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See also:PENGELLY, 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 (1812-1894) , See also:English geologist and anthropologist, was See also:born at See also:East Lone in See also:Cornwall on the 12th of See also:January 1812, the son of the See also:captain of a small See also:coasting See also:vessel. He began See also:life as a sailor, after an elementary See also:education in his native See also:village, but in 1828 he abandoned a seafaring life. He had See also:developed a See also:passion for learning, and about 1836 he removed to See also:Torquay and started a school; in 1846 he became a private See also:tutor in See also:mathematics and natural See also:science. See also:Geology had in See also:early years attracted his See also:attention, but it was not until he was about 30 years of See also:age that he began seriously to cultivatethe study. In 1837 he was instrumental in the reorganization of the Torquay See also:Mechanics' See also:Institute, in 1844 mainly owing to his See also:energy the Torquay Natural See also:History Society was founded, and in 1862 he assisted in See also:founding the See also:Devonshire Association for the See also:Advancement of Literature, Science and See also:Art. Meanwhile he had been occupied in See also:collecting fossils from many parts of See also:Devon and Cornwall, and in 186o the Baroness See also:Burdett-See also:Coutts acquired and presented them to the See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford Museum, where they See also:form " The Pengelly Collection." Through the generosity of the same See also:lady he was called upon to examine the lignites and See also:clays of Hovey Tracey, in See also:conjunction with Dr See also:Oswald Heer, who undertook the determination of the plant-remains. Their See also:report was published by the Royal Society (1862), and Pengelly was elected F.R.S. in 1863. He aided in the investigations of the See also:Brixham See also:bone-cavern from the date of its See also:discovery in 1858, the full report being issued in 1873; and he was the See also:main explorer of See also:Kent's Hole, Torquay, and from 1864 for more than fifteen years he laboured with unflagging energy in examining and recording the exact position of the numerous organic remains that were disinterred during a systematic investigation of this See also:cave, carried on with the aid of grants from. the See also:British Association. He first attended the British Association at the See also:Cheltenham See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting in 1856, and was See also:present at subsequent meetings (except that at See also:Montreal in 1884) until 1889. His observations assisted in establishing the important fact of the contemporaneity of See also:Palaeolithic See also:man with various See also:Pleistocene See also:mammalia, such as the See also:mammoth, cave-See also:bear, cave-See also:lion, &c. He was awarded the See also:Lyell See also:medal by the See also:Geological Society of See also:London in 1886. He died at Torquay on the 16th of See also:March 1894.
See Memoir of William Pengelly, edited by his daughter Hester Pengelly, with a See also:summary of his scientific See also:work by the Rev. See also:Professor T. G. See also:Bonney (1897).
End of Article: PENGELLY, WILLIAM (1812-1894)
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