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Ellesmere was born in London on the 1st of January 1800. He was the second son of the 1st duke of Sutherland.
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Excerpt from Guide to Northern Archaeology: By the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, Edited for the Use of English Readers Angles, Jutes, and other inhabitants of the North took pos session of, and settled in, not only parts of England, but also the Scotland of our days at all events that portion of an cient' Northumberland, which is now considered as part of the kingdom of Scotland. The connexion of Scandinavia with Ca ledonia, however, is undoubtedly much older than the conquest of England by the anglo-saxons. Before that event took place, the Scandinavians had possessed themselves of a considerable part of the lowlands of Scotland, where they probably were most generally known by the name of Picts. Agreeably to the most ancient heroic poems of the Scottish Highlands (in elu cidating which much light is to be obtained from Northern sources) the descents of the Northmen in Scotland, before they got a firm footing there, were chicfiy made from the Orkneys, which from time immemorial seem to have been inhabited by people of Scandinavian origin. A great portion of the Picts were for a length of time held in subjection by the monarchs of Northumberland, of anglo-saxon or Northern origin. Dr. John Jamieson's masterly philological investigations have proved, that the ancient Lowland Scotch and generally speaking the col loquial dialect of Scotland is more frequently to be traced to Northern, than to anglo-saxon sources. Mr. Robert Ia mieson has proved a similar result, in respect to the remark able affinity both of language'and poetry, which, prevails be tween the Scottish and Danish Ballads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Ellesmere was born in London on the 1st of January 1800. He was the second son of the 1st duke of Sutherland.
He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford.
After graduation he entered parliament soon after attaining his majority as member for the pocket borough of Bletchingly in Surrey. He afterwards sat for Sutherlandshire and for South Lancashire, which he represented when he was elevated to the peerage as earl of Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley in 1846.
Appointed a lord of the treasury in 1827, he held the post of chief secretary for Ireland from 1828 till July 1830, when he became secretary-at-war for a short time. His claims to remembrance are founded chiefly on his services to literature and the fine arts. Before he was twenty he printed for private circulation a volume of poems, which he followed up after a short interval by the publication of a translation of Goethe's Faust, one of the earliest that appeared in England, with some translations of German lyrics and a few original poems.
In 1839 he visited the Mediterranean and the Lloly Land. His impressions of travel were recorded in his very agreeably written Mediterranean Sketches (1843), and in the notes to a poem entitled The Pilgrimage.
He published several other works in prose and verse, all displaying a fine literary taste. His littrary reputation secured for him the position of rector of Aberdeen University in 1841. Lord Ellesmere was a munificent and yet discriminating patron of artists.
To the splendid collection of pictures which he inherited from his great-uncle, the 3rd duke of Bridgewater, he made numerous additions, and he built a noble gallery to which the public were allowed free access.
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On the religious issues of the day, he held that the state and its institutions should remain Anglican, but that - provided that was done - other sects should be conciliated as far as was then possible.
In politics he was a moderate Conservative of independent views, as was shown by his supporting the proposal for establishing the university of London, by his making and carrying a motion for the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, and by his advocating free trade long before Sir Robert Peel yielded on the question.