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2 de nov. de 2011 · By this time George was attending Bainbridge's Commercial Academy in Lincoln which he had entered on 10 September 1828. This school did not provide the type of education he would have wished but it was all his parents could afford.
- Creation of The Lincoln Mechanics' Institute.
- Later History at The Greyfriars
- At The Buttermarket and Dissolution of The Mechanics’ Institute
- Notable Members of The Mechanics' Institute
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The lead in establishing the Mechanics' Institute was taken by the Lincoln Literary Society and supported by the Earl of Yarborough and his son Charles Anderson-Pelham M.P., a reforming Whig politician keen on the idea that That the establishment of Mechanics' Institutions has been productive of much good, by extending useful information, and by am...
The 1830s was the great age of political reform and this is reflected in many statements made in connection with the Mechanics' Institute. Politics and peligion were to be avoided and there were disputes over views expressed in the Journals which were subscribed to for the institute's Library. The Earl of Yarborough and Sir Edward ffrench Bromhead ...
The Mechanics' Institute continued in the Greyfriars until 1863, when it was given larger premises in the City Assembly Rooms on the High Street, along with the Library and Museum. In 1892 the City gave notice to the Mechanics' Institute as it wished to use part of the Assembly rooms as the City Public Library which moved to Free School Lane in 190...
George Boole
George Boole must be considered the most important person associated with the Lincoln Mechanics' Institute. In 1854 he published The Laws of Thought which provided the basis for Boolean Algebra and the framework for modern Information Technology.Boole was born and lived in nearby Silver street. He did not attend the grammar school but Bainbridge's commercial academy in St Michael's Lane before training as a teacher. His father was the first Curator of the Mechanics’ Institute. George Boole ga...
Charles Seely
A member of the Committee of the Mechanics’ Institute from 1834 until it moved to the Buttermarket in 1862, Seely was an industrialist and Liberal politician, who served as an MP for Lincoln from 1847 to 1848 and again from 1861 to 1885. He was born in Lincoln and became one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Victorian era. He was a miller who built a large mill on the Brayford. He purchased coal-mines in Derbyshire and eventually purchased extensive estates in the Isle of Wight.
Thomas Michael Keyworth
Described as an "Ultra-Radical", Keyworth was a Lincoln wine merchant, who was the business partner of Charles Seely from 1835 onwards and involved in the opening of Lincoln's first steam mill in 1836. He was a partner in Clayton & Shuttleworth’s engineering company and played a prominent part in Lincoln politics. He was Chairman of the Lincoln Corn and Market Hall Company until his death in 1858.
Acton M and Roberts S. (2019), Charles Seely of Lincoln. Liberalism and Making Money in Victorian EnglandKindle Publishing.Lesley Clarke George Boole and the Lincoln Mechanics’ Institute, "George Boole’s Lincoln, 1815-49", Ed . Andrew Walker for the Survey of Lincoln, 2019.English Heritage (2017) Mechanics’ Institutes: Introductions to Heritage Assets, December 2017.Russell Rex C. (1994) Living and Learning in Lindsey, Lincolnshire: 1830-1890 - A History of Adult Education in North Lincolnshire. The University of Hull.There are numerous reports on the Lincoln Mechanics’ Institute and its lectures and classes in the Stamford Mercury and Lincolnshire Chronicle, which can be accessed through British Newspaper Archi...
Bainbridge's Commercial Academy: Spouse: Mary Everest Boole: Era: 19th-century philosophy: Region: Western philosophy: School: British algebraic logic: Institutions: Lincoln Mechanics' Institute Free School Lane, Lincoln University College Cork
In 1828, Boole entered Bainbridge’s Commercial Academy in Fish Hill, Lincoln. A commercial school was the most his parents could afford but, rather than accept its limitations, George forged ahead with his Latin, Greek and algebra, and taught himself French, German and later Italian.
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6 de nov. de 2023 · Bainbridge's Commercial Academy: Spouse(s) Mary Everest Boole: Era: 19th-century philosophy: Region: Western philosophy: School: British algebraic logic: Institutions: Lincoln Mechanics' Institute Free School Lane, Lincoln University College Cork
16 de dic. de 2016 · This paper takes the form of a dialogue aiming to bring to life the friendship and mathematical communion between Boole and Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871). Brief explanatory narration by the mature De Morgan intersperses the speeches of the young Boole and young De Morgan, which are based on the correspondence between them over two decades.
