HULL 



HUMANE SOCIETY 



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'I'lie docks mid l>a.sins, emnpriaillg an area of 



Upwards uf 200 acres, have IMTII coiislriirlrd H1H-" 

 177J. Tlii- Victoria I),n-k (1S.VMS4) covers '.X) 

 acres, exclusive of two large timler ] Kinds and 

 tidal kiMns which contain an area of a I tout 9 

 ; it partly occupies the Bite of an old 

 -1 \\nli H battery of twenty-one pins, which 

 till IM'I ...iiiiii.-iii.l.-.l the entrance of Hull Ko.-uU 

 and i In- I lumber. Tin- Albert Dock (24J acres) was 

 opeiiril in lsr>!>; and the Alexandra Dock (40 

 acn^i iii ISS;{, on the same day as the Hull and 

 Bai nslcy 1 tail way. Hull was one of the first jwirts in 

 Kiiu'land to engage in the whale-fishery, an enter- 

 I iU" which has been abandoned; but its fisheries 

 lor edible fish employ, in conjunction with 

 tlioM> of Grimshy, large fleets of boats, attended 

 bv strain auxiliaries. Hull is a principal steam- 

 ]iacket station, and ocean -steamers ply regularly to 

 many of the principal ports of Belgium, Holland, 

 Denmark, Russia, Germany, and Scandinavia. 

 Its home trade is also very extensive. It is the 

 great outlet for the woollen and cotton goods of 

 tin- midland counties, with which it has direct com- 

 munication, by means of railway, river, or canal. 

 It is the chief entrepdt for German and Scandi- 

 navian oversea trade. There is also regular steam 

 communication with New York and Boston ; and 

 an Australian trade and a very important trade 

 with India have been inaugurated. Hull ranks 

 third among British ports, the average yearly value 

 of its imports exceeding 20,000,000, of its exports 

 16,000,000. From its geographical position it 

 is confidently believed that, even were the interior 

 of the country canalised as far as Leeds, the port 

 at the mouth of the Humber would continue to 

 maintain the position of third entrepot of the 

 kingdom. Shipbuilding yards are in operation ; 

 and, in addition to iron ships, important iron- 

 clads have been built here for British and several 

 foreign governments. The chief manufactures are 

 those principally to which a flourishing port gives 

 rise, as ropes, canvas, chain, chain-cables, machin- 

 ery, &c. Many mills of various kinds are carried 

 on, as well as chemical factories, tanneries, and 

 sugar-refineries. Seed-crushing for oil is also an 

 important staple industry, in which a large amount 

 of capital is invested. Constituted the free borough 

 of Kingston-on-Hull by Edward I. in 1299, the 

 town owed much to its great merchant-house, the 

 De la Poles, whose head, Michael, in 1385 was 

 created Earl of Suffolk. In 1642 the refusal of its 

 governor, Sir John Hotham, to admit Charles 

 within its walls marked the outbreak of the Civil 

 War, during which Hull was twice besieged by 

 the royalists. It was made the seat of a suffragan 

 bishop in 1534, and again in 1891. Since 1885 

 Hull has returned three instead of two members to 

 parliament The Hymers Library was given to the 

 town in 1893, in wnich year there was a great 

 docket's strike, with riots and incendiary fires in 

 timlter yards. Pop. ( 1851 ) 84,690 ; ( 1881 ) 165,690; 

 (1891) 199,991. 



See local works by Gent (1735; new ed. 1869), Frost 

 Ms-_7), Symons (1862). Sheahan (1864), and Tindall 

 Wildridge ( 1888) ; also Freeman's Emjlish Tmmt ( 1883 ). 



Hull, the chief town of Ottawa county, Queliec, 

 is on the Ottawa Hi ver, opposite Ottawa (q.v. ), with 

 which it is connected by a suspension bridge. It 



lias mills, and manufacture axes, matches, and 

 wooden wares. Pop. ( 1881 ) 6890; ( 1891 ) 1 1,264. 



Hull, WILLIAM, general, was born at Derby, 

 Connecticut, in 1753, fought in the war of inde- 

 pendence, and governed Michigan territory in 

 1805-12. In 1812 he was sent with an ill-found 



army of 1500 men to defend Detroit ; there he wan 

 l-ii v.it IK, in -upplie*, Hhnt in by British and Indian*, 

 and ultimately comp-ll-<I to mirn-ndi-r. The 

 eminent needed a *ra|M*gnat, and Hull wa* ' 

 by court-martial and senUMieed to lie shot. The 

 sentence, however, wan never carried ont, and he 

 died on his farm at Newton, M;o*wu-hiiM-t i-, in 1825. 



His nephew, ISAAC Hri.L, naval officer, wan Inirn 

 at Derby, Connecticut, 9th March 1773, became a 

 (.il>in-hov at fourteen, rme to the command of a 

 ship in tin- \\Vst. Indian trade, and in 1798 entered 

 tin- newly-established American navy as a fourth- 

 lieutenant. He wan appointed to the i'i,n.\titiitinn 

 frigate, which he commanded an captain from 1806. 

 Hull was an able seaman, and in July 1812 his 

 skill in sailing his ship enabled him to ewa|e from 

 an English squadron, after a pursuit of three days 

 and nights. On August 19 of the same year he 

 captured the British frigate Guerriere, forty-four 

 guns, after a close action of thirty minutes ; the 

 Constitution losing fourteen killed and wounded, 

 the Guerriere seventy-nine. The Guerriere was wt 

 injured that she had to be burned ; while Hull's 

 frigate escaped with such slight damage as to gain 

 for her the name of 'Old Ironsides.' Hull received 

 a medal from congress, swords of honour, and the 

 freedom of several cities. He afterwards com- 

 manded squadrons in the Mediterranean and 

 Pacific, retired in 1841, and died in Philadelphia, 

 13th February 1843. See the Life by General 

 James Grant Wilson (New York,. 1889). 



Hiillah. JOHN PYKE, the pioneer of music for 

 the people, was Inirn at Worcester, 27th Jane 1812. 

 He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and 

 in 1836 composed The Village Coquettes to Charles 

 Dickens 's libretto. In 1840 he began popular singing- 

 classes in Exeter Hall, London, in which, during a 

 course of twenty years' teaching, lie trained thou- 

 sands to use their voice in singing. He was for 

 several years professor of Vocal Music in King's 

 College, and taught at other schools and college?, in 

 the metropolis ; and from 1874 to 1882 was appointed 

 inspector of training-schools for the United King- 

 dom. Hullah, who followed a modification of 

 Wilhem's system, had little sympathy with recent 

 developments of modern music, and opposed the 

 'Tonic Sol-fa' method. He published amongst 

 other works a History of Modern Music ( 1862) and 

 The Third Period of Musical History (1865). Of 

 his songs, ' The Three Fishers ' and ' The Storm ' 

 attained wide popularity. He died in London, 

 21st February 1884. See the Life by his wife 

 (1886). 



Hulsean Lectures, &c. The Rev. John 

 Hulse, born at Middlewich, Cheshire, in 1708, 

 educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and 

 died in 1789, bequeathed his property to the uni- 

 versity, for the founding of two divinity scholar 

 ships in St John's College, the Hulsean Prize, the 

 office of Christian Advocate (in 1860 changed into 

 the Hulsean Professorship of Divinity), and that 

 of Hulsean Lecturer or Christian Preacher. The 

 lecturer, appointed annually, must deliver at least 

 four lectures before the university, although the 

 number required was originally twenty, afterwards 

 reduced to eight, and since 1860 to four. The 

 subjects are 'the Evidence for Revealed Religion ; 

 the Truth and Excellence of Christ ianitv : Pro- 

 phecies and Miracles ; Direct or Collateral Proofs 

 of the Christian Religion, esj>eciaily the Collateral 

 Argument*; the most difficult Texts or Obscure 

 Parts of Holy Scripture.' Among the lecturers have 

 been Trench, Christopher Wordsworth, Ellicott, 

 Dean Howson, Farrar, Dr E. A. Abbott, and 

 Bishop Boyd Carj>enter. 



Humane Society, THE, was formed in 1774 

 by Dr Hawes and Dr Cogan and thirty-two others, 



