. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . did as he pleased, without encroachingupon the rights of his neighbor. Physicians andattorneys he considered the bane of civilized soci-ety. He once said : All was health and harmonyamong us till the doctors came bringing diseasesand the lawyers sowing dissensions; and we havehad nothing but death and the devil ever since. RAINSFORD, William Stephen, clergyman,b. in Dublin, Ireland, 30 Oct., 1850. His early edu-cation and training were obtained under tutors a)home. He was graduated at the University ofCambridge, England, in 1872, ordained deacon
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . did as he pleased, without encroachingupon the rights of his neighbor. Physicians andattorneys he considered the bane of civilized soci-ety. He once said : All was health and harmonyamong us till the doctors came bringing diseasesand the lawyers sowing dissensions; and we havehad nothing but death and the devil ever since. RAINSFORD, William Stephen, clergyman,b. in Dublin, Ireland, 30 Oct., 1850. His early edu-cation and training were obtained under tutors a)home. He was graduated at the University ofCambridge, England, in 1872, ordained deacon in1ST- by the bishop of Norwich, and priest in1875 by the same bishop. He was curate of church, Norwich, in 1872-6, went to Canadain 1877, and was assistant rector of St. Jamesscathedral, Toronto, in 1878-82. In 1883 he wascalled to the rectorship of St. Georges, New Yorkcity, which post he still (1898) occupies, and isalso chaplain of the 71st regiment National received the degree of D. D. from Trinity in 162 RALEGH RALEGH. 1887. Dr. Rainsford, besides contributions to cur-rent literature, has published a volume of paro-chial Sermons iNew York, 1887). RALEGH, Sir Walter, English navigator, Hayes, in the [parish of Budleigh, Devonshire,England, in 1552; <1. in Westminster, England, 29Oct., 1018. His patronymic was written in thirteendifferent ways, but Sir Walter himself spelled itRalegh. Little is known of his father, Walirr, except that he wasa gentleman com-moner, and that anearnest wayside re-monstrance fromhim with the Ro-manist rioters ofthe west in 1544caused his impris-onment for threedays, and threatsof hanging whenlie was mother wasthe daughter ofSir Philip Cham-pernown, of Mod-bury, and the wid-ow of Otto Gilbert,by whom she wasthe mother of SirJohn, Sir Hum-phrey, and Sir Ad-rian Gilbert. Walter became a commoner at Oriel,Oxford, in 1568, and probably attended the Uni-versity of France in 15G9, but left the same yearto join
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