Early Life and Background Peter Greenhill Anderson was born on 29 January 1811 in Scotland. His father owned a freehold farm near Perth, and Anderson’s early years were shaped by rural life, industry, and independence. Over time, circumstances led him southward, and after several changes of residence he…
Early Life and Godly Upbringing James George Deck was born on 1 November 1807 at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Like Timothy of old, he was greatly blessed with a praying mother, a woman of deep piety who nightly retired for a quiet hour with God on behalf of…
Family Background and Early Life Captain the Honourable William Henry George Wellesley was born in 1806, the second son of the first Baron Cowley. He belonged to one of Britain’s most distinguished families and was a nephew of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, the famed “Iron Duke.”…
Early Life and Christian Upbringing Thomas Neatby was born on 1 August 1835 at Worsborough, near Barnsley, in South Yorkshire. He was raised in a deeply Christian home; his parents were fervent Methodists, and the family lived amid a season of marked evangelical activity. Methodist preaching was being…
Early Life, Family, and Position Sir Edward Denny, Baronet, was born on 2 October 1796 and belonged to a family of rank and influence in Ireland. He succeeded his father as the fourth Baronet in August 1831, becoming owner of Tralee Castle and a vast amount of property…
Early Life, Family, and Rank Somerset Richard Maxwell, later the eighth Baron Farnham, was born in Ireland on 18 October 1803. He belonged to a family of ancient lineage, claiming descent from Henry III and subsequent kings of England. His father was The Rev. The 6th Baron Farnham,…
Early Life, Education, and Public Responsibility Count Guicciardini was born on 21 July 1808 into one of the historic noble families of Tuscany. He received the highest possible education available to a man of his rank and ability, and among his fellow-students was one who would later become…
Early Life, Family, and Education Teodorico Pietrocola Rossetti was born on 26 November 1825 at Vasto, into a deeply pious Roman Catholic family. His parents, Luigi Pietrocola and Cleofe Marchesani, raised him with strict religious devotion, and from childhood he was regarded as unusually earnest. More than one…
Early Life and Military Career Thomas Hillman Hull was born in 1809 at Marpool Hall, Withycombe Raleigh, near Exmouth, the long-held family estate, his family being Lords of the Manor. He thus belonged to a line of landed gentry, surrounded from birth by privilege, responsibility, and public standing.…
Early Life and Conversion William Henry Dorman was born in 1802, of humble parentage. Converted to God at an early age, he soon showed marked spiritual earnestness and intellectual ability. From the beginning, his Christian life was characterised by seriousness of purpose, love for the Word of God,…