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See also:MURCHISON, See also:SIR See also:RODERICK See also:IMPEY (1792-1871) , See also:British geologist, was See also:born at Tarradale, in eastern See also:Ross, See also:Scotland, on the 19th of See also:February 1792. His See also:father, See also:Kenneth Murchison (d. 1796), came of an old Highland See also:clan in See also:west Ross-See also:shire, and having been educated as a medical See also:man, acquired a See also:fortune in See also:India; while still in the See also:prime of See also:life he returned to Scotland, where, marrying one of the Mackenzies of Fairburn, he See also:purchased the See also:estate of Tarradale and settled for a few years as a See also:resident Highland landlord. See also:Young Murchison See also:left the See also:Highlands when three years old, and at the See also:age of seven was sent to the See also:grammar school of See also:Durham, where he remained for six years. He was then placed at the military See also:college, See also:Great See also:Marlow, to be trained for the See also:army. With some difficulty he passed the See also:examinations, and at the age of fifteen was gazetted See also:ensign in the 36th See also:regiment. A See also:year later (18o8) he landed with See also:Wellesley in See also:Galicia, and was See also:present at the actions of Rorica and Vimiera. Subsequently under Sir See also:John See also:Moore he took See also:part in the See also:retreat to See also:Corunna and the final See also:battle there. This was his only active service. The defeat of See also:Napoleon at See also:Waterloo seeming to See also:close the prospect of See also:advancement in the military profession, Murchison, after eight years of service, quitted the army, and married the daughter of See also:General Hugonin, of Nursted See also:House, See also:Hampshire. With her he then spent rather more than two years on the See also:Continent, particularly in See also:Italy, where her cultivated tastes were of See also:signal See also:influence in guiding his pursuits. He threw himself with all the See also:enthusiasm of his See also:character into the study of See also:art and antiquities, and for the first 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 his life tasted the pleasures of truly intellectual pursuits.
Returning to See also:England in 1818, he sold his paternal See also:property in Ross-shire and settled in England, where he took to See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field See also:sports. He soon became one of the greatest See also:fox-hunters in the midland counties; but at last, getting weary of such pursuits and See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting Sir See also:Humphry See also:Davy, who urged him to turn his See also:energy to See also:science, he was induced to attend lectures at the Royal Institution. This See also:change in the current of his occupations was much helped by the sympathy of his wife, who, besides her See also:artistic acquirements, took much See also:interest in natural See also:history. Eager and enthusiastic in whatever he undertook, he was fascinated by the young science of See also:geology. He joined the See also:Geological Society of See also:London and soon showed himself one of its most active members, having as his colleagues there such men as See also:Sedgwick, W. D. See also:Conybeare, W. See also:Buckland, W. H. See also:Fitton and See also:Lyell. Exploring with his wife the geology of the See also:south of England, he devoted See also:special See also:attention to the rocks of the See also:north-west of See also:Sussex and the adjoining parts of Hants and See also:Surrey, on which, aided by Fitton, he wrote his first scientific See also:paper, read to the society in 1825.
End of Article: MURCHISON, SIR RODERICK IMPEY (1792-1871)
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