BOWDLER  . 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 (1754—1825), editor of the "` See also:

• FAMILY

family " See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare, younger son of Thomas Bawdier, a See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman ofindependent See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ASHLEY, WILLIAM JAMES (186o- )

Ashley, near See also:

• BATH
• BATH, THOMAS THYNNE
• BATH, WILLIAM

Bath, on the 1th of See also:

• JULY

July 1754 . He studied See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at the See also:

• UNIVERSITIES

universities of St See also:

• ANDREWS, JAMES PETTIT (c. 1737–1797)
• ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813–1885)

Andrews and See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, graduating M.D. in 1776 . After four years spent in See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign travel, he settled in See also:

• LONDON

London, where he became intimate with Mrs Montague and other learned ladies . In 1800 he See also:

• LEFT

left London to live in the Isle of See also:

• WIGHT, ISLE OF

Wight, and later on he removed to See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales . He was an energetic philanthropist, and carried on See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• HOWARD (FAMILY)
• HOWARD, CATHERINE (d. 1542)
• HOWARD, JOHN (1726-1790)
• HOWARD, LORD WILLIAM (1563–1640)
• HOWARD, OLIVER OTIS (1830-19o9)
• HOWARD, SIR ROBERT (1626–1698)

Howard's See also:

• WORK

work in the prisons and penitentiaries . In 1818 he published The Family Shakespeare " in ten volumes, in which nothing is added to the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Criticisms of this edition appeared in the See also:

• BRITISH

British Critic of See also:

• APRIL

April 1822 . Bowdler also expurgated See also:

• EDWARD

Edward See also:

• GIBBON
• GIBBON, EDWARD (1737–1794)

Gibbon's See also:

• HISTORY

History of the Decline and Fall of the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire (published posthumously, 1826); and he issued a selection from the Old Testament for the use of See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children . He died at Rhyddings, near See also:

• SWANSEA

Swansea, on the 24th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1825 . From Bowdler's name we have the word to " bowdlerize," first known to occur in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General Perronet See also:

• THOMPSON
• THOMPSON, FRANCIS (1860-1907)
• THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894)
• THOMPSON, SIR HENRY, BART
• THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW (1844-1894)
• THOMPSON, THOMAS PERONNET (1783-1869)
• THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886)

Thompson's Letters of a Representative to his Constituents during the Session of 1836, printed in Thompson's Exercises, iv . 126 . The See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation is " to expurgate (a See also:

• BOOK

book or See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing) by omitting or modifying words or passages considered indelicate or offensive." Both the word and its derivatives, however, are associated with false squeamishness .

In the ridicule poured on the name of Bowdler it is See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth noting that See also:

• SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837–1909)

Swinburne in " Social See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

Verse " (Studies in See also:

• PROSE

Prose and See also:

• POETRY

Poetry, 1894, p .