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See also:GRAVES, See also:ALFRED See also:PERCEVAL (1846— ) , Irish writer, was See also:born in See also:Dublin, the son of the See also:bishop of See also:Limerick. He was educated at See also:Windermere See also:College, and took high honours at Dublin University. In 1869 he entered the See also:Civil Service as clerk in the 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, where he remained until he became in 1874 an inspector of See also:schools. He was a See also:constant contributor of See also:prose and See also:verse to the Spectator, The See also:Athenaeum, See also:John See also:Bull, and See also:Punch, and took a leading See also:part in the revival of Irish letters. He was for several years See also:president of the Irish See also:Literary Society, and is the author of the famous ballad of " See also:Father O'Flynn " and many other songs and See also:ballads. In collaboration with See also:Sir C. V. See also:Stanford he published Songs of Old See also:Ireland (1882), Irish Songs and Ballads (1893), the airs of which are taken from the See also:Petrie See also:MSS.; the airs of his Irish Folk-Songs (1897) were arranged by See also:Charles See also:Wood, with whom he also collaborated in Songs of See also:Erin (Igor). -
His See also:brother, Charles L. Graves (b. 1856), educated at See also:Marl-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 and at See also:Christ 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, 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, also became well known as a journalist, author of two volumes of parodies, The See also:Hawarden See also:Horace (1894) and More Hawarden Horace (1896), and of skits in prose and verse. An admirable musical critic, his See also:Life and Letters of Sir See also:George See also:Grove (1903) is a See also:model See also:biography.
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