Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias

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Encyclopedias

English dramatic poet, born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire; wrote numerous plays, both in tragedy and comedy, as well as poems, of unequal merit, but his great achievement, and the one on which his fame ...

Gilbert Burnet

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Bishop of Salisbury, born at Edinburgh, of an old Aberdeen family; professor of Divinity in Glasgow; afterwards preacher at the Rolls Chapel, London; took an active part in supporting the claims of ...

Georges Cadoudal

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A brave man, chief of the Chouans, born in Brittany, the son of a farmer; tried hard and took up arms to restore the Bourbons in the teeth of the Republic, but was defeated; refused to serve under ...

George Cheyne

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A physician and medical writer, born in Aberdeenshire, in practise in London; suffered from corpulency, being 32 stone in weight, but kept it down by vegetable and milk diet, which he recommended to ...

George Earle Buckle

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Editor of the Times, born near Bath; studied at Oxford, where he distinguished himself; is a Fellow of All Souls' College; became editor in 1884, having previously belonged to the editorial staff; b. ...