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See also:BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727-1800) ,Englishlawyer, See also:antiquary and naturalist, was See also:born in 1727, See also:fourth son of the first See also:Viscount Barrington. He was educated for the profession of the See also:law, and after filling various posts, was appointed a Welsh See also:judge in 1757 and afterwards second See also:justice of See also:Chester. Though an indifferent judge, his Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more See also:ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st 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 I., cap. 27, with an appendix, being a proposal for new-modelling the Statutes (1766), had a high reputation among historians and constitutional antiquaries. In 1773 he published an edition of See also:Orosius, with See also:Alfred's Saxon version, and an See also:English See also:translation with See also:original notes. His Tracts on the See also:Probability of reaching the See also:North See also:Pole (1775) were written in consequence of the See also:northern voyage of See also:discovery undertaken by See also:Captain C. J. Phipps, afterwards See also:Lord See also:Mulgrave (1744-1792). Barrington's other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the Royal and Antiquarian See also:Societies, of both of which he was See also:long a member, and of the latter See also:vice-See also:president. Many of these were collected by him in a See also:quarto See also:volume entitled Miscellanies on various Subjects (1781). He contributed to the Philosophical Transactions for 178o an See also:account of See also:Mozart's visit at eight years of See also:age to See also:London. In his Miscellanies on varied subjects he included this with accounts of four other prodigies, namely, See also:Crotch, See also:Charles and See also:Samuel See also:Wesley, and See also:Garrett See also:Wellesley, Lord Mornington.
Among the most curious and ingenious of his papers are his Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds, and his See also:Essay on the See also:Language of Birds. He died on the 14th of See also:March 1800 and was buried in the See also:Temple 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.
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