Dictionary of National Biography

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By LESLIE. STEPHEN

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Dictionary of National Biography
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Edinburgh - Page 281
In 1841 the Wodrow Society was established at Edinburgh for the publication of works of the early writers of the church of Scotland ; it was dissolved ...

Oxford - Page 167
He graduated MD at Leyden on 26 June 1655, and was incorporated at Oxford on 27 March 1656. He became candidate or member of the College of Physicians ...

Dublin - Page 296
1563 he delegated his jurisdiction for Dublin and its vicinity to Thady Newman, affirming that he feared to visit the district on account of the ...

Cambridge - Page 318
In 1478 Richard Wolman was u member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He also studied abroad, being entered in the Oxford register as doctor of ...

York - Page 141
The extreme difficulty of obtaining suitable candidates for the miserably poor benefices led Wilson to get leave from the archbishop of York to ordain ...

Glasgow - Page 75
In 1700 Wilson was appointed fir.it professor of practical astronomy in the university of Glasgow, through the influence of the Duke of Argyll. ...

London - Page 259
Almost as soon as Wither settled in London he devoted his best energies to literature, and proved himself the master not only of a lyric vein of very ...

Bombay - Page 102
Branch establishments were erected at Madras and Bombay, and the three presidencies were divided for the issue and redemption of notes into convenient ...

Manchester - Page 194
from Manchester, where the family lived for about twelve years. In 1853 Catherine published the first series of her ' Lyra Germanica,' translations ...

Bristol - Page 249
No similar charge was brought against him in Scotland either before or alter his visit to Bristol. Either in 1539 or in 1540 Wishart left England and ...

Rome - Page 284
In that year he followed the chevalier to Rome. At the close of the same year he served with Ormonde on a diplomatic mission to win a Russian ...

Exeter - Page 440
bishopric of Exeter. He was duly appointed to the see, supplicated lor the degrees of BD and DU at Oxford on 25 May 1079, and was consecrated iu the ...

Norwich - Page 173
at Norwich on 5 April. For some time he acted steadily with the opposition, and Burke chose him in June to second his motion on ...

Brussels - Page 191
On 18 April 1013 he was ngai.i at Brussels, whence he was on that day despatched back to the emperor at Augsburg to secure his adhesion to Henry ...

Canterbury - Page 155
1313), archbishop of Canterbury, derived his name from Old Winchelsea in Kent, where he was probably born. He studied arts at Paris, where he took his ...

Quebec - Page 297
The childhood of James Wolfe was spent at Westerham in a house now known as Quebec house, which his parents took soon after his birth, ...

Paris - Page 116
In 1855 he acted as commissioner to the British agricultural department in the exhibition at Paris. At different periods he also rendered important ...

Plymouth - Page 222
In December that year he went to assist at How's Lane chapel, Plymouth. Here he preached on 5 and 18 Nov. 1792 the two sermons for which he was ...

Warwick - Page 133
earl of Warwick, and from this time Wilson became a staunch adherent of the Dudley family, his especial patron in later years ...

Windsor - Page 318
On 19 March 1533 he was made canon of Windsor (Lfi NEVE, iii. 392). As dean of Wells he signed the acknowledgment of the royal supremacy on 6 July ...

Portsmouth - Page 383
1627 he went to Portsmouth to attend the wounded from the Isle of Rh6, and on 30 Sept. 1641 was appointed an examiner of surgeons. ...

Birmingham - Page 269
to Birmingham, where he soon acquired a practice as large and as lucrative as that of any physician out of London, and for ...

Salisbury - Page 218
Coke, and Salisbury be implicated, but all the commissioners whose names are set down as attesting it in the printed copies published to the world, ...

Southampton - Page 411
He was at Southampton in the spring of 1470 when Warwick on his flight to Calais tried to cut out his great ship the Trinity from that harbour, ...

Gloucester - Page 20
A good preacher and a good whig, having opposed the schism bill of 1714, Willis was made bishop of Gloucester by George I upon the death of Edward ...

Warrington - Page 208
He spent his later years at Warrington, where he built Stanley Street, and named it after his patrons at Knowsley. rington on 18 May 1756. ...

Dundee - Page 30
256) ; and, according to Knox, it was the encouragement and exhortations of Willock in Dundee and Edinburgh that made ' the brethren ' begin ' to ...

Leicester - Page 31
According to Sir James Melville, the Earl of Morton made use of Willock to reveal to Elizabeth, through the Earls of Huntingdon and Leicester, ...

Nottingham - Page 51
The first battalion went to the Cape in 1805, but he remained behind, and was second in a duel fought at Nottingham on 1 Jan. ...

Derby - Page 151
Derby. After leaving Oxford he travelled for some years on the continent, but returned in 1830, and in August entered parliament ...

Liverpool - Page 167
he was appointed minister of Castle Hey congregation, Liverpool. The first entry in the extant minutes of the Warrington classis (22 April 1719) ...

Chichester - Page 248
Norwich, and Chichester, and other doctors, he was convicted and condemned; he bore his fagot (ie recanted his heresy) on 15 July in the church of St. ...

Venice - Page 120
Venice, and either there or at Rome Horace Vernet encouraged him to do t he same. The French painter also exchanged landscapes ...

Preston - Page 167
He married the widow of William Shawe of Liverpool, and educated her son William Shawe, afterwards of Preston. On taking him in 1740 to study at ...

Genoa - Page 77
The troubled state of Europe made travelling difficult, but he reached Genoa, where he settled under the protection of the American consul and was ...

Pembroke - Page 4
the famous countess of Pembroke [for the laconic letter said by Horace Walpole to have been written on the subject by the countess, see CLIFFORD, ...

Philadelphia - Page 272
He was received in New England with great enthusiasm, and his journey from Philadelphia to Princeton was a triumphal procession. ...

Ipswich - Page 184
In 1530 the fall of Wolsey brought with it the forfeiture of his college at Ipswich, and Wingfield was consulted as one of ' the best counsel,' with a ...

Milan - Page 245
The archbishop of Milan wittily said of it that ' it was the first good book that had had the success of a bad one. ...

Huntingdon - Page 178
In 1381 and 1382 he took a leading part in putting down the peasants' revolt, especially in the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, being granted ...

Knowsley - Page 207
tenth earl of Derby, and the earl was so pleased with Winstanley's work that he ordered him to come and paint for him at his seat at Knowsley. ...

Ferrara - Page 187
A passage in a letter of 10 July 1516 suggests that he afterwards proceeded to the university of Ferrara. After the university he probably studied law ...

Kensington - Page 51
It returned to England in 1800, and it was probably then that he went to school, at King's Lynn and Kensington. He was promoted captain on 28 Aug. ...

Lancaster - Page 152
There is also a life-sized recumbent figure in marble in the parish church of Warrington, and at Lancaster there is a portrait in oil in the Koyal ...

Lisbon - Page 269
conclusion that the climate of Lisbon was ! of no service in cases of consumption, and, travelling through the south of England on ...

Leipzig - Page 290
On the publication of the 'Codex Alexandrinus' in 1786 JG Burckhardt printed a thesis at Leipzig in justification ut the reading Otat in the ...

Athlone - Page 60
In September 1634 the latter's proceedings at Athlone were again called in question ; a commission of inquiry was issued early in 1635, and the Irish ...

Naples - Page 77
He also made many sketches, principally of the architecture in the neighbourhood of Rome and Naples. Returning to London in 1803, he at once saw the ...

Ayr - Page 30
In March 1559 a dis-putation was proposed between him and Quentin Kennedy, abbot of Crossraguel, at Ayr, but as they failed to agree on the method of ...

Belfast - Page 270
and, later on, successively to the Academy and the Royal Academical Institution in Belfast. In 1838 he entered the collegiate department of the latter ...

Boston - Page 229
year the town records of Boston are extant as commenced in Winthrop s own hand. Their early pages record the provision of a ...

Florence - Page 152
After visiting Naples, Wilton went to Florence in 1751, where he resided for about four years. He received many commissions for copies from the ...

Brighton - Page 47
Wills next proceeded to Lady Huntingdon's college at Trevecca, and then to Brighton. For his irregular conduct in preaching at the Spa Fields chapel ...

Uckfield - Page 405
An old stone cellar at Uckfield is said to have been another place of his imprisonment, and the third is the great vault under the Star inn (now the ...

Delhi - Page 80
Moreover, a Fabian policy led the mutineers to continue to pour into Delhi instead of moving about the country in small bands, attacking weak places ...

Dunkirk - Page 247
Yet he says that he served for three years in the service of the Spanish king, a part of the time being spent in the tropics and some part at Dunkirk, ...

Halifax - Page 299
On the 28th the expedition left Halifax, the fleet commanded by Boscawen ; the land forces, consisting of more than eleven thousand regulars and five ...

Waterloo - Page 2
to England in 1814, and in the following year went to the Netherlands and commanded the artillery of the third division at the battle of Waterloo. ...

Lambeth - Page 20
1714, confirmed on the 15th, and consecrated on 16 Jan. following in Lambeth chapel. He was put upon the commission for building fifty new churches in ...

Princeton - Page 272
He was received in New England with great enthusiasm, and his journey from Philadelphia to Princeton was a triumphal procession. ...

Augsburg - Page 191
On 18 April 1013 he was ngai.i at Brussels, whence he was on that day despatched back to the emperor at Augsburg to secure his adhesion to Henry ...

Scarborough - Page 9
notably William Buckland [qv] Owing to their interest, and to that of naturalists visiting Scarborough, he received a call from the Manchester Natural ...

Harrow - Page 29
He was entered at Harrow school in January or February 1*25. There in March 1828 he brought out the first number of the 'Harrovian,' which ran to six ...

Clonmel - Page 295
He was buried in the ruined church of Clonmel. Wolfe is remembered almost solely for his famous lines on the burial of Sir John Moore. ...

Padua - Page 212
He then studied medicine at Padua, where he attended the lectures of Fabricius ab Aquapendente, and at Basle, where he became a pupil of the ...

Falkirk - Page 297
Stirling, and was beaten at Falkirk. Wolfe was present, and afterwards went with the army to Aberdeen. During their stay there he was sent by Hawley ...

Bologna - Page 284
granddaughter of the famous John Sobieski, deliverer of Europe. Clementina, on her way to join the chevalier at Bologna, was arrest.

New York - Page 433
traced the abandonment of slave traffic by members of the yearly meetings of New England, New York, and Philadelphia during the years following 1760. ...

Madrid - Page 393
1812 of Ciudad Rodrigo, at the siege and capture on 6 April of Badajos, at the battle of Salamanca on 22 July, at the occupation of Madrid and the ...

Jacksonville - Page 172
1867 was appointed to the command of the forces in Canada, which appointment he held until his death at Jacksonville in Florida on 4 Feb. ...

Jerusalem - Page 307
In 1836 he journeyed to Abyssinia, where he found at Axum Samuel Gobat, afterwards bishop of Jerusalem. He conveyed Gobat, who was very ill, ...

Vienna - Page 191
During the early autumn of 1513 he paid a brief visit to England, but in May 1514 he was at Vienna, whence he despatched re-peated but generally vain ...

Cologne - Page 5
speaks elsewhere with compassion of Sir Leoline Jenkins lying under the lash of Secretary Williamson, who, upon old grudges between them at Cologne, ...

Grimsby - Page 353
He was returned to parliament on 9 June 1826 as liberal member for Grimsby, but made no speech of importance until the question of the ...

Greenwich - Page 433
This post he held until the school was merged in the Royal Naval Col-lege at Greenwich in 1873. Shortly after the loss of the Captain in 1870 he was ...

Islington - Page 47
he began preaching in Islington chapel. There and at Silver Street chapel he re-mained preaching the doctrines of Calvinism with unabated popularity ...

Montreal - Page 300
Lawrence against Quebec, while Amherst advanced on Montreal by way of Lake Champlain, and Prideaux on Niagara. His chief statt' officers were to be ...

Dover - Page 298
In September the regiment left Scotland for Dover, and for the next four years it was quartered in the south of England. ...

Stafford - Page 269
settled down in practice at Stafford, where he remained from 1767 to 1775, acting during most of that time as sole physician to the county infirmary. ...

Aylesbury - Page 63
Thanks to his skill in disguises, Rochester contrived to effect his escape, and, though arrested on suspicion at Aylesbury, got back to the continent ...

Salamanca - Page 393
1812 of Ciudad Rodrigo, at the siege and capture on 6 April of Badajos, at the battle of Salamanca on 22 July, at the occupation of Madrid and the ...

Leeds - Page 380
He died at Leeds on 1 April 1808. ¡ He married, in 1780, Louisa Ann, second daughter of George Oates of Low Hall, near Leeds, by whom he had four ...

Hertford - Page 194
He was not present at the synod of Hertford held by 1 heodore in 673. Rudborne preserves a legend that repenting of his simony he retired to ...

Brunswick - Page 206
William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick. This was reissued in English alone with some additions in 1804 as ' Account of the ...

Amiens - Page 325
the flagship of Lord Nelson, in February 1801, Wolseley was transferred to the San Josef, which was paid ott' on the signing of the peace of Amiens. ...

Burgos - Page 393
occupation of Madrid and the capture on 14 Aug. of the Retiro, at the siege of Burgos in September and October, and in the retreat from that place. ...

Lahore - Page 172
He remained in command at Lahore until March 1861, when he returned to England. Windham married, first, in 1849, Marianne Catherine Emily, ...

Croydon - Page 440
supplicated lor the degrees of BD and DU at Oxford on 25 May 1079, and was consecrated iu the archiépiscopal chapel at Croydon on 2 Aug. ...

Bolton - Page 120
On 20 July 1542 he was collated to the prebend of Bolton in York Cathedral, and on 14 Dec. to that of Hoxton in St. ...

Badajoz - Page 99
He commanded the column of assault on the ravelin of San Roque at the storm of Badajoz on 6 April 1812, when he carried the gorge, and, ...

Hackney - Page 276
On 24 March the king gave him a prebend of York, on 30 March the church of Auck-land belonging to Durham, and on 10 April the church of Hackney in ...

Toronto - Page 74
He died at Toronto on 29 Dec. 1891. He was author of ' A Sketch of the Office of Constable,' 1861. Wilson married the daughter of Thomas Dalton, ...

Sydney - Page 168
what was mere chaos into an orderly system, and the cause of public justice in Sydney was greatly advanced by his patient unremitting efforts. ...

Perth - Page 30
The sentence of outlawry of him and others was passed, notwithstanding the assembly of a large body of armed reformers at Perth, to whom a promise had ...

Calcutta - Page 408
In the same year he acted for a month as principal of the presidency college at Calcutta, but in September he was appointed to officiate as director ...

Madras - Page 102
Branch establishments were erected at Madras and Bombay, and the three presidencies were divided for the issue and redemption of notes into convenient ...

Melbourne - Page 435
He could procure, however, little beyond a bare livelihood, and, upon establishing himself at Melbourne in the following May, found himself obliged to ...

Surinam - Page 33
article Willoughby was promised the restoration of his estates in England and the free enjoyment of his property in Barbados, Antigua, and Surinam. ...

Shanghai - Page 2
After some years spent in Scotland he returned to China as agent of the National Bible Society of Scotland, and arrived at Shanghai in December 1863. ...

Launceston - Page 60
He sat in the English House of Commons for Launceston from 5 April to 17 June 1614. On 3 June 1616 he was appointed president of Connaught, ...