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Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2d Earl

(Encyclopedia)Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2d Earl lo͞oˈsən-gôrˈ [key], 1815–91, British statesman. He entered Parliament as a Whig in 1836 and held various cabinet positions under Lord John Ru...

Troelstra, Pieter Jelles

(Encyclopedia)Troelstra, Pieter Jelles pēˈtər yĕlˈĕs tro͞olˈsträ [key], 1860–1930, Dutch Socialist. In 1893 he founded what later became the Sociaaldemocrata, the official Socialist paper, and in 1900 he...

Oldham

(Encyclopedia)Oldham, metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 107,095), NW England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area. The city's industries include papermaking, tanning, food processing, and mail-order distribut...

Frere, John Hookham

(Encyclopedia)Frere, John Hookham, 1769–1846, British writer and diplomat. He was a member of Parliament (1796–1802) and with his friend George Canning wrote effective parodies and satires for the political new...

Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron houˈtən, hôˈ– [key], 1809–85, English author. Throughout much of his life he was an active member of Parliament. He was among the first to recogniz...

Ibarruri, Dolores

(Encyclopedia)Ibarruri, Dolores ēˈbăro͞orē [key], 1895–1989, Spanish political leader. A founder of the Spanish Communist party, she wrote in several Communist newspapers under the pseudonym “La Pasionaria...

Dunning, John, 1st Baron Ashburton

(Encyclopedia)Dunning, John, 1st Baron Ashburton, 1731–83, English jurist and politician. He attracted notice in 1762 by his written defense of the British East India Company merchants against their Dutch rivals....

Jókai, Mór

(Encyclopedia)Jókai, Mór mōr yōˈkoi [key], 1825–1904, Hungarian romantic novelist and journalist. Jókai was a fervent nationalist who, after the Hungarian defeat in 1848, became a fugitive from the Austrian...

Khan, Sadiq Aman

(Encyclopedia)Khan, Sadiq Aman, 1970–, British political leader. The son of Pakistani immigrants, he studied law at the Univ. of North London (now London Metropolitan Univ.) and the College of Law (now the Univ. ...

Stephens, William

(Encyclopedia)Stephens, William, 1671–1753, English colonial official in Georgia, b. Bowcombe, Isle of Wight. He was educated at Cambridge and served in Parliament (1702–27). In 1736 he went to South Carolina t...