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See also:DUNTON, See also:JOHN (1659-1733) , See also:English bookseller and author, was See also:born at Graffham, in See also:Huntingdonshire, on the 4th of May 1659. His See also:father, grandfather and See also:great-grandfather had all been clergymen. At the See also:age of fifteen he was apprenticed to 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 Parkhurst, bookseller, at the sign of the See also:Bible and Three Crowns, Cheapside, See also:London. Dunton ran away at once, but was soon brought back, and began to " love books." During the struggle which led to the Revolution, Dunton was the treasurer of the Whig apprentices. He became a bookseller at the sign of the See also:Raven, near the Royal See also:Exchange, and married See also:Elizabeth Annesley, whose See also:sister married See also:Samuel See also:Wesley. His wife managed his business, so that he was See also:left See also:free in a great measure to follow his own See also:eccentric devices. In 1686, probably because he was concerned in the See also:Monmouth rising, he visited New See also:England, where he stayed eight months selling books and observing with See also:interest the new See also:country and its inhabitants. Dunton had become See also:security for his See also:brother's debts, and to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape the creditors he made a See also:short excursion to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland. On his return to England, he opened a new See also:shop in the Poultry in the See also:hope of better times. Here he published weekly the Athenian See also:Mercury which professed to See also:answer all questions on See also:history, See also:philosophy, love, See also:marriage and things in See also:general. His wife died in 1697, and he married a second 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 a See also:quarrel about See also:property led to a separation; and being incapable of managing his own affairs, he spent the last years of his See also:life in great poverty. He died in 1733. He wrote a great many books and a number of See also:political squibs on the Whig See also:side, but only his Life and Errors of John Dunton (1705), on See also:account of its na5vete, its pictures of bygone times, and of the See also:literary history of the See also:period, is remembered. His letters from New England were published in See also:America in 1867.
End of Article: DUNTON, JOHN (1659-1733)
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