William Longman
| William Longman FGS, FRSL, FRGS | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1813 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1877 | ||||||||||
| Residence | 36 Hyde Park Square, W. | ||||||||||
| Occupation |
book seller publisher | ||||||||||
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Elected Fellow of the Geological Society 1859
... printed ... by William Longman, of 36 Hyde Park Square ... bookseller [London Medical Gazette 1846]
LONGMAN, Charles James was born on April 14, 1852. 2nd son of late William Longman, 36 Hyde Park Square, W., and 39 Paternoster Row, East Central (postal district). This son married Spouse 1880, Harriet, 2nddaughter of late Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S. [qv]
William Longman, Esq., of 36, Hyde Park-square, London, aged 64 [Guardian 1877]
Suggestions for the Exploration of Iceland : an Address delivered to the Members of the Alpine Club on April 4, 1861, by William Longman, Vice-President. London : Printed by the Alpine Club.—In this lecture Mr. Longman endeavours to impress upon the society to which he be- longs the importance of directing some part of their corporate atten- tion to the exploration of Iceland. The information which he conveys is derived almost entirely from the work of Henderson, the missionary,. who, though it is fifty years since he was there, explored the island far more completely than has been done by any subsequent traveller. Mr. Longman has taken great pains to ascertain the best manner of un- dertaking the expedition ; and we hope that he may succeed in enlisting some of his colleagues in favour of the enterprise which he has so much at heart.
Longman, William (1813-1877), third son of the preceding, was born 9 Feb. 1813. He received his early education at a school at Totteridge, near Bamet, and in his sixteenth year entered the service of the firm of which his father was the head, passing through all the grades of the business. At the same time he continued his own education, acquiring a fair knowledge of foreign languages and of general literature, and cultivating a strong taste for natural science, especially for entomology. In 1839 he became a partner, and attached himself to the literary and publishing departments of the business. He compiled the useful volume which appeared anonymously as 'A Catalogue of Works in all Departments of Eng- lish Literature, classified, with a General Alphabetical Index,' of which a second edition was issued in 1848. With a vigorous frame, he was fond of field-sports and out-of-door exercise. He explored the Alps for several years successively, and was one of the earliest members of the Alpine Club, established in 1857. After being its vice-president, he was its president from 1871 to 1874, and actively promoted the publication of the records of their Alpine excursions, written by its members, and issued as 'Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers' in 1659-62. In 1856 was printed for private circulation his 'Journal of Six Weeks Adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont, and on the Italian Lakes.' In April 1861 he read before the Alpine Club and afterwards printed, a paper of 'Suggestions for the Exploration of Iceland.' His love of the country led him to live as much as possible out of town. After residing for some years at Chorleywood, near Rickmansworth, he removed to Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead, where be took a leading part in resisting an attempt made by a neighbouring landowner to enclose Berkhampstead Common. A Mutual Improvement Society having been formed at Chorleywood in 1856, he delivered to it in the spring of 1867 a lecture on Switierland, which he repeated before a London audience, and then printed for private circulation. In January 1869 he delivered, for the benefit of his agricultural neighbours at Chorleywood, the first of a series of lectures—the fifth and last of which was given at Christmas 1862—on the 'History of England to the Close of the Reign of Edward II.' They were published as vol. i. in 1869. He had intended to go on with them, and had begun to study the reign of Edward III, when he migrated from Chorleywood to Ashlyns. The interest which he felt in that reign led him to continue his researches, and in 1869 appeared his elaborate and carefully written 'History of the Life and Times of Edward III.' Partly from its close vicinity to Paternoster Row, he threw himself heartily into the movement for the completion and decoration of St. Paul's Cathedral, and acted as chairman of the finance committee appointed to administer the fund raised for that object. His interest in St. Paul's further led him to compose the valuable monograph, published in 1873, 'A History of the Three Cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London, with reference chiefly to their Structure, Architecture, and the sources whence the necessary funds were derived.' His latest contributions to literature were an agreeable account of 'Impressions of Madeira,' which appeared in 'Fraser's Magazine' for August 1875, and a paper, left a fragment, on 'Modern Mountaineering, and a History of the Alpine Club,' printed in the 'Alpine Journal' for February 1877. He died 13 Aug. 1877, and was succeeded by his sons C. J. and H. H. Longman. He was noted for his courtesy to men of letters and to his brethren of 'the trade.'
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1870?
Publications
External Publications
Suggestions for the Exploration of Iceland
Modern Mountaineering, and the history of the Alpine Club Unknown Binding – 1878
by William Longman (Author)'
Journal of Six Weeks Adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont, and on the Italian Lakes
A Catalogue of Works in all Departments of English Literature, classified, with a General Alphabetical Index
History of England to the Close of the Reign of Edward II'
History of the Life and Times of Edward III
A History of the Three Cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London, with reference chiefly to their Structure, Architecture, and the sources whence the necessary funds were derived'
Impressions of Madeira
