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See also:CHRISTY, 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 (1810-1865) , See also:English ethnologist, was See also:born at See also:Kingston-on-See also:Thames cn the 26th of See also:July 181o. He entered his See also:father's See also:firm of hatters, in See also:London, and later became a director of the London See also:Joint-Stock See also:Bank. In 1850 he started on a See also:series of journeys, which interested him in ethnological_ studies. Encouraged by what he saw at the See also:Great See also:Exhibition of 1851, Christy devoted the See also:rest of his See also:life to perpetual travel and See also:research, making extensive collections illustrating the See also:early See also:history of See also:man, now in the See also:British Museum. He travelled in See also:Norway, See also:Sweden, See also:Denmark, See also:Mexico, British See also:Columbia and other countries; but in 1858 came the opportunity which brought him fame. It was in that See also:year that the discoveries by See also:Boucher de See also:Perthes of See also:flint-implements in See also:France and See also:England were first held to have clearly proved the great antiquity of man. Christy joined the See also:Geological Society, and in See also:company with his friend Edouard Lartet explored the caves in the valley of the Vezere, a tributary of the See also:Dordogne in the See also:south of France. To his task Christy devoted See also:money and. 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 ungrudgingly, and an See also:account of the explorations appeared in Comptes rendus (Feb. 29th, 1864) and Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London (See also:June 21st, 1864). He died, however, on the 4th of May 1865, of inflammation of the lungs supervening on a severe See also:cold contracted during excavation See also:work at La Palisse, leaving a See also:half-finished See also:book, entitled Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being contributions to the See also:Archaeology and Palaeontology of See also:Perigord and the adjacent provinces of See also:Southern France; this was issued in parts and completed at the expense of Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his See also:death in 1870, by See also:Professor See also:Rupert See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones. By his will Christy bequeathed his magnificent archaeological collection to the nation. In 1884 it found a See also:home in the British Museum. Christy took an See also:earnest See also:part in many philanthropic movements of his time, especially identifying himself with the efforts to relieve the sufferers from the Irish See also:famine of 1847.
End of Article: CHRISTY, HENRY (1810-1865)
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