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See also:KYRLE, See also:JOHN (1637-1724) , " the See also:Man of See also:Ross," See also:English philanthropist, was See also:born in the See also:parish of Dymock, See also:Gloucester-See also:shire, on the 22nd of May 1637. His See also:father was a See also:barrister and M.P., and the See also:family had lived at Ross, in See also:Herefordshire, for many generations. He was educated at Balliol See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and having succeeded to the See also:property at Ross took up his See also:abode there. In everything that concerned the welfare of the little See also:town in which he lived he took a lively See also:interest—in the See also:education of the See also:children, the See also:distribution of See also:alms, in improving and embellishing the town. He delighted in mediating between those who had quarrelled and in preventing lawsuits. He was generous to the poor and spent all he had in See also:good See also:works. He lived a See also:great See also:deal in the open See also:air working with the labourers on his See also:farm. He died on the 7th of See also:November 1724, and was buried in the See also:chancel of Ross 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. His memory is pre-served by the See also:Kyrie Society, founded in 1877, to better the See also:lot of working See also:people, by laying out parks, encouraging See also:house decoration, window gardening and See also:flower growing. Ross was eulogized by See also:Pope in the third Moral See also:Epistle (1732), and by See also:Coleridge in an See also:early poem (1794).
End of Article: KYRLE, JOHN (1637-1724)
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