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See also:KNOWLES, 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:SHERIDAN (1784-1862) , Irish dramatist and actor, was See also:born in See also:Cork, on the 12th of May 1784. His See also:father was the lexicographer, James Knowles (1759-1840), cousingerman of See also:Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The See also:family removed to See also:London in 1793, and at the See also:age of fourteen Knowles published a ballad entitled The Welsh Harper, which, set to See also:music, was very popular. The boy's talents secured him the friendship of See also:Hazlitt, who introduced him to See also:Lamb and See also:Coleridge. He served for some 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 in the See also:Wiltshire and afterwards in the See also:Tower Hamlets See also:militia, leaving the service to become See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Dr See also:Robert Willan (1757—1812). He obtained the degree of M.D., and was appointed vaccinator to the Jennerian Society. Although, however, Dr Willan generously offered him a See also:share in his practice, he resolved to forsake See also:medicine for the See also:stage, making his first See also:appearance probably at See also:Bath, and playing See also:Hamlet at the See also:Crow See also:Theatre, See also:Dublin. At See also:Wexford he married, in See also:October 1809, Maria Charteris, an actress from the See also:Edinburgh Theatre. In 1810 he wrote See also:Leo, in which See also:Edmund See also:Kean acted with See also:great success; another See also:play, See also:Brian Boroihme, written for the See also:Belfast Theatre in the next See also:year, also See also:drew crowded houses, but his earnings were so small that he was obliged to become assistant to his father at the Belfast Academical Institution. In 1817 he removed from Belfast to See also:Glasgow, where, besides conducting a flourishing school, he continued to write for the stage. His first important success was See also:Caius See also:Gracchus, produced at Belfast in 1815; and his Virginius, written for Edmund Kean, was first performed in 182o at Covent See also:Garden. In 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 Tell (1825) See also:Macready found one of his favourite parts. His best-known play, The Hunchback, was produced at Covent Garden in 1832; The Wife was brought out at the same theatre in 1833; and The
Love See also:Chase in 1837. In his later years he forsook the stage for the See also:pulpit, and as a Baptist preacher attracted large audiences at See also:Exeter See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall and elsewhere. He published two polemical See also:works—the See also:Rock of See also:Rome and the Idol Demolished by its own Priests—in both of which he combated the See also:special doctrines of the See also:Roman Cajolic 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. Knowles was for some years in the See also:receipt of an See also:annual See also:pension of £200, bestowed by See also:Sir Robert See also:Peel. He died at See also:Torquay on the 3oth of See also:November 1862.
A full See also:list of the works of Knowles and of the various notices of him will be found in the See also:Life (1872), privately printed by his son, Richard Brinsley Knowles (1820-1882), who was well known as a journalist.
End of Article: KNOWLES, JAMES SHERIDAN (1784-1862)
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