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See also:TURNER, See also:SHARON (1768-1847) , See also:English historian, was See also:born in Pentonville, See also:London, on the 24th of See also:September 1768. His parents came from See also:Yorkshire. He was educated at a private school kept by Dr See also:Davis in Pentonville, and was articled to a See also:solicitor in the See also:Temple in 1783, and when his See also:master died in 1789 he continued the business. He remained in business at first in the Temple, and later in Red See also:Lion Square till 1829, when failing See also:health compelled him to retire. He settled for a 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 Winchmore See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, but afterwards returned to London, and died in his son's See also:house on the 13th of See also:February 1847. In See also:early boyhood he had been attracted by a See also:translation of the " See also:Death See also:Song of Ragnar Lodbrok," and was led by this boyish See also:interest to make a study of early English See also:history in Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic See also:sources. He devoted all the time he could spare from his business to the study of Anglo-Saxon documents in the See also:British Museum. The material was abundant and had hitherto been neglected. When the first See also:volume of his History of See also:England from the earliest times to the See also:Norman See also:Conquest appeared in 1799, it was at once recognized as a See also:work of equal novelty and value. The See also:fourth volume appeared in 1805. He also published a continuation (History of England during the See also:Middle Ages), a See also:Modern History of England, a Sacred History of the See also:World, and a volume on See also:Richard III. (1845), and he was the author of See also:pamphlets on the See also:copyright See also:laws (1813).
His son, See also:Sydney Turner (1814-1879), educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, took orders, was known as a strong See also:partisan of reformatory See also:schools, and died See also:rector of Hempstead in See also:Gloucestershire.
End of Article: TURNER, SHARON (1768-1847)
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