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Blaquiere, Edward (1779–1832), author and philhellene  

F. Rosen

Blaquiere, Edward (1779–1832), author and philhellene, was born in Ireland, the sixth of eight children of James Blaquiere (1726–1803), soldier and farmer. His father, a lieutenant-colonel in the 13th dragoons, was the brother of John Blaquiere, first Baron de Blaquiere (1732–1812), and both were among the nine children of ...

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Croke, Richard (1489–1558), Greek scholar  

Jonathan Woolfson

Croke, Richard (1489–1558), Greek scholar, was born in London. Nothing is known about his family, except that he had a brother, Robert, who was living in Coltishall in Norfolk in 1538 and in Water Orton, Warwickshire, in 1558, when he was named as one of the executors of ...

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Latimer, William (c. 1467–1545), clergyman and Greek scholar  

Nicholas Orme

Latimer, William (c. 1467–1545), clergyman and Greek scholar, was the son of John Latimer and came from the diocese of Worcester, perhaps from the parish of St Mary, Worcester, a church to which he gave a bequest in his will. He studied arts at ...

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Solanus, Moses [Moïse du Soul] (d. before 1737?), Greek scholar  

J. B. Mullinger

revised by Philip Carter

Solanus, Moses [Moïse du Soul] (d. before 1737?), Greek scholar, was the grandson of Paul du Soul of Tours, professor of theology and rector of the academy at Saumur between 1657 and 1661. As a protestant he was driven from France by persecution, and seems to have settled at ...