See also:JOHN See also:WILKINS (1614-1672)
, See also:bishop of See also:Chester, was See also:born at Fawsley, See also:Northamptonshire, and educated at Magdalen See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, 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
.
He was ordained and became See also:vicar of Fawsley in 1637, but soon resigned and became See also:chaplain successively to See also:Lord Saye and Sele, Lord See also:Berkeley, and See also:Prince See also:Charles See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:nephew of Charles I. and afterwards elector See also:palatine of the See also:Rhine
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In 1648 he became See also:warden of Wadham See also:College, Oxford
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Under him the college was extraordinarily prosperous, for, although a supporter of See also:Cromwell, he was in See also:touch with the most cultured royalists, who placed their sons in his See also:charge
.
In 1659 See also:Richard Cromwell appointed him See also:master of Trinity College, See also:Cambridge
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At the Restoration in r66o he was deprived, but appointed See also:prebendary of See also:York and See also:rector of Cranford, See also:Middlesex
.
In 1661 he was preacher at See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray's See also:Inn, and in 1662 vicar of St See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence Jewry, See also:London
.
He became vicar of Polebrook, Northarnptonshire, in 1666, prebendary of See also:Exeter in 1667, and in the following See also:year prebendary of St See also:Paul's and bishop of Chester
.
Possessing strong scientific tastes, he was the See also:chief founder of the Royal Societyand its first secretary
.
He died in London on the Toth of See also:November 1672
.
The chief of his numerous See also:works is an See also:Essay towards a Real See also:Character and a Philosophical See also:Language (London, 1668), in which he ex-pounds a new universal language for the use of philosophers
.
He is remembered also for a curious See also:work entitled The See also:Discovery of a See also:World in the See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
Moon (1638, 3rd ed., with an appendix " The possibility of a passage thither," 1640
.
Other works are A Discourse concerning a New See also:Planet (164o) ; See also:Mercury, or the See also:Secret and See also:Swift Messenger (1641), a work of some ingenuity on the means of rapid See also:correspondence; and Mathematical Magick (1648)
.
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See also:Wright See also:Henderson, The See also:Life and Times of See also:John See also:Wilkins (1910), and also the See also:article See also:AERONAUTICS
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