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See also:PEACH, See also:CHARLES 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 (1800-1886) , See also:British naturalist and geologist, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:September 1800 at Wansford in See also:Northamptonshire; his See also:father at the 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 was a saddler and See also:harness-maker, and afterwards became an innkeeper farming about 8o acres of See also:land. He received an elementary See also:education at Wansford and at Folkingham in See also:Lincolnshire; and assisted for several years in the See also:inn and See also:farm. In 1824 he was appointed See also:riding officer in the See also:Revenue See also:Coast-guard at Weybourn in See also:Norfolk. See also:Sea-weeds and other marine organisms now attracted his See also:attention, and these he zealously collected. His duties during the next few years led him to remove successively to Sheringham, Hasboro (Happisburgh), See also:Cromer and Cley, all in Norfolk. In the course of his rambles he met the Rev. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Layton, See also:curate at Catfield, who See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent him books and assisted in laying the See also:foundations of accurate knowledge. About the See also:year 1830 he was transferred to Charmouth in See also:Dorset, thence to See also:Beer, and See also:Paignton in See also:Devon, and to Gorran Haven near Mevagissey in See also:Cornwall. Here he continued to pursue his zoological studies
4 This is an amended edition of that of 1899.
' This was practically a re-enactment of that of 1899.
' This has since been done to a large extent by the See also:Conference of See also:London (1908-1909). See See also:BLOCKADE, See also:CONTRABAND, See also:INTERNATIONAL See also:LAW See also:PEACE.
and supplied many specimens to G. See also:Johnston, who was then preparing his See also:History of the British Zoophytes (1838). It was here too that he first found fossils in some of the older rocks previously regarded as unfossiliferous—the See also:discovery of which proved the presence of See also:Bala Beds (Ordovician or See also:Lower See also:Silurian) in the neighbourhood of Gorran Haven. In 1841 he read a See also:paper before the British Association at See also:Plymouth " On the Fossil Organic Remains found on the See also:south-See also:east coast of Cornwall," and in 1843 he brought before the Royal See also:Geological Society of Cornwall an See also:account of his discovery of See also:fish remains in the Devonian slates near Polperro. Peach was transferred for a time to See also:Fowey; and in 1849 to See also:Scotland, first to See also:Peterhead and then to See also:Wick (1853), where he made acquaintance with See also:Robert See also:Dick of See also:Thurso. He collected the old red See also:Sandstone fishes; and during a sojourn at Durness he first found fossils in the See also:Cambrian See also:limestone (18J4). Peach retired from the See also:government service in 1861, and died at See also:Edinburgh on the 28th of See also:February 1886.
See also:Biographical See also:notice, with portrait, in S. See also:Smiles's Robert Dick, See also:Baker, of Thurso, Geologist and Botanist (1878).
End of Article: PEACH, CHARLES WILLIAM (1800-1886)
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