Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Will Tennent's band of ‘bastards and rebels’: the Tennent family in its contexts
- 2 The ‘natural leaders’, part one: politics and personalities in Belfast, c.1801–1820
- 3 The ‘natural leaders’, part two: Belfast, Europe and the age of reform
- 4 ‘The manhood of the mind’: classicism, romanticism and the politics of culture
- 5 ‘Thank-offerings to the God of providence’: philanthropy, evangelicalism and social change
- Conclusion
- Appendix one: public activities of William Tennent and Robert Tennent
- Appendix two: known membership figures for the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, 1795–1832
- Appendix three: philanthropic and evangelical societies in Belfast, c.1801–32
- Appendix four: Numbers assisted by Charitable Society, Lying-InHospital Society and Dispensary and Fever Hospital
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Appendix one: public activities of William Tennent and Robert Tennent
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Will Tennent's band of ‘bastards and rebels’: the Tennent family in its contexts
- 2 The ‘natural leaders’, part one: politics and personalities in Belfast, c.1801–1820
- 3 The ‘natural leaders’, part two: Belfast, Europe and the age of reform
- 4 ‘The manhood of the mind’: classicism, romanticism and the politics of culture
- 5 ‘Thank-offerings to the God of providence’: philanthropy, evangelicalism and social change
- Conclusion
- Appendix one: public activities of William Tennent and Robert Tennent
- Appendix two: known membership figures for the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, 1795–1832
- Appendix three: philanthropic and evangelical societies in Belfast, c.1801–32
- Appendix four: Numbers assisted by Charitable Society, Lying-InHospital Society and Dispensary and Fever Hospital
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Belfast Academical Institution (manager, 1810–14, 1816–17, 1827, 1829–32; visitor, 1821–22)
Belfast Academy (committee member, 1827–32)
Belfast Savings Bank (committee member, 1816; trustee, 1819)
Ballast Office (member, 1812–32)
Botanic Gardens (trustee, 1830–32)
Chamber of Commerce (member of council, 1803–19; vice president, 1823–28)
Commercial Buildings (committee member, 1813–19)
Dispensary and Fever Hospital (committee member, 1813–19)
Lagan Navigation (committee member, 1812–15; director, 1816–19)
Mechanics’ Institute (trustee, 1826–32)
Police Commissioner (member, 1812–32)
Police Committee (member, 1811–12)
Society for Promoting Knowledge (committee member, 1808–10, 1812–19)
Spring Water Committee (committee member, 1821; commissioner, 1822–27)
White Linen Hall (committee member, 1810–16, 1818–19)
White Linen Hall News Room (committee member, 1816–18)
Robert Tennent
Belfast Academical Institution (manager, 1810–15 and 1823–37; visitor, 1816)
Belfast Academy (committee member, 1825–37)
Belfast Charitable Society (committee member, 1810–19, 1821–37)
Board of Health/Officers of Health (com missioner, 1832–34; officer, 1835–37)
Bible Society/Hibernian Bible Society (committee member, 1808–19)
Commercial Buildings (committee member, 1813–19)
Dispensary and Fever Hospital (treasurer, 1811–18; committee member, 1819)
House of Industry (committee member, 1810–19, 1822–37)
Irish Music Society (treasurer, 1809–13)
Lagan Navigation (director, 1818–19)
Pipe Water Commissioners/Spring Water Commissioner (commissioner, 1818–19, 1821–28, 1833–37)
Savings Bank (early supporter, c.1816)
Society for Promoting Knowledge (committee member, 1812–19; vice president, 1825–28; president, 1829, 1831–37)
Spring Water Committee (committee member, 1814–17)
Ulster Female Penitentiary (committee member, 1831)
Weekly Sunday School/Sunday and Lancastrian School (committee member, 1811–13, 1816–19; treasurer, 1814–15.
White Linen Hall (committee member, 1818–19)
Sources: BA, 1803–37; John Anderson, History of the Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge, commonly known as the Linen Hall Library, chiefly taken from the minutes of the society and published in connection with the centenary celebration in 1888 (Belfast, 1888), pp. 35, 52, 49, 51, 53, 54–63, 94.
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- The ‘Natural Leaders’ and their WorldPolitics, Culture and Society in Belfast, c. 1801–1832, pp. 243 - 244Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2012