Thorpe, John Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...represented in the volume has shown that many were built before or soon after his birth, and that Thorpe was surveying existing buildings rather than designing new ones. A few of the designs do not describe any known house of the period, and so may be original, but there is no documentary evidence that Thorpe was an architect. Dictionary of National Biography ; The Dictionary of Art ; The Book of Architecture of John Thorpe in Sir John Soane's Museum , ed. John Summerson ...
Thorpe, John (c.1565–1655?) Reference library
Anthony Quiney
The Oxford Companion to Architecture
..., John ( c .1565–1655? ) English land surveyor and architect . Famously laying the first stone of Kirby Hall as a child, where his father presumably was the master mason, Thorpe served in the Office of Works as a clerk at the royal palaces ( 1583–1601 ). Thereafter he surveyed many royal estates, but expressed an interest in architecture through compiling a book of house plans. Some are surveys of existing buildings, but a few are Thorpe’s own designs, including Thornton College, Lincolnshire ( c .1607–10 ), Somerhill, Kent ( c .1610–13 ), Audley...
Thorpe, John. (c.1565) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
...J. Summerson : ‘John Thorpe and the Thorpes of Kingscliffe’, Archit. Rev. [London], cvi (1949), pp. 291–301 J. Summerson : Architecture in Britain, 1530–1830 , Pelican Hist. A. (Harmondsworth, 1953, rev. 7–1983) J. Summerson , ed.: ‘The Book of Architecture of John Thorpe in Sir John Soane's Museum’, Walpole Soc. , xl (1966) [whole issue] D. L. Roberts : ‘ John Thorpe's Designs for Dowsby Hall and the Red Hall, Bourne’ , Lincs Hist. & Archaeol ., viii (1973), pp. 13–34 K. J. Höltgen : ‘An Unknown Manuscript Translation by John Thorpe of du Cerceau's...
Thorpe, John (1565–c.1655) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
..., John ( c . 1565– c .1655 ) English land- and building-surveyor (son of master-mason Thomas Thorpe ( fl. 1570–96), involved in building at Kirby Hall, Northants.), who also appears to have designed (though rarely supervised) buildings. His book of plans (preserved in Sir John Soane ’s Museum, London) containing surveys and projects for country-houses. He probably designed Thornton College, Lincs. ( c .1607–10), the outer court at Audley End, Essex ( c .1615), Aston Hall, Warwicks. (1618–35), perhaps Dowsby Hall, Lincs. (after 1610), and Somerhill,...
Thorpe, (John) Jeremy (1929–2014) Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
..., (John) Jeremy ( 1929–2014 ) . Liberal leader. Son of a Conservative MP, Thorpe was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was president of the Union. He began a legal career but in 1959 was elected as a Liberal for North Devon, succeeding Grimond as party leader in 1967 . A flamboyant and entertaining leader, his party slumped badly in 1970 , reduced to six seats, but recovered to fourteen at the first election of 1974 . He was forced to resign as leader in 1976 after bizarre allegations, involving homosexual relationships, the...
John Thorpe
Sonnets Reference library
Michael Dobson
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
... text of the Sonnets, published by Thomas Thorpe , is on the whole a good one, though its punctuation is demonstrably not authorial (two recognizably different compositors display quite different preferences) and an unusual recurrent misprint of ‘their’ for ‘thy’, found nowhere else in the canon, suggests that the edition was printed from a manuscript not in Shakespeare’s own handwriting. Shakespeare’s Sonnets , however, was Shakespeare’s least reprinted quarto: its contents reappeared only in 1640 , in John Benson ’s pirated volume Poems: Written by W....
A Lover’s Complaint Reference library
Michael Dobson
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...until the 1960s before many scholars were willing to concede that Shakespeare had even written it. Most editors of the Sonnets, considering their publication to have been unauthorized, omitted this poem, believing it to have been an inferior work foisted on Shakespeare by Thomas Thorpe . It was only after Kenneth Muir and MacDonald P. Jackson independently vindicated the poem’s authenticity in 1964 and 1965 that more commentators began to find the poem of interest, particularly in relation to the Sonnets it follows. It was pointed out that in placing...
Labour History Quick reference
John L. Halstead
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... ( 1963 ), which is excellent in all respects. The starting point for Labour Party history is Henry Pelling, A Short History of the Labour Party ( 1961 ), now brought up to date by Alastair J. Reid (12th edn, 2005 ); but a good single‐volume history of the party is Andrew Thorpe , A History of the British Labour Party (3rd edn, 2008 ). The distinctive features of the party outside England can be explored through Deian Hopkin , Duncan Tanner , and Chris Williams (eds), The Labour Party in Wales ( 2000 ); and much about Scotland will emerge from...
20a The History of the Book in Britain, c.1475–1800 Reference library
Andrew Murphy
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...), Francis Meres praised his contemporary for his work in the theatre, and commented favourably on Shakespeare’s ‘sugred sonnets’, then in circulation only among the poet’s ‘private friends’. These private texts became a public commodity a little more than a decade later when *Thorpe —with or without the poet’s consent—published Shake-speares Sonnets ( 1609 ), thus circulating the poems to a wholly new audience. For some writers, MS circulation was the dominant mode of publication for much of their work. Indeed, although Donne’s poetry was well known within...
44 The History of the Book in Australia Reference library
Ian Morrison
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...some lingered into the 1970s , they ceased to play a significant part. Robertson’s Monthly Book Circular came to an end in 1891 , and when Walch’s Literary Intelligencer closed in 1915 the Australian book trade found itself without a local journal. In 1921 , D. W. *Thorpe started the Australian Stationery and Fancy Goods Journal , forerunner of the Australian Bookseller and Publisher . Art publishing gathered momentum during World War I with Thomas Lothian’s production in 1916 of two lavish books, The Art of Frederick McCubbin and Ida...
Landscape History: The Countryside Quick reference
H. S. A. Fox
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...Hoskins was the pioneer work. A few scholars (and it is a few) had previously touched upon particular aspects of the subject: here we might pick out the work of F. W. Seebohm , William Page , O. G. S. Crawford , H. C. Darby , M. R. G. Conzen , Arthur Raistrick , and Harry Thorpe , all of whom were acknowledged by Hoskins. But it was Hoskins who pioneered the subject in the grand manner, as is clear from the 1988 edition of his book, with a new introduction and commentary by Christopher Taylor . It is useful, as an aid to disentangling the complexities...
Jeremy Thorpe
Thomas Thorpe
Paul Jenkins
Gerrard's Cross
Northanger Abbey
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