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See also:THORNTON, 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 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 (1813-188o) , See also:English economist, was See also:born at Burnham, See also:Buckinghamshire, on the 14th of See also:February 1813. In 1836 he obtained a clerkship in the See also:London See also:house of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company. In 1858 he became secretary for public See also:works in the India 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, a See also:post which he held till his See also:death. He was created a C.B. in 1873. His works include Over-See also:population and its Remedy (1846), in which he put forward a See also:plan for colonizing Irish wastes by Irish peasants; A Plea for See also:Peasant Proprietors (1848), in which his views were See also:developed in greater detail; On Labour (1869); and Old-fashioned See also:Ethics and Commonsense See also:Metaphysics, a See also:volume of essays, published in 1873.
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