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John Neal

Literature; General literature

(1793-1876) Novelist and poet, born at Portland, Maine, was self-educated, kept a dry goods store, and was afterwards a lawyer. He wrote several novels, which show considerable native power, but ...

Alexander Montgomerie

Literature; General literature

(1545?-1610?) Poet, probably born in Ayrshire, was in the service of the Regent Morton and James VI., by whom he was pensioned. He is sometimes styled "Captain," and was laureate of the Court. He ...

M'John Ferguson Lennan

Literature; General literature

(1827-1881) Sociologist, born at Inverness, and educated at Aberdeen and Cambridge, was in 1857 called to the Scottish Bar, and was subsequently Parliamentary Draftsman for Scotland. His main ...

(1824-1908) Born in Aberdeen and educated there and at Edinburgh, was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Orwell, Glasgow, and Edinburgh successively, a distinguished preacher and a man of ...

William Cartwright

Literature; General literature

(1611-1643) Dramatist, son of a gentleman of Gloucestershire, who had run through his fortune and kept an inn at Cirencester, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, entered the Church, was a ...

George Robert Gleig

Literature; General literature

(1796-1888) Son of George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin, entered the army, and served in the Peninsula and America. In 1820 he took orders, and after serving various cures bec., in 1834, Chaplain of ...

Sir Robert Ayton

Literature; General literature

(1570-1638) Poet, son of Ayton of Kinaldie in Fife. After grad. at St. Andrews, he studied law at Paris, became ambassador to the Emperor, and held other court offices. He appears to have been ...