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See also:WOTTON, 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 (1568–1639) , See also:English author and diplomatist, son 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 Wotton (1521–1587) and See also:grand-See also:nephew of the diplomatist See also:Nicholas Wotton (q.v.), was See also:born at Bocton 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 in the See also:parish of Bocton or See also:Boughton See also:Malherbe, See also:Kent?. He was educated at See also:Winchester School and at New 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 he matriculated on the 5th of See also:June 1584. Two years later he removed to See also:Queen's College, graduating B.A. in 1588. At Oxford he was the friend of Albericus Gentilis, then See also:professor of See also:Civil See also:Law, and of See also:John See also:Donne. During his See also:residence at Queen's he wrote a See also:play, Tancredo, which has not survived, but his See also:chief interests appear to have been scientific. In qualifying for his M.A. degree he read three lectures De oculo, and to the end of his See also:life he continued to See also:interest himself in See also:physical experiments. His See also:father, Thomas Wotton, died in 1587, leaving to his son the very inadequate See also:maintenance of a See also:hundred marks a See also:year. About 1589 Wotton went abroad, with a view probably to preparation for a See also:diplomatic career, and his travels appear to have lasted for about six years. At See also:Altdorf he met See also:Edward, See also:Lord See also:Zouch, to whom he later addressed a See also:series
of letters (1590–1593) which contain much See also:political and other See also:news. These (Reliquiae Wottonianae, pp. 585 et seq. 1685)
provide a See also:record of the See also:journey. He travelled by way of See also:Vienna
His See also:elder See also:half-See also:brother, Edward Wotton (1548-1626), entered the service of Sir See also:Francis See also:Walsingham, and in 1585 was sent on an important errand to 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 VI. of See also:Scotland. In 1602 he was made See also:comptroller of the royal See also:household, and in 1603 he was created See also:Baron Wotton of Marley. The See also:peerage became See also:extinct on the See also:death of his son Thomas, the 2nd baron (1588-1630).
and See also:Venice to See also:Rome, and in 1593 spent some 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 at See also:Geneva in the See also:house of See also:Isaac See also:Casaubon, to whom he contracted a consider-able See also:debt. He returned to See also:England in 1594, and in the next year was admitted to the See also:Middle See also:Temple. While abroad he had from time to time provided See also:Robert Devereux, second See also:earl of See also:Essex, • with See also:information, and he now definitely entered his service as one of his agents or secretaries. It was his See also:duty to See also:supply intelligence of affairs in Transylvania, See also:Poland, See also:Italy and See also:Germany. Wotton was not, like his unfortunate See also:fellow-secretary, Henry Cuffe, who was hanged at See also:Tyburn in 16o,, actually involved in Essex's downfall, but he thought it prudent to leave England, and within sixteen See also:hours of his See also:patron's See also:apprehension he was safe in See also:France, whence he travelled to Venice and Rome. In 1602 he was See also:resident at See also:Florence, and a See also:plot to See also:murder James VI. of Scotland having come to the ears of the grand-See also:duke of See also:Tuscany, Wotton was entrusted with letters to warn him of the danger, and with See also:Italian antidotes against See also:poison. As " Ottavio See also:Baldi " he travelled to Scotland by way of See also:Norway. He was well received by James, and remained three months at the Scottish See also:court, retaining his Italian incognito. He then returned to Florence, but on receiving the news of James's See also:accession hurried to England. James knighted him, and offered him the See also:embassy at See also:Madrid or See also:Paris; but Wotton, knowing that both these offices involved ruinous expense, desired rather to represent James at Venice. He See also:left See also:London in 1604 accompanied by Sir Albertus See also:Morton, his half-nephew, as secretary, and 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 See also:Bedell, the author of an Irish See also:translation of the See also:Bible, as See also:chaplain. Wotton spent most of the next twenty years, with two breaks (1612—1616 and 1619—1621), at Venice. He helped the See also:Doge in his resistance to ecclesiastical aggression, and was closely associated with See also:Paolo See also:Sarpi, whose See also:history of the See also:Council of See also:Trent was sent to 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 James as fast as it was written. Wotton had offended the See also:scholar Caspar See also:Schoppe, who had been a fellow student at Altdorf. In 1611 Schoppe wrote a scurrilous See also:book against James entitled See also:Ecclesiasticus, in which he fastened on Wotton a saying which he had incautiously written in a friend's See also:album years before. It was the famous See also:definition of an See also:ambassador as an " honest See also:man sent to See also:lie abroad for the See also:good of his See also:country." It should be noticed that the See also:original Latin See also:form of the See also:epigram did not admit of the See also:double meaning. This was adduced as an example of the morals of James and his servants, and brought Wotton into temporary disgrace. Wotton was at the time on leave in England, and made two formal defences of himself, one a See also:personal attack on his accuser addressed to See also:Marcus See also:Welser of See also:Strassburg, and the other privately to the king. He failed to secure further diplomatic employment for some time, and seems to have finally won ba.ck the royal favour by obsequious support in See also:parliament of James's claim to impose arbitrary taxes on merchandise. In 1614 he was sent to the See also:Hague and in 1616 he returned to Venice. In 162o he was sent on a See also:special embassy to See also:Ferdinand II. at Vienna, to do what he could on behalf of James's daughter See also:Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia. Wotton's devotion to this princess, expressed in his exquisite verses beginning " You meaner beauties of the See also:night," was sincere and unchanging. At his departure the See also:emperor presented him with a See also:jewel of See also:great value, which Wotton received with due respect, but before leaving the See also:city he gave it to his hostess, because, he said, he would accept no gifts from the enemy of the Bohemian queen. After a third See also:term of service in Venice he returned to London See also:early in 1624 and in See also:July he was installed as See also:provost of See also:Eton College. This 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 did not relieve him from his pecuniary embarrassments, and he was even on one occasion arrested for debt, but he received in 1627 a See also:pension of f200, and in 163o this was raised to £500 on the understanding that he should write a history of England. He did not neglect the duties of his provostship, and was happy in being able to entertain his See also:friends lavishly. His most See also:constant associates were Izaak See also:Walton and John See also:Hales. A See also:bend in the See also:Thames below the Playing See also:Fields, known as " See also:Black Potts," is still pointed out as the spot where Wotton and Izaak Walton fished in See also:company. He died at the beginning of See also:December 1639 and was buried in the See also:chapel of Eton College.
Sir Henry Wotton was not an industrious author, and his writings are very small in bulk. Of the twenty-five poems printed in Reliquiae Wottonianae only fifteen are Wotton's. But of those fifteen two have obtained a See also:place among the best known poems in the See also:language, the lines already mentioned " On his Mistris, the Queen of Bohemia," and " The See also:Character of a Happy Life."
During his lifetime he published only The Elements of See also:Architecture (1624), which is a See also:paraphrase from Marcus See also:Vitruvius See also:Pollio, and a Latin See also:prose address to the king on his return from Scotland (1633). In 1651 appeared the Reliquiae Wottonianiae, with Izaak Walton's Life. An admirable Life and Letters, representing much new material, by See also:Logan See also:Pearsall See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, was published in 1907. See also A. W. See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward, Sir Henry Wotton, a See also:Biographical See also:Sketch (1898).
End of Article: WOTTON, SIR HENRY (1568–1639)
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