| 词条 | James Heywood (philanthropist) |
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| name = James Heywood | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 28 May 1810 | birth_place = | death_date = 17 October 1897 | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma mater = Trinity College, Cambridge | employer = | occupation = Politician | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = Anne Kennedy Escher | children = 1 daughter | parents = Nathaniel Heywood Ann Percival | relatives = Thomas Percival (grandfather) Benjamin Heywood (brother) }} James Heywood (28 May 1810 – 17 October 1897) was a British MP, philanthropist and social reformer. Early lifeJames Heywood was born on 28 May 1810 in Manchester, Lancashire. He was the son of banker Nathaniel and Ann (née Percival) Heywood, and was the brother of Benjamin Heywood and Thomas Heywood and grandson of Thomas Percival. He matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge and was admitted to the Inner Temple. CareerHeywood was a member of the Manchester Statistical Society, of which he was president between 1853–55,{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} and published a study of the population of Miles Platting in Manchester.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and served as their President from 1875 to 1877.[1] He was also interested in geology and in 1840 donated some hundred specimens to help form the mineral collection of Manchester Museum.[2] In 1835, he became the first president of the Manchester Athenaeum and he was also involved with the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.[3] Heywood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1839. His candidature citation read: "James Heywood, Esq of Trinity College, Cambridge, residing at 17 Cork Street, London, Barrister of the Inner Temple, author of a Report on the Geology of the Coal District of South Lancashire, published in the Transactions of the British Association, & also of a Report on the state of the population in Miles Platting, Manchester, published in the Journal of the Statistical Society of London; a gentleman much attached to science, being desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society, we the undersigned, do, from our personal knowledge, recommend him as deserving of that honor, & as likely to be a useful & valuable member"[4] Heywood was Liberal MP for North Lancashire from 1847 to 1857. He campaigned for free libraries, museums and art galleries, university entrance for dissenters and university degrees for women. He was President of the Sunday Society which campaigned for leisure activities to be available on Sundays. Heywood opened the first free library in Kensington at Notting Hill Gate in the 1870s, a decade prior to the 1889 dedication of the Kensington Central Library in the Kensington Vestry Hall.[5] Personal life and deathHeywood married on 11 June 1853 Anne (née Kennedy) Escher, the daughter of John Kennedy and widow of Albert Escher; they had a daughter Anne Sophia. They lived in London.[6] Heywood died on 17 October 1897. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=486 |title=Royal Statistical Society List of Past Presidents |publisher=Royal Statistical Society |accessdate=5 August 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317044817/http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=486 |archivedate=17 March 2012 |df= }} {{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}2. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/rocksandminerals/|title = The Manchester Museum - Rocks and Minerals|publisher = Manchester University|accessdate = 5 August 2010|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120225121221/http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/rocksandminerals/|archivedate = 25 February 2012|df = dmy-all}} 3. ^{{cite book |title=The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class |editor1-first=Janet |editor1-last=Wolff |editor2-first=John |editor2-last=Seed |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-71902-461-0 |chapter=Class, culture and control: the Sheffield Athenaeum movement and the middle class 1847-64 |page=88 |first=Alan |last=White}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url = http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo==%27EC%2F1839%2F08%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl|title = Library and Archive catalogue|publisher = The Royal Society|accessdate = 5 August 2010}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Denny|first1=Barbara|last2=Starren|first2=Carolyn|title=Kensington Past|date=1998|publisher=Historical Publications|location=London, U.K.|isbn=9780948667503|oclc=42308455|page=152}} 6. ^{{cite web|url = http://www.thepeerage.com/p35594.htm|title = James Heywood|publisher = thePeerage.com|accessdate = 5 August 2010}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=February 2013}} External links
| before = John Wilson-Patten | before2 = John Talbot Clifton }}{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for North Lancashire | years = 1847 – 1857 | with = John Wilson-Patten }}{{s-aft | after = John Wilson-Patten | after2 = Lord Cavendish of Keighley }}{{s-end}}{{Royal Statistical Society presidents}}{{FRS 1839}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Heywood, James}} 11 : 1810 births|1897 deaths|Politicians from Manchester|People from London|Fellows of the Royal Society|Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society|Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|British social reformers|UK MPs 1847–52|UK MPs 1852–57|Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge |
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