrusted with its removal to the British Museum and afterwards with its arrangement there. At a later date he selected and arranged the library of reference in the new reading-room opened in 1857, and he devised the plan showing the placing of the books which is still in use. He became an assistant - keeper in the department of printed books in 1857, and succeeded Thomas Watts in the keepership in 1869, but failing health and eyesight compelled him to retire in July 1875. ”

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Robert Edmund Graves, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ RYE, WILLIAM BRENCHLEY (1818–1901) , keeper of printed books in the British Museum, born at Rochester on 26 Jan. 1818, was the younger son of Arthur Rye, a medical practitioner in that city. He was educated at the Rochester and Chatham Classical and Mathematical School, but the death of his father in 1832 left him with slender means, and in 1834 he came to London and entered the office of a solicitor, where he met John Winter Jones [q. v.] ”

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“ He visited the colony and became the champion of the Indian indentured labourers there, publishing in 1871 'The Coolie: his Rights and Wrongs.' His zeal for social reform, however, turned him aside from his profession, and in 1870 he suddenly became famous as the anonymous author of 'Ginx's Baby, his Birth and other Misfortunes,' a pathetic satire on the struggles of rival sectarians for the religious education of a derelict child, which attracted universal notice and had its influence on the religious compromise in the Education Act of 1870. ”

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Robert Edmund Graves, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Rye's tastes were antiquarian rather than literary, and he possessed a great store of information relating to old English literature and to mediæval architecture and antiquities. He also practised etching. ”

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“ He also studied appreciatively the arts of Japan, spending a year in that country in 1876-7, and writing an introduction to the catalogue of the 'Exhibition of Japanese and Chinese Works of Art,' held at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1878. ”

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“ About two years before his death, however, he began to turn out his portfolios of early works, and these sold so well that in the autumn of 1907 he was induced to open an exhibition of them at the Leicester Galleries, which was a great success. After his death an exhibition of his remaining drawings and sketches was held at the same place in 1909. Callow died at The Firs, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, on 20 Feb. 1908, from influenza, followed by pleurisy, and was buried in the churchyard there. He possessed a remarkably strong physique and had an intense love for good music. ”

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Robert Edmund Graves, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ Being ordained in the same year, he was curate successively of Ide Hill, Kent, until 1850, of Coggeshall, Essex, until 1857, and of Kelvedon until 1859, and was perpetual curate of Billericay until 1865. ”

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Robert Edmund Graves, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ In 1849 he published ‘A Manual for the Study of the Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses of the Middle Ages.’ This was followed in 1853 by ‘Colchester Castle not a Roman Temple,’ and in 1872 by ‘Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages,’ a series of articles contributed originally to the ‘Art Journal’; in 1888 by ‘Colchester,’ in Freeman and Hunt's series of ‘Historic Towns’; in 1893 by ‘History of Early Christian Art’; and in 1898 by ‘Parish Priests and their People in the Middle Ages in England.’ Among his works on Church history are ‘Turning Points of English Church History’ (1874) ”

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Robert Edmund Graves, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ About 1848 he took to oil-painting, and he contributed thirty-seven works to the exhibitions of the British Institution from that year until its close in 1867. From 1850 to 1876 he sent twenty-nine oil-pictures to the Royal Academy. ”

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Robert Edmund Graves, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)

“ JENKINS, JOHN EDWARD (1838–1910) , politician and satirist, born at Bangalore, Mysore, Southern India, on 28 July 1838, was the eldest son of John Jenkins, D.D., Wesleyan missionary, by his wife Harriette, daughter of James Shepstone of Chfton. His father removed to Canada, where he became minister of St. ”

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