|
See also:CRUDEN, See also:ALEXANDER (1701-1770) , author of the well-known See also:concordance (q.v.) to the See also:English See also:Bible, was See also:born at See also:Aberdeen on the 31st of May 1701. He was educated at the See also:grammar school, Aberdeen, and studied at Marischal See also:College, intending to enter the See also:ministry. He took the degree of See also:master of arts, but soon after began to show signs of See also:insanity owing to a disappointment in love. After a See also:term of confinement he recovered and removed to See also:London. In 1722 he had an engagement as private See also:tutor to the son of a See also:country See also:squire living at See also:Eton 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, See also:South-See also:gate, and also held a similar See also:post at See also:Ware. Years afterwards, in an application for the See also:title of bookseller to the See also:queen, he stated that he had been for some years corrector for the See also:press in See also:Wild See also:Court. This probably refers to 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. In 1729 he was employed by the loth See also:earl of See also:Derby as a reader and secretary, but was discharged on the 7th of See also:July for his See also:ignorance of See also:French See also:pronunciation. He then lodged in a See also:house in Soho frequented exclusively by Frenchmen, and took lessons in the See also:language in the See also:hope of getting back his post with the earl, but when he went to Knowsley in See also:Lancashire, the earl would not see him. He returned to London and opened a bookseller's See also:shop in the Royal See also:Exchange. In See also:April 1735 he obtained the title of See also:book-seller to the queen by recommendation of the See also:lord See also:mayor and most of the Whig aldermen. The post was an unremunerative See also:sinecure. In 1737 he finished his concordance, which, he says, was the See also:work of several years. It was presented to the queen on the 3rd of See also:November 1737, a fortnight before her See also:death.
Although Cruden's biblical labours have made his name a See also:household word among English-speaking See also:people, he was disappointed in his hopes of immediate profit, and his mind again became unhinged. In spite of his See also:earnest and self-denying piety, and his exceptional intellectual See also:powers, he See also:developed idiosyncrasies, and his See also:life was marred by a harmless but ridiculous egotism, which so nearly bordered on insanity that his See also:friends sometimes thought it necessary to have him confined. He paid unwelcome addresses to a widow, and was confined in a madhouse in Bethnal See also:Green. On his See also:release he published a pamphlet dedicated to Lord H. (probably See also:Harrington, secretary of See also:state) entitled The London See also:Citizen exceedingly injured, or a See also:British See also:Inquisition Displayed. He also published an See also:account ofhis trial, dedicated to the 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. In See also:December 1740 he writes to See also:Sir H. See also:Sloane saying he has been employed since July as Latin See also:- USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
- USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)
usher in a boarding-school at See also:Enfield. He then found work as a See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof-reader, and several See also:editions of See also:Greek and Latin See also:classics are said to have owed their accuracy to his care. He super-intended the See also:printing of one of See also:Matthew 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's commentaries, and in 1750 printed a small Compendium of the See also:Holy Bible (an abstract of the contents of each See also:chapter), and also reprinted a larger edition of the Concordance.
About this time he adopted the title of " Alexander the Corrector," and assumed the 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 of correcting the morals of the nation, especially with regard to See also:- SWEARING (O. Eng. swerian, to swear, originally to speak aloud, cf. andswerian, to answer, Ger. schworen, Dan. svaerge, &c., all from root sorer-, to make a sound, cf. " swarm," properly the buzzing of bees, Lat. susurrus)
swearing and See also:Sunday observance. For this office he believed himself divinely See also:corn. missioned, but he petitioned See also:parliament for a formal See also:appointment in this capacity. In April 1755 he printed a See also:letter to the See also:speaker and other members of the House of See also:Commons, and about the same time an " Address to the King and Parliament." He was in the See also:habit of carrying a sponge, with which he effaced all See also:inscriptions which he thought contrary to See also:good morals. In See also:September 1753, through being involved in a See also:street brawl, he was confined in an See also:asylum in See also:Chelsea for seventeen days at the instance of his See also:sister, Mrs Wild. He brought an unsuccessful See also:action against his friends, and seriously proposed that they should go into confinement as an See also:atonement. He published an account of this second See also:restraint in " The Adventures of Alexander the Corrector." He made attempts to See also:present to the king in See also:person an account of his trial, and to obtain the See also:honour of See also:knighthood, one of his predicted honours. In 1754 he was nominated as See also:parliamentary See also:candidate for the See also:city of London, but did not go to the See also:poll. In 1755 he paid unwelcome addresses to the daughter of 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 Abney, of Newington (1640-1722), and then published his letters and the See also:history of his repulse in the third See also:part of his " Adventures." In See also:June and July 1755 he visited 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 See also:Cambridge. He was treated with the respect due to his learning by officials and residents in both See also:universities, but experienced some boisterous fooling at the hands of the undergraduates. At Cambridge he was knighted with See also:mock ceremonies. There he appointed " See also:deputy correctors " to represent him in the university. He also visited Eton, See also:Windsor, See also:Tonbridge and See also:Westminster See also:schools, where he appointed four boys to be his deputies. (An Admonition to Cambridge is preserved among letters from J. See also:Neville of See also:Emmanuel to Dr See also:Cox Macro, in the British Museum.) The Corrector's Earnest Address to the Inhabitants of See also:Great See also:Britain, published in 1756, was occasioned by the See also:earthquake at See also:Lisbon. In 1762 he saved an ignorant See also:seaman, See also:Richard See also:Potter, from the gallows, and in 1763 published a pamphlet recording the history of the See also:case. Against See also:John Wilkes, whom he hated, he wrote a small pamphlet, and used to delete with his sponge the number 45 wherever he found it, this being the offensive number of the See also:North Briton. In 1769 he lectured in Aberdeen as " Corrector," and distributed copies of the See also:fourth commandment and various religious tracts. The wit that made his eccentricities palatable is illustrated by the See also:story of how he gave to a conceited See also:young See also:minister whose See also:appearance displeased him A See also:Mother's See also:Catechism dedicated to the young and ignorant. The Scripture See also:Dictionary, compiled about this time, was printed in Aberdeen in two volumes shortly after his death. Alexander See also:Chalmers, who in his boyhood heard Cruden lecture in Aberdeen and wrote his See also:biography, says that a verbal See also:index to See also:Milton, which accompanied the edition of Thomas See also:Newton, See also:bishop of See also:Bristol, in 1769, was Cruden's.
The second edition of the Bible Concordance was published in 1761, and presented to the king in person on the 21st of December. The third appeared in 1769. Both contain a pleasing portrait of the author. He is said to have gained £800 by these two editions. He returned to London from Aberdeen, and died suddenly while praying in his lodgings in See also:Camden Passage, See also:Islington, on the 1st of November 1770. He was buried in the ground of a See also:Protestant dissenting See also:congregation in Dead See also:Man's See also:Place, See also:Southwark. He bequeathed a portion of his savings for a 5 bursary at Aberdeen, which preserves his name on the See also:list of benefactors of the university. (D.
End of Article: CRUDEN, ALEXANDER (1701-1770)
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!