Joshua Brookes was a British anatomist and naturalist.
Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of political letters critical of the government of King George III to the Public Advertiser, from 21 January 1769 to 21 January 1772 as well as several other London newspapers such as the London Evening Post.
The Theological Repository was a periodical founded and edited from 1769 to 1771 by the eighteenth-century British polymath Joseph Priestley. Although ostensibly committed to the open and rational inquiry of theological questions, the journal became a mouthpiece for Dissenting, particularly Unitarian and Arian, doctrines.
The Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity is a senior professorship in Christ Church of the University of Oxford. The professorship was founded from the benefaction of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), mother of Henry VII. Its holders were all priests until 2015, when Carol Harrison, a lay theologian, was appointed to the chair.
James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy was an English peer.
Annals of Philosophy was a learned journal founded in 1813 by the Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson. It shortly became a leader in its field of commercial scientific periodicals. Contributors included John George Children, Edward Daniel Clarke, Philip Crampton, Alexander Crichton, James Cumming, John Herapath, William George Horner, Thomas Dick Lauder, John Miers, Matthew Paul Moyle, Robert Porrett, James Thomson, and Charles Wheatstone.
Richard Caldwell or Caldwall M.D., FRCP (1505?–1584) was an English physician, known for his part in founding the Lumleian Lectures, an annual series of anatomical demonstrations, delivered by the College of Physicians.
The Lieutenant of the Duchy of Aquitaine was an officer charged with governing the Duchy of Aquitaine on behalf of the King of England. Unlike the seneschalcy of Gascony, the lieutenancy was not a permanent office. Lieutenants were appointed in times of emergency, due either to an external threat or internal unrest. The lieutenant had quasi-viceregal authority and so was usually a man of high rank, usually English and often of the royal family.
James Charles Booth was a leading English conveyancer.
John Bonar (1721–1761) was a Church of Scotland minister.
James Traill Calder (1794–1864) was a Scottish local historian who was the author of a History of Caithness.
Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall was a Scottish barrister and judge. He is the subject of a 1913 biography by John Buchan.
Andrew Cantwell was an Irish academic in France and medical writer, known as an opponent of inoculation.
James Carruthers (1759–1832) was a Scottish Roman Catholic priest and historian.
Jonathan Blewitt was an English organist, composer of light operas and songs, and a musical director.
John Bulteel was an English writer and translator, cousin of John Bulteel, Member of Parliament. He was descended from French Huguenots.
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Buchan, Andrew of". Dictionary of National Biography . 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
