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BARON (c. 1562-1639), son of Sir Mathew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, a member of the ancient family of Arundells of Lanhernc in Cornwall, and of Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, was born about 1562. In 1579 he was personally recommended ...

ETTINGSHAUSEN. CONSTANTIN. BARON VON (1826-1897), Austrian geologist and botanist, was born in Vienna on the i6th of June 1826. He graduated as a doctor of medicine in Vienna, and became in 1854 professor of botany and natural history at the medical and surgic ...

ARGON (from the Or. &-, privative, and tpyov, work; hence meaning " inert "). a gaseous constituent of atmospheric air. For more than a hundred years before 1894 it had been supposed that the composition of the atmosphere was thoroughly known. Beyond variable

ARLON, the chief town of the Belgian province of Luxemburg, situated on a hill about 1240 ft. above the sea. Pop. (1004) 10,894. It is a very ancient town, and in the time of the Romans was called Orolaunum, being a station on the Antoninian way connecting Rei

ARSON (from Lat. ardere, to burn), a crime which has been described as the malicious and voluntary burning of the house of another (3 Co. Inst. 66). At common law in England it is an offence of the degree of felony. In the Roman civil law arson was punishable

ARAGON, or ARRAGON (in Span. Aragon), a captaincygeneral, and formerly a kingdom of Spain; bounded on the N. by the Pyrenees, which separate it from France, on the E. by Catalonia and Valencia, S. by Valencia, and W. by the two Castiles and Navarre. Pop. (1900

ARCHON (apxuv, ruler), the title of the highest magistrate in many ancient Greek states. It is only in Athens that we have any detailed knowledge of the office, and even in this one case the evidence presents problems of the first importance which are incapabl

... ied in 1636, and in 1644 he married Francoisc de Narbonne, daughter of Charles, baron of Mareuil. She bad no children and survived her husband until 1713. Angoule'me himself died on the 24th of September 1650. By his first wife he had three children: Henri, wh ...

... lition was, however, not yet completed. The intransigeant Conservatives, led by Baron von Hammerstein, the editor of the Kreui-Ztiiung, justly felt that the concluding sentence of the resolution of the 3rd of December repudiating " the excesses of anti-Semitis ...

... he lesser towns. Belfast and Larne are the chief ports. The county comprises 14 baronies and 79 civil parishes and parts of parishes. The constabulary force has its headquarters at Ballymena. The assize town is Belfast, and quarter sessions are held at 'Ballym ...

... e whole of his career. At the coronation (sth of April 1797) Paul created him a baron, and he was subsequently made quartermastergeneral and colonel of the whole Preobrazhenskoe Guard. It was to Arakcheev that Paul entrusted the reorganization of the army, whi ...

... while, but Arcadia suffered severely from the constant quarrels of its Prankish barons (1205-1460). The succeeding centuries of Turkish rule, combined with an Albanian immigration, raised the prosperity of the land, but in the Wars of Independence the strategi ...

... ly of Scottish peers, originally the Campbells of Lochow, and first ennobled as Barons Campbell, is referred to in the article ARGYLLSHIRE. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, sth earl of Argyll (1530-' 573). was the elder son of Archibald, 4th earl of Argyll (d. 1558), and a ...

... ragee (1427), Bessbrook (2977) and Ready (1466). Armagh is divided, in to eight baronies, and contains twenty -five parishes and parts of parishes, the greater number of which are in the Protestant and Roman Catholic dioceses of Armagh, and a few in the Roman ...

... urney, called Round the World with a King. ARMSTRONG. WILLIAM GEORGE ARMSTRONG. BARON (1810-1900), British inventor, founder of the Elswick manufacturing works, was born on the 26th of November 1810, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was educated at a school in Bishop ...

ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR, THOMAS ARUNDELL, IST BARON (c. 1562-1639), son of Sir Mathew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, a member of the ancient family of Arundells of Lanhernc in Cornwall, and of Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, was born about 15 ...

... cond Lord Lilford. Up to 1891 the lord of the manor held a court-leet and court-baron annually in November, but in that year Lord Lilford sold to the local board the market tolls, stallages and pickages, and since this sale the courts have lapsed. The earliest ...

... ns who met in Paris on the i6th of June 1894, principally at the instigation of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the result being the formation of an International Olympic Games Committee with Baron de Coubertin at its head, which resolved that games should be held ...

... RGE EDEN, KABL OF (1784-1849), English statesman, was the second son of the ist Baron Auckland. He completed his education at Oxford, and was admitted to the bar in 1809. His elder brother was drowned in the Thames in the following year ; and in 1814, on the d ...

... . Due D' (1823-1905), French statesman, was the grand-nephew and adopted son of Baron Etienne Denis Pasquier. He was created duke in 1844, and became auditor at the council of state in 1846. After the revolution of 1848 he retired to private life. Under the em ...

... ls of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1841). AUDLEY, THOMAS AUDLEY, BARON (c. 1488-1544), lord chancellor of England, whose parentage is unknown, is believed to have studied at Buckingham College, Cambridge. He was educated for the law, entered the ...

... naparte en Italie; Count A. F. Andrenssi. La Campagne sur le if fin, 1800-1801; Baron A. Ducassc, Prrcis de la campafnr de Farmee de Lyon en 1814; and the Memoirs of Marbot. (J. HL. R.)

... 61), Le FUs de Ciboyer (1862), Contagion, first announced under the title of Le Baron d'Eslrigatid (1866), Lions et renards (1869) — which, with Le Cendre de U. Poirier (1854), written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, reach the high- water mark of Augier's ...

... friction between ^" the crown and its subjects. The more turbulent part of the baronage, looking back to the boisterous times of Stephen with regret, was reserving itself for a favourable opportunity. The danger of feudal rebellion was not yet past, as was to ...

... y Asgar, Edward the Confessor's master of horse, was in the hands of the Norman baron Geoffrey de Mandeville at the time of Domesday, and belonged to the Bohun family in the 1 2th and i3th centuries. It came, by succession and marriage, into the possession of ...

EOTVOS, J6ZSEF, BARON (1813-1871), Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Baron Ignacz Eotvos and the baroness Lilian, was born at Buda on the ijth of September 1813. After an excellent education he entered the civil service as a vicenotary, and was early ...

... bishop by taking pupils. One of these, a young Englishman, William Blount, 4th Baron Mount joy (d. 1534), persuaded him to visit England in the spring of 1499. Being without a benefice, he had no settled income to look to, and apart from the precarious profit ...

... metallic, and the streak greyish-black; hardness 3; sp. gr. 5-0. Bornite (after Baron Ignaz von Born, b. 1742, d. 1791) is a name in common use for this mineral, and it predates erubescite, the name given by J. D. Dana in 1850, but afterwards rejected by him; ...

... as master of the rolls in 1883. In 1885 he was raised to the House of Lords as Baron Esher. He opposed the bill proposing that an accused person or his wife might give evidence in their own case, and supported the bill which empowered lords of appeal to sit a ...

... rghers of Selkirk, championed by Walter Scott, sheriff of the Forest (not yet a baronet), and the men of Yarrow vale, championed by the Ettrick shepherd.

... per-making and tanning, and in medicine as a febrifuge. For further details see Baron von M tiller's monograph of the genus, . Eucalyptographia (Melbourne, 1879-1884); J. H. Maiden, Useful Native Plants of Australia (1889).

... dependent of the emperor. Had Henry confined his efforts to coercing the German barons he might, like the Normans and Angevins in England, and like the Capctians in France, have proved successful. Unfortunately for Germany Henry entered upon the famous contest ...

... uncil held in London on the 6th of April 1152 Stephen induced a small number of barons to do homage to Eustace as their future king; but the primate, Theobald, and the other bishops declined to perform the coronation ceremony on the ground that the Roman curia ...

... uncil held in London on the 6th of April 1152 Stephen induced a small number of barons to do homage to Eustace as their future king; but the primate, Theobald, and the other bishops declined to perform the coronation ceremony on the ground that the Roman curia ...

HENRY ARUNDELL, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 16071694), son of Thomas, 2nd baron, and of Blanche, daughter of Edward, earl of Worcester, was born on the 2ist of July 1607, and succeeded on his father's death in 1643 to the family title and estates. A stro ...

... e to discuss them in person. It was of course impossible that the nation or the baronage should accept such a preposterous rfgime, and Edward was soon involved in a lively struggle with his subjects. Of the leaders of opposition in his father's reign both Here ...

... himself to organize an absolute monarchy on the ruins of the parliament and the baronage. For the successive attainders of the Lancastrians and the Nevilles had swept away many of the older noble families, and Edward's house of peers consisted for the main par ...

... promoting the Union, he was created (1705) a peer of England, by the titles of baron of Chatham and earl of Greenwich, and in 1710 was made a knight of the Garter. He first distinguished himself in a military capacity at the battle of Oudenarde (1708), where ...

... ry over the French and their allies off Margate. About 1385 the earl joined the baronial party led by the king's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, and in 1386 was a member of the commission appointed to regulate the kingdom and the royal househol ...

... only lately introduced into the country, was forbidden to all under the rank of baron. In 1457 (temp. James II.) an act was passed against " sumptuous cleithing." A Scottish sumptuary law of 1621 was the last of the kind in Great Britain. In Japan sumptuary la ...