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Sydney, Sir Philip

(Encyclopedia)Sydney, Sir Philip: see Sidney, Sir Philip. ...

Vandyke, Sir Anthony

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Lowe, Robert, Viscount Sherbrooke

(Encyclopedia)Lowe, Robert, Viscount Sherbrooke: see Sherbrooke, Robert Lowe, Viscount. ...

Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène

(Encyclopedia)Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène: see Houdin, Jean Eugène Robert. ...

Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame

(Encyclopedia)Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame: see Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine. ...

Drake, Sir Francis

(Encyclopedia)Drake, Sir Francis, 1540?–1596, English navigator and admiral, first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577–80). In 1585, Drake commanded a fleet that sacked Vigo in Spain and burned São ...

FitzRoy, Robert

(Encyclopedia)FitzRoy, Robert, 1805–65, British naval officer, meteorologist, and hydrologist. Given (1829) temporary command of the HMS Beagle, he completed a survey of the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fue...

Donne, John

(Encyclopedia)Donne, John dŭn, dŏn [key], 1572–1631, English poet and divine. He is considered the greatest of the metaphysical poets. All of Donne's verse—his love sonnets and his religious and philosophic...

Wagner, Robert Ferdinand

(Encyclopedia)Wagner, Robert Ferdinand wăgˈnər [key], 1877–1953, American legislator, b. Germany. He arrived with his family in the United States in 1885 and grew up in poor surroundings in New York City. Afte...

Hervey of Ickworth, John Hervey, Baron

(Encyclopedia)Hervey of Ickworth, John Hervey, Baron härˈvē, hûrˈvē [key], 1696–1743, English memoirist. A temperamental figure who served in various minor offices under Robert Walpole, he is chiefly rememb...