WILLIAM PETT RIDGE (1864- )
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V23,
Page 317
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
WILLIAM PETT See also:RIDGE (1864- )
, See also:English author, was See also:born at Chartham, near See also:Canterbury, and was educated at Marden, See also:Kent, and at the See also:Birkbeck See also:Institute, See also:London
.
He was for some 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 a clerk in the Railway Clearing See also:House, and began about 1891 to write humorous sketches for the St 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)
James's See also:Gazette and other papers
.
He secured his first striking success, in See also:volume See also:form, with Hord Em'ly (1898), an excellent example of his ability to draw humorous portraits of See also:lower class See also:life
.
His later books include A Son of the See also:State (1899), A Breaker of
See also:Laws (1900), Lost See also:Property (1902), Erb (1903), Mrs Caler's Business (1905), The Wickhamses (1906), &c
.
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