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Sir Frederick Bramwell
Language; Encyclopedias
Civil engineer, president of the British Association in 1888, and previously of Association of Engineers; b. 1818.
Sir Benjamin Brodie
Language; Encyclopedias
Surgeon, born in Wiltshire; professor of surgery; for 30 years surgeon in St. George's Hospital; was medical adviser to three sovereigns; president of the Royal Society (1783-1862).
St. Benedict
Language; Encyclopedias
The founder of Western monachism, born near Spoleto; left home at 14; passed three years as a hermit, in a cavern near Subiaco, to prepare himself for God's service; attracted many to his retreat; ...
Sir William Blackstone
Language; Encyclopedias
An eminent jurist and judge, born in London, the son of a silk-mercer; was fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and in 1746 called to the bar; became first Vinerian professor of Law at Oxford; had ...
William Bond
Language; Encyclopedias
A distinguished American astronomer (1789-1815), who with his son, George Phillips, discovered a satellite of Neptune and an eighth satellite of Saturn (1826-1865).
William Bewick
Language; Encyclopedias
A great wood-engraver; did a cartoon from the Elgin Marbles for Goethe (1795-1866).
William Booth
Language; Encyclopedias
Founder and general of the Salvation Army, born in Nottingham; published "In Darkest England"; a man of singular self-devotion to the religious and social welfare of the race; b. 1839.
