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Herbert Marsh

Literature; General literature

(1757-1839) Theologian and controversialist, son of a clergyman, educated at Canterbury, Cambridge, and Leipsic, was the first to introduce the German methods of Biblical criticism into England, and ...

Marcus Clarke

Literature; General literature

(1846-1881) Novelist, born in London, the son of a barrister. After a somewhat wild youth he went to Australia where, after more than one failure to achieve success in business, he took to journalism ...

Sir Samuel Garth

Literature; General literature

(1661-1719) Physician and poet, born at Bolam in the county of Durham, and educated at Cambridge, he settled as a physician in London, where he soon acquired a large practice. He was a zealous Whig, ...

Cotton Mather

Literature; General literature

(1663-1728) Divine, son of Increase Mather, a leading American divine, was educated at Harvard, became a minister, and was colleague to his father. He was laborious, able, and learned, but extremely ...

John Addington Symonds

Literature; General literature

(1840-1893) Writer on art and literature, son of a physician in Bristol, was educated at Harrow and Oxford. is delicate health obliged him to live abroad. He puborn (1875-86) History of the Italian ...

James Bruce

Literature; General literature

(1730-1794) Traveller, was born at the family seat of Kinnaird, Perthshire, and educated at Harrow. After various travels in Europe he set out in 1768 on his expedition to Abyssinia, and in 1770 ...

Sir Francis Palgrave

Literature; General literature

(1788-1861) Historian, son of Meyer Cohen, a Jewish stockbroker, but at his marriage in 1823, having previously become a Christian, assumed his mother-in-law's name of Palgrave. He studied law, and ...