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See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
WHITE, See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
GILBERT (1720–1793) , See also:English writer on natural See also:history, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:July 1720 in the little See also:Hampshire See also:village of See also:Selborne, which his writings have rendered so See also:familiar. to all lovers of either books or nature. He was educated at See also:Basingstoke under 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 See also:Warton, See also:father of the poet, and subsequently at See also:Oriel 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, where in 1744 he was elected to a fellowship. Ordained in 1747, he became See also:curate at Swarraton the same See also:year and at Selborne in 1751. In 1752 he was nominated junior See also:proctor at Oxford and became See also:dean of his college. In 1753 he accepted the curacy of Durley, and in 1757 he was a See also:candidate for the provostship of Oriel, but failed to secure See also:election. Soon afterwards he received the college living of Moreton See also:Pinkney, though he did not reside there, and in 1761 he became curate at See also:Faringdon, near Selborne, a position which he held until in 1784 he again became curate in his native See also:parish. He died in his See also:home, The Wakes, Selborne, on the 26th of See also:June 1793.
Gilbert White's daily See also:life was practically unbroken by any See also:great changes or incidents; for nearly See also:half a See also:century his See also:pastoral duties, his watchful See also:country walks, the assiduous care of his See also:garden, and the scrupulous posting of his See also:calendar of observations made up the essentials of a full and delightful life, but hardly of a See also:biography. At most we can only fill up the portrait by reference to the tinge of See also:simple old-fashioned scholarship, which on its historic See also:side made him an eager searcher for antiquities and among old records, and on its poetic occasionally stirred him to an excursion as far as that gentlest slope of See also:Parnassus inhabited by the descriptive muse. Hence we are thrown back upon that See also:correspondence with See also:brother naturalists which has raised his life and its See also:influence so far beyond the See also:commonplace. His strong naturalist tendencies are not, however, properly to be realized without a glance at the history of his younger See also:brothers. The eldest, Thomas, retired from See also:trade to devote himself to natural and See also:physical See also:science, and contributed many papers to the Royal Society, of which he was a See also:fellow. The next, See also:Benjamin, became the publisher of most of the leading See also:works of natural history which appeared during his lifetime, including that of his brother. The third, See also:John, became See also:chaplain at See also:Gibraltar, where he accumulated much material for a See also:work on the natural history of the See also:rock and its neighbourhood, and carried on a scientific correspondence, not only with his eldest brother, but with See also:Linnaeus. The youngest, 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, was See also:vicar of Fyfield, near See also:Andover. The See also:sister's son, See also:Samuel See also:Barker, also became in 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 one of White's most valued correspondents. With other naturalists, too, he had intimate relations: with Thomas See also:Pennant and Daines See also:Barrington he was in See also:constant correspondence, often too with the botanist John See also:Lightfoot, and sometimes with See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Banks and others, while See also:Richard See also:Chandler and other antiquaries kept alive his historic zeal. At first he was content to furnish See also:information from which the works of Pennant and Barrington largely profited; but gradually the ambition of See also:separate authorship See also:developed from a See also:suggestion thrown out by the latter of these writers in 1770. The next year White sketched to Pennant the project of " a natural history of my native parish, an annus historico-naluralis, comprising a See also:journal for a whole
year, and illustrated with large notes and observations. Such a beginning might induce more able naturalists to write the history of various districts and might in time occasion .the See also:production of a work so much to be wished for—a full and See also:complete natural history of these kingdoms." Yet the famous Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne did not appear until 1789. It was well received from the beginning, and has been reprinted time after time.
To be a typical parish natural history so far as completeness or 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 is concerned, it has of course no pretensions; batches of letters, an See also:essay on antiquities, a naturalist's calendar and See also:miscellaneous jottings of all kinds are but the unsystematized material of the work proper, which was never written. Yet it is largely to this very piecemeal See also:character that its popularity has been due. The See also:style has the simple, yet fresh and graphic, directness of all See also:good See also:letter-See also:writing, and there is no lack of passages of keen observation, and even shrewd See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation. White not only notes the homes and ways, the times and seasons, of See also:plants and animals— comparing, for instance, the different ways in which the See also:squirrel, the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:mouse and the See also:nuthatch eat their See also:hazel-nuts—or watches the migrations of birds, which were then only beginning to be properly recorded or understood, but he knows more than any other observer until See also:Charles See also:Darwin about the habits and the usefulness of the earthworms, and is certain that plants distil See also:dew and do not merely condense it. The See also:book is also interesting as having appeared on the borderland between the See also:medieval and the See also:modern school of natural history, avoiding the uncritical blundering of the old Encyclopaedists, without entering on the technical and See also:analytic character of the opening See also:age of separate monographs. Moreover, as the first book which raised natural history into the region of literature, much as the Compleat See also:Angler did for that See also:gentle See also:art, we must affiliate to it the more finished products of later writers like See also:Thoreau or Richard See also:Jefferies. Yet, while these are essential merits of the book, its endearing See also:charm lies deeper, in the sweet and kindly See also:personality of the author, who on his rambles gathers no spoil, but watches the birds and field-mice without disturbing them from their nests, and quietly plants an See also:acorn where he thinks an See also:oak is wanted, or sows See also:beech-nuts in what is now a stately See also:row. He overflows with anecdotes, seldom indeed gets beyond the anecdotal See also:stage, yet from this all study of nature must begin; and he See also:sees everywhere intelligence and beauty, love and sociality, where a later view of nature insists primarily on See also:mere See also:adaptation of interests or purely competitive struggles. The encyclopaedic See also:interest in nature, although in White's See also:day culminating in the monumental See also:synthesis of See also:Buffon, was also disappearing before the analytic specialism inaugurated by Linnaeus; yet the See also:catholic interests of the simple naturalist of Selborne fully reappear a century later in the greater naturalist of Down, Charles Darwin.
The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne, by his great See also:grand-See also:nephew, Rashleigh See also:Holt-White, appeared in 1901.
End of Article: WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
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