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John Eliot Gardiner John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner Conductor For the Record… Selected discography Sources Accomplished British conductor John Eliot Gardiner is noted for founding and directing the Monteverdi Choir in 1964 and its complement Monteverdi Orchestra in 1968. Although he conducted all types of music,... Read more
Sir John Eliot Sir John Eliot
Sir John Eliot 1592-1632, English parliamentary leader. He was a staunch defender of parliamentary liberties. Eliot instituted (1626) the impeachment proceedings against Charles I's favorite, the 1st duke of Buckingham , and joined Sir Edward Coke and others in promoting the Petition of Right ,... Read more
tonnage and poundage tonnage and poundage
tonnage and poundage were customs duties which Parliament granted to Tudor monarchs for life. However, the crown's resort to impositions led the first Parliament of Charles I to refrain from making the customary lifetime grant. The king reacted by ordering the collection of the duties on an ad hoc... Read more
Harvard University Harvard University
Harvard University mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1638 it was named for John Harvard , its first... Read more
T S Eliot T S Eliot
T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot), 1888-1965, American-British poet and critic, b. St. Louis, Mo. One of the most distinguished literary figures of the 20th cent., T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. He studied at Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Oxford. In 1914 he established residence... Read more
Eleven Years Tyranny Eleven Years Tyranny
‘Eleven Years Tyranny’ (1629–40). After the tumultuous end to the 1629 session of Parliament (see Eliot, Sir John) Charles I broke with convention—though not with law—by ruling without Parliament for eleven years. Financial needs were met through prerogative... Read more
Samuel Green Samuel Green
Samuel Green 1615-1702, early American printer. He established himself at Cambridge, Mass., in 1649, using a press owned by Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard. Green succeeded Stephen Daye , who established the first printing plant in the colonies. The press that was sent to the colony... Read more
Lost generation Lost generation
LOST GENERATION LOST GENERATION refers to a group of early-twentieth-century American writers, notably Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder, and Thomas Wolfe. The writings of these authors were shaped by World War I... Read more
Charles Eliot Charles Eliot
ELIOT, CHARLES (1834–1926) During Charles Eliot's forty-year tenure as president of Harvard, he helped transform the relatively small college into a modern university and became a leading spokesman for Progressive educational reform in America. The son of a prominent Bostonian... Read more
Bay Psalm Book Bay Psalm Book
Bay Psalm Book common hymnal of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Written by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, it was published in 1640 at Cambridge as The Whole Book of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Metre. The announced effort of the authors to make a literal rendering at the... Read more

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