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See also:HOUGHTON, See also:RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1ST See also:BARON (1809—1885) , See also:English poet and See also:man of letters, son of See also:Robert Pemberton Milnes, of Fryston 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:Yorkshire, and the Hon. Henrietta Monckton, daughter of the See also:fourth See also:Lord See also:Galway, was See also:born in See also:London on the 19th of See also:June 1809. He was educated
privately, and entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1827. There he was at once See also:drawn into a See also:literary set, and became a member of the famous " Apostles " See also:Club, which then included See also:Tennyson, See also:Hallam, See also:Trench, J. W. See also:Blakesley, afterwards See also:dean of See also:Lincoln, and others. After taking his degree, Milnes travelled abroad, spending 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 at See also:Bonn University. Thence he went to See also:Italy and See also:Greece, and published in 1834 a See also:volume of Memorials of a Tour in some Parts of Greece, describing his experiences. He returned to London in 1837, and was in that See also:year elected to See also:Parliament as member for See also:Pontefract. His See also:parliamentary career was marked by much strenuous activity. He interested himself particularly in the question of See also:copyright and the conditions of reformatory See also:schools. He See also:left See also:Peel's party over the See also:Corn See also:Law controversy, and was afterwards identified in politics with See also:Palmerston, at whose instance he was made a peer in 1863. His literary career was industrious and cultured, without being exceptionally distinguished. See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church matters had always a claim upon him: he wrote a striking See also:tract in 1841, which was praised by See also:Newman; and took See also:part in the discussion about " Essays and Reviews," defending the tractarian position in One Tract More (1841). He published two volumes of See also:verse in 1838, Memorials of See also:Residence upon the See also:Continent and Poems of Many Years, See also:Poetry for the See also:People in 184o and See also:Palm Leaves in 1844. He also wrote a See also:Life and Letters of See also:Keats in 1848, the material for which was largely provided by the poet's friend, See also:Charles Armitage See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown. Milnes also contributed largely to the reviews. His poetry is meditative and delicate; some of his See also:ballads were among the most popular of their See also:day, and all his See also:work was marked by refinement. But his See also:chief distinctions were his keen sense of literary merit.in others, and the See also:judgment and magnanimity with which he fostered it. He was surrounded by the most brilliant men of his time, many of whom he had been the first to acclaim. His chief See also:title to remembrance rests on the part he played, as a man of See also:influence in society and in moulding public See also:opinion on literary matters, in connexion with his large circle of talented See also:friends. He secured a See also:pension for Tennyson, helped to make See also:Emerson known in See also:Great See also:Britain, and was one of the earliest champions of See also:Swinburne. He helped See also:David See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray and wrote a See also:preface for The Luggie. He was, in the old sense of the word, a See also:patron of letters, and one who never abused the privileges of his position. Milnes married in 1851 the Hon. Annabel See also:Crewe (d. 1874). He died at See also:Vichy on the 11th of See also:August 1885, and was buried at Fryston. His son, the second Baron Houghton, was created See also:Earl of Crewe (q.v.) in 1895.
See The Life, Letters and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, first Lord Houghton (189o), by See also:Sir T. See also:Wemyss See also:Reid.
HOUGHTON-LE-See also:SPRING, an See also:urban See also:district in the Houghtonle-Spring parliamentary See also:division of See also:Durham, See also:England, 6 m. N.E. of the See also:city of Durham. Pop. (See also:Tool) 7858. It is well situated at the See also:head of a small valley branching from that of the See also:Wear. St See also:Michael's church is a cruciform See also:Early English and Decorated See also:building, with a picturesque embattled rectory adjoining. See also:Bernard See also:Gilpin, " the Apostle of the See also:North," was See also:rector of this See also:parish from 1556 to 1583, and the founder of the See also:grammar school. The See also:principal public buildings are a See also:town hall, See also:market See also:house and church See also:institute. Houghton Hall is a See also:fine See also:mansion of the See also:late 16th See also:century. In the See also:orchard stands a See also:tomb, that of the puritan Sir Robert See also:Hutton (d. 168o), of whom a curious tradition states that he desired See also:burial beside his See also:war-See also:horse, the See also:body of which was denied interment in consecrated ground. The See also:main road from Durham to See also:Sunderland here passes through a remark-able cutting in the See also:limestone 8o ft. deep. The district affords frequent See also:evidence of See also:ice activity in the glacial See also:period. The town is the centre of a large See also:system of electric tramways. The See also:population is mainly dependent on the neighbouring collieries, but limestone See also:quarrying is carried on to some extent.
End of Article: HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1ST BARON (1809—1885)
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