Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Biographer s Tale image File TheBiographersTale.jpg 200px image caption 1st edition author A. S. Byatt country United Kingdom language English language English genre Novel publisher Chatto & Windus release date 1 November 2001 media type Print Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pages 376 pp isbn 0 7540 1641 2 oclc 47868714 The Biographer s Tale is a book by A. S. Byatt . The story is about a postgraduate student, Phineas G. Nanson , who decides to write a biography about an obscure biographer , Scholes Destry Scholes . During the course of his research he fails to learn much about the actual subject of his biography, but discovers a lot of Destry Scholes unpublished research about real historical figures Carl Linnaeus , Francis Galton and Henrik Ibsen . In the book, Byatt combines facts with fiction when recounting the lives of the three latter figures. External links http www.complete review.com reviews byattas bstale.htm The Biographer s Tale at The Complete Review DEFAULTSORT Biographers Tale, The Category 2001 novels Category British novels Category Novels by A. S. Byatt Category Novels about writers 2000s novel stub ... more details
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Charles Higham born 18 February 1931, London ref Charles Higham In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer s Memoir ref is an author, editor and poet. Higham is a recipient of the Prix des Cr ateurs Citation needed date July 2011 of the Acad mie Fran aise and the Poetry Society of London Prize. Biography Higham is the son of MP and advertising mogul Sir Charles Higham. ref Charles Higham In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer s Memoir ref He published two early books of verse in England , ref Charles Higham In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer s Memoir ref before moving to Sydney , Australia in 1954, where at twenty three he became a prominent book and film critic. He became literary editor of The Bulletin , the country s leading weekly, in 1964, and published three more collections of verse. ref Charles Higham In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer s Memoir ref In the 1960 s, Higham also compiled a number of now scarce horror anthologies for Horwitz Publishing House , reprinting mainly material by non Australian writers, the majority of the stories being reprinted from Montague Summers 1936 anthology The Grimoire and Other Supernatural Stories . Australian writer Terry Dowling contributes an essay discussing the influence of Higham s horror anthologies on his own writing to Stephen Jones author ... of Hollywood A Biographer s Memoir ref This success was followed by Bette, the Life of Bette ... Higham, In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer s Memoir , pp. ?? ref Higham s Trading with the Enemy The Nazi ... A Biographer s Memoir , pp. ?? ref Higham has also written Murder in Hollywood Solving a Silent Screen ... Winston Churchill s Mother and Her World 2006 . ref Charles Higham, In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer ... Story 1991 . ref Charles Higham In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer s Memoir ref The co authors ... A Biographer s Memoir , in 2009. Errol Flynn controversy In 1980, Higham published a controversial ... boyfriend Richard V. Palafox, a nurse. ref Charles Higham In and Out of Hollywood A Biographer s Memoir ... more details
unsourced date September 2011 Edward Smith 1839 1919 was an English biographer. This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography as E. S. , and the list on this page is complete to 1901. Works The Peasant s Home, 1760 1875 1876 William Cobbett A Biography 1878 The Story of the English Jacobins 1881 Foreign Visitors in England 1889 England and America after Independence 1900 The Life of Sir Joseph Banks 1911 Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography DNB John Almon Thomas Amyot Edward Baines Samuel Bamford William Pleydell Bouverie Hugh Boyd 1746 1794 Francis Burdett Mathew Carey John Cartwright 1740 1824 William Cobbett Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1839 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1919 PLACE OF DEATH Category 1839 births Category 1919 deaths Category English biographers ... more details
Orphan date April 2011 BLPunref date April 2012 Nashville, Tennessee Nashville based music biographer Jake Brown has published thirty books, including AC DC in the Studio, Tom Waits in the Studio, Heart In the Studio authorized and co written with Ann Wilson Ann and Nancy Wilson rock musician Nancy Wilson , Prince In the Studio, Motorhead In the Studio co written with Lemmy Lemmy Kilmister , Rick Rubin In the Studio, Dr. Dre In the Studio, Suge Knight The Rise, Fall and Rise of Death Row Records, 50 Cent No Holds Barred, Biggie Smalls Ready to Die, Tupac In the Studio authorized by the estate , as well as titles on Kanye West , R. Kelly , Jay Z , The Black Eyed Peas , and other titles including Red Hot Chili Peppers In the Studio, Motley Crue In the Studio, Alice in Chains In the Studio, Meat Puppets In the Studio co written with Curt Kirkwood Curt and Cris Kirkwood , Tori Amos in the Studio, and Third Eye Blind in the Studio authorized . Brown is also the co author of founding Guns N Roses guitarist Tracii Guns authorized memoir, and a featured author in late funk pioneer Rick James autobiography, Memoirs of Rick James Confessions of a Super Freak, and is the co author of What the Hell Was I Thinking? by retired adult film star Jasmin St. Claire . In February 2008, Brown appeared as the official biographer of record on Fuse TV s Live Through This Nikki Sixx TV special and in November, 2010, appeared as biographer of record on Bloomberg TV s Game Changers Jay Z special. Brown has received additional press in national publications including USA Today USA TODAY , MTV.com , The New York Post , Vibe magazine Vibe , National Public Radio NPR , Billboard magazine Billboard , Revolver magazine Revolver , and Publishers Weekly among many others. Brown was recently nominated alongside Lemmy Kilmister for the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards in the category of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Brown is also owner of the hard rock label Versailles ... more details
John Rae 1845 &ndash 1915 was a Scotland Scottish journalist and biographer. The long time editor of The Contemporary Review , and contributor to The British Quarterly Review , he became famous for his 1895 biography of Adam Smith , Life of Adam Smith , which replaced the Biographical Memoir of Adam Smith of 1811, by Dugald Stewart , as the standard Smith reference. Bibliography Contemporary Socialism 1884 and new editions 1891, 1901, 1908 Eight Hours for Work 1894 Life of Adam Smith 1895 External links http www.econlib.org library YPDBooks Rae raeLS.html Full text of Life of Adam Smith References Rae a journalist out of his depth , by Aaron B. Fuller, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology , November 2003 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rae, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1845 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1915 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Rae, John Category 1845 births Category 1915 deaths Category Scottish biographers Category Scottish magazine editors Category Scottish journalists Category Place of birth missing Category Scottish political journalists Category 19th century Scottish people Scotland writer stub fr John Rae journaliste pt John Rae jornalista ... more details
William Turner 1788 1853 was an English Unitarianism Unitarian minister, known as a biographer. Life The son of William Turner Unitarian minister William Turner , he was born at Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle on 13 January 1788. He was educated at Glasgow University , where he graduated M.A. in 1806, at Manchester College dn date February 2012 then based in York , and at Edinburgh University 1808 . From 1809 to 1827 he was tutor at Manchester College in mathematics and philosophy. In February 1829 he became minister of Northgate End chapel, Halifax, West Yorkshire Halifax , where he was a promoter of educational and scientific culture. He died on 30 December 1853. He married 1817 Miss Benton, niece of Newcome Cappe . Works He published sermons and tracts his contributions to periodicals are sometimes signed V. N. i.e. Vigilii Nepos . His major work is Lives of Eminent Unitarians , 1840 43, 2 vols. References cite DNB wstitle Turner, William 1714 1794 Attribution DNB wstitle Turner, William 1714 1794 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Turner, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1788 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1853 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Turner, William Category 1788 births Category 1853 deaths Category English Unitarians Category English biographers ... more details
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Richard Ryan 1796 &ndash 1849 was an English people English biographer. Ryan was son of Richard Ryan, a bookseller in Camden Town, who died before 1830. ref Gent. Mag. 1830, pt. i. ref Ryan seems to have followed the business of a bookseller but also wrote several interesting books, a few plays, and some songs which were set to music by eminent composers. His plays Everybody s Husband , a comic drama in one act Quite at Home , a comic entertainment in one act and Le Pauvre Jacques , a vaudeville in one act, from the French are printed in J. Cumberland s Acting Plays, 1825. Besides the works mentioned, he published Eight Ballads on the Superstitions of the Irish Peasantry , 8vo, London, 1822. Biographia Hibernica, a Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland, from the earliest periods to the present time , 2 vols. STO. London, 1819 21. Poems on Sacred Subjects , Sic., 8vo, London, 1824. Dramatic Table Talk, or Scenes, Situations, and Adventures, serious and comic, in Theatrical History and Biography, with engravings , 3 vols, limo, London, 1825. Poetry and Poets, being a Collection of the choicest Anecdotes relative to the Poets of every age and nation, illustrated by engravings , 3 vols. 12mo, London, 1826. References reflist Attribution DNB wstitle Ryan, Richard External links wikiquote Richard Ryan worldcat id lccn n82 208577 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ryan, Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1796 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1849 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ryan, Richard Category English biographers Category 1796 births Category 1849 deaths Category English booksellers ... more details
BLP sources date January 2011 John Campbell born 1947 is a British political writer and biographer. His works include biographies of Aneurin Bevan , Edward Heath , and Margaret Thatcher , the last consisting of two volumes, The Grocer s Daughter 2000 and The Iron Lady 2003 . A one volume abridgment prepared by David Freeman a historian of Britain teaching at California State University, Fullerton , titled The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, From Grocer s Daughter to Prime Minister, was published in 2009 and reissued in paperback in 2011. He was awarded the NCR Book Award for his biography of Heath. Campbell was consultant to the 2009 production of Thatcher film Margaret , a fictionalisation of Margaret Thatcher s fall from power, and the 2012 film The Iron Lady film The Iron Lady . Expand section Basic biographical data birth date and place, education date November 2009 Publications cite book isbn 9780751201383 title Lloyd George The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922 31 1977 F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead 1983 Roy Jenkins 1983 Aneurin Bevan Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism 1987 The Experience of World War 2 editor, 1989 Edward Heath A Biography 1993 Margaret Thatcher The Grocer s Daughter 2000 Margaret Thatcher The Iron Lady 2003 If Love Were All The Story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George 2006 The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer s Daughter to Prime Minister 2009 paperback, 2011 ISBN 9780143120872 Pistols at Dawn Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from William Pitt The Younger Pitt and Charles James Fox Fox to Tony Blair Blair and Gordon Brown Brown 2009 References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Campbell, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1947 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Campbell, John Category British writers Category NCR Book Award winners Category Living people Category 1947 births UK writer stub ... more details
File Patrick mcgilligan 2011.jpg thumb Patrick McGilligan at the 2011 Texas Book Festival. Patrick McGilligan is an Irish American biographer, film historian and writer. His biography on Alfred Hitchcock , Alfred Hitchcock A Life in Darkness and Light was a finalist for the Edgar Award . ref http www.harpercollins.com authors 6508 Patrick McGilligan index.aspx Harper Collins ref He is the author of two New York Times Notable Books, and he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin . He is also noted for his biography on Clint Eastwood , Clint The Life and Legend , which reveals much about Eastwood which his official biography by Richard Schickel left out. He has written biographies on Alfred Hitchcock. Clint Eastwood, James Cagney , Robert Altman , Fritz Lang , George Cukor , Jack Nicholson and Oscar Micheaux . He is also an editor of Backstory which interviews Hollywood screenwriters and published by the University of California Press ref http books.google.co.uk books?id nLAzO0DHs34C&pg PA702&dq Patrick McGilligan biography&hl en&ei 7pobTNeLMsOTsQbP3r3kBw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 4&ved 0CDkQ6AEwAw v onepage&q&f false Six screenplays By Robert Riskin, Patrick McGilligan ref Notable works Clint The Life and Legend George Cukor A Double Life Alfred Hitchcock A Life in Darkness and Light Fritz Lang The Nature of the Beast Oscar Micheaux The Great and Only The Life of America s First Black Filmmaker Jack Nicholson The Joker Is Wild Nicholas Ray The Glorious Failure of an American Director References Reflist External links http nochedecine.files.wordpress.com 2010 02 photo.jpg Photograph Persondata NAME McGilligan, Patrick ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT McGilligan, Patrick Category American biographers Category American writers Category Film historians Category American people of Irish descent Category People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin Category Writers from Wisconsin Category Living people US writer ... more details
John Howie 1735&ndash 1793 ref name DNB cite DNB volume 28 wstitle Howie, John ref was a Scottish biographer. He was an East Renfrewshire farmer from Lochgoin , who claimed descent from an Albigensian refugee. ref name DNB Works Howie wrote Lives of the Protestant worthies of Scotland from Patrick Hamilton martyr Patrick Hamilton , the first martyr., under the title of Biographia Scoticana . It was long a Scottish classic, first published in 1774. He revised and enlarged the work, 1781 5, and this edition was reissued, with notes by W. McGavin, in 1827. In 1870 the Rev. William Henderson Carslaw revised Howie s text and published it, with illustrations and notes, and a short biographical introduction and in 1876 a further illustrated edition appeared, with biographical notice compiled from statements made by Howie s relatives, and an introductory essay by Dr. Robert Buchanan minister Robert Buchanan . ref name DNB A Collection of Lectures and Sermons by Covenanting Clergymen was issued by Howie in 1779, with an introduction by himself. He edited in 1780 Michael Shields United Societies Michael Shields s Faithful Contendings Display d , an account of the Church of Scotland between 1681 and 1691. He also wrote on the Lord s Supper, patronage, and other topics, and prefaced and annotated various religious works. ref name DNB The Lives in Biographia Scoticana 2nd edition Patrick Hamilton martyr Patrick Hamilton George Wishart Walter Mill James Stuart, Earl of Moray John Knox George Buchanan Robert Rollock John Craig minister John Craig David Black minister David Black John Davidson minister John Davidson William Row Andrew Melville Patrick Simpson Andrew Duncan minister Andrew Duncan John Scrimzeor John Welch minister John Welch Robert Boyd university principal Robert Boyd Robert Bruce moderator Robert Bruce Josias Welch John Gordon, Viscount Kenmuir Robert Cunningham minister ... NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Scottish biographer DATE OF BIRTH 1735 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1793 ... more details
Walter Wilson 1781? 1847 was an English biographer of nonconformist clergy and their churches. Life He was born about 1781, the illegitimate son of John Walter publisher John Walter , the newspaper publisher. He was brought up a Presbyterian , and went to work at East India House as a clerk. In 1802 he went into journalism, and in 1806 he became a bookseller. ref name Canon P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens 1988 , The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe pp. 56 57. ref He took the bookshop at the Mewsgate, Charing Cross , vacated by Thomas Payne the younger . ref name DNB cite DNB wstitle Wilson, Walter ref He was living in Camden Town in 1808 his father died in 1812, leaving him a shareholder in The Times . He entered the Inner Temple , but never practised at the bar. ref name Canon He moved to Dorset , and again to Burnet , near Bath, Somerset , where he did some farming. Here he had a congenial neighbour in Joseph Hunter antiquarian Joseph Hunter they exchanged copies of collections of dissenting antiquities. ref name DNB About 1834 he moved from Burnet to Pulteney Street, Bath. During the progress of the Sarah Hewley suit, Wilson s judgment went entirely with the defendants, and his religious views, probably under Hunter s influence, underwent a change in the Unitarianism Unitarian direction. ref name DNB Wilson died on 21 February 1847. At the time of his death he was one of the eight registered proprietors of The Times . ref name DNB Works Reading the Memoirs of Daniel Neal , prefixed by Joshua Toulmin to his edition 1793 7 of Neal s History of the Puritans , led Wilson to collect notices of dissenting divines, and examine manuscript sources of information. He projected a biographical account of the dissenting congregations of London and the vicinity. For his projected work he obtained around three hundred subscribers. He published an instalment of The History and Antiquities ... ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION English biographer DATE OF BIRTH 1781 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH ... more details
Gamaliel Bradford October 9, 1863 April 11, 1932 ref http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 76774 Gamaliel Bradford Gamaliel Bradford Encyclop dia Britannica History & Society ref was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts , the sixth of seven men called Gamaliel Bradford in unbroken succession, of whom the first, Gamaliel Bradford privateersman Gamaliel Bradford , was a great grandson of Governor William Bradford Plymouth governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony . Bradford attended Harvard University briefly with the class of 1886, then continued his education with a private tutor, but is said to have been educated mainly by ill health and a vagrant imagination. ref Braithwaite, William Stanley, ed.. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1919 and Year Book of American Poetry. Small, Maynard & Company. 1919. p.301. ref As an adult, Bradford lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts . The building and student newspaper ref http thebradford.org The Bradford ref for the Wellesley High School where Sylvia Plath received her secondary school education ref Alexander, Paul. Rough Magic A Biography of Sylvia Plath. ref were named after Gamaliel Bradford. The town changed the name of the building to Wellesley High School, but the newspaper maintains Bradford s name. In his day Bradford was regarded as the Dean of American Biographers. ref Bradford, Gamaliel . 2009 . In Student Encyclop dia . Retrieved November 24, 2009, from Britannica Online for Kids. http kids.britannica.com ebi article 9317939 Gamaliel Bradford ref He is acknowledged as the American pioneer of the psychographic form of written biographies, after the style developed by Lytton Strachey . ref Colby, Frank Moore Sandeman, George. Nelson s Encyclopaedia. p.341. ref Despite suffering poor health during most of his life, Bradford wrote 114 biographies over a period of 20 years. Bibliography A Pageant of Life poetry A Prophet of Joy poetry Shadow Verses poetry Unmade in Heav ... more details
William Carr 14 June 1862 &ndash 28 January 1925 was a biographer for the Dictionary of National Biography , historian, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, England. William Carr was born in Gomersal Gomersal House , Yorkshire , to William Carr, magistrate and local squire. He was educated, first at Marlborough College , and then in 1882 to University College, Oxford . His strength was in history where he won the three historical essay prizes Stanhope essay prize Stanhope 1884 Lothian 1888 and Arnold 1890 . In 1886 he married Margaret, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr James Franck Bright , Master of University College, and read for the Bar, and having read with William Robson, Baron Robson Lord Robson he joined the North Eastern Circuit court England and Wales Circuit . He was a strong Conservative, and contested the Morley UK Parliament constituency Morley Division of Yorkshire in 1892 and 1895. To the Dictionary of National Biography he was a large contributor, and later in life became a connoisseur especially of silver, furniture, pictures and Greek coins. During the war he was indefatigable in supporting the Volunteer force in the rank of Major. He was a Magistrate of many years standing, for Norfolk, Suffolk, and the West Riding, chairman of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions , vice chairman of the Norfolk Politics Norfolk County Council , and a Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk. ref LondonGazette issue 27234 startpage 6039 date 2 October 1900 ref His real interest was primarily in the land, managing his own estates, he was a practical farmer of great experience and exact knowledge, both of Yorkshire and of Norfolk. Owing to ill health Carr had been advised to give up his heavy county work, but the end came unexpectedly when Carr died at Ditchingham Hall , Norfolk on 28 January 1925. He was survived by his wife and five children, his only son being William G. Carr, of the 12th Lancers and four daughters. Three daughters were married, respectively, Margaret to then Air ... more details
general improvements needed plus links John Barnard or Bernard , D.D. d. 1683 , was the biographer of Peter Heylyn . Barnard was the son of John Barnard, and was born at Caistor , Lincolnshire . He was educated at the grammar school of his native place, and at Cambridge, where he was a pensioner of Queens College, Cambridge Queens College . ref Venn id BNRT644J name Barnard, John ref In 1648 he proceeded to Oxford, where, by preferment of the board of visitors, he was granted the degree of B.A. on 15 April, and on 29 September following was presented to a fellowship of Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College . In 1651 he proceeded to his M.A. degree, and became then for some time a preacher in and near Oxford. He married the daughter of Dr. Peter Heylyn at Abingdon, and afterwards purchased the perpetual advowson of the living of Waddington, Lincolnshire Waddington , near Lincoln, England Lincoln , which he held for some time, together with that of Gedney, Lincolnshire Gedney , also in Lincolnshire . Conforming after the Restoration , he was made prebendary of Asgardby in the church of Lincoln 13 April 1672, and in the year 1669 was granted the degrees of B.D. and D.D. in succession. Barnard was the author of a pamphlet in three sheets quarto, entitled Censura Cleri, against scandalous ministers not fit to be restored to the church s livings in prudence, piety, and fame. This was published in the latter end of 1659 or beginning of 1660, to prevent such from being restored to their livings as had been ejected by the godly party in 1654 55. His name is not set to this pamphlet, and Anthony a Wood says he did not care afterwards, when he saw how the event proved, to be known as its author. He is best known as the author of Theologo Historicus, a true life of the most reverend divine and excellent historian, Peter Heylyn, D.D., sub dean of Windsor London, 1683, 8vo . This was published, according to the author, to correct the errors, supply the defects, and confute the calumnies ... more details
File william roper.jpg thumb right William Roper by Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein William Roper c. 1496 4 January 1578 was an English biographer . The son of a Kentish gentleman, he married Margaret Roper Margaret , daughter of Sir Thomas More . He wrote a highly regarded biography of his father in law. ref name cath cite web url http www.newadvent.org cathen 13183a.htm title William Roper work Catholic Encyclopedia ref Life William Roper was the eldest son of John Roper d. 1524 , Attorney General United Kingdom Attorney General to Henry VIII of England Henry VIII , and his wife Jane died c.1544 , daughter and coheir of Sir John Fyneux, Chief Justice of Queen s Bench King s Bench . The Ropers were an ancient Kent ish family, owners of the manor of St Dunstan outside the West Gate of Canterbury , since known as the Roper Gate. ref name DNB Roper in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ref He was educated at one of the England English universities, and was appointed Clerk of the Pleas in the Court of King s Bench, a post previously held by his father, holding the post until shortly before his death. Aged about twenty three it is thought he joined the household of Sir Thomas More, marrying Margaret, More s eldest daughter, in 1521. ref name cath Desiderius Erasmus Erasmus , who knew More and his family well, described Roper as a young man who is wealthy, of excellent and modest character and not unacquainted with literature . ref name cath Roper became a convert to the Lutheranism Lutheran doctrine of Justification theology Justification by Faith and spoke so freely of his belief that he was summoned to appear before Thomas Wolsey Cardinal Wolsey on an accusation of heresy . More often disputed with Roper over his belief. He said to his daughter, quote Meg, I have borne a long time with thy husband I have reasoned and argued with him in these points of religion, and still given to him my poor fatherly counsel, but I perceive none of all this able to call ... more details
Infobox University President name Wiliam Allen image William Allen third president of Bowdoin College.jpg caption order 3rd university President of Bowdoin College term start 1820 term end 1839 birth date January 2, 1784 birth place Pittsfield, Massachusetts death date dda 1868 7 16 1784 1 2 death place Northampton, Massachusetts predecessor Jesse Appleton successor Leonard Woods college president Leonard Woods alumnus Harvard University residence profession website footnotes William Allen January 2, 1784 &ndash July 16, 1868 ref http www.findagrave.com cgi bin fg.cgi?page gr&GSob c&GSlh 1&GRid 63422646& ref was a biographer, scholar and academic. Biography He was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1784. He graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1802 and after a few years of work became assistant librarian at Harvard. He became Pastor of Pittsfield 1810 President of Dartmouth University , 1817 according to Julian but not on list of presidents released by Dartmouth and President of Bowdoin College 1820 1839. He was largely responsible for establishing the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1820. He resigned in 1839. Died at Northampton in 1868. He prepared his American Biographical and Historical Dictionary 1809 , the first work of general biography published in the United States. In 1810 he succeeded his father as pastor of the Church in Pittsfield. He was chosen president of Dartmouth University in 1818 and remained until the Dartmouth College Case extinguished the institution in 1819. In 1820 he went to Bowdoin College , over which institution he presided until 1839, when he resigned and devoted himself to literary studies. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1823. ref name AAAS cite web title Book of Members, 1780 2010 Chapter A url http www.amacad.org publications BookofMembers ChapterA.pdf publisher American Academy of Arts and Sciences accessdate 15 April 2011 ref He collected 10,000 words ... more details
Samuel Palmer 1741 1813 was an English nonconformist minister, known as a biographer Life He was born at Bedford , was educated at Bedford grammar school , and then studied for the ministry 1758 62 at Daventry Academy under Caleb Ashworth . In 1762 he became afternoon preacher to the independent originally presbyterian congregation at Mare Street, Hackney borough Hackney , and was ordained on 21 November 1763. From 10 June 1763 he occasionally assisted William Langford, D.D. 1704 1755 , at the Weigh house Chapel, Little Eastcheap, and was the regular morning preacher there from 20 June 1765 to 28 December 1766. He then succeeded William Hunt as morning preacher at Mare Street, and remained in charge of the congregation, which moved in 1771 to St. Thomas s Square, till his death. For some years, from about 1780, he had a boarding school. He was a quiet preacher, his views being close to those of his friend, Job Orton . He early adopted Sunday school for his church. Henry Forster Burder was his assistant from October 1811 but Palmer remained active in his charge to the last, preaching on the Sunday before his death. He died on 28 November 1813, and was interred on 6 Dec. in the burial ground at St. Thomas s Square. His funeral sermon was preached by Thomas N. Toller of Kettering , Northamptonshire . He left a numerous family. His son Samuel entered Daventry Academy in 1786, and became a schoolmaster at Chigwell , Essex . Works Palmer is known for his Protestant Dissenters Catechism and his Nonconformist s Memorial. The catechism was undertaken at the request of several ministers, who wanted a supplement to the Westminster Shorter Catechism giving the grounds of dissent. The manuscript was revised by Philip Furneaux and Job Orton, and published in 1772. Its two sections deal with the history and principles of nonconformity. It was immediately successful, reaching a third edition in 1773, and saw additions and revisions by various editors the twenty ninth edition was published ... more details
other persons John Fox John Fox 1693 1763 , was an English biographer. Fox was born at Plymouth on 10 May 1693. His father, a zealous presbyterian, devoted him to the ministry, from an infant. His mother was the daughter of a Plymouth tradesman named Brett. After an education at Tavistock Grammar School , and under old Mr. Bedford at Plymouth, he read the Greek Testament and Virgil for a few months with Nicodemus Harding, son of Nathaniel Harding, independent minister at Plymouth. The two young men were preparing for entrance at the Exeter academy, under Joseph Hallet d. 1722 . In May 1708 he entered the academy, where he soon quarrelled with Harding, and formed an intimacy with his tutor s son, Joseph Hallet d. 1744 , who put doubts into his mind respecting the Trinity. When he left the academy in 1711 he had no great disposition of being a minister. His reluctance to comply with the Toleration Act, by subscribing the doctrinal articles, produced a coolness with his father. After some months, Isaac Gilling, minister at Newton Abbot, Devonshire, came to Plymouth in disguise a process was out against him for illegally keeping a Latin school. He was a first cousin of the elder Fox, who allowed his son to accompany Gilling on his flight from Devonshire, on a promise that Gilling would do all in his power to remove young Fox s aversion to the ministry. At Salisbury Fox was introduced to Sir Peter King, then recorder of London, an old friend of Gilling. Arrived in London, he slipped out of Gilling s hands, and stayed with another relative. He was not favourably impressed with John Shower, the only London minister he met, and spent his time in getting glimpses of great people and visiting the theatres. At the end of a fortnight in town, Gilling was able to return to Newton Abbot, and took Fox with him. The accidental sight of a letter from his father to Gilling determined him to be a minister at all events. With this view he remained with Gilling three quarters of a year 1712 ... more details
Mark Noble 1754 1827 was an English clergyman, biographer and antiquary. File Mark Noble Hancock.jpg thumb Mark Noble, 1784 engraving by Robert Hancock engraver Robert Hancock . Life He was born in Digbeth , Birmingham , the third surviving son of William Heatley Noble, a merchant there. His father sold, among many other commodities, beads, knives, toys, and other trifles which he distributed wholesale among slave trade rs, and he had also a large mill for rolling silver and for plating purposes. Mark was educated at schools at Yardley, Birmingham Yardley , Worcestershire , and Ashbourne, Derbyshire . On the death of his father he inherited a modest fortune, and was articled to Mr. Barber, a solicitor of Birmingham. On the expiration of his indentures he went into business on his own account but turned to literature and history. sfn Goodwin 1895 p 81 In 1781 he was ordained to the curacies of Baddesley Clinton and Packwood , Warwickshire . On the sudden death of the incumbent, Noble was himself presented to the two livings starvations, he called them . Noble, now a married man, took a house at Knowle , Warwickshire, conveniently situated for both his parishes. Here he divided his interests among his congregation, his books, and a farm. sfn Goodwin 1895 pp 81,82 The John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich Earl of Sandwich supported his writings, and Noble was a frequent guest at Hinchingbrooke House , and a regular correspondent of Lord Sandwich. George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend Lord Leicester also became a patron, and appointed Noble his chaplain. On the recommendation of Sandwich and Leicester Lord Chancellor Thurlow presented Noble to the rectory of Barming , Kent in 1786, where he lived for 42 years. sfn Goodwin 1895 p 82 He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 March 1781 and was also F.S.A. of Edinburgh. He died at Barming on 26 May 1827, and was buried in the church, where a monument was erected to his memory. sfn Goodwin 1895 p 82 ... more details
no footnotes date October 2010 File Amanda Foreman 2011 NBCC Awards 2012 Shankbone.JPG thumb Foreman at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards , March 2012 Amanda Lucy Foreman born 1968 in London is a British American biographer and historian. Family Her father was the screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman 1914 1984 who moved to England in order to work after being Hollywood blacklist blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the McCarthyism of the 1950s. Her brother Jonathan Foreman journalist Jonathan Foreman is an international correspondent and film critic. Education Amanda Foreman was educated at Hanford School , a girls junior independent school in south west England, ref Cite web title New prospectus shows Hanford s unique approach to learning work This is Dorset publisher Northcliffe Media date July 23, 2010 url http www.thisisdorset.co.uk news New prospectus shows Hanford s unique approach learning article 2440703 detail article.html accessdate May 5, 2011 ref followed by various girls boarding schools. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York then Columbia University before returning to England in 1991. She was awarded the 1993 Henrietta Jex Blake Senior Scholarship at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford . At Oxford University Oxford she completed an Master of Philosophy MPhil thesis Politics or Providence? Why the Houses of Parliament voted to abolish the slave trade in 1807 1993 and a Doctor of Philosophy DPhil with her thesis The political life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757 1806 1998 . Life and career After having completed her education, Foreman remained at University of Oxford Oxford as a researcher, and in 1998 in literature 1998 , she published her first book, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , based on her doctoral thesis. Published by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the U.S., the book was an international best seller and reached number one in the UK as a ... more details
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