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Tag Archives: science
MP of the Month: Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785-1840), soldier, scientist and politician
Like many of our MPs, Nicholas Vigors had a varied career, as a soldier, landowner, politician and eminent zoologist. Although best known as a founder and secretary of the Zoological Society of London, Vigors also enjoyed a lively career as … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Ireland, MP of the Month
Tagged Carlow, Ireland, MP of the Month, ornithology, science, zoology
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MP of the Month: Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888), pioneering telegraph engineer
An important aspect of our study of the reformed Commons is the degree to which representatives of science and industry were incorporated into the legislature during a period of great economic expansion. Our MP of the Month was among those … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, MP of the Month
Tagged Greenwich, Liberal party, MP of the Month, science, telegraphy
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Science, parliamentary inquiry and the Whig decade of reform
In January two members of the Victorian Commons project spoke in Oxford at the ‘From “Old Corruption” to the New Corruption?’ conference, organised jointly by Oxford Brookes and Newman Universities. This week Dr Martin Spychal takes a look at one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences and seminars, Legislation
Tagged 1832 Reform Act, boundary commission, Lord Brougham, science, SDUK, Thomas Drummond
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MP of the Month: Sir George Cayley, ‘the man who discovered flight’
In 1909 the pioneering aviator Wilbur Wright paid tribute to an Englishman who had a century earlier ‘carried the science of flight to a point which it had never reached before and which it scarcely reached again during the last … Continue reading