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William Bingham Baring Ashburton
Language; Encyclopedias
Son of the preceding, "a very worthy man," an admirer, and his wife, Lady Harriet, still more, of Thomas Carlyle (1797-1844).
Wilson Barrett
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English actor, born in Essex; made his début at Halifax; lessee of the Grand Theatre, Leeds, and of the Court and the Princess's Theatres, London; produced his Hamlet in 1884; b. 1846.
William Barnes
Language; Encyclopedias
A local philologist, native of Dorsetshire; author of "Poems of Rural Life in Dorset," in three vols.; wrote on subjects of philological interest (1830-1886).
William Waldorf Astor
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Son of the preceding, devoted to politics; came to London, 1891; became proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette and Budget in 1893; b. 1848.
William Baffin
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An early English Arctic explorer, who, when acting as pilot to an expedition in quest of the N.W. Passage, discovered Baffin Bay (1584-1622).
William Barclay
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Father of John, an eminent citizen and professor of Law at Angers; d. 1605. All these Barclays were of Scottish descent.
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