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FULHAM , a western See also:metropolitan 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:London, See also:England, bounded N.W. by See also:Hammersmith, N.E. by See also:Kensington, E. by See also:Chelsea, and S.E., S. and S.W. by the See also:river See also:Thames. Pop. (1901) 137,289. The See also:principal thoroughfares are Fulham See also:Palace Road See also:running S. from Hammersmith, Fulham Road and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Road, W. from Chelsea, coverging and leading to
Putney See also:Bridge over the Thames; See also:North End Road between Hammersmith and Fulham Roads; Lillie Road between See also:South Kensington and Fulham Palace Road; and See also:Wandsworth Bridge Road leading S. from New King's Road to Wandsworth Bridge. In the north Fulham includes the residential See also:district known as See also:West Kensington, and farther south that of Walham See also:Green, The See also:manor See also:house or palace of the bishops of London stands in grounds, beautifully planted and surrounded by a See also:moat, believed to be a Danish See also:work, near the river west of Putney Bridge. Its See also:oldest portion is the picturesque western quadrangle, built by See also:Bishop Fitzjames (1506-1522). The See also:parish 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 of All See also:Saints, between the bridge and the grounds, was erected in 1881 from designs by See also:Sir See also:Arthur See also:Blomfield. The See also:fine old monuments from the former See also:building, dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries, are mostly preserved, and in the See also:churchyard are the memorials of several bishops of London and of See also:Theodore See also:Hook (1841). The public recreation grounds include the See also:embankment and gardens between the river and the palace grounds, and there are also two well-known enclosures used for See also:sports within the borough. Of these Hurlingham See also:Park is the headquarters of the Hurlingham See also:Polo See also:Club and a fashionable resort; and See also:Queen's Club, West Kensington, has See also:tennis and other courts for the use of members, and is also the See also:scene of important See also:football matches, and of the athletic meetings between 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 See also:Cambridge See also:Universities, and those between the See also:English and See also:American Universities held in England. In Seagrave Road is the Western See also:fever See also:hospital. The See also:parliamentary borough of Fulham returns one member. The borough See also:council consists of a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen and 36 councillors. See also:Area, 1703.5 acres.
Fulham, or in its earliest See also:form Fullanham, is uncertainly stated to signify " the See also:place " either " of fowls " or " of dirt." The manor is said to have been given to Bishop Erkenwald about the See also:year 691 for himself and his successors in the see of London, and See also:Holinshed relates that the Bishop of London was lodging in his manor place in 1141 when See also:Geoffrey de See also:Mandeville, See also:riding out from the See also:Tower of London, took him prisoner. At the See also:Commonwealth the manor was temporarily out of the bishops' hands, being sold to See also:Colonel See also:Edmund See also:Harvey. There is no See also:record of the first erection of a parish church, but the first known See also:rector was appointed in 1242, and a church probably existed a See also:century before this. The earliest See also:part of the church demolished in 1881, however, did not date farther back than the 15th century. In 879 Danish invaders, sailing up the Thames, wintered at Fulham and Hammersmith. Near the former wooden Putney Bridge, built in 1729 and replaced in 1886, the See also:earl of See also:Essex threw a bridge of boats across the river in 1642 in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:march his See also:army in pursuit of See also:Charles I., who thereupon See also:fell back on Oxford. Margravine Road recalls the existence of Bradenburg House, a See also:riverside See also:mansion built by Sir See also:Nicholas Crispe in the 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 of Charles I., used as the See also:head-quarters of See also:General See also:Fairfax in 1647 during the See also:civil See also:wars, and occupied in 1792 by the See also:margrave of Bradenburg-Anspach and See also:Bayreuth and his wife, and in 1820 by See also:Caroline, See also:consort of See also:George IV.
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