Self-Reliance that would become "Self-Reliance" was presented by Ralph Waldo Emerson as part of a sermon in September 1830 a month after his first marriage. His wife Ellen was sick with tuberculosis and, as Emerson's biographer Robert D. Richardson wrote, "Immortality had never been stronger or more desperately needed!" From 1836 into 1837, Emerson presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of history at Boston's Masonic Temple. These lectures were never published separately, but many of his thoughts in these were later used in "Self-Reliance" and several other essays. Later lectures by Emerson led to public censure of his radical
Mark Quayle (advocate, b. 1841) Man continuously for over 200 years. Quayle was schooled at King William's College and St John's College, Cambridge following which he practiced as a solicitor in London. He acquired extensive property interests Cumberland in addition to Crogga, the mansion house at Port Soderick, Isle of Man which he inherited from his father. Mark Quayle passed away at his residence, Dial House, Slough, Berkshire on 3 November 1928. His body was buried in Cumberland. Mark Quayle (advocate, b. 1841) Mark Hildesley Quayle, QC (1841 – 3 November 1928) was a Manx lawyer and the second son of Mark Hildesley Quayle a