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RICHARD FITZALAN (1267-1302), earl of Arundel, was a son of John, lord of Arundel (1246-1272), and a grandson of another John, lord of Arundel, Clun and Oswaldestre (Oswestry), who took a prominent, if somewhat wavering, part in the troubles during the reign o ...

... . On the Sonnenberg (1600 ft.) lie the ruins of the castle of Trifels, in which Richard Cceur de Lion was imprisoned in 1193. The industries include cloth-weaving, tanning, dyeing and saw mills. There is also a considerable trade in wine.

... d to her new husband, who, having suppressed a revolt there, gave it to his son Richard. When Richard died in 1199, it reverted to Eleanor, and on her death five years later, was united to the English crown and henceforward followed the fortunes of the English ...

... uropean character of the Celtic language, which was not established till J. C. Prichard published his book. Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations, in 1831. But he was not destined to live in history as the pioneer of a new philology. In February 1758 a skeleton ...

... England. The modern town dates, however, from the visit of the English voyager, Richard Chancellor, in 1553. An English factory was erected on the lower Dvina soon after that date, and in 1584 a fort was built, around which the town grew up. Archangel was for ...

... al interest attaches to some experiments conducted by John Trowbridge and T. W. Richards, in which the source of power was a secondary battery of 5000 cells. At a pressure of i mm. the red glow of argon was readily obtained with a voltage of 2000, but not with ...

... om the Scottish parliament, he was arrested for debt, though soon liberated. In Richard Cromwell's parliament of 1659 Argyll sat as member for Aberdeenshire. At the Restoration he presented himself at Whitehall, but was at once arrested by order of Charles and ...

ARKWRIGHT, SIR RICHARD (1732-1792), English inventor, was born at Preston in Lancashire, on the 23rd of December 1732, of parents in humble circumstances. He was the youngest of thirteen children, and received but a very indifferent education. After serving hi ...

... n the second half of the i8th century, by the unwearied exertions of Archbishop Richard Robinson, ist Lord Rokeby (1709-1794), which, seconded by similar devotion on the part of succeeding archbishops of the Beresford family, notably Archbishop Lord John Georg ...

... on Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands, on the 3oth of January 1839, his parents, Richard and Clarissa Armstrong, being American missionaries. He was educated at the Punahou school at Punahou, at Oahu College, into which the Punahou school developed in 1853, and ...

... odoxy, but not its over-elaborate style; and it was destructively criticized by Richard Simon, the founder of Biblical criticism in France. On the other hand it undoubtedly did much to popularize the Bible, and was bitterly attacked by the Jesuits on that grou ...

... 12 m. N.N.E. of Jaffa, famous as the scene of a victory of the crusaders under Richard I. of England over the army of Saladin. After the capture of Acre on the i2th of July 1191, the army of the crusaders, under Richard Cceur-de-Lion and the duke of Burgundy, ...

... ences at court. Even up to the present day men of intellectual eminence like Dr Richard Garnett have convinced themselves that astromancy has a foundation of truth, just as there are still believers in chiromancy or other forms of divination. Dr Garnett (" A. ...

... to have been at a time of general athletic revival. We even find his secretary, Richard Pace, advising the sons of noblemen to practise their sports and " leave study and learning to the children of meaner people," and Sir William Forest, in his Poesye of Prin ...

... federate soldiers, and monuments to the Southern poets, Paul Hamilton Hayne and Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847). In commerce and manufacturing, Augusta ranks second among the cities of Georgia. As a centre of trade for the " Cotton Belt," it has a large wholes ...

... e examples had no literary following. In the early i4th century the writings of Richard Rolle and his school attained great popularity. The profound influence which they exercised on later religious thought, and on the development of prose style, has seldom be ...

... the i6th and 1 7th centuries, under the patronage of the earl of Pembroke, Sir Richard Neville, and other influential persons. Amongst these the last of any particular note was one held in Bewper Castle, Glamorgan, by Sir Richard Basset in 1681. During the su ...

... d of D. The names used for the fictitious parties were John Doe, plaintiff, and Richard Roe, defendant, who was called " the casual ejector." The explanation of these mysterious fictions is this. The writ de ejectione firmae was invented about the beginning of ...

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 ...

... but ran away from home and made his first appearance on the stage as Tressel in Richard III. at Bath in 1791. Here he was later seen as Romeo, and in other leading parts, both comic and tragic, and he repeated his successes in London from 1796. He acted at Dru ...

... phy) (Boston, 1887); Edward Waldo Emer-'Mi. Emerson in Concord (Boston, 1889) ; Richard Garnctt, Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (London, 1888); G. E. Woodbcrry, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1907). Critical estimates are also to be found in Matthew Arnold's Discourses in ...

... rtillery and ordnance stores. Henry \ 111. employed many engineers (of whom Sir Richard Lee is the best known) in constructing coast defences from Penzance to the Thames and thence to Berwick-on-Tweed, and in strengthening the fortresses of Calais and Gulnes i ...

... nds through whom he was introduced to William Warham, archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Foxe, bishop of Winchester and other dignitaries. John Fisher (bishop of Rochester), who was then superintending the foundation of Christ's College for the Lady Margaret, t ...

... 1840, he went the northern circuit, and became a Q.C. in 1861. On the death of Richard Cobden he unsuccessfully contested Rochdale as a Conservative, but in 1866 was returned for Helston in unique circumstances. He and his opponent polled exactly the same num ...

... Danish Greenland; its People and its Products (1877); Eskimo Tribes (1887); J. Richardson, Polar Regions (1861), Fridtjof Nansen, Eskimo Lije (1804); R. E. Peary, Northward over the Great Ice, vol. i. appendix ii.; F. Boas, " The Central Eskimo," Sixth Annual ...

... all other differences lose their import " (Anthropology, p. 273). As Dr J. C. Prichard urged, " the same inward and mental nature is to be recognized in all races of men. When we compare this fact with the observations, fully established, as to the specific i ...

... unfinished. Moreover, his son and successor Wenceslaus (1378-1400) proved, like Richard II. of England and Charles VI. of France, unequal to the task of checking the growing independence of the nobles and t he cit ies. The Hanseatic League (?.«.) was at the he ...

... of the Berlin Academy's edition (ed. by Heikel), and an English translation by Richardson in the volume containing McGiffert's translation of the Church History. Gaisford published the Prophetical Extracts (Oxford, 1842), the Praeparatio evangelica (1843), th ...

... is youthful, noble and gentle blank verse. This attained its utmost fineness in Richard II., and its full cordiality and beauty in the other plays that consummate this period — A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and one romantic tragedy, Romeo ...

... cuted for high treason in 1572, and of Lady Mary, daughter and heiress of Henry Fitzalan, I2th earl of Arundel, was born on the 28th of June 1557. He was married in 1571 to Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Dacre, Lord Dacre (1566), and was educated at C ...

... same reign. They seem, however, to have had little effect, for in the reign of Richard II. the same excesses prevailed, apparently in a still greater degree. Another statute was passed in the year 1463 (3 Edw. IV. c. 5) for the regulation of the dress of pers ...

SUTTON, SIR RICHARD (d. c. 1524), the founder, with William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln, of Brasenose College, Oxford, and the first lay founder of any college, is said to have come of a good north-country family, the Suttons of that ilk, near Macclesfield, Chesh ...

TARLTON, RICHARD (d. 1588), English actor, was probably at one time an inn-keeper, but in 1583, when he is mentioned as one of the original company of queen's players, was already an experienced actor. He was Elizabeth's favourite clown, and his talent for imp ...

... 1813. In this battle Tecumseh was killed, as traditionally reported, by Colonel Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, although this has never been fully substantiated. Like Pontiac, whom he doubtless imitated consciously, he had a wonderful eloquence and a power of ...

... t-baggers, supported by United States troops until the inauguration of Governor Richard Coke in 1874. It has since been consistently Democratic. The supremacy of the party was threatened for a time by the growth of Populism, but the danger was avoided by the a ...

... an action by which a grave constitutional question was raised. From the time of Richard II. to the reign of Mary no attempt had been made to raise duties on exports and imports without consent of parliament. But Mary had, under a specious pretext, recommenced ...

... ng der Englischen Volksbiihne zur Elizabeth und Stuart Zeit (Leipzig, 1905); Dr Richard Wegener, Die Buhneneinrichtung des Shakespeareschen Theaters nach dem zeitgenossischen drama (Halle, 1907); George F. Reynolds, Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging (Chic ...

... heineke and Karl Daub. Influences from Hegel are Influence a]so to be traced in Richard Rothe, I. A. Dorner, A. M. In Bag- Fairbairn ; and through the mediation of British philotand. gophers Hegelianism has widely affected British theology. The orthodox wing o ...

... re furnished with five toes carrying long pointed claws. Possibly Platychoerops richardsoni, from the Lower Eocene London Clay, belongs to the group. (R. L.*)

... lips's poetical dramas, and in his splendid revivals of Shakespeare (especially Richard II. and the Merchant of Venice). The magnificence of the mounting, the originality and research shown in the " business " of his productions, and his own versatility in so ...