Fulton Data
Title:
Cambridge University Calendar
1108
1890
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE.
BA.
Fulton, Joseph Ashmore
[Date of the first degree taken:]
1889
Title: London Gazette
1115 11 June 1940 Civil Service Commission
In pursuance of the Provisions of
His Majesty's Order in Council of the 22nd July, 1920, the Civil Service
Commissioners hereby announce the undermentioned Assignments to the Treasury
Classes, Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, etc., for the month of May,
1940:-
II.- CLASSES OTHER THAN TREASURY
CLASSES. WITHOUT COMPETITION.
Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries; Clerks, Special Class
Wilfrid Norman Fulton
17th
Title:
The Times
1119
5 June l9l9
ORDER of ST. MICHAEL AND ST.
GEORGE.
The King has been pleased, on the
occasion of his Majesty's Birthday, to give directions for the following
appointments to the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, for services rendered in connexion with military operations in Egypt.
Dated June 3, 1919; AUSTRALIAN
IMPERIAL FORCE
Lt.-Col. D. Fulton,
C.B.E., 3rd L. Horse R., A.L.F.
Staines, Dec.29.
1125
15 November 1889
THE VOLUNTEERS.
It was yesterday
officially announced that Sergeant G.E. Fulton, of the Queen's
Westminster Volunteers, the
winner of the Queen's prize of £250 and the gold medal and gold badge of the
National Rifle Association at Wimbledon last year, has carried off the
championship and gold jewel of the North London Rifle Club this season with
the best score ever recorded in the annals of rifle shooting under the same
conditions. His aggregate of eight "shoots" at 200, 500, and 600 yards
and of four at 800 and 900 yards with the Government Martini-Henry rifle
totals exactly 1,100 points. Captain Cowan, of the Royal Engineers, is second
with 1,088, and Corporal Leghorn, of the London Scottish, third with
1,073.
Title:
The Times
1125
5 January 1905
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
THE NEW SHORT R!FLE.
Sir,- In your issues of the 19th
and 22nd there appeared some correspondence respecting the new short rifle. I
am very sorry not to have been aware of this at the time, but hope that you
will allow me, though late, a little space for a few remarks.
I have tried several of these
rifles up to 600 yards, and one at 800, and cannot understand how the Hythe
School find that it shoots closer than the long rifle. My experience is rather
the reverse.
For so short a weapon it is
ill-balanced and top heavy, and so is ill adapted for the swift alignment of
sights necessary in quick but accurate shooting at short range, which, I
believe, the rifle, strangely enough, is supposed to be designed for.
They have bored holes in the
butt, under heel plate, to reduce weight a trifle. This only makes balance
worse, and a badly-balanced rifle or gun always handles heavily. The small
shallow open notch of backsight and the large projections of the open topped
hood on either side of foresight also hinder quick off-hand shooting. A large
deep notch is the best for quick sighting, especially in an indifferent light,
and a foresight then stands conspicuously alone, as on the long rifle.
I make these remarks as quick
shooting at short range has lately been so strongly recommended by the
military authorities.
Your correspondents consider the
sights of the new rifle superior. In finish they undoubtedly are; but a
traversing wind-gauge sight is fanciful, not practical. All very well for
making minute alterations of the sight scale, when the wind is
being judged by the state of the
flags on a range; but I have often asked those who have seen service of what
use such sights would be, and the answer is what I expected.
A good, well-finished tangent
sight, with a large sight notch in leaf-cap for short ranges, and a very small
narrow one on sliding bar, just sufficient to take in a moderate amount of
foresight, for more deliberate shooting and medium and long ranges, the tip of
sight level, with shoulders of notch working the ground line of objects aimed
at, on the old approved method, would be more to the purpose than the new
sight, with only one notch, which neither suits one purpose nor the other.
Another objection to the short rifle is the greater flash it makes in the
dusk.
The safety catch is not so handy,
or so readily moved, as another form that has long been adapted to this action
by a large firm of rifle manufacturers.
In conclusion, the authorities
would have acted wisely in issuing a few hundred of these short rifles for
trial by the best known all-round shots in the Volunteer Forces.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
G.E. FULTON.
Title:
The Women's Who's Who; an Annual Record of the Careers and
Activities of the Leading
Women of the Day
1127
1934-5
FULTON, Dr. Dorothy Winstanley,
L.M.S.S.A, M.W.F., d. of Henry Winstanley, J.P.,
M. R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,
m.: George A. Fulton, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., M.R.C.S.
at 140 Wigan Rd., Bryn, Nr. Wigan.
******
Title:
Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909 74
1130
1909
DAVID FULTON, R. S. W.
BORN amid rural surroundings at
Parkhead, when that place could still call itself a village, Mr. Fulton from
childhood evinced a strong liking for pictures, and a taste for drawing which
was fostered by his schoolmaster, the late Thomas O'Beirne of Annfield
Academy, who was an enthusiastic teacher of the art. About the age of fourteen
he was apprenticed to a commercial engraver, and though the work proved
distasteful, he learned something of painting from the craftsman, no mean
amateur, under whom he wrought. About the age of sixteen he entered the School
of Design in Ingram Street under Mr. Greenlees, who gave him every
encouragement, but the pupil's real pleasure came when, on holidays, he could
indulge in solitary sketching from nature. His apprenticeship over, he began
business for himself as an engraver, in the hope of finding more time to
paint. Then gradually art became the mistress, and engraving a burden. In
1872, in the Corporation Galleries, he exhibited his first picture, which was
sold on the opening day. Years afterwards he discovered the buyer to have been
Mr. David Hennedy. He was unanimously elected a member of Glasgow Art Club in
1875, and fifteen years later was elected a member of the Royal Scottish
Society of Painters in Water Colours. He is also a member of the Royal Glasgow
Institute of the Fine Arts. He has successfully exhibited paintings in the
Royal Academy and at all the principal exhibitions in Britain, as well as at
Paris, Berlin, Venice, Munich, Hanover, Prague, Dresden, Copenhagen, and other
cities on the Continent. At these continental exhibitions he has sold many
pictures, and had several
reproduced, while Prague and Padua have both acquired examples of his work for
their public galleries. He has also shewn paintings in New Zealand and
America, and in the latter case was specially invited to send his work "Autumn
Sunshine" to the International Exhibition at St. Louis.
In such works lie Mr. Fulton's
specialty - figure and landscape combined, but some of his greatest successes
have been in landscape and sea subjects.
Title: Who's Who in Art:
Biographies of Leading Men and Women in the
World of Art Today
1130
1929
FULTON, David,
R. S. W.
(1891) painter of landscapes and interiors with figures; formerly engraver; b
Glasgow s. of William
Fulton and Mary McCulloch. Educ Anfield Academy, Glasgow School of Art
(prizes). Exhbd at R.A., R.S.A., G.I., Venice, Prague, St. Louis. Oflicial
purchasers Glasgow Corp. (By the Burn-Side), Padua (The Gentle Craft), Prague
(Firth of Clyde, and Autumn). Works reproduced The Gardener's Daughter
(Leggatt Bros. of Glasgow.) Other principal works The Surly Blast, Primrose
Time, Upland Pasture, The Posy. Recreations reading and music. Address 105
Douglas St, Blythswood Sq., Glasgow. Clubs Glasgow Art, Glasgow 13 (hon.
mem.). Signs work "David Fulton, R. S. W." (block letters with
tails to the "d's").
Title:
Who's Who in Art: Biographies of Leading Men and Women in the
World of Art Today
1131
1929
FULTON, Samuel;
animal painter (principally dogs); b Glasgow, 26 Apr 1854
s. of Samuel Fulton, Merchant. Educ High School, Glasgow.
Exhbd at Glasgow and Edinburgh. Official purchaser Glasgow Corp. (Foxhounds).
Works reproduced by Boots (A Silent Appeal and four other pictures).
Recreation gardening. Address Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, N.B. Club Glasgow Art
Signs work "Sam. Fulton." (block letters).
Title: Who's Who in the Theatre: a Biographical Record of the ContemporaryStage
1132
1925
FULTON, Maude,
actress and dramatic author; b. Eldorado, Kansas, U.S.A., 14 May, 1881; d. of
Titus Parker Fulton and his wife Lulu Belle (Couchman); e.
Grammar School, Kansas City; formerly engaged as a stenographer and telegraph
operator, and subsequently as a writer of short stories; made her first
appearance on the stage at the Gottschalk Theatre, Aberdeen, South Dakota,
Dec., 1904, as the Duchess of Berwick in "Lady Windermere's Fan"; made her
first appearance in New York, at the Madison Square Roof Garden, 25 June,
1906, in "Mdlle. Champagne"; spent four years in "vaudeville", four years in
musical comedy and since 1915 has appeared only in drama; has acted the
leading parts in her own plays as follows: "Mary, or a String of Beads", "The
Brat", "Sonny", "Pinkie", "To-morrow", "Punchinello" and "The Humming Bird".
Recreations.' Music, collecting pewter and old china. Address.' The Writers'
Club, Hollywood, Cal., U.S.A.
Title:
The Scottish Nation: or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours,
and
Biographical History of the
People of Scotland
1142 3
February 1752 - May 1853
GEORGE FULTON,
an eminent teacher, born February 3, 1752, was originally intended to be a
printer, and served his apprenticeship in a printing-office in Glasgow. He was
afterwards a compositor in Edinburgh, and subsequently in Dumfries. While yet
a young man, he married the daughter of a preacher and teacher of Edinburgh,
of the name of Tod, and became a teacher himself of a charity school in
Niddry's Wynd of that city. To enable his pupils to become readily proficient
in their knowledge of the English tongue, both as regards reading and
pronunciation, he made use of moveable letters pasted on pieces of wood, that
were kept in boxes like those in a compositor's case. The idea of improvement
in pronunciation was derived partly. from Mr. Sheridan's system, and that of
the letter-box from his former trade of a printer.
His abilities becoming known, he
was appointed by the town-council of Edinburgh one of the four teachers of
English under the patronage of the city corporation. In 1790 he resigned his
situation, and having removed to the new town of Edinburgh, commenced teaching
grammar and elocution on his own account. Among his pupils were teachers from
various quarters, eager to acquire a knowledge of his system. Having devoted
his constant efforts to the improvement of his method, his long experience in
teaching enabled him, in cooperation with his nephew, Mr. Knight, 10 produce
a 'Pronouncing Dictionary', which, being at that time unrivalled of its kind,
was soon adopted as a standard work in most schools. Acquiring an
independence, about 1811 Mr. Fulton resigned his school to his nephew, Mr.
George Knight, and spent the remainder of his life at the villa of
Summerfield, near Newhaven, which he had purchased in 1806. He died, September
1, 1831, in the 80th year of his age. He was twice married, but had no
children.
Title: The Book of Scotsmen
1142
3 February 1752 - 1
September 1831
~
FULTON, George,
Teacher. Works as a printer in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dumfries; commences
teaching in Niddry Wynd, Edinburgh, and pursues with much success an ingenious
plan of his own for imparting a knowledge of reading and pronunciation through
the use of printed cards; removes to New Town and co-operates with his nephew
George Knight, in producing a useful and popular "Pronouncing Dictionary" Died
at Summerfield, Newhaven, aged about 80.
Title: A
Biographical Dictionary of Authors
1142
1752-1831
FULTON, George
Teacher of English, author of an ingenious system of pronunciation avowedly
formed on Sheridans plan, by which a very small number of marks are made to
denote both the quantity and quality of the vowel sounds. This system of
notation is so extremely simple that a child of four years of age is capable
of understanding it and calling it in to his aid in his reading. It is
developed in the following tract: The Orthoepy of the English Language
Simplified, 1811. - Besides which Mr F. has published in association with G.
Knight: A pronouncing dictionary of the English Language, l2mo. 1802. - A
pronouncing spelling book, 1813.
Title: Gentleman's Magazine
1142 October 1809 Review of New Publications.
The Hungarian Brothers. By Miss
Anna-Maria Porter. In Three Volumes. l2mo. Second Edition. Longman and Co.
1808.
The volumes now before us contain
the following Address to George Fulton, Esq. of Edinburgh, which we give at
length, as most honourable to the Writer:
"As
the Publick has sanctioned this production by requiring it to pass through a
second edition, I venture to hope it is not altogether unworthy the honour of
being inscribed to one of my first and most valuable friends. Neither
time nor distance can ever efface from my memory the important obligation
which I am
under to you for the tuition of
my childhood. At that early period your judicious instructions sowed the seeds
of whatever is estimable in my mind and my heart; and if those seeds have
produced any commendable fruit, it is to you, my dear, honoured Preceptor
(after Heaven), that I should give the praise. With these sentiments I presume
to offer you the following volumes; which, however
deficient in the graces of imagination, are, I hope, free from
indifference to the cause of Virtue.
"Suffer me now to repeat, thus publicly, that, although several years have
passed since your favourite scholar quitted the scene of her infancy;
though she left it when still a child; though various have been the events of
her life, and the feelings of her heart, yet she has always cherished the
remembrance of Scotland and Mr. Fulton with gratitude and affection,"
&c. &c.
Title: Bibliotheca Britannia
1802-1813
FULTON, G.
Teacher of English - A General pronouncing & Explanatory
Dictionary, of the English
Language; to which is added a Vocabulary of
Scripture Proper Names. Written
in Conjunction with G. Knight, 1802 l2mo 2d
edit., improved. Edinb. 1807 4s.
6d. - The Orthoepy of the English
Language
Simplified. 1811. - A Pronouncing
Spelling Book. 1813
Title: A Critical Dictionary
of English Literature and British and American
Authors Living and Deceased
1142
1802-1843
Fulton, George,
pub. a number of valuable books upon spelling, &c., and in conjunction with C.
Knight, gave to the world a Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary, first pub.
in 1802, l2mo, which is still highly esteemed; the last ed. was issued in
1843, l2mo. Mr. F. also pub. Johnson's Diet. in Miniature, which passed
through a number of eds.
"In point of notation, quantity
and syllabication, Mr. Fulton's system is, in our opinion, decidedly superior
to any which has yet been adopted in Spelling-books and Dictionaries."-
British Critic.
Title:
A Biographical Dictionary of
Eminent Scotsmen.
1142
1855
Fulton, George,
3 February 1752 - 1 September 1831,
the author of an improved system of education. He served an
apprenticeship to a printer in Glasgow, and afterwards worked as journeyman
with Mr Willison of Edinburgh. He also practised his profession for a time at
Dumfries. In early life he married the daughter of Mr Tod, a teacher in
Edinburgh. His first appearance as a teacher was in a charity school in
Niddry’s Wynd, which he taught for twenty pounds a year. There an ingenious
and original mind led him to attempt some improvements in what had long been a
fixed, and, we may add, sluggish art. Adopting his ideas partly from the
system of Mr Sheridan, and partly from his late profession, he initiated his
pupils with great care in a knowledge of the powers of the letters, using
moveable characters pasted on pieces of wood, (which were kept in cases
similar to those of a compositor in a printing house,) the result of which
was, a surprising proficiency generally manifested by his scholars, both in
the art of spelling, and in that of pronouncing and reading the English
language.
Having thus given
full proof of his qualifications as an instructor of youth, Mr Fulton was
appointed by the town council one of the four teachers of English under the
patronage of the city corporation, in which situation he continued till about
the year 1790, when a dispute with the chief magistrate induced him to resign
it, and set up on his own account. He then removed from Jackson’s Close in the
Old Town, to more fashionable apartments in Hanover Street, where he prospered
exceedingly for more than twenty years, being more especially patronised by
Thomas Tod, Esq., and the late Mr Ramsay of Barnton. In teaching grammar and
elocution, and in conveying to his pupils
correct notions of
the analogies of our language, Mr Fulton was quite unrivalled in his day. Many
teachers from other quarters became his pupils, and were successful in
propagating his system; and he had the honour to teach many of the most
distinguished speakers of the day, both in the pulpit and at the bar. During
the long course of his professional life, he was indefatigable in his
endeavours to improve his method, and simplify his notation; and the result of
his studies was embodied in a Pronouncing Dictionary, which was introduced
into almost all the schools of the kingdom.
Mr Fulton was an
eminent instance of the union of talent with frugal and virtuous habits.
Having realized a considerable fortune by teaching, he resigned his school to
a nephew, Mr Andrew Knight, and for the last twenty years of his life, enjoyed
otium cum dignitate, at a pleasant
villa called Summerfield (near Newhaven), which he purchased in 1806. In the
year 1820, Mr Fulton married, for the second wife, Miss Eliza Stalker, but had
no children by either connection. He died, September 1, 1831, in the 80th year
of his age.
Title:
A Biographical Dictionary of the
Living Authors of Great Britain and
Ireland
1142
1816, London
Fulton, G.
Teacher of
English, author of an ingenious system of pronunciation avowedly formed on
Sheridan’s plan, by which a very small number of marks are made to denote both
the quantity and quality of the vowel sounds. This system of notation is so
extremely simple that a child four years of age is capable of understanding it
and calling it in to his aid in his reading. It is developed in the following
tract:
The Orthoepy of
the English Language simplified, 1811.
-
Besides which Mr.
F. has published, in association with G. Knight: A Pronouncing Dictionary of
the English Language, l2mo, 1802
-
A Pronouncing
Spelling-book, 1813.
Title:
The Scottish Nation: or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours,
and
Biographical History of the
People of Scotland
1143
1863:
3 February 1752 - May 1853
JOHN FULTON,
a self-taught astronomer and mathematician, born at Fenwick, Ayrshire, in
1800, was eldest son of a shoemaker. After being taught to read and write at
the parish school, he began to work at his father's trade, but soon gave his
attention to mechanics, and having constructed a planetary machine, it was
bought by the Philosophical Society of Kilmarnock. He afterwards constructed
an Orrery, which after nearly ten years' labour, was completed in 1833, and
notwithstanding his scanty means and education, by dint of application during
his leisure hours, he executed his undertaking with the greatest accuracy. At
this time he studied botany, and took a principal part' in the construction of
a small gaswork, as well as made a velocipede for a lame lad in his native
village. The Orrery was exhibited in the principal towns of
Scotland and England, and at Edinburgh Fulton received the silver medal
of the Society of Arts for Scotland, value ten sovereigns. He afterwards went
to London, and was employed in the establishment of Mr. Bates, mathematical
instrument maker to King William IV., where his ingenuity and skill were fully
demonstrated in making theodolites for the Pacha of Egypt and balances for his
Majesty's mint. He was 15 years in Mr. Bates' employment, earning twenty-five
to thirty shillings a-week, and on the death of that gentleman found work
elsewhere. Nor did his genius develop itself merely in the mechanical arts. He
also applied himself, almost unaided, to the study of the languages, five of
which he mastered. He was a good French scholar, a proficient in German, a
student of Greek, with a considerable knowledge of Italian. His health failed
him through excessive application. He was taken ill in 1851, and after being
most kindly treated in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, returned to Fenwick in
1852, and, after a lingering illness, died in May 1853, his constitution,
naturally robust, having fairly broken down, under the pressure of an
overwrought brain.
Title:
Cambridge University Calendar
DEGREES CONFERRED BY
THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN THE
YEAR 1889.
SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS, EASTER TERM, 1889.
1152
Fulton, J. A.
Joh.
Title: Lanarkshire Justice of
the Peace Minutes
1153
3 May 1709
Lanark
Letter from John McGilchrist, clerk deput to the Justices of the Peace for the district of Glasgow, wrytten by direction of the Justices in that district, shewing furth the reasons of ther absence from this Quarter Sessions, viz. the Provest of Glasgow, the Lairds of Blythwood and Shawfield, whilk letter was seen and addmitted and ther absence excused; and in which letter he als gives account that the magistrats of Glasgow had changed ther constables and putt on new constables, viz. James Scot, maltman, Walter Barton, wright, Archibald Johnstoune, merchant, Robert Fulltone, coppersmith, John Thomsone, maltman, John Millar, yr, John Paull, yr, maltman, John Hervison, yr, merchant, James Brisban, talizeour, Walter Buchannan and Archbald Cameron, maitmen, and John Lecky, merchant; and the said John Lecky haveing thereafter applied himself to the Justices of the Peace for the district of Glasgow and instructed to them by his charter that he was a freeholder in a fourty shilling land holden of the Queens majestie and had thereby vote in the elections of members to Parliament, and therefor could not be compelled to serve as constable; and which being considered by the Justices, they sustained his reason and excused him from being constable.