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See also:PARRY, 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:EDWARD (179o–1855) , See also:English See also:rear-See also:admiral and See also:Arctic explorer, was See also:born in See also:Bath on the 19th of See also:December 1790, the son of a See also:doctor. At the See also:age of thirteen he joined the See also:flag-See also:ship of Admiral See also:Cornwallis in the Channel See also:fleet as a first-class volunteer, in 18o6 became a See also:midshipman, and in 1810 was promoted to the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant in the " See also:Alexander " See also:frigate, which was employed for the next three years in the See also:protection of the Spitzbergen See also:whale See also:fishery. He took See also:advantage of this opportunity for the study and practice of astronomical observations in See also:northern latitudes, and after-wards published the results of his studies in a small See also:volume on Nautical See also:Astronomy by See also:Night (1816). From 1813–1817 he served on the See also:North See also:American station. In 1818 he was given the command of the " Alexander " brig in the Arctic expedition under See also:Captain (afterwards Sir) See also:John See also:Ross. This expedition returned to See also:England without having made any new discoveries but Parry, confident, as he expressed it, "that attempts at Polar See also:discovery had been hitherto relinquished just at a 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 when there was the greatest See also:chance of succeeding," in the following See also:year obtained the See also:chief command of a new Arctic expedition; consisting of the two See also:ships " Griper " and " Hecla." This expedition returned to England in See also:November 1820 after a voyage of almost unprecedented Arctic success (see POLAR REGIONS), having accomplished more than See also:half the See also:journey from See also:Greenland to See also:Bering Strait, the completion of which solved the See also:ancient problem of a North-See also:west Passage. A narrative of the expedition, entitled See also:Journal of a Voyage to discover a North-west Passage, appeared in 1821. Upon his return Lieutenant Parry was promoted to the rank of See also:commander. In May 1821 he set See also:sail with the " Fury " and " Hecla " on a second expedition to discover a North-west Passage, but was compelled to return to England in See also:October 1823 without achieving his purpose. During his See also:absence he had in November 1821 been promoted to See also:post rank, and shortly after his return he was appointed acting hydrographer to the See also:navy. His Journal of a Second Voyage, &c., appeared in 1824. With the same ships he undertook a third expedition on the same quest in 1824, but was again unsuccessful, and the " Fury " being wrecked, he returned See also:home in October 1825 with a See also:double ship's See also:company. Of this voyage he published an See also:account in 1826. In the following year he obtained the See also:sanction of the See also:Admiralty for an See also:attempt on the North See also:Pole from the northern shores of Spitzbergen, and his extreme point of 82° 45' N. See also:lat. remained for 49 years the highest See also:latitude attained. He published an account of this journey under the See also:title of Narrative of the Attempt to reach the
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North Pole, &c. (1827). In See also:April 1829 he was knighted. He was subsequently selected for the post of See also:comptroller of the newly created See also:department of See also:steam machinery of the Navy, and held this 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 until his retirement from active service in 1846, when he was appointed captain-See also:superintendent of Haslar See also:Hospital. He attained the rank of rear-admiral in 1852, and in the following year became a See also:governor of See also:Greenwich Hospital, and retained this post till his See also:death on the 8th of See also:July 1855. The religious See also:side of Sir Edward Parry's See also:character was strongly marked, and besides the See also:journals of his different voyages he was also the author of a Lecture to See also:Seamen, and Thoughts on the Parental Character of See also:God.
See See also:Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. E. Parry, by his son, Rev. Edward Parry (3rd ed., 1857).
End of Article: PARRY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (179o–1855)
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