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See also:DELANY, See also:MARY See also:GRANVILLE (1700-1788) , an See also:English-woman of See also:literary tastes, was See also:born at Coulston, Wilts, on the 14th of May 1700. She was a niece of the 1st See also:Lord See also:Lansdowne. In 1717 or 1718 she was unhappily married to See also:Alexander Pendarves, a See also:rich old Cornish landowner, who died in 1724. During a visit to See also:Ireland she met See also:Dean See also:Swift and his intimate friend, the Irish divine, See also:Patrick Delany, whose second wife she became in 1743. After his See also:death in 1768 she passed all her summers with her bosom friend the See also:dowager duchess of See also:Portland —Prior's " Peggy "—and when the latter died See also:George III. and See also:Queen See also:Charlotte, whose See also:affection for their " dearest Mrs Delany " seems to have been most genuine, gave her a small See also:house at See also:Windsor and a See also:pension of £300 a See also:year. Fanny See also:Burney (Madame D'Arblay) was introduced to her in 1783, and frequently visited her at her See also:London See also:home and at Windsor, and owed to her friend-See also:ship her See also:court See also:appointment. 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 Mrs Delany was a charming and sweet old See also:lady, with a reputation for cutting out and making the ingenious " See also:paper mosaiks " now in the See also:British Museum; she had known every one See also:worth knowing in her See also:day,
had corresponded with Swift and See also:Young, and See also:left an interesting picture of the polite but See also:commonplace English society of the 18th See also:century in her six volumes of Autobiography and Letters. See also:Burke calls her " a real See also:fine lady "—" the See also:model of an accomplished woman of former times." She died on the 15th of See also:April 1788.
DE LA REY, JACOBUS See also:HERCULES (1847– ), See also:Boer soldier, was born in the Lichtenburg See also:district, and in his youth and See also:early manhood saw much service in See also:savage warfare. In 1893 he entered the Volksraad of the See also:South See also:African See also:Republic, and was an active supporter of the policy of See also:General See also:Joubert. At the outbreak of the See also:war with See also:Great See also:Britain in 1899 De La Rey was made a general, and he was engaged in the western See also:campaign against Lord See also:Methuen and Lord See also:Roberts. He won his first great success at Nitral's Nek on the 11th of See also:July 1900, where he compelled the surrender of a strong English detachment. In the second or See also:guerrilla See also:stage of the war De La Rey became one of the most conspicuously successful of the Boer leaders. He was assistant to General See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Botha and a member of the See also:government, with See also:charge of operations in the western See also:Transvaal. The See also:principal actions in which he was successful (see also TRANSVAAL: See also:History) were Nooitgedacht, Vlakfontein and the defeat and See also:capture of Lord Methuen at See also:Klerksdorp (See also:March 7, 1902). The British general was severely wounded in the See also:action, and De La Rey released him at once, being unable to afford him proper medical assistance. This humanity and See also:courtesy marked De La Rey's conduct throughout the war, and even more than his military skill and daring earned for him the esteem of his enemies. After the conclusion of See also:peace De La Rey, who had See also:borne a prominent See also:part in the negotiations, visited See also:Europe with the other generals, with the intention of raising funds to enable the Boers to resettle their See also:country. In See also:December 1903 he went on a See also:mission to See also:India, and induced the whole of the Boer, prisoners of war detained at See also:Ahmednagar to accept the new 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 of things and to take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance. In See also:February 1907 General De La Rey was returned unopposed as member for Ventersdorp in the legislative See also:assembly of the first Transvaal See also:parliament under self-government.
DE LA RIVE, AUGUSTE See also:ARTHUR (1801-1873), Swiss physicist, was born at See also:Geneva on the 9th of See also:October 1801. He was the son of See also:Charles Gaspard de la Rive (1770–1834), who studied See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh, and after practising for a few years in London, became See also:professor of pharmaceutical See also:chemistry at the See also:academy of Geneva in 1802 and See also:rector in 1823. After a brilliant career as a student, he was appointed at the See also:age of twenty-two to the See also:chair of natural See also:philosophy in the academy of Geneva. For some years after his appointment he devoted himself specially, with See also:Francois Marcet (1803–1883), to the investigation of the specific See also:heat of gases, and to observations for determining the temperature of the See also:earth's crust. See also:Electrical studies, however, engaged most of his See also:attention, especially in connexion with the theory of the voltaic See also:cell and the electric See also:discharge in rarefied gases. His researches on the last-mentioned subject led him to See also:form a new theory of the See also:aurora borealis. In 1840 he described a See also:process for the electro-See also:gilding of See also:silver and See also:brass, for which in the following year he received a See also:prize of 3000 francs from the See also:French Academy of Sciences. Between 1854 and 1858 he published a Traite de l'electricite theorique et appliquee, which was translated into several See also:languages. De la Rive's See also:birth and See also:fortune gave him considerable social and See also:political See also:influence. He was distinguished for his hospitality to literary and scientific men, and for his See also:interest in the welfare and See also:independence of his native country. In 1860, when the See also:annexation of See also:Savoy and See also:Nice had led the Genevese to fear French aggression, de la Rive was sent by his See also:fellow-citizens on a See also:special See also:embassy to See also:England, and succeeded in securing a See also:declaration from the English government, which was communicated privately to that of See also:France, that any attack upon Geneva would be regarded as a cases See also:belli. On the occasion of this visit the university of 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 conferred upon de la Rive the honorary degree of D.C.L. When on his way to pass the See also:winter at See also:Cannes he died suddenly at See also:Marseilles on the 27th of See also:November 1873.
His son, LucIEN DE LA RIVE, born at Geneva on the 31d of April 1834, published papers on various mathematical and See also:physical subjects, and with Edouard See also:Sarasin carried out investigations on the See also:propagation of electric waves.
End of Article: DELANY, MARY GRANVILLE (1700-1788)
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