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	WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His father, Andrew Spottiswoode, who was descended from an ancient Scottish family, represented Colchester in parliament for some years, and in 1831 became junior partner in the firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, printers.
		William was educated at Laleham, Eton, Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.
		In 1856 Spottiswoode travelled in eastern Russia, and in 1860 in Croatia and Hungary; of the former expedition he has left an interesting record entitled A Tarantasse Journey through Eastern Russia in the Autumn of 1856 (London, 1857).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SP/SPOTTISWOODE_WILLIAM.htm (658 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (William N-William S) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Richard Morris Nuffield was a British industrialist and philanthropist.
		William Parsons, the third earl of Rosse, was an English astronomer.
		William Penn was an English quaker and the founder of Pennsylvania.
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	The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (W-Z)
		William Alexander Bustamante was the Prime Minister of Jamaica on its independance from Britain, from 1962 to 1967.
		William Elphinstone was a Scottish prelate and statesman.
		William II (William Rufus) was a son of William The Conqueror and King of England from 1087 to 1100.
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	SPOTISWOOD or SPOTSWOOD), JOHN SPOTTISWOODE (SPOTTISWOOD - LoveToKnow Article on SPOTISWOOD or SPOTSWOOD), JOHN ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		(SPOTTISWOOD, SPOTISWOOD or SPOTSWOOD), JOHN (1565-1639), archbishop of St Andrews and historian of Scotland, eldest son of John Spottiswood, minister of Calder and " superintendent " of Lothian, was born in 1565.
		Spottiswoode published in 1620 Rcfutatio libdli de regiminl ecclesiae scoticanae, an answer to a tract of Calderwood, who replied in the Vindiciae subjoined to his Altare damascenum, (1623).
		Spottiswoode married Rachel, daughter of David Lindsay, bishop of Ross, and besides a daughter left two sons, Sir John Spottiswoode of Dairsie in Fife, and Sir Robert, president of the Court of Session, who was captured at the battle of Philiphaugh in 1645 and executed in 1646.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SP/SPOTTISWOODE_SPOTTISWOOD_SPOTISWOOD_or_SPOTSWOOD_JOHN.htm (480 words)

	William Marshall
		William Marshal was the epitome of knighthood and chivalry.
		William Marshal was the main force and impetus for the defeat of Philip II of France, even leading the attack to relieve Lincoln castle in May 1217 though he was seventy years old.
		William Marshal was a man who lived his life according to his sense of honour, and his sense of honour was defined in the laws and customs of feudalism and knighthood.
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	Spottiswoode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Spottiswoode's father was Andrew Spottiswoode, a member of the printing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, the Queen's printers, and he was related to John Spottiswoode who was archbishop of St Andrews.
		William's mother, Mary Longman, was the daughter of the publisher Thomas Longman.
		Certainly Spottiswoode was always a keen traveller and he visited a number of countries which were certainly somewhat unusual for the period.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Spottiswoode.html (1291 words)

	AboutDarwin.com - People of Note
		In 1853 Spottiswoode was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and was elected president of the Society in 1878.
		Spottiswoode was one of the Pall-bearers at the funeral and was himself buried in Westminster.
		Darwin, together with Huxley, Hooker and Spottiswoode, urged Prime Minister Gladstone put forward a proposal before Parliament to provide Wallace with a pension of £200 a year, and this was granted.
	www.aboutdarwin.com /people/people_01.html (7956 words)

	William Spottiswoode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Spottiswoode (January 11 1825, London - June 27 1883)was an English mathematician and physicist.
		His father, Andrew Spottiswoode, who was descended from an ancient Scottish family, represented Colchester in parliament for some years, and in 1831 became junior partner in the firm of Eyre & Spottiswoode, printers.
		His bent for science showed itself while he was still a schoolboy, and indeed his removal from Eton to Harrow is said to have been occasioned by an accidental explosion which occurred whilst he was performing an experiment for his own amusement.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/william_spottiswoode (708 words)

	The Hopkirks (Page193.html)
		William died at Gattonside on 18th June 1854 at the age of 73 and was buried at Melrose on 20th June 1854.
		William Senior was active in local and State politics and after serving his community in various public offices was elected to the General Assembly of Iowa in 1870, being re-elected for three consecutive terms.
		William and John were possibly joined in Iowa by their elder brother James but we know little about him and he was certainly in Scotland in 1841 where he died prematurely, of smallpox, at the age of 34..
	www.hopkirk.org /hopkirk/Page193.html (17842 words)

	Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives - People Buried or Commemorated - William Spottiswood
		William (l825-l883) was a descendant of John, Archbishop of St Andrews, and was the son of Andrew Spottiswoode, partner in the publishing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, queen’s printers, and Mary daughter of Thomas N.Longman, publisher.
		He died of typhoid fever in l883 and was buried in the South Transept of the Abbey not far from the grave of his ancestor John.
		In addition, John Spottiswood the younger has an entry in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /library/burial/w_spottiswood.htm (217 words)

	Mathematics at Balliol: Victorian
		After graduating William Spottiswoode took over the family printing house, but continued to take an active interest in mathematics and physics.
		His main contributions were to geometry, optics, and electricity (particularly electrical discharge in rarified gases), but an 1861 paper On typical mountain ranges: an application of the calculus of probabilities to physical geography, which attempted to use statistical methods to distinguish between competing geological theories, was apparently the inspiration for Francis Galton's work on statistics.
		Spottiswoode was also renowned for his interest in linguistics and oriental languages.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~kch/ballmath/victorian.html (996 words)

	Presidential Address to the Royal Society 1883 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Spottiswoode's untimely death we lost, at the ripe old age of ninety, a very distinguished Fellow and former President of this Society, Sir Edward Sabine.
		Smith whether he was more remarkable as a man of affairs, of society, of letters, or of science; but it is certain that the scientific facet of his brilliant intelligence was altogether directed towards those intelligible forms which people the most ethereal regions of abstract knowledge.
		In Sir William Siemens, who but the other day was suddenly snatched from among us, we had a no less marked example of vast energy, large scientific acquirements, and intellectual powers of a high order, no less completely devoted, in the main, to the application of science to industry.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /huxley/UnColl/Nature/RS83.html (3335 words)

	Timetemple History Shrine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simpson, William S. Report at large of the trial of Charles de Reinhard, for murder (committed in the Indian Territories) at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held at Quebec, May 1818: To which is annexed, a summary of Archibald M'Lellan's, indicted as an accessary [sic].
		Thomas, William H. Journal of a Voyage from St. Louis, LA. to the Mandan Village.
		Williams, William H. Manitoba and the North-West: Journal of a trip from Toronto to the Rocky Mountains, via Lake Superior, Thunder Bay, Rat Portage, Winnipeg, Qu'Appelle, Prince Albert, Battleford, Fort Calgary and Fort McLeod, and return via Edmonton, Touchwood Hills, etc.
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	Chapter 4—Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William apparently became convinced of the alignment problem on the night of 11 March, and remarked casually in his notebook entry that "this state of adjustment is satisfactory for comparison of nebulae, and can be allowed for."
		William's constant references in his published papers to the care and accuracy of his observations were underscored by his use of four significant digits in reporting his results.
		Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) was married to the physicist, William Ayrton.
	eee.uci.edu /clients/bjbecker/huggins/ch4b.html (9480 words)

	all things William
		The history of science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interest on the other.
		The very fact that the subject was so generally familiar, and yet so little was accurately known about it, made it the more enticing; there were plenty of descriptions from which to choose, and yet most of them were so hazy that their support could be claimed for many varying theories.
		For wide and various as their subjects are, it will be found that they have all certain principles, maxims, and rules of procedure in common; and thus may reflect light upon each other by being treated together.
	allthingswilliam.com /science.html (4705 words)

	BSHM: Gazetteer -- Oxford Individuals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William of Ockham was a student of Duns Scotus [Headlam, pp.
		William Petty (1623 1687) was Vice Principal of Brasenose from 1651 and his rooms, now 106 High Street, were a gathering place in 1652 for the Oxford scientists who became the Royal Society.
		William Spottiswoode was a lecturer in mathematics at Balliol.
	www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /bshm/zingaz/OxfordPeople.html (8579 words)

	Manuscripts Guide -- H
		William John Hamilton (1805-1867) English geologist and eldest son of the famed antiquarian and purchaser of the Rosetta Stone, William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), studied at the University of Goettingen from 1825-1827.
		Letters of William Hewson, Mary Stevenson Hewson, Thomas Tickell Hewson, chiefly to members of the family on personal affairs; transcript of a draft of William Hewson's account of his quarrel with Dr. William Hunter; letter of Barbeu Dubourg to Mary Stevenson Hewson.
		Hinshaw and his collaborator, William H. Feldman, were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1952, but lost out to their colleague, Selman A. Waksman, who first extracted streptomycin in the laboratory.
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	Chapter 4—Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The historical figure of William Huggins, crafted in part by Margaret Huggins herself, has loomed large in retrospectives on the origins of what came to be known as astrophysics.
		Ogilvie has pointed out that because the Hugginses' joint published papers are written principally in William's voice, reliance on these documents alone to determine how the work, particularly that done in the midst of active observation, was divided between them, yields a limited picture of Margaret's contributions.
		William Huggins recorded observations on 51 occasions in 1866, 56 in 1867, 51 in 1868, 6 in 1869, and 3 in 1870.
	eee.uci.edu /clients/bjbecker/huggins/ch4.html (7364 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: General Information (X-Y) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		You Must Be The Husband was produced by the BBC and ran from 1988 to 1990.
		The Young And The Restless is an American dramatic television soap opera created by Lee Philip Bell and William J Bell and first aired in 1973.
		The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is a Christian organisation for young men and, since 1971, for young women, founded in 1844 by George Williams.
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	SULAIR: British & Commonwealth Literary Studies
		A remarkable collection of Reports and pamphlets in two volumes by William Haywood, Engineer and Surveyor to the Commissioners of Sewers and Henry Letheby, Medical Officer of Health for the City of London.
		In 1846 William Haywood at the age of twenty-four, a man of considerable abilities, was appointed full time surveyor to the Commissioners of Sewers.
		MAIN DRAINAGE OF LONDON and the purification of the Thames by William Joseph Dibdin.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/britlit/brcatalog.html (11677 words)

	William Spottiswoode Trevor, V.C.
		William Spottiswoode Trevor, V.C. Thomas Trevor Trevor, Ll.B Ll.D. Elizabeth Briggs
		William Spottiswoode Trevor, V.C. Born: 9 Oct 1831, India
		William married Eliza Ann Fisher, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, in 1858 in India.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /ivorjackson/1031.htm (94 words)

	Columbia University Health Sciences Library: Archives & Special Collections, Finding Aids, Auchincloss Florence ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		C-41. 30 Old Burlington St., July 6, 1858, letter to [Dr. Charles J.B. Williams] stating that "we" [meaning the troops and her] have business that night12 mo, 3 p, ALS.
		C-55. 30 Old Burlington St., June 12, 1860, letter to William Coltman, in which she tells of her knowledge of the distress of the Spitalfield12mo, 5p, ALS.
		Letter saying that as President of the Red Cross of America, he has the honor of sending her a copy of the resolution recently adopted by the Executive Committee of the American Organization8vo, 1p, TLS.
	library.cpmc.columbia.edu /hsl/archives/findingaids/nightingaletitles.html (9440 words)

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		At the same time the shock received by touching the iron is sufficient to be unpleasant, and hence is some protection against the conductor being tampered with.
		William Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society, was born in London, Jan. 11, 1825.
		Spottiswoode has held, and of the honors that have been bestowed upon him: Treasurer of the British Association from 1861 to 1874, of the Royal Institution from 1865 to 1873, and of the Royal Society from 1871 to 1878.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15417/15417.txt (19224 words)

	List of Victoria Cross recipients by Name - T - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles William Train — 1917; Air Karim, Palestine
		William Bernard Traynor — 1901; Bothwell Camp, South Africa
		Richard Ernest William Turner — 1900; Komati River, South Africa
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Victoria_Cross_recipients_by_Name_-_T (270 words)

	BSHM: Gazetteer -- LONDON People S-Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Spottiswoode (1825-1883) was a mathematical physicist, but had to run the family printing firm - Printer to the Crown.
		William Sturgeon (1783-1850), after service in the Artillery, set up as a shoemaker at 8 Artillery Place, Woolwich, in 1820.
		Wren made some conversions to St. Stephen's Chapel in the Houses of Parliament, the seat of the Commons, in the early 18C, after the Commons became overcrowded with the advent of 47 Scottish MPs in 1707.
	www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /bshm/zingaz/LondonPeopleS.html (5206 words)

	Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives - People Buried or Commemorated - Charles Darwin
		The body lay overnight in the Abbey, in the small chapel of St Faith, and on the morning of 26 April the coffin was escorted by the family and eminent mourners into the Abbey.
		The pall-bearers included Sir Joseph Hooker, Alfred Russel Wallace, James Russell Lowell (U.S. Ambassador), and William Spottiswoode (President of the Royal Society).
		The burial service was held in the Lantern, conducted by Canon Prothero, with anthems sung by the choir.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /library/burial/darwin.htm (349 words)

	Reviews 47:1
		Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, 2003.
		THIS ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS was selected from lectures delivered at four conferences in 1999 on “Oscar Wilde and the Culture of the Fin de Siècle” at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.
		The periodical also published writings of William Archer (a noted translator of Ibsen), Clement Scott (an attacker of Ibsen), and Bernard Shaw (a reviewer of such works as The Mikado and A Doll’s House).
	www.uncg.edu /eng/elt/rev471.htm (2446 words)

	Cambridge University Library Online
		The Eyre correspondence complements both the Thornton papers, and also the papers of William Smith MP and his family (Add.
		Elizabeth's papers include many lengthy letters from her brother, and a similar number from her sister Maria, who made an unhappy marriage to the ultimately-bankrupted MP Robert Thornton.
		George Edward Eyre's correspondence includes a series of letters from his father advising him upon his studies at Oriel College, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn during the 1820s, and also letters from his business partner William Spottiswoode relating to the fortunes of the publishing firm Eyre and Spottiswoode during the 1840s and 1850s.
	www.lib.cam.ac.uk /MSS/Eyre.html (363 words)

	Sir Francis Galton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I will then turn to his use quantitative data and his development of the statistical tools of regression and correlation analysis.
		Galton learned about the normal distribution from his friend, the mathematician William Spottiswoode.
		He immediately recognized "the far-reaching application of that extraordinarily beautiful law which I fully apprehended." Galton familiarized himself with the work of Adolph Quetelet, the Astronomer Royal of Belgium, who was actually the first person to apply the normal distribution to social statistics.
	www.academicpress.com /refer/measure/Outlines/galton.htm (353 words)

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