See also:

• BANK

BANK HOLIDAYS  , in the See also:

• UNITED

United See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom, those days which by the See also:

• BANK

Bank Holidays See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1871 are kept as See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close holidays in all See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland and See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland respectively . Before the See also:

• YEAR

year 1834, the Bank of England was closed on certain See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints' days and anniversaries, about See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-three days in all . In 1834 these were reduced to four—See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

• FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse Frigg,—the dreg, day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)

Friday, 1st of May, 1st of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November and See also:

• CHRISTMAS (i.e. the Mass of Christ)

Christmas See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

Day . By the act of 1871, carried through the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of See also:

• COMMONS

Commons by See also:

• SIR

Sir J . Lubbock (afterwards See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• AVEBURY
• AVEBURY, JOHN LUBBOCK, 1ST BARON (1834– )

Avebury), the following were constituted bank holidays in England and Ireland—See also:

• EASTER

Easter See also:

• MONDAY (in O.E. Monandaeg, the moon's day, a translation of the Late Lat. Lunae dies, from which the French lundi is taken)

Monday, the Monday in Whitsun See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week, the first Monday of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August, the 26th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December if a week-day; and by the Bank See also:

• HOLIDAY

Holiday (Ireland) Act 1903, See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 17th as a See also:

• SPECIAL

special bank holiday for Ireland (see FEASTS AND FESTIVALS) . In Scotland—New Year's Day, Christmas Day, Good Friday, the 1st Monday of May, the 1st Monday of August . If Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on a See also:

• SUNDAY

Sunday, the next Monday following is the bank holiday . No See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person is compelled to make any See also:

• PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment or to do any act upon a bank holiday which he would not be compelled to do or make on Christmas Day or Good Friday, and the making of a paymentor the doing of an act on the following day is See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to doing it on the holiday . By the same act it was made lawful for the See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign from 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 to time, as it should seem See also:

• FIT

fit, to appoint by See also:

• PROCLAMATION (Lat. proclamare, to make public by announcement)

proclamation, in the same manner as public fasts or days of public thanksgiving, any day to be observed as a bank holiday throughout the United Kingdom or any See also:

• PART

part of it, or to substitute another day when in any special See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case it appears inexpedient to the sovereign in See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council to keep the usual bank holiday .