HADNALL 



3771 



HADRIAN'S WALL 



with a station on the G.N.R., its 

 woodland scenery covers about 250 

 acres. The cruciform Perpendicular 

 church of S. Mary, with ivied and 

 turreted tower containing an old 

 iron beacon, dates from the 15th 

 century, and was restored in 

 1848-52. Part of Hadley, or 

 Monken Hadley, Common was the 

 scene of the battle of Barnet, 1471, 

 the spot where Warwick is sup- 

 posed to have fallen being marked 

 by an obelisk known as Hadley 

 High Stone. Like High or Chip- 

 ping Barnet, E. Barnet, New 

 Barnet, and Friern Barnet, the 

 district of Hadley Wood is a 

 growing one. See Barnet. 



Hadnall. Parish and village of 

 Shropshire, England. It is 5 m. 

 N.E. of Shrewsbury, with a station 

 on the L. & N.W.R. The parish 

 church contains the tomb of Vis- 

 count Hill (1772-1842). Pop. 8,600. 

 Hadow, SIR WIHLIAM HENRY (b. 

 1859). British educationist. The 

 son of a Gloucestershire clergy- 

 man, he was 

 educated at 

 Malvern and 

 Worcester Col- 

 lege, Oxford, 

 of which he 

 was e le c t e d 

 fellow. He 

 remained o n 

 the teaching 

 staff there un- 

 til 1909, when 

 he was ap- 

 of Armstrong 



Sir Henry Hadow, 

 British educationist 



Russell 



pointed principal ^ 



College, Newcastle, and in 1918 he 

 was knighted. In 1918, also, he 

 was chosen director of education 

 on the lines of communication in 

 France. A leading authority on 

 music, Hadow edited The Oxford 

 History of Music and wrote many 

 books on the subject, including 

 Studies in Modern Music, 1894 

 and 1895. 



Hadrian. Roman emperor, A.D. 

 117-138, whose full name was 

 Publius Aelius Hadrianus. Born 

 (76) at Rome or at Italica in Spain, 



Hadley Wood. Parish Church of S. 

 Mary, with the old beacon in the turret 



he was brought up, adopted, and 

 designated successor by the em- 

 peror Trajan. Hadrian believed 

 that the Roman empire had 

 reached its limits, and that the 

 policy of conquest must give place 



Hadrian, Roman Emperor 



From the bust in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence 



to a policy of consolidation. He 

 made peace with the Parthians, 

 Trajan's campaign against whom 

 had ended so disastrously, and is 

 said to have contemplated retire- 

 ment from Dacia. "The greater 



part of Hadrian's reign was spent 

 in travel. There was scarcely a 

 province of the empire which he 

 did not visit. 



Though a voluptuary, Hadrian 

 worked strenuously to promote the 

 welfare of his subjects. One of his 

 most notable reforms was the sub- 

 stitution of direct collection of 

 taxes for the iniquitous system of 

 tax-farming ; he also inaugurated 

 legal reforms, and organized for the 

 administration of the empire a 

 regular civil service. 



Outward deference waa shown 

 to the senate, but to all intents and 

 purposes Hadrian was an absolute 

 ruler. He was a man of wide cul- 

 ture, and was a leader in the anti- 

 quarian movement, which sought 

 its literary models in the past. 

 During the last years of Hadrian's 

 reign occurred the last revolt of the 

 Jews which ended with their virtual 

 extermination in Judaea. Shortly 

 before his death Hadrian composed 

 the well-known poem to his soul, 

 of which more than 100 English 

 versions exist. See The Emperor 

 Hadrian, F. Gregorovius (Eng. 

 trans. M. E. Robinson, 1898). 

 'Hadrian's Villa (Ital. Villa 

 Adriana). Country seat of the 

 Roman emperor Hadrian. It is 2 m. 

 S.W. of Tivoli, the ancient Tibur, 

 and 15 m. by tramway E.N.E. of 

 Rome. The grounds, covering an 

 area of several sq. m., and the ruins 

 some 170 acres, are a marvel of 

 landscape gardening, and contain 

 the remains of Hadrian's palace, 

 of temples, baths, theatre, a 

 stadium, colonnaded gardens, and 

 imitations of other famous build- 

 ings. Excavations were begun in 

 the 16th century. 



Hadrian's Wall. Roman ram- 

 part, 73 m. long, between Bowness 

 on Solway Firth and Wallsend-on- 

 Tyne, England. Erected by 

 Hadrian about 122, and repaired 

 by Severus about 208, it was 

 mainly of freestone blocks with a 

 rubble core, perhaps 18 ft. high 



Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli. 



Remains of the swimming bath or Natatorium. Right, interior of the Philosophers' Hall, at 

 the north-east corner of the square 



