Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

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• Keith, Robert

  (1681-1757) Historian, b. in Kincardineshire, belonged to the family of the Earls Marischal, and wa...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Burnet, Gilbert

  (1643-1715) Theologian and historian, s. of a Royalist and Episcopalian lawyer, who became a judge,...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Stuart, Gilbert

  (1742-1786) Historical writer, s. of George S., Prof. of Humanity (Latin) at Edin. Among his public...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Wakefield, Gilbert

  (1756-1801) Scholar and controversialist, b. at Nottingham, ed. at Camb., took orders, but becoming...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• White, Gilbert

  (1720-1793) Naturalist, b. at Selborne, Hants, and ed. along with the Wartons (q.v.) at their fathe...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

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

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Holland, Josiah Gilbert

  (1819-1881) Novelist and poet, b. in Massachusetts, helped to found and ed. Scribner's Monthly (aft...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott

  (1811-1856) Comic writer, b. in London, the s. of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming desce...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Gilbert, Sir William Schwenk

  (b. 1836) Dramatist and humorist. The Palace of Truth (1870), Pygmalion and Galatea (1871), Trial b...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Murray, George Gilbert Aimee

  LL.D. (b. 1866) Scholar. History of Ancient Greek Literature (1897), Euripidis Fabulæ adnotatione ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin