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James Wylie (botanist)
James Wylie may refer to: * Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet (1768–1854), Scottish physician * James Aitken Wylie (1808–1890), Scottish historian of religion and Presbyterian minister * James Hamilton Wylie (1844–1914), British historian and author * James Owens Wylie James Owens Wylie, (1845 – 13 December 1935) was an Irish lawyer and senior judge. Wylie was born in Belfast, the son of William Andrew Wylie and Jane Beatty. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and studied mathematics ... (1845–1935), Irish lawyer and judge * Jim Wylie (1887–1956), New Zealand rugby union player {{hndis, Wylie, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet
Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet (Russian: Я́ков Васи́льевич Ви́ллие ''Yakov Vasilyevich Villiye'') (13 November 1768 — 2 March 1854), was a Scottish physician who served as a battlefield surgeon and as a court physician in the Russian Empire from 1790 until his death in 1854, and as President of the Russian Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy from 1808 to 1838. He is considered one of the organizers of military medicine in Russia by some by whom the role of the indigenous Russian Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov as the "father of combat medicine" may appear to be less valued. Biography James Wylie was born on 13 or 20 November 1768 in Tulliallan by Kincardine-on-Forth, Scotland. He was the second of five children of Janet Meiklejohn and her husband, a church minister named William Wylie. After leaving school Wylie was apprenticed to the local doctor. In 1786 he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh, and studied there until 1789, and later applied his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Aitken Wylie
James Aitken Wylie (9 August 1808 – 1 May 1890) was a Scottish historian of religion and Presbyterian minister. He was a prolific writer and is most famous for writing ''The History of Protestantism''. Life Wylie was born on 9 August 1808 in Kirriemuir to James Wylie and Margaret Forrest. His name-father, Rev James Aitken, was an Auld Licht Anti-burgher minister in the Secession Church. Wylie was educated at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, where he studied for three years before transferring to St Andrews University to study under Rev Dr Thomas Chalmers. He followed his name-father's example, entering the Original Secession Divinity Hall, Edinburgh in 1827. He was ordained at the Secessionist Church in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, in 1831. In 1846 he left Dollar to become sub-editor of the Edinburgh religious newspaper the ''Witness'', under Hugh Miller. In 1852, after he had (with the majority of the United Original Secession Church) joined the Free Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hamilton Wylie
James Hamilton Wylie (8 June 1844 – 25 February 1914) was a British historian. Described by Juliet Barker as "the epiome of a Victorian antiquarian" and "the master of Lancastrian history" by James Westfall Thompson, he is best known for his four-volume ''History of England Under Henry the Fourth'' (1884–98) and three-volume ''The Reign of Henry the Fifth'' (1914–1929), completed after his death by William Templeton Waugh. Educated at Christ's Hospital and Pembroke College, Oxford, Wylie spent much of his career as an Inspector of Schools. Wylie gave the Ford Lectures in 1900 on ''The Council of Constance to the death of John Hus Jan Hus (; ; 1370 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as ''Iohannes Hus'' or ''Johannes Huss'', was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspi ...''. References British historians Historians of England People educated at Christ's Hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Owens Wylie
James Owens Wylie, (1845 – 13 December 1935) was an Irish lawyer and senior judge. Wylie was born in Belfast, the son of William Andrew Wylie and Jane Beatty. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and studied mathematics at Queen's College, Belfast (BA 1867, MA 1868), and was called to the Bar of Ireland in 1872. He stood as the Liberal candidate in the North Tyrone constituency in the 1886 United Kingdom general election, but lost to the Irish Unionist Alliance candidate. In 1894, he was appointed a Queen's Counsel and became a bencher of King's Inn in 1904. He was admitted to the Privy Council of Ireland in 1909, and became a Lord Justice of Ireland in the Dublin Castle administration in 1914. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) and was Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission The Irish Land Commission was created by the British crown in 1843 to 'inquire into the occupation of the land in Ireland. The office of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
