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See also:BRITTON, See also:JOHN (1771–1857) , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born on the 7th of See also:July 1771 at Kington-St-See also:Michael, near See also:Chippenham. His parents were in humble circumstances, and he was See also:left an See also:orphan at an See also:early See also:age. At sixteen he went to See also:London and was apprenticed to a See also:wine See also:merchant. Prevented by See also:ill-See also:health from serving his full See also:term, he found himself adrift in the See also:world, without See also:money or See also:friends. In his fight with poverty he was put to See also:strange shifts, becoming cellarman at a See also:tavern and clerk to a lawyer, reciting and singing at a small See also:theatre, and compiling a collection of See also:common songs. After some slight successes as a writer, a See also:Salisbury publisher commissioned him to compile an See also:account of See also:Wiltshire and, in See also:conjunction with his friend See also:Edward Wedlake See also:Brayley, Britton produced The Beauties of Wiltshire (18oi; 2 vols., a third added in 1825), the first of the See also:series The Beauties of See also:England and See also:Wales, nine volumes of which Britton and his friend wrote. Britton was the originator of a new class of See also:literary See also:works. " Before his 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," says See also:Digby See also:Wyatt, popular See also:topography was unknown." In 18o5 Britton published the first See also:part of his Architectural Antiquities of See also:Great See also:Britain (9 vols., 1805-1814); and this was followed by See also:Cathedral Antiquities of England (14 vols., 1814-1835). In 1845 a Britton See also:Club was formed, and a sum of £r000 was subscribed and given to Britton, who was subsequently granted a See also:civil See also:list See also:pension by Disraeli, then See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer. Britton was an See also:earnest See also:advocate of the preservation of See also:national monuments, proposingin 1837 the formation of a society such as the See also:modern Society for the Preservation of See also:Ancient Monuments. Britton himself supervised the reparation of See also:Waltham See also:Cross and See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon 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. He died in London on the 1st of See also:January 1857.
Among other works with which Britton was associated either as author or editor are See also:Historical Account of Redcliffe Church, See also:Bristol (1813); Illustrations of Fonthill See also:Abbey (1823); Architectural Antiquities of See also:Normandy, with illustrations by See also:Pugin (1825—1827); Picturesque Antiquities of English Cities (1830); and See also:History of the See also:Palace and Houses of See also:Parliament at See also:Westminster (1834—1836), the See also:joint See also:work of Britton and Braylcy. He contributed much to the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine and other See also:periodicals.
His Autobiography was published in 185o. A Descriptive Account of his Literary Works was published by his assistant T. E. See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones.
End of Article: BRITTON, JOHN (1771–1857)
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