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Edward Baines
(1774–1774) Edward Baines was born on 5 February 1774 at Walton-le-Dale in Lancashire, the son of Richard Baines and his wife Jane. He died in Leeds on 3 August 1848. ...
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The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...Baines, Edward ( 1774–1848 ), proprietor and editor of the Whig newspaper the Leeds Mercury from 1801 , when he bought the copyright, goodwill, and materials of the printing business from his former employers Binns and Brown, booksellers and publishers of Leeds (having completed his apprenticeship with them in 1797 ). He had three sons— Matthew Talbot , Edward , and Thomas —all of whom worked at the newspaper at various times, Edward ( 1800–90 ) becoming editor in 1818 and knighted in 1880 . The 13‐year‐old Charlotte Brontë satirizes Edward...
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The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
..., Edward ( 1774–1774 ) Edward Baines was born on 5 February 1774 at Walton-le-Dale in Lancashire, the son of Richard Baines and his wife Jane. He died in Leeds on 3 August 1848 . He was educated at Hawkshead school and Preston grammar school, and then in 1790 he was apprenticed to a printer in Preston, where he worked until 1794 . He moved to Leeds and found work with the Leeds Mercury , which he bought in March 1801 , then aged twenty-seven. Contrary to normal practice, Baines wrote political editorials for the Mercury , making the paper the...
Edward Baines
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David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...villages and hamlets grew as well as the towns, with houses clustered in folds or built along new streets, their upper ranges of mullioned windows casting light on the looms. The traditional dual occupation of the weaver–farmer flourished well into the Victorian period, and Edward Baines ( 1800–90 ) reported that as late as 1859 the number of woollen weavers who were outworkers equalled that of the men who worked at powerlooms in factories. However, the great rise in the national population meant that the domestic weavers were increasingly wage‐earners with...
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Anthony C. Baines and Edward H. Tarr
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)
...is widely known in Europe and Asia. In organs, the piston is a device for changing a pre-set selection of stops, by means of a pushbutton placed above or below the manuals or by the pedalboard. The mechanism facilitates rapid changes in registration. Anthony C. Baines / Edward H. Tarr /R ...
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