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Philip Pullman
PULLMAN, Philip 1946- Personal Born October 19, 1946, in Norwich, England; son of Alfred Outram (an airman) and Audrey (homemaker; maiden name, Merrifield) Pullman; married Judith Speller (a teacher), August 15, 1970; children: James, Thomas. Education: Oxford University, B.A., 1968; Weymouth... Read more |
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Weymouth
Weymouth , town (1990 pop. 54,063), Norfolk co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston on Hingham Bay; settled 1622, inc. 1635. The state's second oldest settlement, it is chiefly residential. Electronic components, fertilizer, and chemicals are made. Weymouth also has a shoe industry which dates back to the... Read more |
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1786–1845). Anti-slavery campaigner and quaker philanthropist, Buxton married Hannah Gurney (sister of Elizabeth Fry). In 1808 he joined the quaker brewers Truman, Hanbury & Co. (his mother was a Hanbury), which brought him into contact with the London poor of... Read more |
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Maria Weston Chapman
Maria Weston Chapman 1806-85, American abolitionist, b. Weymouth, Mass. In 1834 she became a close associate of William Lloyd Garrison, helped organize the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, and for several years was treasurer of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. She edited (1877) the... Read more |
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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
MOSELEY, HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS (b. Weymouth. Dorsetshire, England, 23 November 1887; d. Gelibolu, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, 10 August 1915) physics. Like his friends Julian Huxley and Charles Galton Darwin. Harry Moseley came from a family long distinguished for its contributions to science. His... Read more |
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Gilbert Newton Lewis
Gilbert Newton Lewis 1875-1946, American chemist, b. Weymouth, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1896; Ph.D., 1899). He taught at Harvard and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1907-12) and from 1912 was professor of physical chemistry and dean of the college of chemistry, Univ. of California.... Read more |
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Battle of Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury, battle of, 1471. The last and one of the bloodiest battles of the Wars of the Roses. Queen Margaret, still defending the claims of her husband Henry VI, landed at Weymouth the same day that Edward IV defeated Warwick at Barnet. She moved towards Wales and the north-west to collect... Read more |
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Longleat
Longleat near Warminster in Wiltshire was one of the earliest of the great Elizabethan show or prodigy houses, started before Wollaston (1580s) or Hardwick (1590s). It was begun by Sir John Thynne, who had done well out of the dissolution of the monasteries. The advising architect was Robert ... Read more |
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Miles Standish
Miles Standish c.1584-1656, American colonist, b. England. After serving as a soldier for a number of years, Standish accompanied the Pilgrims to America on the Mayflower (1620) and was recognized at once as the military leader of Plymouth Colony . He was probably not a Puritan. He saved the... Read more |
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William Cranch
CRANCH, WILLIAM William Cranch served as a federal judge for more than five decades, and was also reporter of decisions for the supreme court of the united states from 1801 to 1815. Cranch was born July 17, 1769, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. His father, Richard Cranch, was a member of the... Read more |
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