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	Charles Waterton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waterton had his hair cut in a crew cut at a time when a full head of hair piled up or brushed forward was in style.
		Anne died a year later during childbirth, for which Waterton blamed himself and thereafter he is reputed to have slept on the floor as a penance with a block of wood for a pillow.
		Waterton Lakes, now a national park in Alberta, Canada, was named for Charles Waterton by Thomas Blakiston in 1858.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Waterton (608 words)

	Walton, Wakefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1722, Charles Waterton, the grandfather of Squire Charles Waterton, granted a lease for 199 years, at a pepper-corn rent, of two cottages in the village to be used as a school and dwelling for a schoolmaster, provided that two poor children from the village were taught free of charge.
		In 1767, Thomas Waterton, demolished the original Walton Hall and caused the present large Georgian mansion to be built in its place.
		Under the porch is a life-sized otter with a pike in its mouth, the crest of the Watertons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walton,_West_Yorkshire (3436 words)

	Charles Waterton
		The main object of his first journey was to collect as large a quantity as possible of the deadly "wourali" poison, which induces immediate and profound quiescence, and would therefore, it was hoped, prove a specific against the tetanus of hydrophobia.
		That result has not been attained; however, Waterton's experiments with the poison proved that its deadly effects could be neutralized by keeping up artificial respiration during the period of its activity.
		In 1829, five years after his last expedition, Waterton married the daughter of an old Demerara friend, who, however died with a year, leaving him with one child, a boy, well known later on as an antiquary.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/w/waterton,charles.html (898 words)

	Improbable Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Waterton, known to all as the Squire of Walton Hall, was a dedicated ascetic and an even more dedicated climber: One famous story recounts his ascent of the dome of St. Peter's in Rome, where he left his gloves on top of the lightning conductor.
		Waterton was a field naturalist par excellence and one of the first to convert land to the sole purpose of a wildlife sanctuary.
		Waterton had an absolute faith in bloodletting as the best way to treat all ills (the Rev. Wood describes Waterton's self-medication regimen as consisting solely of "the lancet and calomel," and suggests that Waterton had tapped the claret so much that none but a starving vampire bat would be interested.).
	www.improb.com /airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i6/waterton-6-6.html (1154 words)

	www.wakefield.gov.uk: Charles Waterton (1782 - 1865) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Waterton's interest in wildlife seems to have started when he travelled to Guyana and Brazil where he saw exotic species such as chameleons, lemurs, sunbirds and alligators.
		As well as having an enlightened approach to wildlife conservation Waterton was ahead of his time in that he allowed the local villagers access to his estate to walk and to picnic.
		After 14 generations of Waterton's living in Walton Hall it was sold in 1877 to the chemical and soap works owner, Edward 'Soapy' Simpson, an old adversary of Charles Waterton's.
	www.wakefield.gov.uk /CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/Highlights/People/CharlesWaterton (494 words)

	Waterton Lakes National Park
		This Waterton Lakes Virtual Field Trip is one in a series of virtual field trips of southern Alberta.
		Waterton Lakes National Park is located right on the United States-Canada border in the southwest corner of Alberta and forms one half of the world's first International Peace Park.
		Waterton serves as a wildlife refuge as the landscape has been protected from the ravages of industry, logging, mining, oil and gas exploration and ranching.
	www.uleth.ca /vft/waterton (818 words)

	Park History Part 1, Refence Section, Waterton Park, Alberta
		Waterton was the first naturalist to establish a sanctuary for wild birds.
		Charles Waterton was also known as an intriguing eccentric.
		Waterton once climbed to the top of St. Peter's in Rome and left his gloves on the lightning-rod as a token of his visit.
	www.watertoninfo.ab.ca /r/history.html (3748 words)

	PyroManiac: Monday Menagerie XVII
		Waterton was born at Walton Hall, in West Yorkshire, on June 3, 1782.
		Charles Waterton was nonetheless a likeable man with a lively sense of humor and a roguish wit.
		Charles was burdened with guilt related to his wife's death, and from that time on, he used a wooden block as a pillow, apparently as a form of penance.
	phillipjohnson.blogspot.com /2005/09/monday-menagerie-xvii.html (2348 words)

	Charles Waterton
		Some feel that Waterton's later move to build a wall around his estate was as much a continuation of this defensive psychology as it was in the interest of the wildlife it protected.
		Waterton covered his estate in traps for these rats and left poisoned treats around their haunts so that he could watch them die.
		Waterton and his friend's demanded to know what was meant by the word "popery", but when the visiting speaker attempted to reply he was immediately cut short...
	www.staustins.co.uk /waterton2.html (766 words)

	Historic-Trail-5
		Charles Waterton was a pioneering naturalist who as a young man explored the tropical forests of South America and observed the richness of their natural history.
		Waterton's description of how he jumped onto the cayman and rode it to the shore made certain that his later book received plenty of attention and increased his reputation for eccentric behaviour.
		Waterton wrote that one of the main aims of his journey in 1812 was "to collect a quantity of the strongest wourali poison".
	www.ourheritage.net /digests/historic-trails-5.html (919 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Charles Waterton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A nature reserve (natural reserve, nature preserve, natural preserve) is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.
		A range of colourful stories have been handed down about Charles Waterton, not all of which are verifiable, but which add up to a popular portrait of an archetypal aristocratic eccentric: Archetype is defined as the first original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated.
		Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Waterton (1446 words)

	Parks Canada - Waterton Lakes National Parks of Canada - Visitor Information
		Waterton was Canada's 4th national park, the smallest in the Canadian Rockies.
		The first major step toward preservation of Waterton was taken by a Pincher Creek rancher, F.W. Godsal, who sent a proposal to Ottawa in 1893 recommending that the Waterton Lakes area be set aside as a national park.
		Waterton has many chinooks, which contribute to it being one of Alberta's warmest areas in winter (about 28 winter days with temperatures of 2.5 C and above).
	www.pc.gc.ca /pn-np/ab/waterton/intro_E.asp (1160 words)

	Historic-Trails-8
		A series of court cases between Waterton and Simpson, owner of the soapworks, were contested between 1847 and 1850 and, as a result, the soap works was eventually moved to Thornes, south of Wakefield.
		Today, as a result of environmental interest worldwide there is renewed interest in Waterton and his contributions The world's first nature reserve in view of the fact that it was developed in the world's first industrial area, should be getting more and more attention as time goes on.
		Waterton's most famous book was Wanderings in South America which he published in 1825 and has been in print most of the time since then.
	www.ourheritage.net /Digests/historic-trails-8.html (802 words)

	The Nondescript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Charles Waterton, a famous English eccentric and naturalist, returned to England in 1821 from an expedition to Guiana, he had with him hundreds of specimens of South American wildlife, carefully stuffed and preserved.
		Lushington took one look at the exotic specimens that Waterton had piled up in crates and decided that a hefty fee should be paid for their importation.
		Waterton claimed that he had encountered and killed this man-like creature in the jungles of Guiana.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /photos/nondescript.html (386 words)

	Access Alberta - Waterton Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Waterton Lakes were named after British naturalist Charles Waterton by Lieutenant Thomas Blakiston of the Palliser Expedition.
		Waterton Lakes National Park was founded at the turn of the 20th century.
		The legendary John George (Kootenai) Brown - a buffalo hunter, whiskey trader, trapper, and soldier of the American West, settled in the region in the late 1880's and began lobbying for the establishment of the Park.
	www.access-adventures.com /ab/ct/watertpk.htm (364 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was once the world's first nature reserve- Charles Waterton who lived at the Hall- which stands on an island- built a wall round the grounds to create a sanctuary for varied wildlife.
		Waterton led a simple life: He would get up at 4am and pray for an hour: he went to bed early and rose at midnight to pray for a while.
		Waterton was buried between two oak trees at the end of the lake, marked with a simple cross An inscription at the bottom, in Latin, reads: "Pray for the soul of Charles Waterton, whose tired bones lie near here".
	www.peterpaul.org.uk /newpage1.htm (419 words)

	George Ord Collection, American Philosophical Society
		The collection is primarily comprised of outgoing correspondence from Ord to Charles Waterton between 1831 and 1864, regarding fellow ornithologists, his everyday activities, and his personal affairs.
		Through his correspondence with Waterton a clear picture is drawn of his close but at times distant relationship with Charles Lucien Bonaparte, an influential ornithologist and nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.
		Ord's correspondence with Charles Waterton was acquired in 1942 and 1975.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/o/ord.htm (1293 words)

	BBC - Bradford and West Yorkshire - A Sense of Place - Walton
		Charles Waterton was born in 1782 and died in 1865
		Walton Hall, near Wakefield, was the home to Charles Waterton, a naturalist who in the early nineteenth century travelled the world collecting rare species and, on his return, created the world's first nature reserve here in West Yorkshire.
		It is said that Waterton once climbed to the top of St Peter's in Rome and it is known that he continued to climb trees right up to his death in 1865.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bradford/sense_of_place/walton_1.shtml (581 words)

	The Perpetrator at Piltdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On December 18, 1912, Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith Woodward announced to the Geological Society of London and the world the discovery of the remains of an early human fossil, Eoanthropus dawsoni.
		Waterton actually had taken the head and shoulders of a red howler monkey and shaped its facial features to give it a humanoid appearance.
		Another of Waterton's typical whimsies was to combine the parts of two entirely different animals into a single creature, something one of his biographers categorized as a "taxidermic frolic".
	home.tiac.net /~cri_a/piltdown/winslow.html (4734 words)

	History of Waterton Lakes National Park
		Waterton Lakes National Park's human history dates back over 10,000 years, yet of the more than 250 discovered archaeological sites, very few are ancient.
		They were the ancestors of two separate cultures who later frequented the Waterton Park area - the mountain/interior plateau culture (Upper Kutenai) and the plains culture (the Blackfoot).
		After the resolution of the border dispute between British North America and the New Americas (See Waterton Lakes National Park-Glacier National Park International Peace Park and its Border), Britain was anxious to discover new agricultural lands in the west and a route through the mountains to the Pacific coast.
	www.watertonpark.com /reference/history.htm (3666 words)

	Charles Waterton
		The Waterton family tree can be traced back to the Norman invasion, although the name itself was not adopted until 1160.
		Therefore Robert Waterton lost his estate in Lincolnshire and moved to Walton where he was subject to the restrictions placed on all Catholics of the age.
		Indeed Charles seems to have had some inclination to the priesthood, a calling which he denied himself because he saw it as being his duty to continue the family line.
	www.staustins.co.uk /waterton1.html (338 words)

	Charles Waterton - Autobiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It emigrated into Yorkshire from Waterton in the island of Axeholme in Lincolnshire, where it had been for a very long time.
		Sir Robert Waterton was Governor of Pontefract Castle, and had charge of King Richard II.
		Sir Hugh Waterton was executor to his Sovereign's will, and guardian to his daughters.
	www.overtown.sgt.btinternet.co.uk /cw/Charles_Waterton/autobiography.htm (789 words)

	Best Western Waterton Park Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Waterton Park Hotel is set within the grounds of the historic Walton Hall, a beautiful Georgian Mansion on an island surrounded by a 26 acre lake, accessible only by a picturesque iron bridge.
		Walton Hall is famous not only locally but throughout the world as the home of Charles Waterton, the famous naturalist who died in 1865.
		Walton Hall was built by Charles Waterton's father in the eighteenth century.
	www.watertonparkhotel.co.uk /History.asp (136 words)

	Charles Waterton
		WATERTON, Charles, English naturalist, born at Walton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, 3 June, 1782; died there, 27 May, 1865.
		In 1804 he went to Demerara to superintend the estates of an uncle, and travelled through the interior of the country, noting its fauna, flora, and scenery.
		The frequent journeys that he afterward made to Belgium and Italy, with his home-life at Walton Hall, are described in the autobiography prefixed to his " Essays on Natural History, chiefly Ornithology" (3 vols., 1838-'44; new ed., with a continuation of the life, by Norman Moore, based entirely upon autobiographical notes, 1871).
	www.famousamericans.net /charleswaterton (565 words)

	Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle.
		Charles Darwin considered Alexander von Humboldt to be the greatest scientific traveller ever to have lived.
		Charles Waterton originally published his account of his South American voyage in 1825, and the text here is based on the 1879 edition.
	www.sotherans.co.uk /Catalogues/Occasional/Darwin.html (6310 words)

	Waterton Lakes National Park - History
		The abundant fish of the Waterton Lakes gave their diet variety, and they used the mountain passes to travel farther afield.
		A joint commission was established to mark the boundary from Lake of the Woods to Waterton.
		Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada and the United States Glacier National Park united to form the world's first International Peace Park in 1932.
	www.canadianparks.com /alberta/waternp/page2.html (620 words)

	Charles Waterton: A Biography / B.W. Edginton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Waterton wrote three volumes of Essays on Natural History and the best-selling Wanderings in South America, which has never been out of print since the first publication in 1825.
		In the centenary year of the Canadian national park which is named after him, the life of Charles Waterton should encourage the preservation of what remains of his kind of world, and remind us of what the world has lost to insensitivity and greed.
		He first became interested in Charles Waterton in the late 1970s, whilst researching a short history of nature conservation and intellectual anti-nature, a very unpleasant exegesis of which he is now planning to write.
	www.lutterworth.com /lp/titles/charlesw.htm (409 words)

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		Charles Dawson, left, discoverer of Piltdown Man, became the prime suspect in the hoax in 1953.
		Because of the beast's burdensome weight, Waterton explained tongue in cheek, he [35] had severed its body and carried only the head and shoulders out of the rain forest and back to England.
		Waterton was long dead and gone by 1912.
	www.clarku.edu /~piltdown/map_prim_suspects/DOYLE/Doyle_prosecution/perp_pilt.html (5649 words)

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