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Modred, Sir

(Encyclopedia)Modred, Sir: see Arthurian legend. ...

Mordred, Sir

(Encyclopedia)Mordred, Sir: see Arthurian legend. ...

Pelleas, Sir

(Encyclopedia)Pelleas, Sir: see Arthurian legend. ...

Purcell, Henry

(Encyclopedia)Purcell, Henry pûrˈsəl [key], c.1659–1695, English composer and organist. Often considered England's finest native composer, Purcell combined a great gift for lyrical melody with harmonic inventi...

Kerr, Philip Henry

(Encyclopedia)Kerr, Philip Henry: see Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, 11th marquess of. ...

Stanley, Edward Henry

(Encyclopedia)Stanley, Edward Henry: see Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of. ...

Asquith, Herbert Henry

(Encyclopedia)Asquith, Herbert Henry: see Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st earl of. ...

Henry VII, king of England

(Encyclopedia)Henry VII, 1457–1509, king of England (1485–1509) and founder of the Tudor dynasty. Henry was an astute political leader. He established the Tudor tradition of strong rule tempered by a sense ...

Durant, Henry Fowle

(Encyclopedia)Durant, Henry Fowle do͝orăntˈ, dyo͝o– [key], 1822–81, American lawyer and educator, b. Hanover, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1841. Christened Henry Welles Smith, he adopted the name Durant (1851) beca...

Taube, Henry

(Encyclopedia)Taube, Henry, 1915–2005, American inorganic chemist, b. Saskatchewan, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1940, taught at Cornell from 1941. became a U.S. citizen in 1942, joined the faculty ...