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Francis Parkman

Literature; General literature

(1823-1893) Historian, son of a Unitarian minister in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated at Harvard, and qualified as a lawyer, but never practised, and though hampered by a state of health which ...

(1705-1765) Originally David Malloch Poet and miscellaneous writer, educated at Crieff parish school and the University of Edinburgh, where he became acquainted with James Thomson, and in 1723 went ...

Francis Quarles

Literature; General literature

(1592-1644) Poet, born at the manor-house of Stewards near Romford, was at Cambridge, and studied law at Lincoln's Inn. Thereafter he went to the Continent, and at Heidelberg acted as cup-bearer to ...

Samuel Rogers

Literature; General literature

(1763-1855) Poet, son of a banker in London, received a careful private education, and entered the bank, of which, on his father's death, he became the principal partner. From his early youth he ...

Francis William Newman

Literature; General literature

(1805-1897) Scholar and theological writer, brother of Cardinal Newman, born in London, and educated at Oxford. fter spending three years in the East, he became successively classical tutor in ...

John Davidson

Literature; General literature

(1837-1909) Poet and playwright, born at Barrhead, Renfrewshire, son of a Dissenting minister, entered the chemical department of a sugar refinery in Greenock in his 13th year, returning after one ...

Sir William Temple

Literature; General literature

(1628-1699) Statesman and essayist, son of Sir John Temple, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, was born in London, and educated at Cambridge. He travelled on the Continent, was for some time a member of ...