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See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
CHURCH, See also:SIR See also:RICHARD (1784–1873) , See also:British military officer and See also:general in the See also:Greek See also:army, was the son of a Quaker, See also:Matthew Church of See also:Cork. He was See also:born in 1784, and at the See also:age of sixteen ran away from See also:home and enlisted in the army. For this violation of its principles he was disowned by the Society of See also:Friends, but his See also:father bought him a See also:commission, dated the 3rd of See also:July 1800, in the 13th (See also:Somersetshire) See also:Light See also:Infantry. He served in the demonstration against See also:Ferrol, and in the expedition to See also:Egypt under Sir See also:Ralph See also:Abercromby in 18o1. After the See also:expulsion of the See also:French from Egypt he returned home, but came back to the Mediterranean in 18o5 among the troops sent to defend the See also:island of See also:Sicily. He accompanied the expedition which landed in See also:Calabria, and fought a successful See also:battle against the French at See also:Maida on the 6th of July 18o6. Church was See also:present on this occasion as See also:captain of a recently raised See also:company of Corsican Rangers. His zeal attracted the See also:notice of his superiors, and he had begun to show his capacity for managing and drilling See also:foreign levies. His Corsicans formed See also:part of the See also:garrison of See also:Capri from See also:October 18o6 till the island was taken by an expedition directed against it by See also:Murat, in See also:September 18o8, at the very beginning of his reign as See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Naples. Church, who had distinguished himself in the See also:defence, returned to See also:Malta after the See also:capitulation.
In the summer of 1809 he sailed with the expedition sent to occupy the Ionian Islands. Here he increased the reputation he had already gained by forming a Greek See also:regiment in See also:English pay. It included many of the men who were afterwards among the leaders of the Greeks in the See also:War of See also:Independence. Church commanded this regiment at the taking of See also:Santa Maura, on which occasion his See also:left See also:arm was shattered by a See also:bullet. During his slow recovery he travelled in See also:northern See also:Greece, and See also:Macedonia, and to See also:Constantinople. In the years of the fall of See also:Napoleon (1813 and 1814) he was present as English military representative with the See also:Austrian troops until the See also:campaign which terminated in the expulsion of Murat from Naples. He See also:drew up a See also:report on the Ionian Islands for the See also:congress of See also:Vienna, in which he argued in support, not only of the retention of the islands under the British See also:flag, but of the permanent occupation by See also:Great See also:Britain of See also:Parga and of other formerly Venetian See also:coast towns on the See also:main-See also:land, then in the See also:possession of See also:Ali See also:Pasha of See also:Iannina. The See also:peace and the disbanding of his Greek regiment left him without employment, though his reputation was high at the war 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, and his services were recognized by the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of a companionship of the See also:Bath. In 1817 he entered the service of King See also:Ferdinand of Naples as See also:lieutenant-general, with a commission to suppress the See also:brigandage then rampant in See also:Apulia. Ample See also:powers were given him, and he attained a full measure of success. In 182o he was appointed See also:governor of See also:Palermo and See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the troops in Sicily. The revolution which See also:broke out in that See also:year led to the termination of his services in Naples. He escaped from violence in Sicily with some difficulty. At Naples he was imprisoned and put on his trial by the See also:government, but was acquitted and released in See also:January 1821; and King See also:George IV. conferred on him a See also:knight commandership of the Hanoverian See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order.
The rising of the Greeks against the See also:Turks, which began at this 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, had his full sympathy from the first. But for some years he had to See also:act only as the friend of the insurgents in See also:England. In 1827 he took the See also:honourable but unfortunate step of accepting the commandership-in-chief of the Greek army. At the point of anarchy and indiscipline to which they had now fallen, the Greeks could no longer See also:form an efficient army, and could look for salvation only to foreign intervention. Sir Richard Church, wholanded in See also:March, was sworn " archistrategos " on the 15th of See also:April 1827. But he could not secure loyal co-operation or obedience. The rout of his army in an See also:attempt to relieve the See also:acropolis of See also:Athens, then besieged by the Turks, proved that it was incapable of conducting See also:regular operations. The acropolis capitulated, and Sir Richard turned to See also:partisan warfare in western Greece. Here his activity had beneficial results, for it led to a rectification in 1832, in a sense favourable to Greece, of the frontier See also:drawn by the powers in 183o (see his Observations on an Eligible See also:Line of Frontier for Greece, See also:London, 183o). Church had, however, surrendered his commission, as a protest against the unfriendly government of See also:Capo d'See also:Istria, on the 25th of See also:August 1829. He lived for the See also:rest of his See also:life in Greece, was created general of the army in 1854, and died at Athens on the 3oth of March 1873. Sir Richard Church married in 1826 See also:Elizabeth See also:Augusta See also:Wilmot-See also:Horton, who survived him till 1878.
See Sir Richard Church, by See also:Stanley See also:Lane See also:Poole (London, 1890) ; Sir Richard Church in See also:Italy and Greece, by E. M. Church (See also:Edinburgh, 1895), based on See also:family papers (an See also:Italian version, Brigantaggio e societd segrete nelle Puglie, 1817–1818, executed under the direction of Carlo See also:Lacaita, appeared at See also:Florence in 1899). The MS. See also:Correspondence and Papers of Sir Richard Church, in 29 vols., now in the British Museum (Add. See also:MSS. 36543-36571), contain invaluable material for the See also:history of the War of Greek Independence, including a narrative ofy the war during Church's See also:tenure of the command, which corrects many errors in the published accounts and successfully vindicates Church's reputation against the strictures of See also:Finlay, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and other historians of the war (see See also:Cam. Mod. Hist. x. p. 804). (D.
End of Article: CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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