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"Sir George Hutchins (died 1705) was an English lawyer and politician, a Member of Parliament and king's serjeant. Life He was the son and heir of Edmund Hutchins of Georgeham in Devon. On 19 May 1666 he entered Gray's Inn, and was called to the bar there in August of the following year. At Easter 1686 Hutchins was made serjeant-at-law by James II, and in May 1689 was chosen king's serjeant to William III, who knighted him the following October. He became Member of Parliament for in the 1690 English general election. In May 1690 he succeeded Sir Anthony Keck as third commissioner of the Great Seal, and acted until the elevation of Sir John Somers as Lord Keeper on 22 March 1693. Hutchins then resumed practice at the bar, and claimed his right to retain his former position of king's serjeant. The judges decided against him, on the ground that the post was merely an office conferred by the crown; but the king settled the question by reappointing him his serjeant on 6 May. He died at his house in Greville Street, Holborn, on 6 July 1705. Family Hutchins married, first, Mary, daughter of Sir William Leman, 1st Baronet, who died in 1695; they had at least three children. His second wife was Sarah, daughter of Sir William Leman, 2nd Baronet, and so niece to his first wife, whom he married in 1697. On the marriage in 1697 of his two daughters, Hutchins gave each of them a portion of £20,000. The husband of Anne, the second daughter, was William Peere Williams. The younger daughter, Mary, married Richard Minshall. Notes ;Attribution Category:Year of birth missing Category:1705 deaths Category:English barristers Category:Serjeants- at-law (England) Category:English MPs 1690–1695 Category:Members of Gray's Inn Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Barnstaple "
"David Campbell (born October 3, 1957) is an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Campbell is an attorney from Nashua, New Hampshire. He graduated from Harvard College and Suffolk University Law School. In 2013, Nashua police investigated him for running over some ducks at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua. ReferencesExternal links * Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:New Hampshire Democrats Category:Members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Category:Harvard College alumni Category:Suffolk University Law School alumni Category:Politicians from Nashua, New Hampshire Category:New Hampshire lawyers Category:Place of birth missing (living people) "
"Tartu in 1870 after the city had been rebuilt The Great fire of Tartu took place on and destroyed most of the city of Tartu in what is now Estonia. The fire destroyed the centre of the city. History Tartu had lost most of its major stone buildings when they were blown up in September 1708 on the orders of Peter the Great during the Great Northern War. The Russian tsar ordered that the buildings in Tartu (then called Dorpat) should be mined to prevent the Swedes from using the town as a military base. This was just one of the sieges which Tartu was subjected to during its history, but this time the city was left burning and in ruins. When the war finished, the population returned to Tartu, and the desperate need for houses created an abundance of new wooden buildings. The buildings had to be built of wood as the Tsar had laid orders that no stone buildings were to be built anywhere except in the new Russian capital St. Petersburg. The first large fire occurred in 1763. The following year Catherine the Great visited, and some rebuilding took place. The "Great Fire" occurred in 1775. It started in the backyard of Knights Street () near St. John's Church. A strong wind allowed the fire to spread from building to building, and the wooden bridges allowed the fire to cross the river to do further damage. Nearly 200 wooden buildings were destroyed and over 40 stone buildings. The city was further damaged when eighteen buildings were purposefully destroyed to create fire breaks. At the end of the fire only 160 buildings remained: most of these were to the north of the city. There were only forty left standing in the former centre of the city. Uppsala House, which is near St. John's church, claims to be one of the few buildings now remaining that date from before the fire. Some of its timbers have been dated to 1750.The Town Hall of Tartu, tartu.ee, retrieved 30 December 2013 After the fire Following the fire the city was rebuilt. After the fire the rules that had required that there be no new stone buildings were reversed and it was now required to construct not only new buildings but also fences and outbuildings without using wood. The cornerstone of Tartu Town Hall was laid in 1782 and completed under the command of Johann Heinrich Bartholomäus Walter. Catherine the Great found 25,000 rubles to ease the situation in Tartu after the fire, and the money was used to build a stone bridge across the river. The remains of this bridge can still be seen beneath the river Emajõgi but the main part of the bridge was destroyed during the Second World War.Tartu in your Pocket References Category:18th-century fires Category:History of Tartu Category:Fires in Russia Category:18th century in Estonia Category:Urban fires in Europe "