See also:SIR 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 See also:HERBERT (1606-1682)
, See also:English traveller and author, was See also:born at See also:York in 1606
.
Several of his ancestors were aldermen and merchants in that See also:city—e.g. his grandfather and benefactor, See also:Alderman See also:Herbert (d
.
1614)—and they traced a connexion with the earls of See also:Pembroke
.
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 became a commoner of Jesus See also:College, 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, in 1621, but afterwards removed to See also:Cambridge, through the See also:influence of his See also:uncle Dr See also:Ambrose Akroyd
.
In 1627 the See also:earl of Pembroke procured his See also:appointment in the See also:suite of See also:Sir Dodmore See also:Cotton, then starting as See also:ambassador for See also:Persia with Sir See also:Robert See also:Shirley
.
Sailing in See also:March they visited the Cape, See also:Madagascar, See also:Goa and See also:Surat; landing at Gambrun (loth of See also:January 1627-1628), they travelled inland to Ashraf and thence to See also:Kazvin, where both Cotton and Shirley died, and whence Herbert made extensive travels in the See also:Persian See also:Hinterland, visiting See also:Kashan, See also:Bagdad, &c
.
On his return voyage he touched at See also:Ceylon, the Coromandel See also:coast, See also:Mauritius and St See also:Helena
.
He reached See also:England in 1629, travelled in See also:Europe in 163o-1631, married in 1632 and retired from See also:court in 1634 (his prospects perhaps blighted by Pembroke's See also:death in 1630); after this he resided on his Tintern See also:estate and elsewhere till the See also:Civil See also:War, siding with the See also:parliament till his appointment to attend on the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in 1646
.
Becoming a devoted royalist, he was rewarded with a baronetcy at the Restoration (1660)
.
He resided mainly in York See also:Street, See also:Westminster, till the See also:Great See also:Plague (1666), when he retired to York, where he died (at Petergate See also:House) on the 1st of March 1682
.
Herbert's See also:chief See also:work is the Description of the Persian See also:Monarchy now beinge: the Orientall Ind yes, Iles and other parts of the Greater See also:Asia and Africk (1634), reissued with additions, &c., in 1638 as
Some Yeares Travels into See also:Africa and Asia the Great (al. into See also:divers parts of Asia and Afrique) ; a third edition followed in 1664, and a See also:fourth in 1677
.
This is one of the best records of 17th-See also:century travel
.
Among its illustrations are remarkable sketches of the See also:dodo, See also:cuneiform See also:inscriptions and See also:Persepolis
.
Herbert's Threnodies Carolina; or, See also:Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of that unparallell'd See also:prince of ever blessed memory King See also:Charles I., was in great See also:part printed at the author's See also:request in See also:Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; in full by Dr C
.
Goodall in his Collection of Tracts (1702, repr
.
G
.
& W
.
See also:Nicol, 1813)
.
Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Dugdale is understood to have received assistance from Herbert in the Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. iv.; see two of Herbert's papers on St See also:John's, See also:Beverley and See also:Ripon collegiate 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, now See also:cathedral, in See also:Drake's Eboracum (appendix)
.
Cf. also Robert See also:Davies' See also:account of Herbert in The See also:Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical See also:Journal, part iii., pp
.
182-214 (1870), containing a facsimile of the inscription on Herbert's See also:tomb; Wood's Athenae, iv
.
15-41; and See also:Fasti, i1
.
26, 131, 138, 143-144, 150
.
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