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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey 1773-1850, Scottish critic and judge. He was a founder and editor of the Edinburgh Review, which printed his critical essays.
Bibliography: See his Contributions to the Edinburgh Review (4 vol., 1844).
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George Jeffreys Jeffreys of Wem, 1st Baron
George Jeffreys Jeffreys of Wem, 1st Baron 1645?-1689, English judge under Charles II and James II . A notoriously cruel judge, he presided over many of the trials connected with the Popish Plot (see Oates, Titus ) and was responsible for the judicial murder of Algernon Sidney and for the bruta...
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Taunton
Taunton , city (1991 pop. 47,793), county seat of Somerset, SW England, on the Trove River. Its industries include the manufacture of textiles, shirts, gloves, and precision instruments. Taunton is also a market and railroad junction. Tourism is economically important. There are three well-known sch...
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Dorchester
Dorchester , town (1991 pop. 13,734), county seat of Dorset, S central England. Dorchester is a busy agricultural market, especially for sheep and lambs. Printing, leatherworking, brewing, and the manufacture of agricultural machinery are important industries. Nearby is Maiden Castle, a fortificatio...
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Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood 1799-1845, English poet. He was an editor of various prominent magazines and periodicals. The greater proportion of his work was written in a humorous vein, and he was celebrated for his use of figurative language, especially puns. However, it is in his serious poems, notably "The Son...
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan 1963-, American basketball player, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. As a freshman at the Univ. of North Carolina, he made the shot that won the 1982 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament final over Georgetown. Joining the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Associa...
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Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter 1615-91, English nonconformist clergyman. Ordained in 1638, he began his ministry at Kidderminster in 1641. He sided with Parliament when the civil war broke out and served (1645-47) as a chaplain in Cromwell's army, where he urged moderation in both religious and political opinions....
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Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks 1956-, American film actor famous for his roles as an amiable American everyman, b. Concord, Calif., as Thomas Jeffrey Hanks. In 1980 he acted in his first film, and in 1980-82 he co-starred in a television sitcom. Hanks subsequently appeared in numerous Hollywood comedies, among them Sp...
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Sir James Hopwood Jeans
Sir James Hopwood Jeans 1887-1946, English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was professor of applied mathematics at Princeton Univ. (1905-9), later lectured at Cambridge (1910-12) and Oxford (1922), and was research associate at Mt. Wilson Observatory (1923-44). He was knighted in 1928....
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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden 1714-94, British jurist. Appointed (1761) chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, he earned wide popularity as a result of his ruling in Entick v. Carrington (1763), where he pronounced against the legality of the general warrant under which John Wilkes was ...
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