JEDEDIAH See also:

• BUXTON
• JEDEDIAH BUXTON (1707–1772)
• BUXTON, SIR THOMAS POWELL (1786-1845)

BUXTON (1707–1772)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English arithmetician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of 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 1707 at Elmton, near See also:

• CHESTERFIELD
• CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, 4TH EARL, OF (1694–1773)

Chesterfield, in See also:

• DERBYSHIRE

Derbyshire . Although his See also:

• FATHER

father was schoolmaster of the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish, and his grandfather had been the See also:

• VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vicar, his See also:

• EDUCATION

education had been so neglected that he could not write; and his knowledge, except of See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers, was extremely limited . How he came first to know the relative proportions of numbers, and their progressive denominations, he did not remember; but on such matters his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention was so constantly riveted, that he frequently took no See also:

• COGNIZANCE (Lat. cognoscere, to know)

cognizance of See also:

• EXTERNAL

external See also:

• OBJECTS

objects, and when he did, it was only with reference to their numbers . He measured the whole lordship of Elmton, consisting of some thousand acres, simply by striding over it, and gave the See also:

• AREA

area not only in acres, roods and perches, but even in square inches . After this, he reduced them into square hairs'-breadths, reckoning See also:

• FORTY

forty-eight to each See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the See also:

• INCH (O. Eng. ynce from Lat. uncia, a twelfthpart; cf. " ounce," and see As)

inch . His memory was so See also:

• GREAT

great, that in resolving a question he could leave off and resume the operation again at the same point after the See also:

• LAPSE (Lat. lapses, a slip or departure)

lapse of a See also:

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

week, or even of several months . His perpetual application to figures prevented the smallest acquisition of any other knowledge . His wonderful See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty was tested in 1754 by the Royal Society of See also:

• LONDON

London, who acknowledged their See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction by presenting him with a handsome gratuity . During his visit to the See also:

• METROPOLIS (Gr. piir17Pi mother, srGXis, city)

metropolis he was taken to see the tragedy of See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard III. performed at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, but his whole mind was given to the counting of the words uttered by See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick . Similarly, he set himself to See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count the steps of the dancers; and he declared that the innumerable sounds produced by the musical See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments had perplexed him beyond measure . He died in 1772 . A memoir appeared in the 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's See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine for See also:

• JUNE

June 1754• to which, probably through the See also:

• MEDIUM

medium of a Mr Holliday, of See also:

• HAUGHTON, SAMUEL (1821-1897)
• HAUGHTON, WILLIAM (fl. 1598)

Haughton See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall, See also:

• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, or NOTTS

Nottinghamshire, See also:

• BUXTON
• BUXTON, JEDEDIAH (1707–1772)
• BUXTON, SIR THOMAS POWELL (1786-1845)

Buxton had contributed several letters .

In this memoir, his See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age is given as forty-nine, which points to his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth in 1705; the date adopted above is on the authority of Lysons' Magna Britannia (Derbyshire) .