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See also:PARKER, See also:SIR See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
GILBERT (1862— ) , See also:British novelist and politician, was See also:born at See also:Camden See also:East, Addington, See also:Ontario, on the 23rd of See also:November 1862, the son of See also:Captain J. Parker, R.A. He was educated at See also:Ottawa and at Trinity University, See also:Toronto. In 1886 he went to See also:Australia, and became for a while See also:associate-editor of the See also:Sydney See also:Morning See also:Herald. He also travelled extensively in the Pacific, and subsequently in See also:northern See also:Canada; and in the See also:early 'nineties he began to make a growing reputation in See also:London as a writer of romantic fiction. The best of his novels are those in which he first took for his subject the See also:history and See also:life of the See also:French Canadians; and his permanent See also:literary reputation rests on the See also:fine quality, descriptive and dramatic, of his See also:Canadian stories. See also:Pierre and his See also:People (1892) was followed by Mrs Falchion (1893), The Trail of the See also:Sword (1894), When Valmond came to See also:Pontiac (1895), An Adventurer of the See also:North (1895), and The Seats of the Mighty (1896, dramatized in 1897). The See also:Lane that had no Turning (1goe>) contains some of his best See also:work. In The See also:Battle of the Strong (1898) he See also:broke new ground, laying his See also:scene in the Channel Islands. His See also:chief later books were The Right of Way (See also:tool), See also:Donovan See also:Pasha (1902), The See also:Ladder of Swords (1904), The Weavers (1907) and Northern See also:Lights (1909). In 1895 he married See also:Miss See also:Van Tine of New See also:York, a wealthy heiress. His Canadian connexion and his experience in Australia and elsewhere.had made him a strong Imperialist in politics, and from that 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 he began to devote himself in large measure to a See also:political career. He still kept up his literary work, but some of the books last mentioned cannot compare with those by which he made his name. He was elected to See also:parliament in 190o (re-elected 1906 and 191o) as Conservative member for See also:Gravesend and soon made his See also:mark in the See also:House of See also:Commons. He wasknighted in 1902, and in succeeding years continually strengthened his position in the party, particularly by his energetic work on behalf of See also:Tariff Reform and Imperial Preference. If he had given up to public life what at one time seemed to be due to literature, he gave it for See also:enthusiasm in the Imperialist See also:movement; and with the progress of that cause he came to See also:rank by 1910 as one of the foremost men in the Unionist party outside those who had held 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.
End of Article: PARKER, SIR GILBERT (1862— )
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