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Hartley Coleridge

Literature; General literature

(1796-1849) Poet, eldest son of Samuel T.C. (q.v.), born at Clevedon, spent his youth at Keswick among the "Lake poets." His early education was desultory, but he was sent by Southey to Oxford in ...

(1842-1881) Miscellaneous writer, son of a lawyer of Huguenot descent, was born at Macon, Georgia. He had a varied career, having been successively soldier, shopman, teacher, lawyer, musician, and ...

William Barnes

Literature; General literature

(1801-1886) Poet and philologist, son of a farmer, born at Rushay, Dorset. After being a solicitor's clerk and a schoolmaster, he entered the Church, in which he served various cures. He first ...

Nicholas Breton

Literature; General literature

(1545-1626) Poet and novelist. Little is known of his life. He was the son of William Breton, a London merchant, was perhaps at Oxford, and was a rather prolific author of considerable versatility ...

Thomas Hartwell Horne

Literature; General literature

(1780-1862) Theologian, educated at Christ's Hospital, was for a time in the law, but became a great biblical scholar, and in 1818 puborn Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy ...

Thomas Erskine

Literature; General literature

(1788-1870) Theologian, son of David Erskine, of Linlathen, to which property he succeeded, his elder brother having died. He was called to the Bar in 1810, but never practised. Having come under ...

Richard Holt Hutton

Literature; General literature

(1826-1897) Essayist and miscellaneous writer, was brought up as a Unitarian, and for some time was a preacher of that body, but coming under the influence of F.D. Maurice and others of his school, ...