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    See also [1] for two other James Backhouse botanists and nursery owners of York. James Backhouse (8 July 1794 – 20 January 1869) was a botanist and missionary...
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    James Backhouse Walker, FRGS (14 October 1841 – 4 November 1899) was an Australian solicitor and historian. James Backhouse Walker, the eldest son of...
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  • Lecture series in Britain. Also known as the James Backhouse Lecture, as it is named for James Backhouse. Further details on Quakers Australia's website...
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  • Backhouse (1779–1842) James Backhouse (iv) (1825–1890), botanist, archaeologist, and geologist; son of James Backhouse (1794–1869) Sir John Backhouse...
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  • James Backhouse (1825–1890) was an English botanist, archaeologist, and geologist. He was the son of James Backhouse (1794–1869), a botanist and missionary...
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  • Edward Backhouse (1808–1879) was a Quaker philanthropist and writer on church history. He was also one of the founding fathers of the Sunderland Echo...
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    William Backhouse Astor Jr. (July 12, 1829 – April 25, 1892) was an American businessman, racehorse owner/breeder, and yachtsman who was a member of the...
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  • station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. It was visited by James Backhouse in March 1839. "Main Place Clarkebury". Census 2011. "Clarkebury"....
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  • Backhouse's Bank of Darlington (James & Jonathan Backhouse and Co., from 1798 Jonathan Backhouse and Co.) was founded in 1774 by James Backhouse (1720-1798)...
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    Quaker Testimonies: a Toolkit in February 2007. In 2013 she gave a James Backhouse Lecture which was published in a book entitled A Quaker Astronomer...
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    Retrieved 26 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia. Walker, James Backhouse, Photograph of Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania, looking west, c. 1890...
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  • Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Baronet, JP (15 November 1849 – 27 July 1918) was a British banker. Backhouse was a director of Backhouse's Bank the family...
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    would in the end destroy either man or beast if not removed in time". James Backhouse, a well-travelled Quaker during the early colonial period, gave the...
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    botanical name Backhousia citriodora in 1853 after the English botanist, James Backhouse. The common name reflects the strong lemon smell of the crushed leaves...
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    William Backhouse Astor Sr. (September 19, 1792 – November 24, 1875) was an American business magnate who inherited most of his father John Jacob Astor's...
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    and Labours of George Washington Walker: of Hobart Town, Tasmania. James Backhouse and Charles Tylor, 1862. Tasmania: Thomas Brady (pp. 498–499) Botha...
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  • which the book is made – the Walk to the West Coast of Tasmania by James Backhouse Walker, Arthur Leslie Giblin, Charles Percy Sprent, William Piguenit...
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    introduced to British gardeners in 1866 by the Yorkshire botanist James Backhouse. Common names include angel's fishing rod, hair bell, and wand flower...
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    explorer Hugh Germain, a private in the Royal Marines. He was said by James Backhouse in his book "A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies", published...
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    nursery owned by James Backhouse before being converted into a park in the 1930s. In the 19th century, the botanist James Backhouse owned a nursery in...
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  • 1894–1972), Japanese diplomat Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), English banker and MP of Parliament for Darlington James Backhouse (1794–1869), UK-born Australian...
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  • institution's encouragement of female students fuelled criticism. James Backhouse Walker, a local lawyer and briefly vice-chancellor, mounted a courageous...
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    builders would develop their own style of gables. An early visitor, James Backhouse found 1300 people living in the rising town in 1840. According to the...
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    lived there until his death in 1826. From 1859, it was occupied by James Backhouse. In the 20th century, it was purchased by British Rail, and served...
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  • 1887 in Hurworth, Durham, the ninth of ten children of bank partner James Backhouse and his wife, Elizabeth Barclay Fowler. She was educated at the Quaker...
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    First ascent 28 June 1865 by Francis Fox Tuckett, Douglas William Freshfield, James Backhouse, George Henry Fox, François Devouassoud and Peter Michel...
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  • in the mid 1820s. James Backhouse reported Richmond had a court house, a gaol, a windmill and about thirty houses by 1832. Backhouse visited the town again...
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  • Regional Meeting of Quakers in Australia. In 1969 he presented the sixth James Backhouse Lecture "Toward a Multi-Racial Society". After his retirement in 1999...
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    botanist James Backhouse (1794–1869), in his report on Australian landscape and wildlife titled A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies. James Backhouse...
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  • large home on the northern end of the peninsula known as "Arm End". James Backhouse visited Gellibrand at home on 20 September 1832, with Robert Mather...
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