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See also:WRIGHT, 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 (1810—1877) , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born near See also:Ludlow, in See also:Shropshire, on the 21st of See also:April 181o. He was descended from a Quaker See also:family formerly living at See also:Bradford, See also:Yorkshire. He was educated at the old See also:grammar school, Ludlow, and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated in 1834. While at Cambridge he contributed to the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine and other See also:periodicals, and in 1835 he came to See also:London to devote himself to a See also:literary career. His first See also:separate See also:work was See also:Early English See also:Poetry in See also:Black See also:Letter, with Prefaces and Notes (1836, 4 vols. I2mo), which was followed during the next See also:forty years by a very extensive See also:series of publications, many of lasting value. He helped to found the See also:British Archaeological Association and the See also:Percy, See also:Camden and See also:Shakespeare See also:societies. In 1842 he was elected corresponding member of the Academie See also:des See also:Inscriptions et Belles Lettres of See also:Paris, and was a See also:fellow of the Society of Antiquaries as well as member of many other learned British and See also:foreign bodies. In 1859 he superintended the excavations of the See also:Roman See also:city of See also:Uriconium, near See also:Shrewsbury, of which he issued a description. He died at See also:Chelsea on the 23rd of See also:December 1877, in his sixty-seventh See also:year. A portrait of him is in the See also:Drawing See also:Room Portrait See also:Gallery for See also:October 1st, 1859. He was a See also:great See also:scholar, but will be chiefly remembered as an industrious antiquary and the editor of many See also:relics of the See also:middle ages.
His See also:chief publications are—See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth and her Times, a Series of See also:Original Letters (1838, 2 vols.); Reliquiae antiquae (1839-1843, again 1845, 2 vols.), edited with Mr J.0. Halliwell-Phillipps; W. Mapes's Latin Poems (1841, 4to, Camden Society) ; See also:Political See also:Ballads and Carols, published by the Percy Society (1841); Popular See also:Treatises on See also:Science (1841); See also:History of Ludlow (1841, &c.; again 1852); Collection of Latin Stories (1842, Percy Society); The See also:Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman (1842, 2 vols.; 2nd ed., 1855); Biographia literaria, vol. i. Anglo-Saxon See also:Period (1842), vol. ii. Anglo-
See also:Norman Period (1846); The See also:Chester Plays (1843-1847, 2 vols., Shakespeare Societ; St See also:Patrick's See also:Purgatory (1844); Anecdota literaria (1844) ; Archaeological See also:Album (1845, 4to) ; Essays connected with See also:England in the Middle Ages (1846, 2 vols.); See also:Chaucer's Canter-See also:bury Tales (1847–1851, Percy Society), a new See also:text with notes, re-printed in i vol. (1853 and 1867) ; Early Travels in See also:Palestine (1848, See also:Bohn's Antiq. See also:Lib.); England under the See also:House of See also:Hanover (1848, 2 vols., several See also:editions, reproduced in 1868 as See also:Caricature History of the Georges) ; Mapes, De nugis curialium (1850, 4to, Camden Society) ; See also:Geoffrey Gaimar's Metrical See also:Chronicle (185o, See also:Caxton Society); Narratives of Sorcery and Magic (1851, 2 vols.); The See also:Celt, the Roman and the Saxon (1852; 4th ed., 1885); History of See also:Fulke Fitz Warine 0855); Jo. de Garlandia, De triumphis ecclesiae (1856, 4t0, See also:Roxburghe See also:Club) ; See also:Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English (1857) ; A See also:Volume of Vocabularies (1857; 2nd ed., by R. P. Wulcker, 1884, 2 vols.) ; See also:Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles (Paris, 1858, 2 vols.) ; See also:Malory's History of 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 See also:Arthur (1858, 2 vols., revised 1865) ; Political Poems and Songs from See also:Edward III. to See also:Richard III. (1859–1861, 2 vols., " Rolls " series) ; Songs and Ballads of the Reign of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip and See also:Mary (186o, 4to, Roxburghe Club); Essays on Archaeological Subjects (1861, 2 vols.); Domestic See also:Manners and Sentiments in England in the Middle Ages (1862, 4t0, reproduced in 1871 as The Homes of other Days) ; See also:Roll of Arms of Edward I. (1864, 4t0) ; Autobiography of Thomas Wright (1736-1797), his grandfather (1864);. History of Caricature (1865, 4to); Womankind in Western See also:Europe (1869, 4to); Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets of See also:lath See also:Century (1872, 2 vols., " Rolls " series).
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