See also:SIR See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:COLE (1808–1882)
, See also:English See also:civil servant, was See also:born at See also:Bath on the 15th of See also:July 18o8, and was the son of an officer in the See also:army
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At the See also:age of fifteen he became clerk to See also:Sir See also:Francis See also:Palgrave, then a subordinate officer in the See also:record See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and, helped by See also:Charles See also:Buller, to whom he had been introduced by 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 Love See also:Peacock, and who became chairman of a royal See also:commission for inquiry into the See also:condition of the public records, worked his way up until he became an assistant keeper
.
He largely assisted in influencing public See also:opinion in support of Sir See also:Rowland See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill's reforms at the See also:post office
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A connexion with the Society of Arts caused him to See also:drift gradually out of the record office: he was a leading member of the commission that organized the See also:Great See also:Exhibition of 1851, and upon the conclusion of its labours was made secretary to the School of See also:Design, which by a See also:series of transformations became in 1853 the See also:Department of See also:Science and See also:Art
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Under its auspices the See also:South See also:Kensington (now See also:Victoria and See also:Albert) Museum was founded in 1855 upon See also:land See also:purchased out of the surplus of the exhibition, and See also:Cole practically became its director, retiring in 1873
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His proceedings were frequently criticized, but the museum owes much to his See also:energy
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Indefatigable, genial and masterful, he drove everything before him, and by all sorts of schemes and devices built up a great institution, whose variety and inequality of See also:composition seemed imaged in the anomalous structure in which it was temporarily housed
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He also, though
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See also:COLD HARBOR-
locked up in the See also:city 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 until all attempts to enforce the new See also:law were abandoned
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Subsequently See also:Colden secured the See also:sus-See also:pension of the provincial See also:assembly by an See also:act of See also:parliament
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He understood, however, the real See also:temper of the patriot party, and in 1775, when the outbreak of hostilities seemed inevitable, he strongly advised the See also:ministry to act with caution and to concede some of the colonists' demands
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When the See also:war began, he retired to his See also:Long See also:Island See also:country seat, where he died on the 28th of See also:September 1776
.
Colden was widely known among scientists and men of letters in See also:England and See also:America
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He was a See also:life-long student of See also:botany, and was the first to introduce in America the See also:classification See also:system of See also:Linnaeus, who gave the name " Coldenia " to a newly recognized genus
.
He was an intimate friend of See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin
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He wrote several medical See also:works of importance in their See also:day, the most noteworthy being A See also:Treatise on Wounds and Fevers (1765); he also wrote The See also:History of the Five See also:Indian Nations depending on the See also:Province of New See also:York (1727, reprinted 1866 and 1905), and an elaborate See also:work on The Principles of See also:Action in See also:Matter (1751), which, with his Introduction to the Study of Physics (c
.
1756), his Enquiry into the Principles of Vital See also:Motion (1766), and his Reflections (c
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1770), See also:mark him as the first of See also:American materialists and one of the ablest material philosophers of his day
.
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See also:Woodbridge See also:Riley, in American See also:Philosophy (New York, 1907), made the first See also:critical study of Colden's philosophy, and said of it that it combined " Newtonian See also:mechanics with the See also:ancient hylozoistic See also:doctrine
.
.
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" and " ultimately reached a See also:kind of dynamic See also:panpsychism, substance being conceived as a self-acting and universally diffused principle, whose essence is See also:power and force."
See Alice M
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Keys, Cadwallader See also:Golden, A Representative 28th See also:Century See also:Official (New York, 1906), a See also:Columbia University doctoral dissertation; J
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Mumford, Narrative of See also:Medicine in America (New York, 1903) ; and See also:Asa See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray, "Selections from the Scientific See also:Correspondence of Cadwallader Colden " in American See also:Journal of Science, vol
.
44, 1843
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His See also:grandson, CADWALLADER See also:DAVID COLDEN (1769–1834), lawyer and politician, was educated in See also:London, but returned in 1785 to New York, where he attained great distinction at the See also:bar
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He was a See also:colonel of See also:volunteers during the war of 1812, and from 1818 to 1821 was the successor of See also:Jacob Radcliff as See also:mayor of New York City
.
He was a member of the See also:state assembly (1818) and the state See also:senate (1825–1827), and did much to secure the construction of the See also:Erie See also:Canal and the organization of the state public school system; and in 1821–1823 he was a representative in See also:Congress
.
He wrote a Life of See also:Robert See also:Fulton (1817) and a Memoir of the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals (1825)
.
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