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:BAKER (1656-1740)
, See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:September 1656 at Lanchester, See also:Durham
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He was the See also:grandson of See also:Colonel See also:Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the See also:civil See also:war by his See also:defence of See also:Newcastle against the Scots
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He was educated at the See also:free school at Durham, and proceeded thence in 1672 to St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he afterwards obtained a fellowship
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See also:Lord See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
Crew, See also:bishop of Durham, collated him to the rectory of See also:Long-See also:Newton in his See also:diocese in 1687, and intended to give him that of Sedgefield with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read 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 II.'s See also:Declaration of See also:Indulgence
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The bishop who disgraced him for this refusal, and who was after-wards specially excepted from 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's See also:Act of See also:Indemnity, took the oaths to that 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 and kept his bishopric till his See also:death
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Baker, on the other See also:hand, though he had opposed James, refused to take the oaths to William; he resigned Long-Newton on the 1st of See also:August 169o, and retired to St John's, in which he was protected till the loth of See also:January 1716-1717, when he and, one - and - twenty others were deprived of their fellowships
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After the passing of the Registering Act in 1723, he could not be prevailed on to comply with its requirements by registering his See also:annuity of £40, although that annuity, See also:left him by his See also:father, with £20 per annum from his See also:elder See also:brother's collieries, was now his whole subsistence
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He retained a lively sense of the injuries he had suffered; and inscribed himself in all his own books, as well as in those which he gave to the college library, socius ejectus, and in some See also:rector ejectus
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He continued to reside in the college as commoner-See also:master till his sudden death from See also:apoplexy on the 2nd of See also:July 1744
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The whole of his valuable books and See also:manuscripts he bequeathed to the university
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The only workshe published were, Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufciency thereof in its several particulars, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to evince the usefulness and See also:necessity of See also:Revelation (Lond., 1709-1710) and the See also:preface to Bishop See also:Fisher's Funeral See also:Sermon for See also:Margaret, Countess of See also:Richmond and See also:Derby (1708)—both without his name
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His valuable See also:manuscript collections relative to the See also:history and antiquities of the university of Cambridge, amounting to See also:thirty-nine volumes in See also:folio and three in See also:quarto, are divided between the See also:British Museum and the public library at Cambridge;;—the former possessing twenty-three volumes, the latter sixteen in folio and three in quarto
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The See also:life of Baker was written by See also:Robert Masters (Carob., 1784), and by See also:Horace See also:Walpole in the quarto edition of his See also:works
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