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GEORGE JOHN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, 8th duke (1823-1900), the second son of the 7th duke, was born on the 3oth of April 1823, and succeeded his father in April 1847. He had already obtained notice as a writer of pamphlets on the disruption of the Church of Scotland, ...

JOHN CAMPBELL, 2nd duke of Argyll and duke of Greenwich (1678-1743), was born on the loth of October 1678. He entered the army in 1694, and in 1701 was promoted to the command of a regiment. On the death of his father in 1703, he was appointed a member of the ...

... . EARLS AND DUKES OF. The rise of this family 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 Arc ...

... ewart earl in 1595, the earldom reverting to the crown, had originated with Sir John Stewart of Balveny (d. 1512), who was created earl of Atholl about 1457 (new charter 1481). The 5th earl's daughter, Dorothea, married William Murray, earl of Tullibardine (cr ...

... or south-east: they are the Connecticut, Merrimack, Kennebec, Penobscot and St John, the last being shared with the province of New Brunswick. The drainage of New England is unlike that of the middle and south-weste/n Appalachians in the occurrence of numerou ...

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, sth earl of Argyll (1530-' 573). was the elder son of Archibald, 4th earl of Argyll (d. 1558), and a grandson of Colin, the 3rd earl (d. 1530). His great-grandfather was the 2nd earl, Archibald, who was killed at Flodden in 1513, and this n ...

ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, 5th earl of Angus (c. MSO-C. 1514), the famous " Bell the Cat," was born about 1450 and succeeded his father, George the 4th earl, in 1462 or 1463. In 1481 he was made warden of the east marches, but the next year he joined the league agains ...

AUCKLAND. GEORGE 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 1 ...

WILLIAM DOUGLAS, ioth earl (c. 1554-1611), was the son of William, the gth earl (1533-1591). He studied at St Andrews University and joined the household of the earl of Morton. Subsequently, while visiting the French court, he became a Roman Catholic, and was ...

... he then holder of the title being summoned to the English parliament. Meanwhile John Stewart of Bonkyl, co. Berwick, had been created earl of Angus in a new line. This third creation ended with Margaret Stewart, countess of Angus in her own right, and widow of ...

... och Etive; Lome, surrounding Loch Etive and giving the title of marquess to the Campbells; Argyll, in the middle of the shire, containing Inveraray Castle and furnishing the titles of earl and duke to the Campbells; Cowall, between Loch Fyne and the Firth of C ...

... he space of the 1 Observations of Comets, translated from the Chinese Annals by John Williams, F.S.A. (1871). i J. L. E. Dreyer, Proc. Roy. Irish A cad. vol. ui. No. 7 (December 1 F. K. Ginzel, " Die astronomischen Kenntnisse der Babylonier," C. F. Lehmann. Be ...

... ines of salt and tin which were so important in early European commerce); H. B. George, The Relations of Geography and History (Oxford, 1901) (deals very largely * In 1800 only those to which an asterisk is prefixed rose above 100,000. Thirty-four out of the 1 ...

... the Democratic state platform, but the hostility of the legislature to Governor Campbell, who favoured the amendment, secured its defeat. Both husband and wife retain their separate title to the property which each owned before marriage and to that acquired af ...

... ce, and of Greek philosophers. I is possible that the epithet fleoXo-yos for St John may go bac as far as Papias. This is the first appearance of the term upo: Christian ground. The primitive application of BeoMyoi V the poets and myth-fanciers meets us again ...

... mperature is 31°, the mean summer temperature 73°. Corresponding figures for St George, in the south-western part of the state, are 38 and 80°. In general Utah may be said to have a true continental climate, although the presence of Great Salt Lake has a modif ...

AUBREY. JOHN (1626-1697), English antiquary, wu born at Easlon Picrscor Perry, near Malmcsbury, Wiltshire, on the I2th of March 1626, his father being a country gentleman of considerable fortune. He was educated at the Malmcsbury grammar school under Robert La ...

ERSKINE. JOHN (1721-1803), Scottish divine, son. of John Erskine of Carnock, was born on the 2nd of June 1721. He studied law for a time after completing his course in arts at the university of Edinburgh, but was eventually licensed to preach in 1743; and was ...

JOHN TRENCHARD (1662-1723), erroneously referred to by Macaulay as a son of Sir John Trenchard. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Trenchard inherited considerable wealth and was thus able to devote the greater part of his life to writing on political subjec ...

... e family had been divided in 1396, and after the acquisition of Bernburg Prince George I. made a further partition of Zerbst. Early in the i6th century, however, owing to the death or abdication of several princes, 'the family had become narrowed down to the t ...

... uer), general field marshal in the Prussian army, was the only surviving son of John George II. , prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and was born on the 3rd of July 1676 at Dessau. From his earliest youth he was devoted to the profession of arms, for which he educated h ...

... t the English government, participating in his brother James's victory over Sir John Chichester at Carrickfergus in November 1597, and joining in O'Neill's rebellion in 1600. But on the i6th of December he signed articles with Sir Arthur Chichester and was gra ...

... oing vessels with American and foreign ports. The city has a monument (1900) to John Gorrie (1803-1855), a physician who discovered the cold-air process of refrigeration in 1849 (and patented an ice-machine in 1850), as the result of experiments to lower the t ...

... New Bake about Shakespeare, 1850), by a poet who says he was vicar of Wimborne; John Gower uses the tale as an example of the seventh deadly sin in the eighth book of his Confessio Amantis;. Robert Copland translated a prose romance of Kynge A pollyne of Thyre ...

... Apology (as expression of regret for a fault) has tipped many a sarcasm besides George III.'s on the occasion of Bishop Watson's book, " I did not know that the Bible needed an apology 1" II. Apologetics in the BibU.—Tbe Old Testament does not argue in support ...

... istoric a (still in MS.), of which an English continuation, by the father of Dr John Arbuthnot, is preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. The praise of the fair sex in the first poem is exceptional in the literature of his age; and its geniality may h ...

... rdness. The precise date of the invention is not known; but in 1767 he employed John Kay, a watchmaker at Warrington, to assist him in the preparation of the parts of his machine, and he took out a patent for it in 1769. The first model was set up in the parlo ...

... e county was made shire ground in 1586, and called Armagh after the city by Sir John Perrott. When James I. proceeded to plant with English and Scottish colonists the vast tracts escheated to the crown in Ulster, the whole of the arable and pasture land in Arm ...

... rst trained as a silversmith, and achieved the highest excellence with the " St George's Vase " and the " Outram Shield." He rose to the front rank among contemporary sculptors, his chief works being the external sculptural decorations of the colonial office i ...

... taken out of his Closet out never published in his Lifetime (1660). ARMSTRONG, JOHN (1700-1779), British physician and writer, was born about 1709 at Castletown, Roxburghshire, where his father was parish minister. He graduated M.D. (1732) at Edinburgh Univer ...

... the ranks of the Conservative opponents of the growing Radical party which Sir George Grey, Sir Robert Stout and John Batlance led in succession. It was he who was mainly responsible for the abolition of the provinces into which the colony was divided from 18 ...

... as founded, he was instituted as one of the first founders, and his stall in St George's chapel, Windsor, was the eleventh on the side of Edward, the Black Prince. He appears to have served in France in 1346, and in August 1350 took part in the naval fight off ...

... church General Leonidas Polk is buried; and in the churchyard are the graves of George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of George Washington, and of William Longstreet, the inventor. Among the city's principal buildings are the Federal building, the Richmond count ...

... irst observed the flash of light when a Leyden jar is discharged, and he and Dr John Bevis (1695-1771) suggested coating the jar inside and outside with tinfoil. Watson carried out elaborate experiments to discover how far the electric discharge of the jar cou ...

ELKINGTON, GEORGE RICHARDS (1801-1865), founder of the electroplating industry in England, was born in Birmingham on the 1 7th of October 1801, the son of a spectacle manufacturer. Apprenticed to his uncle?, silver platers in Birmingham, he became, on their de ...

... " His favourite reading was poetry and mystical philosophy: Shakespeare, Dante, George Herbert. Goethe, Berkeley, Coleridge, Swedenborg, Jakob Boehme. Plato, the new Pktonists, and the religious books of the East (in translation). Next to these he valued books ...

... e of the C>isuariid>ir is the species named by Linnaeus Slmtkio camariiu and by John Latham Casuarius emru. Vicillot subsequently called it C. golf at us, and his epithet has been very commonly adopted by writers, to the exclusion of the older specific appella ...

... descent from an equerry of Charles II., but were reduced in circumstances, when JOHN EPPS rose to prosperity as a provision merchant in London, and restored the family fortunes. He had four sons, of whom JOHN EPPS (1805-1869), GEORGE

... d, and used the interval to spend two or three months at Oxford, where he found John Colet lecturing on the Epistle to the Romans. Discussions between them on theological questions soon convinced Colet of Erasmus' worth, and he sought to persuade him to stay a ...

... sion was the disputation at Heidelberg (i 568) for the doctorate of theology by George Wither or Withers, an English Puritan (subsequently archdeacon of Colchester), silenced (1565) at Bury St Edmunds ERATOSTHENES— ERBIUM by Archbishop Parker. Withers had prop ...