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See also:NELSON, See also:ROBERT (s656-1715) , See also:English philanthropist and religious writer, son of See also:John Nelson, a See also:London See also:merchant, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:June 1656, and was educated as the private 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 of See also:George See also:Bull, afterwards See also:bishop of St See also:David's. Having inherited a considerable See also:fortune from his See also:father, he followed no profession. About 168o he went abroad and spent much 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 on the See also:continent of See also:Europe till 1691, when he settled at See also:Blackheath. For many years he was an intimate friend and correspondent of See also:Archbishop See also:Tillotson, though not in agreement with his views; and he was also on terms of friendship with the astronomer See also:Halley and other men of See also:science. Nelson's sympathies were with the `See also:Jacobites; and after his return to See also:England he associated himself with the See also:nonjurors, under whose See also:influence he produced several of his writings on religious subjects. He was an active supporter of the Society for Promoting See also:Christian Knowledge, the Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel, and similar associations, and he used his influence largely in the See also:establishment of charity See also:schools and the See also:building of churches in London. In 1687 he had published a controversial See also:work against See also:transubstantiation, and in 1704 appeared his See also:Companion for the Festivals and Fasts. of the 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 of England, which obtained a remarkable popularity lasting till the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century. Within five years of its publication ten thousand copies of the Companion were printed, and See also:thirty-six See also:editions appeared in a See also:hundred and twenty years. After the See also:death of Bishop Bull in 1710 Nelson wrote his See also:biography, which was published three years later; and he was also the author of many other devotional and controversial See also:works. He died in See also:January
1715, in which See also:year was published his Address to Persons of Quality and See also:Estate, containing suggestions for the establishment of See also:special hospitals, schools and theological colleges, many of his proposals being afterwards carried into effect. Nelson married a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, See also:Lady Theophila See also:Lucy, daughter of the See also:earl of See also:Berkeley, and widow of See also:Sir Kingsmill Lucy of Broxbourne.
See See also:Charles F. Secretan, Memdirs of the See also:Life and Times of the Pious Robert Nelson (186o); See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Birch, Life of Tillotson (2nd ed., 1753) ; Thomas Lathbury, See also:History of the Nonjurors (1845).
End of Article: NELSON, ROBERT (s656-1715)
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