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    William Brownrigg (24 March 1712 [O.S. 13 March 1711] – 6 January 1800) was a British doctor and scientist, who practised at Whitehaven in Cumberland...
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    thought that the first person to aerate water with carbon dioxide was William Brownrigg in the 1740s. Joseph Priestley invented carbonated water, independently...
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  • included Anne Lumley (died 1859), James Rutherford Lumley (1810–1885), William Brownrigg Lumley (born 1812), Caroline Lumley (born 1816), Arabella Lumley (born...
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  • Brownrigg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Brownrigg (disambiguation) Abraham Brownrigg (1836–1928), Irish Roman Catholic Bishop...
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    on lakes such as Derwentwater. Communications between Franklin and William Brownrigg show that Franklin had first encountered the phenomenon aboard a ship...
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    including Robert Boyle, Friedrich Hoffmann, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, William Brownrigg, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, and David Macbride. In the early 1770s...
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    losing the seat in a 1983 by-election, when the former cabinet minister William Whitelaw became the leader of the House of Lords: the by-election took...
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    ISBN 978-0-8486-8579-9. OCLC 23991202. Dixon, Joshua; Brownrigg, William (1801). The literary life of William Brownrigg. To which are added an account of the coal...
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    General Sir Robert Brownrigg, 1st Baronet, GCB (8 February 1758 – 27 April 1833) was an Irish-born British statesman and soldier. He brought the last...
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     7–8. ISBN 978-0-905118-83-3. Dixon, Joshua; Brownrigg, William (1801). The literary life of William Brownrigg. To which are added an account of the coal...
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    on firedamp by William Brownrigg, a local doctor and scientist, and he presented papers by Brownrigg at the Royal Society. Brownrigg had gas piped from...
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    Franklin, Benjamin (7 November 1773). From Benjamin Franklin to William Brownrigg (Report). At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the Common...
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  • How, William Hicks, and Gabriel Griffiths, a Whitehaven brazier. Wood and How leased coal mines in Egremont, while How, Griffiths, William Brownrigg and...
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  • Fossilium. New York: Mineralogical Society of America. p. 178. Nicholson, William (1819). "Bismuth". American edition of the British encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary...
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    later used by William Brownrigg, Henry Cavendish and Joseph Priestley in their research. Hales began his work on animal physiology with William Stuckeley...
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  • built the Cyfarthfa Iron foundry in Glamorgan, for Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg, recording events in a diary (Gross 2001). Francis was engaged at...
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    Anthony Bacon (by then a merchant in London), who in that year with William Brownrigg, a fellow native of Whitehaven, Cumberland, leased the right to mine...
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    13s. 4d. (roughly equivalent to £212,366 in 2023) was made by Sir Joseph William Copley in 1881, and the interest from that amount is used to pay for the...
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    Extracted from sundry letters between Benjamin Franklin, LL. D. F. R. S. William Brownrigg, M. D. F. R. S. and the Reverend Mr. Farish". Philosophical Transactions...
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    March 22 – Samuel Gotthold Lange, German poet (d. 1781) March 24 – William Brownrigg, doctor and scientist (d. 1800) April 2 – Job Baster, Dutch naturalist...
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    be made from iron, firstly in pans 7 ft (2.1 m) by 8 ft (2.4 m). William Brownrigg writing in 1748, in his ‘Book of Common Salt’, shows a wood-cut of...
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    investigated gases during this period include Robert Boyle, Stephen Hales, William Brownrigg, Antoine Lavoisier, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, and John Dalton. "In...
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  • from several scientists including: David Macbride, John Pringle, William Brownrigg (regarded carbonated water to have an acidulous taste), Stephen Hales...
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    Jourbert leased the property to William Salmon Deliotte until 1856. Between 1856 and 1860, Joubert instructed William Brownrigg to survey the first subdivision...
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    was fitted at Deptford between August and November 1803. Commander William Brownrigg commissioned her there in October, for the Downs. On 8 December 1804...
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  • Derby paints A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery. Copley Medal: William Brownrigg; Edward Delaval; Henry Cavendish July 6 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born...
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    the newly-appointed governor, Sir Robert Brownrigg. He sold property inherited from his godfather, William Jackson, to raise the necessary capital for...
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  • Brownrigg, 1st Baronet (1758–1833) Colonel R. J. Brownrigg Sir Robert William Colebrooke Brownrigg, 2nd Baronet (1817–1882) Sir Henry Moore Brownrigg...
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    elected MP. William Talbot became Earl Talbot in 1761. In 1765 he leased some land near Merthyr Tydfil to Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg at £100 p...
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  • March 22 – Samuel Gotthold Lange, German poet (d. 1781) March 24 – William Brownrigg, doctor and scientist (d. 1800) April 2 – Job Baster, Dutch naturalist...
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