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Philip Meadows Taylor

Literature; General literature

(1808-1876) Novelist, born at Liverpool, son of a merchant there. When still a boy went out to a mercantile situation in Calcutta, but in 1826 got a commission in the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad. ...

Hugh Kelly

Literature; General literature

(1739-1777) Dramatist, son of a Dublin publican, worked in London as a staymaker, 1760, and after editing various journals, wrote Memoirs of a Magdalen (1767). His play, False Delicacy (1768), had an ...

Lady Charlotte Bury

Literature; General literature

(1775-1861) Novelist, daughter of the 5th Duke of Argyll, and married first to Col. J. Campbell, and second to Rev. E.J. Bury, wrote a number of novels— Flirtation, Separation, The Divorced, etc., ...

William Bell Scott

Literature; General literature

(1811-1890) Poet and painter, son of Robert Scott, an engraver, and brother of David Scott, painter, born in Edinburgh, settled in London, and painted chiefly historical subjects. He puborn five ...

Thomas Osborne Davis

Literature; General literature

(1814-1845) Poet, born at Mallow, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and called to the Irish Bar 1838. He was one of the founders of The Nation newspaper, and of the Young Ireland party. He wrote ...

Humphrey Prideaux

Literature; General literature

(1648-1724) Divine and scholar, belonged to an ancient Cornish family, was born at Padstow, and educated at Westminster School and at Oxford. e first attracted notice by his description of the ...

Thomas Hearne

Literature; General literature

(1678-1735) Antiquary, born at White Waltham., Berkshire, and educated at Oxford, where in 1712 he became second keeper of the Bodleian Library. A strong Jacobite, he was deprived of his post in ...