Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall, who holds the title of Lord Warden of the Stannaries. In England the time period is specially associated with the stannaries of Devon and Cornwall, which by an Act of Edward III. Stein, Baron von, Prussian statesman, born at Nassau; rose quickly within the service of the State, and turned Prussian Prime Minister underneath William III. Stair, John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of, eldest son of James Dalrymple (1619-1695) of Stair (a distinguished lawyer in his day, who rose to be President of the Court of Session; wrote a well-known work, “Institutes of the Law of Scotland”; as a Protestant supported the Prince of Orange, and by him was raised to the peerage as viscount in 1690); adopted regulation as a occupation, and was referred to as to the bar in 1672; obtained into hassle with Claverhouse, and was fined and imprisoned, however in 1687 was obtained into royal favour, grew to become Lord Advocate, a Lord Ordinary within the Court of Session, and subsequently as Secretary of State for Scotland was mainly liable for the massacre of Glencoe (q. Stair, John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of, second son of previous; entered the military at 19, and fought with his regiment, the Cameronians, at Steinkirk; studied law for a while at Leyden, but went again to the military, and by 1701 was a lieutenant-colonel within the Scots Foot Guards, and in 1706 colonel of the Cameronians; fought with distinction under Marlborough at Venlo, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and, as commander of a brigade, at the siege of Lille and at Malplaquet; was energetic in help of the Hanoverian succession, and subsequently in the reigns of George I. and II.
Standish, Miles, one of the Puritan fathers, of Lancashire delivery, and a cadet of a family of knightly rank within the county; served within the Netherlands as a soldier, and went to America in the Mayflower in 1620, and was useful to the colony in its relations each with the Indians and the mom-nation; is the hero of a poem of Longfellow’s. Stations of the Cross, steps within the passage of Jesus from the judgment-corridor to Calvary, or representations of these, before every certainly one of which the faithful are required to kneel and supply up a prayer. Stavropol (657), a Russian government on the Caspian Sea, the inhabitants of which are chiefly nomads and breed horses, with a capital of the same identify (36) on a hill, a trendy city and a prosperous, each in manufacture and trade. Staffordshire (1,083), a midland mining and manufacturing county of England, wedged in on the N. between Cheshire (W.) and Derby (N.), and extending southward to Worcester, with Shropshire on the W., and Leicester and Warwick on the E.; with the exception of the wild and hilly “moorland” in the N. consists of an undulating plain crossed by the Trent, and intersected in all directions by canals and railways; embraces two wealthy coal-fields, one within the “Black Country” of the S., the place rich deposits of iron-stone are also worked, and one within the N., embracing the district of the “Potteries”; well-known breweries exist at Burton; Wolverhampton is the largest town.
Stamford (16), a city of Connecticut, situated amid surrounding hills in Long Island Sound, 33 m. Stamford (8), an attention-grabbing outdated city, partly in Lincolnshire and partly in Northamptonshire, on the Welland, 12 m. Steinthal, Heymann, German philologist, born at Gröbzig, in Anhalt; studied at Berlin, the place in 1863 he turned professor of Comparative Philology, and in 1872 lecturer at the Jewish Highschool on Old Testament Criticism and Theology; creator of assorted learned and acute works on the science of language; b. Stahl, Georg Ernest, a German chemist, born at Anspach; was professor of Medicine at Halle; author of the idea of phlogiston (q. Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer, born in Denbigh, Wales, in humble circumstances, his parental title being Rowlands, he having assumed the title of Stanley after that of his adopted father, Mr. Stanley, New Orleans; served within the Confederate army; turned a newspaper international correspondent, to the new York Herald at size; was summoned to go and “find Livingstone”; after many an impediment found Livingstone on 10th November 1871, and after staying with him, and accompanying him in explorations, returned to England in August subsequent 12 months; in 1874 he set out once more at the head of an expedition, solved a number of problems, and returned residence; printed “Congo and its Free State,” “In Darkest Africa,” &c.; represents Lambeth, North, in Parliament, having been elected in 1895; b.
Stanislas I., Leczinski, king of Poland, born in Lemberg; afterwards sovereign of the Duchies of Bar and Lorraine; turned the father-in-regulation of Louis XV. Already tending to an train of unconstitutional powers, it within the reign of Charles I. became an instrument of the grossest tyranny, supporting the king in his absolutist claims, and in 1641 was among the first of the numerous abuses swept away by the Long Parliament. Star-Chamber, a court docket which originated within the reign of Edward III., and consisted practically of the king’s bizarre council, meeting in the Starred Chamber, and dealing with such circumstances as fell exterior the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery; was revived and remodelled by Henry VII., and in an age when the extraordinary courts were typically intimidated by highly effective offenders, rendered excellent service to the reason for justice; was additional developed and strengthened throughout the chancellorship of Wolsey, and in the reign of James I. had acquired jurisdiction as a criminal court docket over an important variety of misdemeanours-perjury, riots, conspiracy, excessive-treason, &c. Appeals from the Stannary Courts may be made now to the higher courts of England.