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Pusey, Edward Bouverie

(Encyclopedia) Pusey, Edward BouveriePusey, Edward Bouveriepy&oomacr;ˈzē [key], 1800–1882, English clergyman, leader in the Oxford movement. Having studied at Christ Church College, Oxford, Pusey…

Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of

(Encyclopedia) Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of, 1506?–1552, protector of England. He served on various military and diplomatic missions for Henry VIII and, after the marriage of his sister Jane to…

Kellogg, Edward

(Encyclopedia) Kellogg, Edward, 1790–1858, American economist, b. Norwalk, Conn. He advocated a financial scheme to abolish interest, which was often usurious at the time he wrote. Kellogg devised a…

Dyer, Sir Edward

(Encyclopedia) Dyer, Sir Edward, 1543?–1607, Elizabethan poet. A friend of Sidney and Spenser, he was celebrated in his day as an elegist. His best-known poem is “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is.”

Westcott, Edward Noyes

(Encyclopedia) Westcott, Edward Noyes, 1846–98, American novelist and banker, b. Syracuse, N.Y. He is known for his popular novel, David Harum (pub. posthumously, 1898), which concerns a shrewd,…

Fitzgerald, Lord Edward

(Encyclopedia) Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, 1763–98, Irish revolutionary; son of James Fitzgerald, 20th earl of Kildare and 1st duke of Leinster (see Kildare, James Fitzgerald, 20th earl of). After an…

Stassen, Harold Edward

(Encyclopedia) Stassen, Harold EdwardStassen, Harold Edwardstăsˈən [key], 1907–2001, American public official and university president, b. West St. Paul, Minn. A Republican lawyer, he held his first…

Filene, Edward Albert

(Encyclopedia) Filene, Edward AlbertFilene, Edward Albertfīlēnˈ, fĭl– [key], 1860–1937, American merchant, b. Salem, Mass. As president of the Boston firm of William Filene's Sons he pioneered in…

Petre, Sir Edward

(Encyclopedia) Petre, Sir EdwardPetre, Sir Edwardpēˈtər [key], 1631–99, English Jesuit, confessor of James II of England. He attended the Jesuit seminary of Saint-Omer. He was imprisoned (1679–80) in…

Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg

(Encyclopedia) Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, 1817–73, Union general in the Civil War, b. Kentucky, grad. West Point, 1839. He fought in the Seminole War and in the Mexican War. In the Civil War,…