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See also:HEAD, See also:SIR See also:FRANCIS See also:BOND, See also:BART . (1793-1875), See also:English soldier, traveller and author, son of 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 Roper Head of the Hermitage, Higham, See also:Kent, was See also:born there on the 1st of See also:January 1793. He was educated at See also:Rochester See also:grammar school and the Royal Military See also:Academy, whence in 1811 he was commissioned to the Royal See also:Engineers. He was for some years stationed in the Mediterranean, and he served in the See also:campaign of 1815, being See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Waterloo. He went on See also:half-pay in 1825, when he accepted the See also:charge of an association formed to See also:work the See also:gold and See also:silver mines of Rio de La See also:Plata. In connexion with this enterprise he made several rapid journeys across the See also:Pampas and among the See also:Andes, his Rough Notes of which, published in 1826, and written in a clear and spirited See also:style, obtained for him the name of " Galloping Head." On his return in 1827, he became involved in a controversy with the See also:directors of his See also:company, and in See also:defence of his conduct he published Reports of the La Plata See also:Mining Association (See also:London, 1827). He was soon afterwards restored to the active See also:list of the See also:army as a See also:major unattached, mainly owing to his efforts to introduce the See also:South See also:American See also:lasso into the See also:British service for See also:auxiliary See also:draught. In 1830 he published a See also:life of See also:Bruce, the See also:African traveller, and in 1834 Bubbles from the Brunnens of See also:Nassau, by an Old See also:Man. In 1835 he was knighted, and in the following See also:year created a See also:baronet. In 1835 he was appointed See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of Upper See also:Canada, and in this capacity he had to See also:deal with a See also:political situation of See also:great difficulty, being called upon in 1837 to suppress a serious insurrection. Shortly afterwards, in consequence of a dispute with the See also:home See also:government, he resigned his See also:post and returned to See also:England, via New See also:York (see Quarterly See also:Review, vols. 63-64). Thereafter he devoted himself to See also:writing, chiefly for the Quarterly Review, and to See also:hunting. He rode to hounds until he was seventy-five. In 1869 Sir Francis Head was made a privy councillor. He died on the loth of See also:July 1875, at Duppas See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Croydon.
Head was the author of a considerable number of See also:works, chiefly of travel, written in a See also:clever, amusing and graphic See also:fashion, and displaying both acute observation and genial See also:humour. His See also:principal works, beside those mentioned above, and a narrative of his See also:Canadian See also:administration (1839), were The Emigrant (1846); Highways and Dryways, the Britannia and See also:Conway Tubular See also:Bridges (1849); Stokers and Pokers, a See also:sketch of the working of a railway See also:line (1849); The Defenceless See also:State of Great See also:Britain (1850); A See also:Faggot of See also:French Sticks (1852); A Fortnight in See also:Ireland (1852); Descriptive Essays (1856); comments on See also:Kinglake's See also:Crimean See also:War (1853); The See also:Horse and his Rider (1860) ; The Royal Engineer (187o); and a sketch of the life of Sir See also:John See also:Burgoyne (1872).
His See also:brother, SIR See also:GEORGE HEAD (1782-18J5), was educated at the See also:Charterhouse. In 1808 he received an See also:appointment in the See also:commissariat of the British army in the See also:Peninsula, where he was a See also:witness of many exciting scenes and important battles, of which he gave an interesting See also:account in " See also:Memoirs of an Assistant See also:Commissary-See also:General " attached to the second See also:volume of his Home Tour, published in 1837. In 1814 he was sent to See also:America to take charge of the commissariat in a See also:naval See also:establishment on the Canadian lakes, and he subsequently held appointments at See also:Halifax and Nova See also:Scotia. Some of his Canadian experiences were narrated by him in See also:Forest Scenery and Incidents in the Wilds of See also:North America (1829). In 1831 he was knighted.
He published in 1835 A Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of England, and in 1837 a sequel to it, entitled A Home Tour through various parts of the See also:United See also:Kingdom. Both works are amusing and instructive, but his See also:Rome, a Tour of many Days, published in 1849, is somewhat dull and tedious. He also translated See also:Historical Memoirs of See also:Cardinal Pacca (1850), and the Metamorphoses of See also:Apuleius (1851).
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