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See also:BYROM, See also:JOHN (1692-1763) , See also:English poet, writer of See also:hymns and inventor of a See also:system of shorthand, was See also:born at Kersal See also:Cell, near See also:Manchester, on the 29th of See also:February 1692, the younger son of a prosperous See also:merchant. He was educated at Merchant Taylors school, and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which he became a See also:fellow in 1714. His first poem, " See also:Colin to See also:Phoebe," a See also:pastoral, appeared in the Spectator, No. 603. The heroine is said to have been Dr See also:Bentley's daughter, See also:Joanna, the See also:mother of See also:Richard See also:Cumberland, the dramatist. After leaving the university Byrom went abroad, ostensibly to study See also:medicine, but he never practised and possibly his errand was really See also:political, for he was an adherent of the Pretender. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1724. On his return to See also:London he married his See also:cousin in' 721, and to support himself taught a new method of shorthand of his own invention, till he succeeded (1740) to his See also:father's See also:estate on the See also:death of his See also:elder See also:brother. His See also:diary gives interesting portraits and letters of the many See also:great men of 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 whom he knew intimately. He died on the 26th of See also:September 1763. A collection of his poems was published in 1773, and he is included in See also:Alexander See also:Chalmers's English Poets. His system of shorthand was not published until after his death, when it was printed as The Universal English Shorthand; or the way of See also:writing English in the most easy, concise, See also:regular and beautiful manner, applicable to any other See also:language, but particularly adjusted to our own (Manchester, 1767).
The Private See also:Journal and See also:Literary Remains of John Byrom, related by Richard See also:Parkinson, D.D., was published by the Chetham Society (1854-1857).
End of Article: BYROM, JOHN (1692-1763)
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