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James Bass Mullinger

Literature; General literature

(1834) Historian. Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century (1867), The Ancient African Church (1869), The New Reformation (1875), The Schools of Charles the Great (1876), The University ...

Arthur Golding

Literature; General literature

(1535?-1605?) Translator, son of a gentleman of Essex, was perhaps at Cambridge, and was diligent in the translation of theological works by Calvin, Beza, and others, but is chiefly remembered for ...

Shackerley Marmion

Literature; General literature

(1603-1639) Dramatist, son of a country gentleman of Northamptonshire, was educated at Oxford. After a youth of extravagance, he fought in the Low Countries. His writings consist of an epic, Cupid ...

Henry Glapthorne

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1640) Dramatist, had a high reputation among his contemporaries, though now almost forgotten. He wrote two comedies, three tragedies, and a book of poems, which were all reprinted in two ...

Henry Constable

Literature; General literature

(1562-1613) Poet, son of Sir Robert Constable, educated at Cambridge, but becoming a Roman Catholic, went to Paris, and acted as an agent for the Catholic powers. He died at Liège. In 1592 he puborn ...

Robert Lloyd

Literature; General literature

(1733-1764) Poet, educated at Westminster and Cambridge, puborn The Actor (1760), a poem which had considerable popularity, some miscellaneous verses, and a comic opera, The Conscious Lovers (1764). ...

Simon Grahame

Literature; General literature

(1570-1614) Also known as Simion Grahame. Born in Edinburgh, led a dissolute life as a traveller, soldier, and courtier on the Continent. He appears to have been a good scholar, and wrote the ...