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Robert Stephen Hawker

Literature; General literature

(1804-1875) Poet and antiquary, educated at Cheltenham and Oxford, became parson of Morwenstow, a smuggling and wrecking community on the Cornish coast, where he exercised a reforming and beneficent, ...

Sydney Thompson Dobell

Literature; General literature

(1824-1874) Poet, born at Cranbrook, Kent, son of a wine-merchant, who removed to Cheltenham, where most of the poet's life was passed. His youth was precocious (he was engaged at 15 and married at ...

William Tennant

Literature; General literature

(1784-1848) Poet and scholar, a cripple from his birth, was born at Anstruther (commonly called Anster) in Fife. As a youth he was clerk to his brother, a corn-merchant, but devoted his leisure to ...

George Bancroft

Literature; General literature

(1800-1891) American historian, born at Worcester, Massachusetts, and after grad. at Harvard, studied in Germany, where he became acquainted and corresponded with Goethe, Hegel, and other leaders of ...

Andrew Lang

Literature; General literature

(1844) Poet, critic, and folklorist. Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), Ballads in Blue China (1880), Custom and Myth (1884), Books and Bookmen (1886), Mark of Cain (1886), Myth, Ritual, and ...

George Fox

Literature; General literature

(1624-1691) Religious enthusiast, and founder of the Society of Friends, born at Drayton, Leicestershire, was in youth the subject of peculiar religious impressions and trances, and adopted a ...

Roger Bacon

Literature; General literature

(1214?-1294) Philosopher, studied at Oxford and Paris. His scientific acquirements, regarded in that age as savouring of witchcraft, and doubtless also his protests against the ignorance and ...