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See also:FURNIVALL, See also:FREDERICK See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1825-1910) , See also:English philologist and editor, was See also:born at See also:Egham, See also:Surrey, on the 4th of See also:February 1825, the son of a surgeon. He was called to the See also:bar in 1849, but his See also:attention was soon diverted to philological studies and social problems. He gave Frederick See also:Denison See also:Maurice valuable assistance in the See also:Christian Socialist See also:movement, and was one of the founders of the Working Men's See also:College. For See also:half a See also:century he indefatigably promoted the study of See also:early English literature, partly by his own See also:work as editor, and still more efficaciously by the agency of the numerous learned See also:societies of which he was both founder and director, especially the Early English See also:Text Society (1864), which has been of inestimable service in promoting the study of early and See also:middle English. He also established and conducted the See also:Chaucer, Ballad, New See also:Shakespeare and Wyclif Societies, and at a later See also:period societies for the See also:special study of See also:Browning and See also:Shelley. He edited texts' for the Early English Text Society, for the See also:Roxburghe See also:Club and the Rolls See also:Series; but his most important labours were devoted to Chaucer, whose study he as an editor greatly assisted by his " Six-Text " edition of the See also:Canterbury Tales, and other publications of the Chaucer Society. He was the honorary secretary of the Philological Society, and was one of the See also:original promoters of the 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 New English See also:Dictionary. He cc-operatedwith its first editor, See also:Herbert See also:Coleridge, and after his See also:death was 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 See also:principal editor during the preliminary period of the collection of material. The completion of his half-century of labour was acknowledged in 1900 by a handsome testimonial, including the preparation by his See also:friends of a See also:volume of philological essays specially dedicated to him, An English See also:Miscellany (Oxford, Igor), and a considerable donation to the Early English Text Society. Dr Furnivall was always an enthusiastic oarsman, and till the end kept up his See also:interest in See also:rowing; with See also:John Beesley in 1845 he introduced the new type of narrow sculling See also:boat, and in 1886 started races on the See also:Thames for sculling fours and sculling eights. He died on the and of See also:July 1910.
End of Article: FURNIVALL, FREDERICK JAMES (1825-1910)
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