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Francis Hutcheson

Literature; General literature

(1694-1746) Philosopher, born in Ireland, and educated for the Presbyterian ministry at Glasgow University. After keeping an academy at Dublin for some years he puborn his Enquiry into Beauty and ...

William Chambers

Literature; General literature

(1800-1883) Publisher and miscellaneous author, born at Peebles, started in 1832 with his brother Robert (q.v.) Chambers's Journal, and soon after joined him in the firm of W. and R. Chambers. ...

(d. 1523?) Poet; very little concerning him is known with certainty. He is believed to have been born in Suffolk, and may have studied at Oxford or Cambridge. He first comes clearly into view as a ...

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Literature; General literature

(1828-1889) Theologian and scholar, born at Liverpool, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Cambridge, entered the Church, and was successively Hulsean Professor of Divinity 1861, ...

John Tulloch

Literature; General literature

(1823-1886) Theologian and historical writer, born at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, studied at St. Andrews and Edinburgh. He was ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland at Dundee, whence he ...

Tourneur

Literature; General literature

(1575?-1626) Also known as Cyril Turner. Dramatist, perhaps son of Richard Tourneur, Lieutenant of the Brill, served in the Low Countries, and was secretary to Sir Edward Cecil in his unsuccessful ...

George Warrington Steevens

Literature; General literature

(1869-1900) Journalist and miscellaneous writer, born at Sydenham, and educated at City of London School and Oxford, took to journalism, in which he distinguished himself by his clearness of vision ...