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David Beatty Beatty, 1st Earl
David Beatty Beatty, 1st Earl , 1871-1936, British admiral. He served with distinction in Egypt and Sudan (1896-98) and in the Boxer Uprising (1900) in China. Made rear admiral in 1910, he commanded successful naval actions early in World War I at Helgoland Bight (1914) and at Dogger Bank (1915). Hi...
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James Beattie
James Beattie 1735-1803, Scottish poet and essayist. Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he later became professor of moral philosophy there. His fame in his own lifetime rested on two works, Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770), an attack on Hume, and The Minstrel (1771-74...
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battle of Jutland
battle of Jutland only major engagement between the British and German fleets in World War I . They met c.60 mi (100 km) west of the coast of Jutland. On May 31, 1916, a British squadron under Admiral Beatty was scouting in advance of the British main fleet, in search of the German main fleet unde...
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Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (Henry Warren Beatty) , 1937-, motion picture actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, b. Richmond, Va. An eminently bankable star, the handsome, charismatic, yet oddly elusive leading man made his film debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961). His reputation as a Hollywood Don Ju...
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Beatrice
Beatrice ♀ (Italian) and French form of Beatrix, which was quite popular in England during the Middle Ages, and strongly revived in the 19th century. It is most famous as the name of Dante's beloved, and is borne by the elder (b. 1988) of the Duke of York's daughters.Short forms: English: B...
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Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie , 1947-, American writer, b. Washington, D.C. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories in The New Yorker magazine and won acclaim with the 1976 publication of her novel Chilly Scenes of Winter and her story collection Distortions, both chronicling with ironic wit ...
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John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot , 1667-1735, Scottish author and scientist, court physician (1705-14) to Queen Anne. He is best remembered for his five "John Bull" pamphlets (1712), political satires on the Whig war policy, which introduced the character John Bull, the typical Englishman. With his friends, Swift...
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Ferdinand Marie Lesseps, vicomte de
Ferdinand Marie Lesseps, vicomte de , 1805-94, French diplomat and engineer. He entered the consular service in 1825 and was minister to Spain (1848-49). Later, while serving in Egypt, he conceived the idea of a Suez Canal , and in 1854 he obtained from Said Pasha, viceroy of Egypt, the concession ...
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Stella Adler
Stella Adler ăd´ler , 1901-92, American actress, director, and acting teacher, b. New York City. The daughter of Jacob and Sarah Adler, stars in New York's Yiddish theater, she made her acting debut in 1906 in one of her father's productions. A member of the American Laboratory Theater i...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron 1800-1859, English historian and author, b. Leicestershire, educated at Cambridge. After the success of his essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review (Aug., 1825), he contributed regularly to that journal. He was called to the bar in 1826 and, elected to Parliam...
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