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See also:NEWMARCH, 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 (1820-1882) , See also:English economist and statistician, was See also:born at See also:Thirsk, See also:Yorkshire, on the 28th of See also:January 182o. He settled in See also:London in 1846 as an See also:official of the See also:Agra See also:Bank, but resigned in 1851 on his See also:appointment as secretary of the Globe See also:Insurance See also:Company. This See also:post he held till 1862,. when he became See also:chief officer in the banking-See also:house of Glyn, See also:Mills & Co., in whose employ he remained until 1881. Notwithstanding the continuous pressure of an active business See also:life he found 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 to contribute largely many valuable articles to the magazines and See also:newspapers, and took an active See also:part in the proceedings of the Royal Statistical Society (of which he was one of the honorary secretaries, editor of its See also:journal, and in 1869–1871 See also:president) and the See also:Political See also:Economy See also:Club. He was also elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society. His extensive knowledge of banking was displayed in the See also:evidence which he gave before the select See also:committee on the Bank Acts in 1857. He collaborated with 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:Tooke in the two final volumes of his See also:History of Prices and was responsible for the greater part of the See also:work in those volumes. For nineteen years he wrote an admirable survey. of the commercial history of the See also:year in the Economist. He died at See also:Torquay on the 23rd of See also:March 1882. After his See also:death his See also:friends founded, in perpetuation of his memory, a Newmarch Lectureship in economic See also:science and See also:statistics at University See also:College, London.
End of Article: NEWMARCH, WILLIAM (1820-1882)
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