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Barnabe Rich

Literature; General literature

(1540?-1620?) Writer of romances, born in Essex, saw military service in the Low Countries. He began to write in 1574, and took Lyly's Euphues as his model. Among his numerous romances is The Strange ...

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton

Literature; General literature

(1571-1631) Antiquary, born at Denton, Hunts, and educated at Cambridge, was a great collector of charters and records throwing light upon English history, and co-operated with Camden (q.v.). Among ...

Thomas Innes

Literature; General literature

(1662-1744) Historian, was descended from an old Roman Catholic family in Aberdeenshire. He studied in Paris at the Scots College, of which he became Principal. He was the author of two learned ...

Alfred Russel Wallace

Literature; General literature

(1823) Naturalist and evolutionist. Travels on the Amazon (1853), Palm Trees of the Amazon (1853), The Malay Archipelago (1869), Natural Selection (1870), The Geographical Distribution of Animals ...

James Hannay

Literature; General literature

(1827-1873) Novelist and journalist, was born at Dumfries, and after serving for some years in the navy took to literature, and became editor of the Edinburgh Courant. He wrote two novels, Singleton ...

Henry Rogers

Literature; General literature

(1806-1877) Critic and theologian, was a minister of the Congregationalist Church, and ultimately Professor of English Literature in Univ. College, London. He was a contributor to the Edinburgh ...

Denis Florence Maccarthy

Literature; General literature

(1817-1882) Poet, born at Dublin, and educated at Maynooth with a view to the priesthood, devoted himself, however, to literature, and contributed verses to The Nation. Among his other writings are ...