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Memoirs of a Cavalier
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Memoirs of Captain Carleton
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John Hervey Lord
Hervey, John, Lord (1696–1743). The second son of the 1st earl of Bristol, Hervey was elected to represent Bury St Edmunds (1723), supported Walpole, and was rewarded with the posts of vice-chamberlain and privy counsellor. His quarrel with Pulteney, formerly a friend but prominent in... Read more |
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Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks (Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks), 1912-2006, African-American photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer, b. Fort Scott, Kans. Parks purchased his first camera in 1938 and became a photographer for the Farm Security Administration in 1942. A largely self-taught trailblazer,... Read more |
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Bram Stoker
Stoker, Bram ( Abraham) (1847–1912) Irish novelist. Stoker wrote several novels and a memoir of the actor Henry Irving (1906), but he is best-remembered for the classic, gothic horror novel Dracula (1897).... Read more |
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Ruthven
Ruthven , Scottish noble family, believed to trace its ancestry to Thor, a Saxon or Dane, who settled in Scotland in the reign of David I. The name is derived from lands in Perthshire held by the family. Patrick Ruthven, 3d lord of Ruthven, 1520?-1566, was a firm supporter of Protestant doctrines.... Read more |
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Scriblerus Club
Scriblerus Club English literary group formed about 1713 to satirize "all the false tastes in learning." Among its chief members were Arbuthnot, Gay, Thomas Parnell, Pope, and Swift. Meetings of the club were discontinued after 1714. The club's major production, "Memoirs... Read more |
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Andrew Browne Cunningham 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope , 1883-1963, British admiral. A long-seasoned naval officer—he fought in the South African War and World War I—Cunningham was (1939-42) commander in the Mediterranean, which he kept open to the British. He was later naval... Read more |
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John Hervey Baron Hervey of Ickworth
Hervey, John, Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696–1743), as vice-chamberlain exercised great influence over Queen Caroline. He was a close friend of Lady M. W. Montagu. He was satirized by Pope in various works from 1732 onwards, at first with mildness, as ‘Lord Fanny’, an idle... Read more |
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Henry Parry Liddon
Henry Parry Liddon 1829-90, English clergyman, a noted preacher and lecturer. As canon of St. Paul's Cathedral (1870-90) and Dean Ireland professor of exegesis at Oxford (1870-82), he exercised great influence, which he used chiefly for advancing the High Church movement in the Church of England.... Read more |
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