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See also:GLAS, See also:GEORGE (1725-1765) , Scottish See also:seaman and See also:merchant adventurer in See also:West See also:Africa, son of See also:John Glas the divine, was See also:born at See also:Dundee in 1725, and is said to have been brought up as a surgeon. He obtained command of a See also:ship which traded between See also:Brazil, the N.W. coasts of Africa and the See also:Canary Islands. During his voyages he discovered on the Saharan seaboard a See also:river navigable for some distance inland, and here he proposed to found a trading station. The exact spot is not known with certainty, but it is plausibly identified with Gueder, a See also:place in about 29° 10' N., possibly the haven where the Spaniards had in the 15th and 16th centuries a fort called See also:Santa Cruz de See also:Mar Pequena. Glas made an arrangement with the Lords of See also:Trade whereby he was granted £15,000 if he obtained See also:free cession of the See also:port he had discovered to the See also:British See also:crown; the proposal was to be laid before See also:parliament in the session of 1765. Having chartered a See also:vessel, Glas, with his wife and daughter, sailed for Africa in 1764, reached his destination and made a treaty with the See also:Moors of the See also:district. He named his See also:settlement Port Hillsborough, after See also:Wills See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, See also:earl of Hillsborough (afterwards See also:marquis of See also:Downshire), See also:president of the See also:Board of Trade and Plantations, 1763-1765. In See also:November 1764 Glas and some companions, leaving his ship behind, went in the longboat to See also:Lanzarote, intending to buy a small barque suitable for the See also:navigation of the river on which was his settlement. From Lanzarote he forwarded to See also:London the treaty he had concluded for the acquisition of Port Hillsborough. A few days later he was seized by the Spaniards, taken to See also:Teneriffe and imprisoned at Santa Cruz. In a See also:letter to the Lords of Trade from Teneriffe, dated the 15th of See also:December 1764, Glas said be believed the See also:reason for his detention was the See also:jealousy of the Spaniards at the settlement at Port Hillsborough " because from thence in 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 See also:war the See also:English might ruin their See also:fishery and effectually stop the whole commerct of the Canary Islands."
The Spaniards further looked upon the settlement as a step towards the See also:conquest of the islands. " They are therefore contriving how to make out a claim to the port and will forge old See also:manuscripts to prove their assertion " (See also:Calendar of See also:Home See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office Papers, 176o-1765). In See also:March 1765 the ship's See also:company at Port Hillsborough was attacked by the natives and several members of it killed. The survivors, including Mrs and See also:Miss Glas, escaped to Teneriffe. In See also:October following, through the representations of the British See also:government, Glas was released from See also:prison. With his wife and See also:child he set See also:sail for See also:England on board the barque " Earl of See also:Sandwich." On the 30th of November See also:Spanish and Portuguese members 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, who had learned that the ship contained much treasure, mutinied, killing the See also:captain and passengers. Glas was stabbed to See also:death, and his wife and daughter thrown overboard. (The murderers were afterwards captured and hanged at See also:Dublin.) After the death of Glas the British government appears to have taken no steps to carry out his project.
In 1764 Glas published in London The See also:History of the See also:Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, which he had translated from the MS. of an Andalusian See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk named Juan Abreu de Galindo, then recently discovered at See also:Palma. To this Glas added a description of the islands, a continuation of the history and an See also:account of the See also:manners, customs, trade, &c., of the inhabitants, displaying considerable knowledge of the See also:archipelago.
End of Article: GLAS, GEORGE (1725-1765)
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