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See also:KAYSER, See also:FRIEDRICH HEINRICH EMANUEL (1845- ) , See also:German geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Konigsberg, on the 26th of See also:March 1845. He was educated at See also:Berlin where he took his degree of Ph.D. in 187o. In 1882 he became See also:professor of See also:geology in the university at See also:Marburg. He investigated fossils of various ages and from all parts of the See also:world, but more especially from the Palaeozoic formations, including those of
See also:South See also:Africa, the Polar regions, and notably the Devonian fossils of See also:Germany, Bohemia and other parts of See also:Europe.
Among his See also:separate See also:works are Lehrbuch der Geologie (2 vols., ii.), Geologische Formaiionskunde 1891 (2nd ed., 1902), and i. Allgemeine Geologie (1893), vol. ii. (the See also:volume first issued) was translated and edited by P. See also:Lake, 1893, under the See also:title Textbook of See also:Comparative Geology. Another See also:work is Beitrage zur Kenntniss der See also:Fauna der Siegenschen Grauwacke (1892).
See also:KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, See also:SIR 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 See also:PHILLIPS, See also:BART. (1804-1877), See also:English politician and educationalist, was born at See also:Rochdale, See also:Lancashire, on the loth of See also:July 1804, the son of See also:Robert Kay. At first engaged in a Rochdale See also:bank, in 1824 he became a medical student at See also:Edinburgh University. Settling in See also:Manchester about 1827, he worked for the Ancoats and Ardwick Dispensary, and the experience which he thus gained of the conditions of the poor in the Lancashire factory districts, together with his See also:interest in economic See also:science, led to his See also:appointment in 1835 as poor See also:law See also:commissioner in See also:Norfolk and See also:Suffolk and later in the See also:London districts. In 1839 he was appointed first secretary of the See also:committee formed by the Privy See also:Council to administer the See also:Government See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant for the public See also:education in See also:Great See also:Britain. He is remembered as having founded at See also:Battersea, London, in See also:conjunction with E. See also:Carleton Tufnell, the first training See also:college for school teachers (1839-1840); and the See also:system of See also:national school education of the See also:present See also:day, with its public inspection, trained teachers and its support by See also:state as well as See also:local funds, is largely due to his initiative. In 1842 he married See also:Lady See also:Janet Shuttleworth, assuming by royal See also:licence his See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
bride's name and arms. A breakdown in his See also:health led him to resign his See also:post on the committee in 1849, but subsequent recovery enabled him to take an active See also:part in the working of the central See also:relief committee instituted under See also:Lord See also:Derby, during the Lancashire See also:cotton See also:famine of 1861-1865. He was created a See also:baronet in 1849. Until the end of his See also:life he interested himself in the movements of the Liberal party in Lancashire, and the progress of education. He died in London on the 26th of May 1877. His See also:Physiology, See also:Pathology and Treatment of See also:Asphyxia became a See also:standard textbook, and he also wrote numerous papers on public education.
His son, Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (b. 1844), became a well-known Liberal politician, sitting in See also:parliament for See also:Hastings from 1869 to 188o and for the See also:Clitheroe See also:division of Lancashire from 1885 till 1902, when he was created See also:Baron Shuttleworth. He was See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster in 1886, and secretary to the See also:Admiralty in 1892-1895.
End of Article: KAYSER, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH EMANUEL (1845- )
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