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See also:BRUMMELL, See also:GEORGE See also:BRYAN (1778-1840) , See also:English See also:man of See also:fashion, known as " BEAU BRUMMELL," was See also:born in See also:London on the 7th of See also:June 1778. His See also:father was private secretary to See also:Lord See also:North from 1770 to 1782, and subsequently high See also:sheriff of See also:Berkshire; his grandfather was a shopkeeper in the See also:parish of St 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, who supplemented his income by letting lodgings to the See also:aristocracy. From his See also:early years George Brummell paid See also:great See also:attention to his See also:dress. At See also:Eton, where he was sent to school in 1790, and was extremely popular, he was known as See also:Buck Brummell, and at 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, where he spent a brief See also:period as an undergraduate of See also:Oriel See also:College, he preserved this reputation, and added to it that of a wit and See also:good See also:story-See also:teller, while the fact that he was second for the See also:Newdigate See also:prize is See also:evidence of his See also:literary capacity. Before he was sixteen, however, he See also:left Oxford, for London, where the See also:prince of See also:Wales (afterwards George IV.), to whom he had been presented at Eton, and who had been told that Brummell was a highly amusing See also:fellow, gave him a See also:commission in his own See also:regiment (1794). Brummell soon became intimate with his patron—indeed he was so constantly in the prince's See also:company that he is reported not to have known his own regimental See also:troop. In 1798, having then reached the See also:rank of See also:captain, he left the service, and next See also:year succeeded to a See also:fortune of about £30,000. Setting up a See also:bachelor See also:establishment in Mayfair, he became, thanks to the prince of Wales's friendship and his own good See also:taste in dress, the recognized arbiter eleganliarum. His social success was instant and See also:complete, his repartees were the talk of the See also:town, and, if not accurately speaking a wit, he had a remarkable See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for presenting the most See also:ordinary circumstances in an amusing See also:light. Though he always dressed well, he was no See also:mere fop—Lord See also:Byron is credited with the remark that there was nothing remarkable about his dress See also:save "a certain exquisite propriety." Fora 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 Brummell's sway was undisputed. But eventually gambling and extravagance exhausted his fortune, while his See also:tongue proved too See also:sharp for his royal See also:patron. They quarrelled, and though for a time Brummell continued to hold his See also:place in society, his popularity began to decline. In 1816 he fled to See also:Calais to avoid his creditors. Here he struggled on for fourteen years, receiving help from time to time from his See also:friends in See also:England, but always. hopelessly in See also:debt. In 1830 the See also:interest of these friends secured him the See also:post of
See also:British See also:consul at See also:Caen, to which a moderate See also:salary was attached, but two years later the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was abolished. In 1835 Brummell's See also:French creditors in Calais and Caen lost See also:patience and he was imprisoned, but his friends once more came to the See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue, paid his debts and provided him with a small income. He had now lost all his interest in dress; his See also:personal See also:appearance was slovenly and dirty. In 1837, after two attacks of See also:paralysis, shelter was found for him in the charitable See also:asylum of Bon Sauveur, Caen, where he died on the 3oth of See also:March 184o.
See Captain 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 See also:Jesse, See also:Life of Brummell (London, 1844, revised edition 1886) ; See also:Percy H. See also:Fitzgerald, Life of George IV. (London, 1881) ; R. Boutet de See also:Monvel, Beau Brummel (trans. 1908).
End of Article: BRUMMELL, GEORGE BRYAN (1778-1840)
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