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See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH, 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 (1769-1839) , See also:English geologist, appropriately termed " the See also:Father of English See also:geology," and known among his acquaintances as " Strata Smith," was See also:born at See also:Churchill in See also:Oxfordshire on the 23rd of See also:March 1767. Deprived of his father, an ingenious mechanic, before he was eight years old, he depended upon his father's eldest See also:brother, a See also:farmer at Over See also:Norton, who was but little pleased with his See also:nephew's love of See also:collecting " pundibs " (Terebratulae) and " See also:pound-stones " (the large Echinoid Clypeus, then frequently employed as a pound See also:weight by dairywomen), and with his propensity for See also:carving sundials on soft See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown " See also:oven-See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone " of his See also:neighbour-See also:hood. The See also:uncle was, however, better satisfied when the boy, after studying the rudiments of See also:geometry and See also:surveying, began to take See also:interest in the draining of See also:land; and there is no doubt that William Smith profited in after See also:life by the See also:practical experience he gained with his relative. At the See also:age of eighteen he became assistant to See also:Edward See also:Webb, surveyor, of See also:Stow-on-the-Wold, and traversed the Oolitic lands of Oxfordshire and See also:Gloucestershire, the See also:Lias See also:clays and red marls of See also:Warwickshire and other districts, studying their varieties of strata and soils. In 1791 his observations at Stowey and High See also:Littleton in See also:Somersetshire first impressed him with the regularity of the stra+a. In 1793 he executed the surveys and levellings for the See also:line . `f the See also:Somers( t See also:Coal.See also:Canal, in the course of which he See also:con-firmed a previous supposition, that the strata lying above the coal were not See also:horizontal, but inclined in one direction—to the E.—so as to terminate successively at the See also:surface.
On being appointed engineer to the canal in 1794 he was deputed to make 'a tour of observation with regard to inland See also:navigation. During this tour, which occupied nearly two months, he journeyed to See also:York and See also:Newcastle and returned through See also:Shropshire and See also:Wales to See also:Bath; he carefully examined the See also:geological structure of the See also:country, and corroborated his generalization of a settled See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:succession in the strata. After residing for two or three years at High Littleton he removed in 1795 to Bath, and three years later See also:purchased a small See also:estate at Tucking See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill, Midford, about 3 M. distant from the See also:city, where he engaged in the last duties he performed as See also:resident engineer to the Coal Canal (1708-1799). His numerous journeys had, satisfied him of the practicability of making a See also:map to show the ranges of the different strata across See also:England, and in 1794 he coloured his first geological map—that of the vicinity of Bath.
At this 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 he made acquaintance with the Rev. See also:Benjamin See also:Richardson (d. 1832), from .1796 See also:rector of Farleigh See also:Hungerford, who possessed a See also:good collection of See also:local fossils, but knew nothing of the See also:laws of stratification. He had a See also:sound knowledge of natural See also:history, and he greatly aided Smith in learning the names and true nature of the fossils, while Smith arranged his specimens in the order of the strata. By this new friend Smith was introduced to the Rev. See also:Joseph Townsend (i738-1816), rector of Pewsey, and on a notable occasion in 1799 Smith dictated his first table of See also:British Strata, written by Richardson and now in the See also:possession of the Geological Society of See also:London. It was headed Order of the Strata, and their imbedded Organic Remains, in the neighbourhood of Bath; examined and proved See also:prior to 1799. In 1813 Townsend published, with due See also:acknowledgment, much See also:information on the English strata communicated by William Smith, in a See also:work entitled The See also:Character of See also:Moses established for veracity Its an historian, recording events from the Creation to the See also:Deluge. Meanwhile Smith was completing and arranging the data for his large Geological Map of England and Wales, with See also:part of See also:Scotland, which appeared in 1815, in fifteen sheets, engraved on a See also:scale of 5 m. to in. The map was reduced to smaller See also:form in 1819; and from this date to 1822 twenty-one See also:separate See also:county geological maps and several sheets of sections were published in successive years, the whole constituting a Geological See also:Atlas of England and Wales. Smith's collection of fossils was purchased in 1816-r818 by the British Museum. In 1817 a portion of the descriptive See also:catalogue was published under the See also:title of a Stratigraphical See also:System of Organized Fossils. Prior to this, in 1816, he commenced the publication of Strata Identified by Organized Fossils, with figures printed on See also:paper to correspond in some degree with the natural See also:hue of the sirata. In this work (of which only four parts were published, 1816-1817) is exemplified the See also:great principle he established of the See also:identification of strata by their included organic remains. In See also:January 1831 the Geological Society of London conferred on Smith the first See also:Wollaston See also:medal; on which occasion See also:Sedgwick in an eloquent address referred to Smith as " the Father of English Geology "; and the See also:government conferred upon him a' life-See also:pension of £See also:loo per annum. The degree of LL.D. he received from See also:Dublin, at the 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 of the British Association in that city in 1835. In 1838 he was appointed one of the commissioners to select See also:building-stone for the new Houses of See also:Parliament. The last years of his life were spent at Hackness (of which he made a good geological map), near See also:Scarborough, and in the latter See also:town. His usually robust See also:health failed in 1839, and on 28th See also:August of that See also:year he died at See also:Northampton. He was buried at St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and a bust by See also:Chantrey was placed in the See also:nave. In 1891 the See also:earl of Ducie erected a See also:monument to his memory at his native See also:place, Churchill.
His See also:Memoirs, edited by his nephew, See also:John See also:Phillips, appeared in 1844.
End of Article: SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
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