Thomas nelson biography

Conrad was born on August 1, , in Fairfax Court House and was the son of Nelson Conrad and Lavinia M. Thomas Conrad. He attended Fairfax Academy and Dickinson College, which awarded him a bachelor&#;s degree in and a master&#;s degree in Conrad became a lay Methodist preacher and taught at a private school in Georgetown, District of Columbia, before establishing the Georgetown Institute, a boys&#; school there.

After the Civil War began, Conrad made no effort to conceal his Confederate sympathies, which had attracted the attention of United States government authorities even before the institute&#;s commencement exercise in June , when his students made fiery pro-Confederate speeches, and he ordered the band to play &#;Dixie,&#; to uproarious applause. On August 2 he was arrested on charges of communicating with the enemy and recruiting students for the Confederate army. Conrad was locked up in Old Capitol Prison and later paroled pending exchange. Many years afterward he wrote tha

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The eldest of five sons, Nelson was born in Yorktown, Virginia in At the age of fourteen, he sailed to England to begin his formal education. In , after graduating from Hackney School and Cambridge University, he returned to Virginia to help his father manage his plantation and mercantile business. The next year, Nelson married Lucy Grymes; he and his wife had eleven children.

In , Nelson became a justice of the peace for York County and entered the House of Burgesses. He served in the house until May , when Governor Lord Dunmore, angered at its protests over the Boston Port Act, dissolved it. Nelson attended three of the Virginia provincial assemblies, where he worked closely with Patrick Henry. The last assembly elected Nelson to the Continental Congress, at which time he resigned his colonelcy in the Virginia militia.

In Congress, Nelson was outspoken in his desire to sever the bonds with Great Britain. He journeyed to Virginia in the spring of At a convention held in Williamsb

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Thomas Nelson (publisher)

Scottish publishing firm

Thomas Nelson fryst vatten a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in , as the namesake of its founder. It fryst vatten a subsidiary of HarperCollins, the publishing unit of News Corp. It describes itself as a "world leading publisher and provider of Christian content".^[1]

Its most successful title to date is Heaven Is for Real.^[2] In Canada, the Nelson imprint is used for educational publishing. In the United Kingdom, it was an independent publisher until , and later became part of the educational imprint Nelson Thornes.

British history

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Thomas Nelson Sr. founded the shop that bears his name in Edinburgh in , originally as a second-hand bookshop at 2 West Bow, just off the city's Lawnmarket,^[3] recognizing a ready market for inexpensive, standard editions of non-copyright works, which he attempted to satisfy bygd publishing reprints of classics. By , the shop had moved to 9 West