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See also:CHARLES See also:STANHOPE , 3rd See also:EARL STANHOPE (1753-1816), states-See also:man and man of See also:science, son of the 2nd earl, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:August, 1753, and educated under the opposing influences of See also:Eton and See also:Geneva, devoting himself whilst See also:resident in the Swiss See also:city to the study of See also:mathematics, and acquiring from the associations connected with See also:Switzerland an intense love of See also:liberty. In politics he took the democratic See also:side. As See also:Lord Mahon he contested the city of See also:Westminster without success in 1774, when only just of See also:age; but from the See also:general See also:election of 178o until his See also:accession to the See also:peerage on the 7th of See also:March 1786 he represented through the See also:influence of Lord Shelburne the See also:Buckinghamshire See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of High See also:Wycombe, and during the sessions of 1783 and 1784 he gave his support to the See also:administration of 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:Pitt, whose See also:sister, See also:Lady Hester Pitt, he married on the 19th of See also:December 1774. When Pitt ceased to be inspired by the Liberal principles of his See also:early days, his See also:brother-in-See also:law severed their See also:political connexion and opposed with all the impetuosity of his fiery See also:heart the arbitrary See also:measures which the See also:ministry favoured. Lord Stanhope's See also:character was without any taint of meanness, and his conduct was marked by a lofty consistency never influenced by any See also:petty motives; but his speeches, able as they were, had no See also:weight on the minds of his compeers in the upper chamber, and, from a disregard of their prejudices, too often drove them into the opposite See also:lobby. He was the chairman of the " Revolution Society, " founded in See also:honour of the Revolution of 1688, the members of which in 1790 expressed their sympathy with the aims of the See also:French republicans. He brought forward in 1794 the See also:case of See also:Muir, oneof the See also:Edinburgh politicians who were transported to See also:Botany See also:Bay; and in 1795 he introduced into the Lords a See also:motion deprecating any interference with the See also:internal affairs of See also:France. In all these points he was hopelessly beaten, and in the last of them he was in a " minority of one "—a See also:sobriquet which See also:stuck to him throughout life—whereupon he seceded from See also:parliamentary See also:life for five years. He was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society so early as See also:November 1772, and devoted a large See also:part of his income to experiments in science and See also:philosophy. He invented a method of securing buildings from See also:fire (which, however, proved impracticable), the See also:printing See also:press and the See also:lens which See also:bear his name and a See also:monochord for tuning musical See also:instruments, suggested improvements in See also:canal locks, made experiments in See also:steam See also:navigation in 1795-1797 and contriyed two calculating See also:machines. When he acquired an extensive See also:property in See also:Devon-See also:shire, he projected a canal through that See also:county from the See also:Bristol to the See also:English Channel and took the levels himself. See also:Electricity was another of the subjects which he studied, and the See also:volume of Principles of Electricity which he issued in 1779 contained the rudiments of his theory on the " return stroke " resulting from the contact with the See also:earth of the electric current of See also:lightning, which were afterwards amplified in a contribution to the Philosophical Transactions for 1787. His See also:principal labours in literature consisted of a reply to See also:Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution (1790) and an See also:Essay on the rights of juries (1792), and he See also:long meditated the compilation of a See also:digest of the statutes. The lean and awkward figure of Lord Stanhope figured in a See also:host of the caricatures of See also:Sayers and See also:Gillray, reflecting on his political opinions and his See also:personal relations with his See also:children. His first wife died in 178o, and he married in 1781 Louisa, daughter and See also:sole heiress of the Hon. 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:Grenville (See also:governor of Barbadoes in 1746 and See also:ambassador to the See also:Porte in 1762), a younger brother of the 1st Earl See also:Temple and See also:George Grenville; who survived him and died in March 1829. By his first wife he had three daughters, one of whom was Lady Hester Stanhope (q.v.). His youngest daughter, Lady See also:Lucy Rachael Stanhope, eloped with See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor of See also:Sevenoaks, the See also:family See also:apothecary, and her See also:father refused to be reconciled to her; but Pitt made Taylor controller-general of the customs, and his son was one of Lord See also:Chatham's executors. His second wife was the See also:mother of three sons. Lord Stanhope died at the family seat of Chevening, See also:Kent, on the 15th of December 1816, being succeeded as 4th earl by his son See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip Henry (1781-1855), who inherited many of his scientific tastes, but is best known, perhaps for his association with Kaspar See also:Hauser (q.v.).
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