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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 708 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EPPS , the name of an See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

FAMILY

family, well known in See also:

commerce and See also:

MEDICINE

medicine. In the second See also:

HALF

half of the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century they had been settled near See also:

ASHFORD

Ashford, See also:

Kent, for some generations, claiming descent from an See also:

EQUERRY (from the Fr. ecuric, a stable, through its older form escurie, from the Med. Lat. scuria, a word of Teutonic origin for a stable or shed, cf. Ger. Scheuer; the modern spelling has con-fused the word with the Lat. equus, a horse)

equerry of See also:

Charles II., but were reduced in circumstances, when See also:

JOHN EPPs See also:

rose to prosperity as a See also:

PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision See also:

MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant in See also:

LONDON

London, and restored the family fortunes. He had four sons, of whom JOHN EPPs (1805-1869), See also:

GEORGE See also:

NAPOLEON

NAPOLEON Epps (1815-1874), and See also:

JAMES EPPS (182I-1907) were notable men of their See also:

day, the two former as prominent doctors who were ardent converts to See also:

HOMOEOPATHY (from the Greek 6p:nos, like, and 7raOos, feeling)

homoeopathy, and James as a homoeopathic chemist and the founder of the See also:

GREAT

great See also:

COCOA

cocoa business associated with his name. Among Dr G. N. Epps's See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children were Dr See also:

Washington Epps, a well-known homoeopathist, See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

ALMA

Alma-Tadema, and Mrs See also:

Edmund See also:

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