See also:WALTON, IZAAK (1593-1683) , See also:English writer, author of The Compleat See also:Angler, was See also:born at See also:Stafford on the 9th of See also:August 1593; the See also:register of his See also:baptism gives his See also:father's name as Jervis, and nothing more is known of his parentage. He settled in See also:London as an ironmonger, and at first had one of the small shops, 71 ft. by 5 ft., in the upper See also:storey of See also:Gresham's Royal Burse or See also:Exchange in Cornhill. In 1614 he had a See also:shop in See also:Fleet See also:Street, two doors See also:west of See also:Chancery See also:Lane. Here, in the See also:parish of St See also:Dunstan's, he gained the friendship of Dr See also:John See also:Donne, then See also:vicar of that 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. His first wife, married in See also:December 1626, was See also:Rachel Floud, a See also:great-great-niece of See also:Archbishop See also:Cranmer. She died in 1640. He married again soon after, his second wife being See also:Anne See also:Ken—the See also:pastoral " Kenna " of The Angler's Wish—step-See also:sister of 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 Ken, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Bath and See also:Wells. After the Royalist defeat at See also:Marston See also:Moor, he retired from business. He had bought some See also:land near his birthplace, Stafford, and he went to live there; but, according to See also:Wood, spent most of his 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 " in the families of the eminent clergymen of See also:England, of whom he was much beloved "; and in 165o he was again living in See also:Clerkenwell. In 1653 came out the first edition of his famous See also:book, The Compleat Angler. His second wife died in 1662, and was buried in See also:Worcester See also:cathedral church, where there is a See also:monument to her memory. One of his daughters married Dr See also:Hawkins, a See also:prebendary of See also:Winchester. The last See also:forty years of his See also:long See also:life seem to have been spent in ideal leisure and occupation, the old See also:man travelling here and there, visiting his " eminent clergymen " and other brethren of the See also:angle, compiling the See also:biographies of congenial See also:spirits, and See also:collecting here a little and there a little for the enlargement of his famous See also:treatise. After 1662 he found a See also:home at See also:Farnham See also:Castle with See also:George See also:Morley, bishop of Winchester, to whom he dedicated his Life of George See also:Herbert and also that of See also:Richard See also:- HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
- HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
- HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
- HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
- HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)
Hooker; and from time to time he visited See also:Charles See also:Cotton in
his fishing See also:house on the See also:Dove. He died in his daughter's house at Winchester on. the 15th of December 1683, and was buried in the cathedral. It,is characteristic of his kindly nature that he See also:left his See also:property at Shalford for the benefit of the poor of his native See also:town.
Walton hooked a much bigger See also:fish than he angled for when he offered his See also:quaint treatise, The Compleat Angler, to the public. There is hardly a name in English literature, even of the first See also:rank, whose See also:immortality is more secure, or whose See also:personality is the subject of a more devoted cult. Not only is he the sacer vales of a considerable See also:sect in the See also:religion of recreation, but multitudes who have never put a See also:worm on a hcok—even on a See also:fly-See also:hook--have been caught and securely held by his picture of the delights of the See also:gentle See also:craft and his easy leisurely transcript of his own See also:simple, peaceable, lovable and amusing See also:character. The Compleat Angler was published in 1653, but Walton continued to add to its completeness in his leisurely way for a See also:quarter of a See also:century. It was dedicated to John Offley, his most honoured friend. There was a second edition in 1655, a third in 1661 (identical with that of 1664), a See also:fourth in 1668 and a fifth in 1676. In this last edition the thirteen chapters of the See also:original have grown to twenty-one, and a second See also:part was added by his loving friend and See also:brother angler Charles Cotton, who took up " Venator " where Walton had left him and completed his instruction in fly-fishing and the making of flies. Walton did not profess to be an See also:expert with the fly; the fly-fishing in his first edition was contributed by Thomas See also:Barker, a retired See also:cook and humorist, who produced a treatise of his own in. 1659; but in the use of the live worm, the See also:grasshopper and the See also:frog " Piscator " himself could speak as a See also:master. The famous passage about the frog—often misquoted about the worm—" use him as though you loved him, that is, harm him as little as you may possibly, that he may live the longer "—appears in the original edition. The additions made as the See also:work See also:grew were not merely to the technical part; happy quotations, new turns of phrase, songs, poems and anecdotes were introduced as if the leisurely author, who wrote it as a recreation, had kept it constantly in his mind and talked it over point by point with his numerous brethren. There were originally only two interlocutors in the opening See also:scene, " Piscator " and " Viator "; but in the second edition, as if in See also:answer to an objection that " Piscator " had it too much in his own way in praise of See also:angling, he introduced the See also:falconer, " Auceps," changed " Viator " into " Venator " and made the new companions each dilate on the joys of his favourite See also:sport.
Although The Compleat Angler was not Walton's first See also:literary work, his leisurely labours as a biographer seem to have grown out of his devotion to angling. It was probably as an angler that he made the acquaintance of See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Wotton, but it is clear that Walton had more than a love of fishing and a humorous See also:temper to recommend him to the friendship of the accomplished See also:ambassador. At any See also:rate, Wotton, who had intended to write the life of John Donne, and had already corresponded with Walton on the subject, left the task to him. Walton had already contributed an See also:Elegy to the 1633 edition of Donne's poems, and he completed and published the life, much to the See also:satisfaction of the most learned critics, in 1640. Sir Henry Wotton dying in 1639, Walton undertook his life also; it was finished in 1642 and published in 165r. His life of Hooker was published in 1662, that of George Herbert in r67o and that of Bishop See also:Sanderson in 1678. All these subjects were endeared to the biographer by a certain gentleness of disposition and cheerful piety; three of them at least—Donne, Wotton and Herbert—were anglers. Their lives were evidently written with loving pains, in the same leisurely See also:fashion as his Angler, and like it are of value less as exact knowledge than as harmonious and See also:complete pictures of character.
Walton also rendered See also:affection-See also:ate service to the memory of his See also:friends Sir John See also:Skeffington and John See also:Chalkhill, editing with prefatory notices Skeffington's See also:Hero of Lorenzo in 1652 and Chalkhill's Thealma and See also:Clearchus a few months before his own See also:death in 1683. His poems and See also:prose fragments were collected in 1878 under the See also:title of Waltoniana.
The best-known old edition of the Angler is J. See also:Major's (2nd ed., 1824). The book was edited by See also:Andrew See also:Lang in 1896, and various See also:modern See also:editions have appeared. The See also:standard See also:biography is that by Sir See also:Harris See also:Nicolas, prefixed to an edition of the Angler (1836). There are notices also, with aduitional scraps of fact, annexed to two See also:American editions, See also:Bethune's (1847) and Dowling's (1857). An edition of Walton's Lives, by G. See also:Sampson, appeared in 1903. See also Izaak Walton and his Friends, by S. See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin (1903).
WALTON-LE-See also:DALE, an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Darwen See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, England, on the S. See also:bank of the Ribble, immediately above See also:Preston. Pop. (1901) 11,271. The church of St Leonard, situated on an See also:eminence to the See also:east of the town, was originally erected in the 11th century. The earliest portions of the See also:present See also:building are the Perpendicular See also:chancel and See also:tower, the See also:nave having been rebuilt in 1798, while the transepts were erected in 1816. There are a number of interesting old See also:brasses and monuments. Cotton-See also:spinning is carried on, and there are See also:market-gardens in the vicinity. See also:Roman remains have been found here, and there was perhaps a roadside See also:post on the site. The See also:manor of Walton was granted by Henry de See also:Lacy about 1130 to See also:Robert Banastre. It afterwards passed by See also:marriage to the Langtons, and about 1592 to the Hoghtons of Hoghton. Walton was the See also:principal scene of the great See also:battle of Preston, fought on the 17th of August 1648 between See also:Cromwell and the See also:duke of 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. In 1701 the duke of See also:Norfolk, the See also:earl of See also:Derwentwater and other See also:Jacobites incorporated the town by the See also:style of the " See also:mayor and See also:corporation of the See also:ancient 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 Walton." In 1715 the passage of the Ribble was bravely defended against the Jacobites by See also:Parson See also:Woods and his parishioners of See also:Atherton (q.v.).
WALTON-ON-See also:THAMES, an urban district in the See also:Epsom parliamentary division of See also:Surrey, England, pleasantly situated on the right bank of the Thames, 17 M. W.S.W. from London by the London & See also:South-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 10,329. The church of St See also:Mary has See also:late See also:Norman portions, and contains numerous memorials, including examples of the work of See also:Chantrey and See also:Roubiliac. A See also:verse inscribed upon a See also:pillar is reputed to be See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's profession of faith as regards See also:transubstantiation. The queen was a frequent See also:resident at Henry VIII.'s See also:palace of Oatlands See also:Park, which was destroyed during the See also:civil See also:wars of the 17th century. The property subsequently passed through various hands, and the park is reduced in extent by the modern growth of villas surrounding it. It contains, however, a remark-able grotto built of See also:mineral and stalactitic See also:rock, shells and other similar materials, by one of the earls of See also:Lincoln when owner. See also:Ashley Park, a Tudor See also:mansion (in the See also:main modernized), attributed to See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey, was at times the See also:residence of Cromwell; while John See also:Bradshaw, who, as See also:lord See also:president of the See also:court, sentenced Charles I. to death, occupied the old manor house of Walton. Walton is a favourite resort of anglers and boating parties.
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE (or WALTON-LE-SOKEN), a watering-See also:place in the See also:Harwich parliamentary division of See also:Essex, England, the See also:terminus of a See also:branch of the Great Eastern railway from See also:Colchester, 712 M. E.N.E. from London. Pop. of urban district (1901) 2014. This portion of the See also:coast has suffered from encroachment of the See also:sea, and a part of the old See also:village of Walton, with the church, was engulfed towards the end of the 18th century. A prebendary See also:- STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
stall at St See also:Paul's Cathedral, London, was endowed with the lands thus consumed (praebenda consumpia per See also:mare). On the E. See also:side of the town is the open See also:North Sea, with a See also:fine stretch of See also:sand and See also:shingle, affording See also:good bathing. To the west is an irregular inlet studded with See also:low islands, known as Hanford See also:Water. The Naze is a promontory 2 M. N. by E. of the town, and in the vicinity of Walton are low cliffs exhibiting the fossiliferous red See also:crag formation. The church of All See also:Saints is a See also:brick building dating mainly from 1804. Walton has a public See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, several hotels and a small See also:theatre; and See also:iron foundries and brick See also:works. Services of passenger steamers in connexion with Harwich, Clacton-on-Sea, and London are maintained in the summer.
End of Article: WALTON, IZAAK (1593-1683)
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