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See also:ELLERY, 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 (1727 — 1820) , See also:American politician, a signer of the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence, was See also:born in See also:Newport, Rhode See also:Island, on the 22nd of See also:December 1727. He graduated from Harvard in 1747, engaged in See also:trade, studied See also:law, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1770. He was a member of the Rhode Island See also:committee of safety in 1775—1776, and was a delegate in See also:Congress in 1776—1781 and again in 1783—1785. Just after his first See also:election to Congress, he was placed on the important marine committee, and he was made a member of the See also:board of See also:admiralty when it was established in 1779. In See also:April 1786 he was elected See also:commissioner of the See also:continental See also:loan See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for the See also:state of Rhode Island and from 1790 until his See also:death at Newport, on the 15th of See also:February 182o, he was See also:collector of the customs for the See also:district of Newport.
See See also:Edward T. See also:Channing, " See also:Life of William Ellery," in vol. 6 of Jared See also:Sparks's American See also:Biography (See also:Boston and See also:London, 1836). See also:ELLESMERE, See also:FRANCIS See also:EGERTON, 1ST See also:EARL OF (1800—1857), born in London on the 1st of See also:January "Soo, was the second son of the 1st See also:duke of See also:Sutherland. He was known by his patronymic as See also:Lord Francis Leveson See also:Gower until 1833, when he assumed the surname of Egerton alone, having succeeded on the death of his See also:father to the estates which the latter inherited from the duke of See also:Bridgewater. Educated at See also:Eton and at 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, 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, he entered See also:parliament soon after attaining his See also:majority as member for the See also:pocket See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Bletchingly in See also:Surrey. He afterwards sat for See also:Sutherlandshire and for See also:South See also:Lancashire, which he represented when he was elevated to the See also:peerage as earl of Ellesmere and See also:Viscount See also:Brackley in 1846. In politics he was a moderate Conservative of See also:independent views, as was shown by his supporting the proposal for establishing the university of London, by his making and carrying a See also:motion for the endowment of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:clergy in See also:Ireland, and by his advocating See also:free trade See also:long before See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel yielded on the question. Appointed a lord of the See also:treasury in 1827, he held the See also:post of See also:chief secretary for Ireland from 1828 till See also:July 1830, when he became secretary-at-See also:war for a See also:short 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. His claims to remembrance are founded chiefly on his services to literature and the See also:fine arts. Before he was twenty he printed for private circulation a See also:volume of poems, which he followed up after a short See also:interval by the publication of a See also:translation of See also:Goethe's See also:Faust, one of the earliest that appeared in See also:England, with some See also:translations of See also:German lyrics and a few See also:original poems. In 1839 he visited the Mediterranean and the See also:Holy See also:Land. His impressions of travel were recorded in his very agreeably written Mediterranean Sketches (1843), and in the notes to a poem entitled The See also:Pilgrimage. He published several other See also:works in See also:prose and See also:verse, all displaying a fine See also:literary See also:taste. His literary reputation
secured for him the position of See also:rector of See also:Aberdeen University in 1841. Lord Ellesmere was a munificent and yet discriminating See also:patron of artists. To the splendid collection of pictures which he inherited from his See also:great-See also:uncle, the 3rd duke of Bridgewater, he made numerous additions, and he built a See also:noble See also:gallery to which the public were allowed free See also:access. Lord Ellesmere served as See also:president of the Royal See also:Geographical Society and as president of the Royal See also:Asiatic Society, and he was a trustee of the See also:National Gallery. He died on the 18th of February 1857. He was succeeded by his son (1823-1862) as 2nd earl, and his See also:grandson (b. 184.7) as 3rd earl.
End of Article: ELLERY, WILLIAM (1727 — 1820)
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