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William Habington

Literature; General literature

(1605-1654) Poet, son of a Worcestershire Roman Catholic gentleman, was educated at St. Omer's, but refused to become a Jesuit. He married Lucia, daughter of Lord Powis, whom he celebrated in his ...

John Gillies

Literature; General literature

(1747-1836) Historian, born at Brechin and educated there and at Glasgow, wrote a History of Greece (1786) from a strongly anti-democratic standpoint, a History of the World from Alexander to ...

(1706?-1766) Historical writer, born in Banffshire, and educated at King's College, Aberdeen, became assistant librarian to the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. In 1754 he puborn an Examination of ...

Edward Dowden

Literature; General literature

(1843) Literary critic, etc. Shakespeare, his Mind and Art (1875), Shakespeare Primer (1877), Studies in Literature (1878), The French Revolution and English Literature (1897), A History of French ...

Orm

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1200) Also spelled as Ormin. Was an Augustinian canon of Mercia, who wrote the Ormulum in transition English. It is a kind of mediæval Christian Year, containing a metrical portion of the ...

Walter Charleton

Literature; General literature

(1619-1707) Miscellaneous writer, educated at Oxford, was titular physician to Charles I. He was a copious writer on theology, natural history, and antiquities, and puborn Chorea Gigantum (1663) to ...

Richard De Bury

Literature; General literature

(1281-1345) Son of Sir Richard Aungerville, born at Bury St. Edmunds, studied at Oxford, and was a Benedictine monk, became tutor to Edward III. when Prince of Wales, and Bishop of Durham, and held ...