See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES See also:

• WENTWORTH, WILLIAM CHARLES (1793-1872)

WENTWORTH See also:

• SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE

DILKE  , See also:

• BART, JEAN (1651-1702)

Bart . (1810-1869), See also:

• ENGLISH

English politician, son of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• WENTWORTH, WILLIAM CHARLES (1793-1872)

Wentworth See also:

• DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH

Dilke, proprietor and editor of The See also:

• ATHENAEUM

Athenaeum, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 18th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 181o, and was educated at See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster school and Trinity 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:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge . He studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, and in 1834 took his degree of LL.B., but did not practise . He assisted his See also:

• FATHER

father in his See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• WORK

work, and was for some years chairman of the See also:

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

council of the Society of Arts, besides taking a prominent See also:

• PART

part in the affairs of the Royal Horticultural Society and other bodies . He was one of the most zealous promoters of the See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• EXHIBITION

Exhibition (1851), and a member of the executive See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee . At the See also:

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

close of the exhibition he was honoured by See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign sovereigns, and the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen offered him See also:

• KNIGHTHOOD

knighthood, which, however, he did not accept; he also declined a large remuneration offered by the royal See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission . In 1853 Dilke was one of the English commissioners at the New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

Industrial Exhibition, and prepared a See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report on it . He again declined to receive any See also:

• MONEY

money See also:

• REWARD

reward for his services . He was appointed one of the five royal commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1862; and soon after the See also:

• DEATH

death of the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince See also:

• CONSORT (Lat. consors, a companion)

consort he was created a See also:

• BARONET

baronet . In 1865 he entered See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament as member for See also:

• WALLINGFORD

Wallingford . In 1869 he was sent to See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia as representative of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England at the horticultural exhibition held at St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg . His See also:

• HEALTH

health, however, had been for some 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 failing, and he died suddenly in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, on the loth of May 1869 .

A selection from his writings, Papers of a Critic (2 vols., 1875), contains a See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch by his son . His son, See also:

• SIR

SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, BART . (1843— ), became a prominent Liberal politician, as M.P. for See also:

• CHELSEA

Chelsea (1868-1886), under-secretary for foreign affairs (188o-1882), and See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board .0882-1885); and he was then marked out as one of the best-informed and ablest of the advanced Radicals . He was chairman of the royal commission on the See also:

• HOUSING

housing of the working classes in 1884-1885 . But his sensational See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance as co-See also:

• RESPONDENT (from Lat. respondere, to answer)

respondent in a See also:

• DIVORCE

divorce See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of a peculiarly unpleasant See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character in 1885 See also:

• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast a See also:

• CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

cloud over his career . He was defeated in Chelsea in 1886, and did not return to parliament till 1892, when he was elected for the See also:

• FOREST

Forest of See also:

• DEAN (Lat. decanus, derived from the Gr. 8eaa, ten)
• DEAN, FOREST OF

Dean; and though his knowledge of foreign affairs and his See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers as a critic and writer on military and See also:

• NAVAL

naval questions were admittedly of the highest 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, his See also:

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

official position in public See also:

• LIFE

life could not again be recovered . His military writings are The See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

Army (1888); Army Reform (1898) and, with Mr See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser See also:

• WILKINSON, JAMES (1757–1825)
• WILKINSON, JAMES JOHN GARTH (1812-1899)
• WILKINSON, JOHN (1728-1808)
• WILKINSON, SIR JOHN GARDNER (1797—1875)
• WILKINSON, TATE (1739—1803)

Wilkinson, Imperial See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

Defence (1892) . On colonial questions he wrote with equal authority . His Greater See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain (2 vols., 1866-1867) reached a See also:

• FOURTH

fourth edition in 1868, and was followed by Problems of Greater Britain (2 vols., 1890) and The British See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire (1899) . He was twice married, his second wife ,(nee See also:

• EMILIA

Emilia Frances Strong), the widow of See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

Mark See also:

• PATTISON, MARK (1813-1884)

Pattison, being an accomplished See also:

• ART

art critic and See also:

• COLLECTOR

collector . She died in 1904 . The most important of her books were the studies on See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Painters of the Eighteenth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century (1899) and three subsequent volumes on the architects and sculptors, See also:

• FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture and decoration, engravers and draughtsmen of the same See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, the last of which appeared in 1902 .

A See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous See also:

• VOLUME

volume, The See also:

• BOOK

Book of the Spiritual Life (1905), contains a memoir of her by Sir Charles Dilke .