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See also:BALLANTINE, 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 (1812-1887) , See also:English See also:serjeant-atlaw, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3rd of See also:January 1812, being the son of a London See also:police-See also:magistrate. He was educated at St See also:Paul's school, and called to the See also:bar in 1834. He began in See also:early See also:life a varied acquaintance with dramatic and See also:literary society, and his experience, combined with his own pushing See also:character and acute See also:intellect, helped to obtain for him very soon a large practice, particularly in criminal cases. He became known as a formidable See also:cross-examiner, his See also:great See also:rival being Serjeant See also:Parry (1816-188o). The three great cases of his career were his successful See also:prosecution of the murderer See also:Franz Miiller in 1864, his skilful See also:defence of the Tichborne claimant in 1871 and his defence of the See also:gaekwar of See also:Baroda in 1875, his See also:fee in this last See also:case being one of the largest ever known. Ballantine became a serjeant-at-See also:law in r856. He died at See also:Margate on the 9th of January 1887, having previously published more than one See also:volume of reminiscences. Serjeant Ballantine's private life was decidedly Bohemian; and though he earned large sums, he died very poor.
. BALLANTYNE, See also:ROBERT See also:MICHAEL (1825-1894), Scottish writer of fiction, was born at See also:Edinburgh on the 24th of See also:April 1825, and came of the same See also:family as the famous printers and publishers. When sixteen years of See also:age he went to See also:Canada and was for six years in the service of the See also:Hudson's See also:Bay See also:Company. He returned to See also:Scotland in 1847, and next See also:year published his first See also:book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of See also:North See also:America. For some 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 he was employed by Messrs See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for the profession of literature, and began the See also:series of excellent stories of See also:adventure for the See also:young with which his name is popularly associated. The Young See also:Fur-Traders (1856), The See also:Coral See also:Island (1857), The See also:World of See also:Ice (1859), See also:Ungava: a See also:Tale of See also:Eskimo See also:Land (1857), The See also:Dog Crusoe (186o), The Lighthouse (1865), Deep Down (1868), The Pirate See also:City (1874), Erling the Bold (1869), The Settler and the See also:Savage (1877), and other books, to the number of upwards of a See also:hundred, followed in See also:regular See also:succession, his See also:rule being in every case to write as far as possible from See also:personal knowledge of the scenes he described. His stories had the merit of being thoroughly healthy in See also:tone and possessed considerable graphic force. Ballantyne was also no mean artist, and exhibited some of his See also:water-See also:colours at the Royal Scottish See also:Academy. He lived in later years at See also:Harrow, and died on the 8th of See also:February 1894, at See also:Rome, where he had gone to See also:attempt to shake off the results of overwork. He wrote a volume of Personal Reminiscences of Book-making (1893).
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