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Bagehot, Walter
(1826-1877) Economist, s. of a banker, b. at Langport, Somerset, ed. at University Coll., London, a...
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Bower, or Bowmaker, Walter
(d. 1449) Was Abbot of Inchcolm, and continued and enlarged Fordun's Scotichronicon. ...
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Charleton, Walter
(1619-1707) Miscellaneous writer, ed. at Oxf., was titular physician to Charles I. He was a copious...
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Goodall, Walter
(1706?-1766) Historical writer, b. in Banffshire, and ed. King's Coll., Aberdeen, became assistant ...
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Whitman, Walter or Walt
(1819-1892) Poet, was b. at Huntingdon, Long Island, New York. His mother was of Dutch descent, and...
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Leaf, Walter
Litt.D. (b. 1852) Scholar and translator. The Iliad of Homer translated into English Prose (with A...
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Raleigh, Walter
(b. 1861) Biographer and critic. The English Novel (1894), Robert Louis Stevenson (1895), Style (18...
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Kennedy, John Pendleton
(1795-1870) Novelist, b. in Baltimore, was distinguished as a lawyer and politician. He wrote three...
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Besant, Sir Walter
(1836-1901) Novelist and historian of London, b. at Portsmouth and ed. at King's Coll., London, and...
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
(1798-1875) Biographer, s. of James H., Dean of Worcester, b. at Worcester, and ed. at Winchester a...
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Landor, Walter Savage
(1775-1864) Poet and miscellaneous author, s. of a physician, was b. at Ipsley Court, Warwick, the ...
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Map, or Mapes, Walter de
(fl. 1200) Ecclesiastical statesman and romancist. Most of the facts about him are gleaned from his...
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Pater, Walter Horatio
(1839-1894) Essayist and critic, s. of Richard G.P., of American birth and Dutch extraction, a bene...
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Raleigh, Sir Walter
(1552?-1618) Explorer, statesman, admiral, historian, and poet, s. of Walter R., of Fardel, Devonsh...
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Scott, Sir Walter
(1771-1832) Poet, novelist, and biographer, s. of Walter S., a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, a...
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Smith, Walter Chalmers
(1824-1908) B. in Aberdeen and ed. there and at Edin., was a minister of the Free Church of Scotlan...
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Pollock, Walter Herries
(b. 1850) Poet and miscellaneous writer. The Modern French Theatre (1878), Verse, Old and New, Seal...
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Prothero, George Walter
Litt.D., LL.D., etc. (b. 1848) Historian. Life and Times of Simon de Montfort (1877), Memoir of He...
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Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
(1825-1899) Miscellaneous writer, s. of Rev. Dr. B. of Glasgow, was originally intended for the Eng...
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Skeat, Rev. Walter William
Litt.D., LL.D. (b. 1835) Philologist and Early English scholar; has ed. Langland's Piers Plowman, ...
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