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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Coughran, the celebrated youthful mathematician, was born here. Wrelton WRELTON, a township, in the parish of … Sir Thomas Gooch. William Wotton, a learned divine, was born at Wrentham in 1666; and William Ames, another learned … held the rectory. John Locke, the eminent philosopher, was born in an old thatched house on the north side of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by his successors in the living: the reformer was born in or near this place. Wycombe WYCOMBE, a hamlet, in the … Macauley Graham, author of a History of England, were born here. Several years since, in making a sunk fence on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The Rev. John Hudson, a learned divine and critic, was born here in 1662. Wyton WYTON, a township, in the parish of …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… the ignorant, and raises to distinction those that were born in the lowest place. And therefore the Apostolice See, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Cambridge, 1619, as Eardley; incorporated 11 July, 1620; born 17 March, 1597-8; admitted to Merchant Taylors' school … president Trinity Coll. 1559-98, vice-chancellor 1580; born at Houghton Strother, near the Tyne, Northumberland, and … See Foster's Index Eccl. Yelverton Charles ("bart."), born at Easton Maudit, Northants, son of (Susan) Baroness …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Their son James, author of Antiquities of Rutland, was born in the parish. 46 The career of John Radcliffe (d. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… practice of physic in the university of Edinburgh, who was born in the parish during the incumbency of his father; … of the reformer, John Knox, is supposed to have been born in the village of Gifford. It is also said that Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the noted Welsh harper, Davydd y Garreg Wen, who was born at Carreg Wen in the parish. At Trmadoc is a small … at Criccieth, founded by the Rev. David Ellis. Here were born the two celebrated brothers, the Rev. John Thomas, M. … writings in the Welsh language. He is thought to have been born in the year 1714, but his name does not appear among the …