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52-654: Famous family members include Davies Gilbert (1767-1839, known as Davies Giddy before 1818). He was an engineer, author and High Sheriff of Cornwall. He was President of the Royal Society of Science from 1827 to 1830, and was a Member of Parliament as well. There have been several books written about, or by, the family. The book Beyond the blaze is the most famous of these. Books and publications written or edited by Davies Gilbert Sources: British Library Integrated Catalogue and Cornwall County Library Catalogue Plain Statement of

104-735: A Cornish Language poem about the Passion: Passyon agan Arluth , as Mount Calvary (1826). He was elected to the Society of Antiquaries in 1820. Gilbert was the President of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall from its foundation in 1814 until his death. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1832. Davies Gilbert was opposed to mass education during his time in parliament. When

156-701: A MA on 29 June 1789. He was elected to the Royal Society on 17 November 1791 and served as its President from 1827 to 1830. Davies was High Sheriff of Cornwall from 1792 to 1793. He served in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Helston in Cornwall from 1804 to 1806 and for Bodmin from 1806 to 1832. Giddy was a close friend of the physician Thomas Beddoes , had attended Beddoes' lectures at Oxford when Beddoes became University Reader in Chemistry in 1788 and

208-616: A gatepost), and took it to a churchyard in his new home of Eastbourne . When asked why he carried off a Cornish Cross and re-erected it in Eastbourne by the Rev. Canon Hockin, of Phillack , Davies replied, It was to show the poor, ignorant folk that there was something bigger in the world than a flint! He changed his name to Gilbert in 1817. In 1822 he collected and published a number of Cornish carols and in 1938 assembled and published A Parochial History of Cornwall . He edited for publication

260-615: A house at Cowslip Green, near Wrington in northern Somerset , where she settled with her sister Martha and wrote several ethical books and tracts: Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799), Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess (1805), Coelebs in Search of a Wife (only nominally a story, 1809), Practical Piety (1811), Christian Morals (1813), Character of St Paul (1815) and Moral Sketches (1819). She

312-548: A step above the children's proper station. At Wedmore , the Dean of Wells was petitioned to have More removed from the school. To the Bishop of Bath and Wells she protested that her schools taught only "such coarse works as may fit them [their charges] for servants. I allow no writing for the poor. My object is... to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety." More refused to read Mary Wollstonecraft 's Vindication of

364-510: A witty verse celebration of her friends and circle: The Bas Bleu, or, Conversation , published in 1784. Garrick wrote a prologue and epilogue to Hannah More's tragedy Percy , which was successful at Covent Garden in December 1777 and revived in 1785 with Sarah Siddons at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane . A copy of Percy was found among Mozart 's possessions in 1791. Another drama, The Fatal Falsehood , produced in 1779 after Garrick's death,

416-478: Is included in the committee's report, published in 1834. Hannah More Defunct Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson , Reynolds and Garrick , who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol , she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in

468-686: Is quoted as scolding her: "Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth having." He would later be quoted as calling her "the finest versifatrix in the English language". Meanwhile, she became prominent in the Bluestocking group of women engaged in polite conversation and literary and intellectual pursuits. She attended the salon of Elizabeth Montagu , where she met Frances Boscawen , Elizabeth Carter , Elizabeth Vesey and Hester Chapone , some of whom would be lifelong friends. In 1782 she wrote

520-824: The Bristol Pound , a local currency. The street in Wrington where she was buried has been named Hannah More Close. However, the Liberal politician Augustine Birrell , in his 1906 work Hannah More Once More , claimed to have buried all 19 volumes of More's works in his garden in disgust. In 2022, More was officially added to the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar with a feast day on 6 September. Letters to, from and about Hannah More are held by Bristol Archives , including one from William Wilberforce (Ref. 28048/C/1/2) ( online catalogue ). Records relating to Hannah More appear at

572-647: The Church of England . He sought to pursue a clerical career, but after losing a lawsuit over an estate he had hoped to inherit he moved to Bristol, where he became an excise officer and later taught at the Fishponds free school . The sisters were first educated by their father, learning Latin and mathematics. Hannah was also taught by elder sisters, through whom she learned French, which she improved conversationally by spending time with French prisoners of war in Frenchay during

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624-457: The Seven Years' War . She was an assiduous, discerning student. Family tradition has it that she began writing at an early age. In 1758, Jacob established a girls' boarding school at Trinity Street, Bristol, for the elder sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, to run, while he and his wife moved to Stony Hill in the city to open a school for boys. Hannah More became a pupil in the girls' school when she

676-661: The "rights of man" as "battle, murder and sudden death". Tom Hood finally accepts Anvil's conclusion: "While old England is safe I'll glory in her, and pray for her; and when she is in danger I'll fight for her and die for her." More's biographer summed up the pamphlet against Paine as "Burke for Beginners". It was well received: Porteus called it "a masterpiece of its kind, supremely excellent, greatly admired at Windsor ". Frances Boscawen thought it exceeded William Paley 's The British Public's Reasons for Contentment and Richard Owen Cambridge claimed " Swift could not have done it better." More's next anti-Jacobin tract, Remarks on

728-493: The Association to send her "two or three printed papers explaining the nature of the Association as perhaps I may use them to advantage with a friend or two, distinguished for their piety and active zeal." In 1794, when Paine published The Age of Reason , a deist attack on Christianity, Porteus again requested More's help in combating Paine's ideas, but she declined, being preoccupied with her charity-school work. However, by

780-463: The Bible and the catechism on Sundays and during the week taught "such coarse works as may fit them for servants". In regards to her choice of subjects More declared "I allow of no writing for the poor" and that they were not to be made "scholars and philosophers". There was local opposition: Church of England vicars suspected her of advancing Methodism and some landowners saw even rudimentary literacy as

832-576: The Bullion Question (1811) Some ancient Christmas Carols, with the Tunes to which they were formerly sung in the West of England. Collected by D. Gilbert. London : J. Nichols and Son, 1822. Some ancient Christmas Carols, with the tunes to which they were formerly sung in the west of England. pp. x. 79. J. Nichols and Son: London, 1823 Some Ancient Christmas Carols with Tunes to which they were Formerly Sung in

884-518: The French Revolution to Jack Anvil and speaks in favour of a new constitution based on liberty and the "rights of man". Jack Anvil responds by praising the British constitution, saying Britain already has "the best laws in the world". He attacks French liberty as murder, French democracy as tyranny of the majority, French equality as a levelling down of social classes, French philosophy as atheism , and

936-529: The London literary elite and a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined a group opposing the slave trade . In the 1790s she wrote Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religious and political topics, to distribute to the literate poor (as a retort to Thomas Paine 's Rights of Man ). Meanwhile, she broadened her links with schools she and her sister Martha had founded in rural Somerset . These curbed their teaching of

988-669: The Parochial Schools Bill of 1807 was debated in the Commons, Tory MP Davies Gilbert warned the House that: "However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be prejudicial to their morals and happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them; instead of teaching them

1040-555: The Revolution in France for combining "the rhetoric of ancient Gaul" and the "patriot spirit of ancient Rome" with "the deepest political sagacity". Part II of the Rights of Man , Thomas Paine 's reply to Burke, appeared in 1792. The government was alarmed by its concern for the poor and call for world revolution, coupled with huge sales. Porteus visited More and asked her to write something for

1092-508: The Rights of Women (1792). While many women may be "fond of government", they are not, she believed, "fit for it": "To be unstable and capricious is but too characteristic of our sex." More turned down honorary membership of the Royal Society of Literature, seeing her "sex alone a disqualification". Those heeding Wollstonecraft's call to embrace the liberty without which women could "neither possess virtue or happiness" or reading with equal ardour

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1144-722: The Speech of M. Dupont , condemned atheism in France. Its profits were passed to French Catholic priests exiled in England. The two pamphlets attracted praise from the Association for the Discountenancing of Vice , an evangelical publishing society founded in Dublin in 1792. The membership wrote to her in June 1793 congratulating her on it and inviting her to become an honorary member. Accepting, More asked

1196-496: The West of England (1822)[4] "On the vibrations of heavy bodies in cycloidal and in circular arches, as compared with their descents through free space; including an estimate of the variable circular excess in vibrations continually decreasing." By Davies Gilbert, .. London : printed by William Clowes, [1823] 15,[3]p. 'Extracted from the Quarterly Journal, Vol. XV'. A Cornish Cantata. [Names of places in Cornwall arranged in

1248-488: The best means to tackle practical problems and in his facility as a parliamentary promoter of scientific ventures." His mathematical skills were sought by early engineering pioneers such as Jonathan Hornblower , Richard Trevithick and Thomas Telford . He also had an interest in the history and culture of Cornwall. For instance, he removed a Celtic cross from near Truro , on the Redruth Road (where it had found new use as

1300-525: The couple to inherit the extensive property in Sussex of her uncle, Thomas Gilbert, who had no male heir. Three daughters and a son survived him. Their son, John Davies Gilbert (5 December 1811 – 16 April 1854) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in April 1834 but does not seem to have published any scientific work. Their eldest daughter, Catherine, married John Samuel Enys (b. 1796) on 17 April 1834. She

1352-448: The end of the year, More, encouraged by Porteus, decided to embark on a series of Cheap Repository Tracts , three of which appeared every month from 1795 to 1798. In January 1795, More explained to Zachary Macaulay: "Vulgar and indecent penny books were always common, but speculative infidelity brought down to the pockets and capacity of the poor forms a new era in our history. This requires strong counteraction." Her scheme developed from

1404-696: The executive magistrates with more vigorous powers than are now in force. Besides, if this Bill were to pass into law, it would go to burthen the country with a most enormous and incalculable expense, and to load the industrious orders with still heavier imposts. (Hansard, House of Commons, Vol. 9, Col. 798, 13 June 1807, quoted in Chitty 2007:15–16)" He died in Eastbourne in Sussex on Christmas Eve 1839. On 18 April 1808 he married Mary Ann Gilbert , and in 1816 he took his wife's surname, Gilbert, to perpetuate it. This enabled

1456-623: The form of verses.] [Privately printed? East-Bourne] 1826. Mount Calvary; or, the History of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, written in Cornish (as it may be conjectured) some centuries past. Interpreted in English, in ... 1682, by J. Keigwin . Edited by D. Gilbert. pp. xxii. 96. Nichols and Son: London, 1826. "On the expediency of assigning Specific Names to all such Functions of Simple Elements as represent definite physical properties; with

1508-606: The ideas of the Association for discountenancing vice, though written in a more "readable and entertaining a style". The tracts sold 300,000 copies in March and April 1795, 700,000 by July 1795 and over two million by March 1796. They urged the poor to rely on virtues of contentment, sobriety, humility, industry, reverence for the British Constitution, hatred of the French, and trust in God and

1560-664: The kindness of the gentry . Perhaps the most famous is The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain , describing a family of phenomenal frugality and contentment. This was translated into several languages. She also invited the Association for the Discountenancing of Vice to reprint her tracts in Ireland, which they did with success in more than 230 editions of 52 titles. More was shocked by the strides made for female education in France: "They run to study philosophy, and neglect their families to be present at lectures in anatomy." Intending "to escape from

1612-432: The lower orders to counteract Paine. This prompted a pamphlet, Village Politics (1792). More called it "as vulgar as [the] heart can wish; but it is only designed for the most vulgar class of readers." The pamphlet (published pseudonymously as by "Will Chip") consists of a dialogue in plain English between Jack Anvil, a village blacksmith, and Tom Hood, a village mason. After reading Paine, Tom Hood expresses admiration for

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1664-476: The manuscript histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin; with additions and various appendices, by D. G. [including copious extracts from J. Whitaker, D. and S. Lysons, &c. and geological notices by Dr. Boase]. 4 vol. London, 1838. Carew Davies-Gilbert ( – 1913) There is a postcard entitled 'The Funeral of Carew Lewis Gilbert Esq Dec 5 '13' photographer Veiler. Davies Gilbert Davies Gilbert FRS (born Davies Giddy , 6 March 1767 – 24 December 1839)

1716-552: The pedagogy of Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Hamilton saw More much as Wollstonecraft had seen Burke in her earlier Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790): as a writer with a "mortal antipathy to reason". Having met Hannah More and her sisters in Bath and discussed their schools and other good works, Jane Greg reported to a friend, Martha McTier in Belfast , that she found their "minds crippled in an astonishing degree". McTier

1768-487: The poor, allowing limited reading but no writing. More was noted for her political conservatism , being described as an anti-feminist , a "counter-revolutionary", or a conservative feminist . Born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton , near Bristol , Hannah More was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More (1700–1783), a schoolmaster from a strong Presbyterian family in Harleston, Norfolk , who had joined

1820-419: The profits in trust to protect them from Yearsley's husband. However, Ann Yearsley wished to receive the capital and made insinuations of stealing against More, forcing her to release it. These literary and social failures prompted More's withdrawal from London intellectual circles. In the 1780s Hannah More became a friend of James Oglethorpe , who had long been concerned with slavery as a moral issue and who

1872-759: The suggestion of a new term in mechanics; illustrated by an investigation of the Machine moved by Recoil" ... From the Philosophical Transactions. pp. 14. [Privately printed:] London, 1827. "Some Collections and Translations respecting St. Neot, and the former state of his Church." In : Hedgeland (J. P.) A Description ... of the ... decorations ... in the Church of St. Neot, etc. 1830. A Cornish dialogue between Tom Pengersick and Dic. Trengurtha. East-Bourn : Davies Gilbert, [ca. 1835](In verse.) The Parochial History of Cornwall, founded on, [or rather including,]

1924-420: The virtue of subordination, it would render them factious and refractory, as is evident in the manufacturing counties; it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets, vicious books and publications against Christianity; it would render them insolent to their superiors; and, in a few years, the result would be that the legislature would find it necessary to direct the strong arm of power towards them and to furnish

1976-551: The world gradually", More moved in 1802 to Wrington in rural Somerset , where she had built a comfortable house and laid out a garden. She remained, however, active with several Somerset schools for the destitute that she and her sister Martha had founded from the 1780s, with Wilberforce's encouragement. She modelled the idealised hero and heroine in Coelebs in Search of Wife (1809) on the schools' prodigious benefactors: John and Louisa Harford of Blaise Castle . The schools taught

2028-593: Was 12 years old and taught there in early adulthood. In 1767, More gave up her share in the school on becoming engaged to William Turner of the Belmont Estate, Wraxall, Somerset , whom she had met when he began teaching her cousins. After six years the wedding had not taken place. Turner seemed reluctant to name a date and in 1773 the engagement was broken off. It seems this led More into a nervous breakdown, from which she recuperated in Uphill , near Weston-super-Mare . She

2080-710: Was a British engineer, author, and politician. He was elected to the Royal Society on 17 November 1791 and served as its President from 1827 to 1830. He changed his name to Gilbert in 1817 and served as Member of Parliament, first for Helston in Cornwall and then for Bodmin . Davies Giddy was born on 6 March 1767, the second of the three children of Reverend Edward Giddy, curate of St Erth's church , and his wife Catherine, daughter of Henry Davies of Tredrea, St Erth in Cornwall . His parents' first child, also Davies by forename, died within 24 hours of birth in 1766, and their third child, Mary Philippa Davies Giddy (known as Philippa)

2132-505: Was a rapid writer. Her work, though discursive and animated, was deficient in form. Her popularity may be explained by her originality and forceful subject-matter. The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 did not worry More initially, but by 1790 she was writing, "I have conceived an utter aversion to liberty according to the present idea of it in France. What a cruel people they are!" She praised Edmund Burke 's Reflections on

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2184-497: Was born in 1769. The Giddy family moved to Penzance , living on Chapel Street in 1775, until Giddy's mother Catherine inherited the family home of Tredrea back in St Erth. By 1780 the family returned to St Erth, and Davies was taught by his father, alongside his sister Philippa. Davies Giddy would later adopt Gilbert as his surname, the maiden name of his wife, the agronomist Mary Ann Gilbert , whom he married at Easter of 1808. Davies

2236-451: Was close to William Wilberforce and Zachary Macaulay , sympathising with their evangelical views. Her poem Slavery appeared in 1788. For many years she was a friend of Beilby Porteus , Bishop of London and a leading abolitionist , who drew her into a group of anti-slave traders that included Wilberforce, Charles Middleton and also James Ramsay at Teston in Kent . In 1785 More bought

2288-587: Was educated first at Penzance Grammar School and then by his father, and by Rev Malachy Hitchins , the mathematical astronomer. At the age of 17, at the recommendation of Hitchins, he was sent to Bristol to join the Mathematical Academy of Benjamin Donne where he remained for three years. His sister Philippa simultaneously finished her own schooling with the famous bluestocking Hannah More . He went up to Pembroke College, Oxford in 1786, whence he graduated with

2340-463: Was in regular correspondence with him over the latter's plans for a Pneumatic Institution in Bristol. Giddy was an early supporter of Humphry Davy and persuaded Beddoes to employ him in the laboratory at the institute. The Dictionary of National Biography article says of him: "Gilbert's importance to the development of science in the early nineteenth century lay in his faith that science provided

2392-512: Was induced to accept a £200 annuity from Turner as compensation. This freed her for literary pursuits. In the winter of 1773–1774, she went to London with her sisters, Sarah and Martha – the first of many such trips at yearly intervals. Some verses she had written on David Garrick's version of King Lear led to an acquaintance with him. She later moved to Bath , where she stayed between 1792 and 1802 on Great Pulteney Street . More's first literary efforts were pastoral plays written while she

2444-454: Was less successful and she stopped writing for the stage. However, a tragedy entitled The Inflexible Captive appeared in 1818. In 1781 she met Horace Walpole and corresponded with him. At Bristol she discovered the poet Ann Yearsley . When Yearsley became destitute, More raised a considerable sum of money for her benefit. Lactilla, as Yearsley was known, published Poems, on Several Occasions in 1785, earning about £600. More and Montagu held

2496-598: Was proud that in her school for poor girls her pupils "do not gabble over the testament only" and that she had those who "can read Fox and Pitt ". More in 1820 donated money to Philander Chase , the first Episcopal Bishop of Ohio for the foundation there of Kenyon College . A portrait of More hangs in its Peirce Hall. In Hannah More's last years, philanthropists from all parts made pilgrimages to Wrington, and after 1828 to Clifton , where she died on 7 September 1833. More left about £30,000, chiefly in legacies to charitable institutions and religious societies. The residue

2548-435: Was still teaching and suitable for young ladies to act. The first was The Search after Happiness , written in 1762. By the mid-1780s over 10,000 copies of this had been sold. Among her literary models was Metastasio , on whose opera Attilio Regulo she based a drama, The Inflexible Captive . In London, More sought to associate with the literary elite, including Samuel Johnson , Joshua Reynolds and Edmund Burke . Johnson

2600-444: Was the mother of the notable New Zealand naturalist, John Enys (11 October 1837 – 7 November 1912). Their second daughter, Annie, married Rev. Henry Owen, rector of Heveningham , Suffolk on 4 December 1851. The other daughters were Mary Susannah and Hester Elizabeth. Books and publications written or edited by Davies Gilbert include: In 1831, Gilbert gave evidence to a Parliamentary select committee on steam carriages , which

2652-493: Was to go to a new Church of St Philip and St Jacob in Bristol. She was buried beside her sisters at the Church of All Saints, Wrington , which has a bust of her in the south porch, beside one of the local son John Locke . Several local schools and St. Michael's Church (Reisterstown, Maryland) are named after More. Hannah More Primary School was built in Bristol Old Market in the 1840s. Her image appeared in 2012 on

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2704-735: Was working with Granville Sharp as an early abolitionist. More published Sacred Dramas in 1782, which rapidly ran through 19 editions. These and the poems Bas-Bleu and Florio (1786) mark a gradual transition to graver views, expressed in prose in Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society (1788) and An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World (1790). By this time she

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