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19: 176: 104: 93:, but had fallen into disrepair. The Institution renovated it to include a large lecture hall capable of accommodating 500 people, and a galleried library of 60 feet in length; it opened on 1 May 1808. Other facilities in the building included committee rooms; a library with lending facilities; a reading room, chemical laboratory and contemporary philosophical apparatus. 123:, his connection by marriage (their wives were sisters). The appointment was not a great success, though Clarke resided at the Institution and wrote there. After ten months he resigned and refused the salary. He was given the title of Honorary Librarian. 127:, on his own account, became sub-librarian in 1809, with the support of Clarke and Butterworth; elsewhere he is mentioned as Librarian in 1814. Horne's brother-in-law John Millard was assistant librarian in 1813. 951:
Lectures on Architecture, comprising the history of the art from the earliest times to the present day: delivered at the Surrey and Russell Institutions, London, and the Philosophical Institution at Birmingham
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After Clarke's resignation, Knight Spencer offered to act as Secretary, without salary but with the use of the librarian's apartment. He is recorded as Secretary in 1818.
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The Surrey Institution was one of four such notable organisations in London in the early nineteenth century; its model was the Royal Institution. The other two were:
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was an organisation devoted to scientific, literary and musical education and research, based in London. It was founded by private subscription in 1807, taking the
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Area of Blackfriars Road in an 1817 map, oriented with west approximately at the top. The Rotunda was on the west side of the road, very close to the bridge.
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of about 1807–8 referred to four, though with the Southwark Institution for the Surrey, while alluding to "ten thousand" similar institutions.
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The Institution offered members and visitors lectures on a variety of subjects, the earliest of which included
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The Royal kalendar, and court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the colonies
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was formed in 1812 with aims to discharge persons confined to gaol in the county for debt. The
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Survey of London: volume 22: Bankside (the parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark)
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Torrens, H. S. "Parkinson, James (bap. 1730, d. 1813), land agent and museum proprietor".
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Lecture Hall of the Surrey Institution, c.1808, aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadler
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Shorter, John. "Murray, John (1785/6–1851), writer on science and public lecturer".
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who owned the Rotunda, opened in 1787. The building had been the final home of the
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The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent
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The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent
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British History Online: Sir Howard Roberts and Walter H. Godfrey (editors),
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Ancients and Moderns: William Crotch and the development of classical music
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Lectures on the English comic writers: Delivered at the Surrey Institution
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Reminiscences, Personal and Bibliographical, of Thomas Hartwell Horne
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Lectures On the English Poets, Delivered at the Surrey Institution
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Radical Spaces: Venues of popular politics in London, 1790–c. 1845
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Costs were met by an initial 458 subscribers contributing thirty
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The annual subscription charities and public societies in London
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found employment there in 1822, and there devised an improved
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was appointed Librarian in 1808, through the intervention of
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for which he won some renown. Other lecturers included:
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Early meetings were held at the London coffee house on
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The Letters of Charles Lamb: with a sketch of his life
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each. The library had more than 5000 volumes by 1810.
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Surrey Literary, Scientific and Zoological Institution
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Index


Royal Institution
Edward Cross
Royal Surrey Gardens
Ludgate Hill
Rotunda Building
Thames
Surrey
Joseph T. Parkinson
James Parkinson
Leverian Museum
Ashton Lever
guineas

Adam Clarke
Joseph Butterworth
Thomas Hartwell Horne
chemistry
mineralogy
natural philosophy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
belles lettres
William Hazlitt
Goldsworthy Gurney
blowpipe

Thomas Rowlandson
Friedrich Christian Accum
Samuel Wesley
Gregor von Feinaigle

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