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See also:ACLAND, See also:SIR See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:WENTWORTH, See also:BART . (1815-1900), See also:English physician and See also:man of learning, was See also:born near See also:Exeter on the 23rd of See also:August 1815, and was the See also:fourth son of Sir 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 Dyke Acland (1787-1871). Educated at See also:Harrow and at 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, he was elected See also:fellow of All Souls in 184o, and then studied See also:medicine in See also:London and See also:Edinburgh. Returning to Oxford, he was appointed See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee's reader in See also:anatomy at Christ Church in 1845, and in 1851 See also:Radcliffe librarian and physician to the Radcliffe infirmary. Seven years later he became regius See also:professor of medicine, a See also:post which he retained till 1894. He was also a See also:curator of the university galleries and of the Bodleian Library, and from 1858 to 1887 he represented his university on the See also:General Medical See also:Council, of which he served as See also:president from 1874 to 1887. He was created a See also:baronet in 1890, and ten years later, on the 16th of See also:October r9oo, he died at his See also:house in Broad See also:Street, Oxford. Acland took a leading See also:part in the revival of the Oxford medical school and in introducing the study of natural See also:science into the university. As Lee's reader he began to See also:form a collection of anatomical and physiological preparations on the See also:plan of See also:John See also:Hunter, and the See also:establishment of the Oxford University museum, opened in 1861, as a centre for the encouragement of the study of science, especially in relation to medicine, was largely due to his efforts. " To Henry Acland," said his lifelong friend, John See also:Ruskin, " See also:physiology was an en-trusted See also:gospel of which he was the solitary preacher to the See also:heathen," but on the other See also:hand his thorough classical training preserved science at Oxford from too abrupt a severance from the humanities. In See also:conjunction with See also:Dean See also:Liddell, he revolutionized the study of See also:art and See also:archaeology, so that the cultivation of these subjects, for which, as Ruskin declared, no one at Oxford cared before that 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, began to flourish in the university. Acland was also interested in questions of public See also:health.
He served on the royal See also:commission on sanitary See also:laws in See also:England and See also:Wales in 1869, and published a study of the outbreak of See also:cholera at Oxford in 1854, together with various See also:pamphlets on sanitary matters. His memoir on the See also:topography of the See also:Troad, with panoramic plan (1839), was among the fruits of a cruise which he made in the Mediterranean for the See also:sake of his health.
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