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See also:KINGLAKE, See also:ALEXANDER 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 (1809-1891) , See also:English historian and traveller, was See also:born at See also:Taunton on the 5th of See also:August 5809. His See also:father, a successful See also:solicitor, intended his son for a legal career. Kinglake went to See also:Eton and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1828, being a See also:con-temporary and friend of See also:Tennyson and See also:Thackeray. After leaving Cambridge he joined See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and was called to the See also:bar in 1837. While still a student he travelled, in 1835, throughout the See also:East, and the impression made upon him by his experiences was so powerful that he was seized with a See also:desire to See also:record them in literature. Rot/ten, a sensitive and witty record of impressions keenly See also:felt and remembered, was published in 1844, and enjoyed considerable reputation. In 1854 he went to the See also:Crimea, and was See also:present at the See also:battle of the See also:Alma. During the See also:campaign he made the acquaintance of See also:Lord See also:Raglan, who was so much attracted by his talents that he suggested to Kinglake the See also:plan for an elaborate See also:History of the See also:Crimean See also:War, and placed his private papers at the writer's disposal. For the See also:rest of his See also:life Kinglake was engaged upon the task of completing this monumental history. See also:Thirty-two years elapsed between its commencement and the publication of the last See also:volume, and eight volumes in all appeared at intervals between 1863 and 1887. Kinglake lived principally in See also:London, and sat in See also:parliament for See also:Bridgwater from 1857 until the disfranchisement of the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in 1868. He died on the 2nd of See also:January 1891. Kinglake's life-See also:work, The History of the Crimean War, is in See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme and See also:execution too See also:minute and conscientious to be altogether in proportion, but it is a wonderful example of painstaking and talented See also:industry. It is not without errors of partisanship, but it shows remarkable skill in the moulding of vast masses of despatches and technical details into an absorbingly interesting narrative; it is illumined by natural descriptions and See also:character-sketches of See also:great fidelity and acumen; and, despite its length, it remains one of the most picturesque, most vivid and most actual pieces of See also:historical narrative in the English See also:language.
End of Article: KINGLAKE, ALEXANDER WILLIAM (1809-1891)
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