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See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
BUCKINGHAM, 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 See also:SILK (1786-1855) , See also:English author and traveller, was See also:born near See also:Falmouth on the 25th of See also:August 1786, the son of a See also:farmer. His youth was spent at See also:sea. After years of wandering he established in 1818 the See also:Calcutta See also:Journal. This venture at first proved highly successful, but in 1823 thepaper's outspoken criticisms of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company led to the See also:expulsion of Buckingham from India and to the suppression of the See also:paper by See also:John See also:Adam, the acting See also:governor-See also:general. His See also:case was brought before See also:parliament, and a See also:pension of zoo a See also:year was subsequently awarded him by the East India Company as See also:compensation. Buckingharn continued his journalistic ventures on his return to See also:England, and started the See also:Oriental See also:Herald (1824) and the See also:Athenaeum (1828) which was not a success in his hands. In parliament, where he sat as member for See also:Sheffield from 1832-1837, he was a strong See also:advocate of social reform. He was a most voluminous writer. He had travelled much in See also:Europe, See also:America and the East, and wrote a See also:great number of useful books of travel. In 1851 the value of these and of his other See also:literary See also:work was recognized by the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of a See also:civil See also:list pension of 200 a year. At 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 of his See also:death in See also:London, on the 3oth of See also:June 1855, Buckingham was at work on his autobiography, two volumes of the intended four being completed and published (1855).
His youngest son, See also:Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825-1867), achieved no little popularity as a playwright, several of his See also:free adaptations of See also:French comedies being produced in London between 186o and 1867.
End of Article: BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
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