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John Moore

Literature; General literature

(1729 or 1730-1802) Physician and miscellaneous writer, son of an Episcopal minister, was born in Stirling. After studying medicine at Glasgow, he acted as a surgeon in the navy and the army, and ...

(flourished 1533-1587?) Also known as John Ballantyne. Poet, born towards the close of the 15th century, and educated at St. Andrews and Paris. At the request of James V. he translated the Historia ...

Nicholas Rowe

Literature; General literature

(1674-1718) Dramatist and poet, born of a good family at Little Barford, Bedfordshire, was bred to the law, but inheriting an income of £300 a year, he devoted himself to literature, and produced ...

Blind Harry

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1470-1492) Also known as Henry The Minstrel. Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skilled in the composition of rhymes in the Scottish tongue, ...

George Payne Rainsford James

Literature; General literature

(1801-1860) Novelist and historical writer, son of a physician in London, was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent. At an early age he began to ...

Sir William Blackstone

Literature; General literature

(1723-1780) Legal Writer, posthumous son of a silk mercer in London, was educated at Charterhouse School and Oxford, and entered the Middle Temple in 1741. His great work is his Commentaries on the ...

Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd

Literature; General literature

(1795-1854) Poet and biographer, son of a brewer at Reading, where he was born, and which he represented in Parliament, 1835-41, was educated at Mill Hill School. He studied law, was called to the ...