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Francis Sylvester (Father Prout) Mahony

Literature; General literature

(1804-1866) Humorist, born at Cork, and educated at the Jesuit College at Clongoweswood, Co. Kildare, at Amiens, and at Rome, becoming a member of the society, was Professor of Rhetoric at ...

Henry Lord Home Kames

Literature; General literature

(1696-1782) Miscellaneous writer, son of Geo. Home, of Kames, Berwickshire, was admitted an advocate in 1723, and raised to the Bench in 1752. In 1748 he puborn a collection of Decisions of the Court ...

George Peele

Literature; General literature

(1558?-1597?) Dramatist and poet, son of a salter in London, educated at Christ's Hospital and Oxford, where he had a reputation as a poet. Coming back to London about 1581 he led a dissipated life. ...

Sir James Stephen

Literature; General literature

(1789-1859) Statesman and historical writer, son of James Stephen, Master in Chancery, educated at Cambridge, and called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn 1811. After practising with success, accepted ...

John Ford

Literature; General literature

(circa 1586?) Dramatist, born probably at Ilsington, Devonshire, was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1602, and appears to have practised as a lawyer. His chief plays are The Lover's Melancholy ...

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Literature; General literature

(1797-1839) Miscellaneous writer, son of a wealthy lawyer in Bath. Originally intended for the law, he changed his mind and thought of entering the Church, but abandoned this idea also, and gave ...

Thomas Boston

Literature; General literature

(1677-1732) Scottish divine, was successively schoolmaster at Glencairn, and minister of Simprin in Berwickshire, and Ettrick in Selkirkshire. In addition to his best-known work, The Fourfold State, ...