Walsh
DAVID IGNATIUS, an American lawyer and United States Senator, born at Leominster, Mass., in 1872. He was educated at Holy Cross College and at the Boston University Law School, and received honorary degrees from various Catholic colleges and universities. In 1897 he was admitted to the bar; from 1898 to 1900 he was moderator of the town meetings in Clinton, Mass.; from 1900 to 1901 a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; in 1913 lieutenant-governor and in 1914-1915 governor of Massachusetts. In 1917 he was a member at large of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, and in 1918 he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for the term 1919 to 1925.
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Walsh (ROBERT an American author born)
ROBERT, an American author; born in Baltimore, Md., in 1784. In 1837 he removed to Paris, where he was consul in 1845-1851. He wrote for "Dennie's Portfolio," and edited the "American Review of History and Politics," the first American quarterly (22 vols. 1827-1837); most of the articles were from his pen. Others of his pub- Lications are: "Correspondence Respecting Russia Between R. G. Harper and Robert Walsh, Jr." (1813); "An Essay on the Future State of Europe" (1813); biographical prefaces to an edition of the English poets in 50 small volumes; "An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America" (1819). He conducted the "American Register" (1817-1818), the "National Gazette" (1821-1837), and the "Museum of Foreign Literature and Science" (vol. i. 1822); and edited "Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political," a collection of aphorisms (2 vols. 1836). He died in Paris, Feb. 7, 1859.
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Walsingham
SIR FRANCIS, an English statesman; born in Chiselhurst, England, about 1530. After studying at King's College, Cambridge, he traveled on the Continent for some time, and acquired a good knowledge of foreign languages and politics. He was introduced by Cecil, Lord Burleigh, to public service, under Queen Elizabeth, and employed in embassies to France, the Netherlands, and Scotland. He also sat in the House of Commons for various constituencies, was knighted, made a member of the Privy Council, and one of the principal secretaries of state. The unraveling of the Babington plot against Queen Elizabeth was intrusted to Walsingham, and he was also one of the commissioners who tried Queen Mary. He died in Born Elms, near London, April 6, 1590.
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Walter
THOMAS USTICK, an American architect; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 4, 1804; began the udy of architecture in the office of study William Strickland, with whom he remained till 1830, when he engaged in independent practice. His first important work was the Moyamensing penitentiary, built in 1831. In 1833 he made the designs for the Girard College building, which on its completion in 1847 was pronounced the finest specimen of classic architecture in the United States. His next great work was the breakwater at La Guayra for the Venezuelan Government. In 1851 his design for the extension of the National Capitol at V Washington, D. C., was adopted. Having been appointed government architect, he removed to Washington, and remained there till the completion of the work in 1865. While in Washington he also designed the extensions of the patent office, treasury, and postoffice buildings, the dome of the Capitol, and the Government Hospital for the Insane. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an original member of the American Institute of Architects; and was also Professor of architecture in Franklin Institute and lecturer on architecture in Columia College. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 30, 1887.
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Walther von der Vogelweide
wal'ter fon der fo'gel-wi-deh. See Minnesingers
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Walton (BRIAN an English Biblical)
BRIAN, an English Biblical scholar; born in Seymour, Yorkshire, England, in 1600. He was made chaplain to Charles II. and Bishop of Chester at the Restoration. His great- His gre est work is "Biblia Sacra Polyglotta" (6 vols., folio 1657), including the Hebrew original of the Old Testament, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Latin Vulgate, with various readings, notes, etc.; still thought to be "the most complete Biblical apparatus in any language." He wrote in 1658 his "Dissertation on the Antiquity and Authority of His Texts," in later editions called the "Prolegomena," under which name it was published in the original Latin (2 vols. 1827-1828). "The Considerator Considered," etc. (1659), was written in answer to Dr. John Owen's "Vindication of the Purity and Integrity of the Hebrew and Greek Texts," etc., which was a criticism on his great Biblical work. He died in London, Nov. 29, 1661.
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Walton (GEORGE an American patriot)
GEORGE, an American patriot; born in Frederick co., Va., in 1740; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1774; began practice the same year in Augusta, Ga. On July 27, 1774, with three others he called a public meeting in Savannah to consider certain pub public grievances, and was made a member of the committee to urge the various parishes to join the other provinces in resisting the arbitrary claims of Great Britain; was also on the committee which drew up a petition to the king. In 1776 he was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and was a delegate to the Continental Congress from that year till October, 1781; was elected governor of Georgia in 1779 and 1789; was chief-justice of the State in 1783, 1787, and 1793; and United States Senator in 1795-1796. He died in Augusta, Ga., Feb. 2, 1804.
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Walton, Izaak
Izaak (1593-1683), a quiet, easy-going London linen merchant. His delight lay in fishing, reading, and writing. He wrote a number of quaint, rambling Lives of the people of his time. His Com-pleat Angler is a description, usually in dialogue form, of English lanes, inns, farms, fishes, rods, bait, boating, and angling. It is a delightful volume, most artfully interwoven with observations worthy of Shakespeare himself. It is the first of outdoor books. Look, under that broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing; and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree near to the brow of that primrose hill. There I sat viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their center, the tempestuous sea; and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun.
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