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See also:LUCAS, See also:CHARLES (1713–1771) , Irish physician and politician, was the son of a See also:country See also:gentleman of small means in Co. See also:Clare. Charles opened a small business as an See also:apothecary in See also:Dublin, and between 1735 and 1741 he began his career as a pamphleteer by See also:publishing papers on professional matters which led to legislation requiring inspection of drugs. Having been elected a member of the See also:common See also:council of Dublin in 1741 he detected and exposed encroachments by the aldermen on the electoral rights of the citizens, and entered upon a controversy on the subject, but failed in legal proceedings against the See also:alder-
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men in 1744. With a view to becoming a See also:parliamentary See also:candidate for the See also:city of Dublin he issued in 1748–1749 a See also:series of See also:political addresses in which he advocated the principles of See also:Molyneux and See also:Swift; and he made himself so See also:obnoxious to the See also:government that the See also:House of See also:Commons voted him an enemy to the country, and issued a See also:proclamation for his See also:arrest, thus compelling him to retire for some years to the See also:continent. Having studied See also:medicine at See also:Paris, Lucas took the degree of M.D. at See also:Leiden in 1752. In the following See also:year he started practice as a physician in See also:London, and in 1756 he published a See also:work on medicinal See also:waters, the properties of which he had studied on the continent and at See also:Bath. The See also:essay was reviewed by Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, and although it was resented by the medical profession it gained a reputation and a considerable practice for its author. In 1760 he renewed his political pamphleteering; and having obtained a See also:pardon from See also:George III., he proceeded to Dublin, where he received a popular welcome and a See also:Doctor's degree from Trinity See also:College. He was elected member for the city of Dublin in 1761, his colleague in the See also:representation being the See also:recorder, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Grattan's See also:father. On the See also:appointment of See also:Lord See also:Halifax as lord See also:lieutenant in the same year Lucas wrote him a See also:long See also:letter (19th of See also:Sept. 1761, See also:MSS. Irish See also:State See also:Paper 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) setting forth the grievances which See also:Ireland had suffered in the past, chiefly on See also:account of the exorbitant See also:pensions enjoyed by government officials. The cause of these evils he declared to be the unrepresentative See also:character of the Irish constitution; and among the remedies he proposed was the shortening of parliaments. Lucas brought in a See also:bill in his first session to effect this reform, but was defeated on the See also:motion to have the bill sent to See also:England for approval by the privy council; and he insisted upon the See also:independent rights of the Irish See also:parliament, which were after-wards in See also:fuller measure successfully vindicated by Grattan. He also defended the privileges of the Irish Protestants in the See also:press, and especially in the See also:Freeman's See also:Journal, founded in 1763. His contributions to the press, and his Addresses to the Lord See also:Mayor and other political See also:pamphlets made him one of the most popular writers in Ireland of 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, although he was See also:anti-See also:catholic in his prejudices, and although, as See also:Lecky observes, " there is nothing in his remains to show that he possessed any real superiority either of See also:intellect or knowledge, or even any remarkable brilliancy of expression." He died on the 4th of See also:November 1771, and was accorded a public funeral. As an orator Charles Lucas appears to have had little See also:power, and he made no See also:mark in the House of Commons.
See R. R. See also:Madden, Hist. of Irish Periodical Literature from the End of the 17th to the See also:Middle of the 19th See also:Century (2 vols., London, 1867) ; See also:Francis See also:Hardy, See also:Memoirs of the See also:Earl of Cluirlemont (2 vols., London, 1812) ; W. E. H. Lecky, See also:History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, vols. i. and ii. (5 vols., London, 1892).
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