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DR. John Brown

Literature; General literature

(1810-1882) Physician and essayist, son of John Brown, D.D., a distinguished dissenting minister in Edinburgh. Brown at Biggar, he was educated at the High School and University of Edinburgh, where ...

John Cleveland

Literature; General literature

(1613-1658) Poet, son of an usher in a charity school, was born at Loughborough, and educated at Cambridge, where he became coll. tutor and lecturer on rhetoric at St. John's, and was much sought ...

James Beattie

Literature; General literature

(1735-1803) Poet and philosophical writer, son of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and educated at Aberdeen; he was, in 1760, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy ...

Samuel Purchas

Literature; General literature

(1575?-1626) Compiler of travels, born at Thaxton, and educated at Cambridge, took orders, and held various benefices, including the rectory of St. Martin's, Ludgate Hill. The papers of R. Hakluyt ...

Sir Kenelm Digby

Literature; General literature

(1603-1665) Miscellaneous writer, born near Newport Pagnell, son of Sir Everard Digby, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, was educated at Oxford, travelled much, and was engaged in sea-fighting. ...

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville

Literature; General literature

(1794-1865) Political annalist, educated at Eton and Oxford, was a page to George III., secretary to Earl Bathurst, and afterwards held the sinecure office of Secretary of Jamaica. In 1821 he became ...

Layamon

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1200) Metrical historian, the son of Leovenath. All that is known of him is gathered from his own writings. He was a priest at Ernley (now Areley Regis), Worcestershire. In his day the ...