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See also:HODGSON, See also:BRIAN See also:HOUGHTON (1800-1894) , See also:English See also:administrator, ethnologist and naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Lower See also:Beech, Prestbury, See also:Cheshire, on the 1st of See also:February 1800. His See also:father, Brian Hodgson, came of a See also:family of See also:country gentlemen, and his See also:mother was a daughter of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Houghton of See also:Manchester. In 1816 he obtained an See also:East See also:Indian writership. After passing through the usual course at Haileybury, he went out to See also:India in 1818, and after a brief service at See also:Kumaon as assistant-See also:commissioner was in 182o appointed assistant to the See also:Resident at See also:Katmandu, the See also:capital of See also:Nepal. In 1823 he obtained an under-secretaryship in the See also:foreign See also:department at See also:Calcutta, but his See also:health failed, and in 1824 he returned to Nepal, to which the whole of his See also:life, whether in or out of India, may be said to have been thenceforth given. He devoted himself particularly to the collection of See also:Sanskrit See also:MSS. See also:relating to See also:Buddhism, and hardly less so to the natural See also:history and antiquities'of the country, and by 1839 had contributed eighty-nine papers to the Transactions of the See also:Asiatic Society of See also:Bengal. His investigations of the See also:ethnology of the aboriginal tribes were especially important. In 1833 he became Resident in Nepal, and passed many stormy years in conflict with the cruel and faithless See also:court to which he was accredited. He succeeded, nevertheless, in concluding a satisfactory treaty in 1839; but in 1842 his policy, which involved an imperious attitude towards the native See also:government, was upset by the interference of See also:Lord See also:Ellenborough, but just arrived in India and not unnaturally anxious to avoid trouble in Nepal during the conflict in See also:Afghanistan. Hodgson took upon himself to disobey his instructions, a See also:breach of discipline justified to his own mind by his See also:superior knowledge of the situation, but which the See also:governor-See also:general could hardly be expected to overlook. He was, nevertheless, continued in 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 for a 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, but was recalled in 1843, and resigned the service. In 1845 he returned to India and settled at See also:Darjeeling, where he devoted himself entirely to his favourite pursuits, becoming the greatest authority on the Buddhist See also:religion and on the See also:flora of the Himalayas. It was he who See also:early suggested the recruiting of Gurkhas for the Indian See also:army, and who influenced See also:Sir See also:Jung Bahadur to lend his assistance to the See also:British during the See also:mutiny in 1857. In 1858 he returned to See also:England, and lived successively in Cheshire and See also:Gloucestershire, occupied with his studies to the last. He died at his seat at Alderley See also:Grange in the Cotswold Hills on the 23rd of May 1894. No See also:man has done so much to throw See also:light on Buddhism as it exists in Nepal, and his collections of Sanskrit See also:manuscripts, presented to the East India Office, and of natural history, presented to the British Museum, are unique as gatherings from a single country. He wrote altogether 184 philological and ethnological and 127 scientific papers, as well as some valuable See also:pamphlets on native See also:education, in which he took See also:great See also:interest. His See also:principal See also:work, Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of Buddhists (1841), was republished with the most important of his other writings in 1872-1880.
His life was written by Sir W. W. See also:Hunter in 1896.
HODMEZO-VASARHELY, a See also:town of See also:Hungary, in the See also:county of Csongrad, 135 M. S.E. of See also:Budapest by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 60,824. of which about two-thirds are Protestants. The town, situated on See also:Lake Hod, not far from the right See also:bank of the See also:Tisza, has a See also:modern aspect. The See also:soil of the surrounding country, of which 383 sq. m. belong to the See also:municipality, is exceedingly fertile, the See also:chief products being See also:wheat, mangcorn, See also:barley, oats, See also:millet, See also:maize and various descriptions of See also:fruit, especially melons. Extensive vineyards, yielding large quantities of both See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and
red grapes, skirt the town, and the horned See also:cattle and horses of HSdmez6-Vasarhely have a See also:good reputation; See also:sheep and pigs are also extensively reared. The See also:commune is protected from inundations of the Tisza by an enormous See also:dike, but the town, nevertheless, sometimes suffers considerable damage during the See also:spring floods.
End of Article: HODGSON, BRIAN HOUGHTON (1800-1894)
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