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WILLIAM JUXON (1582-1663)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 619 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:JUXON (1582-1663)  , See also:English See also:prelate, was the son of See also:Robert See also:Juxon arnl was See also:born probably at See also:Chichester, being educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' School, See also:London, and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he was elected to a scholarship in 1598 . He studied See also:law at Oxford, but afterwards he took See also:holy orders, and in 1609 became See also:vicar of St See also:Giles, Oxford, a living which he retained until he became See also:rector of Somerton, See also:Oxfordshire, in 1615 . In See also:December 1621 he succeeded his friend, See also:William See also:Laud, as See also:president of St John's College, and in 1626 and 1627 he was See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university . Juxon soon obtained other important positions, including that of See also:chaplain-in-See also:ordinary to See also:Charles I . In 1627 he was made See also:dean of See also:Worcester and in 1632 he was nominated to the bishopric of See also:Hereford, an event which led him to resign the See also:presidency of St John's in See also:January 1633 . However, he never took up his episcopal duties at Here-See also:ford, as in See also:October 1633 he was consecrated See also:bishop of London in See also:succession to Laud . He appears to have been an excellent bishop, and in See also:March 1636 Charles I. entrusted him with important See also:secular duties by making him See also:lord high treasurer of See also:England; thus for the next five years he was dealing with the many See also:financial and other difficulties which beset the See also:king and his advisers . He resigned the treasurership in May 1641 . During the See also:Civil See also:War the bishop, against whom no charges were brought in See also:parliament, lived undisturbed at See also:Fulham See also:Palace, and his See also:advice was often sought by the king, who had a very high See also:opinion of him, and who at his See also:execution selected him to be with him on the See also:scaffold and to administer to him the last consolations of See also:religion . Juxon was deprived of his bishopric in 1649 and retired to Little See also:Compton in See also:Gloucestershire, where he had bought an See also:estate, and here he became famous as the owner of a See also:pack of hounds . At the restoration of Charles II. he became See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury and in his See also:official capacity he took See also:part in the See also:coronation of this king, but his See also:health soon began to fail and he died at See also:Lambeth on the 4th of See also:June 1663 . By his will the archbishop was a benefactor to St John's College, where he was buried; he also aided the See also:work of restoring St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral and rebuilt the See also:great See also:hall at Lambeth Palace .

See W . H . Marah, See also:

Memoirs of Archbishop Juxon and his Times (1869); the best authority for the archbishop's See also:life is the See also:article by W . H . See also:Hutton in the Dict . Nat . Biog . (1892) . K The See also:eleventh See also:letter in the Phoenician See also:alphabet and in its descendant See also:Greek, the tenth in Latin owing to the omission of Teth (see I), and once more the eleventh in the alphabets of Western See also:Europe owing to the insertion of J . In its See also:long See also:history the shape of K has changed very little . It is on the inscription of the Moabite See also:Stone (See also:early 9th cent . B.C.) in the See also:form (written from right to See also:left) of 1 and 1 .

Similar forms are also found in early Aramaic, but another form M or y , which is found in the Phoenician of See also:

Cyprus in the 9th or See also:roth See also:century B.C. has had more effect upon the later development of the Semitic forms . The length of the two back strokes and the manner in which they join the upright are the only See also:variations in Greek . In various places the back strokes, treated as an See also:angle<, become more rounded ( , so that the letter appears as K , a form which in Latin probably affected the development of C (q.v.) . In See also:Crete it is elaborated into K and P . In Latin K, which is found in the earliest See also:inscriptions, wasasoon replaced by C, and survived only in the abbreviations for Kalendae and the proper name Kaeso . The See also:original name Kaph became in Greek Kappa . The See also:sound of K throughout has been that of the unvoiced guttural, varying to some extent in its See also:pronunciation according to the nature of the vowel sound which followed it . In Anglo-Saxon C replaced K through Latin See also:influence, See also:writing being almost entirely in the hands of ecclesiastics . As the sound-changes have been discussed under C it is necessary here only to refer to the palatalization of K followed earlier by a final e as in See also:watch (See also:Middle English wacche, Anglo-Saxon wecce) by the See also:side of See also:wake (M.E. waken, A.-S. wacan) ; batch, See also:bake, &c . Sometimes an older form of the substantive survives, as in the Elizabethan and See also:Northern make= See also:mate alongside match . (P . GL) K2, or MT See also:GODWIN-See also:AUSTEN, the second highest See also:mountain in the See also:world, ranking after Mt See also:Everest .

It is a See also:

peak of the Karakoram See also:extension of the Murtagh range dividing See also:Kashmir from See also:Chinese See also:Turkestan . The height of K2 as at See also:present deter-See also:mined by triangulation is 28,250 ft., but it is possible that an ultimate revision of the values of See also:refraction at high altitudes may have the effect of lowering the height of K2, while it would elevate those of Everest and See also:Kinchinjunga . The latter mountain would then See also:rank second, and K2 third, in the See also:scale of See also:altitude, Everest always maintaining its ascendancy . K2 was ascended for the first See also:time by the See also:duke of the Abruzzi in June 1909, being the highest See also:elevation on the See also:earth's See also:surface ever reached by See also:man .

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