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Joseph Glanvill

Literature; General literature

(1636-1680) Controversialist and moral writer, born at Plymouth, and educated at Oxford, took orders, and held various benefices, including the Rectory of Bath Abbey and a prebend at Worcester. He ...

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Literature; General literature

(1833-1870) Poet, was born in the Azores, the son of an officer in the army. He went to Australia, where he had a varied career in connection with horses and riding, for which he had a passion. He ...

William Falconer

Literature; General literature

(1732-1769) Poet, son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of ...

David Calderwood

Literature; General literature

(1575-1650) Scottish Church historian, belonged to a good family, and about 1604 became minister of Crailing, Roxburghshire. Opposing the designs of James VI. for setting up Episcopacy, he was ...

Sir Robert Filmer

Literature; General literature

(d. 1653?) Political writer, son of Sir Edward Filmer, of East Sutton, Kent, was educated at Cambridge. He was an enthusiastic Royalist, was knighted by Charles I. and, in 1671, was imprisoned in ...

Thomas Hughes

Literature; General literature

(1823?-1896) Novelist and biographer, son of a Berkshire squire, was educated at Rugby and Oxford, and called to the Bar in 1848. Much the most successful of his books was Tom Brown's School-days ...

Elkanah Settle

Literature; General literature

(1648-1724) Poet and dramatist, educated at Oxford, was the author of a number of turgid dramas, now unreadable and unread, but which in their day were held to rival Dryden, who pilloried Settle as ...