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George Barrington

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

George Barrington , 1755-c.1804, notorious English pickpocket, b. Ireland. His family name was Waldron. Arriving in London in 1773, he became a professional pickpocket and, obtaining introductions in society, robbed many wealthy persons. After serving several jail terms, he was sentenced in 1790 to seven years transportation to Australia. For his aid in suppressing a mutiny aboard the transport ship, he was released in 1792 and later became superintendent of convicts. He is supposed to have written A Voyage to Botany Bay (1801) and a history of New South Wales (1802). Author not... Read more

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt 1868-1963
...editor, activist Student W. E. B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868 and educated until the age of sixteen...Harvard University. At Harvard he studied under William James and George Santayana, but for the most part he lived a segregated life... Read more

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...his ex-wife, Princess Diana. Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, the eldest child of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip...After the death in February 1952 of his grandfather, King George VI, and his mother's succession as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince...attending Trinity College, Cambridge, which his ... Read more

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