| 词条 | William Ewart (British politician) | |
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| align = right | image1 = Hampton Library.JPG | width1 = 200 | alt1 = A three storey brown brick building with a cupola, and a single storey extension on the left, the foreground is a green lawn | caption1 = Ewart's Hampton home is now Hampton library (the extension on the left is modern) | image2 = Hampton Library plaque.jpeg | alt2 = A Blue plaque on a brick wall with the words "John Beard C1717 - 1791 Singer and William Ewart 1798 - 1861 Promoter of Public Libraries | width2 = 162 | caption2 = Blue Plaque on Hampton Library to William Ewart, Hampton, London }}William Ewart (1 May 1798 – 23 January 1869) was a British politician.[1] In 1863, Ewart conceived the idea of a Blue plaque to commemorate a link between a location and a famous person or event, serving as a historical marker. It is the oldest such scheme in the world.[2] LifeEwart was born in Liverpool on 1 May 1798. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, gaining the Newdigate prize for English verse. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1827, and the next year entered Parliament for the borough of Bletchingley in Surrey, serving until 1830. He subsequently sat for Liverpool from 1830 to 1837, for Wigan from 1839 to 1841, and for Dumfries Burghs from 1841 until his retirement from public life in 1868. He died at his home, Broadleas House, near Devizes, Wiltshire, on 23 January 1869. Ewart, who was an advanced liberal in politics, was responsible during his long political career for many useful measures. In 1834 he successfully carried a bill to abolish hanging in chains, and in 1837 he was successful in getting an act passed to abolish capital punishment for cattle-stealing and other similar offences. In 1850 he carried a bill for establishing free libraries supported out of public rates, and he was instrumental in getting the Metric Weights and Measures Act 1864 passed to legalise the use of the metric system. He remained a strong advocate for the abolition of capital punishment, and on his motion in 1864, a Royal Commission was appointed to consider the subject on which he sat.[3] Other reforms which he advocated and which were carried out included an annual statement on education, and the examination of candidates for the civil service and army. He was a close friend of the Revd William Gaskell and his wife, the writer Elizabeth Gaskell, and the couple often stayed at Broadleas House. Ewart's daughter, Mary, was Elizabeth Gaskell's close confidante. See also
GalleryReferences1. ^{{cite DNB|author=Boase, George Clement|authorlink=George Clement Boase|wstitle=Ewart, William|volume=18|pages=91–92}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/about-blue-plaques/history-of-blue-plaques/ |publisher=English Heritage |title=Blue Plaques |accessdate=6 September 2016}} 3. ^{{cite ODNB|first=S. M.|last=Farrell|title=Ewart, William (1798–1869)|id=9011|access_date=28 Dec 2009}} Notes
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| title = Member of Parliament for Bletchingley | years = 1828–1830 | with = Charles Tennyson | before = Hon. William Lamb Charles Tennyson | after = Robert William Mills Charles Tennyson }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Liverpool | years = 1830 – 1837 | with = Isaac Gascoyne to May 1831 | with2 = Evelyn Denison May 1831 – October 1831 | with3 = Viscount Sandon | before = William Huskisson Isaac Gascoyne | after = Cresswell Cresswell Viscount Sandon }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Wigan | years = 1839 – 1841 | with = Charles Strickland Standish | before = Richard Potter Charles Strickland Standish | after = Peter Greenall Thomas Bright Crosse }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Dumfries Burghs | years = 1841 – 1868 | before = Matthew Sharpe | after = Robert Jardine }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ewart, William}} 21 : 1798 births|1869 deaths|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies|UK MPs 1826–30|UK MPs 1830–31|UK MPs 1831–32|UK MPs 1832–35|UK MPs 1835–37|UK MPs 1837–41|UK MPs 1841–47|UK MPs 1847–52|UK MPs 1852–57|UK MPs 1857–59|UK MPs 1859–65|UK MPs 1865–68|Politicians from Liverpool|British anti–death penalty activists|Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford|People educated at Eton College|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Wigan |
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