See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• SIR JOHN KIRK (1832- )

KIRK (1832- )  , See also:

• BRITISH

British naturalist and See also:

• ADMINISTRATOR

administrator, son of the Rev . See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )

Kirk, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BARRY
• BARRY, ELIZABETH (1658—1713)
• BARRY, JAMES (1741—1806)
• BARRY, SIR CHARLES (1795-1860)
• BARRY, SIR REDMOND (1813-188o)
• BARRY, SPRANGER (1719-1777)

Barry, near See also:

• ARBROATH, or ABERBROTHOCK

Arbroath, on the 19th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1832 . He was educated at See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh for the medical profession, and after serving on the See also:

• CIVIL

civil medical See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff throughout the See also:

• CRIMEAN

Crimean See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, was appointed in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1858 physician and naturalist to See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• LIVINGSTONE, DAVID (1813-1873)

Livingstone's second expedition to Central See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa . He was by Livingstone's See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side in most of his journeyings during the next five years, and was one of the first four 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 men to behold See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Nyassa (See also:

• SEPT

Sept . 16, 1859) . He was finally invalided See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home on the 9th of May 1863 . The reputation he gained during this expedition led to his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1866 as acting surgeon to the See also:

• POLITICAL

political agency at See also:

• ZANZIBAR

Zanzibar . In 1868 he became assistant political See also:

• AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent, being raised to the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general in 1873 and agent in 1880 . He retired from that See also:

• POST

post in 1887 . The twenty-one years spent by Kirk in Zanzibar covered the most See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

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

period of the See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• EUROPEAN

European intervention in See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East Africa; and during the greater See also:

• PART

part of that 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 he was the virtual ruler of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . With Seyyid Bargash, who became See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan in 187o, he had a See also:

• CON

con-trolling See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence, and after the failure of See also:

• SIR

Sir Bartle See also:

• FRERE, JOHN HOOKHAM (1769-1846)
• FRERE, PIERRE EDOUARD (1819-1886)
• FRERE, SIR HENRY BARTLE EDWARD (1815-1884)

Frere's efforts he succeeded in obtaining (See also:

• JUNE

June 5, 1873) the sultan's See also:

• SIGNATURE (through Fr. from Lat. signature, signare, to sign, signum, mark, token, sign)

signature to a treaty abolishing the slave See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in his dominions . In 1877 Bargash offered to a British See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant—Sir W .

Mackinnon—a See also:

• LEASE (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. laxare, to loosen)

lease of his mainland territories, and he gave Kirk a See also:

• DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

declaration in which he See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound himself not to cede territory to any other See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power than See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

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

Britain, a declaration ignored by the British 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 . When See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany in 1885 claimed districts considered by the sultan to belong to Zanzibar, Kirk intervened to prevent Bargash going in See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person to See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin to protest and induced him to submit to the dismemberment of his dominions . In the delicate negotiations which followed KIRK Kirk used his See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers to checkmate the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German designs to supplant the British in Zanzibar itself; this he did without destroying the Arab See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of government . He also directed the efforts, this time successful, to obtain for Britain a portion of the mainland—Bargash in May 1887 granting to Mackinnon a lease of territory which led to the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of British East Africa . Having thus served both Great Britain and Zanzibar, Kirk resigned his post (See also:

• JULY

July 1887), retiring from the consular service . In 1889-1890 he was a plenipotentiary at the slave trade See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference in See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, and was one of the delegates who fixed the See also:

• TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

tariff duties to be imposed in the See also:

• CONGO

Congo See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin . In 1895 he was sent by the British government on a See also:

• MISSION

mission to the See also:

• NIGER
• NIGER, GAIUS PESCENNIUS

Niger; and on his return he was appointed a member of the See also:

• FOREIGN

Foreign See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office 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 for constructing the See also:

• UGANDA

Uganda railway . As a naturalist Kirk took high rank, and many See also:

• SPECIES

species of the See also:

• FLORA

flora and See also:

• FAUNA

fauna of Central Africa were made known by him, and several See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear his name, e.g. the Otogale kirkii (a lemuroid), the Madoqua kirkii (a diminutive See also:

• ANTELOPE

antelope), the Landolphia kirkii and the See also:

• CLEMATIS

Clematis kirkii . For his services to See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography he received in 1882 the patrons' See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal of the Royal See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

Geographical Society, of which society he became foreign secretary . Kirk was created K.C.B. in 1900 . He married, in 1867, See also:

• MISS

Miss See also:

• HELEN

Helen See also:

• COOKE, GEORGE FREDERICK (1756–1811)
• COOKE, JAY (1821–1905)
• COOKE, ROSE TERRY (1827-1892)

Cooke .