Apart from writing Tom Jones, the English author Henry Fielding also founded which the organization the Bow Street Runners which is seen as the first attempt at creating what unit of London?
"of policing was largely unorganised and lacked a criminal investigation capability, the novelist Henry Fielding (who had been appointed a Magistrate in 1748) introduced the first detective force, known as the Bow Street Runners, in 1753. Fielding's house at 4 Bow Street had been established as a courtroom by the previous owner, in 1739. Fielding's force was made up of eight constables who also investigated crimes handed over to them by the volunteer constables and watchmen. Runners were identified by carrying a tipstaff with the Royal Crown on it, which had a compartment inside to store official identification and documents."
"filthy gutters. Corrupt night-watchmen and thief-takers turn a blind eye to wrongdoing. And dark creatures lurk in back alleys, called from beyond by the desperate with nothing left to lose. But there is a new force on the streets of London; for the author and magistrate Henry Fielding has teamed up with his brother John to form the city’s first police force – the Bow Street Runners. The Fieldings have persuaded parliament to fund their crime-fighting endeavour, but they know that there is something behind the vice – for John Fielding’s blind eyes can see things that others cannot –"
"The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a ""Bildungsroman"" and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book ""Great Novelists and Their Novels"" among the ten best novels of the world. It totals 346,747 words divided into 18 smaller books,"
"library of Dr Richard Mead, physician to George II, was ""Tom Jones"". Mead was a strong and active advocate for Fielding's work, which relates to Fielding's keen interest in the Jacobite rising of 1745. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a ""Bildungsroman"" and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is"
"had its roots in an Act of the Parliament of England of 1673. From the 1730s, local improvement Acts made by town authorities often included provision for paid watchmen or constables to patrol towns at night, while rural areas had to rely on more informal arrangements. In 1737, an Act of Parliament was passed ""for better regulating the Night Watch"" of the City of London which specified the number of paid constables that should be on duty each night. Henry Fielding established the Bow Street Runners in 1749; between 1754 and 1780, Sir John Fielding reorganised Bow Street like a"
"Henry Fielding (1707—1754), who also founded the Bow Street Runners, lived in the manor house for three years, after inheriting it. During this time he spent his fortune and consequently became a professional writer. The house, sited west of the church, was demolished in 1835, though its mullioned windows were probably incorporated into its replacement, which previously was called Fielding's Farm but in 1919 became Church Farm. East Stour, Dorset East Stour is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the North Dorset administrative district, about south of the town of"
"Tom Jones (Edward German) Tom Jones is a comic opera in three acts by Edward German founded upon Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"", with a libretto by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander M. Thompson and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor. After a run in Manchester, England, the opera opened in London at the Apollo Theatre on 17 April 1907 for an initial run of 110 performances. It starred Ruth Vincent as Sophia and Hayden Coffin as Tom Jones. The piece also had a provincial tour and a popular Broadway run in 1907. It then disappeared"
"Tom Jones (Edward German) Tom Jones is a comic opera in three acts by Edward German founded upon Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"", with a libretto by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander M. Thompson and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor. After a run in Manchester, England, the opera opened in London at the Apollo Theatre on 17 April 1907 for an initial run of 110 performances. It starred Ruth Vincent as Sophia and Hayden Coffin as Tom Jones. The piece also had a provincial tour and a popular Broadway run in 1907. It then disappeared"
"Helen Fielding Helen Fielding (born 1958) is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. ""Bridget Jones's Diary"" (1996) and "" "" (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name achieved international success. In a survey conducted by ""The Guardian"" newspaper, ""Bridget Jones’s Diary"" was named as one of the ten novels that best defined"
"1704. The 21st-century uniform of the Chelsea Pensioners maintains the link with the corps, with the buttons showing the initials ""RCI"" for the Royal Corps of Invalids. Compared to regular units the corps has received little attention by historians, with the exception of Edmund Fielding's Regiment – which evolved into a regular foot infantry unit. The corps was founded by James II in autumn 1688. Suspected of pro-catholic sympathies he faced dissent from his nobles and invasion by his protestant nephew and son-in-law William of Orange. Three companies of invalids were formed from army pensioners and posted to garrisons in"
"of street life, beginning in London. Contrary to several popular sources, the Bow Street Runners were not nicknamed ""Robin Redbreasts"", an epithet reserved for the Bow Street Horse Patrol. The horse patrol was organised in 1763 by Richard Ford, Sir John Fielding's successor at Bow Street, who secured a government grant of £600 to establish the force to deal with highway robbery. It was so successful in cutting crime that funding stopped—and highwaymen soon returned. The Patrol was not re-introduced until 1805 following Patrick Colquhoun's campaign. They wore a distinctive scarlet waistcoat under their blue greatcoats. Up to the early"
"Fielding turned Bow Street in a court-like setting in which to conduct examinations. However, his reformed method was not limited to his magisterial activity in Bow Street, but it was also extended outside of the magistrate's office. In fact, since 1749–50 Henry Fielding had begun organizing a group of men with the task of apprehending offenders and taking them to Bow Street for examination and commitment to trial. Such an organized intervention was needed, according to Fielding, because of the difficulties and reluctance of private citizens to apprehend criminals, especially if those were part of a gang — reluctance largely"
"River Thames"". It found receptive audiences far outside London, and inspired similar forces in cities in other countries, notably, New York City, Dublin, and Sydney. Historians of policing credit Colquhoun's innovation as a critical development leading up to Robert Peel's ""new"" police three decades later. Along with the Bow Street Runners, the Thames River Police was eventually absorbed by the Metropolitan Police in the 19th century. Colquhoun's utilitarian approach to the problem – using a cost-benefit analysis to obtain support from businesses standing to benefit – allowed him to achieve what Henry and John Fielding failed for their Bow Street"
"Street and recruiting in the Fleet Street and Farringdon Road area of the City of London, it was known as the 'Printers’ Battalion', drawing volunteers mainly from the nearby printing works of Eyre & Spottiswoode; later two companies were provided by Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers, publisher of the ""Daily Mail"". Among the first officers to be commissioned were George A. Spottiswoode and William Spottiswoode. In 1872 the 2nd City of London absorbed the 48th Middlesex RVC, known as 'Havelock's Temperance Volunteers'. This unit had been founded by the cartoonist and Temperance campaigner George Cruikshank and named after Major-General Sir Henry Havelock,"
"It found receptive audiences far outside London, and inspired similar forces in places in other countries, notably, New York City, Dublin, and Sydney. Historians of policing credit Colquhoun’s innovation as a critical development leading up to Robert Peel’s ""new"" police three decades later. Along with the Bow Street Runners, the Marine Police Force was eventually absorbed by the Metropolitan Police in the 19th century. Colquhoun’s utilitarian approach to the problem – using a cost-benefit argument to obtain support from businesses standing to benefit – allowed him to achieve what Henry and John Fielding failed for their Bow Street detectives. Unlike"
"despite resistance from certain elements of the community who saw them to be a threat to civil liberties. The initial force consisted of two Commissioners, eight Superintendents, 20 Inspectors, 88 Sergeants and 895 Constables. Patrolling the streets within a seven-mile (11 km) radius of Charing Cross, in order to prevent crime and pursue offenders. Between 1829 and 1830, 17 local divisions each with its own police station were established, each lettered A to V, allocating each London borough with a designated letter. These divisions were: A (Westminster); B (Chelsea); C (Mayfair and Soho); D (Marylebone); E (Holborn); F (Kensington); G"
"was ineffective, advocating instead punishments that, in the mind of the criminal, fit the crime. Police Magistrate John Fielding, head of the Bow Street Runners, believed that ""It is much better to prevent even one man from being a rogue than apprehending and bringing forty to justice."" Fielding's Bow Street ""thief takers"", however, were a stipendiary force, and were primarily relegated to policing crime after it was committed. Despite the introduction of the Bow Street Runners and other paid professionals, private citizens were still overwhelmingly responsible for initiating criminal charges against culprits. Research suggests this reliance on the public to"
"Bridget Jones Bridget Jones is a franchise based on a fictional character of the same name created by British writer Helen Fielding. Jones first appeared in Fielding's ""Bridget Jones's Diary"" column in ""The Independent"" in 1995, which - crucially - did not carry any byline. Thus it seemed to be an actual personal diary chronicling the life of Jones as a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life and love with the help of a surrogate ""urban family"" of friends in the 1990s. The column in fact lampooned the obsession of women with women's"
"of the Football Association in 1863, as well as nearby Blackheath Proprietary School and Percival House (Blackheath). With neighbouring Greenwich Park, Blackheath has, since 1981, become well known as the start point of the London Marathon. This maintains a connection with athletics dating back to the establishment of the Blackheath Harriers (now Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club) in 1869. One of the Marathon start routes runs past the entrance to Blackheath High School for Girls, home of Blackheath Fencing Club. There is also a long history of kite flying on the heath. Growing popularity of the sport in recent"
"is evident, for example, in his presiding in 1751 over the trial of the notorious criminal James Field, finding him guilty in a robbery and sentencing him to hang. John Fielding, despite being blind by then, succeeded his older brother as chief magistrate, becoming known as the ""Blind Beak of Bow Street"" for his ability to recognise criminals by their voices alone. In January 1752 Fielding started a fortnightly periodical entitled ""The Covent-Garden Journal"", which he would publish under the pseudonym of ""Sir Alexander Drawcansir, Knt. Censor of Great Britain"" until November of the same year. In this periodical, Fielding"
"offences and offenders, therefore creating a sort of criminal database that could turn useful to officers in their investigating activities. Fielding believed that a national system of criminal information circulating throughout not only the metropolis of London but also throughout the country, would make it certain that offenders would be arrested and brought to justice and, moreover, that anyone contemplating an offence would be deterred from doing so. In addition, he introduced innovations at the Bow Street office that would have great effect on the first procedures of criminal prosecution. Fielding created a court-like setting that could attract and accommodate"
"writer/executive producer on ""The Simpsons"", began a relationship about 1999 and Fielding had two children with him: Dashiell, born in February 2004, and Romy, born in July 2006. Kevin Curran died on 26 October 2016. In 2014, Fielding was one of twenty writers on ""The Sunday Times"" list of Britain's 500 Most Influential and was also featured on the ""London Evening Standard""s 1,000 Most Influential Londoners list. Helen Fielding Helen Fielding (born 1958) is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the"
"a large audience for his examinations of suspected offenders, opened and available for the public for long and regular hours. In doing so, he turned the office from being the mere house of a magistrate to being the Bow Street Magistrates' Court in which several justices were employed in rotation in order to keep the office open for long hours every day. This process of transformation was further amplified by Fielding's success in encouraging the London press to attend and provide their readers with a weekly report on his activity. Just after John Fielding's death in 1780, the crisis of"
"work was ""Tom Jones"" (1749), a meticulously constructed picaresque novel telling the convoluted and hilarious tale of how a foundling came into a fortune. The plot of ""Tom Jones"" is too ingeniously complicated for simple summary; its basis is Tom's alienation from his foster father, Squire Allworthy, and his sweetheart, Sophia Western, and his reconciliation with them after lively and dangerous adventures on the road and in London. The triumph of the book is its presentation of English life and character in the mid-18th century. Every social type is represented, and through them every shade of moral behavior. Fielding's varied"
"a children's play area, Coram's Fields, which refuses entry to adults unaccompanied by children. In 2000, Jamila Gavin published a children's book called ""Coram Boy"" about the Foundling Hospital. The book was adapted into a play by Helen Edmundson, which had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre in London in November 2005 and subsequently had a brief run on Broadway. His story and that of the Foundling Hospital lives on at the Foundling Museum in London. Attribution: Thomas Coram Captain Thomas Coram (c. 1668 – 29 March 1751) was a philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in"
"architects such as John Nash. It would not be until the 19th century that the palace would become the principal London royal residence. A phenomenon of 18th-century London was the coffee house, which became a popular place to debate ideas. Growing literacy and the development of the printing press meant that news became widely available. Fleet Street became the centre of the embryonic British press during the century. Up until 1750, London Bridge was the only crossing over the Thames, but in that year Westminster Bridge was opened. The Bow Street Runners were established in 1749 as a professional police"
"Theatre in London in October 2013. From Here to Eternity (novel) From Here to Eternity is the debut novel of American author James Jones, published by Scribner's in 1951. Set in 1941, the novel focuses on several members of a U.S. Army infantry company stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is loosely based on Jones' experiences in the pre-World War II Hawaiian Division's 27th Infantry and the unit in which he served, Company E (""The Boxing Company""). Fellow company member Hal Gould said that while the novel was based on"
"part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director and historian, best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in history, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin (whom he met at Oxford) wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including ""Do Not Adjust Your Set"" and ""The Frost Report"", before creating ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" with Cambridge graduates Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, and"
"each preceded by a discursive chapter, often on topics unrelated to the book itself. It is dedicated to George Lyttleton. The novel is highly organized, despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the ""three most perfect plots ever planned."" It became a bestseller, with four editions being published in its first year alone. ""Tom Jones"" is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as a very influential English novel. The novel's events occupy eighteen books. The book opens with the narrator stating that the purpose of the novel will be to explore ""human nature."" The"
"of Denbigh, Cecilia Mary Feilding (née Clifford), Dorothie was one of ten children, three boys and seven girls, and a distant relative of Henry Fielding, author of ""Tom Jones"". As a child she was educated at home at Newnham Paddox, Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, and at the Convent of the Assumption in Paris, where she became fluent in French. She made her debut in May 1908 at the age of 18, being presented to the King and Queen of England by her mother. Like many of her siblings, Feilding felt the need to do her part when war broke out. Three"
"written about in English football. Unfortunately many of the primary sources were lost in a fire resulting from a V-1 flying bomb landing on the clubs Boleyn Ground home in 1944. West Ham United grew from largest and last surviving shipbuilder on the Thames, the Thames Ironworks, which was based on either bank of the Lea, at Bow Creek where the Lea meets the Thames. The Thames Ironworks had an initial base at Leamouth, Blackwall and expanded to include a much larger site on the Canning Town side. Blackwall, in Poplar, was traditionally part of the Tower Division of Middlesex,"
"to ""Tom Jones"" by Henry Fielding: ""As with all such accounts, this one appeals to our inner orphan, the sense we have that we are alone and have a lot to learn. Also like ""Tom Jones"", it's funny. ... If it seems strange for Déon, writing in the mid-70s, to resurrect Fielding, his impulse might have had something to do with the political situation at the time, still roiled by the aftermath of the civil unrest of 1968. As we read ""Tom Jones"", we are more or less ignorant of or indifferent to the political climate of Tom's and Fielding's"
"give a new name to those under his service, that is ""Runners"". At the beginning the public was not very willing to this new organisation of law enforcement because the ill practices of thief-takers were not forgotten yet, and it meant also moving a step closer to the establishment of a professional form of policing as in France. The English feared a change in the direction of the French law enforcement system, because the French law was perceived as too intrusive: a loss of the traditional liberties the English were proud of was unacceptable for many. The Bow Street Runners"