|
See also:WRAXALL, See also:SIR NATHANIEL 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 (1751-1831) , See also:English author, was See also:born in See also:Queen's Square, See also:Bristol, on the 8th of See also:April 1751. He was the son of a Bristol See also:merchant, Nathaniel Wraxall, and his wife See also:Anne, See also:great niece of Sir 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 See also:Thornhill the painter. He entered the employment of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company in 1769, and served as See also:judge-See also:advocate and paymaster during the expeditions against Guzerat and Baroche in 1771. In the following See also:year he See also:left the service of the company and returned to See also:Europe. He visited See also:Portugal and was presented to the See also:court, of which he gives a curious See also:account in his See also:Historical See also:Memoirs; and in the N. of Europe he made the acquaintance of several Danish nobles who had been exiled for their support of the deposed Queen See also:Caroline See also:Matilda, See also:sister of See also:George III. Wraxall at their See also:suggestion undertook to endeavour to persuade 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 to See also:act on her behalf. He was able to secure an interview with her at Zell in See also:September 1774. His exertions are told in his See also:Posthumous Memoirs. As the queen died on the 11th of May 1775, his schemes came to nothing and he complained that he was out of See also:pocket, but George III. took no See also:notice of him for 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. In 1775 he published his first See also:book, Cursory Remarks made in a Tour through some of the See also:Northern Parts of Europe, which reached its See also:fourth edition by 1807, when it was renamed A Tour See also:Round the Baltic. In 1777 he travelled again in See also:Germany and See also:Italy. As he had by this time secured the patronage of important See also:people, he obtained a complimentary lieuterant's See also:commission from the king on the application of See also:Lord See also:Robert See also:Manners, which gave him the right to See also:wear See also:uniform though he never performed any military service. In this year he published his Memoirs of the See also:Kings of See also:France of the See also:Race of See also:Valois, to which he appended an account of his tour in the Western, See also:Southern and Interior Provinces of France. In 1778 he went again on his travels to Germany and Italy, and accumulated materials for his Memoirs of the Courts of See also:Berlin, See also:Dresden, See also:Warsaw and See also:Vienna (1799). In 1780 he entered See also:parliament and sat till 1794 for See also:Hinton in See also:Wiltshire, Ludgershall and See also:Wallingford, in See also:succession. He published in 1795 the beginning of a See also:History of France from the See also:Accession 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 III. to the See also:Death of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XI V.,which was never completed. Little is known of his later years except that he was made a See also:baronet by the See also:prince See also:regent in 1813. His Historical Memoirs appeared in 1815. Both they and the Posthumous Memoirs (1836) are very readable and have real historical value. Wraxall married See also:Miss Jane Lascelles in 1789, and died suddenly at See also:Dover on the 7th of See also:November 1831. His See also:grandson, Sir F. C. Lascelles Wraxall (1828-1865), was a See also:miscellaneous writer of some See also:note.
See See also:preface to The Historical and Posthumous Memoirs of Sir N. W. Wraxall, by H. B. See also:Wheatley (See also:London, 1884).
End of Article: WRAXALL, SIR NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1751-1831)
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!