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See also:AYTOUN, 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 EDMONSTOUNE (1813-1865) , Scottish poet, humorist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 21st of See also:June 1813. He was the only son of See also:Roger Aytoun, a writer to the signet, and the See also:family was of the same stock as See also:Sir See also:Robert Aytoun noticed above. Prom his See also:mother, a woman of marked originality of See also:character and considerable culture, he derived his distinctive qualities, his See also:early tastes in literature, and his See also:political sympathies, his love for ballad See also:poetry, and his admiration for the Stuarts. At the See also:age of eleven he was sent to the Edinburgh See also:Academy, passing in due 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 the university. In 1833 he spent a few months in See also:London for the purpose of studying See also:law; but in See also:September of that See also:year he went to study See also:German at See also:Aschaffenburg, where he remained till See also:April 1834. He then resumed his legal. pursuits in his See also:father's See also:chambers, was admitted a writer to the signet in 1835, and five years later was called to the Scottish See also:bar. But, by his own See also:confession, though he " followed the law, he never could overtake it." His first publication—a See also:volume entitled See also:Poland, See also:Homer, and other Poems, in which he gave expression to his eager See also:interest in the See also:state of Poland-had appeared in 1832, While in See also:Germany he made a See also:translation in See also:blank See also:verse of the first See also:part of See also:Faust; but, forestalled by other See also:translations, it was never published. In 1836 he made his earliest contributions to See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine, in translations from See also:Uhland; and from 1839 till his See also:death he remained on the See also:staff of Blackwood. About 1841 he became acquainted with Mr (afterwards Sir) See also:Theodore See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin, and in association with him wrote a See also:series of See also:light humorous papers on the tastes and follies of the See also:day, in which were interspersed the verses which afterwards became popular as the See also:Ban Gaultier See also:Ballads (1855). The See also:work on which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests is the See also:Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers (1848; 29th ed. 1883). In 1845 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:rhetoric and belles lettre - at Edinburgh University. His lectures were very attractive, and the number of students increased correspondingly. His services in support of the Tory party, especially during the See also:Anti-See also:Corn-Law struggle, received See also:official recognition in his See also:appointment (1852) as See also:sheriff of See also:Orkney and Zetland. In 1854 appeared Firmilian, a Spasmodic Tragedy, in which he attacked and parodied the writings of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Bailey, See also:Sydney See also:Dobell and See also:Alexander See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith; and two. years later he published his See also:Bothwell, a Poem. Among his other See also:literary See also:works are a Collection of the Ballads of See also:Scotland (1858), a translation of the Poems and Ballads of See also:Goethe, executed in co-operation with his friend Theodore Martin (1858), a small volume on the See also:Life and Times of See also:Richard I. (1840), written for the Family Library, and a novel entitled See also:Norman See also:Sinclair (1861), many of the details in which are taken from incidents in his own experience. In 186o Aytoun was elected honorary See also:president of the Associated See also:Societies of Edinburgh University. In 1859 he See also:Jost his first wife, a daughter of See also:John See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson (See also:Christopher See also:North), to whom he was married in 1849, and this was a See also:great See also:blow to him. His mother died in See also:November 1861, and his own See also:health began to fail. In See also:December 1863 he married See also:Miss Kinnear. He died at See also:Black-hills, near See also:Elgin, on. the 4th of See also:August 1865.
See Memoir of W. E. Aytoun (1867), by Sir Theodore Martin, with an appendix containing some of his See also:prose essays.
End of Article: AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE (1813-1865)
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