John Newbery - Great great great x10 grandfather?

John Newbery is properly considered the father of children's literature. Born in 1713 in Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, England, he moved to Reading at age 16 to apprentice himself to a printer named William Carnan. When Carnan died in 1737, Newbery inherited part of the business and in 1745, at age 32, he moved it and his family to London. There in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral, he opened his bookshop, The Bible and the Sun, where he spent the following 22 years publishing religious periodicals, newspapers, books, and children's books, some of which he wrote himself. His first children's book, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book ("for little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly") appeared in 1744, the first of a series of well-made little books --"pretty gilt toys for girls and boys"--that followed the notion stressed in his era that literature should both please and instruct. In 1751, Newbery began the first periodical designed for children, The Lilliputian Magazine. As "Abraham Aesop" he wrote Fables in Verse in 1758 and as "Tom Telescope" he wrote The Newtonian System of Philosophy in 1761. In addition to launching a newspaper in 1760 (The Public Ledger), Newbery published the first English version of Charles Perrault's Tales from the Past with Morals, subtitled Contes de ma mère l'oye, or "Tales from Mother Goose." Finally, in 1765, shortly before his death, Newbery wrote and published his classic children's book,The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, in which success is keyed to education, very much in the tradition of the time and the use of the term "morals" in the title of Perrault's original collection. Postscript: In 1922, in recognition of Newbery's pioneering work as an author and publisher of children's literature, The American Library Association instituted the Newbery Medal to be awarded annually to the most distinguished work of children's literature.
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Zizzie

Elizabeth Cornelia Johanna (née Reventlow)  Elizabeth was born in the city of Sønderborg in 1912, which was then part of Schleswig-Holstein, but became part of Denmark after 1918. Having been born in Sønderborg Castle, she had previously changed her name to Berndt, to avoid association with pro-Nazi elements of the aristocratic Reventlow family, and spent much of World War II in Palestine and Egypt. Both Ronald and Elizabeth Tylecote maintained pro-Communist sympathies until the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1956. Why was she born in Sonderborg Castle (in 1912)? After the war of 1864, the province and the castle became Prussian property and served as barracks from 1867-1918, until the area was reunified with Denmark in 1920. Are there any Reventlow family trees which would give me the name of her parents? Why did she choose Berndt as her surname? When did she leave her parents for good? Did her parents know Kaiser W and what were they up to at this time? What did her father do? What was her relation to the Danish royal family?
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Ronnie Grandpa

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Ronald F. Tylecote

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Ronald Frank Tylecote (15 June 1916-17 June 1990) was a British archaeologist and metallurgist, generally recognised as the founder of the sub-discipline of archaeometallurgy.

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Education and profession

The son of doctor Frank Edward Tylecote, he was born in Manchester and educated at Oundle School. He obtained an MA from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1938, and an MSc from the University of Manchester in 1942, and a PhD on the oxidation of copper from the University of London in 1952. After a period in industry working as a welding research engineer, he became an ICI Research Fellow at University of London. In 1953 he was appointed as a lecturer at Newcastle University, where he became a Reader in Archaeometallurgy, a pst from which he retired in September 1978. In 1976 he began teaching Archaeometallurgy at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, which led to him becoming an honorary Professor there in 1979.

Work

His early publications on metallurgy include The solid phase welding of metals (1968). He participated in his first archaeological excavation in 1939, and became known for combining the two interests. Tylecote investigated early mining and smelting sites around the world, including Timna in Israel and the Roman silver mines of Rio Tinto in Spain. He also excavated sites in Sudan, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. A notable study was . Other work included Metallurgy in Archaeology: a Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles (1962), which became the standard reference work, and (1987). In 1976 he published A History of Metallurgy, and completed the revised second edition just before his death. In 1962, with G. R. Morton, he founded the Historical Metallurgy Group, initially as a group within the Iron and Steel Institute, and edited its first Bulletin, publihsed in April 1963. He remained its editor for the rest of his life, as the group became the , and the Bulletin became a journal, Historical Metallurgy. He is commemorated in the R. F. Tylecote Library of Archaeometallurgical Literature at University College, London, the R. F. Tylecote Fund at the same institution, and in the grant-giving R. F. Tylecote Memorial Fund of the Historical Metallurgy Society. Following his death the Society published tributes to him from other scholars with whom he had worked, together with a list of his publications.[1]

Personal life

Having originally married Angela (née Lias) whom he divorced in 1950, he married his second wife, Elizabeth Cornelia Johanna (née Reventlow) in 1958. Elizabeth was born in the city of Sønderborg in 1912, which was then part of Schleswig-Holstein, but became part of Denmark after 1918. Having been born in Sønderborg Castle, she had previously changed her name to Berndt, to avoid association with pro-Nazi elements of the aristocratic Reventlow family, and spent much of World War II in Palestine and Egypt. Both Ronald and Elizabeth Tylecote maintained pro-Communist sympathies until the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1956. His son, Andrew Tylecote is an economist.
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Grandpa Steven

John Steven Watson was born in 1916 on Tyneside, England. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, winning a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford where he took a first in History, in 1939.
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He served during the Second World War in the Ministry of Fuel and Power, becoming Private Secretary to the Minister, Mannie Shinwell. After 1945, he returned to Oxford as Lecturer, Student and Tutor of Christ Church where he established an international reputation as an eighteenth-century constitutional Historian. In 1966, he succeeded Sir T Malcolm Knox as Principal of the University of St Andrews, at a critical time for the institution. The University of Dundee was to be established by Royal Charter, in 1967, and the University of St Andrews was poised to rise or fall independently. Watson's vision was of an international community of scholars concerned with pure scholarship but never turning its back on the world, an institution large enough to be varied and viable and to withstand buffeting from external events. He was in fact, the last Principal of the University of St Andrews to be appointed by the Crown, as the Education (Scotland) Act of 1981, vested the power of appointment in the University Court. His Principalship saw the salvation of pre-clinical medicine through the Manchester agreement, the development of the Social Sciences (especially Psychology), the building of a new library, the revival of St Leonard's College and the opening of an art centre. He also strove to build up the undergraduate population, enabling the University to survive the cuts of 1980-1989. One of his great successes was the strengthening of the concept of St Andrews as an international university. The overseas student population grew and he travelled widely to advertise the virtues of the University and to seek support. He was a tireless and effective ambassador for the University abroad and the contacts he made bore fruit. Thus the Robert T Jones Memorial Trust was established, and exchanges with students of Emory University, Atlanta took place. Watson had a welcoming, warm personality and was renowned for his sense of humour and improvisation. He cared deeply about students as individuals and as scholars. He was devoted to his family and relied greatly on his wife. He announced that he was to retire on 30 September 1986, but in fact died in June 1986. http://www.gashe.ac.uk:443/isaar/P0290.html http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/stgiles/tour/west/37.htm