See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:HART See also:MILMAN (1791–1868)
, See also:English historian and ecclesiastic, third son of See also:Sir See also:Francis See also:Milman, See also:Bart., physician to See also:George III., was See also:born in See also:London on the loth of See also:November 1791
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Educated at See also:Eton and at Brasenose 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, his university career was brilliant
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He gained the See also:Newdigate See also:prize with a poem on the See also:Apollo See also:Belvidere in 1812, was elected a See also:fellow of Brasenose in 1814, and in 1816 won the English See also:essay prize with his See also:Comparative Estimate of See also:Sculpture and See also:Painting
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In 1816 he was ordained, and two years later was presented to the living of St See also:Mary's, See also:Reading
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Milman had already made his See also:appearance as a dramatic writer with his tragedy Fazio (produced on the See also:stage under the See also:title of The See also:Italian Wife)
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He also wrote Samor, the See also:Lord of The See also:Bright See also:City, the subject of which was taken from See also:British See also:legend, the " bright city " being See also:Gloucester; but he failed to invest it with serious See also:interest
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In subsequent poetical See also:works he was more successful, notably the Fall of See also:Jerusalem (182o) and the See also:Martyr of See also:Antioch (1822)
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The See also:influence of See also:Byron is seen in his Belshazzar (1822)
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A tragedy, See also:Anne See also:Boleyn, followed in 1826; and Milman also wrote " When our-heads are bowed with woe," and other See also:hymns; an admirable version of the See also:Sanskrit See also:episode of Nala and Damayanti; and See also:translations of the See also:Agamemnon of See also:Aeschylus and the See also:Baal-me of See also:Euripides
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In 1821 he was elected See also:professor of See also:poetry at Oxford, and in 1827 he delivered the See also:Bampton lectures on the See also:character and conduct of the apostles as an See also:evidence of See also:Christianity
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His poetical works were published in three volumes in 1839
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Turning to another See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, Milman published in 1829 his See also:History of the See also:Jews, which is memorable as the first by an English clergyman which treated the Jews as an See also:Oriental tribe, recognized sheikhs and amirs in the Old Testament, sifted and classified documentary evidence, and evaded or minimized the miraculous
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In consequence, the author was violently attacked and his inevitable preferment was delayed
.
In 1835, however, Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel made him See also:rector of St See also:Margaret's, See also:Westminster, and See also:canon of Westminster, and in 1849 he became See also:dean of St See also:Paul's
.
By this 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 his unpopularity had nearly died away, and generally revered and beloved, he occupied a dignified and enviable position, which he constantly employed for the promotion of culture and in particular for the relaxation of subscription to ecclesiastical formularies
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His History of Christianity to the Abolition of Paganism in the See also:Roman See also:Empire (184o) had been completely ignored; but widely different was the reception accorded to the continuation of his See also:work, his See also:great History of Latin Christianity (1855), which has passed through many See also:editions
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In 1838 he had edited See also:Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and in the following See also:year published his See also:Life of Gibbon
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Milman was also responsible for an edition of See also:Horace, and when he died he had almost finished a history of St Paul's See also:Cathedral, which was completed and published by his son, A
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Milman (London, 1868), who also collected and published in 1879 a See also:volume of his essays and articles
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Milman died on the 24th of See also:September 1868, and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral
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.By his wife, Mary See also:Ann, a daughter of Lieut.-See also:General 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 Cockell, he had four sons and two daughters
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His See also:nephew, Robert Milman (1816–1876), was See also:bishop of See also:Calcutta from 1867 until his See also:death, and was the author of a Life of Torquato See also:Tasso (185o)
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See A
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C
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See also:Tait, See also:Sermon in Memory of H
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H
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Milman (London, 1868), and See also:Arthur Milman, H
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H
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Milman (London, 1900)
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See also the See also:Memoirs of R
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Milman, bishop of Calcutta, by his See also:sister, Frances Maria Milman (1879)
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MILNE-See also:- EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD (1831-1892)
- EDWARDS, BELA BATES (18o2-1852)
- EDWARDS, BRYAN (1743–1800)
- EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)
- EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837–1884)
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703—1758)
- EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )
- EDWARDS, RICHARD (c. 1523–1566)
- EDWARDS, T
- EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837–1900)
EDWARDS, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1800-1885), See also:French zoologist, the son of an Englishman, was born in See also:Bruges on the 23rd of See also:October 1800, but spent most of his life in See also:France
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At first he turned his See also:attention to See also:medicine, in which he graduated at See also:Paris in 1823; but his See also:passion for natural history soon prevailed, and he gave himself up to the study of the See also:lower forms of See also:animal life
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One of his earliest papers (Recherches anatomiques sur See also:les cruslaces), which was presented to the See also:Academy of Sciences in 1829, formed the theme of an elaborate and eulogistic See also:report by G
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See also:Cuvier in the following year
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It embodied the results of two dredging expeditions undertaken by him and his friend J
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V
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See also:Audouin during 1826 and 1828 in the neighbourhood of See also:Granville, and was remarkable for clearly distinguishing the marine See also:fauna of that portion of the French See also:coast into four zones
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Much of his See also:original work was published in the Annales See also:des sciences naturelles, with the editorship of which he was associated from 1834
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Of his books may be mentioned the Histoire naturelle de crustaces (3 vols., 1837-1841), which See also:long remained a See also:standard work; Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, published in 1858–186o, but begun many years before; Lecons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparee de l'homme et des animaux (1857–1881), in 14 volumes; and a little work on the elements of See also:zoology, origin-ally published in 1834, but subsequently remodelled, which enjoyed an enormous circulation
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He was appointed in 1841 professor of See also:entomology at the museum d'histoire naturelle, where twenty-one years later he succeeded See also:Geoffroy See also:Saint-Hilaire in the See also:chair of zoology
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The Royal Society in 1856 awarded him the See also:Copley See also:medal in recognition of his zoological investigations
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He died in Paris on the 29th of See also:July 1885
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His son, See also:Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), who became professor of See also:ornithology at the museum in 1876, devoted himself especially to fossil birds and deep-See also:sea exploration
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