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See also:DEMPSTER, 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 (1579-1625) , Scottish See also:scholar and historian, was See also:born at Cliftbog, See also:Aberdeenshire, the son of Thomas Dempster of Muresk, Auchterless and Killesmont, See also:sheriff of See also:Banff and See also:Buchan. According to his own See also:account, he was the twenty-See also:fourth of twenty-nine See also:children, and was See also:early remarkable for precocious See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent. He obtained his early See also:education in Aberdeenshire, and at ten entered See also:Pembroke 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:Cambridge; after a See also:short while he went to See also:Paris, and, driven thence by the See also:plague, to See also:Louvain, whence by 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 the See also:pope he was transferred with several other Scottish students to the papal See also:seminary at See also:Rome. Being soon forced by See also:ill See also:health to leave, he went to the See also:English See also:college at See also:Douai, where he remained three years and took his M.A. degree. While at Douai he wrote a scurrilous attack on See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, which caused a See also:riot among the English students. But, if his truculent See also:character was thus early displayed, his abilities were no less conspicuous; and, though still in his teens, he became lecturer on the Humanities at See also:Tournai, whence, after but a short stay, he returned to Paris, to take his degree of See also:doctor of See also:canon See also:law, and become See also:regent of the college of See also:Navarre. He soon See also:left Paris for See also:Toulouse, which in turn he was forced to leave owing to the hostility of the See also:city authorities, aroused by his violent assertion of university rights. He was now elected See also:professor of eloquence at the university or See also:academy of See also:Nimes, but not without a murderous attack upon him by one of the defeated candidates and his supporters, followed by a suit for See also:libel, which, though he ultimately won his See also:case, forced him to leave the See also:town. A short engagement in See also:Spain, as See also:tutor to the son of See also:Marshal de See also:Saint Luc, was terminated by another See also:quarrel; and Dempster now returned to See also:Scotland with the intention of asserting a claim to his See also:father's estates. Finding his relatives unsympathetic, and falling into heated controversy with the Presbyterian See also:clergy, he made no See also:long stay, but returned to Paris, where he remained for seven years, becoming professor in several colleges successively. At last, however, his temporary connexion with the college de See also:Beauvais was ended by a feat of arms which proved him as stout a fighter with his See also:sword as with his See also:pen; and, since his victory was won over See also:officers of 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's guard, it again became expedient for him to See also:change his See also:place of See also:residence. The See also:dedication of his edition of Rosinus' Antiquitatunt Romanorum corpus absolutissimum to King 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 I. had won him an invitation to the English See also:court; and in 1615 he went to See also:London. His reception by the king was flattering enough; but his hopes of preferment were dashed by the opposition of the See also:Anglican clergy to the promotion of a papist. He left for Rome, where, after a short imprisonment on suspicion of being a See also:spy, he gained the favour of Pope See also:Paul V., through whose See also:influence with Cosimo II., See also:grand See also:duke of See also:Tuscany, he was appointed to the professorship of the See also:Pandects at See also:Pisa. He had married while in London, but ere long had See also:reason to suspect his wife's relations with a certain Englishman. Violent accusations followed, indignantly repudiated; a See also:diplomatic See also:correspondence ensued, and a demand was made, and supported by the grand duke, for an See also:apology, which the professor refused to make, preferring rather to lose his See also:chair. He now set out once more for Scotland, but was intercepted by the Florentine See also:cardinal See also:Luigi See also:Capponi, who induced him to remain at See also:Bologna as professor of Humanity. This was the most distinguished See also:post in the most famous of See also:continental See also:universities, and Dempster was now at the height of his fame. Though his See also:Roman Antiquities and See also:Scotia illustrior had been placed on the See also:Index pending correction, Pope See also:Urban VIII. made him a See also:knight and gave him a See also:pension. He was not, however, to enjoy his honours long. His wife eloped with a student, and Dempster, pursuing the fugitives in the See also:heat of summer, caught a See also:fever, and died at Bologna on the 6th of See also:September 1625.
Dempster owed his See also:great position in the See also:history of scholarship to his extraordinary memory, and to the versatility which made him equally at See also:home in See also:philology, See also:criticism, Iaw, See also:biography and history. His See also:style is, however, often barbarous; and the obvious
defects of his See also:work* are due to his restlessness and impetuosity, and to a patriotic and See also:personal vanity which led him in Scottish questions into absurd exaggerations, and in matters affecting his own See also:life into an incurable See also:habit of romancing. The best known of his See also:works is the Historia ecclesiastica geniis Scotorum (Bologna, 1627). In this See also:book he tries to prove that See also:Bernard (Sapiens), See also:Alcuin, See also:Boniface and Joannes Scotus See also:Erigena were all Scots, and even See also:Boadicea becomes a Scottish author. This criticism is not applicable to his works on antiquarian subjects, and his edition of Benedetto See also:Accolti's De See also:bello a Christianis contra barbaros (1623) has great merits.
A portion of his Latin See also:verse is printed in the first See also:volume (pp. 306-354) of Delitiae poetarum Scotorum (See also:Amsterdam, 1637).
End of Article: DEMPSTER, THOMAS (1579-1625)
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