Joomla! site syndication http://www.empson.name 2010-03-11T05:20:48+01:00 http://www.empson.name http://www.empson.name/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2006-04-25T01:52:17+01:00 http://www.empson.name http://www.empson.name/content/view/26/ Welcome to my EMPSON Family page.Wanted Empson Family Information, stories, trees. This site is currently under construction, so please come back soon.Best regards,Mark Empson. text/html 2006-04-25T10:34:51+01:00 http://www.empson.name http://www.empson.name/content/view/29/64/ Poet and Literary Scholar Sir William Empson was born in Yorkshire in 1906 and educated at Winchester School and Cambridge University, where he studied both mathematics and literature. While at university Empson began work on his dissertation that was later published as his first, and perhaps most influential, critical work, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930). Other critical volumes include Some Versions of Pastoral (1935), The Structure of Complex Words (1951) and Milton's God (1961). text/html 2006-04-25T10:08:10+01:00 http://www.empson.name http://www.empson.name/content/view/28/64/ EMPSON, SIR RICHARD (d. 1510), minister of Henry VII., king of England, was a son of Peter Empson, an influential inhabitant of Towcester. Educated as a lawyer he soon attained considerable success in his profession, and in 1491 was one of the members of parliament for Northamptonshire and speaker of the House of Commons. Early in the reign of Henry VII. he became associated with Edmund Dudley (qv.) in carrying out the king's rigorous and arbitrary system of taxation, and in consequence he became very unpopular. text/html 2006-04-25T09:52:07+01:00 http://www.empson.name http://www.empson.name/content/view/27/64/ Pianist, piano teacher Ernest Charles Empson was born on 9 March 1880 in Ashburton New Zealand, to Yorkshire-born parents John Edwin Empson, an engine-fitter, and his wife, Ann Johnson. He was brought up in the household of Charles and Sophia Thompson, parents of the painter Sydney Lough Thompson, where his precocious musical gifts were recognised early and encouraged by Sophia. He was educated at Christchurch East School (New Zealand). text/html 2006-04-26T10:23:01+01:00 http://www.empson.name http://www.empson.name/content/view/30/64/ Headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate School, New Zealand Walter Empson was born in 1856 at Eydon, Northamptonshire, the eldest of the eight children of Arthur John Empson, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Anna Delicia Hook. At an early age Empson decided to go into the army but, while attending Charterhouse he found that deterioration of his eyesight prevented the achievement of this ambition. Instead of Woolwich he therefore proceeded to Trinity College, Oxford, where he went in for rowing and took his B.A. degree with honours in law.