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232:. The choice of a lecture on steam engines may have been of some significance, as Lincoln became a leading centre for the manufacture of steam engines in the 1840s and 1850s. On the following Friday a Grand Ball was held in City Assembly Rooms on the High Street to raise money for the Mechanics' Institute and attended by the Earl of Yarborough, local MPs and leading citizens of Lincoln
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The 1830s was the great age of political reform and this is reflected in many statements made in connection with the
Mechanics' Institute. Politics and peligion were to be avoided and there were disputes over views expressed in the Journals which were subscribed to for the institute's Library. The
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Requisition of 8 Aldermen and 176 Inhabitants of the Cityâ on Thursday 7th October 1833 at the Guildhall. The proposal was that a âMechanics' Institution be established in the City of Lincoln, having branches in the County, with accommodation for Lectures, Philosophical Apparatus,
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Lincoln Mechanics' Institute in 1834 and shortly afterwards was on the Committee of the Institute. He probably continued on the Committee until he left Lincoln in 1838. His prison rhyme the "Purgatory of Suicides" (1845) runs to 944 stanzas. He is commemorated in Lincoln by the Thomas
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President Sir Edw. Ffrench Bromhead, at the close of the lecture, said that Mr. G. Boole would go on in the course he had commenced, and one day be an honor to Lincoln, was we believe echoed by every breast We trust that many youths present would also feel the
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Mechanics' Institute continued in the Greyfriars until 1863, when it was given larger premises in the City Assembly Rooms on the High Street, along with the Library and Museum. In 1892 the City gave notice to the Mechanics' Institute as it wished to use part of the Assembly rooms as the City
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Committee of the Mechanicsâ Institute from 1834 until it moved to the Buttermarket in 1862, Seely was an industrialist and Liberal politician, who served as an MP for Lincoln from 1847 to 1848 and again from 1861 to 1885. He was born in Lincoln and became one of the wealthiest
136:. At the time of its creation in 1833 it was merged with the Lincoln Literary Society. The undercroft contained schoolrooms, a library and a museum. The undercroft was leased to the Institute by the City Council and in 1862 the city council required the undercroft for the expansion of the
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spring of laudable ambition touched within them, while listening to honourable testimonies and encomiums thus given to genius and industry. The noble Patron (Earl of Yarborough) also gave a handsome testimony to the powers of the youthful lecturer.
415:, the bishop. He took part in the local campaign for early closing and reduction of shop workers hours in Lincoln and also the establishment of the Penitent Females Home. In 1847, with the Rev Edward Larken and others, he set up a
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though some were known by different names, including Literary and Scientific Institutes, Reading Rooms, Useful Knowledge Societies, Athenaeums and Lyceums. However, after the creation of public libraries following the
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degenerating into Radical club-house, and that free-trade and revolutionary doctrines are promulgated in defiance of the wholesome rule forbidding the introduction of politics and controversial divinity.
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industrialists of the Victorian era. He was a miller who built a large mill on the Brayford. He purchased coal-mines in Derbyshire and eventually purchased extensive estates in the Isle of Wight.
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and the establishment of secondary and technical schools, Mechanics' Institutes either closed or changed into other institutions. Today only one Mechanicsâ Institute remains in Lincolnshire, at
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where he took over Hall's Academy before opening his own âBoarding School for Young Gentlemenâ in 1840, at Pottergate, Lincoln. Boole became a prominent local figure in Lincoln, an admirer of
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teacher of mechanical and geometrical drawing, with view of affording to artizans and apprentices the means of making themselves acquainted with the use of a pencil their respective occupations
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had run his first rail excursion from Leicester to Loughborough). Also in 1846 the Mechanics' Institute, reflecting the growth of engineering in Lincoln, announced that they were appointing a
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That the establishment of Mechanics' Institutions has been productive of much good, by extending useful information, and by ameliorating and improving the character of the working classes.
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489:âs engineering company and played a prominent part in Lincoln politics. He was Chairman of the Lincoln Corn and Market Hall Company until his death in 1858.
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