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See also:ADOLPHUS, See also:JOHN LEYCESTER (1795-1862) , See also:English lawyer and author, was the son of John Adolphus (1768-1845), a well-known See also:London See also:barrister who wrote a See also:History of See also:England to 1783 (1802), a History of See also:France from 1790 (1803) and other See also:works. He was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' School and at St. John's See also:College, 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. In 1821 he published Letters to See also:Richard See also:Heber, Esq., in which he discussed the authorship of the then See also:anonymous Waverley novels, and fixed it upon See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott. This conclusion was based on the resemblance of the novels in See also:general See also:style and method to the poems acknowledged by Scott. Scott thought at first that the letters were written by Reginald Heber, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Calcutta, and the See also:discovery of J. L. Adolphus's identity led to a warm friend-See also:ship. Adolphus was called to the See also:bar in 1822, and his Circuiteers, an See also:Eclogue, is a See also:parody of the style of two of his colleagues on the See also:northern See also:circuit. He became See also:judge of the Marylebone See also:County See also:Court in 1852, and was a bencher of the Inner See also:Temple. He was the author of Letters from See also:Spain in 2856 and 1857 (1858), and was completing his See also:father's History of England at the 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 of his See also:death on the 24th of See also:December 1862.
End of Article: ADOLPHUS, JOHN LEYCESTER (1795-1862)
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