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See also:URQUHART, See also:DAVID (1805-1877) , See also:British diplomatist and publicist, See also:born at Braelangwell, See also:Cromarty. He came of a See also:good Scottish See also:family and was educated in See also:France, See also:Switzerland and See also:Spain, and then at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. In 1827 he went under See also:Lord Cochrane (See also:Dundonald) to fight for the Greeks in the See also:War of See also:Independence; he was See also:present at the See also:action of the 28th of See also:September when See also:Captain See also:Hastings destroyed the See also:Turkish See also:squadron in the See also:Bay of Salona, and as See also:lieutenant of the See also:frigate " Hellas " he was severely wounded in the attack on Scio. In See also:November 1828 he See also:left the See also:Greek service. In 183o he privately examined the new Greek frontier as determined by the See also:protocol of See also:March 22, 1829, and the value of his reports to the See also:government led to his being named British See also:commissioner to accompany See also:Prince See also:Leopold of See also:Coburg to See also:Greece, but the See also:appointment See also:fell to the ground with that prince's refusal of the Greek See also:throne. His knowledge of the See also:local conditions, however, led to his being appointed in November 1831 attache to See also:Sir See also:Stratford See also:Canning (Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, q.v.), See also:ambassador extraordinary to the See also:sultan, for the purpose of finally deliminating the frontiers of See also:Turkey and Greece. On his return to See also:England he published in 1833 Turkey and its Resources, a violent denunciation of See also:Russia. In 1833 he was sent on a See also:secret See also:mission to Turkey to inquire into possible openings for British See also:trade, and at See also:Constantinople he gained the See also:complete confidence of the Turkish government. The situation, however, was a delicate one, and Urquhart's out-spoken advocacy of British intervention on behalf of the sultan against Mehemet See also:Ali, the policy of Stratford Canning, made him a danger to See also:international See also:peace; he was consequently recalled by See also:Palmerston. 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 appeared his pamphlet England, France, Russia and Turkey, the violent See also:anti-See also:Russian See also:character of which brought him into conflict with See also:Richard See also:Cobden. In 1835 he was appointed secretary of See also:embassy at Constantinople, but an unfortunate See also:attempt to counteract Russian aggressive designs in See also:Circassia, which threatened to See also:lead to an international crisis, again led to his recall in 1837. In 1835, before leaving for the See also:East, he founded a periodical called the See also:Portfolio, and in the first issue printed a See also:series of Russian See also:state papers, which made a profound impression. From 1847 to 1852 he sat in See also:parliament as member for See also:Stafford, and carried on a vigorous crusade against Lord Palmerston's See also:foreign policy. The action of England in the See also:Crimean War provoked indignant protests from Urquhart, who contended that Turkey was in a position to fight her own battles without the assistance of other See also:Powers. To attack the government, he organized " foreign affairs committees " which became known as " Urquhartite," throughout the See also:country, and in 1855 founded the See also:Free See also:Press (in 1866 renamed the See also:Diplomatic See also:Review), which numbered among its contributors the socialist Karl See also:Marx. In 186o he published his See also:book on The See also:Lebanon. From 1864 until his See also:death Urquhart's See also:health compelled him to live on the See also:continent, where he devoted his energies to promoting the study of international See also:law. He died on the 16th of May 1877. His wife (Harriet See also:Chichester See also:Fortescue), by whom he had two sons and two daughters, and who died in 1889, wrote numerous articles in the Diplomatic Review over the See also:signature of " Caritas."
To Urquhart is due the introduction into See also:Great See also:Britain of hot-See also:air Turkish See also:baths. He advocated their use in his book called Pillars of See also:Hercules (185o), which attracted the See also:attention of the Irish physician Dr Richard See also:Baxter (1802-1870), and the latter introduced them in his See also:system of See also:hydropathy at See also:Blarney, Co. See also:Cork. The Turkish baths in Jermyn See also:Street, See also:London, were built under Urquhart's direction.
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