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See also:FALCONER, 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 (1732–1769) , See also:British poet, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 11th of See also:February 1732. His See also:father was a See also:wig-maker, and carried on business in one of the small shops with wooden fronts at the Netherbow See also:Port, an See also:antique castellated structure which remained till 1764, dividing High See also:Street from the Canongate. The old See also:man became bankrupt, then tried business as a See also:grocer, and finally died in extreme poverty. William, the son, having received a scanty See also:education, was put to See also:sea. He served on See also:board a See also:Leith See also:merchant See also:vessel, and in his eighteenth See also:year obtained the See also:appointment of second See also:mate of the " Britannia," a vessel employed in the See also:Levant See also:trade, and sailed from See also:Alexandria for See also:Venice. The "Britannia" was over-taken by a dreadful See also:storm off Cape See also:Colonna and was wrecked, only three of the See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew being saved. . Falconer was happily one of the three, and the incidents of the voyage and its disastrous termination formed the subject of his poem of The Shipwreck (1762). Meanwhile, on his return to See also:England, Falconer, in his nineteenth year, printed at Edinburgh an See also:elegy on See also:Frederick, See also:prince of See also:Wales, and afterwards contributed See also:short pieces to the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine. Some of these descriptive and lyrical effusions possess merit. The See also:fine See also:naval See also:song of " The Storm " (" Cease, See also:rude See also:Boreas "), reputed to be by See also:George See also:Alexander See also:Stevens, the dramatic writer and lecturer, has been ascribed to Falconer, but apparently on no authority. The See also:duke of See also:York, to whom The Shipwreck had been dedicated, advised Falconer
to enter the royal See also:navy, and before the end of 1762 the poet-sailor was rated as a See also:midshipman on board the " Royal George." But as this See also:ship was paid off at the See also:peace of 1763, Falconer received an appointment as See also:purser of the " See also:Glory " See also:frigate, a situation which he held until that vessel was laid up on See also:ordinary at See also:Chatham. In 1764 he published a new and enlarged edition of The Shipwreck, and in the same year a rhymed See also:political tirade against See also:John Wilkes and See also:Charles See also:Churchill, entitled The See also:Demagogue. In 1769 appeared his Universal Marine See also:Dictionary, in which See also:retreat is defined as a See also:French manoeuvre, " not properly a See also:term of the British marine." While engaged on this dictionary, J. See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray, a bookseller in See also:Fleet Street, father of See also:Byron's munificent publisher and correspondent, wished him to join him as a partner in business. The poet declined the offer, and became purser of the " See also:Aurora " frigate, which had been commissioned to carry out to See also:India certain supervisors or superintendents of the See also:East India See also:Company. Besides his nomination as purser, Falconer was promised the See also:post of private secretary to the commissioners. Before sailing he published a third edition of his Shipwreck, which had again undergone " correction," but not improvement. The poet sailed in the " Aurora " from Spithead on the 20th of See also:September 1769. The vessel arrived safely at the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope, and See also:left on the 27th of See also:December. She was never more heard of, having, as is supposed, foundered at sea. The Ship-See also:wreck, the poem with which Falconer's name is connected, had a See also:great reputation at one 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 the fine passages which pleased the earlier critics have not saved it from See also:general oblivion.
See his Poetical See also:Works in the " Aldine Edition " (1836), with a See also:life by J. See also:Mitford.
End of Article: FALCONER, WILLIAM (1732–1769)
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