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Marie Tharp Marie Tharp
Marie Tharp 1920-2006, American oceanographer and cartographer. A geologist (Univ. of Michigan, M.A., 1944) with experience in mapping, she came to Columbia as a geology research assistant in 1948, retiring in 1983. Painstakingly converting oceanographic soundings to physiographic maps of the North... Read more
John Francis Bentley John Francis Bentley
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Richard Bentley Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley 1662-1742, English critic and philologist. Generally considered the greatest of English classical scholars, he was largely responsible for raising standards of textual criticism in the work of his many followers. His Dissertation upon The Epistles of Phalaris (1699), an exposure... Read more
William King (poet) William King (poet)
William King 1663-1712, English poet. He supported the Tory and High Church party. He is noted for his humorous and satirical writings, which include Dialogues of the Dead (attacks against Richard Bentley, pub. 1699) and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1709).... Read more
Richard Harris Barham Richard Harris Barham
Richard Harris Barham , pseud. Thomas Ingoldsby , 1788-1845, English humorist, grad. Oxford. Ordained a minister in 1813, he became a minor canon of the Chapel Royal in 1824. In 1837 he began in Bentley's Miscellany, under his pseudonym, a series of parodies of country superstitions, medieval... Read more
Bentley Bentley
Bentley, a common name, ‘woodland clearing where bent-grass grows’, OE beonet + lēah; examples include: Bentley Donc. Benedleia 1086 (DB). Bentley Hants., near Alton. Beonetleh c.965, Benedlei 1086 (DB). Bentley E. R. Yorks. Benedlage 1086 (DB). Bentley, Fenny Derbys. Benedlege... Read more
William Richard Tolbert Jr William Richard Tolbert Jr
William Richard Tolbert, Jr. , 1913-80, president of Liberia (1971-80). In government since 1935, he was vice president (1951-71), succeeding to the Presidency upon Tubman's death in 1971. Instituting reforms to close the disparity between Americo-Liberians and indigens, he raised expectations while... Read more
Theodore William Richards Theodore William Richards
RICHARDS, THEODORE WILLIAM (b. Germantown, Pennsylvania, 31 January 1868; d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2 April 1928) chemistry. Richards was the son of gifted parents: William Trost Richards, a noted painter of seascapes, and Anna Matlack Richards, a Quaker author and poet. Because his mother felt... Read more
Charles Boyle 4th earl of Orrery Charles Boyle 4th earl of Orrery
Charles Boyle Orrery, 4th earl of , 1676-1731, English nobleman; grandson of the 1st earl of Orrery. He succeeded his brother as earl in 1703. A supporter of Sir William Temple in his controversy with Richard Bentley over modern and antique scholarship, Orrery edited (1695) The Epistles of... Read more
Edward Stillingfleet Edward Stillingfleet
Edward Stillingfleet 1635-99, English prelate and author. A fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, he became (1657) rector of Sutton, Bedfordshire. In 1661 he published Irenicum, a treatise on church government that sought to establish a compromise between episcopacy and the Presbyterian... Read more

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