See also:SAINT [See also:EDMUND See also:RICE] EDMUND (d. 1240)
, See also:English See also:saint and See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was See also:born at See also:Abingdon, near See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, about 1175
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His See also:father was a See also:merchant of that See also:town who retired, with his wife's consent, to the monastery of Eynsham, leaving in her hands the See also:education of their See also:family
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Her name was Mabel; she was a devout woman who lived an ascetic See also:life and encouraged her See also:children to do the same
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Both her daughters took the See also:veil; three of her sons served the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in different capacities
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See also:Edmund, her first-born, began his education in a See also:grammar school at Oxford
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Of weak See also:health and a contemplative disposition, he showed, from his earliest years, a remarkable See also:taste for learning and religious exercises
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He saw visions See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white still at school, and at the See also:age of twelve took a See also:vow of perpetual chastity in the Virgin's church at Oxford
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Later he was sent, with his See also:brother See also:Robert, to study the liberal arts at See also:Paris
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His See also:mother's See also:death and family affairs recalled him for a 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 See also:England; but. he afterwards graduated at Paris
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For six years he lectured in the liberal arts, partly in Paris and partly in Oxford; his career as an Oxford teacher commenced before 1205, f,nd is noteworthy for the fact that he was the first who lectured there on See also:Aristotle
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He then returned to Paris for a course of theological studies, and rapidly made himself proficient in that See also:branch of learning
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After spending a See also:year in retirement with the Augustinian canons of Merton (See also:Surrey) he became a theological lecturer in Oxford
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In this capacity he gained some reputation, and it is related that his See also:audience were often moved to tears by his eloquence
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