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John Hookham Frere

Literature; General literature

(1769-1846) Diplomatist, translator, and author, eldest son of John Frere, a distinguished antiquary, was born in London, and educated at Eton and Cambridge. He became a clerk in the Foreign Office, ...

John Byron Leicester Warren, 3RD Lord Tabley De

Literature; General literature

(1835-1895) Poet, eldest son of the 2nd Lord, educated at Eton and Oxford, was for a time attached to the British Embassy at Constantinople. He wrote poems of a very high order, some of them puborn ...

Agnes Strickland

Literature; General literature

(1796 or 1806-1874) Historical writer, daughter of Thomas Strickland, of Royden Hall, Suffolk, was edited by her father, and began her literary career with a poem, Worcester Field, followed by The ...

Thomas Tusser

Literature; General literature

(1524?-1580) Versifier on agriculture, was an Essex man. Having a good voice he was trained in music, and was a chorister in St. Paul's, and afterwards in Norwich Cathedral, and held the post of ...

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare

Literature; General literature

(1834-1903) Youngest son of Francis Hare, and nephew of Aug. and Julius H. (q.v.), born at Rome, practically adopted by his aunt, the widow of Aug. Hare, and educated at Harrow. He was the author of ...

Elias Ashmole

Literature; General literature

(1617-1692) Antiquary, was educated at Lichfield, and became a solicitor in 1638. On the breaking out of the Civil War he sided with the royalists; went to Oxford and studied science, including ...

Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson

Literature; General literature

(born 1620) Biographer, daughter of Sir Allan Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, married in 1638 John, afterwards Colonel, Hutchinson, one of those who signed the death-warrant of Charles I., ...