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See also:TOOKE, See also:JOHN See also:HORNE (1736–1812) , See also:English politician and philologist, third son of John Horne, a poulterer in See also:Newport See also:Market, whose business the boy when at See also:Eton happily veiled under the See also:title of a " See also:Turkey See also:merchant," was See also:born in Newport See also:Street, See also:Long See also:Acre, See also:Westminster, on the 25th of See also:June 1736. After passing some 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 school in Soho Square, and at a Kentish See also:village, he went from 1744 to 1746 to Westminster School and for the next five or six years was at Eton. On the 12th of See also:January 1754 he was admitted as See also:sizar at St John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and took his degree of B.A. in 1758, as last but one of the See also:senior optimes, See also:Richard Beadon, his lifelong friend, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Bath and See also:Wells, being a wrangler in the same See also:year. Horne had been admitted on the 9th of See also:November 1756, as student at the Inner See also:Temple, making the friendship of John Dunning and See also:Lloyd See also:Kenyon, but his See also:father wished him to take orders in the English 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 he was ordained See also:deacon on the 23rd of See also:September 1759 and See also:priest on the 23rd of November 176o. For a few months he was See also:- USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
- USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)
usher at a boarding school at See also:Blackheath, but on the 26th of September 176o he became perpetual See also:curate of New See also:Brentford, the incumbency of which his father had See also:purchased for him, and he retained its scanty profits until 1773. During a See also:part of this time (1763–1764) he was absent on a tour in See also:France, acting as the See also:bear-See also:leader of a son of the See also:miser Elwes. Under the excitement created by the actions of Wilkes, Horne plunged into politics, and in 1765 brought out a scathing pamphlet on Lords See also:Bute and See also:Mansfield, entitled " The See also:Petition of an Englishman." In the autumn of 1765 he escorted to See also:Italy the son of a Mr See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor. In See also:Paris he made the acquaintance of Wilkes, and from See also:Montpellier, in January 1766, addressed a See also:letter to him which sowed the seeds of their See also:personal antipathy. In the summer of 1767 Horne landed again on English See also:soil, and in 1768 secured the return of Wilkes to See also:parliament for See also:Middlesex. With inexhaustible See also:energy he promoted the legal proceedings over the See also:riot in St See also:George's See also:Fields, when a youth named See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen was killed, and exposed the irregularity in the See also:judge's 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 for the See also:execution of two See also:Spitalfields weavers. His dispute with George See also:Onslow, member for See also:Surrey, who at first supported and then threw over Wilkes for See also:place, culminated in a See also:civil See also:action, ultimately decided, after the reversal of a See also:verdict which had been obtained through the See also:charge of See also:Lord Mansfield, in Horne's favour, and in the loss by his opponent of his seat in parliament. An influential association, called " The Society for Supporting the See also:Bill of Rights," was founded, mainly through the exertions of Horne, in 1769, but the members were soon divided into two opposite camps, and in 1771 Horne and Wilkes, their respective leaders, See also:broke out into open warfare, to the damage of their cause. On the 1st of See also:July 1771 See also:Herne obtained at Cambridge, though not without some opposition from members of both the See also:political parties, his degree of M.A. Earlier in that year he claimed for the public the right of See also:printing an See also:account of the debates in parliament, and after a protracted struggle between the ministerial See also:majority and the civic authorities, the right was definitely established. The energies of the indefatigable See also:parson knew no See also:bounds. In the same year (1771) he crossed swords with See also:Junius, and ended in disarming his masked antagonist. Up to this time Horne's fixed income consisted of those scanty emoluments attached to a position which galled him daily. He resigned his See also:benefice in 1773 .and betook himself to the study of the See also:law and See also:philology. An accidental circumstance, however, occurred at this moment which largely affected his future. His friend Mr 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 Tooke had purchased a considerable See also:estate, including Purley See also:Lodge, See also:south of the See also:town of See also:Croydon in Surrey. The See also:possession of this See also:property brought about frequent disputes with an ad-joining landowner, 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 de See also:Grey, and, after many actions in the courts, his See also:friends endeavoured to obtain, by a bill forced through the houses of parliament, the privileges which the law had not assigned to him (See also:February 1774). Horne, thereupon, by a bold See also:libel on the See also:Speaker, See also:drew public See also:attention to the See also:case, and though he himself was placed for a time in the custody of the See also:serjeant-at-arms, the clauses which were injurious to the See also:interest of Mr Tooke were eliminated fromthe bill. Mr Tooke declared his intention of making Horne the See also:heir of his See also:fortune, and, if the See also:design was never carried into effect, during his lifetime he bestowed upon him large gifts of See also:money. No sooner had this See also:matter been happily settled than Horne found himself involved in serious trouble. For his conduct in See also:signing the See also:advertisement soliciting subscriptions for the See also:relief of the relatives of the Americans " murdered by the 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 troops at See also:Lexington and See also:Concord," he was tried at the See also:Guildhall on the 4th of July 1777, before Lord Mansfield, found guilty, and committed to the King's See also:Bench See also:prison in St George's Fields, from which he only emerged after a year's See also:durance, and after a loss in fines and See also:costs amounting to £1200. Soon after his deliverance he applied to be called to the See also:bar, but his application was negatived on the ground that his orders in the Church were indelible. Horne thereupon tried his fortune, but without success, on farming some See also:land in See also:Huntingdonshire. Two tracts about this time exercised See also:great See also:influence in the See also:country. One of them, Facts Addressed to Landholders, &c. (1780), written by Horne in See also:conjunction with others, criticizing the See also:measures of Lord See also:North's See also:ministry, passed through numerous See also:editions; the other, A Letter on See also:Parliamentary Reform (1782), addressed by him to Dunning, set out a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of reform, which he afterwards withdrew in favour of that advocated by See also:Pitt. On his return from Huntingdonshire he became once more a frequent See also:guest at Mr Tooke's See also:house at Purley, and in 1782 assumed the name of Horne Tooke. In 1786 Horne Tooke conferred perpetual fame upon his benefactor's country house by adopting, as a second title of his elaborate philological See also:treatise of 'Erect lrrep&evra, the more popular though misleading title of The Diversions of Purley. The treatise at once attracted attention in See also:England and the See also:Continent. The first part was published in 1786, the second in 18o5. The best edition is that which was published in 1829, under the editorship of Richard Taylor, with the additions written in the author's interleaved copy.
Between 1782 and 1790 Tooke gave his support to Pitt, and in the See also:election for Westminster, in 1784, threw all his energies into opposition to See also:Fox.
With Fox he was never on terms of friendship, and See also:Samuel See also:Rogers, in his Table Talk, asserts that their antipathy was so pronounced that at a See also:dinner party given by a prominent Whig not the slightest See also:notice was taken by Fox of the.presence of Horne Tooke. It was after the election of Westminster in 1788 that Tooke depicted the See also:rival statesmen (Lord See also:Chatham and Lord See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, William Pitt and C. J. Fox) in his celebrated pamphlet of Two Pair of Portraits. At the See also:general election of 1790 he came forward as a See also:candidate for that distinguished See also:constituency, in opposition to Fox and Lord See also:Hood, but was defeated; and, at a second trial in 1796, he was again at the bottom of the See also:poll. Meantime the excesses of the See also:French republicans had provoked reaction in England, and the Tory ministry adopted a policy of repression. Horne Tooke was arrested See also:early on the See also:morning of the 16th of May 1794, and conveyed to the See also:Tower. His trial for high See also:treason lasted for six days (17th to 22nd of November) and ended in his acquittal, the See also:jury only taking eight minutes to See also:settle their verdict. His public See also:life after this event was only distinguished by one See also:act of importance. Through the influence of the second Lord See also:Camel-See also:ford, the fighting peer, he was returned to parliament in 18o1 for the See also:pocket See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Old Sarum. Lord Temple endeavoured to secure his exclusion on the ground that he had taken orders in the Church, and one of Gilray's caricatures delineates the two politicians, Temple and See also:Camelford, playing at battledore and shuttlecock, with Horne Tooke as the shuttlecock. The ministry of Addington would not support this See also:suggestion, but a bill was at once introduced by them and carried into law, which rendered all persons in See also:holy orders ineligible to sit in the House of See also:Commons, and Horne Tooke sat for that parliament only.
The last years of Tooke's life were spent in retirement in a house on the See also:west See also:side of See also:Wimbledon See also:Common. The traditions of his See also:Sunday parties have lasted unimpaired to this See also:day, and the most pleasant pages penned by his biographer describe the politicians and the men of letters who gathered See also:round his
hospitable See also:board. His conversational See also:powers rivalled those of Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson; and, if more of his sayings have not been chronicled for the benefit of posterity, the defect is due to the See also:absence of a See also:Boswell. Through the liberality of his friends, his last days were freed from the pressure of poverty, and he was enabled to place his illegitimate son in a position which soon brought him See also:wealth, and to leave a competency to his two illegitimate daughters. Illness seized him early in 181o, and for the next two years his sufferings were acute. He died in his house at Wimbledon on the 18th'of See also:March 1812, and his See also:body was buried with that of his See also:mother at See also:Ealing, the See also:tomb which he had prepared in the See also:garden attached to his house at Wimbledon being found unsuitable for the interment. An See also:altar-tomb still stands to his memory in Ealing See also:churchyard. A See also:catalogue of his library was printed in 1813.
The Life of Horne Tooke, by See also:Alexander See also:Stephens, is written in an unattractive See also:style and was the See also:work of an admirer only admitted to his acquaintance at the See also:close of his days. The notice in the Quarterly See also:Review, June 1812, of W. See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton See also:Reid's compilation, is by J. W. See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward, Lord See also:Dudley. The See also:main facts of his life are set out by Mr J. E. Thorold Rogers, in his See also:Historical Gleanings, 2nd See also:series. Many of Horne Tooke's wittiest sayings are preserved in the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers and S. T. See also:Coleridge. (W. P.
End of Article: TOOKE, JOHN HORNE (1736–1812)
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