❤️ George Bancroft (actor) 🐌

"George Bancroft (September 30, 1882 – October 2, 1956) was an American film actor, whose career spanned more than thirty years from 1925 to 1956. He was cast in many notable films alongside major film stars throughout his Hollywood years. Early years George Bancroft in Berlin (1929) Bancroft was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882. He attended Tomes Institute in Port Deposit, Maryland. Maritime work After working on merchant marine vessels at age 14, Bancroft was an apprentice on and later served on and West Indies. Additionally, during the Battle of Manila Bay (1898), he was a gunner on . During his days in the Navy, he staged plays aboard ship. In 1900, he swam underneath the hull of the battleship to check the extent of the damage after it struck a rock off the coast of China. For this, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy, but found it too restrictive for his tastes and left to pursue a theatrical career.The reference work American Classic Screen Profiles says of Bancroft, "He left the Academy after one year for a theatrical career." Acting career In 1901, Bancroft began acting in earnest, as he toured in plays and had juvenile leads in musical comedies. In vaudeville, he did blackface routines and impersonated celebrities. His Broadway credits include the musical comedies Cinders (1923) and The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly (1923). One of his early films was The Journey's End (1921). Bancroft's first starring role was in The Pony Express (1925), and the next year he played an important supporting role in a cast including Wallace Beery and Charles Farrell in the period naval widescreen epic Old Ironsides (1926), then went from historical pictures to the gritty world of the underground in Paramount Pictures productions such as von Sternberg's Underworld (1927) and The Docks of New York (1928). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for Thunderbolt,The Academy Awards Database provides this comment: "[NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930. Though not official nominations, the additional names in each category, according to in-house records, were under consideration by the various boards of judges.]" played the title role in The Wolf of Wall Street (1929, released just prior to the Wall Street Crash), and appeared in Paramount's all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930) and Rowland Brown's Blood Money (1933), condemned by the censors because they feared the film would "incite law-abiding citizens to crime." Reportedly, he refused to fall down on set after a prop revolver was fired at him, saying "Just one bullet can't stop Bancroft!". By 1934, he had slipped to being a supporting actor, although he still appeared in such classics as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Each Dawn I Die (1939) with Cagney and George Raft, and Stagecoach (1939) with John Wayne. In 1942, he left Hollywood to be a rancher. Personal life Bancroft first married actress Edna Brothers. Three years later, he married musical comedy star Octavia Broske. In 1934, Brothers sued him, claiming they had never divorced. Two years later, the case was settled, and Brothers obtained a divorce. Death On October 2, 1956, Bancroft died in Santa Monica, California, at age 74. He was interred there in the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery. Complete filmography * The Journey's End (1921) as The Ironworker * The Prodigal Judge (1922) as Cavendish * Driven (1923) as Lem Tolliver * Teeth (1924) as Dan Angus * The Deadwood Coach (1924) as Tex Wilson – in play * Code of the West (1925) as Enoch Thurman * The Rainbow Trail (1925) as Jake Willets * The Pony Express (1925) as Jack Slade * The Splendid Road (1925) as Buck Lockwell * The Enchanted Hill (1926) as Ira Todd * Sea Horses (1926) as Cochran * The Runaway (1926) as Lesher Skidmore * Old Ironsides (1926) as Gunner * White Gold (1927) as Sam Randall * Too Many Crooks (1927) as Bert the Boxman * Underworld (1927) as 'Bull' Weed * Tell It to Sweeney (1927) as Cannonball Casey * The Rough Riders (1927) as Happy Joe * The Showdown (1928) as Cardan * The Drag Net (1928) as Two-Gun Nolan * The Docks of New York (1928) as Bill Roberts * The Wolf of Wall Street (1929) as The Wolf * Thunderbolt (1929) as Thunderbolt Jim Lang * The Mighty (1929) as Blake Greeson * Paramount on Parade (1930) as Mug (Impulses) * Ladies Love Brutes (1930) as Joe Forziati * Derelict (1930) as Bill Rafferty * Scandal Sheet (1931) as Mark Flint * Rich Man's Folly (1931) as Brock Trumbull * The World and the Flesh (1932) as Kylenko * Lady and Gent (1932) as Stag Bailey * Blood Money (1933) as Bill Bailey * Elmer and Elsie (1934) as Elmer Beebe * Hell-Ship Morgan (1936) as Captain Ira 'Hell-Ship' Morgan * Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) as MacWade * Wedding Present (1936) as Pete Stagg * A Doctor's Diary (1937) as Dr. Clem Driscoll * John Meade's Woman (1937) as Tim Mathews * Racketeers in Exile (1937) as William Waldo * Submarine Patrol (1938) as Capt. Leeds * Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) as Mac Keefer * Stagecoach (1939) as Marshal Curley Wilcox * Each Dawn I Die (1939) as John Armstrong * Espionage Agent (1939) as Dudley Garrett * Rulers of the Sea (1939) as Captain Oliver * Green Hell (1940) as 'Tex' Morgan * Young Tom Edison (1940) as Samuel 'Sam' Edison * When the Daltons Rode (1940) as Caleb Winters * Northwest Mounted Police (1940) as Jacques Corbeau * Little Men (1940) as Major Burdle * Texas (1941) as Windy Miller * The Bugle Sounds (1942) as 'Russ' Russell * Syncopation (1942) as Steve Porter * Whistling in Dixie (1942) as Sheriff Claude Stagg (final film role) Notes References External links * *Photographs and literature Category:1882 births Category:1956 deaths Category:American male stage actors Category:American male film actors Category:Male actors from Philadelphia Category:20th-century American male actors Category:Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica Category:Paramount Pictures contract players Category:United States Naval Academy alumni "

❤️ Hargeisa 🐌

"Hargeisa (, ) is a city in the Maroodi Jeex region of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. It is the capital and largest city of Somaliland. The city later succeeded Berbera as the capital of the British Somaliland protectorate in 1941. Hargeisa was founded as a watering and trading stop between the coast and the interior and later became an Islamic Tariqa settlement under the leadership of Sheikh Madar and his mullahs. The city later succeeded Berbera as the capital of the British Somaliland protectorate in 1941. In 1960, the protectorate gained independence and united as scheduled days later with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic (Somalia) on July 1.Encyclopædia Britannica, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, (Encyclopædia Britannica: 2002), p.835 Hargeisa is situated in a valley in the Galgodon (Ogo) highlands, and sits at an elevation of . Home to rock art from the Neolithic period, the city is also a commercial hub for precious stone-cutting, construction, retail services and trading, among other activities. Etymology The town evolved in the latter half of the 1800s as a Qadiriyya settlement established by Sheikh Madar, near a water-stop used by nomadic stock-herders on the way to the town of Harar. It thus proposes a possible derivation of the name "Hargeisa" from the sobriquet Harar as-sagir, meaning "Harar the little" According to historian Norman Bennett, Madar named the settlement Hargeisa or Little Harar since he aspired for it to emulate the city of Harar as a center for Islamic teachings. Another etymological root for Hargeisa's name derives from the towns connection to the skins trade. Hargeisa has been a watering and trading stop between the coast and the interior, and chief amongst the goods traded were the hide skins procured from the interior to be processed in the settlement. In this etymological version, ‘Hargeisa’ is derived from hargageys, which means "place to sell hides and skins” in Somali. History =Prehistory= Rock art from the Laas Geel complex on the outskirts of Hargeisa. Numerous cave paintings from the Neolithic period are found in the Laas Geel complex, on the outskirts of Hargeisa. During November and December 2002, an archaeological survey was carried out in the area by a French team of researchers. The expedition's objective was to search for rock shelters and caves containing stratified archaeological infills capable of documenting the period when production economy appeared in this part of Somaliland (circa 5th and 2nd millennium BCE). During the course of the survey, the French archaeological team discovered the Laas Geel rock art, encompassing an area of ten rock alcoves (caves). In an excellent state of preservation, the paintings show human figures with their hands raised and facing long-horned, humpless cattle.The Journal of African Archeology Volume 1.2 (2003) Chapter 3 The rock art had been known to the area's inhabitants for centuries before the French discovery. However, the existence of the site had not been broadcast to the international community. In November 2003, a mission returned to Laas Geel and a team of experts undertook a detailed study of the paintings and their prehistoric context. Somaliland in general is home to numerous such archaeological sites, with similar rock art and/or ancient edifices such as the Dhambalin rock art. However, many of these old structures have yet to be properly explored, a process which would help shed further light on local history and facilitate their preservation for posterity.Michael Hodd, East African Handbook, (Trade & Travel Publications: 1994), p.640. =The Big commune= According to traditional poetic (gabay) oral accounts, Hargeisa was founded by the Eidagale clan as a watering and trading stop for passing nomads and caravans. It is also believed that in addition to the Eidagale, the Arap and Habr Yunis subclans were also amongst the early settlers of Hargeisa. Hargeisa continued to grow with the arrival of Sheikh Madar Shirwa, widely considered to be the founder of Hargeisa religious commune. Madar Shirwa was born in Berbera and belonged to the Nuh Ismail subdivision of the Sa’ad Musa Habr Awal clan. Madar arrived in Harar to study the Islamic Sciences under the top ulema of Harar which consisted of Harari and Somali scholars. "The chief Ulema are the Kabir Khalil, the Kabir Yunis, and the Shaykh Jami: the two former scarcely ever quit their houses, devoting all their time to study and tuition: the latter is a Somali who takes an active part in politics. These professors teach Moslem literature through the medium of Harari, a peculiar dialect confined within the walls" Sheikh Khalil one of the ulema in Harar advised Sheikh Madar to establish a Qadiriyya Tariqa commune in present-day Hargeisa and spread the teachings he was taught, which lead Sheikh Madar and his companions to found the Big Commune (Jama’a weyne) of Little Harar (Hargeisa) in circa 1860. Sheikh Madar also started Sorghum plantations in the vicinity of the town to maintain self-sufficiency as well as taking care of the sick and elderly inhabitants of the growing settlement. H. Swayne, a British soldier and explorer who traversed the Somali peninsula between the 1880-1890s wrote aboute Hargeisa in his journals: > This town is built some five hundred yards from the right bank of the > Aleyadera nala, and at an elevation of thirty or forty feet above it. Round > the place is a patch of jowari [Sorghum] cultivation, two and a half miles > long and a quarter of a mile broad. Quantities of livestock of all kinds > graze on the low undulating hills for half a mile from the Aleyadera nala on > either bank. Hargeisa is situated on two important caravan routes, one from > Ogaden and the other from Harar. There are good direct camel-roads to > Berbera and Bulhar. Supplies of rice, tobacco, and dates can sometimes be > bought here in the trading season. Some four hundred people are employed > looking after the jowari fields, and may be seen sitting on platforms, > shouting and throwing stones to scare birds from the crops. There is > abundance of good water in the bed of the river, and a masonry well has been > built, and is kept in order by an Arab from Aden. The town is full of blind > and lame people, who are under the protection of Sheikh Mattar and his > mullahs. =British Somaliland= Women's market in Hargeisa, British Somaliland protectorate. In 1888, after signing successive treaties with the then ruling Somali Sultans and chiefs, the British established a protectorate in the region referred to as British Somaliland.Hugh Chisholm (ed.), The encyclopædia britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information, Volume 25, (At the University press: 1911), p.383. The British garrisoned the protectorate from Aden in present-day Yemen, and administered it from their British India until 1898. British Somaliland was then administered by the Foreign Office until 1905 and afterwards by the Colonial Office. Berbera, a major trading harbour on the Red Sea, was the protectorate's first capital due to its strategic importance. However, the capital was moved from Berbera to Hargeisa, and the city was granted capital status in 1941. During the East African Campaign, the protectorate was occupied by Italy in August 1940, but recaptured by the British in March 1941. The protectorate gained its independence on 26 June 1960 as the State of Somaliland, before uniting as planned days later with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. =1960–1991= MiG monument in Hargeisa commemorating Somaliland's breakaway from the rest of Somalia during the 1980s. In the post-independence period, Hargeisa was administered as the capital of the Woqooyi Galbeed province of Somalia. Numerous new development projects were subsequently launched in the city by the Somali government. Among these initiatives was the creation of the Hargeisa Provincial Museum. It was the first museum to be established in Somalia since independence in 1960. The Hargeisa International Airport was also renovated and modernized, with the ultimate aim of equipping the facility to accommodate larger aircraft and offer more flight destinations.Economist Intelligence Unit (Great Britain), Country report: Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, (The Unit: 1986), p.43. Hargeisa campaign (Hargeisa Holocaust) Up to 90% of Hargeisa (2nd largest city of the Somali Republic) was destroyed. Dictator Siad Barre's response to the SNM attacks was of unparalleled brutality, with explicit aims of handling the "Isaaq problem", he ordered "the shelling and aerial bombardment of the major cities in the northwest and the systematic destruction of Isaaq dwellings, settlements and water points.The Siad Barre regime targeted civilian members of the Isaaq group specifically, especially in the cities of Hargeisa and Burco and to that end employed the use of indiscriminate artillery shelling and aerial bombardment against civilian populations belonging to the Isaaq clan.Geldenhuys, p.131 =Reconstruction= After the collapse of the Somali central government and the unilateral declaration of independence of the Republic of Somaliland, a slow process of infrastructural reconstruction subsequently began in Hargeisa and other towns in the country. Since 1991, Hargeisa has undergone a large- scale facelift. The renovations have been largely financed by local entrepreneurs, as well as Somali expatriates sending remittance funds to relatives in the region through some of the various Somali-owned money transfer operators. Most of the destroyed residential and commercial buildings have since been reconstructed, with many newer structures erected. Single- story buildings downtown are also progressively giving way to multi-story high-rises. Geography =Location and habitat= Hargeisa is located in a mountainous area, in an enclosed valley of the northwestern Galgodon (Ogo) highlands. It sits at an elevation of above sea level. Hargeisa city The city used to be surrounded by forest when it was smaller in size, but the countryside around it still has small junipers. Near Hargeisa are the fertile Sheikh and Daallo mountains, which receive large amounts of rain. South of the city is the Haud savannah (Baligubadle), which attracts many different species of wildlife to graze in the area. Hargeisa is situated near the town of Gabiley, which serves as an agricultural centre in Somaliland. That town's Allay-Baday area produces tons of tomatoes and onions each month during the rainy season. The town of Arabsiyo is also located nearby, and is noted for its lemon production. Due to its relative fertility and greenery, wild animals come to the Hargeisa area to either breed or graze on the grassland savannah. Fauna that can be found in rural sections of the city include the kudu, wild boars, Somali wild ass, warthogs, antelopes, Somali sheep, goats, camels, and many different types of birds. There are also a number of both public and private menageries. South of Hargeisa is a grassland savannah, which attracts many types of wildlife to the area, including lions and leopards. Climate Hargeisa has a semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh). The city generally features warm winters and hot summers. However, despite its location in the tropics, due to the high altitude Hargeisa seldom experiences either very hot or very cold weather. This is a trait rarely seen in regions with a semi-arid climates. The city receives the bulk of its precipitation between the months of April and September, averaging just under of rainfall annually. Average monthly temperatures in Hargeisa range from in the months of December and January to in the month of June. Administration House of Representatives. Situated in the Woqooyi Galbeed province of the Somaliland region, Hargeisa is the seat of the regional parliament, the presidential palace and government ministries.Hargeisa City Hall . Retrieved on 2012-10-17. (2000 est.) The municipal administration is led by Abdurrahman Mahmoud Aidiid (Soltelco). A member of the Peace, Unity, and Development Party (Kulmiye), the ruling political association in the region, he was elected Mayor on 14 April 2013 by a quorum of 24 city councilors. Districts The Hargeisa municipality is divided into five districts which contain sub-districts = Ibrahim Koodbuur District (Northwest Hargeisa) = This district is made up of four sub-districts: Guul-Alle, Jig Jiga-Yar, Xeero Awr and Lixle = 26 June (North-central Hargeisa) = This district is made up of four sub-districts: Gol-Jano, Cayngal, Durya and Almis = Ga’can Libaax District (Northeast Hargeisa) = This district is made up of seven sub-districts: Mohamoud Harbi, Sheikh Madar, Waraaba Salaan, Sheekh Yusuf, Sheikh Nuur, Aw Adan, and New Hargeisa = Ahmed Dhagah District (Southwest Hargeisa) = This district is made up of five sub-districts: Mohamed Ali, 18th May and Farah Nur, Sheikh Muse Duale and Abdi Idan (‘Ayaxa’) = Mohamoud Haybe District (Southeast Hargeisa) = This district is made up of five sub-districts: Burco Durey, Sheikh Shukri, Qudhac-Dheer, Jameeco Weyn and Maxamed Mooge Demographics In 2005 according to the UNDP the city had a population of 560,028, while according to CIA factbook, Hargeisa has estimated population of around 760,000 as of 2015. As of 2019, it is estimated that Hargeisa has a population of 1.2 million The urban area occupies , with a population density of . Economy Hargeisa is the financial hub to many entrepreneurial industries ranging from finance, retail, imports/export warehouses to gem cutters, construction, food processing, textiles and livestock trading. Qani Abdi Alin, owner of the Dheeman clothing firm, at the launch of the Partnership Fund for local commercial ventures. In June 2012, the Partnership Fund for the private sector in the Somaliland region was launched at Hargeisa's Ambassador Hotel. Part of the larger Partnership for Economic Growth program, the initiative will see $900,000 USD allocated to 13 private local businesses, as well as the creation of 250 new full-time jobs, half of which are to be earmarked for youth and one third for women. The fund is expected to improve job opportunities for 1,300 entrepreneurs through ameliorated product distribution and investment in new technologies and processing facilities. Eligibility is determined through a competitive and transparent selection process overseen by the Partnership program, the Somaliland Chamber of Commerce, and government officials. Transportation Bus station in Hargeisa Buses are the most commonly used form of public transportation in Hargeisa. They travel on a number of routes serving nearly all of the city's districts. Intercity bus services are also available, which connect Hargeisa to other major northern Somali cities and towns, including Burao, Berbera and Borama. With the growth of urban development, several new taxi companies have sprung up in Hargeisa. Entrance to the Hargeisa International Airport Hargeisa Taxi is another of the recent taxi firms based in Hargeisa. It has a fleet of four small compact cars and seven passenger minivans, in addition to around 19 other vehicles. GPS devices installed by the Sahal Technology firm allow the cab company's dispatch office to monitor its taxis to ensure that they travel within the speed limit. The office can also disable the vehicles online in the event of theft. Other new taxi firms serving Hargeisa include Dalhis Taxi and Marodi Jeh Taxi. Fares are inexpensive, costing between 15,000 and 18,000 Somaliland shillings ($2–$3 USD) per ride, with the national Somali shilling also widely accepted. For air transportation, the city is served by the Hargeisa International Airport. The Somali-owned private carriers Daallo Airlines and Jubba Airways offer domestic flights from the facility to various other towns in Somalia, such as Mogadishu, Bosaso and Galkayo. Trips to international destinations are also available, including to Djibouti and Dubai. It has recently gained more airlines such as Ethiopian Airlines and flydubai. Education Various primary schools and nurseries are dispersed throughout Hargeisa. There are also several state-run and privately owned secondary and high schools in the city. Among these are the SOS Sheikh Secondary School and Abaarso School of Science and Technology, the latter of which is the pre-eminent secondary institution in the area. Abaarso School is located about west of Hargeisa. In terms of post-secondary education, the city is home to a number of colleges and universities. The main institutions of higher learning include the University of Hargeisa, Admas University College, Somaliland University of Technology, Gollis University, New Generation University, Hope University and Marodijeh International University. Additionally, the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital offers nursing programmes to students. Notes External links * Hargeisa City Government web Site (Archive) * Hargeisa, Somalia * Category:British Somaliland in World War II Category:Capitals in Africa Category:Cities in Somaliland Category:Populated places in Maroodi Jeex "

❤️ William Tite 🐌

"Sir William Tite (7 February 179820 April 1873) was an English architect who served as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was particularly associated with various London buildings, with railway stations and cemetery projects. He was a Member of Parliament from 1855 until his death. Early life and career Tite was born in the parish of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London, in February 1798, the son of a merchant in Russian goods named Arthur Tite. He was articled to David Laing, architect of the new Custom House, and surveyor to the Parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East. Tite assisted Laing in the rebuilding of St Dunstan's church: according to an article published in the Architect in 1869, Tite entirely designed the new building, Laing himself having no knowledge of Gothic architecture. In 1827–8 Tite built the Scottish church in Regent Square, St Pancras, London, for Edward Irving, in a Gothic Revival style, partly inspired by York Minster, and ten years later collaborated with Charles Robert Cockerell in designing the London & Westminster Bank head office in Lothbury, also in the city. Royal Exchange The Royal Exchange, c. 1855 The rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, opened in 1844, was Tite's greatest undertaking. The previous building was destroyed by fire in 1838, and a competition to design a replacement was held the following year. When this proved unproductive, a second limited competition was held between Tite, Charles Robert Cockerell, George Gwilt, Charles Barry and Robert Smirke. Tite's winning design has an imposing eight- column entrance portico, inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, while the other sides of the building are based on Italian renaissance models. Railway stations Tite was the architect for the Eastern Counties, London and Blackwall, Gravesend and South Western Railways, and in France those between Paris and Rouen and Rouen and Le Havre; an article in the Architect named the station at Rouen, spanning nearly ninety feet, as an example of his structural skill. Tite designed many of the early railway stations in Britain, including: *The termini of the London and South Western Railway at Vauxhall (Nine Elms), Southampton Terminus, Gosport and Windsor Riverside *The termini of the London and Blackwall Railway at Minories and Blackwall (1840) *Carnforth, Carlisle Citadel and Lancaster Castle railway stations (1846-1847) *The majority of the stations on the Caledonian and Scottish Central railways, including Edinburgh (1847-1848) (not built) and Perth (1847-1848) *Barnes, Barnes Bridge, Chiswick and Kew Bridge railway stations (1849) *Stations between Yeovil and Exeter, including Axminster and the now-demolished Honiton. His station at Carlisle was built in a neo-Tudor style with a frontage of about 400 feet, broken into several masses. At the centre of the façade was an arcade of five arches, with buttresses and pinnacles. The refreshment rooms had "an open timber roof, and oriels or bays, reminiscent of the dining-hall of olden times". Cemeteries Head Stone of William Tite at the Catacombs of West Norwood Cemetery July 2014. As a company director of the South Metropolitan Cemetery Company he laid out his first cemetery at Norwood in 1836 and designed several significant monuments and chapels there. While previous cemetery designs had followed a classical style, Tite's design was the first to employ the Gothic revival alongside landscaping, which was subsequently judged to be the archetype for future cemeteries.English Heritage The Register of Parks and Gardens: Cemeteries: "West Norwood (South Metropolitan Cemetery, 1837) saw the first cemetery buildings erected in the Gothic style (these being by William Tite) and from this point, Gothic Revival began to challenge Neo-Greek as the dominant style. By the mid 19th century, it was generally accepted that Gothic was the correct style for a Christian cemetery and for the latter part of the century onwards the great majority of cemetery buildings were in this manner" Between 1853 and 1854, with Sydney Smirke, he landscaped Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey for the London Necropolis Company. Maintaining his associations with railways, this cemetery was served by a dedicated train service from London Necropolis railway station, next to Waterloo station, in central London. Between 1858 and 1859 he built a memorial church in the Byzantine style at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Later life Tite's active work as an architect ceased about twenty years before his death (in recognition of his contributions, however, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1856). In 1851 he visited Italy after a grave illness. In 1854 he stood for parliament, unsuccessfully contesting Barnstaple as a Liberal, but the following year he was returned as Member of Parliament for Bath, which he represented until his death. He keenly opposed Sir George Gilbert Scott's proposal to build the new Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other government buildings adjacent to the Treaury in Whitehall in the Gothic style. He was knighted in 1869, and was made a Companion of the Bath the next year. Tite had a wide knowledge of English literature and was a good linguist and a lover of old books. He was an elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1835, and of the Society of Antiquaries in 1839. He was President of the Camden Society and of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was a director of the London and Westminster Bank and Governor of the Bank of Egypt; in 1856 he was nominated a member of the Select Committee on the Bank Charter. He was a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, a magistrate of Middlesex and Somerset and Deputy-Lieutenant for London. He was also a Governor of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, where he is commemorated by the William Tite Scholarship, for the best student in the first year, with the highest aggregate marks in Anatomy and Physiology. After over 125 years, this prize has been subsumed into King's College London, where it is still awarded for excellence in the pre-clinical medical course. He died on 20 April 1873 at Torquay and was interred in the catacombs of his South Metropolitan Cemetery.Obituary, The Architect, 26 April 1873, p. 225. Tite Street, which runs north-west from London's Chelsea Embankment, is named after him. Tite was a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, largely responsible for the construction of Chelsea Embankment. Gallery of architectural work File:London Royal Exchange.jpgRoyal Exchange, London File:Royal Exchange from above.jpgAerial View, Royal Exchange, London File:Royal Exchange London.JPGPortico, Royal Exchange, London File:West Norwood Cemetery.jpgGothic entrance, West Norwood Cemetery Notes References * S. P. Parissien Tite, Sir William (1798–1873) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription needed) Attribution: * External links 41 Lothbury, London & Westminster Bank building, now refurbished as serviced offices * Friend of West Norwood Cemetery * Category:1798 births Category:1873 deaths Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:19th- century English architects Category:Gothic Revival architects Category:English landscape architects Category:Knights Bachelor Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath Category:Burials at West Norwood Cemetery Category:UK MPs 1852–1857 Category:UK MPs 1857–1859 Category:UK MPs 1859–1865 Category:UK MPs 1865–1868 Category:UK MPs 1868–1874 Category:Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal Category:Presidents of the Royal Institute of British Architects Category:People from the City of London Category:Members of the Metropolitan Board of Works Category:Railway architects Category:Architects from London "