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Abbot, John (1587/8–c. 1650), Roman Catholic priest and poet  

Richard D. Jordan

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Abbot, John (1587/8–c. 1650), Roman Catholic priest and poet, is of unknown parentage and is variously recorded as 'of London' and 'of Leicester'. He was born a protestant, and was reputedly a nephew of George Abbot, who became archbishop of ...

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Abbott, George (1604–1649), writer and politician  

Stephen K. Roberts

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Abbott, George (1604–1649), writer and politician, was born in 1604 and baptized on 13 March at St Mary Bishophill Junior, York, the son of George Abbott (d. 1607) of York and Joan, the daughter of Aleyn Penkeston. Both Abbott's father and grandfather ...

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Abbott, Lemuel (d. 1776), Church of England clergyman and poet  

Thompson Cooper

revised by Michael Bevan

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Abbott, Lemuel (d. 1776), Church of England clergyman and poet, whose family background is obscure, became curate of Ansty, Leicestershire, in 1756, and vicar of Thornton, in the same county, in 1773. He published Poems on Various Subjects, whereto is Prefixed a Short Essay on the Structure of English Verse...

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Abbott, Thomas Eastoe (1786/7–1854), poet  

Thompson Cooper

revised by Megan A. Stephan

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Abbott, Thomas Eastoe (1786–1854), poet, was born on 23 November 1786 at East Dereham, Norfolk, where he was baptized on 29 November 1786, the son of John Abbott (1749/50–1803) and his wife Susanna Eastoe (1752/3–1823). He was descended from a ...

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Ackermann, Rudolph (1764–1834), publisher  

John Ford

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Ackermann, Rudolph (1764–1834), publisher, was born on 20 April 1764 at Stollberg, near Leipzig, in Saxony, the sixth child of Barthel Ackermann (1723–1798), a saddler, and his wife, Justina Scharschmidt (1732–1808). He was educated at the Latin school at Stollberg and then at ...

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Ackermann, Rudolph (1764–1834)  

Maker: François Nicholas Mouchet

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Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834) attrib. François Nicholas Mouchet, 1810–14 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Adams, Francis William Lauderdale (1862–1893), writer  

Meg Tasker

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Adams, Francis William Lauderdale (1862–1893), writer, was born on 27 September 1862 at Valletta in Malta. The grandson of the Scottish classicist and medical scholar Francis Adams (1796–1861), he was the first of two sons born to Andrew Leith Adams (1827–1882), army surgeon and natural historian, and his wife, ...

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Adams, Orion (1717?–1797), printer  

Ian Maxted

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Adams, Orion (1717?–1797), printer, baptized in Manchester Cathedral on 17 April 1720, was born in Manchester, probably in 1717, the son of Roger Adams (1681?–1741), printer of the Manchester Weekly Journal from 1719 to at least 1725 and from 1732 of the ...

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Adams, Richard (bap. 1620, d. 1661), poet  

W. H. Kelliher

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Adams, Richard (bap. 1620, d. 1661), poet, was baptized at St Leonard Eastcheap in London on 8 January 1620, the second son of Sir Thomas Adams, first baronet (bap. 1586, d. 1668), and his wife, Ann (1592–1642), daughter of Humphrey Maptide (d...

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Adams, Roger (1681?–1741), printer and publisher  

D. Nuttall

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Adams, Roger (1681?–1741), printer and publisher, is thought to have been born at Chester, and may have served an apprenticeship to a member of the Chester Company of Painters, Glaziers, Embroiderers and Stationers, although there is no entry of his name in the minute books of that company. He did, however, become a freeman of the city of ...

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Adams, William Henry Davenport (1828–1891), journalist and author  

Thomas Seccombe

revised by Joanne Potier

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Adams, William Henry Davenport (1828–1891), journalist and author, was born in London on 5 May 1828, the only son of Samuel Adams (1798–1853), born in Ashburton, Devon, an Inland Revenue officer, and his wife, Elizabeth Mary, née Snell. He was the grandson of Captain ...

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Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), writer and politician  

Pat Rogers

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Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), writer and politician, was born on 1 May 1672 at the rectory, Milston, a hamlet north of Amesbury in Wiltshire, the son of Lancelot Addison (1632–1703) and his wife, Jane, née Gulston (c.1635?–1684). His father was at that time vicar of ...

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Addison, Joseph (1672–1719)  

Maker: Sir Godfrey Kneller

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Joseph Addison (1672–1719) by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1703–12 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Ainger, Alfred [pseud. Doubleday] (1837–1904), writer and Church of England clergyman  

Edith Sichel

revised by Nilanjana Banerji

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Ainger, Alfred [pseud. Doubleday] (1837–1904), writer and Church of England clergyman, was born at 10 Doughty Street, London, on 9 February 1837, the youngest of the four children of Alfred Ainger (1798–1859) and his first wife, Marianne Jagger (1799–1839...

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Ainger, Alfred (1837–1904)  

Maker: George Du Maurier

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Alfred Ainger (1837–1904) by George Du Maurier, c. 1881 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805–1882), novelist  

Sheldon Goldfarb

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Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805–1882), novelist, was born on 4 February 1805 at 21 King Street, Manchester, the elder of two sons of Thomas Ainsworth (1778–1824), a solicitor, and his wife, Ann (1778–1842), daughter of the Revd Ralph Harrison (1748–1810), a nonconformist minister and tutor of languages and literature at the ...

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Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805–1882)  

Maker: Daniel Maclise

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William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) by Daniel Maclise, c. 1834 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Albert, Harold [formerly Harold Albert Kemp; pseud. Helen Cathcart] (1909–1997), author and journalist  

Hugo Vickers

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Albert, Harold [formerly Harold Albert Kemp; pseud. Helen Cathcart] (1909–1997), author and journalist, was born on 15 April 1909 at 48 Marsala Road, Lewisham, the son of Albert William Kemp, builder, and his wife, Mabel, the daughter of Frederick Read, dramatic reciter. He was educated at ...

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Aleyn, Charles (d. 1640), poet  

Eleri Larkum

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Aleyn, Charles (d. 1640), poet, was born in Cambridgeshire, and was admitted sizar at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 26 January 1618. He proceeded BA in 1621–2, and MA in 1625. He became a master in the school of Thomas Farnaby in Cripplegate, London...

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Allan, Peter John (1825–1848), poet  

Charles Brayne

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Allan, Peter John (1825–1848), poet, was born at York on 6 June 1825, the third son of Dr Colin Allan and Jane Gibbon. His father became the chief medical officer of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and so Allan spent the majority of his childhood there, before moving to ...