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See also:DWIGHT, See also:JOHN (d. 1703) , the first distinguished See also:English See also:potter. One can only surmise as to his parentage, and the date of his See also:birth has been variously given from 1637 to 1640. Apparently he was educated at 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 in 1661 was appointed registrar and See also:scribe to the See also:diocese of See also:Chester, and the same See also:year he proceeded to the degree of B.C.L. of See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, Oxford. He resided at Chester for some 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 and acted as secretary to four successive bishops. One of these, See also:Bishop 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, also held the rectory of See also:Wigan, See also:Lancashire, and Dwight seems to have resided in that See also:town, for three of his See also:children were baptized there between
1667 and 1671. In 1671, while he still apparently resided in Wigan, he was granted his first patent for " the mistery of transparent earthenware, commonly known by the names of See also:porcelain or See also:china, and of stoneware, vulgarly called See also:Cologne See also:ware." It is not believed that much, if any, See also:work was executed at Wigan, and he probably removed to See also:Fulham in 1672 or 1673, as his name first appears on the See also:rate books of Fulham, where he was rated for a See also:house in See also:Bear See also:Street, in 1674. He died in 1703, and his business was carried on by his descendants for some time, but with gradually diminishing success. It has been claimed that Dwight made the first porcelain in See also:England, but there is no 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 of this, though magnificent specimens of stoneware from his hands are in existence. The See also:British Museum contains a number of the best of Dwight's pieces, of which the finest is the bust of See also:Prince See also:Rupert. Other specimens are in the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum, and they are sufficient to establish Dwight's fame as a potter of the first See also:rank.
End of Article: DWIGHT, JOHN (d. 1703)
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