Sir David Lyndsay
Lyndsay, Sir David (c. 1490–c. 1555) , Scottish Poet, Was The Son Of David Lyndsay Of The Mount, Near Cupar-fife, And Of Garmylton, Near Haddington. He Probably Studied At St. Andrews University, On The Books Of Which Appears An Entry "da Lindesay" For The Session 1508-09. He Was Engaged At ...
Sir Edward Baldwin Malet
Malet, Sir Edward Baldwin, 4th Baronet 1908), British Diplomatist, 2nd Son Of Sir Alexander Malet, 2nd Baronet, Was Born At The Hague On Oct. So, 1837. He Was Educated At Eton, And Entered The Diplomatic Service In 1854 At The Age Of 17. He Served As Attache To His Father ...
Sir Francis Leopold 1819
M'clintock, Sir Francis Leopold (1819 1907), British Naval Officer And Arctic Explorer, Was Born At Dun Dalk, Ireland, On July 8, 1819. During The Year 1848 He Joined The Arctic Expedition Under Sir James Ross In Search Of Sir John Franklin's Ships, As Second Lieutenant Of The "enterprise." In The ...
Sir George Alexander Macfarren
Macfarren, Sir George Alexander (1813— 1887), English Composer, Was Born In London On March 2, 1813, And Entered The Royal Academy Of Music In 1829. His Chevy Chase Overture Was Written As Early As 1836, And In A Single Night. In 1837 Macfarren Was Appointed A Professor At The Academy, ...
Sir George Mackenzie
Mackenzie, Sir George Of Rose Haugh, Scottish Lawyer, The Grandson Of Kenneth, First Lord Mac Kenzie Of Kintail. He Was Born At Dundee In 1636, Educated At The Grammar School There, At Aberdeen, At St. Andrews And Bourges. He Was Called To The Bar In 1659. He Succeeded Sir John ...
Sir Henry James Sumner
Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner (1822-1888), English Comparative Jurist And Historian, Son Of Dr. James Maine, Of Kelso, Roxburghshire, Was Born On Aug. 15, 1822. He Was Educated At Christ's Hospital And Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1847 He Was Appointed Regius Professor Of Civil Law, And He Was Called To ...
Sir James Mackintosh
Mackintosh, Sir James ( , Scottish Publicist, Was Born At Aldourie On Oct. 24, 1765, And Was Edu Cated At Aberdeen And At Edinburgh, Where He Took His Degree In Medicine In 1787. In 1788 He Removed To London, And Becoming Interested In Politics, In 1791 Published His Vindiciae Gallicae, ...
Sir John 1769 1833 Malcolm
Malcolm, Sir John (1769-1833), Anglo-indian Soldier, Diplomatist, Administrator And Author, Was Born In Dumfriesshire, Scotland, On May 2, 1769, The Son Of A Farmer. He Received A Cadetship In The Indian Army, And In April 1783 He Landed At Madras, Shortly Afterwards Joining His Regiment At Vellore. He Held Various ...
Sir John Alexander 1815
Macdonald, Sir John Alexander (1815 1891), First Premier Of The Dominion Of Canada, Was Born In Glasgow On Jan. Ii, 1815, The Third Child Of Hugh Macdonald (d. 1841), A Native Of Sutherlandshire. The Family Emigrated To Canada In 182o, Settling First At Kingston, Ontario. At The Age Of Fifteen ...
Sir Morell 1837 1892 Mackenzie
Mackenzie, Sir Morell (1837-1892), British Phy Sician, Son Of Stephen Mackenzie, Surgeon (d. 1851), Was Born At Leytonstone, Essex, On July 7, 1837. He Studied At The London Hospital, At Paris, Vienna And Pesth, Where He Learnt The Use Of The Newly-invented Laryngoscope Under J. N. Czermak. In 1862 He ...
Sir Richard Lord Lethington
Maitland, Sir Richard (lord Lethington) (1496-1586), Scottish Lawyer, Poet And Collector Of Scottish Verse, Son Of Sir William Maitland Of Lethington And Thirlestane, Who Fell At Flodden, Studied Law At The University Of St. Andrews, And Afterwards In Paris. Hic Castle At Lethington Was Burnt By The English In 1549. ...
Sir Robert John Le
M'clure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier (1807-1873), English Arctic Explorer, Born At Wexford, Ireland, On Jan. 28, 1807, The Posthumous Son Of One Of Abercrombie's Captains, Served As Mate Of The "terror" In The Expedition (1836– 1837) Commanded By Captain (afterwards Sir) George Back. He Joined The Franklin Search Expedition ...
Sir Thomas Malory
Malory, Sir Thomas (d. 1471), Translator And Com Piler Of The Famous English Classic, The Morte D'arthur. Previous To The Publication Of Professor Kittredge's Monograph, Who Was Sir Thomas Malory? The Identity Of This Writer Remained An Unsolved Problem. Of Direct Evidence We Have Very Little; In The Concluding Passage ...
Sir Walter De Manny
Manny, Sir Walter De Manny, Baron De (d. 1372), Soldier Of Fortune And Founder Of The Charterhouse (q.v.), Was A Native Of Hainaut, From Whose Counts He Claimed Descent. He Was A Patron And Friend Of Froissart, In Whose Chronicles His Exploits Have A Conspicuous And Probably An Exaggerated Place. ...
Sir William Hay Macnaghten
Macnaghten, Sir William Hay, Bart. ( . ,i793— 1841), Anglo-indian Diplomatist, Was The Second Son Of Sir Francis Macnaghten, Bart., Judge Of The Supreme Courts Of Madras And Calcutta. He Went Out To Madras In 1809, And Was Transferred To The Bengal Civil Service In 1816. In 183o He Became ...
Sorley Boy Macdonnell
Macdonnell, Sorley Boy (c. Scot0 Irish Chieftain, Son Of Alexander Macdonnell, Lord Of Islay And Kintyre (cantire), Was Born At Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. From An Ancestor Who Had Married Margaret Bisset, Heiress Of The Dis Trict On The Antrim Coast Known As The Glynns (or Glens), He Inherited A Claim ...
Special Purpose Projections
Special Purpose Projections These Projections Are Devised For Simplicity Of Drawing And Not For Any Special Properties. The Most Useful Projection Of This Class Is The Globular Projection. This Is A Conventional Rep Resentation Of A Hemisphere In Which The Equator And Central Meridian Are Two Equal Straight Lines At ...
St Malachy
Malachy, St. (c. 1094-1148), Otherwise Known As Maol Maodhog (or Maelmaedhog) Ua Morgair, Archbishop Of Armagh And Papal Legate In Ireland, Was Born At Armagh. His Father, An Irish Clergyman, The Fearleighlinn, Or Lector, At The University, Was Said To Have Been Of Noble Family. He Was Vicar Of Arch ...
St Mark
Mark, St., Author Of The Second Gospel. In Acts (xii. 12) We Read Of "john, Whose Surname Was Mark," And Gather That Peter Was A Familiar Visitor At The House Of His Mother Mary A Centre Of Christian Life In Jerusalem. That He Was, As His Roman Surname Suggests, A ...
St Martin
Martin, St. (c. 316-400), Bishop Of Tours, Was Born Of Heathen Parents At Sabaria (stein Am Agger) In Pannonia, About The Year 316. When Ten Years Old He Became A Catechumen, And At 15 He Reluctantly Entered The Army. While Stationed At Amiens He Divided His Cloak With A Beggar, ...
Stephane 1842 1898 Mallarme
Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898), French Poet And Theorist, Was Born At Paris, On March 18, 1842. His Life Was Simple And Without Event. His Small Income As Professor Of English In A French College Was Sufficient For His Needs, And, With His Wife And Daughter, He Divided The Year Between A ...
Terms
Terms). Whether Exogamy Is Genetically Connected With Incest, I.e., Whether It Is An Extension Of The Tabu On Intercourse And Marriage Within The Family, Or An Independent Institution, Is A Debated Question (see Westermarck, H.h.m., Ii., Pp. 192-218; Frazer, Totemism And Exogamy, Vol. Iv., Passim; Malinowski, Sex And Repression In ...
The Evidence Of Fossil
The Evidence Of Fossil Remains Pithecanthropus Erectus.-the Discovery Which Throws Most Light On The Evolutionary Progress Of Man Was Made In Java Dur Ing 1891-92 By Prof. Eugene Dubois, Then A Surgeon In The Col Onial Military Service, And Later Professor Of Geology In The Uni Versity Of Amsterdam. In ...
The Exercise Of Martial
The Exercise Of Martial Law Cockburn, C. J., Was Unquestionably Right In Holding (see His Observations In The Queen V. Nelson, Finlasson's Edition, P. 66) That The Petition Of Right Condemned The Exercise Of Martial Law Against The Subject "under Any Circumstances," Whether In "war" Or In "peace," And Even ...
The Manor In England
The Manor In England The Typical English Manor, If There Be A Recognized Or Definite Type, Is Known To Us Through The Records Of The 13th Century. There Is Much Valuable Material In The Somewhat Cryptic Descrip Tions In The Domesday Survey ; There Are Admirable Pictures Of The Custom ...
The Rise Of The
The Rise Of The Mammalian Orders During The Triassic, Jurassic And Cretaceous, The Fossil Record Of The Mammals Is Meagre ; Later It Is Relatively Abundant ; But Even Then There Are Blank Intervals And Imperfectly Preserved Records. As Many Existing Orders Of Mammals Began To Diverge During The Age ...
Thomas Babington Macau Lay
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macau Lay, Baron (180o-1859), English Historian, Essayist And Poli Tician, Was Born At Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, On Oct. 25, 1800. His Father Zachary Macaulay (1768-1838), Had Been Gov Ernor Of Sierra Leone, And Was In 180o Secretary To The Chartered Company Which Had Founded That Colony; An ...
Thomas Graham Lynedoch
Lynedoch, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron (1748 1843), British General, Was The Son Of Thomas Graeme, Laird Of Balgowan, And Was Born On Oct. 19, 1748. Graham Was Travelling In The Mediterranean When He Fell In With Lord Hood's Fleet On Its Way To Toulon. He Joined It As A Volunteer, ...
Thomas Robert Malthus
Malthus, Thomas Robert English Economist, Was Born In 1766 At The Rookery Near Guildford, Sur Rey, A Small Estate Owned By His Father Daniel Malthus, Who Was A Friend And One Of The Executors Of Rousseau. After Being Pri Vately Educated, Malthus Entered Jesus College, Cambridge, Where He Was A ...
Voyage Of Maelduin Or
Maelduin Or Maeldune, Voyage Of, An Early Irish Romance. The Text Exists In An 1 I Th-century Redaction, By A Certain Aed The Fair, The "chief Sage Of Ireland," But Dates Back To The 8th Century. It Belongs To The Group Of Irish Romance, The Navigations (imrama), Resembling The Classical ...
William 1796 1852 Macgillivray
Macgillivray, William (1796-1852), Scottish Nat Uralist, Was Born On Jan. 25, 1796, At Aberdeen, Where He Studied Medicine At King's College. In 1823 He Became Assistant Professor Of Natural History In Edinburgh And In 1831 Curator Of The Museum Of The Royal College Of Surgeons, A Post Which He Resigned ...
William Charles Imacready
Macready, William Charles ( I ), English Actor, Was Born In London On March 3, 1793, And Edu Cated At Rugby. On June 7, 1810 He Appeared As Romeo At Birmingham. On Sept. 16, 1816, Macready Made His First London Appearance At Covent Garden As Orestes In The Distressed Mother, ...
William Learned Marcy
Marcy, William Learned American Statesman, Was Born In Southbridge, Mass., On Dec. 52, He Graduated At Brown University In 18o8, Studied Law, Was Admitted To The Bar In Troy, N.y., And Began Practice There In 581o. During The War Of 1812 He Served As A Captain Of Volunteers, And Oct. ...
William Lyon Mackenzie
Mackenzie, William Lyon Canadian Politician, Was Born Near Dundee, Scotland, On March 12, 1795. In April 182o He Emigrated With His Mother To Canada. There He Became A General Merchant, First At York, Then At Dundas, And Later At Queenston. The Discontented Condition Of Upper Canada Drew Him Into Politics, ...
William Maitland Maitland Of
Maitland (maitland Of Lethington), William (c. 1528-1573), Scottish Statesman, Eldest Son Of Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586) (q.v.) Was Educated At St. Andrews, And In 1558 Became Secretary Of State To The Regent, Mary Of Lor Raine. In 1559, However, He Threw In His Lot With The Lords Of The Congregation. ...
William Murray Mansfield
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl Of (1705-1793), English Judge, Was Born At Scone In Perthshire, On March 2, 1705, The Son Of The 5th Viscount Stormont. He Was Educated At Perth Grammar School, Westminster School And Christ Church, Oxford. He Was Called To The Bar At Lincoln's Inn In 1730. ...
Zenithal Projections
Zenithal Projections Some Point On The Earth Is Se Lected As The Central Point Of The Map; Great Circles Radiating From This Point Are Represented By Straight Lines Which Are Inclined At Their True Angles At The Point Of Intersection. Distances Along The Radiating Lines Vary According To Any Law ...
So Bc
B.c., So That From The Beginning Of The 3rd Century The Marsians Were In Touch With A Latin-speaking Community, To Say Nothing Of The Latin Colony Of Carsioli (298 B.c.) Farther West. The Earliest Pure Latin Inscriptions Of The District Seem To Be C.i.l. Ix. 3,827 And 3,848 From The ...
The First Battle Of
Marne, The First Battle Of The (sept. 1914), The First Great Turning Point In The World War. A Strategi Cally Decisive Victory For The Allies, It Brought The Rapid And Appar Ently Resistless Advance Of The German Hosts Through Belgium And France To A Halt And Forced Them To Retire ...
The Game Of Mah
Mah Jong, The Game Of, Or Mah Tsiong (sparrows), Has Been Played In China As A Card Game For About Eight Centuries, And Is Said To Be A Striking Example Of The Manner Whereby Historical Or Legendary Events And Characters Became Popularized Throughout The Length And Breadth Of The Celestial ...