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Robert Fergusson

Literature; General literature

(1750-1774) Scottish poet, son of a bank clerk, was educated at the University of St. Andrews. His father dying, he became a copying clerk in an Edinburgh lawyer's office. Early displaying a talent ...

John Fiske

Literature; General literature

(1842-1901) Miscellaneous writer, was born at Hartford, Connecticut. The family name was Green; but this he dropped, and adopted that of his mother's family. After being at Harvard he studied for, ...

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

Literature; General literature

(1844-1881) Poet, born in London, entered the library of the British Museum, afterwards being transferred to the natural history department, where he became an authority on fishes and reptiles. He ...

Henry Mackenzie

Literature; General literature

(1745-1831) Novelist and miscellaneous writer, son of a physician in Edinburgh, where he was born and educated. He studied for the law, and became Controller of Taxes for Scotland. He was the author ...

Nicolas Udall

Literature; General literature

(1505-1556) Dramatist and scholar, born in Hampshire, and educated at Oxford. n 1534 he became headmaster of Eton, from which he was dismissed for misconduct, 1541. In 1537 he became Vicar of ...

Francis Grose

Literature; General literature

(1731-1791) Antiquary and lexicographer, of Swiss extraction, was Richmond Herald 1755-63. He puborn Antiquities of England and Wales (1773-87), which was well received, and thereafter, 1789, set out ...

Henry Cockburn

Literature; General literature

(1779-1854) Scottish judge and biographer, born (probably) and educated in Edinburgh, became a distinguished member of the Scottish Bar, and ultimately a judge. He was also one of the leaders of the ...