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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge

Literature; General literature

(1851) Scientist and psychologist. Elementary Mechanics (1881), Modern Views of Electricity (1888, 1892, 1907), Signalling through Space without Wires (1894), Life and Matter: A Short Treatise on ...

Ambrose Philips

Literature; General literature

(1675?-1749) Poet, born in Shropshire and educated at Cambridge, wrote pastorals and dramas, was one of the Addison circle, and started a paper, the Freethinker, in imitation of the Spectator. He ...

Mair

Literature; General literature

(1469?-1550) Also known as John Major. Historian, studied at Cambridge and Paris, was the teacher of John Knox and George Buchanan. In 1506 he was a Doctor of the Sorbonne, and in 1519 became ...

(1757-1833) Poet and translator, belonged to a good family, and was educated at Harrow. In early life he was in the army. He puborn a few dramas and books of poems, which had no great popularity, and ...

Adelaide Ann Procter

Literature; General literature

(1825-1864) Poetess, eldest daughter of Bryan W.P. (q.v.). Many of her poems were first puborn in Household Words and All the Year Round, and afterwards coll. under the title of Legends and Lyrics ...

Thomas Bradwardine

Literature; General literature

(1290?-1349) Theologian, was at Oxford, where he became Professor of Divinity and Chancellor, and afterwards Chaplain to Edward III., whom he attended in his French wars. He was twice elected ...

D'Thomas Urfey

Literature; General literature

(1653-1723) Dramatist and song-writer, was a well-known man-about-town, a companion of Charles II., and lived on to the reign of George I. His plays are now forgotten, and he is best known in ...