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Robert Burton

Literature; General literature

(1577-1640) Miscellaneous writer, born at Lindley, Leicestershire, and educated at Oxford, took orders, and became Vicar of St. Thomas, Oxford, 1616, and Rector of Segrave, Leicestershire, 1630. ...

(1736-1812) Philologist, son of a poulterer called Horne, added the name of Tooke in 1782 in anticipation of inheriting from his friend W. Tooke, of Purley. He was at Cambridge and took orders, but ...

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord Houghton

Literature; General literature

(1809-1885) Poet, son of Robert (known as "single-speech") Milnes, born in London, and educated privately and at Cambridge. He sat in the House of Commons for Pontefract from 1837-63, when he was ...

Nahum Tate

Literature; General literature

(1652-1715) Poet, son of a clergyman in Dublin, was educated at Trinity College there. He puborn Poems on Several Occasions (1677), Panacea, or a Poem on Tea, and, in collaboration with Dryden, the ...

Henry Thomas Buckle

Literature; General literature

(1821-1862) Historical writer, son of a wealthy shipowner in London, was born at Lee in Kent. Though never at a univ. and little at school, he received a high degree of education privately, and ...

Sir John Fortescue

Literature; General literature

(1394?-1476?) Political writer, was descended from a Devonshire family. He was an eminent lawyer, and held the office of Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1442). During the Wars of the Roses he ...

Gavin Douglas

Literature; General literature

(1474?-1522) Poet, 3rd son of the 5th Earl of Angus, was born about 1474, and educated at St. Andrews for the Church. Promotion came early, and he was in 1501 made Provost of St. Giles, Edinburgh, ...