 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 532 pages
...in 1738, and educated at Christchurch, Oxford, where he was created MA Feb. 1, 1757. He afterwards travelled for some time on the continent, and on his return was elected MP for Weobly, but in 1762 was called up to the house of peers on the death of his father.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...in 1738, and educated at Christchurch, Oxford, where he was created MA Feb. 1, 1757. He afterwards travelled for some time on the continent, and on his return was elected MP for Weobly, but in 1762 was called up to the house of peers on the death of his father.... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 312 pages
...at Exeter College, in Oxford, where he became a gentleman commoner on the twenty-fifth of May, l647> and was " accounted," •says Wood, " by his contemporaries...ancient affection, however, of his native county to his name and family, opened new prospects to him. The borough of Totnes elected him to serve in the Parliament... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 580 pages
...MONCKTON, an English poet, was born in Yorkshire, about the year 1806. After graduating at Cambridge, he travelled for some time on the continent, and, on his return to England, was elected member of parliament for the borough of Pontefract He has always voted with... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 1182 pages
...MONCKTON, an English poet, was born in Yorkshire, about the year 1806. After graduating at Cambridge, he travelled for some time on the continent, and, on his return to England, was elected member of parliament for the borough of Pontefract He has always voted with... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1858 - 1022 pages
...the zeal and success with which ho pursued his mathematical studies. After leaving the University, he travelled for some time on the Continent, and on his return practised at the Bar in the city of Edinburgh until 1807, when ho removed to London and was called... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...COOPER, the third Earl of Shaflesbury, was born in London, in 1671. After a careful private education, he travelled for some time on the continent, and on his return to England, in 1693, entered the House of Commons. Five years afterwards he repaired to Holland, and... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...Oxford University. On his accession to the Auchenleck estates, on the death of his father, in 1795, he travelled for some time on the continent; and on his return, settled in his paternal mansion and married. He took an active part in all the concerns of his native... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...Oxford University. On his accession to the Auchenleck estates, on the death of his father, in 1795, he travelled for some time on the continent ; -and on his return, settled in his paternal mansion and married. He took an active part in all the concerns of his native... | |
 | English periodicals - 1879 - 538 pages
...published in its 'Transactions.' At the conclusion of his four years' curriculum at the University, he travelled for some time on the Continent, and on his return he 'passed advocate' in 1800. His progress at the Scotch bar was not such as to satisfy his ambition,... | |
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UniverMI.V. he travelled for some time on the Continent, and on his return practised at the Bar in the city of Edinburgh until 1807, when he removed to London and was called to the Bar by the society of Lincoln's Inn. 