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See also:HEAD, See also:SIR See also:EDMUND See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
WALKER, See also:BART . (1805–1868), See also:English colonial See also:governor and writer on See also:art, was the son of the Rev. Sir See also:John Head, Bart.,See also:rector of See also:Rayleigh, See also:Essex. He was educated at See also:Winchester school and See also:Oriel See also:College, 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, and taking his degree with first-class honours in See also:classics, he became See also:fellow of Merton College. On his See also:father's See also:death in 1838, he succeeded to the baronetcy as 8th See also:baronet. His services as poor-See also:law See also:commissioner, to which See also:post he was appointed in 1841 after five years as assistant-commissioner, procured for him in 1847 the 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 of See also:lieutenant-governor of New See also:Brunswick, whence he passed in r854 to the governor-generalship of See also:Canada, which he retained till 1861. The following See also:year, having returned -N. See also:England, Head was nominated a See also:civil service commissioner. In 1857 he was sworn of the Privy See also:Council, and in 186o was decorated as K.C.B.,while in the course of his career he received the degrees of D.C.L. at Oxford and LL.D. at See also:Cambridge. He died in See also:London on the 28th of See also:January 1868, the baronetcy becoming See also:extinct, as his only son had died in 1859.
Sir Edmund. Head wrote the See also:article " See also:Painting " in the See also:Penny Cyclopaedia; A Handbook of the See also:Spanish and See also:French See also:Schools of Painting (1845) ; Shall and 'Will, or two Chapters on Future See also:Auxiliary Verbs (1856) and See also:Ballads and other Poems, See also:Original and Translated (1868). He also edited F: T. Kugler's Handbook of Painting of the
See also:German, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, and French Schools (1854) and the Essays on the Administrations of See also:Great See also:Britain (1864), written by his lifelong friend, Sir See also:George Cornewall See also:Lewis. His See also:translation from the Icelandic of Viga See also:- GUM (Fr. gomme, Lat. gommi, Gr. Kµµ1, possibly a Coptic word; distinguish " gum," the fleshy covering of the base of a tooth, in O. Eng. gbma, palate, cf. Ger. Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in
Gum's See also:Saga appeared in 1866.
End of Article: HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
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