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WINTHROP , a township and a summer resort of See also:Suffolk See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., occupying a See also:peninsula jutting out into Massachusetts See also:Bay about 5 M. N.E. of See also:Boston and 3 M. S.E. of See also:Chelsea, and forming See also:part of the See also:north-eastern boundary of Boston See also:Harbour. Pop. (I goo) 6058, of whom 1437 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 43 were negroes; (1910, U.S. See also:census) 10,132. Between May and See also:October the See also:population is estimated to be between 14,000 and 16,000. See also:Area, 1.6 sq. m. Winthrop is served by the Winthrop See also:branch of the Boston, See also:Revere See also:Beach & See also:Lynn railway, and by electric railway from Orient Heights to Revere, Chelsea, See also:East Boston, Lynn and Boston. The township contains several villages connected by a railway See also:loop; there are nine stations in its 5.3 M. of track. The peninsula has about 8 m. of See also:water front on the ocean and the harbour. The See also:northern part nearest the narrow See also:neck connecting with the mainland is a high See also:bluff, known as Winthrop See also:Highlands, having its north-eastern See also:terminus in Grover's Cliff, a bold headland which forms the north-eastern-most point of the peninsula. On Grover's Cliff is Fort See also:Heath, a See also:battery of three powerful See also:long-range guns. At the western end of the Highlands is Fort See also:Banks (a part of Boston's harbour See also:defence), consisting of a masked battery of sixteen 12 in. mortars, each able to drop a 600 lb See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell on a See also:ship 6 m. at See also:sea. From Grover's Cliff a See also:fine sandy beach facing the open ocean leads to See also:Great See also:Head, the highest See also:elevation on the peninsula. Winthrop See also:Shore Drive (16.73 acres), one of the reservations of the See also:Metropolitan See also:park See also:system, is a public parkway along the shore. From Great Head, a long sandy See also:spit curves away southward, ending in Point See also:Shirley, a hillock and See also:flat sandy See also:plain, separated by Shirley Gut, a narrow channel of deep water, from See also:Deer See also:Island, on which are the Boston See also:House of Correction and See also:City See also:Prison. At Point Shirley is the Point Shirley See also:Club house; at the western See also:foot of Great Head, on Crystal Bay, is the Winthrop Yacht Club house and anchorage; and at Winthrop Center on the See also:west See also:side are the See also:Town 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, the High School, the Public Library, the Masonic Hall, See also:College Park Yacht Club and Ingleside Park. There are several large summer hotels.
Winthrop, first .known as " Pullen Poynt " (Pulling Point) because the See also:tide made hard pulling here for boatmen, was origin-ally a part of Boston; it was part of Chelsea from 1739 until 1846, when with Rumney See also:Marsh it was separately incorporated as North Chelsea, from which it was set off as a township in 1852 under its See also:present name, in See also:honour of See also:Deane Winthrop (1623—1704), who was a son of See also:Governor See also:John Winthrop, the See also:elder, and whose See also:horse is still See also:standing. Point Shirley takes its name from Governor See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Shirley who helped to establish a See also:cod See also:fishery
XX VIII. 24there in 1753. Before and after the See also:War of See also:Independence Winthrop was a favourite seaside See also:home for Bostonians, many prominent families, including the See also:Gibbons, Hancocks, Bartletts, Emersons, Lorings and Lowells, having See also:country-seats here. The community was a secluded rural See also:retreat until the construction of the railway in 1876 converted it into a watering-See also:place.
See C. W. Hall, Historic Winthrop, 1630—zgo2 (Boston, 1902). WINWOOD, See also:SIR See also:RALPH (c. 1563—1617), See also:English politician, was born at Aynhoe in See also:Northamptonshire and educated at St John's 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 1599 he became secretary to 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:Neville (c. 1564—1615), the English See also:ambassador in See also:France, and he succeeded Neville in this position two years later, re- , taining it until 1603. In this See also:year Winwood was sent to The See also:Hague as See also:agent to the States-See also:General of the See also:United Provinces, and according to See also:custom he became a member of the Dutch See also:council of See also:state. His hearty dislike of See also:Spain coloured all his actions in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland; he was anxious to see a continuance of the war between Spain and the United See also:Netherlands, and he expressed both his own views and those of the English See also:government at the 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 when he wrote, " how convenient this war would be for the See also:good of His See also:Majesty's realms, if it might be maintained without his See also:charge." In See also:June 16o8 Winwood signed the See also:league between See also:England and the United Provinces, and he was in Holland when the trouble over the See also:succession to the duchies of See also:Julich and See also:Cleves threatened to cause a See also:European war. In this See also:matter he negotiated with the See also:Protestant princes of See also:Germany on behalf of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. Having returned to England Sir Ralph became secretary of state in See also:March 1614 and a member of See also:parliament. In the House of See also:Commons he defended the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's right to See also:levy impositions, and other events of his secretaryship were the inquiry into the See also:murder of Sir 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:Overbury and the See also:release of See also:Raleigh in 1616. Raleigh was urged by Winwood to attack the See also:Spanish See also:fleet and the Spanish settlements in See also:South See also:America, and the secretary's See also:share in this undertaking was the subject of complaints on the part of the representatives of Spain. In the midst of this he died in See also:London on the 27th of October 1617. " It can hardly be doubted," says See also:Gardiner, " that, if he had lived till the following summer, he would have shared in Raleigh's ruin." One of Winwood's daughters, See also:Anne (d. 1643), married See also:Edward See also:Montagu, 2nd See also:Baron Montagu of See also:Boughton, and their son was Ralph Montagu, 1st See also:duke of Montagu.
Winwood's See also:official See also:correspondence and other papers passed to the duke of Montagu, and are now in the See also:possession of the duke of See also:Buccleuch. They are calendared in the See also:Report of the See also:Historical See also:Manuscripts See also:Commission on the manuscripts of the duke of See also:Hue-clench. See the Introduction to this Report (1899); and also S. R. Gardiner, See also:History of England, vols. ii. and iii. (1904–1907).
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