Proctor
Proctor names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Proctor RICHARD ANTHONY, an English astronomer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD ANTHONY, an English astronomer, author of a large number of popular works, principally on astronomy; born in London, England, March 23, 1837. He was a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1860. About 1885 he settled in St. Louis, and later moved to Florida. His principal popular books are the following: "Saturn and Its System," "Half-hours With the Telescope," "Half-hours With Stars," "Other Worlds Than Ours," "Light Science for Leisure Hours," "Elementary Astronomy," "Chance and Luck," "First Steps in Geometry," "Easy Lessons in Differential Calculus," and "Old and New Astronomy." He edited "Knowledge." He died in New York City, Sept. 12, 1888.
Proctor REDFIELD, United States Senator and Cabinet officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
REDFIELD, United States Senator and Cabinet officer; born in 1831, at Proctorsville, Vt., and graduated in the class of from Dartmouth College ege '51. He attained the rank of colonel by a four years' service in the Civil War. After the war he devoted himself to the practice of law, and to the development of his interests in the stone quarries of his State. In 1878 he was chosen governor of Vermont; in 1889 President Harrison appointed him Secretary of War, and he resigned this office to become United States Senator, a position which he held until his death in 1908.
Proctor in English law
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
in English law, a person employed to manage another's cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law. He at common law. answers to an attorney In an English university, two officials chosen from among the Masters of Arts to enforce the statutes, and preserve good order and discipline. In an American university, an executive officer whose duty it is to preserve order and enforce the laws of the institution. Proctors of the clergy, in England, clergymen elected to represent cathedral or other collegiate churches, and also the common clergy of every diocese in convocation.
Proctor EDNA DEAN, an Amer ican poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDNA DEAN, an Amer ican poet; born in Henniker, N. H., Sept. 18, 1829. Her works are: "Poems" (1866); "A Russian Journey" (1872); "The Song of the Ancient People" (1892); "Mountain Maid and Other Poems of New Hampshire" (1900); etc.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Three of these four entries are closed accounts and still read accurately. The exception is Edna Dean Proctor, who was still living when Collier's compiled this in 1921; she died in 1923 in her nineties, and her verse, once anthologised in New England schoolbooks, is now almost wholly out of print. Richard Anthony Proctor's popular books have likewise faded, though his advocacy of the meteoric-impact origin of lunar craters — a minority view in his lifetime — was vindicated in the twentieth century, while his rival Mars nomenclature lost out to Schiaparelli's Latin names still used today. Redfield Proctor's Senate speech of March 1898 on conditions in Cuba, unmentioned here, is now the thing historians remember him for, as it helped push a hesitant Congress toward war with Spain.
Written for this edition, 2026.