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Connecting Akbar and William Murdoch
Akbar
3rd Mughal Emperor from 1556 to 1605
* In Kunal Basu's ''The Miniaturist'', the story revolves around a young painter during Akbar's time who paints his own version of the ''Akbarnamu''
Kunal Basu
Indian author
Bankim (himself heavily influenced by Walter Scott) was a writer of historical novels, as were many other Bengali writers of the 19th and 20th centuries whom Basu avidly read as a child, like Ramesh Chandra Dutta and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.
Walter Scott
*Bust of Walter Scott by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey, 1828, white marble, Philadelphia Museum of Art, # 2002.222.1, Philadelphia (PA).
Francis Leggatt Chantrey
English sculptor (1781–1841)
His most notable works include the statues of George III in The Guildhall, London; of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts; of George IV at Brighton (in bronze); of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London (in bronze); of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Greenock (also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh.
Akbar
3rd Mughal Emperor from 1556 to 1605
A Mughal army under the command of his foster brother, Adham Khan, and a Mughal commander, Pir Muhammad Khan, began the Mughal conquest of Malwa.
His foster brother retained all the spoils and followed through with the Central Asian practice of slaughtering the surrendered garrison, their wives and children, and many Muslim theologians and Sayyids, who were the descendants of Muhammad.
Pir Muhammad Khan was then sent in pursuit of Baz Bahadur but was beaten back by the alliance of the rulers of Khandesh and Berar.
Muhammad
Thomas Carlyle in his book ''On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History'' (1841) describes "Mahomet" as "A silent great soul; he was one of those who cannot ''but'' be in earnest".
Thomas Carlyle
Germaine Brée has shown the considerable impact that Carlyle had on the thought of André Gide.{{Sfn|Tennyson|1973|p=65}} Carlylean influence can also be seen in the writings of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jorge Luis Borges, the Brontës, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. M. Forster, Ángel Ganivet, Lafcadio Hearn, William Ernest Henley, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Edgar Quinet, Samuel Smiles, Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, and Miguel de Unamuno.{{Sfn|Tennyson|1973|p=|pp=61–72}}
Samuel Smiles
:: Phineas Pett, Francis Pettit Smith, John Harrison, John Lombe, William Murdoch, Frederick Koenig, The Walter family of ''The Times'', William Clowes, Charles Bianconi, and chapters on Industry in Ireland, Shipbuilding in Belfast, Astronomers and students in humble life
Akbar
3rd Mughal Emperor from 1556 to 1605
Following the chaos over the succession of Sher Shah Suri's son Islam Shah, Humayun reconquered Delhi in 1555, leading an army partly provided by his Persian ally Tahmasp I.
In 1558, while Akbar was consolidating his rule over northern India, the Safavid emperor, Tahmasp I, had seized Kandahar and expelled its Mughal governor.
Consequently, the city, which was being administered by Bairam Khan at the time of Akbar's accession, was invaded and captured by the Persian ruler Husain Mirza, a cousin of Tahmasp I, in 1558.
Tahmasp I
One of the most celebrated events of Tahmsp's reign was the visit of Humayun, the firstborn of Babur and emperor of the Mughal empire who faced rebellions by his brothers.{{Sfn|Savory|2007|p=66}} Humayun fled to Herat, travelled through Mashhad, Nishapur, Sabzevar and Qazvin, and met Tahmasp at Soltaniyeh in 1544.{{Sfn|Thackston|2004}} Tahmasp honoured Homayun as a guest and gave him an illustrated version of Saadi's ''Gulistan'' dating back to the reign of Abu Sa'id Mirza, Humayun's great-grandfather;{{Sfn|Eraly|2000|p=104}}{{Sfn|Soudavar|2017|p=49}} however, he refused to give him political assistance unless he converted to Shia Islam.
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
French physicist
Newcomen had invented the first piston-operated steam engine over a century before, in 1712; some 50 years after that, James Watt made his celebrated improvements, which were responsible for greatly increasing the efficiency and practicality of steam engines.
James Watt
The famous partnership was transferred to the men's sons, Matthew Robinson Boulton and James Watt Jr.. Longtime firm engineer William Murdoch was soon made a partner and the firm prospered.
Akbar
3rd Mughal Emperor from 1556 to 1605
Mozaffar Hosayn, who was in any case in an adversary relationship with his overlord, Shah Abbas, was granted a rank of 5000 men, and his daughter Kandahari Begum was married to Akbar's grandson, the Mughal prince, Khurram.
Abbas the Great
Shah of the Iranian Safavid Empire (1571–1629) (r. 1588–1629)
Abbas was also able to draw on military advice from a number of European envoys, particularly the English adventurers Sir Anthony Shirley and his brother Robert Shirley, who arrived in 1598 as envoys from the Earl of Essex on an unofficial mission to persuade Persia to enter into an anti-Ottoman alliance.
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
* Benjamin Britten's 1953 opera '' Gloriana'' is based on Lytton Strachey's ''Elizabeth and Essex''.
Benjamin Britten
[...] I didn't think I should be so sorry to leave." In his later years, Britten helped secure a place at the school for David Hemmings,|group= n}} He remained there for two years and in 1930, he won a composition scholarship at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London; his examiners were the composers John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams and the college's harmony and counterpoint teacher, S P Waddington.
Among his studio collaborations with Pears are sets of Schubert's ''Winterreise'' and ''Die schöne Müllerin'', Schumann's ''Dichterliebe'', and songs by Haydn, Mozart, Bridge, Ireland, Holst, Tippett and Richard Rodney Bennett.
John Ireland (composer)
British composer and teacher of music (1879–1962)
The jury included the violinist Albert Sammons and the pianist William Murdoch, who together gave the work its first performance at Aeolian Hall in New Bond Street on 6 March that year.
