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See also:FONBLANQUE, See also:ALBANY 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 (1793-1872) , See also:English journalist, descended from a See also:noble See also:French Huguenot See also:family, the Greniers of See also:Languedoc, was See also:born in See also:London in 1793. See also:John Grenier, a banker, became naturalized in See also:England under the name of Fonblanque; and his son John See also:Samuel See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin Fonblanque (176o-1838), a distinguished See also:equity lawyer, and the author of a See also:standard legal See also:work, a See also:Treatise on Equity, was the See also:father of Albany Fonblanque; he represented the 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 See also:Camelford in See also:parliament; and was one of the Whig See also:friends of See also:George IV. when See also:prince of See also:Wales. At fourteen See also:young Fonblanque was sent to See also:Woolwich to prepare for the Royal See also:Engineers. His See also:health, however, failed, and for two years his studies had to be suspended. Upon his recovery he studied 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 with a view to being called to the See also:bar. At the See also:age of nineteen (1812) he commenced See also:writing for the See also:newspapers, and very soon attracted See also:notice both by the boldness and liberality of his opinions, and by
the superiority of his See also:style to what See also:Macaulay, when speaking of him, justly called the " rant and twaddle of the daily and weekly See also:press " of the time. While he was eagerly taking his See also:share in all the See also:political struggles of this eventful See also:period, he was also continuing his studies, devoting no less than six See also:hours a See also:day to the study of See also:classics and political See also:philosophy. Under this severe See also:mental training his health once more See also:broke down. His See also:energy, however, was not impaired. He became a See also:regular contributor to the newspapers and reviews, realizing a See also:fair income which, as his habits were See also:simple and temperate, secured him against pecuniary anxieties.
From 182o to 1830 Albany Fonblanque was successively employed upon the See also:staff of The Times and the See also:Morning See also:Chronicle, whilst he contributed to the Examiner, to the London See also:Magazine and to theWestminster See also:Review. In 1828 theExaminer newspaper, which had been See also:purchased by the Rev. Dr Fellowes, author of the See also:Religion of the Universe, &c., was given over to Fonblanque's See also:complete See also:control; and for a period of seventeen years (183o to 1847) he not only sustained the high See also:character for political in-dependence and See also:literary ability which the Examiner had gained under the direction of See also:Leigh See also:Hunt and his See also:brother, John Hunt, but even compelled his political opponents to acknowledge a certain delight in the boldness and brightness of the wit directed against themselves. When it was proposed that the admirers and supporters of the See also:paper should facilitate a reduction in its See also:price by the See also:payment of their subscription ten years in advance, not only did Mr See also:Edward Bulwer (See also:Lord See also:Lytton) volunteer his aid, but also Mr Disraeli, who was then coquetting with See also:radical-ism. During his connexion with the Examiner, Fonblanque had many advantageous offers of further literary employment; but he devoted his energies and talents almost exclusively to the service of the paper he had resolved to make a standard of literary excellence in the See also:world of journalism. Fonblanque was offered the governorship of Nova See also:Scotia; but although he took See also:great See also:interest in colonial matters, and had used every effort to See also:advocate the more generous political See also:system which had colonial self-See also:government for its See also:goal, he decided not to abandon his beloved Examiner even for so sympathetic an employment. In 1847, however, domestic reasons induced him to accept the See also:post of statistical secretary of the See also:Board of See also:Trade. This of course compelled him to resign the editorship of the Examiner, but he still continued to contribute largely to the paper, which, under the control of John See also:Forster, continued to sustain its influential position. During the later years of his See also:life Fonblanque took no prominent See also:part in public affairs; and when he died at the age of seventy-nine ('872) he seemed, as his See also:nephew, EdwardFonblanque, rightly observes, " a See also:man who had lived and toiled in an age gone by and in a cause See also:long since established."
The character of Albany Fonblanque's political activity may be judged of by a study of his England under Seven Administrations (1837), in comparison with the course of social and political events in England from 1826 to 1837. As a journalist, he must be regarded in the See also:light of a reformer. Journalism before his day was regarded as a somewhat discreditable profession; men of true culture were shy of entering the hot and dusty See also:arena lest they should be confounded with the ruder combatants who fought there before the public for hire. But the fact that Fonblanque, a man not only of strong and See also:earnest political convictions but also of exceptional literary ability, did not hesitate to choose this See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field as a worthy one in which both a politician and a man of letters might usefully as well as honourably put forth his best gifts, must have helped, in no small degree, to correct the old See also:prejudice.
See the Life and Labours of Albany Fonblanque, edited by his nephew, Edward See also:Barrington de Fonblanque (London, '874); a collection of his articles with a brief See also:biographical notice.
End of Article: FONBLANQUE, ALBANY WILLIAM (1793-1872)
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