Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".
The churchyard of the poem's title was the church's cemetery. The area had been subject to substantial erosion since at least 1341, and preventative measures were employed in 1570 and 1779. In 1606 the church was approximately 170 yards from the high tide mark, but in 1724 the sea had encroached so much that the church was 20 yards from the edge.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more
The word lych survived into modern English from the Old English or Saxon word for "corpse", mostly as an adjective in particular phrases or names, such as lych bell, the hand-bell rung before a corpse; lych way, the path along which a corpse was carried to burial (this in some districts was supposed to establish a right-of-way); lych owl, the screech owl, because its cry was a portent of death ...
The work was funded by a local benefactor as part of the memorial to the poet Robert Southey, who is buried in the churchyard. In addition to Scott's internal alterations, the church was re-roofed and re-seated. [5] The altar designed by Scott was moved to St John's in the Vale church in 1893. [6]
England – officially the Tudor rose [111] [66] or unofficially the red rose and English oak. Northern Ireland – the flax, [68] orange lily, or shamrock. [citation needed] Scotland – the Scotch thistle, Scottish bluebell , or heather. [citation needed] Wales – the daffodil, leek, Tudor Rose, or sessile oak. [citation needed]
Plate XLIII from Samuel Pepys's hand-coloured copy of Francis Willughby's 1678 Ornithology [1]. Early scientific works on birds, such as those of Conrad Gessner, Ulisse Aldrovandi and Pierre Belon, relied for much of their content on the authority of the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the teachings of the church, [2] [3] and included much extraneous material relating to the species ...
Some say that it was the churchyard of St Mary's, and not that of the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges, that was the inspiration for Thomas Gray's famous elegy "In an English Churchyard". This theory suggested by Rev. H. Cavalier, the rector of Great Brington in 1926, is based on observations comparing the two churchyards and the lines in the poem.