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Isaac Bickerstaffe
Isaac Bickerstaffe c.1735-c.1812, English dramatist, b. Ireland. Included among his comedies and ballad operas are The Maid of the Mill (produced in 1765) and The Padlock (produced in 1768).
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Isaac Bickerstaffe
Isaac Bickerstaffe c.1735-c.1812, English dramatist, b. Ireland. Included among his comedies and ballad operas are The Maid of the Mill (produced in 1765) and The Padlock (produced in 1768).
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John Morgan
John Morgan 1735-89, American physician, b. Philadelphia, grad. College of Philadelphia (now Univ. of Pennsylvania), 1751. He founded, in Philadelphia (1765), the first medical school in the United States. In 1775 he became director-general and physician in chief to the general hospital of the Cont...
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autobiography
autobiography Narrative account of a person's life, written by the subject. The modern autobiography has become a distinctive literary form. The first important example of the genre was the 4th-century Confessions of Saint Augustine. The modern, introspective autobiography, dealing frankly with al...
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Oliver Holden
Oliver Holden , 1765-1844, American composer and compiler of hymns, b. Shirley, Mass. His popular tune Coronation, to Edward Perronet's hymn All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name, first appeared in his Union Harmony (1793). With Samuel Holyoke and Hans Gram he edited The Massachusetts Compiler (...
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Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Giovanni Paolo Pannini , 1691-1765, Italian painter. Pannini abandoned the study of architecture for painting, becoming famed for his broad cityscapes, or vidute. His commemorative paintings of public events work tiny human figures into vast urban settings. In his paintings of ruins (e.g., Roman ...
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William Allen
William Allen 1704-80, American jurist, b. Philadelphia. He and his father-in-law, Andrew Hamilton, decided the choice of Philadelphia instead of Chester as provincial capital, and he helped finance the building of Independence Hall. Allen was (1750-74) chief justice of Pennsylvania, secured (1763)...
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Thomas Johnson
Thomas Johnson 1732-1819, American political leader, b. Calvert co., Md. A lawyer, he served (1762-73) in the Maryland colonial assembly, where he became prominent in the fight against the Stamp Act (1765). He was a member (1774-77) of the Continental Congress, and he nominated (1775) George Washin...
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Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne , 1732-1811, English astronomer. Maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed astronomer royal at the Royal Observatory in 1765, he held this post for 46 years. He introduced the determination of longitude by lunar distances into En...
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Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy 1729-1811, English antiquary and churchman, b. Shropshire. In 1782 he became Protestant bishop of Dromore (Ireland). He achieved literary fame as the editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (3 vol., 1765), a collection of 176 English and Scottish ballads. Its publication ini...
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