|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
Davies, Richard
Davies, Richard (c.1501–81). Bishop and scholar. Davies was born in north Wales and educated at New Inn Hall, Oxford. He held livings in Buckinghamshire but, as a reformer, took refuge in Geneva during Mary's reign. At the accession of Elizabeth, Davies was made bishop of St Asaph (1560) and moved in 1561 to St Davids. He was on close terms with both Archbishop Parker and Cecil, advising them on Welsh matters. Davies collaborated closely with William Salesbury in producing the Welsh translation of the New Testament in 1567, parts of which he contributed. But a quarrel between them seems to have left the Old Testament to be translated by William Morgan.
J. A. Cannon |
|
|
Cite this article
JOHN CANNON. "Davies, Richard." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Davies, Richard." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-DaviesRichard.html JOHN CANNON. "Davies, Richard." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-DaviesRichard.html |
|
Lawrence, Richard
Lawrence, Richard (d. c.1684). Lawrence arrived as a colonel in Oliver Cromwell's army. Appointed governor of Waterford, he had the task of settling 1,200 soldiers on forfeited lands in south Leinster. He staunchly defended army interests in print against those, such as Vincent Gookin and William Petty, who opposed the wholesale transplantation of the Irish to Connacht. Receiving little land himself, Lawrence gravitated, like many other discontented officers, from Independency to Baptism. After the Restoration, he abandoned politics for trade, advocating the cultivation of hemp and flax and publishing in 1682 The Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Wealth.
Hiram Morgan |
|
|
Cite this article
"Lawrence, Richard." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Lawrence, Richard." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-LawrenceRichard.html "Lawrence, Richard." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-LawrenceRichard.html |
|
William Trost Richards
William Trost Richards 1833–1905, American painter, b. Philadelphia, studied in Florence, Rome, and Paris, and settled in Germantown, Pa. Early in his career he painted landscapes and still lifes, but a year after buying a house in Newport, R.I. (1866), he turned to marine paintings. His light-struck seascapes, which follow in the tradition of luminism , are highly realistic. His work was long neglected, but interest in it revived in the last decades of the 20th cent. |
|
|
Cite this article
"William Trost Richards." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "William Trost Richards." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-RchrdsW.html "William Trost Richards." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-RchrdsW.html |
|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries:
HighBeam™ Research, Inc. © Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
The Encyclopedia.com advertising network includes:
