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Robert Keith

Literature; General literature

(1681-1757) Historian, born in Kincardineshire, belonged to the family of the Earls Marischal, and was Bishop of Fife in the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was deeply versed in Scottish antiquities, ...

Robert Vaughan

Literature; General literature

(1795-1868) A minister of the Congregationalist communion, Professor of History in London University, 1830-43, and Pres. of the Independent College, Manchester, 1843-57. He founded, and for a time ...

John Tatham

Literature; General literature

(flourished 1632-1664) Dramatist. Little is known of him. He produced pageants for the Lord Mayor's show and some dramas, Love Crowns the End, The Distracted State, The Scots Figgaries, or a Knot of ...

Archibald Bower

Literature; General literature

(1686-1766) Historian, born at Dundee, and educated at the Scots College, Douay, became a Jesuit, but afterwards joined the Church of England, and again became a Jesuit. He wrote a History of Rome ...

John William Draper

Literature; General literature

(1811-1882) Historian, born at St. Helen's, Lancashire, emigrated to Virginia, and was a prof. in the University of New York. He wrote History of the American Civil War (1867-70), History of the ...

Charlotte (Ramsay) Lennox

Literature; General literature

(1720-1804) Was born in New York, of which her father, Colonel Ramsay, was Governor. She wrote a novel, The Female Quixote (1752), which had considerable vogue in its day. Her other writings—novels, ...

James Granger

Literature; General literature

(1723-1776) Biographer, was at Oxford and, entering the Church, became Vicar of Shiplake, Oxon. He puborn a Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution (1769). He insisted ...