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Samuel Rutherford

Literature; General literature

(1600?-1661) Theologian and controversialist, born at Nisbet, Roxburghshire, educated at Edinburgh University, where he became in 1623 Regent of Humanity (Professor of Latin). In 1627 he was settled ...

Joseph Hall

Literature; General literature

(1574-1656) Divine, born at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, and educated at Cambridge, he entered the Church, and became in 1627 Bishop of Exeter, and in 1641 Bishop of Norwich. He had a chequered career. He ...

Maria Edgeworth

Literature; General literature

(1767-1849) Novelist, only child of Richard Edgeworth, of Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, was born near Reading. Her father, who was himself a writer on education and mechanics, bestowed much attention ...

George Gascoigne

Literature; General literature

(1525 or 1535-1577) Poet and dramatist, son of Sir John Gascoigne, and descended from Sir William Gascoigne, the famous Chief Justice to Henry IV., he was educated at Cambridge, and entered Gray's ...

James Montgomery

Literature; General literature

(1771-1854) Poet, son of a pastor and missionary of the Moravian Brethren, was born at Irvine, Ayrshire, and educated at the Moravian School at Fulneck, near Leeds. After various changes of ...

John Home

Literature; General literature

(1722-1808) Dramatist, son of the Town-Clerk of Leith, where he was born, educated there and at Edinburgh, and entered the Church. Before doing so, however, he had fought on the Royalist side in the ...

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, and Lord Buckhurst

Literature; General literature

(1536-1608) Poet and statesman, was born at Buckhurst, Sussex, the only son of Sir Richard Sackville, and educated at Oxford and Cambridge. He studied law at the Inner Temple, and while there wrote, ...