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EPARCH, an official, a governor of a province of Roman Greece, «rapx°s> whose title was equivalent to, or represented that of the Roman praefectus. The area of his administration was called an eparchy (errapxta). The term survives as one of the administrative ...

ARCH, JOSEPH (1826- ), English politician, founder of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, was born at Barford, a village in Warwickshire, on the loth of November 1826. His parents belonged to the labouring class. He inherited a strong sentiment of inde

EPOCH (Gr. tirox^, holding in suspense, a pause, from lirixtw, to hold up, to stop), a term for a stated period of time, and so used of a date accepted as the starting-point of an era or of a new period in chronology, such as the birth of Christ. It is hence t

ERSCH, JOHANN SAMUEL (1766-1828), the founder of German bibliography, was born at Grossglogau, in Silesia, on the 23rd of June 1766. In 1785 he entered the university of Halle with the view of studying theology; but soon his whole attention became engrossed by