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See also:CHENERY, 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 (1826-1884) , See also:English See also:scholar and editor of The Times, was See also:born in 1826 at See also:Barbados. He was educated at See also:Eton and See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge. Having been called to the See also:bar, he went out to See also:Constantinople as The Times correspondent just before the See also:Crimean See also:War, and it was under the See also:influence there of Algernon Smythe (afterwards See also:Lord See also:Strangford) that he first turned to those philological studies in which he became eminent. After the war he returned to See also:London and wrote regularly for The Times for many years, eventually succeeding See also:Delane as editor in 1877. He was then an experienced publicist, particularly well versed in See also:Oriental affairs, an indefatigable worker, with a rapid and comprehensive See also:judgment, though he lacked Delane's See also:intuition for public See also:opinion. It was as an Orientalist, however, that he had meantime earned the highest reputation, his knowledge of Arabic and See also:Hebrew being almost unrivalled and his See also:gift for See also:languages exceptional. In 1868 he was appointed Lord See also:Almoner's See also:professor of Arabic 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, and retained his position until he became editor of The Times. He was one of the See also:company of revisers of the Old Testament. He was secretary forsome 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 to the Royal See also:Asiatic Society, and published learned See also:editions of the Arabic classic The Assemblies of Al-Hariri and of the Machberoth Ithiel. He died in London on the 11th of See also:February 1884.
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