WHITLEY See also:

• STOKES, SIR G
• STOKES, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL, BART
• WHITLEY STOKES (1830-1909)

STOKES (1830-1909)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British lawyer and See also:

• CELTIC

Celtic See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was a son of 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 See also:

• STOKES, SIR G
• STOKES, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL, BART
• STOKES, WHITLEY (1830-1909)

Stokes (1804-1878), and a See also:

• GRAND

grand-son of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), each of whom was regius See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of physic in the university of See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin . In his See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, William Stokes, who was the author of several books on medical subjects, was one of the foremost physicians in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . Educated at Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, Dublin, See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young Stokes became an See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• BARRISTER

barrister in 1855, and in 1862 he went to See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, where he filled several See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official positions . In 1877 he was appointed legal member of the See also:

• VICEROY (from O. Fr. viceroy, mod. viceroi, i.e. Lat. vice, in place of, and roy or roi, king)

viceroy's See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council, and he drafted the codes of See also:

• CIVIL

civil and criminal See also:

• PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

procedure and did much other valuable See also:

• WORK

work of the same nature . In 1879 he was See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission on See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . He returned to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in 1882 . In 1887 he was made a C.S.I., and two years later a C.I.E.; he obtained honorary degrees from many See also:

• UNIVERSITIES

universities, and was a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of the British See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy . He died in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 13th of See also:

• APRIL

April 19oo . Whitley Stokes is perhaps most famous as a Celtic scholar, and in this 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 he worked both in India and in England . He studied Irish, See also:

• BRETON, BRITTON
• BRETON, JULES ADOLPHE

Breton and Cornish texts, and among his numerous See also:

• WORKS

works may be mentioned See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of Three Irish Glossaries (1862); Three See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle-Irish Homilies (1877); and Old Irish Glosses at Wiirzburg and Carlsruhe (1887) . He was one of the editors of the Isische Texte published at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig (188o-'9oo); and he edited and translated Lives of See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

Saints from the See also:

• BOOK

Book of See also:

• LISMORE

Lismore (1890) . With Professor A .

Bezzenberger he wrote Urkeltischer Sprachschatz '(1894) . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal legal work was The Anglo-Indian Codes (1887) .