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James Kirke Paulding

Literature; General literature

(1779-1860) Novelist, etc., born in the state of New York, was chiefly self-educated. He became a friend of W. Irving, and was part author with him of Salmagundi —a continuation of which by himself ...

Thomas Colley Grattan

Literature; General literature

(1792-1864) Miscellaneous writer, born in Dublin, and educated for the law, but did not practise. He wrote a few novels, including The Heiress of Bruges (4 volumes, 1830); but his best work was ...

Turberville

Literature; General literature

(1540?-1610) Or George Turbervile. Poet, belonging to an ancient Dorsetshire family, was born at Whitchurch, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. e became secretary to Thomas Randolph, Ambassador ...

James Gairdner

Literature; General literature

(1828) Historian. Ed. in Rolls Series Memorials of Henry VII., Letters and Papers of the Reigns of Richard III. and Henry VII., Calendar of Henry VIII., vols. v. to xx., edited the Paston Letters ...

William Forbes Skene

Literature; General literature

(1807-1892) Historian, 2nd son of James S. of Rubislaw, friend of Sir Walter Scott, was a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, and Clerk of the Bills in the Court of Session. He wrote and edited ...

Richard Hurd

Literature; General literature

(1720-1808) Divine, and miscellaneous writer, born at Congreve, Staffordshire, was educated at Cambridge, and entering the Church, became Bishop successively of Lichfield and Worcester. He produced ...

Frederick Tennyson

Literature; General literature

(1807-1898) Poet, was the eldest son of the Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred T. (q.v.). Ed. at Eton and Cambridge, he passed most of his life in Italy and Jersey. He ...