See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• RICHARD WATSON (1737-1816)
• WATSON, THOMAS (c. 1557–1592)
• WATSON, WILLIAM (1858- )
• WATSON, WILLIAM (c. 1559-1603)

WATSON (1737-1816)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1737 at Heversham in See also:

• WESTMORLAND
• WESTMORLAND, EARLS OF

Westmorland . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a schoolmaster, sent him to Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, where he was elected a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow in 176o . About the same 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 he had the offer of the See also:

• POST

post of See also:

• CHAPLAIN

chaplain to the factory at Bencoolen, in the Straits Settlements . " You are too See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good," said the See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of Trinity, " to See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die of drinking See also:

• PUNCH

punch in the torrid See also:

• ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird)

zone "; and See also:

• WATSON, RICHARD (1737-1816)
• WATSON, THOMAS (c. 1557–1592)
• WATSON, WILLIAM (1858- )
• WATSON, WILLIAM (c. 1559-1603)

Watson; instead of becoming, as he had flattered himself, a See also:

• GREAT

great orientalist, remained at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home to be elected See also:

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

professor of See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry, a See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science of which he did not at the time possess the simplest rudiments . " I buried myself," he says, " in my laboratory, and in fourteen months read a course of chemical lectures to a very full See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience." One of his discoveries led to the See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black-bulb thermometer . Not the least of his services was to procure an endowment for the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair, which served as a precedent in similar instances . In 1771 he was appointed regius professor of divinity, but did not entirely renounce the study of chemistry . In 1768 he had published Institutiones metallurgicae, intended to give a scientific See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form to chemistry by digesting facts established by experiment into a connected See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of propositions . In 1781 he followed this up with an See also:

• INTRODUCTORY

introductory See also:

• MANUAL

manual of Chemical Essays . In 1776 he answered See also:

• GIBBON
• GIBBON, EDWARD (1737–1794)

Gibbon's chapters on See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity, and had the See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of being one of the only two opponents whom Gibbon treated with respect . The same See also:

• YEAR

year he offended the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court by a Whig See also:

• SERMON (Lat. sermo, a discourse)

sermon, but in 1779 became See also:

• ARCHDEACON (Lat. archidiaconus, Gr. &oxt3tauovor)

archdeacon of See also:

• ELY
• ELY, RICHARD THEODORE (1854— )

Ely . He had always opposed the See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, and on the See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession of See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Shelburne to See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in 1782 was made See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of Liandaff, being permitted to retain his other preferments on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the poverty of the see .

Shelburne expected great service from him as a pamphleteer, but Watson proved from the ministerial point of view a most impracticable See also:

• PRELATE (Lat. praelatus, set above, from praefero, prefer)

prelate . He immediately brought forward a See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme for improving the See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of the poorer See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy by equalizing the incomes of the bishops, the reception of which at the time may be imagined, though it was substantially the same as that carried into effect by Lord See also:

• MELBOURNE
• MELBOURNE, WILLIAM LAMB, 2ND VISCOUNT (1779-1848)

Melbourne's See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government fifty years later . Watson now found that he possessed no See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence with the See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, and that he had destroyed his See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance of the great See also:

• OBJECT

object of his ambition, promotion to a better See also:

• DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese . Neglecting both his see and his professor-See also:

• SHIP

ship, to which latter he appointed a See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy described as highly incompetent, he withdrew to Calgarth See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park, in his native See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, where he occupied himself in forming plantations and in the improvement of See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture . He also frequently came forward as a preacher and as a See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker in the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of Lords . His See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice to the government in 1787 is said to have saved the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country £roo,000 a year in See also:

• GUNPOWDER

gunpowder . In 1796 he published, in See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer to See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• PAINE, ROBERT TREAT (1731–1814)
• PAINE, THOMAS (1737–1809)

Paine, an See also:

• APOLOGY (from Gr. &aoXoyia, defence)

Apology for the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, perhaps the best known of his numerous writings . Watson continued to exert his See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen with vigour, and in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general to good purpose, denouncing the slave See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, advocating the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union with See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland, and offering See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial suggestions to See also:

• PITT, THOMAS (1653-1726)
• PITT, WILLIAM (1759-1806)

Pitt, who seems to have frequently consulted him . In 1998 his Address to the See also:

• PEOPLE

People of Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, enforcing resistance to See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French arms and French principles, ran through fourteen See also:

• EDITIONS

editions, but estranged him from many old See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, who accused him, probably with injustice, of aiming to make his See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace with the government . Though querulous because of his non-preferment, De Quincey tells us that " his lordship was a joyous, jovial, and cordial See also:

• HOST

host." He died on the 2nd of See also:

• JULY

July 1816, having occupied his latter years in the See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition and revision of an autobiography (published in 1817), which, with all its egotism and partiality, is a valuable See also:

• WORK

work, and the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief authority for his See also:

• LIFE

life .