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Lady (Rigby) Elizabeth Eastlake

Literature; General literature

(1809-1893) daughter of Dr. Edward Rigby of Norwich, a writer on medical and agricultural subjects, spent her earlier life on the Continent and in Edinburgh. In 1849 she married Sir Charles L. ...

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

Literature; General literature

(1661-1715) A famous wit, statesman, and patron of literature, was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Entering Parliament he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1694, ...

Thomas Churchyard

Literature; General literature

(1520?-1604) Poet and miscellaneous writer, began life as a page to the Earl of Surrey, and subsequently passed through many vicissitudes as a soldier in Scotland, Ireland, France, and the Low ...

Sir Thomas North

Literature; General literature

(1535?-1601?) Translator, 2nd son of the 1st Lord North, may have studied at Cambridge. He entered Lincoln's Inn 1557, but gave more attention to literature than to law. He is best known by his ...

Thomas Pennant

Literature; General literature

(1726-1798) Naturalist and traveller, born in Flintshire, and educated at Oxford, was one of the most distinguished naturalists of the 18th century, and published, among other works on natural ...

Joseph Spence

Literature; General literature

(1699-1768) Anecdotist, born at Kingsclere, Hants, and educated at Winchester and Oxford, he entered the Church, and held various preferments, including a prebend at Durham, and was Professor of ...

Thomas Day

Literature; General literature

(1748-1789) Miscellaneous writer, was born in London, educated at the Charterhouse and at Oxford, and called to the Bar 1775, but having inherited in infancy an independence, he did not practise. He ...