Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of

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• Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope

  (1805-1875) Historian, was b. at Walmer, and ed. at Oxf. He sat in the House of Commons for Wootton...

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• Dormer

  ·noun ·Alt. of Dormer window. ...

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• Stanhope

  ·noun A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; — so called from Lor...

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• Philip

  ·noun The European hedge sparrow. II. Philip ·noun The house sparrow. Called also phip. ...

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• Philip

  warlike; a lover of horses ...

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• Philip

  Lover of horses. 1) One of the twelve apostles; a native of Bethsaida, "the city of Andrew and Pete...

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• Philip

  (lover of horses) the apostle was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter, (John 1:44) and appare...

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• Dormer window

  ·noun A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. A...

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• Doddridge, Philip

  (1702-1751) Nonconformist divine and writer of religious books and hymns, b. in London, and ed. for...

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• Freneau, Philip

  (1752-1832) Poet, b. in New York, produced two vols. of verse (1786-8), the most considerable contr...

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• Massinger, Philip

  (1583-1640) Dramatist, was probably b. at Salisbury. His f. appears to have been a retainer of the ...

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• Philip Lane

  South out of London Wall to Addle Street at No.22 (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Within. Fir...

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• Herod Philip I

  (Mark 6:17), the son of Herod the Great by Mariamne, the daughter of Simon, the high priest. He is d...

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• Herod Philip II

  The son of Herod the Great and Cleopatra of Jerusalem. He was "tetrarch" of Batanea, Iturea, Trachon...

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• Bailey, Philip James

  (1816-1902) Poet, s. of a journalist, b. at Nottingham, and ed. there and at Glasgow, of which he w...

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• Francis, Sir Philip

  (1740-1818) Reputed author of The Letters of Junius, s. of the Rev. Philip F., a scholar of some no...

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• Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

  (1834-1894) Artist and writer on æsthetics, s. of a solicitor, was b. near Oldham. Originally inten...

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• Marston, Philip Bourke

  (1850-1887) Poet, was b. in London, and lost his sight at the age of 3. His poems, Song-tide, All i...

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• Sidney, Sir Philip

  (1554-1586) Poet and romancist, s. of Sir Henry S., Deputy of Ireland, and Pres. of Wales, b. at th...

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• Taylor, Philip Meadows

  (1808-1876) Novelist, b. at Liverpool, s. of a merchant there. When still a boy went out to a merca...

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• Philip The Evangelist

  is first mentioned in the account of the dispute between the Hebrew and Hellenistic disciples in Act...

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• Wicksteed, Rev. Philip Henry

  (b. 1844) Writer on Dante, political economy, etc. Translation of the Bible for Young People (1882)...

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• Hand Alley, Philip Lane

  See Hand Court. ...

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• Ward of Philip le Taillur'

  3 Ed. I. (Rot. Hund. I. 431). Tenement " super Cornhull" and " House of Robert le Herre " in parish...

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