Abdulla, Raficq Shaik (1940–2019), scholar, broadcaster, and legal adviser, was born on 29 June 1940 in Durban, South Africa, the son of Shaik Abdulla, an Indian landowner and businessman of Hyderabadi origin, based in Durban, and his wife Mosida Ismail, née Abraham, a doctor, from a ...
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Abdulla, Raficq Shaik (1940–2019), scholar, broadcaster, and legal adviser
Khizar Humayun Ansari
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Raficq Abdulla (1940–2019), by unknown photographer
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Acworth, George (1534–1581x6), administrator and scholar
Ronald H. Fritze
Acworth, George (1534–1581x6), administrator and scholar, was born in London in 1534, the son of Thomas Acworth, a merchant taylor of London, and his wife, Anne. Thomas came from Bedfordshire, where his father, also named George, had been elected knight of the shire for that county in 1529. During his youth ...
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Adams, William Davenport (1851–1904), journalist and compiler of reference works
Lewis Melville
revised by Nilanjana Banerji
Adams, William Davenport (1851–1904), journalist and compiler of reference works, was born at Park Terrace, New Park Road, Brixton, on 28 December 1851, the elder surviving son of William Henry Davenport Adams (1828–1891), then a private tutor, and his wife, Sarah Esther, née...
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Ælfric of Eynsham [Ælfric Grammaticus, Ælfric the Homilist] (c. 950–c. 1010), Benedictine abbot of Eynsham and scholar
Malcolm Godden
Ælfric of Eynsham [Ælfric Grammaticus, Ælfric the Homilist] (c. 950–c. 1010), Benedictine abbot of Eynsham and scholar, is of unknown origins, though his language suggests he came from Wessex. He was educated under Æthelwold in the monastic school at Winchester, and after becoming a monk and priest was sent about 987 to the abbey of ...
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Ailerán [Aileranus Sapiens] (d. 665), scholar
Thomas O'Loughlin
Ailerán [Aileranus Sapiens] (d. 665), scholar, usually called ‘the Wise’ (Aileranus Sapiens), was a teacher in the monastery of Clonard, Meath, and wrote at least two works to assist students in interpreting the gospels. Apart from his being a monk and teacher in ...
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Aldhelm [St Aldhelm; Ealdhelm] (d. 709/10), abbot of Malmesbury, bishop of Sherborne, and scholar
Michael Lapidge
Aldhelm [St Aldhelm; Ealdhelm] (d. 709/10), abbot of Malmesbury, bishop of Sherborne, and scholar, was a prolific Latin author whose idiosyncratic style of composition in the media of prose and verse, both metrical and rhythmical, was profoundly influential both in England...
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Aldhelm [St Aldhelm] (d. 70910) drawing The British Library
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Alfonsi, Petrus (fl. 1106–1126), scholar and translator of scientific works
Charles Burnett
Alfonsi, Petrus (fl. 1106–1126), scholar and translator of scientific works, was born in northern Spain, to Jewish parents. He was baptized a Christian on 29 June 1106 in Huesca, Aragon, with the names of the apostle on whose feast day the baptism took place and of his godfather, ...
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Algarotti, Francesco, Count Algarotti in the Prussian nobility (1712–1764)
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Algarotti, Francesco, Count Algarotti in the Prussian nobility (1712–1764), poet and scholar
David Parker
Algarotti, Francesco, Count Algarotti in the Prussian nobility (1712–1764), poet and scholar, was born on 11 December 1712 in the family home in Venice on the Fondamenta Nuove, the second son of Rocco Algarotti (d. 1726) and his wife, Maria Mercati. His father was a prosperous merchant of Paduan origin, settled in ...
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Allen, Edward Heron- (1861–1943), lawyer and scholar
Brian W. Harvey
Allen, Edward Heron- (1861–1943), lawyer and scholar, was born in London on 17 December 1861, the fourth child of George Allen (1823–1911), head of the firm of Allen & Son, Solicitors, Soho, London, and his wife, Catherine Herring or Heron (b. 1830)...
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Ammonius, Andreas [Andrea della Rena] (bap. 1476, d. 1517), humanist scholar and poet
J. B. Trapp
Ammonius, Andreas [Andrea della Rena] (bap. 1476, d. 1517), humanist scholar and poet, was the son of Elisabetta Vanni and her husband, Francesco della Rena (dell' Arena). Of a family long established as silk weavers at Lucca, he was baptized in the cathedral there on 13 October 1476. In preparation for an ecclesiastical career, he studied with ...
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Ashe, St George (1658–1718), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry and scholar
Hermann J. Real
Ashe, St George (1658–1718), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry and scholar, was born at Castle Strange, co. Roscommon, on 3 March 1658, the second of the three sons of Thomas Ashe, who belonged to a Wiltshire family that had settled in Ireland...
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Asquith, Raymond (1878–1916)
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Asquith, Raymond (1878–1916), scholar and army officer
John Jolliffe
Asquith, Raymond (1878–1916), scholar and army officer, was born on 6 November 1878 in John Street, Hampstead, the eldest of the five children of Herbert Henry Asquith (1852–1928), later prime minister and first earl of Oxford and Asquith, and his first wife, Helen (...
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Babington, Churchill (1821–1889), scholar
Thomas Seccombe
revised by M. C. Curthoys
Babington, Churchill (1821–1889), scholar, was born at Roecliffe, Leicestershire, on 11 March 1821, the only son of Matthew Drake Babington (1788–1851), rector of Thringstone, and his wife, Hannah (d. 1873), daughter of Benjamin Fleetwood Churchill. He was connected with the Macaulay family, and slightly, on his mother's side, with that of the poet ...
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Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon (c. 1528–1610), gentlewoman and scholar
Lynne Magnusson
Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon (c. 1528–1610), gentlewoman and scholar, was probably born at Gidea Hall, Essex. She was third of the nine children of Sir Anthony Cooke (1505/6–1576), one of the humanist educators who tutored Edward VI, and Anne (...
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