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William Lithgow

Literature; General literature

(1582-1645) Traveller, born at Lanark, claimed at the end of his various peregrinations to have tramped 36,000 miles on foot. Previous to 1610 he had visited Shetland, Switzerland, and Bohemia. In ...

John Skinner

Literature; General literature

(1721-1807) Historian and song-writer, son of a schoolmaster at Birse, Aberdeenshire, was educated at Marischal College. Brought up as a Presbyterian, he became an Episcopalian and ministered to a ...

Alexander Balloch Grosart

Literature; General literature

(1827-1899) Was a minister of the English Presbyterian Church. He wrote Lives of various Puritan divines, edited their works, and also issued editions, with Lives, of the poems of Michael Bruce ...

Eustace Budgell

Literature; General literature

(1686-1737) Miscellaneous writer, educated at Oxford, was a cousin of Addison, who took him to Ireland and got him appointed to a lucrative office, which, however, he was foolish enough to throw away ...

William Motherwell

Literature; General literature

(1797-1835) Poet, born and educated in Glasgow, he held the office of depute sheriff-clerk at Paisley, at the same time contributing poetry to various periodicals. He had also antiquarian tastes, and ...

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

Literature; General literature

(1805-1877) Historian, etc., born Brunswick, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College. He studied theology and became a minister of the Congregational Church at various places in Massachusetts and ...

Laurence Echard

Literature; General literature

(circa 1670-1730) Historian, born at Barsham, Suffolk, and educated at Cambridge, took orders and became Archdeacon of Stow. He translated Terence, part of Plautus, D'Orleans' History of the ...