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See also:SCROPE, See also:GEORGE See also:JULIUS POULETT (1797—1876) , See also:English geologist and See also:political economist, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1797. the second son of J. Poulett See also:Thompson of Waverley See also:Abbey, See also:Surrey. He was educated at See also:Harrow, and for a See also:short 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 at See also:Pembroke See also:College, 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, but in 1816 he entered St See also:John's College, See also:Cambridge, graduated B.A. in 1821, and through the See also:influence of E. D. See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke and See also:Sedgwick became interested in See also:mineralogy and See also:geology. During the See also:winter of 1816—1817 he was at See also:Naples, and was so keenly interested in See also:Vesuvius that he renewed his studies of the See also:volcano in 1818; and in the following See also:year visited See also:Etna and the Lipari Islands. In 1821 he married the daughter and heiress of 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 Scrope of See also:Castle See also:Combe, See also:Wiltshire, and assumed her name; and he entered See also:parliament in 1833 as M.P. for See also:Stroud, retaining his seat until 1868. Meanwhile he began to study the volcanic regions of Central See also:France in 1821, and visited the See also:Eifel See also:district in 1823. In 1825 he published Considerations on Volcanos, leading to the See also:establishment of a new theory of the See also:Earth, and in the following year was elected F.R.S. This earlier See also:work was subsequently amplified and issued under the See also:title of Volcanos (1862): an authoritative See also:text-See also:book of which a second edition was published ten years later. In 1827 he issued his classic Memoir on the Geology of Central France, including the Volcanic formations of See also:Auvergne, the Velay and the Vivarais, a See also:quarto See also:volume illustrated by maps and plates. The substance of this was reproduced in a revised and somewhat more popular See also:form in The Geology and See also:extinct Volcanos of Central France (1858). Scrope was awarded the See also:Wollaston See also:Medal by the See also:Geological Society in 1867. Among his other See also:works was the See also:History of the See also:Manor and See also:Ancient
See also:Barony of Castle Combe (printed for private circulation, 1852). He died at Fairlawn near See also:Cobham in Surrey on the 19th of See also:January 1876.
See also:Biography (with portrait) in Geol. Mag. for May 187o.
End of Article: SCROPE, GEORGE JULIUS POULETT (1797—1876)
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