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Speech of Sir J.C. Hippisley, Bart. In the House of Commons, March 9, 1813, on Mr Grattan's motion for a committee on the state of the laws affecting the Roman Catholics.
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HIPPISLEY, Sir John Cox (1748--1825)
Speech of Sir J.C. Hippisley, Bart. In the House of Commons, March 9, 1813, on Mr Grattan's motion for a committee on the state of the laws affecting the Roman Catholics.
London (Place), printed by T.C. Hansard,, 1813.
7, [1] p. ; 22.8 cm. (8º)
Drop-head title. Final page is blank. Sir John Cox [Coxe] Hippisley was one of the first managers of the Royal Institution and also served it as treasurer. He was a member of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries and also served as a magistrate in Somerset. He was a proponent of Catholic Emancipation and secured a royal pension from George III for Henry Stuart, Cardinal York, destitute in France at the end of the 18th century. For Soane's associations with Hippisley see A.T. Bolton, The portrait of Sir John Soane, R.A. (London 1927), pp. 26--7, 99; in her biography John Soane: an accidental romantic (London 1999), Gillian Darley confirms that 'no man was to turn up with greater regularity throughout Soane's life than Coxe Hippisley (p. 49).
Copy Notes Inscribed illegibly in ink on title-page [--] Cobbetts P Debates.
Binding Bound in a numbered series of late 19th century half calf pamphlet volumes. (Archive, Trustees' Minutes 18 June 1866). With binder's stamp 'Bound By Mansell' on front pastedown.
Reference Number 4411
Additional Names Grattan, Henry (1746--1820); Hansard, Thomas Curson (1776--1833)
Speech of Sir J.C. Hippisley, Bart. In the House of Commons, March 9, 1813, on Mr Grattan's motion for a committee on the state of the laws affecting the Roman Catholics.
London (Place), printed by T.C. Hansard,, 1813.
7, [1] p. ; 22.8 cm. (8º)
Drop-head title. Final page is blank. Sir John Cox [Coxe] Hippisley was one of the first managers of the Royal Institution and also served it as treasurer. He was a member of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries and also served as a magistrate in Somerset. He was a proponent of Catholic Emancipation and secured a royal pension from George III for Henry Stuart, Cardinal York, destitute in France at the end of the 18th century. For Soane's associations with Hippisley see A.T. Bolton, The portrait of Sir John Soane, R.A. (London 1927), pp. 26--7, 99; in her biography John Soane: an accidental romantic (London 1999), Gillian Darley confirms that 'no man was to turn up with greater regularity throughout Soane's life than Coxe Hippisley (p. 49).
Copy Notes Inscribed illegibly in ink on title-page [--] Cobbetts P Debates.
Binding Bound in a numbered series of late 19th century half calf pamphlet volumes. (Archive, Trustees' Minutes 18 June 1866). With binder's stamp 'Bound By Mansell' on front pastedown.
Reference Number 4411
Additional Names Grattan, Henry (1746--1820); Hansard, Thomas Curson (1776--1833)