Lansdown Guilding (9 May 1797 – 22 October 1831) was a theologian and naturalist . He is best known for his works on the flora and fauna of St Vincent in particular and on the Caribbean in general. He wrote numerous illustrated papers for journals of scholarly societies in England including the first descriptions of velvet worms and scale insects in the ground pearl family.
25-1239: (Redirected from Landsdowne ) Lansdowne or Lansdown may refer to: People [ edit ] Lansdown Guilding (1797–1831), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines naturalist and engraver Fenwick Lansdowne (1937–2008), Canadian wildlife artist George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) Marquess of Lansdowne , title in the Peerage of Great Britain William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne , William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, (1737–1805), prime minister 1782–83 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845–1927), Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Peter Lansdown (born 1947), Welsh ornithologist Zachary Lansdowne (1888–1925), American naval officer and aviator Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Lansdowne, New South Wales , Sydney Lansdowne, New South Wales (Mid-Coast Council) Lansdowne, Northern Territory Lansdowne, Queensland , locality in
50-549: A " Table of Colours Arranged for Naturalists " in 1825 which may have been the first biological colour chart. This production was submitted to the Wernerian Natural History Society, where it was presented by the president, Professor Robert Jameson . He corresponded with Charles Darwin , providing him with notes on the natural history of the Caribbean region. In 1826, Guilding published the first description of
75-474: A B.A. degree, he returned to his home country. His father died in 1818, and he took up work as garrison chaplain and left for England in 1819. In 1821, Guilding travelled to England to marry Mary Hunt, daughter of the Rev. S. Hunt, rector of Wakerly and St. George's Church, Stamford. From 1824 to 1826 he disputed with Robert Herries for the right to payment for paupers' funerals. Herries claimed that Guilding had expunged
100-570: A dispute about development of green belt land. The plateau near the centre of the parish is known as Lansdown Hill and gives its name to the Bath suburb . The hamlet of Lansdown, about 3 miles (5 km) north-west of the centre of Bath, has a public house, the Charlcombe Inn; also here are Bath Racecourse and Lansdown Golf Course. The Battle of Landsowne of the English Civil War took place on
125-987: A former sports stadium in Dublin whose site is occupied by the current Aviva Stadium New Caledonia [ edit ] Lansdowne Bank New Zealand [ edit ] Lansdowne, Christchurch , a locality south of Christchurch Lansdowne, Masterton South Africa [ edit ] Lansdowne, Cape Town United Kingdom [ edit ] Lansdown, Bath Lansdown Crescent, Bath Lansdown, Charlcombe , hamlet near Bath Lansdowne, Bournemouth Lansdown, Cheltenham Lansdowne Crescent, London Lansdowne House , London Lansdowne School , London Lansdowne College , London Lansdowne Club , London Lansdowne Primary School , Cardiff, Wales United States [ edit ] Lansdowne, Lexington , Kentucky Lansdowne, Maryland Lansdowne (Centreville, Maryland) Lansdowne-Baltimore Highlands, Maryland Lansdowne (Natchez, Mississippi) ,
150-738: A historic home Other uses [ edit ] Battle of Lansdowne , 1643 Lansdown (film) , 2002 film Lansdowne Bridge (Pakistan) Lansdown Cricket Club , Bath, England Lansdowne Football Club , rugby football club in Ireland Lansdowne letter , written by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Lansdowne manuscripts , a named collection of the British Library Lansdowne portrait , of George Washington Lansdowne Press , Australian publishing house Lansdowne Road , former stadium in Dublin, Ireland Lansdowne station (disambiguation) , stations of
175-477: A member of the phylum Onychophora . He found what he thought was an unusual type of slug, and included it along with his Caribbean mollusks. He named this genus Peripatus (1826). He included an excellent watercolor painting of the specimen, and a mention to the defensive mechanism of sticky liquid squirts. A translation into English from Guilding's description, originally written in Latin, shows how he first classified
200-519: A plantation Lansdowne station (MBTA) on MBTA Commuter Rail's Framingham/Worcester Line Lansdowne, New Jersey Lansdown (Pittstown, New Jersey) , nearby historic house listed on the NRHP Lansdowne Airport , Ohio Lansdowne House (Greenville, Ohio) Lansdowne, Pennsylvania East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania Lansdowne, Virginia Lansdowne (Urbanna, Virginia) , a historic home Lansdowne (Fredericksburg, Virginia) ,
225-600: A single tier of local government with responsibility for almost all local government functions within its area including local planning and building control , local roads, council housing , environmental health , markets and fairs, refuse collection , recycling , cemeteries , crematoria , leisure services, parks, and tourism. It is also responsible for education , social services , libraries , main roads, public transport, Trading Standards , waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through
250-462: A tributary of the Lam Brook . The Church of St Mary is an ancient stone edifice, dating from the 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building . There was believed to be a holy well in the grounds. According to tradition it was formerly the mother church of Bath, and received an annual acknowledgment of a pound of pepper from the abbey there. All Saints Church at Woolley dates from 1761 and
275-523: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lansdown Guilding Guilding was born on 9 May 1797 in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines . He was one of six siblings, son of the Reverend John Guilding and his wife Sarah. In 1802, at the age of 5, he was sent to England, where he studied at Oxford University. In 1817, after receiving
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#1732845396650300-607: Is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name "Cerlecume", meaning in Old English "valley of the ceorls" (freemen or peasants). Langridge and Woolley were part of the hundred of Bath Forum , while the parish of Charlcombe was part of the hundred of Hampton . The Battle of Lansdowne (1643) was fought in the Lansdown Hill area and is commemorated by Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument (1720). From about 1720 until
325-637: The Avon Fire and Rescue Service , Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the Great Western Ambulance Service . Bath and North East Somerset's area covers part of the ceremonial county of Somerset but it is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county . Its administrative headquarters is in Bath . Between 1 April 1974 and 1 April 1996, it was the Wansdyke district and the City of Bath of
350-716: The county of Avon . Before 1974 that the parish was part of the Bathavon Rural District . The parish is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the Bath constituency. It elects one member of parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The local geology of the Swainswick valley around Sopers Wood, in the south Cotswolds , has been investigated because of
375-770: The Blackall-Tambo Region Lansdowne County , Western Australia Canada [ edit ] Lansdowne, Edmonton , Alberta Lansdowne, Nova Scotia Lansdowne, Ontario Lansdowne (electoral district) , Manitoba Lansdowne Avenue , Toronto, Ontario Lansdowne Park , Ottawa, Ontario Lansdowne Centre , Richmond, British Columbia Lansdowne, Yukon India [ edit ] Lansdowne, India , cantonment town in Uttarakhand Lansdowne (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency) Lansdowne Road , Kolkata, now known as Sarat Bose Road Ireland [ edit ] Lansdowne Road ,
400-500: The council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, such as the village hall or community centre , playing fields and playgrounds , as well as consulting with
425-495: The district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also of interest to the council. The parish falls within the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset which was created in 1996, as established by the Local Government Act 1992 . It provides
450-522: The early 19th century, Woolley was the site of a gunpowder mill. In 1848 the village had a population of 84, and covered 523 acres (2.12 km ). Woolley is one of 52 thankful villages for having lost no residents during World War I , and one of only 14 doubly thankful villages that also did not lose any residents in World War II . The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover
475-527: The hill in 1643. Every year in February and March, Charlcombe Lane is closed by the local council to enable frogs and toads to cross the road in safety. During this period local residents and volunteers go out at dusk, the time of greatest movement, collecting them in buckets and depositing them on the other side of the road, allowing them to continue their journey safely towards a lake in the Charlcombe valley on
500-577: The minutes of some meetings to change the vote of a vestry election, causing Herries to lose his position. Guilding stated that it was "just a misunderstanding”. In 1818, Guilding was accepted as Fellow of the Linnean Society, and by 1820 he was corresponding with Joseph Dalton Hooker , Aylmer Bourke Lambert and other established scientists. Hooker wrote that Guilding was "an arrogant, demanding, ambitious, and often conceited individual, all too ready to ask for unusual favors". His first zoological paper
525-717: The name SS Lansdowne , railroad car ferry and floating restaurant USS Lansdowne (DD-486) , a Gleaves -class destroyer Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lansdowne . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lansdowne&oldid=1251677800 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732845396650550-699: The presence of landslides since the work of William Smith in 1799. These are caused by the over-steepened topography downslope of the cap rock formed by the Great Oolite where water egresses around the plateau at the junction between the Great Oolite and the Fuller’s Earth formation and through the more permeable limestone bands within the Fuller’s Earth. Known locally as the Woolley Valley, there has been
575-648: The specimen in the Class Moluska, and how astonished he was for discovering a new species. He was also among the first to describe scale insects of the ground pearl family, Margarodidae . Guilding's announced "Fauna" and "Pomona occidentalis" were never completed. The manuscripts were lost, together with his table of colors. Guilding's first wife died "in childbed” on 15 November 1827, leaving five children behind. A year later he married Charlotte Lydia Melville, of St. George's, Grenada. In 1831 he went on vacation to Bermuda , where he died on 22 October. The cause of death
600-451: Was not recorded. Lansdown, Charlcombe Charlcombe is a civil parish and small village just north of Bath in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset , England. The parish had a population of 422 in 2011, and includes the villages of Woolley and Langridge and the hamlet of Lansdown (not to be confused with the Bath suburb of the same name). Charlcombe
625-585: Was read at the Linnean Society and published in 1822. Guilding was a capable artist of plant and animal drawings. He prided himself on the accuracy of his work and his use of color. When his work was redrawn he criticized both the artist and the engraver. His book “An Account of the Botanic Gardens of the Island of St. Vincent” was published in Glasgow in 1825. Guilding was an excellent artist and engraver and he produced
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