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Sir Edwin Arnold
Literature; General literature
(1832-1904) Poet, son of a Sussex magistrate, was born at Gravesend, and educated at King's School, Rochester, London, and Oxford. Thereafter he was an assistant master at King Edward's School, ...
Sir George Mackenzie
Literature; General literature
(1636-1691) Lawyer and miscellaneous writer, son of Sir Simon Mackenzie, of Lochslin, a brother of the Earl of Seaforth, was educated at St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Bourges, called to the Bar in 1659, ...
William Roscoe
Literature; General literature
(1753-1831) Historian, son of a market-gardener near Liverpool, for a time assisted his father, devoting all his spare time to mental improvement. Subsequently he entered the office of an attorney, ...
Thomas Middleton
Literature; General literature
(1570-1627) Dramatist, was a Londoner and city chronologer, in which capacity he composed a chronicle of the city, now lost. He wrote over 20 plays, chiefly comedies, besides masques and pageants, ...
James Shirley
Literature; General literature
(1596-1666) Dramatist, born in London, educated at Merchant Taylor's School, London, and at Oxford and Cambridge, became a master of St. Alban's Grammar School, and afterwards joined the Roman ...
William Paley
Literature; General literature
(1743-1805) Theologian, son of a minor canon of Peterborough, where he was born, went at 15 as a sizar to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler, and became a Fellow and Tutor of ...
Samuel Clarke
Literature; General literature
(1675-1729) Divine and metaphysician, born at Norwich, was educated at Cambridge, where he became the friend and disciple of Newton, whose System of the Universe he afterwards defended against ...
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