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Sir John Malcolm

Literature; General literature

(1769-1833) Indian soldier, statesman, and historian, born at Burnfoot, Dumfriesshire, went to India in 1782, studied Persian, was employed in many important negotiations and held various ...

(1781-1849) Poet, born at Masborough, Yorkshire, in his youth worked in an iron-foundry, and in 1821 took up the same business on his own account with success. He is best known by his poems on behalf ...

Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Literature; General literature

(1793-1872) A clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and Dean of Edinburgh in that communion from 1841, has a place in literature by his Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, which had ...

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

Literature; General literature

(1812-1878) Historian, educated at Eton and Cambridge, and called to the Bar in 1837, he became in 1840 Professor of History, London University, and in 1860 Chief Justice of Ceylon, when he was ...

Frederic Harrison

Literature; General literature

(1831) Historical and miscellaneous writer. Meaning of History (1862), enlarged (1894), Order and Progress (1875), The Choice of Books (1886), Oliver Cromwell (1888), Annals of an Old Manor-house ...

Arthur Johnston

Literature; General literature

(circa 1587-1641) Poet in Latin, born near Aberdeen, studied medicine at Padua, where he graduated. After living for about 20 years in France, he returned to England, became physician to Charles I., ...

Edward Fairfax

Literature; General literature

(1580?-1635) Translator, natural son of Sir Thomas Fairfax, lived at Fuystone, near Knaresborough, in peace and prosperity. His translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, on which his fame is ...