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Frederick Chamier

Literature; General literature

(1796-1870) Novelist, was in the navy, in which he rose to the rank of Captain. Retiring in 1827, he wrote several sea novels somewhat in the style of Marryat, including Life of a Sailor (1832), Ben ...

Percy Gardner

Literature; General literature

(1846) Writer on Greek art, etc. Part editor of the British Museum Coin Catalogues (1873-86), The Parthian Coinage (1877), Samos and Samian Coinage (1882), The Types of Greek Coins (1883), New ...

Hall Caine

Literature; General literature

(1853) Novelist. — Shadow of a Crime (1885), Son of Hagar (1886), The Deemster (1887), The Bondman (1890), The Scapegoat (1891), The Manxman (1894), The Christian (1897), The Eternal City (1901), The ...

Barnabe Barnes

Literature; General literature

(1569?-1609) Poet, son of Dr. Richard Barnes Bishop, of Durham, was born in Yorkshire, and studied at Oxford. He wrote Parthenophil, a collection of sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes, A Divine ...

George Alfred Lawrence

Literature; General literature

(1827-1876) Novelist, was a barrister. He wrote several novels, of which one— Guy Livingstone (1857)—had great popularity. On the outbreak of the American Civil War he went to America with the ...

Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer

Literature; General literature

(1836) Astronomer. Elementary Lessons in Astronomy (1870), Studies in Spectrum Analysis (1878), Star-gazing, Past and Present (1878), Chemistry of the Sun (1887), Dawn of Astronomy (1894), The Sun's ...

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett

Literature; General literature

(1849) Novelist and dramatist. That Lass o' Lowrie's (1877), Haworths (1879), A Fair Barbarian (1881), Through One Administration (1883), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Lady of Quality (1896), ...