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Sir Joshua Reynolds

Literature; General literature

(1723-1792) Painter and writer on art, son of a clergyman and schoolmaster at Plympton, Devonshire. After studying art in Italy, he settled in London, where he attained extraordinary fame as a ...

Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope

Literature; General literature

(1805-1875) Historian, was born at Walmer, and educated at Oxford. e sat in the House of Commons for Wootton Bassett and Hertford, held some minor official appointments under Peel, and identified ...

(1771-1806) Traveller, born near Selkirk, studied medicine at Edinburgh. As a surgeon in the mercantile marine he visited Sumatra, and on his return attracted the attention of various scientific men ...

Walter Farquhar Hook

Literature; General literature

(1798-1875) Biographer, son of James Hook, Dean of Worcester, born at Worcester, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. ntering the Church, he held various benefices, and became Vicar of Leeds ...

William Wilkie Collins

Literature; General literature

(1824-1889) Novelist, son of William Collins, R.A., entered Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar 1851, but soon relinquished law for literature. His first novel was Antonina (1850), a historical ...

Henry Morley

Literature; General literature

(1822-1894) Writer on English literature, son of an apothecary, was born in London, educated at a Moravian school in Germany, and at King's College, London, and after practising medicine and keeping ...

Reginald Pecock

Literature; General literature

(1395?-1460?) Theologian, born in Wales, entered the Church, and rose to be successively Bishop of St. Asaph 1444, and of Chichester 1450. He was a strenuous controversialist, chiefly against the ...