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See also:MORIER, See also:SIR See also:ROBERT See also:BURNETT See also:DAVID (1826-1893) ,
See also:British diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 31st of See also:March 1826. He was descended from a See also:family of diplomatists of Huguenot origin, the best known of whom were his See also:father David, See also:consul-See also:general for See also:France and See also:minister at See also:Bern, and his See also:uncle 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, the author of The Adventures of Hajji Baba. After a somewhat defective private See also:education he came up to 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. Here he attracted the See also:notice of See also:Jowett, under whose See also:influence his brilliant but wayward mind obtained the discipline of which it stood in need. The relation of See also:tutor and 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 See also:developed into a friendship of rare warmth. See also:Writing towards the See also:close of his See also:life, Jowett, who inspired more devoted friend-See also:ships than any See also:man 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, spoke of Morier as his kindest and best friend for See also:forty-five years. On leaving Oxford, Morier at first obtained an See also:appointment in the Education See also:Department, but resigned in 1852, and in the following See also:year became attache at See also:Vienna. In the succeeding years he was attached in turn to almost every See also:court in See also:Germany. Restless in temperament and unconventional in method, he plunged into the vortex of See also:German politics to a degree that did not always See also:accord with the traditions of See also:diplomacy. The most important years of his career in Germany were from 1866 to 1871, when he was secretary of See also:legation at See also:Darmstadt. Here he became a trusted adviser of the See also:crown princess, and through her acquired an intimate friendship with the crown See also:prince (afterwards the See also:emperor See also:Frederick III.), whose antagonism to See also:Bismarck's reactionary policy met with cordial support from Morier's sturdy Liberalism. Bismarck, already jealous of British influence at court, honoured Morier with a hatred not lessened by the fact that Morier's knowledge of German politics was unrivalled outside Germany. On leaving Darmstadt, Morier became See also:charge d'affaires, first at See also:Stuttgart
' Some of the sects See also:transfer the See also:scene of the See also:sacrifice to the " See also:Chapel of See also:Abraham " in the precincts of the See also:Holy See also:Sepulchre 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.
and then at See also:Munich, and in 1876 was appointed minister at See also:Lisbon. From 1881 to 1884 he was minister at See also:Madrid. In See also:December 1884 he became See also:ambassador at St See also:Petersburg, and almost immediately had to See also:face the alarming situation created by the See also:Russian advance to Penjdeh. Thanks to his efforts, a See also:war that at one moment seemed inevitable was averted. His See also:great popularity at the Russian court contributed towards a marked improvement in the relations between the two countries. Bismarck took alarm at the lessening influence of Germany over See also:Russia, and tried to procure Morier's downfall. The Kolnische Zeitung declared in December 1888 that Morier had made use of his position at Darmstadt during the Franco-German War to betray the movements of the German troops to See also:Marshal See also:Bazaine. The authority for this charge was an alleged See also:declaration made by Bazaine to the German military attache at Madrid. Bazaine had died in See also:September, but Morier had heard rumours in See also:July of the charge brought against him, and had procured from Bazaine a written denial, which he now published in The Times. Apart from this, it was clearly shown that Morier could not have transmitted the See also:information by the alleged date, and that Bazaine, according to the testimony of his own books and of other See also:officers, received the information in question by reports from the front. As a See also:matter of fact, Morier was an ardent See also:champion of the German cause. His See also:correspondence with Jowett shows the latter vainly endeavouring to convince his friend that the See also:French were in the right. Public "See also:opinion everywhere, except in the German Conservative See also:press, attributed the charge to See also:political motives. Morier's failing See also:health caused him, at his own See also:request, to be appointed See also:Lord Dufferin's successor at See also:Rome in 1891; but it was See also:felt that he could not be spared from St Petersburg, and there he remained till forced to find a milder See also:climate. It was then too See also:late, and he died at See also:Montreux in See also:Switzerland on the 16th of See also:November 1893.
End of Article: MORIER, SIR ROBERT BURNETT DAVID (1826-1893)
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