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See also:JERDAN, 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 (1782-186g) , Scottish journalist, was See also:horn on the 16th of See also:April 1782, at See also:Kelso, See also:Scotland. During the years between 1799 and 18o6 he spent See also:short periods in a See also:country lawyer's 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, a See also:London See also:West See also:India See also:merchant's counting-See also:house, an See also:Edinburgh See also:solicitor's See also:chambers,and held the position of surgeon's See also:mate on See also:board H.M. guardship "Gladiator" in Ports-mouth See also:Harbour, under his See also:uncle, who was surgeon. He went to London in ,8o6, and became a newspaper reporter. He was in the See also:lobby of the House of See also:Commons on the 11th of May 1812 when See also:Spencer See also:Perceval was shot, and was the first to seize the See also:assassin. By 1812 he had become editor of The See also:Sun, a semi-See also:official Tory See also:paper; he occasionally inserted See also:literary articles, then quite an unusual proceeding; but a See also:quarrel with the See also:chief proprietor brought that engagement to a See also:close in 1817. He passed next to the editor's See also:chair of the Literary See also:Gazette, which he conducted with success for See also:thirty-four years. Jerdan's position as editor brought him into contact with many distinguished writers. An See also:account of his See also:friends, among whom See also:Canning was a See also:special intimate, is to be found in his Men I have Known (1866). When Jerdan retired in 1850 from the editorship of the Literary Gazette his pecuniary affairs were far from satisfactory. A testimonial of over 90o was subscribed by his friends; and in 18J3 a See also:government See also:pension of too guineas was conferred on him by See also:Lord See also:Aberdeen. He published his Autobiography in 1852-18J3, and died on the 11th of See also:July 1869.
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