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In 1795 Grey advised Bigge on an intended anti-war meeting for the county of
Northumberland, with a view to keeping the radicals at arm's length: for prudence, no criticism of ministers, and no reform proposals. Bigge prepared the ground, with handbills. When the meeting came about, in December,
257:. Money left to the Bigge family exceeded £100,000; according to James Losh, writing in his diary after news of the death, the bequests were some compensation for having had to put up with a "tyrannical miser". The
158:, an outspoken student radical; his own views tended to a middle position between the radical and loyalist extremes, as did those of Wyvill and some other prominent reformers. He corresponded with
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Philip
Rundell withdrew capital from the firm in 1823. He died in 1827, leaving a fortune that went off the probate scale, which stopped at £1,000,000. Over half the estate went to
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The important plate business was largely outsourced to
William Bateman II, in 1834. Rundell, Bridge & Co. stopped trading in 1843. The partnership was dissolved in 1845.
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Punishment and Profit: the reports of
Commissioner John Bigge on the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822–1823; their origins, nature and significance
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ostensibly to vote a loyal address, the local Whig grandees successfully took it over. A reported near 5,000 voted petitions against recent legislation.
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in 1795, and played a significant role there. He was the main proponent of the New
Institution at Newcastle, which began in 1802 as a lectureship for
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Campbell; Samuel Carter Hall; Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton; Theodore Edward Hook; Thomas Hood; William Harrison Ainsworth (1817).
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From a prosperous family in business, with landowning interests, Bigge has been described as a "wealthy associate" of
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87:(1766–1851) was an English political writer and activist. In his later life, he was a partner in the goldsmiths
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The business was involved with prominent artists. In particular, the "Shield of Achilles" project began with
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He was the son of Thomas Bigge (died 1791) of Ludgate Hill, and his wife Elizabeth Rundell, elder sister of
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in 1849, with a portrait of Flaxman. The firm made a new crown for
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The Friends of Peace: Anti-war Liberalism in England, 1793–1815
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which was at this time a leading Whig journal in the region.
135:. They both wrote political tracts, from the outbreak of the
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Grey, Charles (1764–1845), of Falloden and Howick, Northumb.
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Literary and Philosophical Society and New Institution
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300:. Georgiana married George Scovell and was mother of
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