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Hon. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel

Literature; General literature

(1834-1894) Poet, s., of the 1st Earl of Gainsborough, was educated at Cambridge. He wrote Behind the Veil (1863), The Red Flag (1872), Songs of the Heights and Deeps (1885), and Essays on various ...

Reginald Lane Poole, Ph.D.

Literature; General literature

(1857) Historical writer. History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion (1880), Illustrations of the History of Modern Thought (1884), Wycliffe and Movements for Reform (1889), Historical Atlas of ...

Thomas William Robertson

Literature; General literature

(1829-1871) Dramatist, belonged to a family famous for producing actors. Never a successful actor himself, he produced a number of plays, which had unusual popularity. Among these are David Garrick, ...

Thomas Frederick Tout

Literature; General literature

(1855) Historian. Analysis of English History (1891), Edward I. (12 English Statesmen series) (1893), The Empire and the Papacy (1898), History of Great Britain (1902-6), Germany and the Empire ...

John Holland Rose

Literature; General literature

(1855) Historical and biographical writer. A Century of Continental History, The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, Napoleonic Studies, Life of Napoleon I. (1902), The Development of the European ...

John Heneage Jesse

Literature; General literature

(1815-1874) Historical writer, educated at Eton, was a clerk in the Admiralty. He wrote Memoirs of the Court of England, of G. Selwyn and his contemporaries (1843), of the Pretender (1845), etc., and ...

William Johnson Cory

Literature; General literature

(1823-1892) Poet, born at Torrington, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a master. He was a brilliant writer of Latin verse. His chief poetical work is Ionica, containing poems in which he ...