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Lord Charles Neaves

Literature; General literature

(1800-1876) Miscellaneous author, born and educated in Edinburgh, was called to the Bar, and became a judge. He was a frequent contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. His verses, witty and satirical, ...

Tom Brown

Literature; General literature

(1663-1704) Satirist, was educated at Oxford, and there composed the famous epigram on Dr. Fell. He was for a few years schoolmaster at Kingston-on-Thames, but owing to his irregularities lost the ...

WM. Henry Oliphant Smeaton

Literature; General literature

(1856) Novelist, etc. By Adverse Winds (1895), Our Laddie (1897), Treasure Cave of the Blue Mountains (1899), A Mystery of the Pacific (1899), William Dunbar and his Times (1898), English Satires and ...

Richard Stanyhurst

Literature; General literature

(1547-1618) Translator, was at Oxford, and studied law at Furnivall's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. He collaborated with Holinshed (q.v.). His principal literary achievement was a grotesquely stiff, clumsy, ...

Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford

Literature; General literature

(1550-1604) Was a courtier of Queen Elizabeth, who lost his friends by his insolence and pride, and his fortune by his extravagance. He married a daughter of Lord Burghley, who had to support his ...

George Tucker

Literature; General literature

(1775-1861) Economist, etc., born in Bermuda, became Professor, of Moral Philosophy, etc., in the University of Virginia. He wrote a Life of Jefferson, Political History of the United States, Essays ...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Literature; General literature

(1837) Novelist. Lady Audley's Secret, Aurora Floyd (1862), Henry Dunbar (1864), Only a Clod (1865), The Lady's Mile (1866), Dead Sea Fruit (1869), Robert Ainsleigh (1872), Hostages to Fortune ...