ERRATA—Volume I
Page | Col. | Line | |
108 | i | 9-11 | Adams, William (1814-1848): omit There is . . . century |
7-6 f.e. | Adams, William (1772-1851): for a descendant read of the family | ||
111 | ii | 22 | Adamson, John: for Quillanan read Quillinan |
115 | i | 39 | Adamson, Patrick: for Anglicanæ read Scoticanæ |
116 | i | 13 | Addington, Anthony: for commoner read scholar |
14 | after school add 1758 | ||
117 | i | 8 f.e. | Addington, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth: for 1783 read 1784 |
119 | ii | 23 f.e. | after ally insert He was at first lord privy seal, becoming afterwards lord president of the council |
120 | ii | 7 f.e. | for 1833 read 1836 |
121 | i | 6 | after person insert He was high steward of Westminster from 1813 till his death |
122 | i | 27 | Addison, John: for 1753 read 1793 |
124 | ii | 28 | Addison, Joseph: after friends insert From 1704 to 1708 he was a commissioner of appeals and for 1706 read 1705 |
32 | for 1707 read 1706 | ||
34 | for Elector of Hanover read Electoral Prince, afterwards George II | ||
125 | ii | 45 | after speaking insert He was M.P. for Cavan borough in the Irish parliament 1709-1713 |
132 | i | 5 f.e. | Addison, Lancelot: for afterwards read in 1678 |
135 | ii | 15 | Adela: for Poitou read Ponthieux |
136 | ii | 34 | Adelaide, Queen Dowager: for Lord Melbourne's read Lord Grey's |
137 | ii | 9 f.e. | Adeliza of Louvain: omit ? after 1151 |
138 | i | 8-7 f.e. | for 23 March . . . . and read 24 March 1151 (Ann. of Margam) and |
140 | ii | 20 f.e. | Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge: for 1842 read 1825 |
142 | i | 4-3 f.e. | Adolphus, John L.: for received . . . . attorney-general read became solicitor-general |
2 f.e. | after Durham insert 1855 | ||
155 | i | 4 f.e. | Ælfred, King: for 871 read 878 |
164 | i | 12 f.e. | Ælfric, called Bata: omit (or the bat) |
ii | 13 sqq. f.e. | Ælfric, Grammaticus: The suggested identification of Ælfric the grammarian with Ælfric, archbishop of York, is confuted in Dr. E. Dietrich's elaborate account of the former in Niedner's 'Zeitschrift für Historische Theologie,' 1855, xxv., pp. 487-594, and 1856, xxvi., pp. 163-256. Cf. Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints,' ed. by Prof. Skeat, Early Engl. Text Soc., 1881-1900 | |
166 | i | 9 | for St. George read St. Gregory |
ii | 38 | Ælfric (d. 1051): For the use of puttock in the sense of kite cf. Shakespeare's '2 Hen. VI,' Act iii. Scene 2, lines 191-3 | |
171 | ii | 26 | Affleck, Sir Edmund: after blue insert He was M.P. for Colchester from 1782 till his death, and was a supporter of Pitt |
176 | ii | 41 | Aglionby, Edward: after 1544 insert He was M.P. for Carlisle 1552-3 |
178 | i | 13 f.e. | Agnew, Sir Andrew (1793-1849): for Kinsale read Kingsale |
2 f.e. | after former' insert In 1837 he was conservative M.P. for the Wigton boroughs and after third election insert for Wigtonshire | ||
180 | ii | 39 | Agutter, William: after Agutter insert who had leanings towards the doctrines of Swedenborg |
181 | ii | 2 f.e. | Aidan: for Dalraida read Dalriada, and so through article |
184 | ii | 17 | Aikin, Arthur: omit at his brother's house |
188 | i | 14 | Ainger, Thomas: for 1861 read on 19 Feb. 1859 |
15 | omit honorary | ||
27 | Ainslie, George Robert: for general read lieutenant-general | ||
10 f.e. | for in 1813 read in June of the same year | ||
l.l. | after promoted insert in 1813 | ||
ii | 2 | after employment insert He became lieutenant-general in 1825 | |
189 | i | 24 | Ainslie, Sir Robert: for 1804 read 1812 |
190 | i | 15 f.e. | Ainslie, Robert: after Dunse insert Berwickshire |
14 f.e. | after father insert Robert Ainslie (1734-1795) and after Douglas insert Sir Whitelaw Ainslie [q. v.] was his brother | ||
ii | 20 | after 1838 insert He and his brother Whitelaw married sisters, the daughters of Col. James Cuninghame, of Balbougie, Fifeshire. |
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