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# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Orders to make a Garden

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বাগান করিবার হুকুম।
আমি এক বাগান করিতে চাহি।
সাহেব কত বড় বাগান করিবেন ও কি২ গাছ রুপিবেন।
বাগান বিঘা দশেক ভূমি হবে আধা শাক সবুজি ও আধা ফুল ফলারি।
সে অতিবড় বাগান হবে। মালি জন দশ বারো না হইলে তাহার কার্য্য চলিবে না।
ভাল আমি লোক দিব কিন্তু আর কি২ চাহ।
কোদালি কুড়ালি দা খুন্তি পাসান কাস্ত্যা দড়ি ডালি এ সকল চাহি।
এথায় দেখ এই মাথা২ কেয়ারি কর এবং চুকা হালিম গজরা কোপি সলগ্রাম শলুফা পালঙ্গ পিড়িঙ্গ মূলা ও আর২ যত প্রকার বীজ মিলিবে সে সকল বুন।
ORDERS TO MAKE A GARDEN.
I want to make a garden.
How large will you make the garden, Sir? and what sort of trees will you plant?
The garden will be about ten bighas of ground, half kitchen garden, and half orchard and flower garden.
That will be a very large garden. It will never be managed without ten or twelve gardeners.
Well, I will give people. What else do you want?
Spades, hatchets, bill-hooks, spuds, weeding-knives, sickles, lines, and baskets. I want all these.
Look here. Make beds here from one end to the other, and sow sorrel, cresses, carrots, cabbages, turnips, fennel, beets, the edible medicago, radishes, and what else you can get.
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ফেলাব। কিন্তু উহার বড় লতা চড়ে এত জায়গা কোথা পাইব।
কিছু ভাবনা নাই জায়গা ঢের আছে এখানে চাঙ্গি করি।
বাগানের ভিতরে এত জঙ্গল কেন কি জন্য এ কেয়ারি নিড়ান কর না।
সাহেব বড় কার্য্য আছে সব ফলের গাছ রুপিতে২ অবসর কিছু পাই না সে কারণ সকলি বন হইয়া গিয়াছে ।
কি২ গাছ রুপিয়াছ।
আম্র কাঁঠাল কামরাঙ্গা সফ্তালু তুত নেম্বু বাতাবি করঞ্চা ফলসা বাদাম আতা নেয়া ও পেয়ারা ও কত গণ্ডা ফুলের গাছ।
I will sow them; but their runners spread so far, where can we get room for them?
Don't trouble yourself about that, there is plenty of room. I will make a stage here for them.
What's the reason the garden is so foul? Why don't you weed these beds?
Sir, there is a great deal of work. We are constantly so employed in planting the fruit trees, that I have no leisure; that's the reason it is so foul.
What sort of trees have you planted?
Mangoe, jack, kamrunga, peach, mulberry, limes, shaddock, korinda, phulsa, almond, custard-apples, both the netted and the plain, guaya trees, and how many gundas of flower trees?
# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Farming Lands

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ইজারার পরামর্শ।
আমি তোমাকে এক পরামর্শ জিজ্ঞাসা করি। তুমি আমাকে সৎপরামর্শ যে হয় তাহা দেও।
FARMING LANDS.
I ask your advice about an affair. Give that advice which is good.
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আমি বাসনা করি যে ফলনা পরগণা কিছু পেষগী দিয়া ইজারা করি তুমি তাহা কি বল।
আমি কহি তোমাকে যে পেষগী দিয়া ইজারা করিবা সে মহল কেমন। তাহার রাইয়ত ভাল কি মন্দ। আর মহল আবাদি কি গরআবাদি। আর মহলে কি সংস্থান আছে। তাহা বেওরা করিয়া কহ তবে আমি তাহার পরামর্শ দি।
ভাল কহিয়াছ। তবে মহলের কথা আমি বেওরা কহি তাহা শুন। এই মহল একবার আমি ইজারা করিয়াছিলাম তাহাতে আমার লোকশান লাগে নাই যৎকিঞ্চিৎ মুনফা হইয়াছিল। রাইয়ত লোক বড় ভাল মহলে খাদ্য সুখ যথেষ্ট আর মহলের হস্তবুধহইতে হাজার টাকা কমি দেয় তুমি ইহাতে যেমত কহ তাহার যত করিব।
আচ্ছা। যদি তোমার এ মহল জানা আছে তবে লওন কর্ত্তব্য বটে কিন্তু যে পেষগীর টাকা দিবা তাহা সদরজানিব করিয়া লইবা।
ভাল ইহার মত করিয়া লইলে আর কোন পেঁচ নাই।
I have an inclination to give a little in advance, and take the farming of such a purguna. What say you about it?
I say, What sort of an estate is it, that you wish to give something in advance to have the farming of? Are the tenants good or bad? Is the estate cultivated, or not? What is there upon it? Tell me the particulars; then I'll give you advice.
Well said. Then I'll tell you the particulars of the estate. Hear it. I did farm that estate once, and lost nothing. I rather gained a little. The tenants are very good; and plenty to eat may be got on the estate. I shall give a thousand rupees less than the rent-roll: but I'll do what you say about it.
Well, if you know the estate, it is proper to take it; but advance the money with the consent of the principal officer.
Well, there will be no more difficulty about it, if I do thus.
# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Hiring Servants

Bengali Text: চাকর ভাড়াকরণ
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কথোপকথন।
চাকর ভাড়াকরণ।
সাহেব সেলাম।
সেলাম।
তুমি কেটা। তোমার বাটী কোথায়।
সাহেব আমার নাম রমজান। আমার বাটী কলিকাতায়।
কহ কি নিমিত্তে আসিয়াছ।
সাহেব আমি বেকার আছি। চাকরির চেষ্টায় আসিয়াছি।
তুমি কি কার্য্যের চাকরি করহ।
সাহেব আমি সাহেবলোকের খানসামাগিরি কায করিয়া থাকি। পূর্ব্বে খিদমতগার ছিলাম এখন খানসামাগিরি করি।
খানসামা কি কাৰ্য্য করে।
সাহেব খানসামা সাহেবলোকের খানার আয়োজন করে এবং লওয়াজেমা সমস্ত সামগ্রী খানসামার জিম্মা থাকে আর২ ছোট চাকরলোক খানসামার নীচে।
তৎকথা।
খানসামা সাহেরলোকের দরকারি কয় জন চাকর। এবং তাহারদের পদবী কি২।
সাহেব আবশ্যক চাকর এই কয় জন খানসামা খিদমতগার মসালচি বাবর্চি আবদার ভেস্তি মেহতর ধোবা হুকাবরদার বেহারা পেয়াদা চৌকিদার দরবান।
খানসামা এ সকল চাকরে কি২ কায করে।
সাহেব আপন২ ছদ্দার কায আপনি আঞ্জাম করে।
Colloquies.
HIRING SERVANTS.
Salam, Sir.
Salam.
Who are you? Where do you live?
Sir, my name is Rumjan; my house is at Calcutta.
Say, why are you come hither?
Sir, I am without work. I came to seek a place.
What service do you do?
Sir, I am accustomed to do the work of a gentleman’s Khansaman. I did the business of a Khidmutgar some time ago; now I do that of a Khansaman.
What work does a Khansaman do?
Sir, a Khansaman supplies his master’s table. All articles of furniture are under his care, and all the inferior servants also are under the Khansaman.
Continuation.
Khansaman, how many servants are necessary for a gentleman, and what are their titles?
Sir, the necessary servants are these: a Khansaman, a Khidmutgar, a Musalchee, a Cook, a Water-cooler, a Water-bearer, a Cleaner, a Washerman, a man to prepare your Hooka, Palenquin bearers, a man to go on errands, a Watchman, and a Porter.
Khansaman, what work do all these servants do?
Sir, every one does his own proper work.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cobden, Edward

​COBDEN, EDWARD, D.D. (1684–1764), divine and poet, born early in 1684, was educated and took a B. A. degree at Trinity College, Oxford; removing to King's College, ​Cambridge, he proceeded to M.A. in 1713, and again changed to Oxford for his B.D. and D.D. degrees, the last being taken in 1723. His earliest works were: 'A Letter from a Minister to his Parishioners,' London, 1718, 8vo, and ' A Poem on the Death of . . . Addison,' London, 1720, 8vo. Bishop Gibson, to whom he was chaplain, gave him the prebend of Erpingham in Lincoln Cathedral in 1721, the prebend of Buckden in 1726, resigned 1727; a prebend in St. Paul's, the united rectories of St. Austin and St. Faith, with that of Acton, Middlesex, in 1730; the chaplaincy to George II, 1730; and the archdeaconry of London, in which he succeeded Dr. Tyrwhitt, in 1742. He published nine sermons separately. One, delivered at St. James's before George II in 1748, led eventually to the resignation of his chaplaincy. He published it in self-defence in 1749, under the title ' A Persuasive to Chastity.' It had been censured, and the preacher had been lampooned in a court ballad. Dr. Whiston calls it ' that seasonable and excellent sermon ' delivered ' when crime between the sexes was at its greatest height.' In 1748 he published a volume entitled 'Poems on several Occasions,' London, 8vo, printed for the widow of a clergyman, formerly his curate. In this work he eulogises Stephen Duck's poetic fame, glorifies somebody's squirrel and a lady's canary, and laments over a dead cow. He fell from his horse in 1749, and seriously impaired his memory. In 1751 he was elected president of Sion College, and in 1752 resigned his warrant for chaplain. He says all his preferments together did not amount to 350l. a year clear. Soon after he met with losses of 2,000l. In 1753 appeared 'Concio ad Clerum,' and in 1755 'An Essay tending to promote Religion,' London, 8vo, a curious piece, half prose, half verse, clearly showing his disappointment at not having a canonry of St. Paul's to add to the archdeaconry. He speaks of his chaplaincy, and affirms that the sum total of reward received for his twenty-two years' service was one meal a fortnight and no salary. In 1756 he published 'A Poem sacred to the Memory of Queen Anne for her Bounty to the Clergy,' London, 4to. In 1757 he published a collection called 'Twenty-eight Discourses on various Subjects and Occasions,' London, 4to, and the next year, when residing at Acton, he republished the whole of his works, under the title of 'Discourses and Essays in Prose and Verse by Edward Cobden, D.D., arch-deacon of London, and lately chaplain,' &c. Cobden died on 22 April 1764. His wife, a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Jessop of Tempsford, Bedfordshire, died in 1762.
[The author's works; Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, i. 555, ii. 207, 288, 412, iii. 67, iv. 317; Nichols's Miscellaneous Poems, vii. 366; Memoir of Whiston; Cole's MS. Athenæ in Brit. Mus. Add. IMS. 5865.]
J. W.-G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cochran, William

​COCHRAN, WILLIAM (1738–1785), painter, born at Strathaven in Clydesdale, N.B., 12 Dec. 1738, came of a family of distinction in Glasgow. He received his first instruction in art in 1754 at the academy founded in Glasgow by the well-known printers, Robert and Andrew Foulis. Towards the close of 1761 he went to Italy, and became a pupil of Gavin Hamilton; there he painted several historical and mythological pictures, of which the best known were 'Daedalus and Icarus' and 'Diana and Endymion.' Not having any very great ambition, he returned to Glasgow, and devoted himself to portrait-painting, practising both in oil and in miniature; in this line of art he attained great proficiency. Among the portraits painted by him was that of William Cullen, professor in Edinburgh University, and first physician to his majesty in Scotland, which was engraved in mezzotint by Valentine Green. Cochran never exhibited his works, and seldom put his name to them; hence he is not so well known as he deserves to be. He continued to reside at Glasgow, and died there on 23 Oct. 1785, aged 47. He was buried in the cathedral in that city, where a monument was erected to his memory.
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cobbold, Richard

​COBBOLD, RICHARD (1797–1877), novelist, born in 1797 at Ipswich, the youngest but one of twenty-one children, was the son of John Cobbold of Holywells and the Cliff Brewery, Ipswich, by his second wife, Elizabeth [see Cobbold, Elizabeth], daughter of Robert Knipe of Liverpool. His grandmother on the maternal side, whose maiden name was Waller, was descended from Edmund Waller, the poet. The literary tastes of his mother probably had some influence upon the son. Richard was educated at Bury St. Edmunds under Charles the father of Bishop Blomfield, and proceeded to Caius College, Cambridge, where he gained a scholarship and graduated in 1820. After serving as curate in Ipswich he became rector of Wortham (which he held for half a century) and rural dean of Hartismere. Here he developed into a typical country parson, would ride across country at times with the hounds, and was a keen sportsman with rod and gun. For several years he acted as chaplain to the union, only asking as stipend that the children with their master and mistress should attend the Sunday services at his church. In 1822 he married the only daughter of Jeptha Waller, by whom he had three sons, one of them being the celebrated helminthologist, Thomas Spencer Cobbold, M.D. [q. v.] Cobbold is best known as the author of the 'History of Margaret Catchpole,' a novel based on the romantic adventures of a girl living in the neighbourhood of Ipswich, in whom Cobbold's father had taken a kindly interest [see Catchpole, Margaret]. For the copyright of this book he is said to have received 1,000l. but Cobbold did not make much money by his other literary ventures, which were mostly undertaken for charitable purposes. Thus his ​account of 'Mary Ann Wellington' brought in no less than 600l, much of it in small gifts, for the subject of the book, who was afterwards placed in an almshouse by Cobbold's exertions.
Cobbold was of unwearied activity both in mind and body, never without a pen, pencil, or paint-brush in his hand, and a great reader. To large conversational powers he added a quick apprehension, a remarkable memory, lively humour, and wide and generous sympathies. He was devoted to the church of England, always ready to impress its doctrines on others by example and exhortation. He died on 5 Jan. 1877, in his eightieth year.
His works range from 1827 to 1858. Besides several religious pieces, sermons, and addresses, they are chiefly:
* 'Zenon the Martyr,' 3 vols. 1827.
* 'Mary Ann Wellington, the Soldier's Daughter, Wife, and Widow,' 1846.
* 'The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl,' 1845.
* 'The Young Man's Home,' 1848.
* 'J. H. Steggall, a Real History of a Suffolk Man,' 1851.
* 'Courtland,' a novel, 1852.
* 'Preston Tower, or the Early Days of Cardinal Wolsey,' 1850.
He also wrote, in 1827, 'Valentine Verses,' which he illustrated with spirited pen-and-ink etchings.
[Private information from Rev. E. A. Cobbold and others.]
M. G. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fawcett, John (1740-1817)

​FAWCETT, JOHN, D.D. (1740–1817), baptist theologian, was born 6 Jan. 1740, at Lidget Green, near Bradford. In early life he was powerfully impressed by the preaching of Whitefield, and after spending some years in secular life entered on the work of a baptist minister, and was settled at Wainsgate in 1764, and afterwards at Hebden Bridge, both in the parish of Halifax. To the duties of a minister he added those of a teacher, conducting an academy during a great part of his ministry. From the earnestness of his Christian spirit, his vigour as a preacher, and his force of character, he rose steadily among his brethren, and might have removed to a more conspicuous sphere, but remained in the neighbourhood of Halifax to the end. He was regarded as the first man of his denomination in that part of the country. At one time he endeavoured to add to his establishment an institution for the training of baptist ministers, but it did not prove a success. From time to time he published books on practical religion, which were well received, including a collection of hymns, an essay on ‘Anger,’ ‘The Life of Oliver Heywood,’ ‘Advice to Youth,’ ‘History of John Wise,’ and the ‘Sick Man's Employ.’ The largest of his literary undertakings, and that by which he was best known, was a ‘Devotional Commentary on the Holy Scriptures.’ ​This work was finished in 1811. It came out in two large volumes, and was sold at five guineas. About the same time he received the degree of D.D. from an American college. His object was to bring out clearly and powerfully from every chapter of Scripture such views as were best adapted to promote a devotional spirit, and each part of his exposition was followed by a paragraph of ‘aspirations,’ intended to guide the feelings of readers. Fawcett, whose health had long been feeble, died 25 July 1817, in his seventy-seventh year.
W. G. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fawcett, Joshua

​FAWCETT, JOSHUA (d. 1864), miscellaneous writer, was the second son of Richard Fawcett, worsted manufacturer, of Bradford, Yorkshire. He was educated at a grammar school at Clapham, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and took the degrees in arts, B.A. in 1829, M.A. in 1836. He was ordained in 1830, and after serving curacies at Pannall, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, and at Everton, near Liverpool, Lancashire, he was presented in 1833 by his brother-in-law, Henry Heap, vicar of Bradford, to the perpetual curacy of Holy Trinity, Wibsey, Low Moor. Fawcett was a painstaking clergyman, an enthusiastic, somewhat bigoted advocate of total abstinence, and a popular lecturer. During his incumbency he built a new church and parsonage, the former of which was opened in 1837. He lived to see, as the population of Low Moor and its immediate neighbourhood multiplied, the religious wants of the people cared for by the erection of five additional churches. In 1860 he became honorary canon of Ripon, Yorkshire, and chaplain to the bishop. He died suddenly at Low Moor 21 Dec. 1864, when ‘about sixty years of age,’ and was buried on the 28th in Holy Trinity churchyard. In 1834 he married Sarah, third daughter of the Rev. Lamplugh Hird. His widow and two sons survived him. Of his writings the following may be mentioned: 1. ‘A Harmony of the Gospels,’ 12mo, London, 1836. 2. ‘The Churches of York by W. Monkhouse and F. Bedford, junior, with Historical and Architectural Notes by J. Fawcett,’ fol., York [1843]. 3. ‘A brief History of the “Book of Common Prayer” of the Church of England,’ 12mo, London [1844]. 4. ‘A Memorial, Historical and Architectural, of the Parish Church of St. Peter's, Bradford, Yorkshire,’ 8vo, Bradford, 1845; reprinted, 12mo, Bradford, 1848. 5. ‘Church Rides in the Neighbourhood of Scarborough,’ 16mo, London, Scarborough [printed], 1848. 6. ‘A Memorial, Historical and Architectural, of the Church of St. Thomas à Becket, Heptonstall, in the Parish of Halifax and County of York,’ 12mo, Bradford, 1849. 7. ‘“The Flood came and took them all away,” a sermon [on Matt. xxiv. 39] on the Holmfirth Flood … To which is added a detailed account of the awful disaster at Holmfirth,’ 18mo, London, Brighton [printed], 1852. 8. ‘Pastoral Addresses First Series,’ 12mo, London, 1855. He also edited ‘The Village Churchman,’ afterwards incorporated with ‘The Churchman,’ and continued under the title of ‘The Churchman's Magazine,’ 8 vols. 12mo, London, 1838–45.
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fawcett, Joseph

​FAWCETT, JOSEPH (d. 1804), dissenting minister and poet, was probably born about 1758. He was at school at Ware, Hertfordshire, and in 1774 he entered the Daventry academy along with his schoolmaster's son, Barron French, whose sister he afterwards married. Most of Fawcett's theological training was received from Thomas Robins, who succeeded Caleb Ashworth, D.D. [q. v.], in 1775. He trained himself by declaiming to the thorn bushes on Burrow Hill, near Daventry. In 1780 he became morning preacher at Walthamstow, on the resignation of the pastorate by Hugh Farmer [q. v.] Some time afterwards he revived the Sunday evening lecture at the Old Jewry during the winter season. About his services at Walthamstow there was nothing specially remarkable; in his evening lecture he exhibited oratorical powers of a rare and striking kind, which are said to have attracted ‘the largest and most genteel London audience that ever assembled in a dissenting place of worship.’ Mrs. Siddons and the Kembles are said to have attended him frequently. He resigned Walthamstow in 1787 in consequence of doctrinal differences which split up the congregation on Farmer's death. His lectureship at the Old Jewry he retained, probably till 1795.
On retiring from his lectureship Fawcett left the ministry. Henceforth he devoted himself to husbandry and the muse. He was soon forgotten, in spite of the eccentricities which are reported of him. He died on 24 Feb. 1804 at Edge Grove, near Watford, ​Hertfordshire. Charlotte, his widow, survived till 18 June 1824, and died at Hornsey. Fawcett's sermons are high-flown, but not devoid of matter; they are written for effect, and may be read with interest, notwithstanding their redundances. His poems have the same exuberance which marks his discourses, but on the whole his verse is superior to his prose. Some of his lines are striking, e.g.
The harsh, coarse horror of a German muse.  (Art of Poetry.)
Fawcett published: 1. ‘The Propriety and Importance of Public Worship,’ &c. (sermon 28 March, at the Old Jewry). 2. ‘Sermons,’ &c., 1795, 8vo, 2 vols. 3. ‘The Art of War; a Poem,’ 1795, 4to. 4. ‘The Art of Poetry … by Sir Simon Swan,’ 1797, 4to. 5. ‘Poems,’ 1798, 8vo (includes No. 3, with title ‘Civilised War,’ and No. 4). 6. ‘War Elegies,’ 1801, 8vo. An additional sermon was printed by John Evans, LL.D. [q. v.], in ‘Tracts, Sermons,’ &c., 1825, 8vo.
A. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fawcett, James

​FAWCETT, JAMES (1752–1831), Norrisian professor at Cambridge, son of Richard Fawcett, incumbent of St. John's Church, Leeds, Yorkshire, was born in that town in 1752. He had a weakly constitution from birth. Having passed through Leeds grammar school with credit, he was entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, 26 March 1770, under John Chevallier, and went into residence in October following. In January 1774 he graduated B.A. as fifth senior optime, winning the first members' prize when a senior bachelor in 1776. In 1777 he took his M.A. degree, and during the same year was elected fellow of his college on the foundation of Sir Marmaduke Constable. He was appointed Lady Margaret's preacher in 1782, and published his sermons in 1794. Before the last-named year the parishioners had elected him to the vicarage of St. Sepulchre's or the Round Church, Cambridge. In 1785 he proceeded B.D., and in 1795 he was chosen Norrisian professor of divinity. Although esteemed models of composition and orthodoxy, his sermons failed to draw together large congregations. ‘A certain thickness in his speech, an awkwardness of manner in a crowd, a want of energy, and an easiness of temper, little calculated to curb the sallies of a large assembly of young men constrained to sit out a lecture of an hour in length,’ contributed also to render his lectures less efficient than might have been expected from their undoubted excellence (Hughes, Memoir, pp. viii–ix). Fawcett chiefly resided in college until he was presented by the society in 1801 to the united rectories of Thursford and Great Snoring in Norfolk. He afterwards divided his time between his parsonage and the university, being permitted to retain rooms in college on account of his lectures. In 1815 he vacated the Norrisian professorship; in 1822 he also resigned his vicarage in Cambridge, and resided thenceforward solely at his rectory in Norfolk. There he died 10 April 1831.
[Memoir in T. S. Hughes's Divines of the Church of England, vol. xxi.; Gent. Mag. vol. ci. pt. i. pp. 378–9; R. V. Taylor's Biographia Leodiensis, pp. 328–33, 369; Cambridge Univ. Calendar.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fawcett, John (1825?-1857)

​FAWCETT, JOHN, the younger (1825?–1857), organist, third son of John Fawcett (1789–1867) [q. v.], was born about 1825, studied music under his father, was organist of St. John's Church, Farnworth, Lancashire, from 1825 till 1842, and afterwards (until his death) of Bolton parish church, a post which had previously been held by an elder brother, and which was taken by a sister for a year in the interval of Fawcett's visit to London. Here he entered the Royal Academy of Music, 5 Dec. 1845, to study under Sterndale Bennett, and became organist at Earl Howe's Curzon Street church. On his return to Bolton Fawcett resumed his duties as organist, teacher, and (1849) honorary conductor of the Bolton Harmonic Society. He obtained the degree of Mus. Bac., Oxford, 3 Nov. 1852. His exercise, a sacred cantata, ‘Supplication and Thanksgiving,’ was performed at the Music School, the composer conducting, and was published by subscription in 1856. This well-written cantata is the most important of Fawcett's compositions. He died at Manchester 1 July 1857.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dawson, George (1637-1700)

​DAWSON, GEORGE (1637–1700), jurist, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1658–9, M.A. in 1662, and was presented by his college to the vicarage of Sunninghill, Berkshire, where he died in 1700, aged 63.
He wrote: ‘Origo Legum; or a Treatise of the Origin of Laws, and their obliging power; as also of their great variety; and why some laws are immutable, and some not; but may suffer change, or cease to be, or be suspended, or abrogated. In seven books,’ London, 1694, folio. Dedicated to King William and Queen Mary.
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