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Gogarty, Oliver St. John

(Encyclopedia)Gogarty, Oliver St. John g´grt [key], 1878–1957, Irish author. A physician, he also served (1922–36) in the parliament of the Irish Free State. Gogarty is perhaps best known as the model fo...

St. John, Oliver

(Encyclopedia)St. John, Oliver sn´jn [key], 1598?–1673, English politician. He married (1638) a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. In 1637–38 he was, by his brilliant defense of John Hampden in the ship money case...

St. John, John Pierce

(Encyclopedia)St. John, John Pierce, 1833–1916, American political reformer, b. Brookville, Ind. He traveled in the West and in South America, fought in the Union army in the Civil War, and after 1869 practiced l...

St.-John's-bread

(Encyclopedia)St.-John's-bread: see carob.

St.-John's-wort

(Encyclopedia)St.-John's-wort, any species of the large and widespread herbaceous or shrubby genus Hypericum of the family Hypericaceae (St.-John's-wort family), usually found in moist, open places and often having...

Perse, St.-John

(Encyclopedia)Perse, St.-John, pseud. of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 1887–1975, French poet and diplomat, b. West Indies. Léger, an opponent of appeasement of the Nazis, was enormously influential in France's fo...

Bury St. Edmunds

(Encyclopedia)Bury St. Edmunds br snt d´mndz [key], town (1991 pop. 30,563), Suffolk, E central England. It is the market and processing center for the surrounding rich farm region. The town also has eng...

St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke

(Encyclopedia)St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke sn jn, bl´ngbrook [key], 1678–1751, English statesman. Political Rise Although he was one of England's great orators, Bolingbroke was also an unstabl...

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount

(Encyclopedia)Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount: see St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.

Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John

(Encyclopedia)Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John krvkör´ [key], 1735–1813, American author and agriculturist, b. France as Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur. It is believed that he served under Montcalm in Ca...