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See also:COLSTON, See also:EDWARD (1636-1721) , See also:English philanthropist, the son 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 Colston, a See also:Bristol See also:merchant of See also:good position, was See also:born at Bristol on the 2nd of See also:November 1636. He is generally understood to have spent some years of his youth and See also:man-See also:hood as a See also:factor in See also:Spain, with which See also:country his See also:family was See also:long connected commercially, and whence, by means of a See also:trade in wines and oil, See also:great See also:part of his own vast See also:fortune was to come. On his return he seems to have settled in See also:London, and to have See also:bent himselt resolutely to the task of making See also:money. In 1681, the date of his See also:father's decease, he appears as a See also:governor of See also:Christ's See also:hospital, to which See also:noble See also:foundation he afterwards gave frequently and largely. In the same See also:year he probably began to take an active See also:interest in the affairs of Bristol, where he is found about 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 embarked in a See also:sugar refinery; and during the See also:remainder of his See also:life he seems to have divided his See also:attention See also:pretty equally between the See also:city of his See also:birth and that of his See also:adoption. In 1682 he appears in the records of the great western See also:port as advancing a sum of £1800 to its needy See also:corporation; in 1683 as "a See also:free See also:burgess and meire (St Kitts) merchant" he was made a member of the Merchant's See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall; and in 1684 he was appointed one of a See also:committee for managing the affairs of See also:Clifton. In 1685 he again appears as the city's creditor for about £2000, repayment of which he is found insisting on in 1686. In 1689 he was chosen auditor by the See also:vestry at See also:Mortlake, where he was residing in an old See also:house once the See also:abode of See also:Ireton and See also:Cromwell. In 1691, on St See also:Michael's See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, Bristol, at a cost of £8000, he founded an See also:alms-house for the reception of 24 poor men and See also:women, and endowed with See also:accommodation for " Six Saylors," at a cost of £600, the merchant's almshouses in 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 See also:Street. In 1696, at a cost of £8000, he endowed a foundation for clothing and teaching 40 boys (the books employed were to have in them " no See also:tincture of Whiggism ") ; and six years afterwards he expended a further sum of £1500 in rebuilding the school-house. In 1708; at a cost of £41,200, he built and endowed his great foundation on See also:Saint
See also:Augustine's Back, for the instruction, clothing, maintaining and apprenticing of too boys; and in time of scarcity, during this and next year, he transmitted " by a private See also:hand " some £20,000 to the London committee. In 1710, after a See also:poll of four days, he was sent to See also:parliament, to represent, on strictest Tory principles, his native city of Bristol; and in 1713, after three years of silent See also:political life, he resigned this See also:charge. He died at Mortlake in 1721, having nearly completed his eighty-fifth year; and was buried in All See also:Saints' 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, Bristol.
Colston, who was in the See also:habit of bestowing large sums yearly for the See also:release of poor debtors and the See also:relief of indigent See also:age and sickness, and who gave (1711) no less than £6000 to increase See also:Queen See also:Anne's See also:Bounty Fund for the See also:augmentation of small livings, was always keenly interested in the organization and management of his See also:foundations; the rules and regulations were all See also:drawn up by his hand, and the minutest details of their constitution and See also:economy were dictated by him. A high churchman and Tory, with a genuine intolerance of dissent and dissenters, his name and example have served as excuses for the formation of two political benevolent societies—the " See also:Anchor " (founded 1769) and the " See also:Dolphin " (founded 1749),—and also the " Grateful " (founded 1758), whose rivalry has been perhaps as instrumental in keeping their See also:patron's memory See also:green as have the splendid charities with which he enriched his native city (see BRISTOL).
See Garrard, Edward Colston, the Philanthropist (4to, Bristol, 1852) ; Pryce, A Popular See also:History of Bristol (1861) ; Manchee, Bristol Charities.
End of Article: COLSTON, EDWARD (1636-1721)
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