- nuns by Webster's
Members of a congregation of nuns founded by Mrs. Mary Teresa Ball, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1822, and now spread over Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls.
- Fenwick, Edward Dominic by Brenda Joseph
1768–1832, American Roman Catholic prelate, first bishop of Cincinnati (1822–32), b. St. Marys co., Md. He was educated in Belgium, joined the Dominicans (1790), and was ordained (1793). After a short imprisonment by the French republicans he went to England and taught at a new Dominican college in Surrey. In 1804 he returned to the United States and set out for a Western mission. He set ...
- Raeburn, Sir Henry by Emily Bowen
... born March 4, 1756, Stockbridge, Scot.—died July 8, 1823, Edinburgh) Scottish portrait painter. Though apprenticed early to a goldsmith, he lacked formal training as a painter. He worked principally as a miniaturist and evolved a distinctive style of oil portraiture, painting directly on the canvas without preliminary drawings. His portraits are ...
- Iturbide, Agustín de by Keira Reynolds
Or Agustín I(born Sept. 27, 1783, Valladolid, Viceroyalty of New Spain—died July 19, 1824, Padilla, Mex.) Leader of the conservative factions in the Mexican independence movement and, briefly, emperor of Mexico (1822–23). An army officer when the independence movement emerged in 1810, he fought for the royalists, but in 1820, in reaction to a liberal coup in Spain, the conservatives did ...
- Vesey, Denmark by Aaron Fox
1767?–1822, African-American leader. After many years as a slave he won (1800) $1,500 in a lottery and purchased his freedom. Intelligent and energetic, he acquired considerable wealth and influence in South Carolina. Using church meetings as a cover, he supposedly planned (1822) a slave insurrection with the intention of taking over Charleston, killing whites, and, if necessary, fleeing to Haiti ...