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Richard William Church

Literature; General literature

(1815-1890) Divine, historian, and biographer, was born at Lisbon, and educated at Oxford, where he became a friend of J.H. Newman (q.v.). He took orders, and became Rector of Whatley, Somerset, and ...

ST. Adamnan

Literature; General literature

(625?-704) Historian, born in Donegal, became Abbot of Iona in 679. Like other Irish churchmen he was a statesman as well as an ecclesiastic, and appears to have been sent on various political ...

Henry Brooke

Literature; General literature

(1703-1783) Novelist and dramatist, born in Ireland, son of a clergyman, studied law, but embraced literature as a career. He wrote poems, dramas, and novels; but the only work which has kept its ...

Benjamin Hoadley

Literature; General literature

(1676-1761) Theologian and controversialist, educated at Cambridge, entered the Church, and became Bishop successively of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester. He was a great supporter of the ...

Thomas Parnell

Literature; General literature

(1679-1718) Poet, born and educated in Dublin, took orders in 1700, and was Vicar of Finglas and Archdeacon of Clogher. The death of his young wife in 1706 drove him into intemperate habits. He was a ...

Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

Literature; General literature

(1787-1874) Poet, born at Leeds, and educated at Harrow, went to London and practised successfully as a solicitor. Thereafter he became a barrister, and was, 1832-61, a Commissioner of Lunacy. By ...

John Doran

Literature; General literature

(1807-1878) Miscellaneous writer, of Irish parentage, wrote a number of works dealing with the lighter phases of manners, antiquities, and social history, often bearing punning titles, e.g., Table ...