WILLIAM MARTIN (1767-1810)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V17,
Page 795
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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
English naturalist, the son of a hosier, was born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in 1767
.
He studied drawing at an early age from 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)
at Halifax, and gained from him a taste for the study of natural history
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In 1805 he was appointed drawing master in the gram- mar school at Macclesfield
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Meanwhile he cultivated his taste for natural history, and was in 1796 elected a fellow of the Linnaean Society
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He is best known for his early works on British fossils, entitled Petrifacta derbiensia or Figures and Descriptions of Petrifaction collected in Derbyshire (1809); and Outlines of an Attempt to establish a Knowledge of Extraneous Fossils on Scientific Principles (1809)
.
He died at Macclesfield on the 31st of May 1810
.
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