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OLDYS, WILLIAM (1696-1761)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 75 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OLDYS, See also:WILLIAM (1696-1761) , See also:English See also:antiquary and b!blio- and See also:Levant, and is characterized by its tall shrubby See also:habit and grapher, natural son of Dr William Oldys, See also:chancellor of See also:Lincoln, its thick See also:lance-shaped opposite leaves, which exude a milky was See also:born on the 14th of See also:July 1696, probably in See also:London. His juice when punctured. The See also:flowers are See also:borne in terminal See also:father had also held the See also:office of See also:advocate of the See also:admiralty, but clusters, and are like those of the See also:common periwinkle ( Vinca), but lost it in 1693 because he would not prosecute as traitors and are of a See also:rose See also:colour, rarely See also:white, and the See also:throat or upper edge pirates the sailors who had served against See also:England under of the See also:tube of the corolla is occupied by outgrowths in the See also:James II. William Oldys, the younger, lost See also:part of his small See also:form of lobed and fringed petal-like scales. The hairy anthers patrimony in the See also:South See also:Sea Bubble, and in 1724 went to See also:York- adhere to the thickened stigma. The See also:fruit or See also:seed-See also:vessel consists See also:shire, spending the greater part of the next six years as the of two See also:long pods, which, bursting along one edge, liberate a See also:guest of the See also:earl of See also:Malton. On his return to London he found number of seeds, each of which has a tuft of silky hairs like See also:thistle that his landlord had disposed of the books and papers See also:left down at the upper end. in his See also:charge. Among these was an annotated copy of See also:Gerard The genus belongs to Langbaine's Dramatick Poets. The See also:book came into the hands of the natural See also:order See also:Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747), and subsequently into See also:Theophilus Apocynaceae, a See also:family See also:Cibber's See also:possession, and furnished the basis of the Lives of that, as is usual where the Poets (1753) published with Cibber's name on the See also:title See also:page, the juice has a milky though most of it was written by See also:Robert Shiels. In 1731 Oldys See also:appearance, is marked sold his collections to See also:Edward Harley, second earl of See also:Oxford, by its poisonous See also:pro-who appointed him his See also:literary secretary in 1738. Three years perties. Cases are re-later his See also:patron died, and from that See also:time he worked for the corded by See also:Lindley of booksellers.

His habits were irregular, and in 1751 his debts See also:

children poisoned by drove him to the See also:Fleet See also:prison. After two years' imprisonment the flowers. The same he was released through the kindness of See also:friends who paid his author also narrates how debts, and in See also:April 1755 he was appointed Norroy See also:king-at-arms in the course of thePeninby the See also:duke of See also:Norfolk. He died on the 15th of April 1761. sular See also:War some See also:French Oldys's See also:chief See also:works are: The See also:British Librarian, a See also:review of scarce soldiers died in conseand valuable books in See also:print and in See also:manuscript (1737–1738) ; the quence of employing Harleian See also:Miscellany (1744-1746), a collection of tracts and See also:pamphlets skewers made from Nerium Oleander. in the earl of Oxford's library, undertaken in See also:conjunction with Dr See also:Johnson; twenty-two articles contributed to the Biographic freshly-cut twigs of oleander for roasting their See also:meat. The Britannica (1747-1760) ; an edition of See also:Raleigh's See also:History of the See also:World, oleander was known to the Greeks under three names, viz. with a See also:Life of the author (1736) ; Life of See also:Charles See also:Cotton prefixed to See also:rhododendron, nerion and rhododaphne, and is well described See also:Sir See also:John awkins's edition (176o) of the Compleat See also:Angler. In 1727 by See also:Pliny (xvi. 20), who mentions its rose like flowers and Oldys began to annotate another Langbaine to replace the one he had lost. This valuable book, with a MS. collection of notes by poisonous qualities, at the same time stating that it was Oldys on various See also:bibliographical subjects, is preserved in the British considered serviceable as a remedy against snake-bite.

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