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
English author, was born at Chartham, near Canterbury, and was educated at Marden, Kent, and at the Birkbeck Institute, 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
a clerk in the Railway Clearing 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)
's Gazette and other papers
.
He secured his first striking success, in volume form, with Hord Em'ly (1898), an excellent example of his ability to draw humorous portraits of lower class life
.
His later books include A Son of the State (1899), A Breaker of
Laws (1900), Lost Property (1902), Erb (1903), Mrs Caler's Business (1905), The Wickhamses (1906), &c
.
End of Article: WILLIAM PETT RIDGE (1864- )
|
[back]
RIDGE (a word. common to many Teutonic languages, m...
|
[next]
RIDING
|
del.icio.us it!