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Allan Cunningham

Literature; General literature

(1784-1842) Poet and miscellaneous writer, born near Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, in his youth knew Burns, who was a friend of his father's. He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but gave his leisure to ...

James Clarence Mangan

Literature; General literature

(1803-1849) Poet, born at Dublin, son of a small grocer, was brought up in poverty, and received most of his education from a priest who instructed him in several modern languages. He then became a ...

John William Colenso

Literature; General literature

(1814-1883) Mathematician and Biblical critic, born at St. Austell, Cornwall, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a tutor, entered the Church, and puborn various mathematical ...

James Howell

Literature; General literature

(1594?-1666) Miscellaneous writer, son of a clergyman at Abernant, Caermarthenshire, was at Oxford and spent the greater part of his earlier life travelling in various Continental countries, ...

Mary Russell Mitford

Literature; General literature

(1787-1855) Poetess and novelist, born at Alresford, Hants, daughter of a physician, without practice, selfish and extravagant, who ran through three fortunes, his own, his wife's, and his ...

DE Aubrey Thomas Vere

Literature; General literature

(1814-1902) Poet, son of Sir Aubrey de Vere, himself a poet, was born in Co. Limerick, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In early life he became acquainted with Wordsworth, by whom he was ...

Sir Henry Taylor

Literature; General literature

(1800-1886) Dramatist, son of a gentleman farmer in the county of Durham. After being at sea for some months and in the Naval Stores Department, he became a clerk in the Colonial Office, and remained ...