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Henry Drummond

Literature; General literature

(1851-1897) Theological and scientific writer, born at Stirling, and educated at Edinburgh, he studied for the ministry of the Free Church. Having a decided scientific bent he gave himself specially ...

Francis Marion Crawford

Literature; General literature

(1854-1909) Novelist and historian, son of Thomas Crawford, an American sculptor, born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy, and educated in America, at Cambridge, and in Germany, he went to India and edited The ...

Thomas Otway

Literature; General literature

(1651 or 1652-1685) Dramatist, son of a clergyman, was born near Midhurst, Sussex, and educated at Oxford, which he left without graduating. His short life, like those of many of his fellows, was ...

Thomas May

Literature; General literature

(1595-1650) Poet and historian, born in Sussex, son of Sir Thomas May, of Mayfield, went to Cambridge, and thence to Gray's Inn, but discarded law for literature. In 1622 he produced his first ...

John Lydgate

Literature; General literature

(1370?-1451?) Poet, born in Suffolk, was ordained a priest in 1397. After studying at Oxford, Paris, and Padua, he taught literature in his monastery at Bury St. Edmunds. He appears to have been a ...

John Dennis

Literature; General literature

(1657-1734) Critic, etc., son of a saddler, was born in London, and educated at Harrow and Caius College, Cambridge, from the latter of which he was expelled for stabbing a fellow-student, and ...

John Logan

Literature; General literature

(1748-1788) Poet, son of a small farmer at Soutra, Midlothian, was destined for the ministry of a small Dissenting sect to which his father belonged, but attached himself to the Church of Scotland, ...