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4 unusual facts about Georgian era


Francis Hotel, Bath

In the Georgian period, John Wood set out to restore Bath to what he believed was its former ancient glory as one of the most important and significant cities in England.

Georgian era

Philanthropists and writers such as Hannah More, Thomas Coram, Robert Raikes and Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, began to address the social ills of the day, and saw the founding of hospitals, Sunday schools and orphanages.

She married Prince Albert, who was of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and so, when their son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales succeeded as Edward VII, that House gained the British throne.

The so-called March of the Blanketeers saw 400 spinners and weavers march from Manchester to London in March 1817 to hand the Government a petition.



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Chacombe

The house has a large Elizabethan porch and a late-17th-century staircase, and was remodelled in the Georgian era.

Jonathan Wathen-Waller

Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller, 1st Baronet, GCH (6 October 1769 - 1 January 1853), was an English eye surgeon, who practiced in London during the latter part of Georgian era.