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ABECEDARIANS , a See also:nickname given to certain extreme See also:Anabaptists (q.v.), who regarded the teaching of the See also:Holy Spirit as all that was necessary, and so despised all human learning
and even the See also:power of See also:reading the written word.
A BECKETT, See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
GILBERT See also:ABBOTT (1811-1856), See also:English writer,
was See also:born in See also:north See also:London on the 9th of See also:January 1811. He belonged to a See also:family claiming descent from the See also:father of St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Becket. His See also:elder See also:brother, See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William a Beckett (1806-1869), became See also:chief See also:justice of See also:Victoria (See also:Australia). Gilbert Abbott a Beckett was educated at See also:Westminster school, and was called to the See also:bar at See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray's See also:Inn in 1841. He edited See also:Figaro in London, and was one of the See also:original See also:staff of See also:Punch and a contributor all his See also:life. He was. an active journalist on The Times and The See also:Morning See also:Herald, contributed a See also:series of See also:light articles to The Illustrated London See also:News, conducted in 1846 The Almanack of the See also:Month and found See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to produce some fifty or sixty plays, among them dramatized versions of See also:Dickens's shorter stories in collaboration with See also:Mark See also:Lemon. As poor-See also:law See also:commissioner he presented a valuable See also:report to the See also:home secretary regarding scandals in connexion with the See also:Andover
See also:Union, and in 1849 he became a See also:metropolitan See also:police See also:magistrate. He died at See also:Boulogne on the 30th of See also:August 1856 of typhus See also:fever.
His eldest son GILBERT See also:ARTHUR A BECKETT (1837—1891) was born at See also:Hammersmith on the 7th of See also:April 1837. He went up to See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, as a Westminster See also:scholar in 1855, graduating in 186o. He was entered at See also:Lincoln's Inn, but gave his See also:attention chiefly to the See also:drama, producing Diamonds and See also:Hearts at the Haymarket in 1867, which was followed by other light comedies.
His pieces include numerous burlesques and pantomimes, the libretti of See also:Savonarola (See also:Hamburg, 1884) and of The See also:Canterbury Pilgrims (See also:Drury See also:Lane, 1884) for the See also:music of Dr (afterwards Sir) C. V. See also:Stanford. The Happy See also:Land (See also:Court See also:Theatre, 1873), a See also:political See also:burlesque of W. S. Gilbert's Wicked See also:World, was written in collaboration with F. L. Tomline. For the last ten years of his life he was on the See also:regular staff of Punch. his See also:health was seriously affected in 1889 by the See also:death of his only son, and he died on the 15th of See also:October 1891.
A younger son, ARTHUR WILLIAM A BECKETT (1844-1909), a well-known journalist and See also:man of letters, was also on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, and gave an See also:account of his father and his own reminiscences in The A Becketts of Punch
(1903). He died in London on the 14th of January 1909. See also M.
H. Spielmann, The See also:History of Punch (1895). ABEDNEGO, the name given in See also:Babylon to See also:Azariah, one of
the companions of See also:Daniel (See also:Dan. i. 7, &c.). It is probably a corruption, perhaps deliberate, of Abednebo, " servant of See also:Nebo," though G. See also:Hoffmann thinks that the original See also:form was Abednergo, for Abednergal, " servant of the See also:god See also:Nergal." C.- H. See also:Toy compares Barnebo, " son of Nebo," of which he
regards See also:Barnabas as a slightly disguised form (Jewish See also:Encyclopaedia).
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