KITTO, JOHN (18041854)

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KITTO, JOHN (18041854) , English biblical scholar, was the
son of a mason at Plymouth, where he was born on the 4th of
December 1804. An accident brought on deafness, and in
November 1819 he was sent to the workhouse, where he was
employed in making

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

shoes. In 1823 a fund was raised on his
behalf, and he was sent to board with the clerk of the guardians,
having his time at his own disposal, and the privilege of making
use of a public library. After preparing a small volume of
miscellanies, which was published by subscription, he studied
dentistry with Anthony Norris Groves in Exeter. In 1825 he
obtained congenial employment in the printing office of the
Church Missionary Society at Islington, and in 1827 was trans-
ferred to the same society's

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

at Malta. There
he remained for eighteen months, but shortly after his return
to England he accompanied Groves and other friends on a private
missionary enterprise to Bagdad, where he obtained personal
knowledge of Oriental life and habits which he afterwards applied
with tact and skill in the

illustration

ILLUSTRATION

of biblical scenes and
incidents. Plague broke out, the missionary

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

was
broken up, and in 1832

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KITTO, JOHN (1804–1854)

returned to England. On arriving
in London he was engaged in the preparation of various serial
publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,
the most important of which were the Pictorial History of Palestine
and the Pictorial Bible. The Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature,
15
edited under his superintendence, appeared in two volumes in 1843-1845 and passed through three editions. His Daily Bible Illustrations (8 vols. 1849-1853) received an appreciation which is not yet extinct. In 185o he received an

annuity

ANNUITY (from Lat. annus, a year)

of roo from the civil

list

. In August 1854 he went to Germany for the waters of

Cannstatt

CANNSTATT, or KANNSTATT

on the Neckar, where on the 25th of November he died.
See

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KITTO, JOHN (1804–1854)

's own

work

WORK

, The Lost Senses (1845) ; J. E.

Ryland

RYLAND, WILLIAM WYNNE (1738-1783)

's Memoirs of Kitto (1856); and John Eadie's Life of Kitto (1857).

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