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See also:STOKES, WHITLEY (1830-1909) , See also:British lawyer and See also:Celtic See also:scholar, was a son 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 Stokes (1804-1878), and a See also:grand-son of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), each of whom was regius See also:professor of physic in the university of See also:Dublin. In his See also:day, William Stokes, who was the author of several books on medical subjects, was one of the foremost physicians in See also:Europe. Educated at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, See also:young Stokes became an See also:English See also:barrister in 1855, and in 1862 he went to See also:India, where he filled several See also:official positions. In 1877 he was appointed legal member of the See also:viceroy's See also:council, and he drafted the codes of See also:civil and criminal See also:procedure and did much other valuable See also:work of the same nature. In 1879 he was See also:president of the See also:commission on See also:Indian See also:law. He returned to See also:England in 1882. In 1887 he was made a C.S.I., and two years later a C.I.E.; he obtained honorary degrees from many See also:universities, and was a See also:fellow of the British See also:Academy. He died in See also:London on the 13th of See also:April 19oo. Whitley Stokes is perhaps most famous as a Celtic scholar, and in this See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field he worked both in India and in England. He studied Irish, See also:Breton and Cornish texts, and among his numerous See also:works may be mentioned See also:editions of Three Irish Glossaries (1862); Three See also:Middle-Irish Homilies (1877); and Old Irish Glosses at Wiirzburg and Carlsruhe (1887). He was one of the editors of the Isische Texte published at See also:Leipzig (188o-'9oo); and he edited and translated Lives of See also:Saints from the See also:Book of See also:Lismore (1890). With Professor A. Bezzenberger he wrote Urkeltischer Sprachschatz '(1894). His See also:principal legal work was The Anglo-Indian Codes (1887).
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