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A cunning, treacherous highwayman, in Gay's Beggar's Opera. Lord Sandwich, a member of the New Kit Kat Club, was so called in 1765. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Jeremy Irons Biography
Jeremy IronsactorBorn: 9/19/1948Birthplace: Isle of Wight, England Academy and Tony Award-winning film, stage and televsion actor known for his intensity and patrician cool. His films include The…Taylor, Jeremy
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Jeremy, 1613–67, English bishop and theological and devotional writer. He was distinguished as a preacher and as the author of some of the most noted religious works in English…Bentham, Jeremy
(Encyclopedia) Bentham, Jeremy, 1748–1832, English philosopher, jurist, political theorist, and founder of utilitarianism. Educated at Oxford, he was trained as a lawyer and was admitted to the bar,…Heber, Reginald
(Encyclopedia) Heber, Reginald, 1783–1826, English clergyman and hymn writer. He became bishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1823. Several volumes of his poems and of his sermons were published, but…Dumont, Pierre Étienne Louis
(Encyclopedia) Dumont, Pierre Étienne LouisDumont, Pierre Étienne Louispyĕr ātyĕnˈ lwē dümôNˈ [key], 1759–1829, Swiss jurist and political writer. Dumont knew Mirabeau well and wrote many of his…Chadwick, Sir Edwin
(Encyclopedia) Chadwick, Sir Edwin, 1800–1890, English social reformer. For many years an assistant to Jeremy Bentham, Chadwick applied Bentham's utilitarianism to the reform (1834) of the Poor Law…Bentham, George
(Encyclopedia) Bentham, GeorgeBentham, Georgebĕnˈthəm [key], 1800–1884, one of the greatest of English systematic botanists; nephew of Jeremy Bentham. He wrote Handbook of British Flora (1858) and,…Starmer, Sir Keir Rodney
(Encyclopedia) Starmer, Sir Keir Rodney, 1962–, British political leader. A member of the Labour party, he was a human-rights lawyer before becoming director of public prosecutions and head of the…Holland House
(Encyclopedia) Holland House, residence of the Holland family in Kensington, London, made famous in the first 40 years of the 19th cent. by the hospitality of Henry Fox, 3d Baron Holland, and his…Trending
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