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