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See also:HAWKSMOOR, See also:NICHOLAS (1661–1736) , See also:English architect, of See also:Nottinghamshire See also:birth, became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Sir See also:Christopher See also:Wren at the See also:age of eighteen, and his name is intimately associated with those of Wren and Sir J. See also:Vanbrugh in the English See also:architecture of his 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. Through Wren's See also:influence he obtained various See also:official posts, as See also:deputy-surveyor at See also:Chelsea See also:hospital, clerk of the See also:works and deputy-surveyor at See also:Greenwich hospital, clerk of the works at See also:Whitehall, St 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's and See also:Westminster, and he succeeded Wren as surveyor-See also:general of Westminster See also:Abbey. He took See also:part in much of the See also:work done by Wren and Vanbrugh, and it is difficult often to assign among them the See also:credit for the designs of various features. Hawksmoor appears, however, to have been responsible for the See also:early See also:Gothic designs of the two towers of All Souls' (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) See also:north quadrangle, and the library and other features at See also:Queen's See also:College (Oxford). At the See also:close of Queen See also:Anne's reign he had a See also:principal part in the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for See also:building fifty new churches in See also:London, and himself designed five or six of them, including St See also:Mary Woolnoth (1716–1719) and St See also:George's, Bloomsbury (1720-173o). A number of his drawings have been preserved. He died in London on the 25th of See also:March 1736.
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