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See also:DAVENANT, See also:CHARLES (1656-1714) , See also:English economist, eldest son of See also:Sir 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 Davenant, the poet, was See also:born in See also:London, and educated at Cheam See also:grammar school and Balliol See also:College, 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, but See also:left the university without taking a degree. At the See also:age of nineteen he had composed a tragedy, See also:Circe, which met with some success, but he soon turned his See also:attention to See also:law, and having taken the degree of LL.D., he became a member of Doctors' See also:Commons. He was member of See also:parliament successively for St Ives, See also:Cornwall, and for See also:Great Bedwyn. He held the See also:post of See also:commissioner of See also:excise from 1683 to 1689, and that of inspector-See also:general of exports and imports from 1705 till his See also:death in 1714. He was also secretary to the See also:commission appointed to treat for the See also:union with See also:Scotland. As an economist, he must be classed as a strong supporter of the See also:mercantile theory, and in his economic pamphlets—as distinct from his See also:political writings—he takes up an eclectic position, recommending governmental restrictions on colonial See also:commerce as strongly as he See also:advocates freedom of ex-See also:change at See also:home. Of his writings, a See also:complete edition of which was published in London in 1771, the following are the more important:—An See also:Essay on the See also:East See also:India See also:Trade (1697); Two Discourses on the Public Revenues and Trade of See also:England (1698); An Essay on the probable means of making the See also:people gainers in the See also:balance of Trade (1699); A Discourse on Grants and Resumptions and Essays on the Balance of See also:Power (1701).
End of Article: DAVENANT, CHARLES (1656-1714)
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