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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Literature; General literature

(1834-1892) Born at Kelvedon, Essex, left the Independents and joined the Baptist communion and became, at the age of 20, pastor of New Park Street Chapel, London, where he attained an unprecedented ...

Matthew Paris

Literature; General literature

(circa 1195-1259) Chronicler, entered in 1217 the Benedictine Monastery of St. Albans, and continued the work of Roger de Wendover (q.v.) as chronicler of the monastery. In 1248 he went on the ...

John Taylor

Literature; General literature

(1580-1653) Known as the "Water Poet," born at Gloucester of humble parentage, was apprenticed to a London waterman, and pressed for the navy. Thereafter he returned to London and resumed his ...

Mrs. Elizabeth (Simpson) Inchbald

Literature; General literature

(1753-1821) Novelist and dramatist, daughter of a Suffolk farmer. In a romantic fit she left her home at the age of 16, and went to London, where she became acquainted with Inchbald the actor, who ...

Mark Pattison

Literature; General literature

(1813-1884) Scholar and biographer, born at Hornby, Yorkshire, son of a clergyman, educated privately and at Oxford, where in 1839 he became Fellow of Lincoln College, and acquired a high reputation ...

Charles Churchill

Literature; General literature

(1731-1764) Satirist, son of a clergyman, was educated at Westminster School, and while still a schoolboy made a clandestine marriage. He entered the Church, and on the death of his father in 1758 ...

James Martineau

Literature; General literature

(1805-1900) Unitarian theologian, younger brother of the above, was born at Norwich. Possessed of considerable inventive and mathematical talents, he was originally intended for engineering, but ...