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See also:ASHMOLB, See also:ELIAS (1617-1692) , See also:English antiquarian, and
founder of the Ashmolean Museum at 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, was See also:born at See also:Lichfield on the 23rd of May 1617, the son of a saddler. In 1638 he became a See also:solicitor, and in 1644 was appointed conirniasioner of See also:excise. At Oxford, whither this brought him when the Royalist See also:Parliament was sitting there, he made See also:friends with See also:Captain (afterwards See also:Sir) See also:George See also:Wharton, through whose See also:influence he obtained the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:commission as captain of See also:horse and See also:comptroller of the See also:ordnance. In 1646 he was initiated as a Freemason—the first See also:gentleman, or See also:amateur, to be " accepted." In 1649 he married See also:Lady Mainwaring, some twenty years his See also:senior and a relative of his first wife who had died eight years before. This See also:marriage placed him in a position of affluence that enabled him to devote his whole 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 his favourite studies. His See also:interest in See also:astrology, aroused by Wharton, and by 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 See also:Lilly,—whom with other astrologers he met in Limclon in 1646,—seems, in the followihg years, to have subsided in favour of See also:heraldry and antiquarian See also:research. In 1657 his wife petitioned for a separation, but failing to gain her See also:case returned to live with him. Between this crisis in his domestic See also:life and the time of her See also:death in 1668, Ashmole was in high favour at See also:court. He was made successively See also:Windsor See also:herald, See also:commissioner, comptroller and accountant-See also:general of excise, commissioner for Surinam and comptroller of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office. He afterwards refused the office of Garter king-at-arms in favour of Sir William See also:Dugdale, whose daughter he had married in 1668. In 1672 he published his Institutions, See also:Laws and Ceremonies of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of the Garter, a See also:work which was practically exhaustive, and is an example of his See also:diligence and years of patient antiquarian research. Five years later he presented the Ashmolean Museum, the first public museum of curiosities in the See also:kingdom, the larger. See also:part of which he had inherited from a friend, See also:John Tradescant, to the university of Oxford.
He made it a See also:condition that a suitable See also:building should be erected for its reception, and the collection was not finally installed until 1683. Subsequently he made the further See also:gift to the university of his library. He died on the 18th of May 1692.
End of Article: ASHMOLB, ELIAS (1617-1692)
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