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See also:CRICHTON, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (156o-? 1582) , commonly called the " Admirable Crichton," was the son of See also:Robert Crichton, See also:lord See also:advocate of See also:Scotland in the reign of See also:Mary and James VI., and of See also:Elizabeth, daughter of See also:Sir James See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
Stewart of Beath, through whom he claimed royal descent. He was See also:born probably at Eliock in See also:Dumfriesshire in 156o, and when ten years old was sent to St Salvator's See also:College, St See also:Andrews, where he took his B.A. in 1574 and his M.A. in 1575. In 1577 Crichton was undoubtedly in See also:Paris, but his career on the See also:continent is difficult to follow. That he displayed considerable classical knowledge, was a See also:good linguist, a ready and versatile writer of See also:verse, and above all that he possessed an astounding memory, seems certain, not only from the See also:evidence of men of his own 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, but from the fact that even See also:Joseph See also:Scaliger (Prima Scaligerana, p. 58, 1669) speaks of his attainments with the highest praise. But those See also:works of his which have come down to us show few traces of unusual ability; and the laudation of him as a universal See also:genius by Sir 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:Urquhart and Aldus See also:Manutius requires to be discounted. Urquhart (in his See also:Discovery of a most exquisite See also:jewel) states that while in Paris Crichton successfully held a dispute in the college of See also:Navarre, on any subject and in twelve See also:languages, and that the next See also:day he won a tilting match at the Louvre. There is, how-ever, no contemporary evidence for this, the only certain facts being that for two years Crichton served in the See also:French See also:army, and that in 1579 he arrived in See also:Genoa. The latter event is proved by a Latin address (of no particular merit) to the See also:Doge and See also:Senate entitled Oratio J. Critonii Scoti See also:pro Moderatorum Genuensis Reipubl. electione See also:coram Senatu habita . . . (Genoa, 1579). The next See also:year Crichton was in See also:Venice, and won the friendship of Aldus Manutius by his Latin See also:ode In appulsu ad urbem Venetam de Proprio statu J. Critonii Scoti Carmen adAldum Manuccium .. . (Venice, •1580). The best contemporary evidence for Crichton's stay in Venice is a handbill printed by the Guerra See also:press in 158o (and now in the See also:British Museum), giving a See also:short See also:biography and an extravagant eulogy of his See also:powers; he speaks ten languages, has a command of See also:philosophy, See also:theology, See also:mathematics; he improvises Latin verses in all metres and on all subjects, has all See also:Aristotle and his commentators at his fingers' ends; is of most beautiful See also:appearance, a soldier from See also:top to toe, &c. This See also:work is undoubtedly by Manutius, as it was reprinted with his name in 1581 as Relatione della qualitd di ... Crettone, and again in 1582 (reprinted Venice, 1831).
In Venice Crichton met and vanquished all disputants except Giacomo Mazzoni, was followed from See also:place to place by crowds of admirers, and won the See also:affection of the humanists Lorenzo See also:Massa and Giovanni See also:Donati. In See also:March 1581 he went to See also:Padua, where he held two See also:great disputations. In the first he extemporized in See also:succession a Latin poem, a daring onslaught on Aristotelian See also:ignorance, and an oration in praise of ignorance. In the second, which took place in the 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 of St See also:John and St See also:Paul, and lasted three days, he undertook to refute innumerable errors in Aristotelians, mathematicians and schoolmen, to conduct his dispute either logically or by the See also:secret See also:doctrine of See also:numbers, &c. According to Aldus, who attended the debate and published an See also:account of it in his See also:dedication to Crichton prefixed to See also:Cicero's " Paradoxa " (1581), the See also:young Scotsman was completely successful. In See also:June Crichton was once more in Venice, and while there wrote two Latin odes to his See also:friends Lorenzo Massa and Giovanni Donati, but after this date the details of his See also:life are obscure. Urquhart states that he went to See also:Mantua, became the See also:tutor of the young See also:prince of Mantua, Vincenzo di See also:Gonzaga, and was killed by the latter in a See also:street See also:quarrel in 1582. Aldus in his edition of Cicero's De universitate (1583), dedicated to Crichton, laments the 3rd of See also:July as the fatal day; and this account is apparently See also:con-firmed by the Mantuan See also:state papers recently unearthed by Mr See also:Douglas Crichton (Prot. See also:Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1909). Mr See also:Sidney See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee (See also:Diet. Nat. Biog.) argued against this date, on the ground that in 1584 and 1585 Crichton was alive and in See also:Milan, as certain works of his published in that year testified, and
regarded it as probable that he died in Mantua c. 1585/6. But these later works seem to have been by another See also:man of the same name. The epithet " admirable " (admirabilis) for Crichton first occurs in John See also:Johnston's Heroes Scoti (1603). It is probably impossible to recover. the whole truth either as to Crichton's See also:death or as to the extent of his attainments, which were so quickly elevated into legendary magnitude.
End of Article: CRICHTON, JAMES (156o-? 1582)
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