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See also:ROY, 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 (1726-1790) , a famous See also:British surveyor, military draughtsman, See also:antiquary, &c. In 1746, when an assistant in the 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 of See also:Colonel See also:Watson, See also:deputy quartermaster-See also:general in See also:North See also:Britain, he began the survey of the mainland of See also:Scotland, the results of which were embodied in what is known as the " See also:duke of See also:Cumberland's See also:map." In 1755 he obtained his See also:commission in the 4th See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Own See also:Foot, and in 1759 gained his lieutenancy and went to serve in See also:Germany in the Seven Years' See also:War. In 1765 he appears as deputy quartermaster-general to the forces, surveyor-general of coasts and engineer-director of military surveys in See also:Great Britain; in 1767 he became F.R.S., in 1781 See also:major-general, in 1783 director of Royal See also:Engineers. Besides his See also:campaigns and observations in Germany, his visits to See also:Ireland (1766) and to See also:Gibraltar (1768) were important. In 1783–84 he conducted observations for determining the relative positions of the See also:French and See also:English royal observatories. His measurement of a See also:base-See also:line for that purpose on See also:Hounslow See also:Heath in 1784, the germ of all subsequent surveys of the See also:United See also:Kingdom, gained him in 1785 the
1 This school was founded, primarily through the See also:influence of the Rev. See also:John See also:Eliot, by inhabitants of See also:Roxbury. In 1672 See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell, one of the See also:original founders, bequeathed to the school all his Roxbury lands. In 1789 the school was incorporated.
See also:Copley See also:medal of the Royal Society. Roy's measurements (not fully utilized till 1787, when the See also:Paris and See also:Greenwich observatories were properly connected) See also:form the basis of the topographical survey of See also:Middlesex, See also:Surrey, See also:Kent and See also:Sussex. He was See also:finishing an See also:account of this See also:work for the Phil. Trans. when he died on the 1st of See also:July 1790.
Roy's See also:principal See also:book-publication is the Military Antiquities of the See also:Romans in Britain (1793). See also notices of him and contributions from him in the records of the War Office and the Royal Engineers, in the Transactions of the Royal Society of See also:London, vols. lxvii., lxxv., lxxvii., Ixxx., lxxxv., and in the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, vols. lv., lx. He is whimsically denounced by See also:Jonathan Oldbuck of Monkbarns in See also:Scott's Antiquary.
End of Article: ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)
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