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See also:BURNS, See also:JOHN (1858– ) , See also:English politician, was See also:born at See also:Vauxhall, See also:London, in See also:October 1858, the second son of See also:Alexander Burns, an engineer, of See also:Ayrshire extraction. He attended a See also:national school in See also:Battersea until he was ten years old, when he was sent to See also:work in See also:Price's See also:candle factory. He worked for a See also:short 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 as a See also:page-boy, then in some See also:engine See also:works, and at fourteen was apprenticed for seven years to a Millbank engineer. He continued his See also:education at the See also:night-See also:schools, and read extensively, especially the works of See also:Robert See also:Owen, J. S. See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill, See also:Paine and See also:Cobbett. He ascribed his See also:conversion to the principles of See also:socialism to his sense of the insufficiency of the arguments advanced against it by J. S. Mill, but he had learnt socialistic See also:doctrine from a See also:French See also:fellow-workman, See also:Victor Delahaye, who had witnessed the See also:Commune. After working at his See also:trade in various parts of See also:England, and on See also:board See also:ship, he went for a See also:year to the See also:West See also:African See also:coast at the mouth of the See also:Niger as a foreman engineer. His earnings from this undertaking were expended on a six months' tour in See also:France, See also:Germany and See also:Austria for the study of See also:political and economic conditions. He had See also:early begun the practice of outdoor speaking, and his exceptional See also:physical strength and strong See also:voice were invaluable qualifications for a popular agitator. In 1878 he was arrested and locked up for the night for addressing an open-See also:air demonstration on Clapham See also:Common. Two years later he married See also:Charlotte See also:Gale, the daughter of a Battersea shipwright. He was again arrested in 1886 for his See also:share in the West End riots when the windows of the Carlton and other London clubs were broken, but cleared himself at the Old See also:Bailey of the See also:charge of inciting the See also:mob to violence. In See also:November of the next year, however, he was again arrested for resisting the See also:police in their See also:attempt to break up the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting in See also:Trafalgar Square, and was condemned to six See also:weeks' imprisonment. A speech delivered by him at the See also:Industrial Remuneration See also:Conference of 1884 had attracted considerable See also:attention, and in that year he became a member of the Social Democratic Federation, which put him forward
unsuccessfully in the next year as See also:parliamentary See also:candidate for West See also:Nottingham. His connexion with the Social Democratic Federation was short-lived; but he was an active member of the executive•of the Amalgamated See also:Engineers' trade See also:union, and was connected with the trades union congresses until 1895, when, through his See also:influence, a See also:resolution excluding all except wage labourers was passed. He was still working at his trade in See also:- HOE (through Fr. houe from O.H.G. houwd, mod. Ger. Haue; the root is seen in " hew," to cut, cleave; the word must be distinguished from " hoe," promontory, tongue of land, seen in place names, e.g. Morthoe, Luton Hoo, the Hoe at Plymouth, &c. ; this is t
- HOE, RICHARD MARCH (1812-1886)
Hoe's See also:printing See also:machine works when he became a Progressive member of the first London See also:County See also:Council, being supported by an See also:allowance of £2 a See also:week subscribed by his constituents, the Battersea working men. He introduced in 1892 a See also:motion that all contracts for the County Council should be paid at trade union rates and carried out under trade union conditions, and devoted his efforts in See also:general to a See also:war against monopolies, except those of the See also:state or the See also:municipality. In the same year (1889) in which he became a member of the County Council, he acted with Mr See also:Ben Tillett as the See also:chief See also:leader and organizer of the London See also:dock strike. He entered the See also:House of See also:Commons as member for Battersea in 1892, and was re-elected in 1895, 1900 and 1906. In See also:parliament he became well known as an in-dependent See also:Radical, and he was included in the Liberal See also:cabinet by See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell-Bannerman in See also:December 1905 as See also:president of the See also:Local See also:Government Board. During the next two years, though much out of favour with his former socialist See also:allies, he earned See also:golden opinions for his administrative policy, and for his refusal to adopt the visionary proposals put forward by the more extreme members of the Labour party for dealing with the " unemployed " question; and in 1908 he retained his 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 in Mr See also:Asquith's cabinet.
End of Article: BURNS, JOHN (1858– )
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