The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ton to Zym

Barrister-at-law, Middle Temple. Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.
Formerly Assistant-Secretary to the Board of Education. Fellow of All Souls
College, Oxford, 1874-1881. Author of English Schools at the Reformation; &c.

ALBERT FREDERICK POLLARD, M.A., F.R.HIST.S.

Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Professor of English History in the University

of London. Assistant-Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, 1893-1901.

Author of England under the Protector Somerset; Life of Thomas Cranmer; Henry

VIII.; &c.

AGNES MARY CLERKE.

See the biographical article: CLERKE, Agnes M.

{Wallace, Sir William.

Waynflete, William;
William of Wykeham.

Walsingham, Sir Francis;
Wishart, George;
Wolsey, Cardinal.

{Zodiac.

{

Vulture; Wagtail; Warbler;

Waxwing; Weaver-bird;

Wheatear; Whitethroat;

Villiers de l'Isle-Adam,

Comte de.

Ornament in European Silks Catalogue of Tapestry, Embroidery, Lace and Egyptian Weaving: Archaeology and Art.
Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum; &c.

ANDREW SETH PRINGLE-PATTISON, M.A., LL.D., D.C.L.

Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. Gifford
Lecturer in the University of Aberdeen, 1911. Fellow of the British Academy.
Author of Man's Place in the Cosmos; The Philosophical Radicals; &c.

A. W. H.*

A. W. Hu.

ARTHUR WILLIAM HOLLAND.

{

Formerly Scholar of St John's College, Oxford. Bacon Scholar of Gray's Inn, 1900. Widukind; Witan.
REV. ARTHUR WOLLASTON HUTTON.

Rector of Bow Church, Cheapside, London. Formerly Librarian of the National

Liberal Club. Author of Life of Cardinal Manning. Editor of Newman's Lives of the Wiseman, Cardinal.
English Saints; &c.

ALEXANDER WOOD RENTON, M.A., LL.B.

Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Editor of Encyclopaedia of the Laws Waste.

of England.

BENJAMIN ELI SMITH, A.M.

Editor of the Century Dictionary. Formerly Instructor in Mathematics at Amherst Whitney, William Dwight.
College, Mass., and in Psychology at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Editor of the Century Cyclopaedia of Names; Century Allas; &c.

B. HECKSTALL-SMITH.

Associate of the Institute of Naval Architects. Secretary of the International Yachting.

Yacht Racing Union; Secretary of the Yacht Racing Association. Yachting

Editor of The Field.

SIR CHARLES NORTON EDGCUMBE ELIOT, K.C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., D.C.L.

Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University. Formerly Fellow of Trinity College,

Oxford. H.M.'s Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for the British East Africa

Protectorate; Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar; Consul-General for German

East Africa, 1900-1904.

CHARLES FRANCIS ATKINSON.

Yue-chi.

Formerly Scholar of Queen's College, Oxford. Captain, 1st City of London (Royal Wilderness: Grant's Campaign.
Fusiliers). Author of The Wilderness and Cold Harbor.

CHARLES FRANCIS KEARY, M.A.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of The Vikings in Western Christendom; Viking.
Norway and the Norwegians; &c.

CARLTON HUNTLEY HAYES, A.M., PH.D.

Assistant Professor of History in Columbia University, New York City. Member

of the American Historical Association.

See the biographical article: TOY, CRAWFORD Howell.

C. H. T.*

CRAWFORD HOWELL TOY, A.M., LL.D.

Victor III. and IV. (Popes);

Visconti (Family).

Wisdom, Book of; ·

Wisdom Literature.

{Vienna, Congress of.

Warwick, Richard Beau-

champ, Earl of;

Warwick, Richard Neville,

Earl of;

Whittington, Richard;

Worcester, John Tiptoft,

Earl of;

York, Richard, Duke of.

Professor of Modern History in the University of Birmingham. Formerly Fellow of
Merton College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in the History of Geography. Zemarchus.
Lothian Prizeman, Oxford, 1889. Lowell Lecturer, Boston, 1908. Author of
Henry the Navigator; The Dawn of Modern Geography; &c.

CHARLES WALKER ROBINSON, C.B., D.C.L.

Major-General (retired). Assistant Military Secretary, Headquarters of the Army, Vitoria.
1890-1892. Governor and Secretary, Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, 1895-
1898. Author of Strategy of the Peninsular War; &c.

DAVID BINNING MONRO, M.A., LITT.D.

See the biographical article: MONRO, DAVID BINNING.

DONALD FRANCIS TOVEY.

Author of Essays in Musical Analysis: comprising The Classical Concerto, The
Goldberg Variations, and analyses of many other classical works.

DAVID GEORGE HOGARTH, M.A.

Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and Fellow of Magdalen College. Fellow
of the British Academy. Excavated at Paphos, 1888; Naucratis, 1899 and 1903;
Ephesus, 1904-1905: Assiut, 1906-1907. Director, British School at Athens,
1897-1900. Director, Cretan Exploration Fund, 1899.

DAVID HANNAY.

Formerly British Vice-Consul at Barcelona. Author of Short History of the Royal -
Navy; Life of Emilio Castelar; &c.

DUKINFIELD HENRY SCOTT, M.A., PH.D., LL.D., F.R.S.

Professor of Botany, Royal College of Science, London, 1885-1892. Formerly

Wolf, Friedrich August.

Victoria, Tommasso L. da;

Wagner: Biography (in part)

and Critical Appreciation;

Weber: Critical Appreciation.

Xanthus;

Zeitun.

Villeneuve;

Zumalacárregui.

President of the Royal Microscopical Society and of the Linnean Society. Author Williamson, William Crawford.

of Structural Botany; Studies in Fossil Botany; &c.

DAVID RANDALL-MACIVER, M.A., D.Sc.

Curator of Egyptian Department, University of Pennsylvania. Formerly Worcester
Reader in Egyptology, University of Oxford. Author of Medieval Rhodesia; &c.

E. Ar.

E. C.

REV. ELKANAH ARMITAGE, M.A.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Professor in Yorkshire United Independent College, Zwingli.
Bradford.

ERNEST CLARKE, M.D., F.R.C.S.

Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and Consulting Ophthalmic Vision: Errors of Refraction,
Surgeon to the Miller General Hospital. Vice-President of the Ophthalmological
Society. Author of Refraction of the Eye; &c.

&c.

E. M. W.

E. 0.

E. O'N.

E. Pr.

E. P. W.

E. R. L

E. T.

F. A. C.

See the biographical article: Gosse, Edmund.

EDUARD MEYER, PH.D., D.LITT., LL.D.

Professor of Ancient History in the University of Berlin. Author of Geschichte des
Alterthums; Geschichte des alten Aegyptens; Die Israeliten und ihre Nachbarstamme.

REV. EDWARD MEWBURN WALKER, M.A.

Fellow, Senior Tutor and Librarian of Queen's College, Oxford.

EDMUND OWEN, F.R.C.S., LL.D., D.Sc.

Consulting Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital, London, and to the Children's Hospital,
Great Ormond Street. London. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Author of
A Manual of Anatomy for Senior Students.

ELIZABETH O'NEILL, M.A. (MRS H. O. O'NEILL).

Formerly University Fellow and Jones Fellow of the University of Manchester.
EDGAR PRESTAGE.

Special Lecturer in Portuguese Literature in the University of Manchester. Com-
mendador, Portuguese Order of S. Thiago. Corresponding Member of Lisbon Royal
Academy of Sciences and Lisbon Geographical Society; &c.

EVERETT PEPperrell WheeLER, A.M.

Formerly Chairman of the Commission on International Law, American Bar
Association, and other similar Commissions. Author of Daniel Webster; Modern
Law of Carriers; Wages and the Tariff.

Whittier, John Greenleaf.

Villanelle; Virelay;

Vosmaer, Carel;

Waller, Edmund;

Walloons: Literature;
Watson, Thomas;

Wells, Charles Jeremiah;
Wennerberg, Gunnar;
Winther, Christian;
Wordsworth, Dorothy.

Vologaeses; Vonones I.-II.:
Xerxes; Yazdegerd.

{Xenophon (in part).

Wart;
Whitlow.,

{Vicar.

Vicente, Gil;

Vieira, Antonio.

Webster, Daniel (in part).

SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, K.C.B., F.R.S., D.Sc., LL.D., D.C.L.
Hon. Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. President of the British Association, 1906.
Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in University College, London,
1874-1890. Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford, 1891-1898. Zoology.
Director of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, 1898-1907.
Vice-President of the Royal Society, 1896. Romanes Lecturer at Oxford, 1905.
Author of Degeneration; The Advancement of Science; The Kingdom of Man; &c.
ELIHU THOMSON, A.M., D.Sc., PH.D.

Inventor of Electric Welding. Electrician to the Thomson-Houston and General

Electric Companies. Professor of Chemistry and Mechanics, Central High School, Welding: Electric.
Philadelphia, 1870-1880. President of the International Electro-technical Com-
mission, 1908.

FRANKLYN ARDEN CRALLAN.

Formerly Director of Wood-carving, Gloucester County Council. Author of Gothic Wood-Carving.
Woodcarving.

F. C. C.

FREDERICK CORNWALLIS CONYBEARE, M.A., D.TH.

Fellow of the British Academy. Formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Editor of The Ancient Armenian Texts of Aristotle. Author of Myth, Magic and ́
Morals; &c.

{

Vow.

nose College. Formerly Censor, Student, Tutor and Librarian of Christ Church. Watling Street.
Ford's Lecturer, 1906-1907. Fellow of the British Academy. Author of Mono-
graphs on Roman History, especially Roman Britain; &c.

FRANK KEIPER, A.M., B.L., M.E.

Manager of the United States Voting Machine Company. Formerly Assistant
Examiner, United States Patent Office.

Voting Machines.

F. L. L.

LADY LUGARD.

F. N. M.

See the biographical article: LUGARD, SIR F. J. D.

COLONEL FREDERIC NATUSCH MAUDE, C.B.

{Zaria.

{

Lecturer in Military History, Manchester University. Author of War and the Wörth.
World's Policy; The Leipzig Campaign; The Jena Campaign.

F. W. R.*

F. Y. P.

G. A. C.

G. C. L.

G. E.

G. Fl.

G. F. D.

Author of South Africa from the Great Trek to the Union.

SIR FRANK THOMAS MARZIALS, K.C.B.

Formerly Accountant-General of the Army. Editor of the "Great Writers" Series.

FREDERICK Wedmore.

See the biographical article. WEDMORE, FREDERICK.

FREDERICK WILLIAM Rudler, I.S.O., F.G.S.

Victoria Falls;

Victoria Nyanza (in part);
Zambezi; Zululand.

{Zola, Émile.
{Whistler.

Volcano; Wolframite;

Curator and Librarian of the Museum of Practical Geology, London, 1879-1902. Zircon.
President of the Geologists' Association, 1887-1889.

Member of the Board of Advice to the Agent-General for Victoria. Formerly Editor
and Proprietor of the Melbourne Herald. Secretary, Colonial Committee of Royal
Commission to the Paris Exhibition, 1900. Secretary, Adelaide Exhibition, 1887. Victoria (Australia): History.
Secretary, Royal Commission, Hobart Exhibition, 1894-1895. Secretary to Com-
missioners for Victoria at the Exhibitions in London, Paris, Vienna, Philadelphia
and Melbourne.

REV. GEORGE EDMUNDSON, M.A., F.R.HIST.S.

Formerly Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford. Ford's Lecturer, 1909.
Hon. Member, Dutch Historical Society; and Foreign Member, Netherlands
Association of Literature.

GEORGE FLEMING, C.B., LL.D., F.R.C.V.S.

{

William II., King of the
Netherlands;

William III., King of the
Netherlands;

William the Silent;

William II., Prince of Orange.

Formerly Principal Veterinary Surgeon, War Office, London. Author of Animal Veterinary Science (in part).
Plagues: their History, Nature and Prevention.

GEORGE FREDERICK DEACON, LL.D., M.INST. M.E., F.R.M.S. (1843-1909).
Formerly Engineer-in-Chief for the Liverpool Water Supply (Vyrnwy Scheme),

and Member of the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Borough and Water Water Supply.
Engineer of Liverpool, 1871-1879. Consulting Civil Engineer, 1879-1909. Author

Professor of Zoology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. Author of Insects: Wasp (in part);
their Structure and Life.

GEORGE JAMIESON, C.M.G., M.A.

Weevil (in part).

Formerly Consul-General at Shanghai, and Consul and Judge of the Supreme Court, Yangtsze-Klang.
Shanghai.

GEORGE JAMES TURNER.

Barrister-at-law, Lincoln's Inn. Editor of Select Pleas of the Forests for the Selden Wapentake.
Society.

GEORGE SAINTSBURY, D.Ċ.L., LL.D.

See the biographical article: SAINTSBURY, GEORGE E. B.

GEORGE WALTER PROTHERO, M.A., LITT.D., LL.D.

Editor of the Quarterly Review. Honorary Fellow, formerly Fellow of King's
College, Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Professor of History in the
University of Edinburgh, 1894-1899. Author of Life and Times of Simon de Mont-
fort; &c. Joint-editor of the Cambridge Modern History.

MAJOR GEORGE WILLIAM REDWAY.

Author of The War of Secession, 1861-1862; Fredericksburg: a Study in War.
REV. GRIFFITHES WHEELER THATCHER, M.A., B.D.

Vigny, Alfred de;
Villehardouin, Geoffroy de;
Villon, François; Voltaire.

William IV., King of England.

{Wilderness (în part).

Wahhabis; Waqidi;

Warden of Camden College, Sydney, N.S.W. Formerly Tutor in Hebrew and Old Ya'qübi; Yäqüt;
Testament History at Mansfield College, Oxford.

Zamakhshari; Zuhair.

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