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Before 24th December 1818 [his father] Benjamin Joule (age 34) and [his mother] Alice Prescott (age 35) were married.
On 24th December 1818 James Prescott Joule was born to Benjamin Joule (age 34) and Alice Prescott (age 35) at New Bailey Street, Salford.
In 1836 [his mother] Alice Prescott (age 53) died.
On 18th August 1847 James Prescott Joule (age 28) and Amelia Grimes (age 33) were married. They had three children.
In 1850 James Prescott Joule (age 31) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1852 James Prescott Joule (age 33) was awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society for his paper on the mechanical equivalent of heat, printed in the Philosophical Transactions for 1850'
On 6th September 1854 [his wife] Amelia Grimes (age 40) died.
In 1858 [his father] Benjamin Joule (age 74) died.
1882. John Collier (age 31). Portrait of James Prescott Joule (age 63).
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 11th October 1889 James Prescott Joule (age 70) died.