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DOUBLEDAY, THOMAS (1790–1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 441 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOUBLEDAY, See also:THOMAS (1790–1870) , See also:English politician and author, was See also:born at See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne in See also:February 1790. In See also:early See also:life he adopted the views of See also:William See also:Cobbett, and was active in promoting the agitation which resulted in the passing of the Reform See also:Bill of 1832. As secretary of the See also:Northern See also:Political See also:Union of Whigs and Radicals he took a prominent See also:part in forwarding the interests of See also:Earl See also:Grey and the reforming party. In 1858–1859 he was a member of the See also:council of the Northern Reform Union; and to the last he was a keen observer of political events. He succeeded his See also:father, See also:George Doubleday, as partner in a See also:firm of See also:soap manufacturers at Newcastle, but devoted his See also:attention rather to literature than to See also:mercantile affairs. On the failure of the firm he obtained the See also:office of registrar of St See also:Andrew's See also:parish, Newcastle, a See also:post which he held until appointed secretary to the See also:coal See also:trade. He died at Bulman's See also:Village, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the 18th of See also:December 187o. In 1832 Doubleday published an See also:Essay on Mundane Moral See also:Government, and in 1842 he attacked some of the principles of See also:Malthus in his True See also:Law of See also:Population. He also wrote A Political Life of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel (See also:London, 1856); A See also:Financial, Statistical and Monetary See also:History of See also:England from r688 (London, 1847); See also:Matter for Materialists o, -_- gyn. f TTIL, when it began to be superseded by coat and waistcoat. The doublet was introduced into England from See also:France, and was originally padded for See also:defence or warmth. " Doublet " is also used of a pair or couple—a thing that is the facsimile of another; as in See also:philology, one of two words differing in See also:form, but represented by an identical See also:root, as " alarm " or " alarum "; in See also:optics, of a pair of lenses, combined, for example, to correct See also:aberration.

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work of the See also:lapidary a doublet is a counterfeit See also:gem, made by cementing two pieces of See also:plain See also:glass or crystal on each See also:side of a layer of glass (coloured to represent the See also:stone counterfeited); a thin portion of a genuine stone may he cemented upon an inferior one, as a layer of See also:diamond upon a See also:topaz, or See also:ruby on a See also:garnet.

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