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See also:BORLASE, 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 (1695–1772) , See also:English See also:antiquary and naturalist, was See also:born at Pendeen in See also:Cornwall, of an See also:ancient See also:family, on the 2nd of See also:February 1695. He was educated at See also:Exeter 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, and in 1719 was ordained. In 1722 he was presented to the rectory of Ludgvan, and in 1732 he obtained in addition the vicarage of St Just, his native See also:parish. In the parish of Ludgvan were See also:rich See also:copper See also:works, abounding with See also:mineral and metallic fossils, of which he made a collection, and thus was led to study somewhat minutely the natural See also:history of the See also:county. In 1750 he was admitted a See also:fellow of the Royal Society; and in 1754 he published, at Oxford, his Antiquities of Cornwall (2nd ed., See also:London, 1769). His next publication was Observations on the Ancient and See also:Present See also:State of the Islands of Scilly, and their Importance to the See also:Trade of See also:Great See also:Britain (Oxford, 1756). In 1758 appeared his Natural History of Cornwall. He presented to the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, a variety of fossils and antiquities, which he had described in his works, and received the thanks of the university and the degree of LL.D. He died on the 31st of See also:August 1772. Borlase was well acquainted with most of the leading See also:literary men of 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, particularly with See also:Alexander See also:Pope, with whom he kept up a See also:long See also:correspondence, and for whose grotto at See also:Twickenham he furnished the greater See also:part of the fossils and minerals.
Borlase's letters to Pope, St Aubyn and others, with answers, fill several volumes of MS. There are also MS. notes on Cornwall, and a See also:complete unpublished See also:treatise Concerning the Creation and See also:Deluge.
Some See also:account of these See also:MSS., with extracts from them, was givenin the Quarterly See also:Review, See also:October 1875. Borlase's See also:memoirs of his own See also:life were published in See also:Nichol's Literary Anecdotes, vol. v.
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