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William Rufus Day
William Rufus Day 1849-1923, American statesman and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1903-22), b. Ravenna, Ohio. Admitted (1872) to the bar, Day practiced law in Ohio and served (1886-90) as judge of the court of common pleas. He became (1897) assistant to the Secretary of State and the...
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dragonnades
dragonnades or dragonades , name given to a form of persecution of French Protestants, or Huguenots , before and after the revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes (see Nantes, Edict of ) by Louis XIV. It consisted of harassing the Huguenots by billeting soldiers (particularly the rowdy dragoo...
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National Trust
National Trust British association to preserve for the nation places of natural beauty or buildings of architectural or historic interest in the British Isles; founded 1894, chartered 1895. By act of Parliament (1907) the Trust was empowered to acquire land inalienably and to be exempt from duties ...
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Camisards
Camisards , Protestant peasants of the Cévennes region of France who in 1702 rebelled against the persecutions that followed the revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes (see Nantes, Edict of ). The name was probably given them because of the shirts they wore in night raids. Led by the young...
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Shaphan
Shaphan , in the Bible. 1 Trusted secretary of King Josiah. He was the father of friends of Jeremiah and grandfather of Gedaliah. 2 Father of the idolatrous Jaazaniah.
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Wandsworth
Wandsworth inner borough (1991 pop. 237,500) of Greater London, SE London, on the Thames River. An area along the Thames is industrialized, with gasworks, breweries, and candle and paint manufacture. Wandsworth is a railroad junction with five bridges extending over the Thames. In the 18th cent. th...
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trust
trust in law, arrangement whereby property legally owned by one person is administered for the benefit of another. Three parties are ordinarily needed for the relation to arise: the settlor, who bequeaths or deeds the property for another's benefit; the trustee, in whose hands the control of the pr...
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Pole
Pole English noble family. The first member of importance was William de la Pole, d. 1366, a rich merchant who became the first mayor of Hull (1332) and a baron of the exchequer (1339). His oldest son, Michael de la Pole, 1st earl of Suffolk, 1330?-1389, fought in France in the Hundred Years Wa...
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equity
equity principles of justice originally developed by the English chancellor. In Anglo-American jurisprudence equitable principles and remedies are distinguished from the older system that the common law courts evolved. One of the earliest functions of the king's chaplain (the chancellor) and of t...
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Lisburn
Lisburn , town (1991 pop. 40,391) and district, E Northern Ireland, on the Lagan River. The town's chief industry, linen manufacture, was introduced by the Huguenots after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). Within the district, the Lambeg Industrial Research Association is a major fiber r...
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