See also:SAMUEL See also:HAUGHTON (1821-1897)
, Irish scientific writer, the son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Haughton (1795-1873), was See also:born at See also:Carlow on the 21st of See also:December 1821
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His See also:father, the son of a Quaker, but himself a Unitarian, was an active philanthropist, a strong supporter of Father See also:Theobald See also:Mathew, a vegetarian, and an See also:anti-See also:slavery worker and writer
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After a distinguished career in Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, See also:Samuel was elected a See also:fellow in 1844
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IIe was ordained See also:priest in 1847, but seldom preached
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In 1851 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology in Trinity College, and this See also:post he held for See also:thirty years
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He began the study of See also:medicine in 1859, and in 1862 took the degree of M.D. in the university of Dublin
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He was then made registrar of the Medical School, the status of which he did much to improve, and he represented the university on the See also:General Medical See also:Council from 1878 to 1896
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He was elected F.R.S. in 1858, and in course of 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 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 conferred upon him the hon. degree of D.C.L., and See also:Cambridge and See also:Edinburgh that of LL.D
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He was a See also:man of remarkable knowledge and ability, and he communicated papers on widely different subjects to various learned See also:societies and scientific See also:journals in See also:London and Dublin
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He wrote on the See also:laws of See also:equilibrium and See also:motion of solid and fluid bodies (1846), on See also:sun-See also:heat, terrestrial See also:radiation, See also:geological climates and on tides
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He wrote also on the granites of See also:Leinster and See also:Donegal, and on the cleavage and See also:joint-planes in the Old Red See also:Sandstone of See also:Waterford (18J7-1858)
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He was See also:president of the Royal Irish See also:Academy from 1886 to 1891, and for twenty years he was secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of See also:Ireland
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He died in Dublin on the 31st of See also:October 1897
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