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See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
WILSON, See also:HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860) , See also:English orientalist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 26th of See also:September 1786. He studied See also:medicine at St 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's See also:Hospital, and went out to See also:India in 18o8 as assistant-surgeon on the See also:Bengal See also:establishment of the See also:East India See also:Company. His knowledge of metallurgy caused him to be attached to the See also:mint at See also:Calcutta, where he was 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 associated with See also:John See also:Leyden. He became deeply interested in the See also:ancient See also:language and literature of India, and by the recommendation of 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 T. See also:Colebrooke, he was in 1811 appointed secretary to the See also:Asiatic Society of Bengal. In 1813 he published the See also:Sanskrit See also:text—with a graceful, if somewhat See also:free, See also:translation in English rhymed See also:verse—of See also:Kalidasa's charming lyrical poem, the Meghadzuta, or See also:Cloud-Messenger. He prepared the first Sanskrit-English See also:Dictionary (1819) from materials compiled by native scholars, supplemented by his own researches. This See also:work was only superseded by the Sanskritworterbuch (1853–1876) of R. von See also:Roth and See also:Otto See also:Bohtlingk, who expressed their obligations to Wilson in the See also:preface to their See also:great work. Wilson published in 1827 Select Specimens of the See also:Theatre of the See also:Hindus, which contained a very full survey of the See also:Indian See also:drama, See also:translations of six See also:complete plays and See also:short accounts of twenty-three others. His See also:Mackenzie Collection (1828) is a descriptive See also:catalogue of the extensive collection of See also:Oriental, especially See also:South Indian, See also:MSS. and antiquities made by See also:Colonel See also:Colin Mackenzie, now deposited partly in the India See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office, London, and partly at See also:Madras. He also wrote a See also:Historical See also:Sketch of the First Burmese See also:War, with Documents, See also:Political and See also:Geographical (1827), a See also:Review of the See also:External See also:Commerce of Bengal from 1813 to 1828 (183o) and a See also:History of See also:British India from 1805 to 1835, in continuation of See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill's History (1844–1848). He acted for many years as secretary to the See also:committee of public instruction, and superintended the studies of the Sanskrit See also:College in Calcutta. He was one of the staunchest opponents of the proposal that English should be made the See also:sole See also:medium of instruction in native See also:schools, and became for a time the See also:object of See also:bitter attacks. In 1832 the university of 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 selected Dr Wilson to be the first occupant of the newly founded Boden See also:chair of Sanskrit, and in 1836 he was appointed librarian to the East India Company. IIe was an See also:original member of the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he was director from 1837 up to the time of his See also:death, which took See also:place in London on the 8th of May 186o.
A full See also:list of Wilson's See also:works may be found in an See also:Annual See also:Report of the Royal Asiatic Society for 186o. A considerable number of Sanskrit MSS. (54o vols.) collected by Wilson in India are now in the Bodleian Library.
End of Article: WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
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