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Alexander Fraser Tytler

Literature; General literature

(1747-1813) Historian, son of William Tytler (q.v.), studied at Edinburgh, was called to the Bar in 1770 and raised to the Bench as Lord Woodhouselee in 1802. He was Professor of History in ...

Lady Anne (Lindsay) Barnard

Literature; General literature

(1750-1825) Poet, e. daughter of the 5th Earl of Balcarres, married Andrew Barnard, afterwards Colonial Secretary at Cape Town. On the death of her husband in 1807 she settled in London. Her ...

(1854) Writer on philosophy and socialism. Kant's Prolegomena with Biography and Introduction (1882), Handbook to the History of Philosophy (1884), Religion of Socialism (1886), Ethics of Socialism ...

Mrs. Humphrey (Arnold) Ward

Literature; General literature

(1851) Novelist. Milly and Olly (1881), Miss Bretherton (1886), Robert Elsmere (1888), The History of David Grieve (1892), Marcella (1894), Sir George Tressady (1896), Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898), ...

William Chamberlayne

Literature; General literature

(1619-1689) Poet, practised medicine at Shaftesbury. On the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Royalists and fought at the second battle of Newbury. He wrote a play, Loves Victory (1658), and an ...

Right Rev. Francis Aidan Gasquet

Literature; General literature

(1846) Historical writer. Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries (1888-89), Edward VI. and the Book of Common Prayer (1890), The Great Pestilence (1893), Sketch of Monastic Constitutional History ...

John Davies

Literature; General literature

(1565?-1618) Called "the Welsh Poet," was a writing-master, wrote very copiously and rather tediously on theological and philosophical themes. His works include Mirum in Modum, Microcosmus (1602), ...