The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-05
ORIGIN OF FAMOUS MEN.
pI.ACEs WHERE THEY FIRST
1nH e.w THE LIGHT OF DAY.

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uvs.erv about MIR. Gladstone's
p,-.,n1ace - Stanley a Welshm an.
-Ios+ Of the Great Men We're Coun-
try Bred.
F,or, the london Standard.
e.o, fsjr cities contended for the honor
~. Laariro Homer; but we do not know
- y ,,,.nv will in the future compete for
.hs privilege Of giving birth to Mr. Glad
80 The actual number is, we believe.
:. resent eleven, and for the time being
liverpool is the first favorite. But 1t would
h. puwise to reopen that controversy. If,
to1ever. Mr.. Gladstone suffers from I'M
fortunately possessing redundancy OF
..-.L,loces il is a remarkable fact that
"a Beaconsfeld, whom he admits to
10 been the most interesting
r of the century," on the other
- possesses none at all. Although
.Iara is a strong presumption that he was a
lSonar both the place and hour of the
tHn.b If Beniamin Disrael are unknown.
IN III - disnute as TO Wellington's birthplace
tas inst been set at rest by the discovery of
usS Census paper filed in by the iron dukes
~ o1vn hand, which gives Athy as the town
,vbere he first saw the light. But there Is a
curious fatality about the records of this
most interesting event IN many lie. The
1orson principally concerned is. as rule,
PahIa n give any evidences. 1t is difficult
20 he very proud Of human attainments,
" y;aw of the incontestibte fact
.be. none Of US can remember when
~ where we were born. IL IS the
case generally that those, who, next TO our
saIvas we're most concerned in that inter-
sting event, have joined the majority long
before the question as to its locality becomes
of apy public Importance. The world Is
onlv anxious as to the birthplace of its
Great men, and there are few great men
sSbo are not gray headed. The inquiry is
one which, it will be seen, is endless. To
take the poets, for instance, we have pre-
ssnted a siperabundance of interesting ma
terial Chaucer speaks of London as place
Of his s.engendure," and calls himself "a Lon
donois nbut we are aware that many of his
biographers have disputed his veracity in
this respect. 1t is curiously characteristic
Of biographers that they believe themselves
TO be the only competent person to decide
where a man was born. London, however,
Dec. 9. 1908, at the Spread Eagle, Bread
street which was, it should be explained,
NOT A tavern, but his fathers own house.
distinguished by the sign of his armorial
bearings. Millions grandfather, it will be
remembered, the keeper of the forest
of Shotover, was bigoted Papist, and when
his son, John Milton, the father Of the poet,
became protestant during his education at
Christ church, Oxford, he was disowned
and disnherited, and, having to work for
his living, became a scrivener. Millions
mother was Sarah Daston, the daughter
Of Welsh gentleman, and We venture to
recall the fact, although it is detail. It is
curious how unimportant a part mothers
play from q biographer's point OF view.
Their distinguished sons are commonly sup
posed to have paid them great compli-
ment.
Alexander Pope was a Londoner, and
was born on May 81, 1858, year of the revo-
luton, in Lombard street, of all places in
the world, his father being a lnendraper,
but, nevertheless, a man who was well con-
nected and had amassed a considerable
fortune. Thomas Gray, again, was born in
Cornhill, on Nov. 26, ZIG, his father being,
like Miiton's, a scrivener; and Cowley, a
grocer's son, was a Londoner. But poetry
does not seem TO have been a natural
product of the London clay. The
Land Of the Leaf" is more fruit
full. Scott was born in "Auld
Rsekie, - on Aug. Is, III, where his father
was writer of the signet. Thomson was
brn in Ednam, Roxburgshire, on Sept II,
100; while everybody knows that Burns
was born in cottage two miles south of
Ayr. which is still shown to visitors. 1t
stands at a short distance from Alloway
kirk, which is immortalized in Tam
oShanter" James Beattie, again, was
born at Laurencekirk, Kincardinshire, a
village situated In that beautiful trough of
land called the Howe of the Mearns, which
Is surmounted by the ridge of the
Gawock hills, dividing it from the
German ocean. Glasgow can boast at
least one poet-James Graham who
was born on April 90, 1865,
and was the son of writer. Addison was
born at Milston, Wiltshire village; and
CoWper at Berkhampstead Rectory, on
Nov. 70, 1851, truly child of dark Novem-
ber Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the son
Of the Rev. John Coleridge, the vicar of
Ottery st. Mary. William Makepeace
Ihackeray, it is now largely forgotten,
was born at Calcutta. Exeter was the
birthplace of Richard Rocker and Sir
1homaS bodley. Among other cele-
Drated Deyonlans are Bishop Jewel. Sir F.
Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and John Gay,
who was the son of William Gay, of Red
Gross" Barnstaple. Nottingham, again,
was the birthplace of Henry Kirke White
VINO was butchers SOM. of Philip James
Bailey, the author of ''Festus," and of Will
lam and Mary Howett. Dublin was the
birthplace ct Sir John Denham, Thomas
Farnell, Sir Richard Steele, and Jonathan
o"lft, though the latter was descended
from an old Yorkshire family and claimed
70 nave been born at Leicester, and, there
lore, to be an Englishman.
Mr.. II. NJ. Stanley is a Welshman. for he
was born at Denbigh, 18th January. 1s41,
anu spent the first five years of his life
under the roof of his maternal grandfather,
=; WIN "hom he was great favorite, who, it
.sH curious to know, used to call the little lad
~ nhyn dyfodol l." c'My man of the fut-
1 Ife though the kindly old man never
~; aSea TO learn how prophetic was his child
d tau nickname After mis- grandfather's
oea1n Inc boy was called john Rowlands.
ahu "hen old enough to come to America
muere ne was employed by storekeeper
nalned Stanley. and from him he took the
I ,d winch Will be memorable as long as
. .ue world lasts with one of the greatest
III i'on Oh action of the nineteenth century.
c rIs lnoCner died four years ago, and her
. ,Sh Plate bore the simple Inscription.
AZ 3mo was the mother of H NJ. Stanley. the
, ,airlcan explorer" Gen. Gordon was Ger
s +,riy oorn at Woolwich in 1888, and the
C caUlent town has had no nobler son, David
fora was born at the Ange inn, Here
recrni., muere his father was quartered on
frono uIting service; but he was descended
Petar an OLD French family, his father,
de Uarrick, being the son of David
Ford darrlque, who fled from
the aGao. IN 1855, on the revocation of
born 49, ~ u Oh Nantes. Although David was