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See also:NICOLL, See also:SIR 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 See also:ROBERTSON (1851– ) , Scottish See also:Nonconformist divine and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Auchindoir, See also:Aberdeenshire, on the loth of See also:October 1851, the son of a See also:Free 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 See also:minister. He graduated M.A. at See also:Aberdeen in 1870, and studied for the See also:ministry at the Free Church See also:College there until 1874, when he was ordained minister of the Free Church at See also:Dufftown. Three years later he moved to See also:Kelso, and in 1884 became editor of the Expositor. In 1886 he founded the See also:British Weekly, a Nonconformist See also:organ which obtained See also:great See also:influence over See also:opinion in the free churches. Robertson Nicoll secured many writers of exceptional See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for his See also:paper, to which he was himself a considerable contributor, the papers signed " See also:Claudius Clear " being among those from his See also:hand. He also founded and edited the Bookman (1891, &c.), and acted as See also:chief See also:literary adviser to the See also:publishing See also:firm of Hodder & See also:Stoughton. Among his other enterprises were The Expositor's See also:Bible and The Theological Educator. He edited The Expositor's See also:Greek Testament (1897, &c.), and a See also:series of Contemporary Writers (1894, &c.), and of Literary Lives (1904, &c.). He wrote a See also:history of The Victorian Era in See also:English Literature, and edited, with T. J. See also:Wise, Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth See also:Century. The See also:knighthood bestowed on him among the birthday honours in 1909 was an See also:apt recognition of his See also:long and able devotion to the " journeyman See also:work " of literature.
A See also:list of his publications is included in a monograph on Dr Nicoll by Jane T. Stoddart (" New Century Leaders," 1903).
End of Article: NICOLL, SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1851– )
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