Lives of Illustrious ShoemakersWinks, W. E. (William Edward)
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Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers
Winks, W. E. (William Edward)
Shoemakers -- Biography
Pounds, John, begins teaching poor children, 153, 154
birth and childhood, 152, 153
gratitude of his old scholars, 156
his death, 157
his workroom described, 153, 154
kindness to his scholars, 156
memorials of, in Portsmouth, 158
method of teaching, 155-157
the roasted potato, 155
Pressgang, 53
"Purgatory of suicides," 179, 183
Purver, Anthony, 226
"Quarterly Review," 227, 243
on Baptist Missionary Society, 141, 142
Quarterlies, the Edinburgh and London, 75, 83, 84
Ragged schools, John Pounds a founder of, 151, 152
Raikes, Robert and Sophia Cooke start first Sunday-school, 66
Reading, growth of about 1790;
Lackington's remarks on, 43
Rigby, Richard, ballad-writer, 227, 228
Robinson, Henry Crabb, Diary, 206, 257, 266
Rousseau, Jean Baptiste, 209
Rowe, J. B., 228
Russell, Admiral, 22
Sachs, Hans, the Nightingale of the Reformation, 203-205
Sandon, Lord, and Thomas Cooper, 188
Savage, Richard, 230
Scott, Rev. Thomas, the Commentator, and Carey, 113, 114
Service, David, 242
Sheaf, Mr., Shoemaker and artist, and John Pounds, 151, 157
Sheffey, Daniel, of Virginia, 276
Shenstone and Woodhouse, 228
Sherman, Roger, 274, 275
Shillitoe, Thomas, 251, 255
Shoemakers and literature, 75
Shoemaker's holiday, the, 227
Shoemakers, large proportion of eminent men, 189, 190
Shovel, Captain, knighted by William III., 22
Shovel, Cloudesley, made captain, 21
Shovel, Sir C., admiral of the _Blue_ and _Red_ and _White_, 22
at battle of "La Hogue," 22
at battle of Malaga, 23
at capture of Barcelona, 23
at the siege of Waterford, 22
death by drowning, 23, 24
epitaph, 17
exploit as cabin boy, 19, 20
exploit as lieutenant, 20, 21
governor of Greenwich Hospital, _note_, 24
M.P. for Rochester, _note_, 24
portraits of, 17, 24
presented to Queen Anne, 23
William III.'s opinion of, 22
Sibly, Dr. Ebenezer, 282, 323
Sibly, Manoah, 266
Smerdon, Rev. T., prepares Gifford for Oxford, 81
Smith, Sidney, 75, 130, 145
Sons of shoemakers, 209
Souters of Selkirk, 213-215
Southey, Robert, 230, 255
Southey's article in "Quarterly Review" on Carey, etc., _note_, 141, 143, 145
Struthers, John, 243
Sturgeon, William, electrician, 264, 265
Sunday-school, the first, 66, 139
Sutcliffe, Rev. John, the friend of Carey, 136, 138, 140
Swift and Partridge, 222
Tyerman's Life of Wesley, 233
Toplady and Olivers, 233
Tinlinn, Watt, 214, 215
Timmins, Rev. T., remarks on John Pounds, 154-156
Tichbourne, Sir Thomas, Lord Mayor of London, 227
Thorp, John, 255-7
Thomas, Mr., Carey's colleague in first mission work, 141, 142
Value of books in 1775, _note_, 39
Warton, Thomas, and John Bennet, 229
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