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JUXON, WILLIAM (1582-1663)

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JUXON, See also:WILLIAM (1582-1663) , See also:English See also:prelate, was the son of See also:Robert Juxon arnl was See also:born probably at See also:Chichester, being educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' School, See also:London, and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he was elected to a scholarship in 1598. He studied See also:law at Oxford, but afterwards he took See also:holy orders, and in 1609 became See also:vicar of St See also:Giles, Oxford, a living which he retained until he became See also:rector of Somerton, See also:Oxfordshire, in 1615. In See also:December 1621 he succeeded his friend, William See also:Laud, as See also:president of St John's College, and in 1626 and 1627 he was See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university. Juxon soon obtained other important positions, including that of See also:chaplain-in-See also:ordinary to See also:Charles I. In 1627 he was made See also:dean of See also:Worcester and in 1632 he was nominated to the bishopric of See also:Hereford, an event which led him to resign the See also:presidency of St John's in See also:January 1633. However, he never took up his episcopal duties at Here-See also:ford, as in See also:October 1633 he was consecrated See also:bishop of London in See also:succession to Laud. He appears to have been an excellent bishop, and in See also:March 1636 Charles I. entrusted him with important See also:secular duties by making him See also:lord high treasurer of See also:England; thus for the next five years he was dealing with the many See also:financial and other difficulties which beset the See also:king and his advisers. He resigned the treasurership in May 1641. During the See also:Civil See also:War the bishop, against whom no charges were brought in See also:parliament, lived undisturbed at See also:Fulham See also:Palace, and his See also:advice was often sought by the king, who had a very high See also:opinion of him, and who at his See also:execution selected him to be with him on the See also:scaffold and to administer to him the last consolations of See also:religion. Juxon was deprived of his bishopric in 1649 and retired to Little See also:Compton in See also:Gloucestershire, where he had bought an See also:estate, and here he became famous as the owner of a See also:pack of hounds. At the restoration of Charles II. he became See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury and in his See also:official capacity he took See also:part in the See also:coronation of this king, but his See also:health soon began to fail and he died at See also:Lambeth on the 4th of See also:June 1663. By his will the archbishop was a benefactor to St John's College, where he was buried; he also aided the See also:work of restoring St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral and rebuilt the See also:great See also:hall at Lambeth Palace.

See W. H. Marah, See also:

Memoirs of Archbishop Juxon and his Times (1869); the best authority for the archbishop's See also:life is the See also:article by W. H. See also:Hutton in the Dict. Nat. Biog. (1892). K The See also:eleventh See also:letter in the Phoenician See also:alphabet and in its descendant See also:Greek, the tenth in Latin owing to the omission of Teth (see I), and once more the eleventh in the alphabets of Western See also:Europe owing to the insertion of J. In its See also:long See also:history the shape of K has changed very little. It is on the inscription of the Moabite See also:Stone (See also:early 9th cent. B.C.) in the See also:form (written from right to See also:left) of 1 and 1 .

Similar forms are also found in early Aramaic, but another form M or y , which is found in the Phoenician of See also:

Cyprus in the 9th or See also:roth See also:century B.C. has had more effect upon the later development of the Semitic forms. The length of the two back strokes and the manner in which they join the upright are the only See also:variations in Greek. In various places the back strokes, treated as an See also:angle<, become more rounded ( , so that the letter appears as K , a form which in Latin probably affected the development of C (q.v.). In See also:Crete it is elaborated into K and P . In Latin K, which is found in the earliest See also:inscriptions, wasasoon replaced by C, and survived only in the abbreviations for Kalendae and the proper name Kaeso. The See also:original name Kaph became in Greek Kappa. The See also:sound of K throughout has been that of the unvoiced guttural, varying to some extent in its See also:pronunciation according to the nature of the vowel sound which followed it. In Anglo-Saxon C replaced K through Latin See also:influence, See also:writing being almost entirely in the hands of ecclesiastics. As the sound-changes have been discussed under C it is necessary here only to refer to the palatalization of K followed earlier by a final e as in See also:watch (See also:Middle English wacche, Anglo-Saxon wecce) by the See also:side of See also:wake (M.E. waken, A.-S. wacan) ; batch, See also:bake, &c. Sometimes an older form of the substantive survives, as in the Elizabethan and See also:Northern make= See also:mate alongside match. (P. GL) K2, or MT See also:GODWIN-See also:AUSTEN, the second highest See also:mountain in the See also:world, ranking after Mt See also:Everest.

It is a See also:

peak of the Karakoram See also:extension of the Murtagh range dividing See also:Kashmir from See also:Chinese See also:Turkestan. The height of K2 as at See also:present deter-See also:mined by triangulation is 28,250 ft., but it is possible that an ultimate revision of the values of See also:refraction at high altitudes may have the effect of lowering the height of K2, while it would elevate those of Everest and See also:Kinchinjunga. The latter mountain would then See also:rank second, and K2 third, in the See also:scale of See also:altitude, Everest always maintaining its ascendancy. K2 was ascended for the first See also:time by the See also:duke of the Abruzzi in June 1909, being the highest See also:elevation on the See also:earth's See also:surface ever reached by See also:man.

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