Word: portsea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sticking close to the Best People, Cosmo Lang became Dean of Divinity at Magdalen, Oxford, and four years later, on the recommendation of Arthur Balfour, vicar of the largest parish in England, St. Mary's, Portsea. This parish had a vast industrial population and employed 15 curates, but right across Spithead (scene of this week's Coronation Naval Review), was the Isle of Wight, and on the Isle of Wight sat aging Queen Victoria. Cosmo Lang was soon Queen Victoria's favorite preacher at Osborne, and his career was assured...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), second of eight children, was born in Portsea, England. His father. John Dickens (the original of Mr. Micawber in David Copper field) was at the time a clerk in the navy-pay office at Portsmouth. When Charles was two the family moved to London, where he had two years' schooling before Micawberish bankruptcy overtook his father, landed him in Marshalsea Prison for debt. Nine-year-old Charles had to leave school go to work in a blacking warehouse, tying, trimming, labeling blacking pots. Weekends he visited his parents in their comfortable prison quarters...