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See also:HANWAY, See also:JONAS (1712–1786) , See also:English traveller and philanthropist, was See also:born at See also:Portsmouth in 1712. While still a See also:child, his See also:father, a victualler, died, and the See also:family moved to See also:London. In 1729 Jonas was apprenticed to a See also:merchant in See also:Lisbon. In 1743, after he had been 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 in business for himself in London, he became a partner with Mr Dingley, a merchant in
St See also:Petersburg, and in this way was led to travel in See also:Russia and See also:Persia. Leaving St Petersburg on the loth of See also:September 1743, and passing See also:south by See also:Moscow, See also:Tsaritsyn and See also:Astrakhan, he embarked on the See also:Caspian on the 22nd of See also:November, and arrived at Astrabad on the 18th of See also:December. Here his goods were seized by Mohammed See also:Hassan Beg, and it was only after See also:great privations that he reached the See also:camp of See also:Nadir Shah, under whose See also:protection he recovered most (85%) of his See also:property. His return See also:journey was embarrassed by sickness (at See also:Resht), by attacks from pirates, and by six See also:weeks' See also:quarantine; and he only reappeared at St Petersburg on the 1st of See also:January 1745. He again See also:left the See also:Russian See also:capital on the 9th of See also:July 1750 and travelled through See also:Germany and See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland to See also:England (28th of See also:October). The See also:rest of his See also:life was mostly spent in London, where the narrative of his travels (published in 1753) soon made him a See also:man of See also:note, and where he devoted himself to philanthropy and See also:good citizenship. In 1756 he founded the Marine Society, to keep up the See also:supply of See also:British See also:seamen; in 1758 he became a See also:governor of the Foundling, and established the Magdalen, See also:hospital; in 1761 he procured a better See also:system of parochial See also:birth-See also:registration in .London; and in 1762 he was appointed a See also:commissioner for victualling the See also:navy (loth of July); this 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 he held till October, 1783. He died, unmarried, on the 5th of September 1786. He was the first Londoner, it is said, to carry an See also:umbrella, and he lived to See also:triumph over all the See also:hackney coachmen who tried to hoot and hustle him down. He attacked "vail-giving," or tipping, with some temporary success; by his onslaught upon See also:tea-drinking he became involved in controversy with See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson and See also:Goldsmith. His last efforts were on behalf of little See also:chimney-sweeps. His advocacy of solitary confinement for prisoners and opposition to Jewish See also:naturalization were more questionable instances of his activity in social matters.
Hanway left seventy-four printed See also:works, mostly See also:pamphlets; the only one of See also:literary importance is the See also:Historical See also:Account of British See also:Trade over the Caspian See also:Sea, with a See also:Journal of Travels, &c. (London, 1753). On' his life, see also Pugh, Remarkable Occurrences in the Life of Jonas Hanway (London, 1787) ; See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, vol. xxxii. p. 342; vol. Ivl. pt. ii. pp. 812—814, 1090, I1431144; vol. Ixv. pt. ii. pp. 721–722, 834–835 Notes and Queries, 1st See also:series, i. 436, U. 25 ; 3rd series, vii. 311; 4th series, viii. 416.
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