"not be multiplied beyond necessity"")"" are absent in his extant works; This particular phrasing comes from John Punch who used it in describing a ""common axiom"" (""axioma vulgare"") of the Scholastics. Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was an Englishman who was a statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author in addition to being a philosopher. He famously died of pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner"
"attack of pneumonia. Sitting up in bed, and wishing to have the Home Rule Bill for Ireland read to him from the morning paper, he listened with attention –, and this way, he died, as though falling asleep. This was the summer of 1913. He was 93. James O'Halloran James O'Halloran, (c.1820 – June 1, 1913) was a Quebec lawyer and political figure. He was born about 1820 (some sources say 1821) near Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland and came to Canada with his family in 1828. He studied at the University of Vermont and served in the U.S. Army during"
"that attendance in the House through two all-night sittings when in charge of the Criminal Court Appeal Bill proved the last straw, and in January 1908 Walton developed a chill which developed into double pneumonia; he died on Saturday 18 January 1908, aged 55, at his house in Great Cumberland Place, London. He was buried at Ellesborough, near Wendover in Buckinghamshire on 22 January, and a memorial service was held at the Temple Church the following day. A number of letters written by Walton to Herbert Gladstone are deposited in the British Library manuscript collections. John Lawson Walton Sir John"
"prorogation of the House and some weeks of relaxation in Scotland, he appeared to recover, but on return to London, the chronic diarrhoea returned along with a painful infection to his right leg – said to be ""the after effects of a kick from a hansom cab horse"". He died on 1 November 1854, aged 46, leaving a widow and four children. Charles Geach Charles Geach (1808 – 1 November 1854) was a prominent English businessman, industrialist, banker and politician of the early to mid-19th century, strongly associated with banking and manufacturing interests. He was a co-founder and the general"
"events, to determine the consequent probability of any other event logically connected with those events. In late November 1864, Boole walked, in heavy rain, from his home at Lichfield Cottage in Ballintemple to the university, a distance of three miles, and lectured wearing his wet clothes. He soon became ill, developing pneumonia. As his wife believed that remedies should resemble their cause, she wrapped him in wet blankets – the wet having brought on his illness. Boole's condition worsened and on 8 December 1864, he died of fever-induced pleural effusion. He was buried in the Church of Ireland cemetery of"
"the time. He never recovered, dying on 16 June 1858. He was buried in Brompton Cemetery. John Snow John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854. His findings inspired fundamental changes in the water and waste systems of London, which led to similar changes in other cities, and a significant improvement in general public health"
"and ""as for masculine love, they have no touch of it"". On 9 April 1626, Francis Bacon died of pneumonia while at Arundel mansion at Highgate outside London. An influential account of the circumstances of his death was given by John Aubrey's ""Brief Lives"". Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat:They were resolved they would try the experiment presently. They alighted out of the coach and went"
"""A great leap in the dark,"" uttered in his final conscious moments. His body was interred in St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire. Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes (; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ""Leviathan"", which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics"
"of parliament. His period in the Commons was only brief, as Rose regained the seat for the Liberals in the ensuing election in December of the same year. Verrall, who had been in ill health for some time, had become exhausted by the December 1910 election campaign. After returning from a long holiday abroad, he died of ""dropsy"" soon after returning to Newmarket in September 1911, aged 64. George Henry Verrall George Henry Verrall (7 February 1848 – 16 September 1911) was a British horse racing official, entomologist, botanist and Conservative politician. Verrall was born in Lewes, Sussex. Following education"
"and was Yale Corporation Counsel at the time of his death. On a visit to Hartford in the middle of May last, he contracted a cold which developed into typhoid pneumonia, subsequently followed by paralysis and cerebro-spinal meningitis, which ended, after a painful struggle, in his death at Norwich, June 4, 1875. His widow survived him, with children. George Pratt (Connecticut politician) George Pratt (October 12, 1832 – June 4, 1875) was an American lawyer and politician. Pratt was born in East Weymouth, Mass., Oct. 12, 1832. He graduated from Yale College in 1857. After graduation, he taught for a"
"Oxford-Bellhouse Graduate Scholarship in Biomedical Engineering at Magdalen College. Bellhouse was the father-in-law of the Labour peer and former Minister of Science, Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson. He was born and resided in Winchelsea, East Sussex. On 12 June 2017, Brian Bellhouse was trampled to death by a herd of cows while walking in a field at Church Lane, Guestling, East Sussex. Brian Bellhouse Brian Bellhouse (1 October 1936 – 12 June 2017) was a British academic, engineer, and entrepreneur, the inventor of PowderJect, a needle-free injection system for delivering medications and vaccines. He was also a professor at the University"
"in the following year and was cleared in the second trial. Many commentators of the time believed that the jury had brought in their verdict to spare Nabarro the horrors of a perjury trial. A few months later, having recently announced a decision to retire from the Commons on grounds of health, he died at his home, Orchard House, in Broadway, Worcestershire on 18 November 1973. He is briefly mentioned in the 1970, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fish Licence sketch, described as owning a pet prawn called Simon. Gerald Nabarro Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarro (29 June 1913 – 18"
"attacked by fever. He was attended by Richard Warren and Henry Revell Reynolds, but died at 2 a.m. on 4 July 1787 at his house in Great George Street, Westminster. He was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey. He left much of his estate to his young Irish cousin and namesake Richard Jebb, who later became a distinguished judge. Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet M.D. (1729–1787) was an English physician. He was noted for his success as a society doctor and royal physician. The son of Samuel Jebb, he was born at Stratford,"
"favourite topic, religious toleration. The tract provoked some rejoinders and was defended, amongst others, by William Penn, and by the author himself in ""The Duke of Buckingham's Letter to the unknown author of a short answer to the Duke of Buckingham's Paper"" (1685). In hopes of converting him to Roman Catholicism, James sent him a priest, but Buckingham ridiculed his arguments. He died on 16 April 1687, from a chill caught while hunting, in the house of a tenant in Kirkbymoorside in Yorkshire (it is known as Buckingham House and it is located in the town centre), expressing great repentance"
"William Petty Sir William Petty FRS (Romsey, 26 May 1623 – 16 December 1687) was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers. He also remained a significant figure under King Charles II and King James II, as did many others who had served Cromwell. Petty was briefly a Member of the Parliament of England and was also a scientist, inventor, and merchant, and was a charter member of the Royal"
"St John's experiences with lions in Persia, while another account is provided of him chasing a tiger that threatened a colleague. St John also corresponded with ornithologists in the region, including Allan Octavian Hume. A species of woodpecker (""Picus sanctijohannis"") and a species of snake (""Xenochrophis sanctijohannis"") are both named after him. St John died on 3 June 1891 in Quetta of pneumonia after an attack of influenza during a recurrence of the 1889–90 pandemic. Oliver St John (civil servant) Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John, (21 March 1837 – 3 June 1891) was an administrator in British India, who"
"politicians, doctors and scientists such as Isaac Newton, buried on 4 April 1727, Charles Darwin, buried on 26 April 1882, and Stephen Hawking, buried on 15 June 2018. Another was William Wilberforce who led the movement to abolish slavery in the United Kingdom and the Plantations, buried on 3 August 1833. Wilberforce was buried in the north transept, close to his friend, the former Prime Minister, William Pitt. During the early 20th century it became increasingly common to bury cremated remains rather than coffins in the abbey. In 1905 the actor Sir Henry Irving was cremated and his ashes buried"
"of Treason"", The ""Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon upon the Statute of Uses"". Works by Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s), KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive"
"after him. No portrait of him is known; a photograph, sometimes published and identified as of him, is of a dentist of the same name, but this James Parkinson died before photography was invented. World Parkinson's Day is held each year on his birthday, 11 April. In addition to the eponymous disease, Parkinson is commemorated in the names of several fossil organisms, including the ammonite ""Parkinsonia parkinsoni"", the crinoid ""Apiocrinus parkinsoni"", the snail ""Rostellaria parkinsoni"", and the tree ""Nipadites parkinsoni"". James Parkinson James Parkinson FGS (11 April 175521 December 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist,"
"who was a native speaker and survived into the 1790s. The plant genus ""Barringtonia"" is named in his honour. Barrington never married, and lived for most of his life in chambers in King's Bench Walk in the Inner Temple, London. He was afflicted by a paralysis from his legs upward and died after being bedridden for long on 14 March 1800, and his remains were interred into the vault of the Temple Church. Daines Barrington Daines Barrington, FRS, FSA (1727/2814 March 1800) was an English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist. He was one of the correspondents to whom Gilbert White wrote"
"Works by Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s), KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the Scientific Method."
"Supreme Court, and contracted a cold that turned into pneumonia on his return from being sworn in. Edward Baldwin Whitney Edward Baldwin Whitney (August 16, 1857 – January 5, 1911) was an American lawyer and judge. Edward Baldwin Whitney was born August 16, 1857. His father was linguist William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) of the New England Dwight family. His mother was Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin, daughter of US Senator and Governor of Connecticut Roger Sherman Baldwin. He graduated from Yale College, 1878, where he was a member of Skull and Bones along with future US President William H. Taft. After Yale"
"university professor to swear loyalty to the new authority. Galvani, who disagreed with the social and political confusion, refused to swear loyalty, along with other colleagues. This led to the new authority depriving him of all his academic and public positions, which took every financial support away. Galvani died in Bologna, in his brother’s house, depressed and in poverty, on 4 December 1798. Galvani's legacy includes: Luigi Galvani Luigi Aloisio Galvani (; ; ; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered animal electricity. He is recognized as the pioneer of"
"Kathleen and Norah – died after eating poisoned mussels in what became known as the Seapoint tragedy. His other daughter Moya only ate a few and was violently ill, but survived. Moya was a close ally of Michael Collins during the War of Independence. He was married a second time, in the 1892 to Jane McBride, with whom he had a daughter. James O'Connor (Irish politician) James O'Connor (1836 – 12 March 1910) was an Irish journalist and nationalist politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1892 to"
"later, an indiscreet speech to the grand jury in Liverpool led to the judge being rebuked by the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, in the House of Commons, 'one of the severest ever dealt to an English judge by a minister of the crown'. He died later that year, of pneumonia, in his house in Eaton Square, London, aged 76. William Grantham Sir William Grantham (23 October 1835 – 30 November 1911) was a British barrister, politician and judge. Sir William Grantham was born 23 October 1835 in Lewes, Sussex, England to George Grantham and Sarah Grantham (née Verrall). He"
"seat until the next election, in 1768, when he stood unsuccessfully for Oxford University. Later that year, through a by-election, he became MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, holding the seat until his death. In May 1778, he became ill and was known to be 'lunatic' by August. Arrangements to terminate his legal offices were being made, when in October he escaped from his asylum and drowned himself at the age of 63. He never married. George Hay (politician) Sir George Hay (25 January 1715 – 6 October 1778) was a British judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between"
"He died after catching a chill, which developed into pneumonia. His estate was valued at ₤62,681. He was buried, in an upright position, overlooking Larne Lough, near Sandy Point. The Chaine Memorial, a replica Irish round tower, was built in Larne in 1888 to commemorate him. James Chaine James Chaine (1841 – 4 May 1885) was an Irish shipping businessman and a Conservative Party politician from County Antrim in Ulster. The son of James Chaine of Ballycraigy and his wife Maria, née Whittle, from Antrim, he was educated in Blackheath and in 1863 married Henrietta Creery from Newcastle, County Down."
"He died on 2 September 1865, following a severe attack of gout precipitated by excessive drinking and overeating. He is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin. He had married Helen Bayly and had several children. Hamilton is recognised as one of Ireland's leading scientists and, as Ireland becomes more aware of its scientific heritage, he is increasingly celebrated. The Hamilton Institute is an applied mathematics research institute at NUI Maynooth and the Royal Irish Academy holds an annual public Hamilton lecture at which Murray Gell-Mann, Frank Wilczek, Andrew Wiles, and Timothy Gowers have all spoken. The year 2005 was"
"his uncle in Old Calton Cemetery. David Hume David Hume (; born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, George Berkeley, Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist. Beginning with his ""A Treatise of Human Nature"" (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Against philosophical rationalists, Hume held"
"personally and more fully. The village doctor had diagnosed a chill, but the following night Roberts fell from his bed and ended up lying on wet ground for two hours. The next day the doctor said he was too ill to be moved, but no nursing or medical attention was provided – one of Roberts' colleagues (a dentist) did what he could to help. By early Friday Roberts had died of pneumonia before any medical help could be requested. Fenner Brockway, founder of the No-Conscription Fellowship, himself a conscientious objector and later MP, wrote demanding an inquiry. Confronted with calls"
"Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish FRS (; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. Cavendish is noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called ""inflammable air"". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper ""On Factitious Airs"". Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and gave the element its name. A notoriously shy man (it has been postulated that he had what is now called childhood autism in the ICD-10), Cavendish was nonetheless distinguished for great accuracy"
"too dangerous a subject for the National schools. Some even claimed that by carrying recently sanctioned textbooks home children were actually corrupting their parents with nationalism. He died at Cushendun on 21 July 1920 from diabetes, one year before the discovery of insulin. He is buried with his wife, May Caroline (13 July 1871 – 20 February 1961) at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. His son was the scholar Walter Starkie, known for his books on his travels with the Gypsies and as a Spanish translator. His eldest daughter was Enid Starkie, who was known for her biographies of French poets."
"Thomas Penny. Penny suffered from asthma and dosed himself with woodlice crushed in wine. Thomas Penny Thomas Penny (1532 – January 1589) was an English physician and early entomologist. His solo works have not survived and he is primarily known through quotations from other sixteenth-century biologists. It is believed that he broke with Aristotle on classification of caterpillars. He was also a Puritan and as such kept a low profile during the reign of Queen Mary I of England. He is perhaps best known for being partly responsible for the ""Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum"" or ""Theatre of Insects"". This"