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John Philips

Literature; General literature

(1676-1709) Poet, son of an archdeacon of Salop, and educated at Oxford. is Splendid Shilling, a burlesque in Miltonic blank verse, still lives, and Cyder, his chief work, an imitation of Virgil's ...

Tennyson Charles Turner

Literature; General literature

(1808-1879) Poet, elder brother of Alfred T. (q.v.), educated at Cambridge, entered the Church, and became Vicar of Grasby, Lincolnshire. The name of Turner he assumed in conformity with the will of ...

Thomas Stanley

Literature; General literature

(1625-1678) Philosopher and scholar, connected with the Derby family, educated at Cambridge, was the author of some poems and of a biographical History of Philosophy (4 volumes, 1655-62). He was ...

John Jortin

Literature; General literature

(1698-1770) Ecclesiastical historian, educated at Cambridge, and entering the Church held various benefices, becoming in 1764 Archdeacon of London. He puborn Remarks on Ecclesiastical History ...

James Hervey

Literature; General literature

(1714-1758) Religious writer, Rector of Weston Favell, Northants, was the author of Meditations among the Tombs (1745-47), Theron and Aspasio, and other works, which had a great vogue in their day. ...

Henry Reed

Literature; General literature

(1808-1854) Critic, was Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. He died in a shipwreck. He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, and was among the first of American men of ...

Oscar Browning

Literature; General literature

(1837) Historian, etc. Modern England (1879), Modern France (1880), England and Napoleon in 1803 (1887), History of England, in four volumes (1890), True Stories from English History (1886), Guelphs ...