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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 11: Myllar-NichollsWilliam mylne (d. 17 brother of Robert, was entered apprentice on 27 Dec. 1750, and was with his brother in Rome in 1755-6. He was admitted freemason in Edinburgh in 1758, and was deacon of masons in 17 61 - 2 and 1765 He became architect to the city of Edinburgh, member of the town council, and convener of trades in 1765. On 27 Aug. 1765 he contracted for the erection of t...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 63: Wordsworth-ZuylesteinThe Rev. Andrew Clark on Anthony a Wood. Mr. Sidney Colvin on Flaxman, Keats, and Robert Louis Stevenson.Mr. Francis Darwin, on Charles Darwin. 'sir William Flower, f.r.s. (d. On Sir Richard Owen.Sir Michael Foster, on Francis Maitland Balfour. 'professor E. A. Freeman (d. 1892) 011 Alfred the Great.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 59: Wakeman-WatkinsFrom subsequent litigation it appeared that Walcot died intestate and insolvent. His insolvency, however, may be attributed to his benevolence of heart, for he and Sir Job Charlton being appointed trustees of the charitable will (dated 1674) of Thomas Lane, they repaired a house of Mr. Lane's (now Lane's Asylum), and converted it into a workhouse for employing the poor of L...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 28: Howard-InglethorpIn February 1597 - 8 some small reinforce ments sent to the Spanish army In the low Countries were magnified by report Into.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitall...

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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 50: Russen ScobellRutherford mentions that he had heard of Priestley's researches on the action of plants on mephitic air (p. But makes no other reference to Priestley's work, which he had quite possibly not seen. Neither of the two chemists regarded the gas as an element at this time. Rutherford's comparison of putre faction to slow combustion (p. 24) is inte resting, although Priestley had ...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 32: Lambe-Leigh He died 21 'april 1580, and was buried in the church of St. Faith under St. Paul's. His tomb, which was destroyed with the church of St. Faith in the fire of London, bore a brass plate with figures of himself in armour and his three wives. His epitaph is printed by Dugdale (history of St. Paul's, 1818, p. The names of his wives were Joan, Alice, and Joan. The last survived hi...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 60: Watson WhewellFinding his health impaired by climate and hard service, Watson resigned the ser vice on 16 Jan. 1786, and embarked in the Spring, but his health failed, and he landed at Dover, only to die on 17 Sept. 1786. He was buried in a vault of St. Mary's Church, Dover, on the 22nd. An engraved portrait is mentioned by Evans (cat. I.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundre...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 34: Llwyd-MaccartneyLlwyd, richard poet, known as 'the Bard of Snowdon, ' was the son of John and Alice Llwyd of Beaumaris, Anglesey, where he was born in 1752. The ear ydeathofhisfatber, asmallcossttrader, left the family in necessitous circumstances. After an education of nine months at the See school at Beaumaris, Llwyd at twelve years of ageentered the domestic service ofs tls man in the ...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 3: Second Supplement, Neil Young In 1891 Aberdeen University conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. Neil took a keen interest in Scottish history and literature, and was for long a member of the franco-scottish Society. In 1900, on the death of Mr. C. H. Prior, he took with some hesitation the work of senior tutor of Pembroke. He died after a brief illness on 19 June 1901, and was b...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 1: Supplement, Abbott-Childers Beardsley had musical gifts of a high order, the charms of his conversation were great, and he had an extraordinary know ledge of books for so young a man. Certain sotto race whisperings of his art were, perhaps, to be accounted for by the want of physical balance of the poitrinaire. Through out his life he suffered from weakness of the lungs, and his abnormal ...

Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 54: Stanhope-Stovin In haranguing her visitors there is no doubt that Lady Hester found the greatest happiness of her life. She frequently talked for an hour or more without stopping, and prolonged her remarks until two or three in the morning. She liked her hearer to stand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forg...

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This book presents the 1911 Leslie Stephen Lecture, which was delivered by Sir Sidney Lee at Cambridge University.

Excerpt from The Place of English Literature in the Modern University an Inaugural Lecture Delivered at East London College on October 2: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at East London College on October 2, 1913 I welcome this opportunity of thanking publicly the Senate of the University of London for appointing me to the newly created chair of English Language and Literature tenable at this college. I have also gratefully to acknowledge the p...

Excerpt from Stratford-on-Avon: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare About Shakespeare's connection with Stratford. That the borough was his birthplace and burial place gives it, after all, a smaller attraction than that he lived there for full two-thirds Of his life. And completely as the resources of civilisation have remodelled the town in many of its aspects, it still boasts sufficient survivals of the age of Elizabeth to g...

Excerpt from Shakespeares Venus and Adonis: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, I From the Unique Copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library, With Introduction and Bibliography This reproduction in collotype facsimile of the unique copy in the Bodleian Library of Shakespeare's poem of Venus and Adonis forms, with the accompanying reproductions of the earliest editions of Lucrece, Sonnets, The Passionate Pilgrim,...