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See also:KITTO, See also:JOHN (1804–1854) , See also:English biblical See also:scholar, was the
son of a See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
mason at See also:Plymouth, where he was See also:born on the 4th of
See also:December 1804. An See also:accident brought on deafness, and in
See also:November 1819 he was sent to the workhouse, where he was
employed in making See also:list shoes. In 1823 a fund was raised on his
behalf, and he was sent to See also:board with the clerk of the guardians,
having his 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 his own disposal, and the See also:privilege of making
use of a public library. After preparing a small See also:volume of
miscellanies, which was published by subscription, he studied
See also:dentistry with See also:Anthony See also:Norris Groves in See also:Exeter. In 1825 he
obtained congenial employment in the See also:printing 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 of the
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 Missionary Society at See also:Islington, and in 1827 was trans-
ferred to the same society's See also:establishment at See also:Malta. There
he remained for eighteen months, but shortly after his return
to See also:England he accompanied Groves and other See also:friends on a private
missionary enterprise to See also:Bagdad, where he obtained See also:personal
knowledge of See also:Oriental See also:life and habits which he afterwards applied
with tact and skill in the See also:illustration of biblical scenes and
incidents. See also:Plague See also:broke out, the missionary establishment was
broken up, and in 1832 Kitto returned to England. On arriving
in See also:London he was engaged in the preparation of various serial
publications of the Society for the See also:Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,
the most important of which were the Pictorial See also:History of See also:Palestine
and the Pictorial See also:Bible. The Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature,
15
edited under his superintendence, appeared in two volumes in 1843-1845 and passed through three See also:editions. His Daily Bible Illustrations (8 vols. 1849-1853) received an appreciation which is not yet See also:extinct. In 185o he received an See also:annuity of £roo from the See also:civil list. In See also:August 1854 he went to See also:Germany for the See also:waters of See also:Cannstatt on the See also:Neckar, where on the 25th of November he died.
See Kitto's own See also:work, The Lost Senses (1845) ; J. E. See also:Ryland's See also:Memoirs of Kitto (1856); and John See also:Eadie's Life of Kitto (1857).
End of Article: KITTO, JOHN (1804–1854)
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