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| Aaron Hill
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'''Aaron Hill''' ([[1685]]-[[1750]]), dramatist; educated at Westminster: travelled in the East; obtained patent for extracting oil from beecbmast, 1713; proposed colonisation of Georgia, 1718; addressed complimentary poems to Peterborough and Peter the Great; satirised by Pope; attacked Pope in Progress of Wit(1730) and other publications, but afterwards corresponded amicably with him; corresponded with Richardson: produced plays and operas, including words of Handel's Rinaldo(1711), 'Athelwoldl732),Zara Merope and other translations from Voltaire; joint-author with William Bond (d. 1735) of the Plalndealer 1724.
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'''Aaron Manby''' ([[1776]]-[[1850]]), engineer; ironmaster at Wolverhampton and founder of Horseley Ironworks, Tipton; took out patent for (but did not Invent) oscillating engine 1821; built the Aaron Manby, 1822, first iron steamship to go to sea and first vessel to make voyage from London to Paris; founded Charenton works, 1819; obtained concession with others for lighting Paris with gas, 1822; bought Creusot Ironworks, 1826.
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| Abednego Seller
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'''Abednego Seller''' ([[1646]] ?-[[1705]]), nonjuring divine: educated at Lincoln College, Oxford; vicar of Charles at Plymouth, 1686; deprived, 1690; published religious works.
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| Abel
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'''Abel''' (d. [[764]]), archbishop of Rheims ; aided Boniface in missionary work in Germany; held office in abbey of Lobbes; elected archbishop of Rheims, 744, but Pope Zacharias refused to confirm election, and he retired to Lobbes; became abbot of the monastery, and died there; left several works in manuscript.
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| Abel Boyer
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'''Abel Boyer''' ([[1667]]-[[1729]]), miscellaneous writer; born in Upper Languedoc; came to England, 1689; French teacher to William, duke of Gloucester; published yearly register of political and other occurrences, 1703-13, and Political State of Great Britain a monthly periodical, 1711-29.
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| Abel Evans
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'''Abel Evans''' ([[1679]]-[[1737]]), divine and poet; educated at Merchant Taylors School; probationer-fellow, St. John's College, Oxford, 1692; M.A., 1699; D.D., 1711; expelled from chaplaincy of his college, but reinstated by Duchess of Maryborough's influence; famous for his satire on The Apparition: a dialogue betwixt the Devil and a Doctor concerning the rights of the Christian Church 1710; epigrammatist.
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| Abel Morgan
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'''Abel Morgan''' ([[1673]]-[[1722]]), baptist minister; pastor of Blaenau Gwent, 1700-11; emigrated to Pennsylvania; compiled the first Concordance of the Welsh Bible (published, 1730).
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| Abel Roper
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'''Abel Roper''' ([[1665]]-[[1726]]), tory journalist; apprenticed as publisher in London, and subsequently set up business independently: said to hare been first printer of * Li Uiburlero; imprisoned on charge of aiding
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| Abiezer Coppe
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'''Abiezer Coppe''' , alia* HIGHAM ([[1619]]-[[1672]]), fanatic: of disordered mind and disorderly life; servitor of All Souls College, Oxford, 1636; post-master of Mertou College: baptist preacher in Warwickshire and other midland counties; joined the ranters; his Fiery Flying Roll burnt, as blasphemous, by order of parliament, 1650; imprisoned at Warwick, and, 1651, in Newgate; released, on his recantation, 1651; practised physic, after 1660, at Barnes, Surrey, as Dr. Higham
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| Abigail Masham
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'''Abigail Masham''' . LADY MASHAM (d. [[1734]]), daughter of Francis Hill, first cousin of Sarah, dnrlirs* of Marlborough, and related to { Harley; entered service of Lady Rivers, and subsequently j lived with the Duchess of Marlborongh; made bedchamber !
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| Abraham Aurelius
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'''Abraham Aurelius''' ([[1575]]-[[1632]]), pastor of French protestant church, London; graduated at 1. 1596; published Latin verses.
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| Abraham Benisch
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'''Abraham Benisch''' ([[1811]]-[[1878]]), hebraifit; born of Jewish parents at Drosau, Bohemia; studied medicine at Vienna; settled in England, 1841; edited Jewish Chronicle 1854-69, and 1876-8; zealously promoted cause of his co-religionists; published works on Hebrew literature,
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| Abraham Booth
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'''Abraham Booth''' ([[1734]]-[[1806]]), dissenting minister; superintendent of Kirby-Woodhouse baptist congregation, 1760; ordained pastor of Particular baptist church, Little Prescot Street, Goodman's Fields, 1769; published works vindicating baptist doctrine,
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| Abraham Brewster
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'''Abraham Brewster''' ([[1796]]-[[1874]]), Irish lawyer ; M.A. Dublin, 1847; called to Irish bar, 1819; took silk, 1835; solicitor-general of Ireland, 1846; privy councillor in Ireland, 1853: attorney-general, 1853-5; lord justice of appeul in Ireland, 1866; lord-chancellor of Ireland, 1867.
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| Abraham Brook
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'''Abraham Brook''' (fl. [[1789]]), bookseller of Norwich; published work on physics, 1789.
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| Abraham Cann
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'''Abraham Cann''' ([[1794]]-[[1864]]), champion wrestler of Devonshire; fought a drawn match with the Cornish champion, 1826; afterwards an innkeeper.
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| Abraham Colles
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'''Abraham Colles''' ([[1773]]-[[1843]]), surgeon ; studied surgery in Dublin, Edinburgh, and London; M.D. Edinburgh, 1796; practised medicine in Dublin, 1797-9; I specialised in surgery; resident surgeon 1799-1813, and j visiting surgeon, 1813-41, of Steevens's Hospital, Dublin; professor of anatomy and surgery, 1804-36; an able operator; discoverer of Colles's fracture of the radius; published surgical treatises.
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| Abraham Cooper
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'''Abraham Cooper''' ([[1787]]-[[1868]]), battle and animal pain UT; patronised by (Sir) Henry Meux, 1809; R.A., 1820; over four hundred pieces by him exhibited, 1812-69.
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| Abraham Cowley
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'''Abraham Cowley''' ([[1618]]-[[1667]]), poet: kin-'? scholar at Westminster; published Poetical Blossoms 1633, and Sylva 1636; scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1637; fellow, 1640; M.A., 1642; published Love's Riddle a pastoral drama, 1638; brought out, at Cambridge, Naufragiuui Joculare a Latin comedy, 1638, and The Guardian a comedy, 1641; ejected by the parliament, 1644; resided in St. John's College, Oxford; went to France, 1646; published The Mistress poems, 1647, and Miscellanies with other poems, including four books of the Davideis a sacred epic, 1656; cipher secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, c. 1647; royalist spy in England, 1666; M.D. Oxford, 1667; withdrew to France; published odes on the Restoration and against Cromwell, 1660-1; was refused the mastership of the Savoy, 1661; P.R.S.; published Verses upon several Occasions 1663: a competence provided for him by Earl of St. Albans and Dukeof Buckingham; his collected works published 1668.
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| Abraham Dawson
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'''Abraham Dawson''' ([[1713]] 9-[[1789]]), biblical scholar ; M.A.; rector of Ringsfield, Suffolk, 1754-89; published various translations, with notes, of the earlier chapters of Genesis.
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| Abraham Fleming
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'''Abraham Fleming''' ([[1552]] ?-[[1607]]), antiquary and poet; B.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1582: chaplain to Countess of Nottingham and rector of St. Pancras, Soper Lane, London; author of verse translation from the classics and some prose works, including a digest of Holinshed and a history of English earthquakes, 1680.
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| Abraham Fletcher
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'''Abraham Fletcher''' ([[1714]]-[[1793]]), mathematician; self-taught; published The Universal Measurer * (Whitehaven, 1753), and The Universal Measurer and Mechanic (1762).
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| Abraham Fowler
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'''Abraham Fowler''' (ft. [[1577]]), verse-writer; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford.
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| Abraham Fraunce
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'''Abraham Fraunce''' (!. [[1587]]-[[1633]]), poet; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1680; M.A., 1683: barrister, Gray's Inn; the Corydon of Spenser's Colin Clout's come home again; intimately associated with Thomas Watson, with whom be translated Tasso's Amiuta(fact mentioned in Lodge's Phillisand the Faerie Queene); published in English hexameters The Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch(Ivychurch), two parte, 1591, Amiutas Dale(pt. iii. of Ivychurch, 1692), 'The Countess of Pembrokes Emanuel(1691),The Arcadian Rhetorike 1588, in which the unpublished Faerie Queene is quoted, and The Lawiers Logike 1588; contributed songs to Sidney's Astrophel and Stella 1591.
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| Abraham Hayward
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'''Abraham Hayward''' ([[1801]]-[[1884]]), emayist : educated by Francis Tw Us and at Tiverton school; studied at Inner Temple, 1824; edited Law Magazine,* 1828-44; visited Germany, 1831: published translation of Faust with critical introduction, 1833: gave li U-rary assistance to Prince Louis Bonaparte; Q.O., 1845; not elected bencher; contributed to Quarterly Edinburgh and Praser's supported Aberdeen's government in Morning Chronicle: his reply to De Bazancourt's Expedition de Criuiee circulated on thecontinent by Palmerston; contribute*! regularly to Quarterly 1869-83, and occasionally to the Times published The Art of Dining 1852, and Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers 1880; edited Mre.Piozzi V Autobiography 1861, and Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844 1864. His three series of Essays(1858, 1873, 1874) include a vigorous attack on the theory identifying .Tunius with Sir Philip Francis Selections from his correspondence were issued, 1886.
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| Abraham Hill
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'''Abraham Hill''' ([[1635]]-[[1721]]), treasurer of Royal Society, 1663-5 and 1679-1700; commissioner of trade, 1689; comptroller to Archbishop Tillotson, 1691; published life of Barrow, 1683; Pepys and Evelyn among his correspondents.
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| Abraham Holland
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'''Abraham Holland''' -. 12G), poet: son of Philemon Holland; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1617; author of Naumaohia, or Hollands Sea Fight (1622), describing Lepanto; Hollundi Posthuma edited by his brother, 1626.
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| Abraham Holmes
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'''Abraham Holmes''' (d. [[1685]]), rebel ; anabaptist major in Monck's army: arrested for conspiracy against Charles II, 1660; imprisoned at Windsor, 1664-7; engaged in Argyll's plot, 1681-3; accompanied Monmouth to England and commanded battalion at Sedgemoor, 1685; executed.
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| Abraham Jackson
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'''Abraham Jackson''' ([[1689]]-[[1646]]?), divine and author; B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1611: M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1616; prebendary of Peterborough, 1640.
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| Abraham Langford
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'''Abraham Langford''' ([[1711]]-[[1774]]), auctioneer and playwright; produced a ballad-opera, The Lover bis own Rival 1736; auctioneer in Oovent Garden, 1748; the foremost auctioneer of the period.
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| Abraham Newland
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'''Abraham Newland''' ([[1780]]-[[1807]]), chief cashier of tbe Bank of England; entered the bank, 1748: became chief cashier, 1782; bank-notes being long known as i Abraham Newlandx from bearing his signature; i resigned his pwition, 1807; amassed a fortune by economy: and speculation in Pitt's loans.
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| Abraham Nicholas
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'''Abraham Nicholas''' ([[1692]]-[[1744]] ?), schoolmaster ; published three copybooks; emigrated to Virginia, c. 1722.
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| Abraham Ortelius
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'''Abraham Ortelius''' ([[1527]]-[[1598]]), map-maker of Antwerp; became intimate with Camdeii in England; geographer to Philip II of Spain, 1573; helped Humphrey Uwyd with map of England and Wales; published "Tl Milliiiii Orbis Terrarum 1570; died at Antwerp.
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| Abraham Parsons
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'''Abraham Parsons''' (d. [[1785]]), traveller and consul; made several journeys in Asia Minor, Persia, India, and Egypt, of which he left a journal, published in 1808, under the title, Account of Travels in Asia and Africa
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| Abraham Pether
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'''Abraham Pether''' ([[1756]]-[[1812]]), landscapepainter; made a reputation by his moonlight subjects; known among dealers as Old Pether.
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| Abraham Portal
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'''Abraham Portal''' (. [[1768]]-[[1796]]), dramatist; wrote a number of plays between 1768 and 1796; published Poems 1781.
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| Abraham Raimbach
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'''Abraham Raimbach''' ([[1776]]-[[1843]]), line-engraver: executed, between 1814 and 1825, six large engravings of the pictures of Sir David Wilkie; wrote Memoirs and Recollections(privately printed, 1843).
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'''Sir Abraham Reynardson''' ([[1590]]-[[1661]]), lord mayor of London; became master of the Merchant Taylors Company, 1640: lord mayor, 1648-9: deposed and heavily fined (1C49) for manifesting royalist sympathies; was knighted at the Restoration, but declined the mayoralty on account of ill-health.
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'''Sir Abraham Roberts''' ([[1784]]-[[1873]]), general ; entered the army, 1H03: served in India and Afghanistan with distinction for over fifty yean: G.C.B., 1873. He was the father of Field-Marshal Karl Robert*, K.i.
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| Abraham Shackleton
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'''Abraham Shackleton''' ([[1697]]-[[1771]]). schoolmaster; successively teacher In school at Sktpton and private tutor at Dockett's Grove, co. Carlo w, Ireland: opened boarding-school at Ballytore, co. Kildare, 1796, and was head-master till 17*6; Edmund Burke was one of his pupils.
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'''Abraham Sharp''' ([[1661]]-[[1745]]X matbema Udan : apprenticed to merchant, but abandoned business and studied mathematics: employed by John Flamsteed in Greenwich observatory, 1676-90; taught mathematics In London from 1690; celebrated for skill in graduating instruments; published Geometry Improved 1717.
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| Abraham Simon
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'''Abraham Simon''' ([[1622]] 7-[[1692]]?), meda Uift: brother of Thomas Simon; employed by Queen Christina of Sweden: came to England f. 1642; cast model* of eminent oontemnonuta, including (Charles II and He i try Cromwell; wax portrait of himself in British Miweum.
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| Abraham Taylor
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'''Abraham Taylor''' (. [[1737]]-[[1740]]), independent tutor; minister at Deptford, 17*8; preacher and divinity tutor; D.D.; published religious and! controversial works.
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'''Abraham Tucker''' ([[1705]]-[[1774]]X philosopher; gentleman commoner of Mertou College, Oxford, 1711, where be studied philosophy, mathematics, French and Italian, and music; bought Betchworth Castle, near Dorking, 1737, and studied agriculture; wrote "The Light of Nature Pursued published, 1768-78, and other works of discursive philosophising, eulogised by Paky.
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'''Abraham Woodhead''' ([[1609]] - [[1678]]), Roman catholic controversialist; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1631; fellow, 1633; took holy orders; proctor, 1641; firmly opposed puritan efforts of the government; tutor to George Villiers, second duke of Buckingham , and his brother, Lord Francis, c. 1648; ejected from fellowship by parliamentary visitors, 1648; reinstated, 1660; resigned, 1678; joined Roman catholic church, but did not enter priesthood: the Whole Duty of Manerroneously attributed to him; published and left in manuscript controversial and other religious works.
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'''Abraham Wright''' ([[1611]]-[[1690]]), divine and author; educated at Merchant Taylors School and St. John's College, Oxford; fellow, 1632; M.A., 1637; appointed vicar of Oakhuin, Rutland, 1645, but did not t;ikt- possession till 1660; expelled from fellowship by parliamentary commission; minister of St. Olave in Silver Street. London. 1655-9; published Delitiae Delitiarum (a collection of epigrams), 1637,Parnassus Biceps(a collection of poetical pieces), 1656, and several religious and other works.
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'''Accepted Frewen''' ([[1588]]-[[1664]]), archbishop of York; eldest son of John Frewen; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1612; M.A., 1612; chaplain to Lord Digby (Bristol) in Spain; chaplain to the king and canon of Canterbury, 1625; president of Magdalen, 1626-43; dean of Gloucester, 1631; mainly instrumental in presentation of university plate to Charles I, 1642; bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1643; his estate declared forfeited by parliament, 1652; proscribed by Oliver Cromwell; archbishop of York, 1660-4; benefactor of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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'''Achilles Daunt''' ([[1832]]-[[1878]]), dean of Cork : gold medallist in classics at Dublin, 1863; vicar of St. Matthias, Dublin, 1867-78: D.D.; representative canon for the united diocese of Dublin and Glendalough; dean of Cork.
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'''Acton Ayrton''' S.MEE ([[1816]]-[[1886]]), politician ; practised as solicitor at Bombay; called to bar at Mi. 11 It Temple, 1853; liberal M.P. for Tower Hamlets, 1857-74; parliamentary secretary to treasury, 1868-9; privy councillor, 1869; first commissioner of works, 1869-73; judgeadvocate-general, 1873-4.
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'''Ada Cavendish''' ([[1839]]-[[1895]]), actress ; first appeared at New Royalty, 1863, and subsequently played at many London theatres and in America; her parts include Juliet, Beatrice, Rosalind, and Lady Teazle.
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'''Adair Crawford''' ([[1748]]-[[1795]]), physician and chemist; professor of chemistry at the military academy, Woolwich, and physician at St. Thomas's Hospital; published work maintaining the phlogiston hypothesis, 1779; wrote On Cancer and the Aerial Fluids 1790, and an Inquiry into the Effects of Tonics on the Animal Fibre published 1817.
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'''Adam Averell''' ([[1754]]-[[1847]]), Irish primitive Wesleyan minister; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; ordained by Bishop Cope, 1777; adopted evangelical views under the influence of Wesley; curate to Dr. Ledwich at Aghaboe, 1789-91; president of primitive Wesleyan methodist conference, 1818-41.
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'''Adam Baynes''' ([[1622]]-[[1670]]), captain in parliamentary army, and successively commissioner of excise and of customs; member of army and admiralty committees: several times M.P. for Leeds, and, 1659, for Appleby; imprisoned in Tower for treasonable practices, 1666.
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'''Adam Bellenden''' (d. [[1639]] ?), bishop ; son of Sir John Bellenden; M.A. Edinburgh, 1590; minister at Falkirk, 1608;suspended 1614; released, 1615; left presbyterian church, and was made bishop of Dunblane, 1616, and of Aberdeen, 1635; deprived of see on abolition of episcopacy in Scotland, 1638.
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'''Adam Black''' ([[1784]]-[[1874]]), politician and publisher ; i carried on bookselling business at Edinburgh, at first alone, and subsequently in partnership with his m-phi-w Charles; twice lord-provost of and, 1856-65, liberal.M.I for Edinburgh. His firm acquired copyrights of Encyclo paxlia Britaunica 1H27, imd Scott's novels, 1851.
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'''Adam Blackadder''' (fl. [[1674]]-[[1696]]), covenanter, son of John Blackadder the elder: apprenticed as merchant at Stirling: repeatedly imprisoned for Calvinistic principles; retired to Sweden, and subsequently settled in Edinburgh; wrote narrative of his father's sufferings.
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'''Adam Blackwood''' ([[1539]]-[[1613]]), Scottish writer: educated at university of Paris; studied civil law at Toulouse: taught philosophy at Paris; published De Vinculo 1575, and another work condemning heretics as rebels against divinely constituted authority: counsellor or judge of parliament of Poictiers; entered into controversy with George Buchanan; published, in French, ac{ count of sufferings of Mary Queen of Scots, 1587.
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'''Adam Bothwell''' ([[1527]] 7-[[1593]]), divine ; bishop of i Orkney, 1669; on commission for revising Book of Discipline, 1563; lord of session, 1565; performed, after protestant form, marriage ceremony of Mary Queen of Soots and James Hepburn, earl of Bothwell, at Holyrood House, and crowned and anointed Mary's son, Charles James, at Stirling, 1567; suspended from ministry for solemnising the marriage, 1667-8; exchanged greater part of temporalities of Orkney, while retaining title of bishop, for abbacy of Holyrood House, 1570; on commission to frame revised ecclesiastical settlement, 1672; one of council of twelve forming provisional government overthrown on 10 June, 1678; one of lords of articles at parliament, 1584. 1-27
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| Adam Buck
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'''Adam Buck''' ([[1759]]-[[1833]]), portrait-painter; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1795; published Paintings on Greek Vases 1811.
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'''Adam Buddle''' (d. [[1715]]), botanist; M.A. Oambrii U'i 1, 1685; noujuror, 1689; possessed a fine collection of mosses and grasses; rector of North Fambridge, Essex, 1703; left;in Knlish flora in manuscript,
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| Adam Clarke
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'''Adam Clarke''' ([[1762]]?-[[1832]]), theologian ; educated at Kingswood school, near Bristol: a methodist, 1778; preacher on the Wiltshire circuit, 1782; lived near London from 1805; LL.D. Aberdeen, 1808; published bibliographical works, 1803-, and a scriptural commentary, 1810-26; began to edit Rymer's Foedera 1818; his miscellaneous works printed, 1836.
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'''Adam Davy''' (fl. [[1308]] ?), fanatical rhymer ; formerly supposed to be the author of Alisaanderand the entire Bodleian MS. Laud, 622; claimed to predict the destiny of King Edward (III ?) in his Dreams
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'''Adam Dickson''' ([[1721]]-[[1776]]), writer on agriculture : M.A. Edinburgh; incumbent of Whittinghame in East Lothian, 1769-76; chief works, The Husbandry of the Ancients published 1788. and a Treatise on Agriculture vol. i. 1762, vol. ii. 1770.
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'''Adam Donald''' ([[1703]]-[[1780]]), called 'the prophet of Bethelnie; necromancer and quack physician,
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'''Adam Duncan''' , VISCOUNT DUNCAN ([[1731]]-[[1804]]), admiral; naval lieutenant, 1755; present at the blockade of Brest, 1769: commanded the Royal Exchange, a hired i vessel, employed hi petty convoy service, till it was put I out of commission, 1769-60; helped to reduce Belle Isle, i 1761, and Havana, 1762; eat on the court-martial on Keppel, with whom he showed much sympathy, and on i that on Sir Hugh Palliser, 1779; admiral, 1795; commander- in-chief in the North Sea, 1795-1801; prevented the mutiny of 1797 from extending to his flagship, the Venerable; defeated the Dutch admiral, Le Winter, off Camperdowu, 1797; created Baron Duncan of Lundie and Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, 1797.
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'''Adam Easton''' (d. [[1397]]), cardinal: of humble parentage; doctor in theology, Oxford; erroneously (loi-ribed as bishop of Hereford or of London; cardinal-priest after 1381; nominated by papal provision to the deanery of York, 1382; thrown into a dungeon at Nocera by Urban II for being concerned in the cardinalsplot against the pope's despotic rule, 1385; liberated by the intervention of Richard II, but degraded from the cardinalate; reinstated by Boniface IX, 1389; prebendary of Salisbury before 1392; incumbent of Hecham; died at Rome. Of his numerous writings, among which may be mentioned Perfectio Vitse Spiritualis and 4 Hebraica Saraceui none are extant.
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'''Adam Elliot''' (. [[1700]]X traveller ; B.A. Caius College, Cambridge, 1668; taken captive by the Moore, aud sold into slavery, 1670; ordained priest, 1672; accused by Titus Oates of being a Jesuit priest aud a Mahommedan; author of a Narrative of my Travails, Captivity, aud Escape from Salle, in the Kingdom of Fez bouud up with au attack on Oates, lo*2.
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'''Adam Gib''' ([[1714]]-[[1788]]), Scots anti-burgher divine ; educated at Edinburgh: joined the Associate Presbytery of 1735; minister of secession congregation, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, 1741; captured a rebel spy, 1745; leader of the anti-burgher synod, 1747; when dispossessed of Bristo Street Church ministered in one built for him in Nicholson Street; called Pope Gib published Proceedings of the Associate Synod 1748.
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'''Adam Gifford''' , LORD GIPPORD ([[1820]]-[[1887]]), lord of session; called to Scottish bar, 1849; advocate-depute, 1861; sheriff of Orkney and Zetland, 1865; lord of session as Lord Gifford, 1870-81; founded Gifford lectureships in natural theology.
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'''Adam Harsnett''' (r. [[1639]]), divine ; B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1601: M.A. St. John's College, 1604; B.D., 1612; vicar of Huttou, 1609-39; rector of Crauli.-un, 1612-39; published religious works.
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'''Adam Hill''' (d. [[1595]]), divine; fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1568-73; M.A., 1672; D.D., 1591; prebendary of Salisbury, 1586.
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'''Adam Littleton''' ([[1627]]-[[1694]]), lexicographer: educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; second master at Westminster, 1658; rector of Chelsea, 1669; chaplain to Charles II, 1670; published A Latin Dictionary in four parts 1673; prebendary of Westminster, 1674.
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'''Adam Martindale''' ([[1683]]-[[1686]]), presbyterlan divine; tutor and schoolmaster: later deputy quartermaster; tookcovenant 1643; became preacher at Manchester and vicar of Rostbeme, Cheshire, 1648; sympathised with rising of George Booth (1622-1684); deprived, 1662: preached and taught mathematics; ch.-iplain to Lord Delamer (Sir George Booth ) lit Dunham, 1671; took out licence, 1672: imprisoned on groundless suspicion?, 168ft; works include controversial publications and an autobiography.
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'''Adam Moleyns''' (rf. [[1450]]).
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'''Adam Murimuth''' ([[1275]]7-[[1347]]), historian; D.C.L. Oxford before 1312; agent at Avignon for Oxford University, for the chapter of Canterbury, and Edward II, 13121317; and again for Edward II, 1319 and 1323; sent on a mission to Sicily, 1323; prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and vicar-general for Archbishop Reynolds, 1325; exchanged precentorship of Exeter for rectory of Wraysbury, 1331; author of Coutinuatio Chronicarum (from 1303 to 1347); the continuation of the Flores Historiarumsometimes ascribed to him.
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'''Adam Murray''' (d. [[1700]]), defender of Londonderry : ndsed I troov of bone against Tyrconnel, 1688; leader of the no-surrender party, and chosen to command the horse; tlnffnished by nil bravery and was badly wounded.
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'''Adam Neale''' (. [[1832]]), army physician and author : M.D. Edinburgh, 1802; published an account of the Peninsular war, 1808, continental travels, 1818, and medical works; died at Dunkirk.
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'''Sir Adam Newton''' , tint baronet (.. [[1630]]), dean of Durham: tutor to Prince Henry (ft-r wards prince vs 5 111600: dean of Durham, 1W5; tutor to 1'riiuv Chute, 1611: created baronet, 1620: translated into w IV Dbcoane against Vontios
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'''Adam Reuter''' (.T. [[1608]]-1G26), author : a native of Kottbus in Silesia: resided many years at Oxford, having become a member of Exeter College, and wrote against the papacy.
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'''Adam Smith''' ([[1723]]-[[1790]]). political economist; ;.:,:-. DDl.. t I. 60 i BSSt**?, " OS,;:: DM,:!!-..,!,.:.-:.: !.-,. (n... I* HI t: !.--. i i.:.. ate with Bane; published b U Theory of the Moral nenu 1769; his lectures the means of his attaining ...,,:.-..,,.;..,,!!., H:.,-. Turgot, and others in Paris, and Votuira at OMV; ratamati to London, 1764, and ssttfad. 1747. in Kirkca Jd on a pension from the Duke of Boodeooh: from the physiocrats the perception that a Qdtl. t!:,..r,,;..,.,;,.,1,.:-...,.! b OV,MM,, n.. and differenov of wage*, and pnbtkhsd (1766) his mat study of political economy M a separate sdsacsj; hs book being studied, among others, by Pitt; edited the autobfanaptq 3 M MM,.-. m i tool tt:..- Bto -. ;;;T: sjag M kofd Ml* ri Oftsjl DUv OTlty. i;-;: member of Dr. Johnson's Club.
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'''Adam Stark''' ([[1784]]-[[1867]]), antiquary; published histories of Gainsborough (1817), the bishopric of Lincoln ( 1852), and printing ( 1855).
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'''Adam Walker''' ([[1731]] r-lft Sl Xaothor and I native of Westmoreland: s HMauirht: teacher In the north: baoanw a trai physios: settled in London; employed at Kton and Win Chester: publb-hol tract* on ventilation and note* of his lecture*.
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'''Adam White''' ([[1817]]-[[1879]]X naturalist: engaged! loological department of British Museum, 1888-68; F-LJ 1846-85; published numerous writings relating to n j"*
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'''Sir Adam Wilson''' ([[1814]]-[[1891]]), Canadian judge; born at Edinburgh; emigrated to Upper Canada, 1830, and was called to bar, 1839; Q.C., 1850; member of legislative assembly for North Riding of York, 1859 and 1862; solicitor-general, 1862- 3; puisne judge of court of queen's bench for Upper Canada, and later of common pleas, 1863, but returned to queen's bench, 1868; chief justice of court of common pleas, 1878: chief- justice of court of queen's bench of Ontario, 1884.
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'''Adela''' ([[1062]]?-! [[137]]), mother of Stephen, king of England; daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders; married, 1080, Stephen, earl of Meaux and Brie, who succeeded to Blois and Chartres, 1090; ruled with great thoroughness during her husband's absence on the first crusade, 1095-9; regent on her husband's death, 1101, till majority of her eldest son Theobald, 1109; took the veil; effected an alliance between Theobald and Henry I of England, 1118.
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'''Adelaide Kemble''' , afterwards MRS. SARTORIS (18147-1879), vocalist and author; daughter of Charles Kemble; first sang at the Ancient Concerts, 1*35; in Germany and at Parix, 1837-X; had lessons from Pasta and appeared with success at Venice as Norma; sang in Italian opera at Co vent Garden. 1841-2: married Ed ward John Sartor K 1843; published -A Week in a French Country House 1867, and other works.
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'''Adolphus Speed''' (ft. [[1652]]), agricultural writer; commenced his Adam out of Kdtn 1626 (published, 1659); wrote also a Cornucopia 1C62; lifelong ally of Samuel Hartlib.
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'''Adoniram Byfield''' (d. [[1660]]), puritan, third son of Nicholas Byfleld; educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; chaplain to a parliamentary regiment; a clerk of the Westminster Assembly, of which he took minutes (printed 1874); rector, till 1645, and vicar, till 1657, of Fulham; rector of Collingbourn Ducis, Wiltshire, before 1654; on Wiltshire committee for ejecting clergy, 1654.
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'''Adriaen Hanneman''' ([[1601]] ?-[[1668]] ?), portraitpainter; resided in England, c. 1625-40; returned to the Hague and became first director of the new guild of St. Luke, 1656: executed portraits of Charles II, the duke of Hamilton, Vaudyck, and William III and Mary.
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'''Adrian Batten''' (. [[1630]]), musician : educated in choir, Winchester Cathedral; vicar-choral, Westminster, 1614; organist and vicar-choral, St. Paul's, 1624; composed church music.
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'''Sir Adrian Fortescue''' ([[1476]] ?-[[1539]]), knight of St. John; served against the French, 1513 and 1522; knighted, 1528; knight of St. John, 1532; attainted and executed on a charge of treason, probably on account of his relationship to Queen Anne Boleyn.
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'''Aeneas Chisholm''' ([[1759]]-[[1818]]), Scottish catholic prelate; educated at Valladolid; tutor at Douay, 1786; priest in Strathglass, 1789; titular bishop of Diocaesarea, 1805; coadjutor, 1805, and vicar-apostolic, 1814, of the highland district.
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'''Agnes Bulmer''' ([[1775]]-[[1836]]), poetess; wrote Messiah's Kingdom 1833.
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'''Agnes Hungerford''' , LADY (d. [[1524]]), second wife of Sir Edward Hungerford (rf. 1522): executed for murder of first husband, John Ootell.
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'''Agnes Strickland''' ([[1796]]-[[1874]]), historian ; edu MM -.-. Ml i MMri MMMMWl *&+* I ". MM granted a dvil list pension of low. in i prose work* wero l Children 18U, and st pension li&torioal Tales of Ulnstrioos 'Tales and Stories from successful work, but in which her sister Elisabeth collaborated, and Letters of Mary Queen of Soots 1843, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and Issflssli Princesses 1860-9 (of which Elizabeth again wrote portions): and a novel, How will it end 1866.
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'''Agnes Wenman''' (rf. [[1617]]), nte Ferrnor ; wife of I Sir Richard Wenman; a Roman catholic; patron of John Gerard (1564-1637), the Jesuit; imprisoned on suspicion of complicity in Gunpowder plot, 1605-6; left in manuscript a translation of French version of Johannes Zouaras.
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'''Aio''' (d. [[974]]), historian ; a fabulous monk of Croyland Abbey, whose supposititious work is quoted in Ingulfs forged Chronicle
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'''Alan Basset''' , BARON OK WYCOMBK (d. [[1233]]); younger son of Thomas Basset; close attendant anil supporter of John; sent on political mission to France, 1220: sheriff of Rutland, 1217-29.
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'''Alan Cope''' (d. [[1678]]), Roman catholic divine : fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1549; M.A., 1552; student of civil law; withdrew to Flanders, 1560, and to Rome; created D.D. by the pope; canon of St. Pett-r V, Rome; died in Home; published Syntaxia Histories Evangelicte 1672; edited Nicholas Harpsfleld's Dialog! sex against the English reformers, 1566.
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