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Born at Matlock in Derbyshire, Cumming was educated at Oakham Grammar School , and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, taking the degree of MA, and entering holy orders in 1835.

In 1841 he was appointed vice-principal of King William's College , Castletown, in the Isle of Man, and this position he held until 1856Events January 8 Borax is discovered ( John Veatch). January 29 Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross February 18 The American Party ( Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former Presi. During this period his leisure time was devoted to a study of the geology and archaeology of the island. The results were published in a classic volume The Isle of Man: Its History, Physical, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Legendary published in 18481848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). Events Sri Lanka The Revolution of 1848 (qv. a series of widespread but failed struggles for more liberal governments, from Brazil to Hungary. January 24 California gold rush: Jame.

In 1856Events January 8 Borax is discovered ( John Veatch). January 29 Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross February 18 The American Party ( Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former Presi he became master of King Edward's Grammar School at LichfieldLichfield is a small city in Staffordshire, 110 miles northwest of London and 14 miles north of Birmingham. Famous for its three spired Cathedral, Lichfield lies in a pleasant country, on a small stream draining eastward to the Trent, with low hills to th, in 1858Events January 14 Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Because of the involvement of French emigres living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France but the empe warden and professor of classical literature and geology in Queens College, Birmingham , in 1862Events January-March January 10 End of term for John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford. January 30 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. February 1 Julia Ward Howe's " Battle Hy rector of Mellis , in SuffolkThis article is about the English county. For other uses, see Suffolk (disambiguation). Suffolk (pronounced 'suffuk') is a large, low-lying county in East Anglia in eastern England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and, and in 1867Events January 8 African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia January 11 Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again January 30 Emperor Komei of Japan dies. Crown Prince Mutsuhito is expected to become the next Emperor of J vicar of St Johns, Bethnal GreenBethnal Green is a place in London, England in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The former Bethnal Green Infirmary, later the London County Council Bethnal Green Hospital, stood opposite Cambridge Heath railway station. The hospital closed as a public, London. He died in London on the 21st of September 1868.

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