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See also:NASH, See also:RICHARD (1674-1762) , See also:English See also:dandy, better known as " BEAU NASH," was See also:born at See also:Swansea on the 18th of See also:October 1674. He was descended from an old See also:family of See also:good position, but his See also:father from straitened means had become partner in a See also:glass business. See also:Young Nash was educated at See also:Carmarthen See also:grammar school and at Jesus 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. He obtained a See also:commission in the See also:army, which, however, he soon exchanged for the study of See also:law at the See also:Temple. Here among " wits and men of See also:pleasure " he came to be accepted as an authority in regard to See also:dress, See also:manners and See also:style. When the members of the Inns of See also:Court entertained 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 III. after his See also:accession, Nash was chosen to conduct the See also:pageant at the See also:Middle Temple. This See also:duty he performed so much to the See also:satisfaction of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king that he was offered See also:knighthood, but he declined the See also:honour, unless accompanied by a See also:pension. As the king did not take the hint, Nash found it necessary to turn gamester. The pursuit of his calling led him in 1705 to See also:Bath, where he had the good See also:fortune almost immediately to succeed See also:Captain See also:Webster as See also:master of the ceremonies. His qualifications for such a position were unique, and under his authority reforms were introduced which rapidly secured to Bath a leading position as a fashionable watering-See also:place. He See also:drew up a new See also:code of rules for the regulation of balls and assemblies, abolished the See also:habit of wearing swords in places of public amusement and brought duelling into disrepute, induced gentlemen to adopt shoes and stockings in parades and assemblies instead of boots, reduced refractory chairmen to submission and civility, and introduced a See also:tariff for lodgings. Through his exertions a handsome See also:assembly-See also:room was also erected, and the streets and public buildings were greatly improved. Nash adopted an outward See also:state corresponding to his nominal dignity. He wore an immense See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:hat as a sign of 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, and a dress adorned with See also:rich See also:embroidery, and drove in a See also:chariot with six greys, laced lackeys and See also:French horns. When the See also:act of See also:parliament against gambling was passed in 1745, he was deprived of an easy though uncertain means of subsistence, but the See also:corporation afterwards granted him a pension of six See also:score guineas a See also:year, which, with the See also:sale of his See also:snuff-boxes and other trinkets, enabled him to support a certain faded splendour till his See also:death on the 3rd of See also:February 1762. He was honoured with a public funeral at the expense of the See also:town. Notwithstanding his vanity and impertinence, the tact, See also:energy and superficial cleverness of Nash won him the patronage and See also:notice of the See also:great, while the success of his ceremonial See also:rule, as shown in the increasing prosperity of the town, secured him the gratitude of the corporation and the See also:people generally. He was a See also:man of strong See also:personality, and considerably more able than Beau See also:Brummell, whose prototype he was.
See See also:Lewis See also:Melville, Bath under Beau Nash (1908), with full See also:list of authorities; See also:Oliver See also:Goldsmith, See also:Life of Richard Nash (1762). See also See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine (1762); See also:London Magazine, vol. xxxi.; " The Monarch of Bath " in See also:Blackwood's Magazine, vol. xlviii.
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